skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> AFAIK this isn't happening, but why? Is there another moat I don't know of?

Well, Adsense / Analytics is another. Google can track you across the internet, and offer that information to search query bidders. If you don't want to bother spending money advertising to people who read HN, it's achievable. Less so for say, Bing or Yahoo. Being able to target better than other platforms alters your willingness to pay to advertise there vs elsewhere.

I suspect they also have a better grasp of the value of traffic acquisition. They pay a lot of web related tech firms to use their search engine over competitor's. We know the only time they lost a bid for Firefox's search placement was when a former Google executive was working for a competitor. It's not clear whether Marissa brought Yahoo some better insight into the value, or if she just needed to accept a higher risk of overpaying for traffic.
Long period waves and their decay signature makes me suspect "water hammering" of a large volume of magma came to an abrupt stop inside a magma chamber or tube.
That was the joke from the TV show.
> TAs also get punished if the actual instructor is bad - because students blame everyone in the course.

You think that's bad, try being instructor of record for a remedial math course as a TA.
This is trivial with Buildroot btw, see e.g.: https://github.com/cirosantilli/linux-kernel-module-cheat/tr...

And a minimal hello world at: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/122717/how-to-creat...
@mindgam3: I'll gladly beta test it, and if I find some time I might help you out on some code as well :) https://github.com/fractalf/contact_me
Has Friedman has actually said that? If so it runs counter to the economic consensus.

Corporate lobbyists tend to cite an academic case for deregulation that has not been made. As the article rightly points out Adam Smith is frequently trotted out as an advocate of deregulated free markets, when in fact he was very clear that a free market must be regulated.
my favorite:Good questions! A simple body wave M may underestimate and simple surface wave M may overestimate, but a waveform-based moment-tensor inversion type M for the surface waves may confirm shallow depth and produce a usefully accurate M...
That you don't need state influence for cartels to form, but they rather do it naturally, has been known for a very long time.

"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices."
Helmets will be mandatory until age 18.

The speed limit everywhere will be 15 MPH. Will Bird and Lime have appropriate limiters? I doubt it.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
great story. highly unlikely coincidence. same names and wedding at the same city. domain names can have different easy to remember permutations and there are different top level domains so it's likely the couple would've registered something similar. overall good advice on not keeping it permanent, although I could understand some people turning it into a family business or something.
> For example, in Australia there exists laws that mandates that retailers either exchange or refund when products are "not fit for purpose" or "faulty", this simple law has eliminated a whole heap of bullshit products that doesn't work because people simply return them.

Consider the trade off you're making. Without that law, some retailers will have more generous return policies than others, and the first group will have higher prices (because the policy costs them money). If you prefer that, you patronize one of those retailers, and they don't carry those products because they don't want the returns.

But once you pass the law, the second category of retailers goes away. And they had lower prices, even for the items that weren't garbage.
Paris Saint-Germain grab crucial win to leave Liverpool in trouble
On all accounts mentioned that sounds like the ultimate torture.

I legitimately can't work out if such an intolerable boss is more painful or the constant need to scroll the IDE and having to do it without the mousewheel.

I feel for you. I truly do.
It's a shame. A lot of people on this website would love Syndicalism but can't conceive of it because a pro-market anti-capitalist ideology doesn't make sense to them.
Yes, I could not edit it later so left it
"capitalism will magically work."

Capitalism essentially DOES work. Any argument otherwise bears to burden of proof in presenting a more desirable alternative.

There are 0 starving people in the United States, there is an actual obesity epidemic among the poor. The absolute quality of life over the last century across capitalist nations has continued to explode across all societal strata.
There are two parts of every PII storing system. The actual PII store which is super small, "mutable" with your terminology, locked down so nobody can access it without raising an alarm and usually not accessed at all except for some very limited use cases, including GDPR ones. The rest of the store just uses references to the entities sitting in the GDPR store, like a numeric id (foreign key in SQL terminology). This way any data store, SQL, datalake, etc. can be easily GDPR compliant without needing to delete data in the large data stores and this also increases security because in case of a security breach to the data stores the GDPR data cannot be accessed.
A government is a gang that managed to establish a monopoly on violence in some territory (which it then calls its jurisdiction). Of course, it then evolves from there, and we have democracies etc, but fundamentally that is the root of any government.

