skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surprised that despite being able to concisely explain why Apple is preferable to Google due to the privacy implications of their respective business models, they're perfectly content with a Google Home in their kitchen!

Maybe I'm paranoid, but isn't it obvious how the whole Home Speaker story ends? "We're not spying on you, we're learning your behaviors to offer a better experience!"
I remember when C added function prototypes. It was an unmitigated and welcome improvement. If I was to add two features with the most impact, simple to implement, and no backwards compatibility issues, it would be:

1. phat pointers for arrays

2. nested functions

(Nested functions have a surprising ability to untangle ugly control flow, including getting rid of most uses of goto's.)
Of particular note, the article points out that younger voters are hit hard because many of them never developed a fluid cursive signature through penmanship lessons in school.
I find it so odd that people complain about a system enforcing efficiency and sustainability.

For example, I would never say in a whiny voice, “that plant only grows because it gets watered!” or “that student only works hard for good grades!” or “that product is only good because the brand wants to make more money!”

My point is: the why is less important to observe than the how. In this case, the WHY is that this company is just looking out for its own interests (it’s obvious, that’s what they do). HOW is it looking out for it’s own interests? By recognizing that it needs to be accountable to the critical, ethical public.

That is super cool and very interesting.
Companies negotiate tax treatments of contemplated activities all the time ahead of time with individual EU member states.

https://www.duijntax.com/en/advance-tax-rulings-negotiations as just one example reference I could quickly find.
I’m not sure what you are angling at here.

The China regions might not have all the AWS services present, and they have some extra restrictions, but they aren’t some kind of clones of AWS software.

Unless I’m missing something, they are the same versions of what runs in the other regions.
Show HN: Resource_Monitor, a Windows script with email notifications
Walmart alone doesn't constitute a significant enough employee base to influence the national economy but I'm pretty sure the behavior of retail in general, where you exploit unskilled labor and the welfare system to use public benefits as an employee subsidy absolutely contribute to the decline.

Its harder to invest in meaningful job creation when you are spending inordinate amounts of money keeping Walmarts employees fed and housed.
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I suspect it's less "this is proof" and more "I won't remember the exact wording if that gets deleted".
Why not just stop using Facebook instead of trying to turn it into a government?
> principally a new communications medium

There is so much to say about this and its just been accepted. It IS a new communications medium, but very unlike those before it. Its a medium that allows rapid propagation of both information and misinformation. Its sold as a family-friendly media to connect with those you love and care but ends up as a firehose of targeted ad consumption. To dismiss the power of this new communication medium by treating it "just as a new newspaper" is exactly where you are wrong.
This is just part of a general consolidation trend in the healthcare industry. Payers (insurers and claims administrators) have been merging to gain more negotiating leverage over providers and drive down prices. Providers responded by merging to maintain pricing power. The next step, which is happening now, is payers acquiring provider organizations to have everything under one roof. Essentially the industry is converging on the Kaiser Permanente model.
I'd like to comment a few things made me appreciate and enjoy Google/Cloud services and I am aware they are very subjective to my personal experience as a student and beginner to web dev, but there are many folks like me so I could be speaking for them too.

Resources, Resources and Resources! As a self-taught web developer, I struggled a lot when it comes to learning anything about web developments, and whenever I found some good resources, be articles/guides/tutorials/videos, they always came back to the Google team. Their sites/content such as the Google Developers, Web Fundamentals, Firebase/Google Chrome Developers Youtube channels and so much more, are very beginner friendly and it is all focused on web developments too. Google Web Fundamentals and MDN are essentially my go-to recommendations for any web dev beginners.

Meanwhile, AWS and Azure seemed very enterprise-y and aimed at industry veterans. AWS dashboard and documentation interface daunts me, and while I'm aware other resource sites such as Udemy, Pluralsight or Front End Masters have excellent courses on AWS, but I do not find them to be extensive and easy to learn as Google ones, and they aren't free either. Azure? I think in terms of good documentation and learning resources, it is definitely in the third place when compared to Google/AWS.
> Please tell me what about this is bad.

Opportunity costs?

You list several benefits, but benefits don't tell us where a choice ranks in the list of possible alternatives.

For example, the alternative where we get all those benefits, but where there weren't any incentives at all, seems strictly better. Why not that?

You'd probably protest that it's not realistic. We can't get there in the current system, where powerful companies can play states and municipalities off of each other and require the best incentives before they are willing to make any useful choices.

But a lot of us think that system sucks.

When the powerful have opportunities to rewrite local policies on the fly, it doesn't feel right. Doesn't matter how many benefits there are.

This isn't a new or irrational ideal. Much of the Western canon on governance obsesses about the importance of the rule of law: the idea that the laws should apply to commoners and kings (or powerful companies) equally.

