skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The study looked at 778 women journalists and politicians in the US and UK, and found that 7.1 percent of tweets sent to them last year were abusive or problematic.

What is the baseline for "abusive or problematic" tweets? What's the amount of abuse a man can expect? Looking at their methodology, I don't think this was taken in to account (it looked just at a cross-section of female Twitter users).
That is a real problem, though I would respond by saying that that is really a consequence of a flaw in the capitalist system we have, rather than a critique of capitalism itself. Which is that if private actors have an incentive to externalize their costs onto a public commons (e.g. the environment), we simply need to find a way to appropriately price and charge for that externality.
Fair but $5 isn’t really much compensation to drive out of your way to the warehouse either. Seems like a number that comes from balancing the edge cases of people who might occasionally say fuck it because it isn’t worth it 1 in 20 times, while not worrying about the aggregious violators because they’ll be found out anyway.
I’m reminded of airports which function very similarly to healthcare. There’s absolutely no choice of merchants I can be in an airport is decided by a very small group of people. It’s not like an open air market you’re finding some developing countries where people can just set up shop and start selling stuff. It is a tightly very tightly controlled market I have very very small number of entities and organizations.
Yeah, the only way it remotely works in theory is if the fee is some percentage of the revenue you earned off the IP in the last year.

Practically it's an unenforceable nightmare that is so prone to "Hollywood accounting" type gimmicks that doesn't work at all.
If two crews have to show up for a fire... That means higher prices because most of the time there is no fire, so they just sit around waiting -- more people higher cost.

It also means it might be that nobody shows up, because it's a holiday, so nobody was on duty.
> I'm not sure that social advocacy should be a goal of the legal profession.

So, no Gary Becker, no Richard & Eric Posner, no Guido Calabresi, no Ronald Coase? That would be pretty awful, if you ask me. Lawyers and jurists can provide a useful perspective on the social sciences.
I said that I don’t think that there are many people that benefit from this scenario for the reasons that I wrote.
If you benefit from it being aware of the alternatives of course you can use it.
Google Chrome wants to stop back-button hijacking
Stage two: T-Rex skeleton background.
Do they just not check to see if their names are already established brands?

I don't think Microsoft is in the performance braking market.

https://www.project-mu.co.jp/en/index.html
-22 doesn't imply 128 MB window silently?
I think the the fixation on symbolic reasoning comes from ignorance at how hard classification is vs how hard pure mechanical symbolic operations are for humans. It's easy to make the mistake of thinking that since a computer can rapidly multiply two numbers together (hard for humans) that they were operating at a higher level than human brains.

Turns out this is wrong. Human brains are very efficient.
I totally agree that it does not price all of them accurately, though I think it does price some of them decently well (e.g. smoking). I do see quite a few people proposing solutions like that with respect to the primary economic externality of the moment (carbon release), like Cap and trade, carbon credits, etc.. They haven't achieved the kind of widespread adoption that i'd like them to, but they seem like solid solutions to me and ones that have quite a bit of international support, even if not quite enough to get them through.
You don’t even begin to comprehend what I’m saying. You need to think about this more deeply.

So what if it is possible to create a benevolent ai? Nobody said this isn’t possible or even likely. We can also invent a machine that scrubs all the moss off of stones. Just because it’s possible for it to exist doesn’t mean it’s going to proliferate in the free-market of the world and everything in it. The only thing that is important is the fact that

1: we will enter an unstable configuration where any AI implementation that can exist will exist

2: the AI implementations that proliferate will be those that are not hamstrung by being forced to include humans in the loop

3: humans will be out of the loop for every conceivable task and therefore not enjoy the high standard of living that they do in 2018
The initial group wouldn't even need $1k. The median bid here was closer to $100.
And apparently they are terrible at scaling.
The name is optional, and probably just to help explain the code.
Simpler WeWork version:

1. Borrow short.

2. Lend long.

It works until it doesn't.

Normally, though, the people who do this are banks, so we regulate with capital requirements and protect smallholders with deposit insurance.

When the people doing it are a massively leveraged real estate investment pool, masquerading as a disruptive tech startup, it's a lot less clear what happens when the music stops...

(For those not intimate with the finance side: WeWork is making super-long-term commitments of big dollars, and then microchunking them into super-short-term commitments. This is like a bank making long-term big loans by aggregating short-term demand deposits. In both cases, as long as there's a ton of short-term players to work with, you're safe. When there's a "run on the bank" the short-timers all leave quickly, but the institution's long-term obligations can't be unwound, leading to insolvency.)
As I said to a sibling response, this is not a substitute for Mongo's aggregation pipeline unless it can do analogous things to Postgres's JSONB fields. For example, can it unwind an array field, match those subrecords where one field (like a "key") matches a value and another field (like a "value") exceeds an overall value, and then apply this condition to filter the overall rows in the table?

