skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing about astroturfing is that, for every person being paid to promote something, you have dozens of fools parotting the corporate message for free. So, even if there were not any astroturfers on HN, the effects of their work would still affect opinion here.

There is no way to stop it.
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TL;DR: We heard a sensational rumor, went on a speculative ramble with it, and left the overwhelming contrary evidence for last:

>That said, we checked Twitter activity from several Facebook executives, ... all of whom are still shown to be using iPhones ...
Missing piece of Antikythera Mechanism found on Aegean seabed
I didn't even know exactly what the product did when I applied for my current job. Then they described what it did in my interview, and I understood a bit better, but not really.

Took me a few weeks on the job to actually understand exactly what we do. When people ask me what the software I work on does, I just tell them "it's complicated".

There is so much b2b software that fills a specific niche in a specific industry that makes absolutely no sense to people outside of that space.
> every month we have a new product/service of Google being deprecated

Indeed! Just ~~~last month~~~ 62 months ago they shut down Reader.

(I see that you're hedging with the reference to Maps. But I'd love if this time, we wouldn't make a single event a 10-year talking point)
Thanks for your viewpoint!

Here's something concrete: the first phrase in the video ends with "small demonstration", but starting with the second instance, I distinctly hear "sall" instead of "small". In the version with the noise, the "m" sounds like an aberration of the noise and is detectable. With the noise removed, the "m" is replaced with a blip that sounds like an encoding error.
Along with all their revenue.
9/10 times when I experience a bug while doing front-end, it's only in Chrome.

Because of this I had to switch to Chrome for my default dev browser purely to save time and catch bugs early. I hate it...

My solution to permissions hell is to create a separate "unsafe" launcher for a version of Chrome that uses a profile with some security features disabled.
> It's just a flat lie

No it is not! Azure is not even in the same ballpark. APIs fail randomly, instances take a random amount of time to come up(sometimes similar to AWS, sometimes double digits) services are poorly integrated, lots of weird constraints and surprising behavior(their load balancers are nonsensical), lack of AZs (and support for them) in many regions, etc.

Can you make your stuff work on Azure? Sure you can. Is that a good experience? No way.

This is probably what people are referring to. The underlying tech may not be horrible, but the user experience is.
My parents love their home. They wouldn't sell it at 30% above market value. Should their property taxes be based on what it's worth to them, or what it's worth on the market? What it's worth on the market is a semi-objective measure, while worth to the owner is highly subjective.

Calculating the tax basis value based on what the owner would sell it for has numerous problems even outside that subjectivity. It penalizes businesses for success in a way that promotes looting the company to artificially lower the business value. Aside from the deadweight loss involved, it artificially promotes the type of behavior firms like Bain are already criticized for.
Also, it's highly subject to system-gaming. What is the incentive of a firm to actually accurately value it at what they would sell for while it was open? The only way it works is to enforce some draconian policy that requires them to sell if someone ponies the cash (a la Posner and Weyl's proposition in Radical Markets).
It looks like "switch" is an infix operator in this context, so "figure" is just the variable/value on which the match operates.
His is a little more of a rugged model (as one would think)
NYC user here as well and no credits either.

The current 25% off discount on Lyft makes it tough to even try Uber at the moment.
If this is anything like frequent flier programs, my cynical interpretation is that if you're a casual rider, you'll get:

- less leeway on cancellations since you now need to earn them

- worse support, since the higher status folks will get the higher priority / premium support

- slower airport pickup times as high status folks get to "cut in line" while you wait

- lower quality drivers as the higher rated ones are given only to the frequent riders

This is based on the chart showing the benefits of higher status in the article.
Right, I understand that but you'd not pick a container as your primary line of isolation for running arbitrary Go code. The GP is saying - it's cool, because containers. Yes, perhaps in exceptionally skilled hands, maybe this is sane but generally it's not. The official go playground's first sandbox is Native Client.
Ok, we replaced "taxpayers to pay" with "state tax break" above.
Would it still be an issue if they weren't slaves but well-paid positions?
https://www.fitbit.com/legal/privacy-policy#how-info-is-shar...
Does the driver get all of that fee? Or does Uber take a cut?
Just because there are other and potentially better/easier ways to graft and siphon money out of the system (such as those you listed) doesn't mean that this person isn't allowed to think this 'lesser' one is just as morally bankrupt and from a business standpoint a foolish decision.
Thanks. I didn't realize that they had independent evidence that there was child porn on the device.