It's a principle a lot of people hold very dearly, and are unwilling to sacrifice for a few temporary benefits that we might have been able to achieve anyway, if we just had a better system in place in advance.
The politics are not surprising. They fact that they managed to not know about radicalizing content and fake news (or not care) is more surprising. They have the data. It's staring them in the face.
It works - we measured 25 down to 5 ug/m3 drop over 2 hours in an oakland townhouse. Measured with hobby grade (pms5003 from adafruit) hardware, so absolute numbers probably not that accurate, but the effect was clear.
That's great, but it would be nice to add a column 'could you install other OS on it'.
I had to laugh at how true this is. Before I stopped using it I found myself scrolling past everything but the ads which at least caught my eye.
Yes, this is a reasonable explanation of the ARM and Intel memory models, but I'm not following how this relates to miss buffers specifically.

The load buffers which maintain the source/program ordering on a per-instruction basis as you describe above are called ... load buffers. These are different than the "miss buffers" which track outstanding misses. Intel chips have 70+ load buffers, so no there is no shortage there. Yes, x86 chips have to jump through a bunch of to keep ordering, which means their load buffers probably need to more sophisticated (Intel sometimes refers to a MOB - a "memory order buffer" which tracks this stuff, but as far as I can tell this is not a separate buffer but just another name for the load and store buffers and associated machinery, with a focus on the memory ordering aspect).

The way it works in Intel is that everything will speculatively execute out of order, loads passing loads and all the things the memory model doesn't officially allow, but the load buffer will track the original order. As long as there is not indication of an actual problem with the ordering (i.e., a store on another core which causes a snoop that hits the load buffer on this core), the out-of-order nature of the execution isn't visible, so everything can retire fine. If something happens that violates the order, a "MOB machine clear" happens (with a cost similar to a branch misprediction) occurs and the chip starts over.

None of this directly implicates the miss buffers though. For one thing, they are not 1:1 with instructions and they are not instruction ordered, since multiple misses will coalesce to the same buffer.

That said, I can certainly see the stronger x86 memory model playing a role here, but it isn't clear to me how.
> now it is enabling mob violence in India

Most of these cases are via watsapp not facebook.
Amazon's HQ2: Why Blaming the Company Misses the Point
Removing the language doesn't suddenly not make it slavery.
When the states remove that language it means prison labor programs (such as the one in California) are unconstitutional. Why? Because those programs are slavery and when that language is removed those programs no longer have the exemption that made it constitutional.
This has 64 GB for ~260 - http://plugandgear.com/lenovo-ideapad-120s-11-6-inch-hd-lapt...

At any rate I hope you agree that 5 years (from launch) is not a long time to support a device. This policy is wasteful to the environment and not empathetic towards a large section of users who would find it challenging to divert a few hundred dollars every 3-5 years.
I played a store demo of those Sega shutter glasses as a kid, exactly once. It didn't leave a super positive impression but I still remember it.
The Unintended Consequences of the ‘Free’ Internet
Yeah, I totally understand and agree with your reservations. I do think there should be an outlet for Deep Throat situations (as in Mark Felt, not Linda Lovelace). But if a journalist is claiming that something was said by a named source, there should be evidence of that in the vast majority of situations. If a journalist claims something was posted on the surface web, there should be independent archives that back the claim up.
https://www.mercatus.org/publication/health-spending-reined-...

Do you disagree with this analysis, or do you just think 3-5% isn't that much?
I believe the parent was mocking the notion that FB is taking any effort of policing fake news seriously given that they themselves are producers of disinformation.
It does seem very artificial. A very boring/obnoxious app that went from nothing to being pushed at me from everywhere.
But that gap would just be filled by someone else. You can’t really stop technology and human greed.
Because it increases engagement, which makes you spend more time on Facebook, which exposes you to more ads.
At Amazon all hands, Jeff Bezos is often quoted saying:

“When the stock price is 30% higher this month, don’t feel 30% smarter. Because when it’s down, no one likes feeling 30% stupider.”
I sometimes wonder if they audit the packages for known patent problems. I know for a fact that a number of the named members know that Docker is described in a patent that none of them own.
Not least surprised. In a country like India, these people are now facing infinite competition. Their original strategy of bankrupting their competition by offering deep discounts just isn't working, because in a country like India you kill one set, and give the overall scale of competition/population the next comes like up weeds.

The same problem is being faced by amazon/flipkart/walmart. Everytime you think that you are going to eliminate competition by offering discounts in say two years. Come two years and you see there is a whole new set of competition and you face a new task to burning $3 - $4 billions to the ground without the hope of seeing a dollar worth profit in return.