Also, one of the benefits of Mongo's API is that it has excellent native implementations in numerous languages (we already use C++ and Python), so a suggestion to switch language entirely is not really equivalent.
Wow, just... wow. The hits keep coming. At this point I really don't understand how just so many egregious, deceptive practices were ever thought to be a good idea by, presumably, more than a few people at the company.

Was all of this just a sort of fearful, frantic rush to transition from the startup mentality of "get users first, figure out monetization later" into an actual revenue model? I'd really like to know, did they panic and throw spaghetti at the wall to see what would stick, or was this a more strategic and cynical process of exploitation?
Why should children of artists get more help than say, builders, or doctors, or anyone?
What's the current state of the art for space-efficient long term Prometheus storage?

PromHouse looks very promising: https://github.com/Percona-Lab/PromHouse
If it's a super-earth it probably has an iron core. We should be able to use magnets to crash it into the sun. The impact event will be hard to miss. We'll know where it is for sure then. This is a lot less work than building a Dyson sphere.
When somebody (whoever may be) claims something very unlikely the confidence people have on it being true has no other way to go but up. And people react to that change by talking.

It's a bad cycle where absurd stuff (like "the Earth is plane") gets normalized by people repeating their surprised reactions. But there's no reason to think we are seeing anything besides people coping with an idea they will conclude is baseless.
I always love the "but we have to maintain momentum" argument. A car also has momentum. In fact, it has quantitatively more momentum.
That’s awesome. My dad taught English at a community college where they gouged students for a $125 “mercury reader”, which was a collection of public domain and licensed books in one big book.
Appreciate the clarification.
Almost picked it up from context, but was still a little curious (searching the internet for an contextual acronym is never efficient)
Facts About Facebook’s Messaging Partnerships
We can survive global warming. We can fix it. We can come back from it. We will never come back from ai. It’s not impossible to ban ai. And we would be stupid to assume it’s impossible instead of trying to find out through an effort to save ourselves.
So how do you get out of vi with that keyboard?
Why?
If Stan Lee accumulated some wealth, he can pass that along.
Reliably picking the top 4% and tailoring the curriculum to them sounds very difficult. With a large enough potential student body and a small enough enrolment a sufficiently prestigious institution can have any kind of student population it wants.

Cal Tech students are admitted purely on academic merit and they’re the only elite university in the US with a significant drop out rate. I doubt they have any graduates who aren’t in the top percentile.

In practice you’re mostly right. Look at schools like Yale Law or France’s École Nationale d’Administration[1] where the student body is so smart that half of them would pass the exams if handed the reading list and syllabus for the exams and given a year to prepare.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/École_nationale_d%27administra...
Given that nicotine addiction is a thing, I don’t think “occasional moderate use” is possible.
There is one thing that really stands out in the choice of words in this article that makes me feel strange about it: Estimating the value of Facebook.

> [Facebook's] benefits are hard to measure

The Introduction reads like Facebook was the first of its kind and invented the social web. It's kind of like how mainstream media talk about Apple as the inventor of the smartphone and the tabled. It's as if there was no Facebook or Apple, there would never have been any other actor to take that space in the market.

It's like these companies are deities in people's minds. Apple sure has its prophets, but Facebook is probably felt as a more paternalistic and malevolent superego god.

I mean, I would not be surprised to see this kind of narrative in some click-driven blog. But in a peer-reviewed research article?

If this is really how most people think even in academic circles - that it is Facebook or nothing - then there's a huge disconnect and I have grossly underestimated the amount of awareness-spreading needed if we don't want to fully lose the open web.
Most definitions that make Pluto a planet would make it Planet Ten, because Ceres would also be a planet.
And most importantly relative to the article we can debate bang for our buck or what else could be done with some of that money.

One can bring up evil dictators or reserve currency or whatever, but there is lots of waste, irresponsible spending, pork barrel, district welfare and all sorts of other issues. To say nothing of the contractor complex.

The objectives you speak of aren't being efficiently nor sustainably achieved. They are arguably and very tenuously occasionally being brute forced out in an extremely wasteful fashion.

And this isn't a statement on the righteousness of American power projection which is another argument all together.
Beat me to the comment.
Go uses the M-to-N model for it's goroutines.
Because someone claimed that they're not arrays, which they are. So the posted article is correct in that sense; and not wrong about everything, which was also claimed.
I have to say I had the exact opposite (with the exception of performance).

After 10 years as a Ruby developer I had resisted working w/ Rails (always opting to use Sinatra).

This year I embraced Rails for a large project and I'm kicking myself for not doing it sooner. The documentation is great and the speed at which you can knock out features is second to none.
Smart home: where to start?
You may be able to build this, put your existing device into unsigned mode, then chain from the UEFI shell [1] into this - or just put it on a FAT32 flash drive as \EFI\boot\bootx64.efi.