Mao gave a very concise yet accurate description of this state of affairs: "political power grows out of the barrel of a gun".
Roscosmos must be pushing hard in order to pull this off. If they can't make their launch, the current crew will still need to depart on time. Should this happen, it'll be the first time in 18 (I think) years that the ISS has been unmanned. The Soyuz's hydrogen peroxide supply slowly denatures, so the spacecraft literally has an expiration date.
Tangent, but this place, which I knew basically nothing about before just now, appears to be stunningly beautiful, judging from the somewhat random sample of images on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayotte

It's humbling... I feel like a bad citizen of the world for my ignorance of Mayotte. But also optimistic... the world is full of so many amazing places, there's always going to be some next amazing place to learn more about.
I really want to say something mean to this toxic comment. But if you're having a bad day/week, I hope things get better for you.
The largest, most monopolistic companies in china are deeply wedded to the communist party and enjoy the protections afforded by this authoritarian regime.
Thanks! How big is the 100B rows in your system?
FWIW, I too am pro-union but have also seen issues at the K-12 level. Some are even well intentioned. Example: schools would cut their more senior teachers to save money (because they had the highest salaries). So the unions made contracts that protect seniority. Which means if the longer you survive, the safer your job without respect to your quality.

Experienced quality teachers are impossible to match...but experienced jaded teachers are easier to find (it is grueling to try and improve students away from dumb mistakes before you can even teach your material, only to start from scratch semester after semester.)

Standardized testing attempts to fix this, but....let's just say the math teachers (or anyone with an understanding of statistics) did not get a say in how they are used. Teachers that get a "bad class" (higher number of poor or unwilling learners) face serious impacts to their career success.
If running a company as a young white male from the west is hard then i dont know what is easy. Smh
I really like it, really pulls on my nostalgic strings :)
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Average cost of a weeklong vacation in cities around the world
Dachser’s Frankfurt airport branch gains pharma certification from IATA
> It is clear why we have reached this point. Most monopolies are allowed to exist because of state influence (which happens thru many forms, regulation, patents, or plain direct support), all increasing the barrier to entry for would-be competitors. You see this in most heavily regulated markets.

If I may disagree. Capitalism is great at allocating capital unless prevented from doing so. We collectively have come to agree that human labour can be purchased, but not humans themselves. Some things may be held publicly, some privately. Zero regulation is good because in the absence of hindrances people can do what they want but some of those choices hurt other people so regulations are introduced.

Why is it virtually impermissible to point out that everything else notwithstanding certain patterns keep recurring to individual markets in particular and the economy as a whole. The first is this. In the absence of regulation in mature markets companies will form cartels/trusts/oligopolies. It is so universal it is akin to a natural law. Failure to act on that hurts the economy in general. We used to be good at recognising this, we aren't so good any more. The second is this. People want greater returns over lesser returns. This leads to ever greater financialisation and capital chasing its own tail unless prevented from doing so. It will inevitably lead to super dodgy things like stock buy-backs (which in any healthy market ought to be virtually banned).

FTA: “The results were so good that in 2016 United’s board approved a stock buyback of $2 billion, which is the financial equivalent of spraying yourself with champagne.”

That's terrible. There is a direct correlation between ballooning exec salaries, corporate stock buy-backs and stagnating workers' compensation.

> There are other markets where the cost of entry is so high anyway (investment-wise) that naturally very few companies can make it - this is something that is not an issue per se.

An incorrect analysis of what ails the economy will over time have dire consequences. It may be hard to see it if you're doing okay but lots of people are not doing okay. There's political anger. Populists will blame outsiders like immigrants (don't get me wrong, I'm for strict immigration policies – but that's the incorrect cause and effect diagnosis – but blaming immigrants (illegal or otherwise) is scapegoating).

I have practically stopped reading HackerNews because too many on here appear to be too financially secure owing to the industry they are in, their backgrounds, luck, and hard work. Someone just died in Paris over protests over fuel price hikes. If those entrusted to keep the system healthy fail to do so in a controlled orderly manner then the people will introduce disorder by forceful means. I am not advocating this. I am against this. But the chances of this not happening are rapidly shrinking. I hope I'm wrong but all the macro indicators and with history as my guide tells me that I am not.

edit: typos and such
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https://github.com/bigchaindb/bigchaindb
I recently was asked by my girlfriends sister to help her choose a laptop. After finding a model that looked good spec-wise I searched for that same model but without Windows pre-installed. It was 150€ cheaper. Then I got a 10€ Windows 10 key from ebay, installed O&O ShutUp and Winaero Tweaker and now it almost feels like a great system that you can actually work with.

Vendor-bloatware has been bad since Windows 7 but now that even Microsoft chose to ship Windows itself with ads, pre-installed garbage like Candy Crush Saga and that annoying Cortana I can't imagine going back to it.
I think it's a fair critique. The lib is called "NES", yet doesn't appear to follow the NES's own available palette:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_game_console_pal...
> I still don't get why it didn't hurt them more in the enterprise space (read: why large companies didn't institute a strict "no lenovo" policy for a couple years). That would have been way more effective than fines.