The fact that customer loyalty is totally absent and largely shifts based on prices isn't helping either.
This comment seems sarcastic, but it’s literally what it feels like reading this and similar stories about the US medical system from another developed country...
Another trick along these lines is to cut out the middleman (middleprogram? middleware?) and use SQLite to do it:

$ sqlite3
sqlite3> .mode csv
sqlite3> .import foo.csv foo
sqlite3> SELECT * FROM foo WHERE bar = 'baz'; -- you get the gist...
(a bunch of rows)

Q seems to be much easier to use (and certainly easier to remember), but I've always found it handy to have the full power of SQL at my fingertips when needing to do a bunch of CSV manipulations.
"I'd like you to write a graph algorithm that traverses the abyss, the cosmic horror that consumes one's mind, that traverses twilight to the rim of morning, that sees the depths of man's fundamental inability to comprehend.

Oh ya, the markers in here are pretty run down, let me pray to the old ones for some more"
Live ClojureScript – procedural dungeon generation
Labor is labor and it should be compensated at a market rate based on the value that labor adds. A non-prisoner firefighter earns about $17/hour compares to a prisoner firefighter's $1/hour. Does the non-prisoner fight the fires any better than the prisoner? How about $16/hour better?
I don't have any smart speakers in my house, but I can also see how a rational person might accept the trade-off. Aggregate data to support advertising isn't necessarily evil, nor is using that data to improve service. In fact, you could argue that's what a good business should be doing: evaluating customer needs and adjusting to meet them.
I only knew of Space Harrier because it was in Shenmue at the local arcade. I didn’t know it was a real arcade game. But I probably burned through an equivalent amount of virtual quarters on it in game.
There is always an "Uber is dead" sentiment floating around when losses come out, but I don't buy it. The long term on-demand transportation opportunity is absolutely massive. Uber has tried to win the land grab and "outlast" everybody with obviously unsustainable subsidies, and maybe that didn't exactly work out. But if the economics don't work for Uber, they won't work for anybody else at scale either. Consumers are benefitting as the industry is subsidized, but it won't last. As with most mature industries, there will eventually be 2-3 players that stay alive, and eventually become profitable. Uber, Lyft, Waymo, Tesla? I don't know, it will be interesting to see. But just because the economics are bad today doesn't mean they always will be. I wouldn't count them out.
Consider giving it the ol' "Crash Bandicoot in Japan" treatment, with an alternative version or special mode in the game that just loads different, cutesy resources — but the game is otherwise identical.

Western games localised for Japan is a great resource for making things kid-friendly since that's the aesthetic over there.
Contrary to your intuition, approval voting performs exceptionally well with any mixture of strategic or honest voters.

http://scorevoting.net/BayRegsFig.html

http://scorevoting.net/AppCW

And this is true regardless of whether there is any objective "meaning" to the votes.

In mathematical terms, approving the candidate means you prefer that candidate to the expected utility of the winner.
I think we all agree phone companies should reconsider allowing telemarketers to buy lines from them.
Its amazing how low the bar for quality is on major google websites. How did such a broken feature end up running on YouTube for a year?
Rational people are also emotional, and apathy is the default emotion. Recognizing that many products are privacy invasive becomes the same as realizing that they are produced in ways that harm the environment, or hurt workers. A fact acknowledged but accepted in exchange for the benefits they offer.
Why did the author mostly creepshot women and children?
> I struggle to understand why people think MS deserves enterprise trust & goodwill.

I don't like MS (so am not trying to defend them from a partisan PoV) but I believe most of their revenues still come from enterprise, and I think enterprise customers don't encounter the same level of problems.
I recall that Herb Sutter's C++ Metaclasses proposal has an example of bitfield metaclass [1]. Zig's design is reasonable if it also makes use of those non-2^k-bit integer types in other places, and indeed it does (e.g. alignment is commonly `u29`). However if it is not doable, I think Sutter's design (auto-generated overlay on normal integers) makes more sense.

[1] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2017/p070...
I have interacted with Apple’s app reviewers for years and never experienced what you’re describing.
>But I don't want my taxes raised an order of magnitude to pay for everyone else.

Possibly relevant: I’ve lived for 5+ in Northern Europe in the same economic/familiar circumstances as in the US, and I paid pretty much the same amount (as a percentage of my salary) after adding education and health care. The winters in Northern Europe are terrible, though. Pretty much everything else rocks.
I've suggested that before as well. I think the figure should be more like 10-15%, but otherwise agree that keeps a town assessor honest in a more straightforward manner than the current "appeal to the same board that originally assessed you too high" tends to.
No, not really, I'm more surprised anyone cares, in this context he is just a trader that does trader things, the luxury of maintaining polyamorous relationships with no challenge from his wife and social circle, accumulation with no interest in conspicuous consumption, insulation from financial consequence when relationships fall apart. It's just activist investing, read about that and maybe his name might come up.