On the "embedded" side, I'm pretty sure u-boot can load EFI binaries now.
It truly is the time of year

to change the rules without the ear

of the full gamut of distracted proles

working through their seasonal roles

What is the point of the public domain?

Say the Capitalists with malicious disdain

And politics has become, post-Obama

Another TV show of scripted drama

So expect the announcement

with breath well-baited

For the Disney law

to be further weighted
Graduating from an Ivy League college is hardly an Olympic feat. Don't get stuck on the analogy.
it's just that the study is surveying people who already have a Facebook account. So the value they are talking about is not some abstract theoretical concept of value - they are talking about value in the context of quite literally - how much dollar value do people place on having a facebook account.
Looks cool! I've joined and will keep an eye out for it in places I visit.
A side issue with 5G is that there are all sorts of fun / unusual effects being discovered with GSM/wifi suffusing our environments - i remember Stanford being able to detect people moving behind a wall using the wifi signals. Simply Monitoring signal strength has had many commercial opportunities and now we are going to put millimetre wave radar throughout our cities - expect novel uses to crop up
I would say most people make up their mind more and more with information release over time. Towards the end you know the candidates very well and its hard to change your mind. How many Trump supporters will change their mind even now?
Then what is the duty of the police?
Oh, that just means I happen to write in clear, unidiomatic English ;-). Add just a smidgen of irregular usage, contemporary metaphors and such and things can go South pretty quickly.
I do, since it has been done.

Here's a reasonable example: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetorch/2018/02/20/587356461/h...
I don't think London has huge walk-in storm sewers. And there are certainly people digging up everything they can see, all the time, at least on the roads i use to get to work.
"Brokerage CBRE Group Inc. in October launched a business called Hana that will help landlords create their own flexible offices. Owners want to be a part of the rising demand for that type of space, said Andrew Kupiec, Hana’s CEO."

Good luck trying to create a nice product with a federation of people with zero product experience. You'll be training them / fighting the same battles over and over. And just wait until they bring in their family members who have great ideas.
Yes, you can!

The jsonb_array_elements function is roughly similar to Mongo’s $unwind pipeline op. It explodes a JSON array into a set of rows. From there it’s pretty simple aggregates to achieve what you’re looking for.

I was evaluating Mongo a couple months back to solve roughly the same problems. Eventually discovered Postgres already had what I was looking for.
While the excessive amount of sugar in some food and drinks is bad, at least they don’t give you withdrawal when you stop taking them.
Depends what class of building you're renting in. A Class B building might tidy up the place, but if you're springing for a Class A building, prestige is what you're buying into.
The Title should be corrected. The title of post is actually:

"Let’s Clear Up a Few Things About Facebook’s Partners"

This distinction is notable for it's patronizing tone.

Of course the assumption that we all have it wrong. "There's nothing to see here, please move along." Everything that was done was done to make the world a more connected place and for us to have more "social interactions."

This post is a case study in how not to do PR. There's wasn't even a remote hint of concern for what their users might be feeling in the wake of this story. But perhaps it doesn't matter anyway since this company has zero credibility at this point.
That's exactly right. The fact that "wall posts" is in that list gives you a false notion of the granularity of the items in the list. One of those is not nearly as granular as the rest - if you assume that it is, like I did, you guess that "data" means "where you went to High School" or your "favorite movie" or some such, not "everything." Really deceptive.
Since you have experience with WISP, I’m personally curious, for communities that are poor, but have low labor costs at certain points of the year, would a fiber backbone be viable?

I mean if labor for wiring was free, and you only have to pay for equipment and to configure the equipment, would it be worth it?

Although I think the communities would be grateful for just 200 kilobyte/s reliable internet on sunny days.
Quick & inadequate worktime response:
I believe the 'economy' to be a myth: I don't think it represents a defensible system delimitation, as it abstracts too far from the real systems it's embedded within.

The real (physical, chemical, biological) processes that have gone on during the last two centuries are not 'growth' in any way that respects the meaning of the term. They constitute an increase in entropy in our ecologies: evolved complex systems are broken down to feed simple technological ones. That process can be considered 'growth' only by mentally excising most of the systems involved (ie. to form 'economics'!). As those systems collapse, the illusoriness of the 'growth' will be clearly exposed as a fake. A few generations of humans will have made hay at the expense of numberless future humans & nonhumans.
Do you really think Amazon is going to setup a system where only 99% of customers get their stuff? 1% of Amazon's retail sales is $2.5BB in a year.
Amazon will cheerfully leave many hundred dollar packages on my porch. The other day, they sent a $16 toilet seat by UPS 2nd Day and I had to sign for that...
I was quoting the article to show that the comment wasn't true. So I do think that the quote is true.
Please, creators, if you're reading this: Stop labeling things 8-bit that are in no way 8-bit except there are some big squares/cubes involved.
They can't say things are copyright in perpetuity. It would validate Article 1 Section 8 Chapter 8 on the US Constitution
Yes but will OEMs adopt this instead of bundling their own, and often buggy/crappy UEFI code and interface?
Definitely.

