skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think what's endemic among business and societal trends is an erosion of middle ground. The smaller players stall small while the bigger players swallow the medium ones. It's not rocket science to figure out this will have various implications on society, as economics play a huge role in daily life.

Using banks as an example, look at the market share of total assets over the last 20 years: https://www.peakprosperity.com/sites/default/files/users/u31...

The largest banks (JPMorgan, Citi, BoA, etc.) have decimated regional and mid-size banks while credit unions have essentially maintained the same role at the bottom. The big banks have more resources to invest in new technology and financial initiatives, thus having the ability to be market leaders and capture more money. In my opinion, digital also makes a huge difference. For example, JPMorgan is able to spend $10B on technology a year, which is more than the total assets of many small banks and credit unions. The banks that are midsize are in the hardest position because they don't have the capacity to outpace a big bank in R&D or IT, and are stuck in a position of being a lagging trend follower since they also can't spare a lot of risk tolerance. Further, it's hard to even leverage branch access and customer service as more individuals rely on digital banking to handle their finances, which actually pushes the big banks ahead in consumer satisfaction: https://assets.sourcemedia.com/dims4/default/0e422a4/2147483...

From a business side, it looks like we are headed down the path of oligopolist megacorps unless there's major changes. Money is the name of the game, and even in the startup world, the end-goal for investors is to pull off a lucrative exit (which usually means selling to a monopolistic megacorp) or IPO. Ask a megacorp CEO how much is "enough" for their business, and the goal will be to have as much as they possibly can.

I don't know if entrepreneurship is actually dying, but my speculation is it's getting tougher to build a reliable business to employ others and depend on for one's livelihood within the remaining territory left. So much has been taken over by huge companies, it's difficult to find a niche or market opportunity to feasibly "disrupt". It feels like the megacorps have already cleared the fields and claimed the land and the rest of us entrepreneurs have a choice of: i) work for the megacorp that owns everything, or, ii) try to find solace in the few options left.
> It basically combines futuristic tech with dystopian/utopian elements, and grimy, old-world stuff.

In other words, “The future is already here—it’s just not very evenly distributed” — William Gibson.

And it will probably always be that way, not just in terms of global inequality, but even in a single person’s life: you might be among the billion or two people living as humans have lived for thousands of years, on subsistence agriculture and herding with no running water, but you also have a smartphone and can video-chat with your cousins across the world. That aspect of cyberpunk storytelling is just taking this fact of existence and amplifying it to draw attention to it.
Technically, you don’t. There are ways of doing this on platforms other than macOS; the process is just more complicated.
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Have you notice that when it comes to being “brave” and speaking out against moral wrongdoing in Silicon Valley, it’s always the highly compensated white collar workers? You never see factory workers at Amazon for instance protesting about Amazon’s government contracts.

I bet you anything if people at Google who are protesting were really afraid of losing thier jobs, not as many would be protesting.
The problem with Bluetooth is the stack is too complex. Too many application-specific profiles baked directly into the protocol, which in turn need to be dealt with by device manufacturers. Bluetooth basically handles everything from OSI Layer 1 through 6 at the same time. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bluetooth_profiles

Add to that great complexity at Layer 1, and constantly changing specs. Bluetooth 1, 2, and 4 are all radically different than each other.

Compare with WiFi, which only has to do one thing (Layer 1-2). Cellular is much more complex, but that's why releasing a new phone involves endless rounds of (usually mandatory and very strict) carrier certification.
People will not cease driving just because there is some unspecified event comming in 30 years, or because there exists public transport or bike or elecyric cars.

People will stop driving when driving is forbidden.
But the fear of nuclear is definitely higher than actual danger. It is something to be very cautious of, but in comparison to corner technologies it's fear to risk ratio is much higher
I often do 6 hours, but not by intention, just because I get in the zone, but then my next day is totalled (have to go to bed early). I shoot for 8 or even 9 hours when I can get it. I also drink coffee in the evening sometimes but try not to exceed 300mg of caffeine per day, but I am weird in that I can sleep even while caffeine is running through my system. Mostly, I try to compact time as much as possible to free up a contiguous chunk to work on my own stuff, which is usually about 1 productive hour per day if I am lucky.
See Nassim Taleb's minority rule: https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
Not significant enough to realistically hurt Google though
But not if they were "nonhuman savages" that were roughly human shaped but not Western European in skin tone.
Yeah, normally I don't want to touch these issues with a ten foot pole, but I'll comment here. I agree with the sibling commenter that your tone is too aggressive, but I think that, on average, it's just fewer women are interested in technology than men.

