skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can see that. Google seems to have adult management, while Facebook seems to have a more... immature model.

I don’t see how you can be Google without being scary.
I don’t know much about servers and cloud, so I’ll just stick to the first point: gaming. Apple is already in one of the largest gaming markets(if not the largest) - handheld gaming. The number of people playing candy crush and fortnite is much, much more than Red Dead Redemption 2, and Apple is more than happy to take in 30% of all those in app purchases. Yes, it would be nice if Apple made a PlayStation class console, but I’m pretty sure they won’t. The people at Apple are interested in serving casual gamers, and it already makes more money than most AAA gaming, so why invest in making a serious console when you could make that money from pay-to-win games?
So true. I used to be a gentoo user, then fedora and arch, all in my laptop. It was fun to tinker with it but eventually you have other stuff to do and just need a laptop that works. Now, I won't say every time cuz even OSX has glitches but rarely (for my use cases anyways).
I can't imagine many people use the maps features in DDG. Switching over to Apple maps isn't going to help, considering that everyone I know in New England stops using Apple maps after about the fifth attempt. Absolutely everyone has an iPhone yet I have no idea how Apple Maps looks like at this point.
> This is how Bezos built AWS

Bezos didn't build AWS, people who worked for him did. They also didn't do it as part of the normal day to day at Amazon, no matter how much Amazon pushes the "it's the tech we use already" narrative.
First there was no EU neither in 1914 nor in 1939.

Second, the US were not a nice place to live in 1861, while Europe was. Time changes.
You're forgetting one detail that I think should be emphasized here: OSM is about free knowledge (as in freedom). You can use, modify and share OSM data however you want. Apple on the other hand is hoarding its information. You can only access it through their products in the ways they intended. They control everything (as always).

I do believe it when Apple says they're respecting their users' privacy, just like I believe it when DDG says that. But I am disappointed when I see how these companies neglect freedom and how so few of their users care about it.
Modern desktops have had RNGs built into their chips since Ivy Bridge. Beyond that, they have plenty of decent sources for random numbers such as network traffic. Similarly, mobile devices can use sensor noise to create random numbers pretty well.

The devices people are concerned with are things like embedded devices and sometimes virtual devices.
also, the 1939 voder comes to mind :

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rAyrmm7vv0
I mean sure, if you were King of the world, you could just decide that it's worth the risk...

The problem is not what, the problem is how.

We already have plenty imaginary solutions, if we spend enough money, we can do the nuclear, do the wind, solar, water. We have the resources, and I believe we have the knowledge and r&d capacity to make up for any gaps.

I don't have anything else to add, I don't know what else I can do, I get that the technology is not impossible nor utopic... But the sudden switch required by our civilizations and societies surely does look utopic...

...
The same for Apple Maps, except any improvements that go there fall into another closed silo.
Sales, Marketing, Partnerships, Content Moderation/Censorship.
My mother: Fix my login for the retirement accounts.

[I start to explain how she keeps messing up the browser saved passwords.]

Never mind that! Just fix the login!
I really hope they are keeping his family safe. The cartels are pretty nasty. Just watch Narcos, Narcos: Mexico ("Season 2" of Narcos) and El Chapo on Netflix (both in mostly Spanish, especially El Chapo) and see all the crazy history.
The lack of a complex text doesn’t make the Brexit question simpler. It really makes it far more complex: a massively complex agreement is implied as part of Leave, but at the time of the vote nobody knew just what it would say! It’s like asking, “Do you accept this constitution we’re going to write soon?”
I have switched to decaf espresso (for pretty much the same reasons as outlined above). It does not taste as good, but it is close enough - so it is a satisfactory substitute for regular espresso.
> that is not what I would consider "the executive functions [needed] to attend college" if you were discussing the admission of a 9-year-old.

I don't see the problem.

> my parents help me by typing out study notes from my textbooks, even though they might not understand the content.

He attends 2 schools, so his time/attention is necessarily limited. This is only tacitly related to executive functions - for some undefined value of "having". Having someone print something out for you as part of your own time management is reasonable.
I see a lot of complaining about this keyboard online but I have yet to meet someone in person that thought it was as terrible as claimed. I love the new MacBook keyboards and Touch Bar but it's possible that I'm a complete outlier.
> Google seems more passive and delivers more utility.

Google delivers no utility beyond the companies that it acquired, and its monopolies due to size and control over so many handsets allowed it to push out the competition that would force it to improve what it does offer.

Youtube and Maps, at least, have a worse, more intrusive interface than they did 10 years ago. It's completely a subjective statement, but for me their search results are far worse in comparison to 10 years ago, and in obvious ways, like every link on the first 5 pages of any search trying to sell me something or repeating the same wikipedia copy.