What could also be taken into account is that I used to be up there preaching the static typing gospel. And then I gradually got fed up with the ceremonies, since they didn't pull their own weight and couldn't keep up.

It's all compromises. The claim is that in return for following rigid rules, they guarantee this and that. Sort of the same deal the state has pushed down our throats since forever. And for a while it seems reasonable, until you pull hard enough to notice the chains around your ankles.
With internet speed significantly above the decompression speeds zstd is favorable. With internet speeds below the decompression speeds brotli is favorable because less bytes need to be transmitted.

Usual users have internet speeds of a 10 MB/s or so, and brotli is more favorable up to around 200 MB/s (2 gbps) internet speeds. It is also not just about speed, but mobile users need to pay less with brotli as less bytes are transferred.

Further (I'm not an expert on this, somewhat speculative) but likely the streaming properties of brotli are slightly better, i.e., less bytes are needed to hide in a buffer to be able to decode bytes. This may allow the browser to issue new fetches for urls in an html document earlier with brotli than with zstd.
Great article. Such case studies are way more significant contributions to software engineering as a field than the big pile of whitelabel/fanboy articles we see around highlighting advantages of some fancy stuff.
Some of those who deny anthropomorphic global climate change are undoubtedly ideologically blind and/or ignorant. But I suspect that many are acting in what seems their economic self-interest. That is, they believe that they can accumulate more wealth, and mitigate potential impacts for themselves and their descendants.

And maybe they're right. But I do hope that they'll feel at least a little guilty.
I remember when usb bitcoin miners started the asic trajectory in crypto. I don't think nascent is the right word.
The specific item that is on the IARC Group 2B ("possibly carcinogenic") is "radiofrequency electromagnetic fields", which includes exposures due to cell phone use-- cell phone radiation specifically is not classified.

So, if your car has keyless entry, your car keys would technically also be on the list.
The Road Not Taken: The Most Misread Poem in America
A 2% THD solid state amp would be pretty hard to design today, unless it's an effect you were trying to achieve. In that case, you can simulate the transfer function of one device with another.
Hacker Breaks into a Personal Security System to Prove It's Possible
>I'm at a loss as to why the US is still dead set to have no meaningful health coverage.

The US isn't a monolith. The majority of the population very much wants meaningful health coverage, but thanks to Supreme Court decisions like Citizens United, corporations are entitled to free political expression under the first Amendment, so they can give unlimited amounts of money to political candidates. This allows uberwealthy individuals to form corporations for the explicit purpose of installing anti-taxation cronies into legislatures at both the state and national level.

Our political process is very corrupt, and it's taken a national emergency (Trump's Presidency) to wake people up. The 2018 midterms demonstrated that far more citizens are paying attention and plan on voting, so hopefully the US goes single payer soon, but it's going to be a brutal political fight.
Why is it unfortunate that bad judgment or weak moral compass has repercussions?

I feel like it's much worse overall when those things have no repercussions...
Well, looks like I got lucky on my choice of suppliers :)
It has to clear the Kuiper belt? That's a tall order!
Really, the only surprise is that you didn't Google "hospital shooting", the following hit from Google lists 15 hospital shootings in 2018 alone:

https://www.campussafetymagazine.com/tag/hospital_shootings/

I guess you can go look for the motivation, most shootings probably isn't financially motivated thought.
The parent did specify land vehicles.
I’ve not read TFA, but it mentions quaternions multiple times...
I get it, but to me that's like estimating the value of Honda by asking people who drive a Honda how much they would have to be paid to not be able to drive a car anymore.

The difference being that there are alternatives to cars while Facebook has a monopoly on the social graph of many users. I think one could argue that Facebook is a monopoly on online communication for large parts of the social graph right now, especially as they also own WhatsApp and Instagram.
Then just say for the next 999 years, or something like that.
Levels above 19, which has a 8 MB window size, may only be used with the --ultra flag, whose documentation says "requires more memory".
Are you saying that you believe corporations will continue to submit DMCA takedown notices on content that is newly found in the public domain, with no liability? It seems as if you are trying to look at the move of some copyrighted works into the public domain through the lens of the DMCA, without considering that a content creator who receives a DMCA takedown of works that are in the public domain has hard evidence to counter said notice, which isn't necessarily the case in the setting of "fair use".
Are you saying that the richest country in the world can't accomplish something that already exists in plain view in some of the poorest countries in the world?