Or at least, I didn't realize that they had valid independent evidence of that. As I understand it, they had data from a hacked version of the Freenet client, showing that his node had received pieces of child porn files. They knew that because they were serving those files, and could identify pieces by hash value. Their expert testified that, contrary to claims by the Freenet Project about random routing of file pieces, they could determine that the defendant's node was in fact the recipient, and not just a relay. But, according to the Freenet Project, that's bullshit, which is based on a misunderstanding (perhaps intentional) of the Freenet protocol and mechanism.

I wonder whether they have other independent evidence that's actually valid. But these are subtle points for a judge. And I'm guessing that the defendant doesn't have the expert muscle to dispute those claims. And/or that juries could follow any of that.
More interesting: any kind of delimiter, including chars from utf8 and windows-1252, and you need to detect encoding too. And CSV embedded in CSV, a result of flattening an XML source. And fixed width files, not CSV but where you see CSV you may need to support. And let's not get into date parsing or other typed data, and type inference over sample files.
Yeah, it can only be swapped out at link time (without crazy magic). That satisfies two very common cases though, when there is only one implementation (and the interface is a sacrifice to the OOP gods) and when the second implementation is for unit testing only.

Those 2 plus other crazy rules (like only one interface defined per file) mean that many projects will end up with just as many interface files as a c++ project would header files.
To this day I don't even really understand the value that Uber et al are supposedly adding that justifies the size and evaluation of their companies.

At the end of the day they're a layer on top of a taxi business. Sure this is useful in some way but like Airbnb or weworks or all these other companies that just throw one layer of service over the actual business I don't understand why they are treated like high tech companies.

The most extreme example was possibly moviepass which was basically just a subsidy from investors to movie goers.
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>this was tax money that would otherwise go towards city programs that would disproportionately benefit the poor

Where did NY indicate that they're reallocating money from those programs?
This anecdote further exacerbates the problem with the original article.

The lessons learned should not be: "CEOs need to do this, this, and that" and neither should it be "For employees, how you handle change will affect the trajectory of your career and possibly your net worth"

CEOs don't _need_ to do anything. They don't owe you anything. They can run the company into the ground for all we care, what matters is whether you have the power or not.

What it should be is this: "If you do not have power, you need to plan for the case when you will get screwed".

He who fails to plan, plans to fail.

Power is the degree to which a person has control over their own circumstances. Power is the degree to which we control the directions of our lives.
Also fundamentally tyrannical and inhuman, but at least "old" is correct. Posner and Weyl's work is fascinating as thought experiment, but even they admit that a system like that poses massive problems and questions of morality.
I see what you're saying there, but I'm not positive artificially capping the number of doctors minted is a terrible idea. Don't we want to make sure only the best and brightest end up being doctors? If there's a spot for everyone who applies to med school, wouldn't that leave us with far more incompetent doctors?

There should probably be more doctors, but it doesn't seem wise to lower the bar too far down.
With different communication that's harder to misunderstand, it would have been possible for Google to get a much better trust and expectations outcome from exactly the same substantive price changes (at least for GAE and GCP if not Maps).

I think we're mostly or entirely agreeing?
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Didn't mention it in the post, but info about the car hardware and all the code is at https://github.com/a1k0n/cycloid
I actually sent them 3 over the past two weeks but never got a reply. I'm guessing no one stays on top of the inbox.
Since it's impossible to edit my comment once I post it, here's that Arc patch:

(def oversubmitting (user ip kind (o url))
(and enforce-oversubmit*
(or (check-key user 'toofast)
(ignored user)
(< (user-age user) new-age-threshold*)
(< (karma user) new-karma-threshold*))
- (len> (recent-items [or (author user _) (is _!ip ip)] 180)
+ (len> (keep [is _!type kind]
+ (recent-items [or (author user _) (is _!ip ip)] 180))
(if (is kind 'story)
(if (bad-user user) 0 1)
(if (bad-user user) 1 10)))))

Now, how are you going to frame this as harassment? Why is this email trying your patience? Why is it a bad thing for me to send you this?

You keep accusing me of being misleading. Yet you won't aim that criticism at yourself.

You have publicly called me a liar and said that I have been harassing you, when I have made it clear this was an intentional decision in order to protest your moderation policies, which have been increasingly political. Do not frame this as if I have done you harm; I haven't. Stop saying that flaws in my personality are why I am not allowed to participate on this forum. And above all, stop acting like a coward and twisting words to fit your own personal desires.