To estimate the utility of Google, you have to compare it to the ecosystem that you would expect to have existed if Google didn't exist, not to the ecosystem you would expect if search engines, streaming video lockers, and an alternative to iOS on mobile didn't exist.

The only two nice things that google ever did for me was 1) count backlinks to give me better search results, and 2) create a culture of less intrusive ads through their monopoly power. The SEO people killed innovation 1), and google pretended that they were going to use magic AI to beat them but secretly gave up. 2) would have been done anyway by the rise of the adblockers, and google ruined all goodwill by innovating on a culture of intrusive tracking and behavior monitoring and profiling on the internet that has become a threat to its very existence.

Facebook is just filling a need that governments should be filling: providing an organized way for individuals to communicate with each other over the internet. Extracting rents is what companies do when they take over functions for absentee governments. Facebook doesn't seem to care much about what is outside facebook, other than how it helps them extract more rent from the people inside facebook.

Google is actively spreading over everything, and making it worse.
> But since the underdog won, since leave won, it is now contestable.

As much as our friends in parliament sometimes make it out to be, it is not purely a match. There is no "underdog" in Brexit; there is one team, the UK, with two options: remain or leave. Choosing a bad option affects everyone equally (except a few career politicians).

With all the shouting and finger pointing it's easy to lose track of this fact: it is not a competition. We're in this together. We're a family, and we might be cutting off the nose to spite the face.

But it has morphed into an us-vs-them issue (brexiteers vs remainers, not even immigrants), and through the lens of competition we only see the finish line.
Agencies would need legislation authorizing them to retain funds for this purpose.
I'm in the same boat and will need to switch once my 2015 dies, but I really don't want to have to switch from MacOS. 90% of my work depends on the keyboard and I can't stand the response of the butterfly switches, it's like typing on a piece of glass.

Do I have to hackintosh may way back in?
The Sql services started without any data. The service started with empty tables. But yet they have an Sql service.
I realize you're probably joking, but it's possible (common, even?) to have an aunt/uncle who is younger than you.
It's not consumable, but it can be in short supply right after boot. So /dev/random should block until there's sufficient entropy, but never after that.
Our Language Affects What We See
It's not just PII, it's anything the government just doesn't want people to know. For whatever reason.

I'm just pointing this out because I'd like to see a movement towards actually more open government.
I don’t disagree that DDG might turn evil. What I disagree with is the premise that they are not evil only because they are small.
> There would be nobody in parliament or government talking about a second referendum if remain had won

Before the results were fully counted, when it looked as if remain had won, leavers were already beginning work on their campaign for a second referendum.
... and increases problems with X,Y,Z I wouldn't be surprised to learn, before anyone thinks about taking this as health advice.
What has AirBnB done that's imaginative beyond VRBO and similar ilk?

> I don't think the regulatory environment will be even a speed-bump on its path.

They certainly haven't treated it as such. "Laws? Fuck'em". Witness: New York. Witness: Gibraltar-issued anonymous credit cards to avoid taxation issues.

I'm not sure these are things to be proud of or aspire to.
Hospitals routinely spend huge sums of money on new equipment that significantly improves their competitive edge on diagnoses and outcomes. They are also willing to spend money on drop-in solutions that lessen the need for paperwork that eats up admin, nurse, or doctor time.

However, you're right that they are notoriously stingy on buying new things if the economics aren't immediately apparent, and will never buy into something that demands radical workflow/org changes.
Where I work, a tax policy think tank, we purchase from the IRS an anonymized data set of about 100k sample tax returns that we use for modeling the effects of changes to tax policy. We've got an agreement with the IRS that we can never share that dataset, and I'm pretty sure this is why. While I'd love to be able to make our tax model results more transparent, the risk of de-anonymization is too high. I think another tax policy group is trying to create a synthetic dataset that is close to the sample in terms of outputs but is entirely made up, so that it could be used for verification of results by third parties--I hope they succeed.
Doesn't make a ton of sense. If you can't convert it to currency easily, why does it have value at all?
This is true as well. I'm on the same boat. Next time that an upgrade is due I'll have to do a more serious due diligence.
You've been doing some bathroom reading I see.
> I wouldn't be surprised if around 90-95% of special interest funded studies that aim for a p value of <5% aren't published.

This is true of the majority of publicly-funded research, too.
I am curious if Mayor Bill de Blasio will go after landlords who permit or partake of this following his recent declaration they will confiscate property of landlords they consider abusive or failing to maintain property to new standards. Of course he plans to turn them over to non profits which is code for politically connected groups which support him, but the idea that they don't put an Airbnb clause into the abusive category isn't baseless.