His switch to mild mannered thought leader is probably a story of redemption after corporate raiding caught on - in the pejorative - during the 80s.
You know who owns WhatsApp, right?
> 1 notch. Singular. Not plural.

OP said "Pixel phones". A Pixel phone has a notch, Pixel phones have notches.

This is a weird thing to nitpick about.
Sure. If a competitor has managed to get good consumer market share, then switching is easy. The marketplaces are not exclusive.

If, for example, HomeAway got a similar number of rentals to Airbnb (though in this particular case, it hasn't), then both markets could easily co-exist.

Creating C2C marketplaces, however, is not an easy task.
DAOs etc are interesting but untested. When push comes to shove will they show up with the assets they claim? I doubt it.
I've been following Nicholas Carr for a while. It's just that Jaron Lanier specifically is making quite a splash in the "developing world". His message particularly resonate with our banana-republic election season online panics.
Fascinating link. In it, Amazon lists the FAA first in its list of access to key stakeholders.

They must be really serious about drone delivery...
Any PG&E Bankruptcy Would Pit Bonds Against Burnt Out Homes
Probably not a lot of people used Microsoft services then.
I admit I haven't looked too closely, but what makes Zapier so amazing compared to IFTTT?
Open Source SDKs and World Class Developer Experience
If 8 people live in a 1500 ft^2 house and 1 person lives in a 10,000 ft^2 mansion, is the city really providing 8x the value to the former for police and fire protection?
Just like cockroaches caught inside a trap with no way out - - they will all try to exploit/capitalize on each other's weaknesses, just at the right moment, sever an arm or a leg, feed upon it just to stay alive.

Last man standing.
Did they make a buddy deal for Google Maps then?
I still wonder to this day who is paying WSJ authors to write hit pieces against YouTube. It's uncanny how the WSJ is persistent in its attacks on top YouTube personalities for the purpose of getting advertisers to leave the platform, see adpocolypse.
Re: making meaningful statements outside of a formal language.

Well, yes I guess that makes sense if we're talking "meaningful" in a formal sense... but then we're again stuck with the definition of what "meaningful" is.

If I don't agree with your definition of "meaningful", then why would I listen to "your" philosophy? (EDIT: This is not meant to be personally confrontational, just a blunt statement of the essential problem.)
Does anybody else think this article is at least 90% native advertising?
> "Super-Earths" are among the most numerous planet type in the galaxy.

Ehhh, not so much. We don't have reliable statistics for planetary abundance outside of a very narrow zone, due to limitations in our detection systems.

Among planets with short orbital periods lower than a few years, super-earths are the most abundant, much more so than Earth-size planets. But that doesn't tell us much about their absolute abundance.

Also, it's interesting because Barnard's star is one of the closest stars to Earth.
The entire point of the system of record feature is that nobody is able to manually apply or remove the "sent" label.
The 50s was the golden age of advertising, and the basis for the show Mad Men. Its no coincidence this was around the time that it was discovered the product really wasn't important. It was more about how the person felt when buying and consuming that product.

In short the "better mousetrap" hasn't been thought true for the last 70 years. If you are going to actually make a better product you better make your customer feel smart for buying it - or you will fail.
FYI I really like the large screen capture, I like it as is
My best guess is Amazon/Facebook, for the purpose of boosting Twitch and Amazon video, though I also suspect Fox/Hulu.
I would, if it saves me the bullshit excuses that the credit card machine is broken or I don't have change.
A usecase for blockchain.
I'm not sure why Facebook is always singled out with these comparisons.

If FB is the new cigarettes (which feels like an absurd comparison), then Twitter and Youtube are just as bad — and they've done even less to counter the negative externalities their engagement algorithms create.

I think Twitter dodges this criticism mostly because of how popular the platform is with journalists.
Why do you think that Apple will enter the cloud? Apple hasn't been a real contender in servers for a decade, and it seems like their strength lies more in the design than in raw technical capabilities.
As adjkant pointed out - it's 'better now than later' in many scenarios.

Also - Uber might be doing some big write-offs and dumping the ugliness of their spreadsheets now rather than later.

Basically they get rid of as much toxicity as early as possible, so the road to the IPO is more roses.

New CEO's often do that, dump the crap right away the first quarter they are there, so it can be written off as 'restructuring' by analysts. Uber does in fact have a new-ish CEO, maybe it's a little late for this, but not too late maybe.
If you're equating giving up personal data to harming the environment or workers, I'm afraid I don't agree. One of these actions is under your control, is a trade off we make simply to live in society, and even provides some benefits to users and society. To bank, to get mail, to shop online, to support services we like, to receive communications, etc, etc. Privacy is also something you can control, rather than something that is being perpetrated on other people or places that do not have agency in the matter. There is a place for privacy regulation and education, but it's not the same as environmental or human damage.