I have been on Hacker News six months longer than you have – a total of 12 years – and if you want to ban me, you'll have to do better than say I haven't been following the rules. I have, and I love this forum. I have met many lifelong friends here. I have tried to talk to you about the "probation" you applied, and you have completely refused to respond. Do not pretend like you have done well here, or that you have treated me with patience.
It's been a theory of mine for some time that the current pattern of VC investment in unprofitable startups is part of a clever scheme to turn illegal money into legal money - even at a loss.
Obviously I am saying neither of those things, because I am speaking in generalities (as they apply in the US) and have no knowledge of you in particular.
Because making people worse off to enrich yourself is called "greed". Greed is something I and many other people frown on.
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The most alarming part about this story is that DeepMind's involvement is largely unneeded and their "accomplishments" are superficial to say the least:

> DeepMind Health went on to work with Moorfields Eye Hospital, with machine-learning algorithms scouring images of eyes for signs of conditions such as macular degeneration

Sorry, but "scouring images of eyes for signs of conditions" on a scale of single hospital is a task for two CS graduates, easily accomplished with freely available machine learning tools. The hospital in question could have done that themselves at minuscule cost. Are UK hospitals legally prohibited from hiring non-medical staff or something? Instead they are partnering (conspiring) with international companies to... do what again? Write Android apps and feed images to neural networks? In exchange for their entire medical data??

Is UK becoming another India or something?
Not always easy during an economic slump.
How exactly is this different from a broader practical standpoint than Bush, the war on terror, reality tv, heroin and crack epidemics, the dotcom bubble, increased rents along side decaying cities, endless suburban sprawl with no major transportation projects being taken seriously, and as always, soul-crushing corporate jobs where before you also had to wear a tie everyday.

The world moves forward just fine, and there hasn't really been many differences between America today and America in the 80s from a broader political standpoint. Maybe our country was a better place when unions mattered and the wealthy had a legitimate fear of a socialist revolution should concessions to the middle class not be made, but the fall of the soviet union in many ways put that fear to rest.
It would be “unconscionable” to object to a 90% housing subsidy (but not a 100% subsidy) for someone to live on the most valuable real estate in the world rather than moving somewhere cheaper like everyone else?

Um, okay then. Forget I said anything, I guess.
I can't wait to see people shooting their rifles and handguns at fighter jets, tanks, drones, and bombs. Really good self defense plan there. And it's going to seem so patriotic when you're shooting at your own government & neighbors.
Yes, but symmetrically, the amount that a third party is willing to pay presumably has already subtracted their expected cost of relocating into the new space. Why should we privilege one valuation over the other?

As a thought experiment, consider a custom-made many-billion dollar chemical factory that (due to IP or somesuch) can only be utilized by the current owner. Should the town be required to charge property tax as if it was unimproved land, or worse, as an unsaleable cleanup site?

It's not that "nothing but resale" is obviously the wrong approach, but I don't see why "value to current owner" couldn't also play a role. Property tax on businesses feels like a negotiation to me, and I don't see why a town shouldn't be allowed to use whatever rules it wants.
This is a feature, not a bug, and it's required to get enterprise business.
Warren Buffett engaged in highly speculative corporate raiding before it was even a term.

Forget his Baby Boomer conservative investment guru facade. Thats not how he generated wealth, it is a component to how he preserves wealth because he has a liquidity issue.
The reason they have to police content is that they want to sell ads next to that content.
Are you implying. The judge was wrong to exonerate Jason Jones?

Because the evidence of a MetroCard and photograph are "flimsy"?
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I N C R E D I B L Y stupid move @google
By that logic, we should artificially cap everything. Why allow just anyone to be a programmer? Don't we only want the best programmers to write our software?

Any entrepreneur should be able to open up a licensed medical school. Anyone who graduates should be able to get certified as an MD. This is how markets should work - not capping doctors on the hope that we get "better" ones.

Also, I have seen some awful doctors, so I'm not sure the system is working.
> As soon as driverless becomes viable

Alexa can't even turn on my living room lights more than 50% percent of the time. I'm not holding my breath for driverless cars coming any time soon (if ever).
What's with the moral judgements? Uber is a service. You forgot your item. Most people are good, but still want to be paid.

Expecting everyone else should be generous of their time for your mistake is definitely not good.
I believe it was originally a big bet on the eventual profit margins from having the market share when deploying driverless cars instead of human drivers
Nobody purely chooses privacy or security to guide their design. An implementation of Firefox sync that was purely, 100% private by design would be airgapped, it wouldn't sync over a network.

Arguably, a private by design implementation of Firefox sync wouldn't even exist. You significantly increase your number of attack vectors by making your session available on multiple devices. What happens if your Android phone is compromised? Better to only have your session on one device.

Obviously I'm being hyperbolic here, but the point I'm getting at is that security isn't black and white, and you will always be making tradeoffs for usability, no matter what the context is.

What that means for "private by design", I dunno. Maybe it's just a buzzword. Maybe it's just a matter of degree. Other people can debate that if they really want to. But I do know that the moment you put doors on your house, it's less secure than it used to be.