There's a prevailing opinion that tech is hostile to women, and that might be true, but I don't think that there would ever be a 50-50 split, even if the community were equally welcoming to both sexes. I also don't see why there's a big push to get women in tech but not an equally big push to get men in teaching, or nursing, or whatever, except for the fact that there's money in tech.

Completely anecdotally, the worst female developers I've worked with were "women in tech", for whom that was an identity. They weren't developers and women, they were "women in tech" evangelists. The great female developers I've worked with didn't care (or at least didn't talk about) being women, they just did their job, same as everyone else, and were treated like everyone else (or I didn't notice or hear about any difference).

In summary, I think harassment and bias in the workplace should be abolished, and I think that this has become a disproportionately large issue, to the point where you can't talk about it eponymously for fear of getting fired.
I was public since the beginning that the Chevy Volt was a bad idea. Sales were buoyed by purchases by the Federal government and the General Electric CEO's commitment to President Obama to add them to their fleet. President Obama himself said he was going to purchase a Volt when he left office. Does anyone know if he ever did?

I live in the Lansing area which is very much a GM town and I never saw more than two Volt's in the area. You have to go all the way to Cleveland to buy a Tesla and there were more of them here.
> possible collusion in the murder of US national Jamal Khashoggi

Not central to the point, but Kashoggi was not a US national. He was a US-resident Saudi citizen. It's possible to be a US national but not a citizen, but Kashoggi wasn't one: https://www.immihelp.com/immigration/us-national.html
This is for a reason. When Company hires Agency to design a social media presence, Agency doesn't have to wait for Company to create pages, assign rolls, and probably spend hours on the phone wasting everyone's time. Agency can just create a page, set everything up, then with the knowledge they already have, assign admin rights to Company, and Company can remove Agency.
Hmm. I see your point.
They're not forced to, no, but they are forced to keep the price in the app the same as elsewhere if they choose to offer in-app purchase subscriptions in their apps; to be on the App Store, you're not allowed to offer a discount to the same subscription cheaper outside the App Store. If there is a generally-available discount (say, for a promotion), that discounted price must also be reflected in the in-app purchase cost.

The net effect is that sellers lose 30% of the potential earnings from the in-app purchases compared to getting subscriptions from elsewhere, and they're not allowed to increase in-app purchase prices by 30% to compensate.

Because Apple disallows sellers from having messages or buttons in their apps that take users to the sellers' websites in order to make the subscription, users who don't know better than to use the in-app purchase system wind up making the sellers less money — in theory. I say "in theory" since, after all, the sellers don't have to deal with payment systems, credit card processing, the sorts of hosting costs associated with popular app downloads, and so on.

On the one hand, it's clearly unfair and heavy handed for Apple to disallow those messages enticing users to the websites so sellers can take the full price. On the other hand, with apps moving to free-to-download but requiring subscriptions to function, especially big ones like Netflix and so on, it mightn't be that surprising: a 30% cut of the subscriptions might turn out to be rather reasonable given that Apple's hosting the App Store, addressing and directing complaints, handling payments, and more.

On yet a third hand, companies don't need to provide in-app purchases for subscriptions at all, mandating that users go to their websites. It's up to the sellers to decide what provides users with the least friction, though.
I'm not going to hold my breath.

There's too much money to be made, and too many "journalists" willing to write puff pieces for Google and provide cover for this activity.
This is fantastic news. Science will eventually benefit all of mankind even if the benefits are initially felt closer to where they're conducted.

I welcome increased science funding regardless of who is doing it, particularly when we're talking about non-military scientific research.

If this makes the US feel competitive and they increase funding state-side then so much the better. We'd all benefit from that too.
I think your notion here is naive. Assuming a majority of people in China is fine with the way the government runs, does not negate the fact that many people are not. In a country of a billion people, we are speaking of millions of people. For this, as a first step, you just need to look at minorities like Uighurs, Tibetians, Mongolians. It does not end there.

Also, you cannot use the word "choice" when no options were ever given. A large chunk of people can be unhappy with how the government operates while still not marching the streets. The world is not binary. People living in China also know that the government went to extreme lengths when it came to ending protests in the past: shooting at their own citizens.
>eventually a recruiter for a FAANG style company is going to spam you with an email.

This. I have said 'no, thanks' to FAANG in the last 3 months because my life is in a bit of a flux right now. It was a bit more than a simple 'no, thanks' in case of Facebook, but that's a story for another thread :)
Apple launches app development program for female entrepreneurs
I like this idea but not sure how that would work in the format of the World Chess Championship.
Of course you are going to use your expensive asset to generate income for as long as possible. But new investment has to be compared to other opportunities in the market, and government sets the market.
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Perhaps Carlsen is confident he'll win the blitz games tomorrow? Caruana was low on time, but they are both 9 moves away from getting additional time.
I have a feeling some of it is due to all the "Why isn't X in the std library" questions being bundled into library support.