AirBnb is going to get knocked down a peg or two once the states get involved, they are able to dance around many cities and their attempts to reign it in but once a state level attorney comes for them it won't be simple.

however as with uber this comes down to private property rights, who do you choose to side with. Me, I am with the property owners as a Libertarian but I am with government regulation so that it is not abused to the injury of others. Specifically the idea of evicting people or requiring them to vacate during high profile events in town
1)Your wrong, they have 28billion barrels equivalent in proven reserves

2)they make more than that because they're vertically integrated
No, you can have the lists of voters without having any information about who they voted for (or in this case, party affiliation which gives who they probably voted for).
I don't know why my web site was categorized that way by your employer's firewall.
"Richard Cook gave a talk on "How Complex Systems Fail" [2] which addresses this point, and advocates for designing for resiliency as opposed to designing to exhaustively handle all failure modes (which are impossible to predict)."

This is the Erlang design philosophy.
The problem with "block until you have enough entropy" is that the amount of entropy you have is literally unknowable.
I don't think "we probably won't even starve to death" would have gone over quite so well on the side of the bus.

There is also the question of how easy unravelling our membership of the WTO with the rest of Europe will be.

I'm no expert in how international trade works but it's not as simple as WTO becomes the default day one no deal situation from what I've read. For example https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-trade-...
> Firstly - cancel article 50, then reenact it again. That is within EU rules and avoids needing any yay or nay from EU.

This is not possible. The recent judgement that UK could unilaterally cancel A50 was predicted on a "good faith" cancellation, not gaming the system.
Mux is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to build cloud video infrastructure
The US are doing many things well, but the quality of their food in general is not really an example to follow.
It's largely for primary voting in states that have partisan primaries. If you're registered as a Democrat then you receive a ballot with only the Democratic candidates.

Of course one could argue that all primaries should be non-partisan. Or that governments shouldn't spend money on running partisan primaries on behalf of political parties which are private organizations.
I don't think there is any point, it's just poor government design in general.
Yep. See also the sudden run of paranoia about phones surreptitiously mining audio around them for targeted advertising.
Parrot goes shopping with owner’s Alexa
There's another way to look at it - Tim Cook has managed to get these leaders of repressive regimes to shake hands and do business with an openly gay man who is widely admired.
I've been looking at one of these and the only thing that worries me is the hinge - it looks like the laptop is "fat" at the hinge part instead of closing together snugly.

Is that a problem when carrying it around in comparison to a mac? Is it an annoyance?
Oops, you're right, it's the other way round; UK nationals in the EU can vote in Parliamentary elections but not the referendum.

The great thing about democracy is there are so many different electorates to choose from.
But that's not actually helping them. I've already got a whole pile of stuff queued up that I'm watching, and as long as I'm watching that stuff, I'm not going to cancel my membership. And when I finish a series, I tend to go browsing for another one then (I guess I like to have approximately the same number "in flight" at any given time).

Then again, my patterns are probably not normal...
Some people do slack off work. It's sort of like welfare. We're more concerned with who would abuse it, rather than who it would help, even when the benefits exceed the potential fraud.
The penalties for failing to enforce border checks (in the absence of a trade deal) would be severe.
My activism on this issue for the past decade and a half has basically consisted of corresponding for a few minutes each year with some new person who objects to signing the loyalty oath. I doubt that the site blocking has anything to do with this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Friedman and the Chicago School of economics are the nexus of the change you're describing.

If you're sort of liberal, it's a real mind bender to listen to Milton's speeches on YouTube. It was the first time I really felt exposed to the philosophical core of the various negative things I thought were random externalities of 'capitalism'
> Canary failures at other times trigger steady state alarms. Thus, our canaries serve both to validate new versions and continuously monitor the existing versions.

This is bad.

Canaries are not alerts. Alerting should be separate from canary. If you're getting steady state alerts from your canaries, you're steady-state alerting is bad.

A system that isn't undergoing change should be able to entirely disable its canary, and you should still remain confident that any changes in traffic or whatnot should be handled by other alerting tools. If not, then your canaries aren't correctly balanced, and your getting canary failures due to traffic imbalances or something that shouldn't be affecting a good canary. In other words, if you're canary is alerting in steady state, your experimental setup is invalid and you don't have a good test/control pair. If you did, the only steady state alerts you'd get would be noise.

You can't have the same experimental setup control for production differences to isolate changes due to binary version bumps, while also detecting changes in production traffic independent of binary version bumps. At least one of those is broken.
So if I follow all this advice, how am I supposed to receive or send sensitive documents?

> If you deal with sensitive documents like legal artifacts in immigration cases, you want to have control over which of your documents wind up in the cloud and which you retain custody over.

This is incredibly easy with Dropbox or Google Drive. Everyone I know who uses these services has an intuitive knowledge for 'stuff in this folder goes in the cloud', and if they wanted to keep sensitive data off it they would know exactly how.