The actual valuable question is, "is Mozilla's tradeoff good enough for usability that it justifies the decrease in security?" I'm not sure whether the answer to that is yes or no.
What enterprise use case exists for telling me I've sent email that I haven't actually sent?
And don't forget hearing aids. That's a market that's only going to keep getting bigger over time. The first people to ship a super-power-efficient ASIC for wind/restaurant denoising which allows reasonable hearing aid battery life are going to make a well-deserved fortune.
The budget breakdown of a 34-year-old who makes $150,000 in NYC
How this feature works is even documented. https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/guides/labels
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apples to apples- WSL is the implementation that's integrated with Windows not a random VM running Linux. Chrome OS has a VM solution that's integrated with Chrome OS (files, apps in the same menus). The comparison is fair.
Look, as you mentioned, you just don't know what you are talking about to extrapolate what you want explained. Use Duolingo for 5 minutes like the rest of us and get with the program.
There've been several proposals for an Orion-mated orbital module with an airlock, as well as an ESA one based around their ATV. After all, the eventual goal of Orion is to allow deep-space missions to asteroids etc.

Even coming up with something from scratch is unlikely to cost the $10B we'd lose from a failed JWST.
For those reasons I much prefer tab-delimited files. Does anyone know if Q supports that?
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gcc comments on this here [0]. Am I correct in understanding that the Cfront model is weak symbols, while Borland is the prelinker?

[0] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-5.5.0/gcc/Template-Instan...
If you're going to ban me permanently, I believe it would be fair to vouch my replies: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18454702

I'm sorry things have deteriorated between us to this point, but you have been acting strangely and using your position in ways that do not fit the whole point of HN, which is pursuit of intellectual gratification. Someone had to call you on it. And predictably, you are now trying to frame me as if I have harassed you, when I merely mocked you.
That has not been my experience in 35 years of dealing with headers in C and C++ in large-scale software projects. Ruby, Swift, and even Python (or Pascal if we want to go way back) are significantly easier to deal with for anything sophisticated.
First, note that a great many enterprise use cases are total nonsense. But still: people want to be able to put messages into gmail from random other systems and have the "sent" label be applied, so they can treat it as a system of record.
Yeah, the appeal to diversity is strange since if you're into quotas and metrics, it's south and east Asians who are overrepresented in tech, not "majorities".

Implicit in the appeals to diversity is that women and non-Asian minorities are mostly the target as far as increased representation.
Very interesting! which do gcc and clang use?
The heck? What exactly did they write and why?
Good luck with Windows on 32 GB.
Well, sure it was bleeding edge. That's not the point. Bleeding edge doesn't mean that your support has to be completely broken like this.
The Matrix Creator has an 8 mic array as well plus a bunch of other hardware goodies for about the same price. No experience with it but it looks cool,

https://www.matrix.one/products/creator
I've had a Linux Desktop since 2001. [And a Unix Desktop before that since 1991.] What the world chooses to do on its desktop is the world's business.

Incidentally, I had a EEE-PC 901 Linux laptop in 2011, upgraded to 128 MB SSD. I found it was very handy and light, but it wasn't anywhere near as pleasant to use as my Lenovo ThinkPad.
This is a business modell that works only because of the difficulty of opening a new small hospital. Lets remember that any market is subject to the mopolization of consolidation, its barriers to entry that make them sustainable.
Agree and I usually try to stay on point and not whataboutist, but I had to address general comments about use of funds and role of government in parent and ggp.
Facebook Messenger starts rolling out Unsend; here’s how it works
I assume the use case is when email has been sent by the user, but not via Gmail. The external system can send the email to Gmail with the correct From header and have it filed along with other sent messages.
What model of Vornado do you have? Can you share your experience with them?
The driver chooses to return the item in the first place (and they know the fee), and they can notify riders about lost items via their app.

Uber avoids price negotiation, and considering that it takes time and effort to resolve your mistake, it's likely much better to just charge a standard fee instead of planning for every single case.
No, NIMBYs haven't been kind to Seattle or SF. You are attributing the unkindness to the symptom, not the problem.
> Don't we want to make sure only the best and brightest end up being doctors?

No, you want people free to choose. If you want to go to the best and brightest, pay the best and brightest, and allow the others to get cost-effective care.
You can check your rating from your app.
Instagram starts rolling out dashboard that shows how much time you spend on it
Without diving into the source code I can only say Q pops up a couple times a year in either as posts or in cli recommendation threads so I suspect it's at least reasonably robust.
Raytracing Performance Tested in Battlefield, Significant Drops in FPS with RTX
Housing is going up like crazy in New York, it's just not affordable.
Advanced Machine Learning with TensorFlow on Google Cloud Platform