If this is the case then its a bit misleading as it could be loads of people asking for a single thing, rather than people asking for better library support in general.

I don't think the Rust Standard lib is too bad, so i'm also surprised its so high up.
"heritability" is a mix of genetics and environment.
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I cant wrap my head around how good youtube is keeping, serving, and querying massive amounts of video data so well. I don't know how a site like youtube is even possible.
If you want a really fast webserver. Tokio's[1] zero-cost abstractions are amazing. Further, the examples provided make futures/async/low-level socket work quite understandable.

[1] https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio
I don't know man, I see so many companies voluntarily do this aftering being bought by PE -- only to flip the same company for 5 to 6x 3 to 5 years later.

I think it is a engineer's dream to think they can't be replaced. But they can, and the probs created by it simply don't matter.
You’re probably using the wrong dictionary (2014)
It depends on the person you ask. Some propose using parentheses (docteur(e)), others using a dot (docteur.e), still others writing out both words (docteur ou docteure). Articles on slate.fr use that last convention.
I don't want that behaviour.

If you want it, cool, use middle button click or whatever works on your system. But don't take my preferred behaviour away without any remedy.
So I think that, here, the 2nd-to-last question bubble in the flow chart is the key one. Because the question you're circling around is, "How do we verify that records are written by specific people?"

If you can centralize the records management, then you don't have a problem deciding who should own the record store. At that point, good old-fashioned authentication will solve your problem.

If you can't centralize records management, then things get trickier. But I think the trickiest part would still be to come up with a non-contrived logistics scenario where there isn't an obvious custodian you can put in charge of a centralized record.
Again it's not a judgement against the technology. What I'm getting at is the talking that fad technologies won the industry is false and too early to call like that; in the particular company you are working in docker and kube you may have to use. In industrial terms, they are far from required and are not used in the majority of deployments. Proprietary schedulers or other deployment machinery are running most workloads. Distant second by cluster size is Mesos, which has passed its fad phase.

I am currently using Nomad which works on multiple platforms and that is a requirement for my particular setting. I don't currently use containers in production environments and only see negatives to introducing them into this particular setting. This is not general advice to use nomad, just a counterpoint to any particular fad tech being an industrial requirement.
Ok, but what problem is cryptocurrency solving exactly? I'm already making day to day payments with USD, so why do I want to do it with cryptocurrency? If the entirety of the value of cryptocurrency as a problem solver is that people have to accept the New World Order evil banksters conspiracy theory then it's already dead.
So you remove bias from the resume-screening process and then do exactly what during the interview process?
That would be disastrous for YouTube. Imagine embedding a video on your website only to find out later that it had been replaced with spam? So little gain for a huge abuse opportunity.
IMO this should be much more important than who is banned from Twitter.
What about it? Life isn't fair.

There are trillions of decisions and situations in your life that accumulate, and there is absolutely no way you or anyone else can judge that to engineer some kind of fair outcome. It is good intentioned but not realistic, and it ends up causing far more bias because you think you're doing the right thing, while basing it on a faulty perception.
If you have the DNA of a billionaire, you'll probably be successful. If you have the same postal address, that's also likely.
> says he “doesn’t care” at the press conference when informed that all chess playing engines, grandmasters, and rank amateurs could see that he had a dominating position

This response was to a question that only mentioned the engine, not the other embellishments you added. It was a stupid question. The engines can always see something that humans cannot. Magnus is one of the best chess players in the world, playing against his strongest competitor, and he didn’t see a path to a win from that position. Why should he care if the engine could?
How google is different to the Chinese government? it also has access to all our information and it does block people they don't like like Alex Jones. So I don't understand what this posturing is all about
Has it not occurred to anyone that maybe Carlsen is just bored?

It takes effort to tie 12 straight games between two world champions.

Additionally, it is not in Carlsen's best interest to finish the tournament. During the tournament he is a super star. After the tournament he is just some guy who has a chess trophy (i.e. most people in real life don't care).

Maybe he is just testing himself with some criteria that is harder than "just winning... again"?

Maybe he just wants to prolong his time in the spotlight? Create some drama, have people talk about the year where every game, including Armageddon, ended in a draw!
>What are journalists concerned with?

The fear that AI might learn to write journalism, or at least clickbait, better than they do :)
I tend to agree. The most plausible reason I can think of is a combination of him being supremely confident in his rapid skills + being a bit afraid of Caruana in classical. But his lack of confidence in himself in classical is not a good sign going into the blitz.