I am on an iPad, so no mature options for encrypting it myself with pgp or something really exist. I shouldn't upload it to a cloud service (although chances are that it already is, because pretty much every iOS app uses a cloud of some sort). I shouldn't email it. I can't plug in a physical usb device because iOS doesn't have File reading access to. I guess I convince everyone to use Signal? That is pretty impractical for 'normal' people to convert everyone over to their own messaging app.

Also, on your phone, what browser do you use? Chrome? Well, not really because it is all webkit under the hood, so you are going to be using Safari no matter what.
It really speaks to the great improvement of the human condition, that the big complaint about the top companies of today is that they are showing us personalized ads, rather than burning the earth or poisoning babies.
Thanks for the added clarity. Being able to charge from below 50% without damaging cycle life is huge. Would be great to see some cycle life charts showing GBatteries vs traditional chargers.

One of the other challenges you may face is the lack of consumer knowledge about how charging affects cycle life. Since consumers tend to charge batteries in ways that dramatically reduce cycles, this is potentially huge.

Figuring out how to create demand from consumers will be very important as OEMs don’t really have any motivation here. Cycle life isn’t published nor really considered by consumers when they buy devices with rechargeable batteries.
That seems fair. Any team that was already using the network to communicate should change to a public service architecture.
Why was a simple majority used for the brexit decision? Are there issues in the U.K. that require a bigger passing percentage?
WordPress is a pain to maintain and customize, but yes, it's incredibly good for building quick and cheap sites.
This would be useful to demonstrate the difference between p/f and l/r for those brought up without those distinctions.

I'd also (as an English speaker) like to see/hear Dutch g and Xhosan clicks.
I don't think we're seeing "what a Brexit looks like". We're seeing the fumbling of a government who gave the British people a vote in 2016 and whose bluff was called. They didn't want and, more importantly, didn't expect the result they got, and stupidly had done nothing to prepare for it. And for the last two years, they've petulantly gone through the motions of negotiating a deal that they would dearly love to fail. In light of all that, it's entirely unsurprising that the process has been a catastrophic mess. However, it doesn't give anyone the freedom to give up on what most definitely was a democratic decision.
Here’s one recent lawsuit seeking $21 million:
https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet...
They're planning to, it'll just take a few days to update the code and give node operators time to download the new clients.
Wait, learning more stuff makes Alzheimer's Disease worse off later? I get sleep deprivation, sure, but I'd have thought that if there is more stuff to forget, you'd be able to 'last longer'.
You're not very good at reporting the news.
Zoom and Focus: These Familiar Video Features Are Coming to Audio
> It won't be another MBP, because of the keyboard regressions

Have you tried the third generation butterfly on the 2018 MBP and MBA?

I hate with a passion the first two attempts at the butterfly keyboard, but the third gen I actually enjoy using.
You may be interested in the GitLab Employee Handbook, which describes the business practices of a several hundred person remote-only company.

https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/
Looking into how related pay and loyalty are at SF's big tech firms
I went with an x1 carbon. Dual boot linux (ubuntu with plasma desktop) and couldn't be happier.
The WTO doesn't just limit tariffs, they also restrict what kinds of non-tariff barriers to trade are possible. In very broad terms, countries may still set their own standards for goods sold there (unlike in the EU), but they must enforce those standards fairly and equally against both local and foreign goods. There's some exemptions for stuff like sanitary and phytosanitary restrictions on animal, plant and food imports, and these will almost certainly cause major problems if Brexit happens, but the WTO certainly isn't just about tariffs.

This is one of the big problems I have with the reporting on Brexit, actually. The press not only left widespread misunderstandings like this about the WTO unchallenged, when a politician did finally push back against this all the publications that'd remained silent insisted he was the one pushing dangerous misinformation because people might misunderstand and think the WTO solved everything.
This is one of two approaches to the problem of debugging a system. It's advantage is that assuming the programmer can focus on everything they have seen in the debugger for long enough, they can find where the issue arises.

It's disadvantage is that as systems get larger, it can get exponentially more time consuming. As programmers we sometimes learn tricks (read: assumptions) to cut down this time, but in the end, the complexity of the system beats all but the very best/most determined.

Consider tracing a bug in this manner through the entire code of something as complicated as an operating system. Most of the code you did not write yourself, and you have likely never seen before and no idea what it does. Each new frame the debugger reaches you have to spend time understanding what is happening before determining if this is where the problem occurs, and there are so many frames that it can become difficult to sort through them all.
None of these require C++'s gradual typing- the only real reason C# can't meet them is that it lacks value parameters to generics, and perhaps some limitations to its value types.
Which means they would go out of business. Gas stations make pennies per gallon of gas at most; the bulk of their profit comes frim in-store purchases.