Using vendor OS images is a rookie mistake in the first place.
User centric permissions are too broad. Classic example: you might not want your browser to ever access your own ssh private keys

The topic here is to let a user start a process and pass a restricted view of the file system to that process which in turn can spawn child processes to which it could restrict access even further. In order to make it possible to do useful work it's sometimes necessary to also pass around handles/filedescriptors between processes (possibly within different sandboxes) and it's a good idea that the rules governing the view narrowing are not broken.
Capitalism is simply the private ownership (including ability to transfer) the means of production. This is still true of the corporatist variety - unlike feudal fiefs, corporations can be bought and sold, and that makes all the difference. The only way for a feudal to aggregate more power is to go to war with other feudals for more lands, because a fief is land tenure, not property. In capitalism, because capital is property, it can be aggregated by buying it, and the more you aggregate, the more powerful you become, letting you acquire more capital etc - a positive feedback loop which means that monopolies are inevitable in pure unregulated capitalism.

Regulation is orthogonal to all that, so long as it does not interfere with the ability to aggregate capital. You can tax the corporations heavily, you can impose various safety standards on them, you can have consumer rights commissions etc - it makes it harder for them to make money from the capital that they own, but it doesn't change the fundamental equation of capital -> money -> more capital, and therefore the result is still capitalism. The only way you can stop this cycle is by imposing a limit on how much capital can be held in one hands.
Audi and Airbus joint drone car project
Operation Ajax: How the CIA’s first attempt at regime change nearly failed
I am struck at the quality of music neural nets can generate today. Just a few years ago it was much worse - the notes would make sense for 2-3 seconds and then they would just drift into another direction. And using the Transformer for music is an intriguing idea.

Edit: apparently someone has already implemented music generation with the Transformer. Samples: https://storage.googleapis.com/music-transformer/index.html
Of course they already thought of that lol. I really love the cleverness of this 'game.' I probably spend far too much time tinkering with our own js measurement script for how small we are but it's kind of addictingly fun.

Are you involved with sales or just engineering? My work email is in my profile I might drop you a note though I am just guessing your product is too expensive for our clients (mostly political campaigns).
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I love passion projects like this. Keep up the work!
Kinda click bait title. The project actually integrates the smart power plug to Alexa, which the electric blanket is powered from. The electric blanket is used without any changes to it.
It's all about the people (with a sprinkle of process)
Yup. Numerous private train companies in Japan.
Your argument is only valid if you believe that military applications of technology can be compartmentalized and limited in a way that one can always find a way to contribute to “good life saving military use cases” only.

But where the contradiction lies comes from the fact that the fundamental objective of any military is ultimately in increasing its ability to wage war and defeat other existing militaries. Such an objective is necessarily orthogonal to “saving civilian lives” unless you define only a subset of humanity to be the civilian lives you wish to save treating those outside as expendable. Disregarding how illogical and frankly inhumane in my opinion it is in arbitrarily choosing to delineate people like this, even in purely pragmatic and economic terms, it makes no sense. War is a zero sum game no matter how much you can optimize it such that the least amount of lives are taken in doing so.

The result of a use in military force is always ultimately the destruction of something which if not treated through other diplomatic means will escalate to larger and larger conflicts until at some point, nothing is left. Be very wary of those who tell you that the work you are doing is only to decrease casualty rates and save lives because that same reduction can and will be used to justify an increased usage of military force because of that very newly lowered rate.

Instead of working to increase the effectiveness and lethality of militaries, why not choose to spend your energy on trying to find ways to make it easier and more effective to resolving conflict by other diplomatic means? If such a belief is idealistic in today’s world, perhaps it is. But I believe there exists a future where such a world is possible if we only choose to not immediately give in to the cynicism of that other belief.
> I think both parents (or especially the woman)

Why do you say especially the woman? Not trying to pick a fight, I'm genuinely curious.
Data delivery is cheap. The data itself can be very, very expensive.
"Unless you like trash fires, which some people do."

I'm dying.
Poor hiring pool and work mistreatment, that actively prevents teachers from teaching well, while simultaneously piling lots of bullshit work on them.
Sorry, to clarify: I meant a means to contact you, not your prospects. I was just curious about your business and didn't mean to be intrusive.
need some fixing on mobile but works great, could be a great match to phaser.js games and the like, much better than slickui within the canvas
Wow, on average, these nine experts believe Bitcoin will reach over 100,000 USD! *

* if you include McAfee's prediction of 1 BTC = 1 Million USD. :)
Students are the only people who can really evaluate the quality of teaching. Someone with a pre-existing understanding of the material cannot tell whether the class can successfully communicate it to a fresh mind.