The best chess player in the world got there by using good judgment when it comes to selective aggression. We’ll find out tomorrow if this was a brilliant move to fend off a challenger or the beginning of the end...
> It uses a technique known as steganography

This does not look like steganography to me. The app doesn't let me hide data inside an existing image; it just encodes data into an existing image that looks like random garbage.
The same difference for XFS between Linux and Ubuntu.

IE; aside from minor differences in current version, nothing.
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I agree the GP comment was worded a little weirdly, but I'm not sure it actually is trying to frame the problem as their fault. Later portions, such as:

> Why should companies be expected to hire women developers when it appears there are so few? The places with more than a few women developers also attract more, making it even more difficult for other companies to hire them. I am exasperated every time someone asserts that it isn't a pipeline problem. Based on these results there just aren't any out there at scale.

Seem to indicate to me they view it more as the quoted industry numbers are wrong, at a minimum misleading (e.g. maybe female developers are much more likely to be relegated to junior positions or not have or feel they have the freedom to explore less mainstream solutions).

In any case, it's an interesting question. Why are there major discrepancies between what is reported by the industry for gender involvement and by community driven efforts?

Finally, I think it's worth noting that in a comment where the author felt the need to not only post it anonymously, but explain that they felt the need to do so, you picked out one sentence, chose a negative interpretation of it, and then called out the original comment for attibuting blame to women when the comment clearly ended with the sentiment "we need to make it easier for women to enter the industry." That doesn't exactly foster good discussion. :/
Oh dear. Given the audience for this article I'd assume that readers know that this configuration is not suitable for production... but then again it would probably be a good idea for the article to state that!
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If I do or not do something, I take responsibility for it. Women developers often suggest that women don't have time or inclination to participate in the community (1). If so fine, but don't count on there being a ton talented women Rust developers in the future if they aren't participating right now.

(1) https://medium.com/@glitterwitch/stack-overflow-s-developer-...
As the Bitcoin Price Plummets, Its Dominance Is on the Rise
Not quite sure why you're being downvoted even if people have different views it situations.

For me side projects are generally just too large and all consuming to run alongside my contracting. I've had the odd smaller project but that's the exception rather than the rule.

Maybe things are different for people working on different types of side projects or who don't have the three kids I do, but I can empathize with the feeling that it's impossible.
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This is a fascinating investigation!
"Digital Life" ... wtf.
Armageddon :

"the players proceed to a single game of Armageddon, where the parameters are set to so far as possible give each side a 50-percent chance of winning—White gets 5 minutes, Black gets 4 minutes, and a draw will make Black the World Champion."
Rapid and blitz chess rely on trusting one’s intuition. If he doesn’t trust himself enough to play on in such a strong position, his admittedly large advantage in rapid may evaporate.
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Fake news. For what reason shouldn't he invest? Is there a conflicting proceeding the US? In that case then he'd close the position or the disclosure would be blocked. Isn't this the point of disclosure? Also, not sure why everyone is so excited over options (the right - not the obligation - to buy the underlying stock), which again has been properly disclosed. This is gaslight hypocrisy.
Was that a very long time ago? Cos I was a Greenpeace member in the 1990s and they were pro-renewables at that time.
> It's facile to say "war is immoral". Inasmuch as anything is immoral, war certainly is. But it's unclear to me how we ought to apply that axiom because it's unclear to me that the world would be better off today if the US hadn't entered the war, or the atomic bombs hadn't been dropped, or if the Allied policy had been something other than pursuit of unconditional surrender.

Nuclear weapons would have been developed whether or not the US developed them. Thankfully, it was the US, and not Germany or Japan - either of those countries would have used them indiscriminately.

Since the development of nuclear weapons, they have been the greatest force for peace in world history. We had two horrific world wars in the space of just 25 years. Now, we're almost 75 years past 1945 without one.

Fingers crossed that sanity prevails and the major powers continue to be dissuaded by MAD.
True, but Detroit doesn’t sell nearly as many hybrid vehicles as the Asian brands.
I started doing this a month ago and it's been working well for me.

I'd always end up dozing off if I tried to get anything done after the kids went to bed. Now it's asleep by 8:30PM and up at 4:30-5AM for a few hours of personal work time.
Sure, from the general public standpoint, by the sound of it, Fortran is still a thing...
You might be right about a larger trend but that doesn't mean that this particular article supports that.

https://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/Wisconsin/Publ...
I am 35 and completely agree with the taught “color-blindness, gender-blindness” etc. I literally had no concept of race until leaving school. I feel like since this time we’ve actually gone backwards.