A few negative evaluations based on personal disputes can be expected. If there are grudges or strong feelings among a large enough proportion of students to meaningfully influence the aggregates, then something really is wrong.
Yes, and even after 9/11 there is clear data showing that people stopped flying en masse and took the wheel instead, resulting in increased overall death count.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/sep/05/september-11-r...

> However, Professor Gerd Gigerenzer, a German academic specialising in risk, has estimated that an extra 1,595 Americans died in car accidents in the year after the attacks – indirect victims of the tragedy.
Yeah but men basically go insane when trying to impress women. The entire concept of a wedding is insane. That much time, effort and money for something that essentially amounts to a few photographs, most of which are fake and posed. A man wouldn't buy this for himself.
> I suspect the scandal has made companies aware that this is a bad idea.

I kind of wonder how many people were like, "pre-install adware on PCs? Why didn't I think of that?!?"
GDPR Regulations [pdf]
the core has much more pressure, it is mote likely to shoot itself out instead
Nice, this is great! I did the same thing with mine a couple years back:

Demo: http://coryandro.com/
Code: https://github.com/czue/django-wedding-website
Writeup: https://buildwithdjango.com/blog/post/wedding-website/
Yup. If a reform plan included things like "let's actually pay teachers more", "let's give them more freedom to apply good teaching practices", "let's give them saner working hours" and "let's reduce the red-tape a bit", I doubt any union would complain.
Not at all. His viewpoint makes sense simply by understanding that US military superiority over countries like Russia and China is significantly better, to the entire western world, than any realistic alternative.
I wonder how costly this particular class-action suit was for Lenovo?

This is, the 7.3 MUSD to be paid, plus the prorated expenses to compensate the employees handling the case, plus court fees, plus travel expenses, etc., but ignoring factors like lost sales, other fines and settlements, etc.; is the final figure still around 7.3 MUSD, or would it be significantly more?
The abstract on this [1] makes me think something similar could be happening here: low attenuation implies the resonance would take quite a number of cycles to die out like the one discussed in the article.

Here’s another abstract [2] describing resonance with periods near 10 seconds lasting a long time.

[1]: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/1999...

[2]: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/299/5615/2058
There is nothing else happening in Norway (except that naval frigate that sank), that's why. It's literally been glued to the front-page of the top online newspapers for weeks now. We have no history or culture of chess and we will not see another Carlsen for another millennium, dessverre.
> and had they not become more stringent, then we would have daily crashes and fewer people would be willing to fly.

Not sure you can make such a claim. There are other industries where standards and safety practices improve over time without the need of strong regulatory leadership. Case in point: occupational injuries have been decreasing over time across the board:

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/osh_11082018.pdf
Yeah my biggest red flag is people who fail to have a proper discussion about what color the sky actually is.

Unfortunately people often aren't incentivized to discuss the actual color of the sky,but rather the color as either they would like to see it or that would suit their agenda the best.
Chinese translation app with built in censorship
FreeBSD is deprecated. Supporting the project is supporting far-left software terrorists. Please use OpenBSD: https://www.openbsd.org/
Currency is also often tainted with bacteria.
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They couldn't have.

The dropper was passive, abusing a Windows mechanism designed for installing vendor software, in which Windows looks for such software and executes it.

Linux does not go diving in UEFI looking for executables to run.
We never really had an open market with many competing airlines. Only a few large airlines ever had full nationwide route networks covering all the major hubs and spokes. The smaller carriers might have helped hold prices down on a few less popular routes, but overall I think travelers are generally better off with four airlines that fly pretty much everywhere.
I love stuff like this.
It's okay to constructively criticize things. Better than being needlessly condescending.
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Safety comes at a cost. If you want to makes planes ultimately safe, you would not allow them to fly, period. Just like NASA has now an objective of "safe flights" and basically does not send humans in space anymore because they can't guarantee zero fatality.

Safety is not a binary variable: it's a trade-off vs economical factors and the cost of each ticket. Since some people have to fly anyway, this means decreased spending in other areas of the economy.
Hey everyone!
I have been working on the project recently and would love some feedback. Earlier this year I was researching mental health and motivation within entrepreneurs. It lead me to discovering that us entrepreneurs, makers and hackers are highly intrinsically motivated, however lack the extrinsic motivation to push through tough times and lost intrinsic motivation. Therefore I came up with the idea of Demand Rocket. A platform which would reward you with our own cryptocurrency each time you shipped to product hunt, and the faster you shipped, the more coin you earn. The coins can then be used to purchase partnered products on Demand Rocket's store. What do you guys think?