skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who's used a KVM->USB device before, check out this Startech device. Still outrageously expensive (WTH should a device like this cost more than $50?) but cheaper than the epiphan.

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In most cases, building roads isn't the solution to congestion

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

Mass transport improvements and zoning reform are far more likely to make cities more affordable and livable.
It is impossible to ever prove or disprove a theory, so falisfiability is a red herring.

For a theory T and observations O, you can have 4 possible scenarios. Where "!" indicates "not":

Starting from theory

Modus Ponens : T therefore O
Denying the Antecedant : !T therefore !O

Starting from observation

Affirming the Consequent: O therefore T
Modus Tollens : !O therefore !T

Denying the antecedent and affirming the consequent are both invalid if other theories may be consistent with the same observations (which is always the case), leaving us with Modus Ponens and Modus Tollens as valid forms of reasoning.

What this means is that we can deduce:

1. what we should observe if our theory is really true (Modus Ponens)
2. a theory is not true if we fail to observe what it predicts (Modus Tollens)

Modus Ponens reasoning is used to derive testable predictions from a theory, and then Modus Tollens reasoning is used when checking if the theory predicts the correct observations.

However, the relationship between theory and prediction P is not so simple. It is always the case that other assumptions A must be made along with the theory. These assumptions can be as simple as "the equipment is functioning properly", but can get much more complicated.[1] I.e.:

(T AND A) entails P

If we fail to observe the prediction P, then the entire left side gets negated:

!P entails !(T AND A)

This is equivalent to saying either T or A is incorrect:

!P entails !T OR !A

So even in the best case scenario, you can never know if it is your theory that is wrong or some other assumption you making is wrong.

This should tell us the real value of science lies somewhere else besides falsifiability, e.g. in making useful or otherwise surprising predictions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duhem%E2%80%93Quine_thesis
It’s two completely different UIs beaten together into an incoherent lump. I will give it one thing, it’s not as deliberately user obstructive as Vista or 8.

I bought a laptop for my daughter with 10 on it and got a (completely legit) license key for Office from work. Oh. My. God.

The laptop already had a different Office SKU on it, so I couldn’t use the key with that. The key I had didn’t work with any of the MS online licensing sites and I wasted 2 hours trying to figure out what to do. In the end I got on to a support rep via online chat and it took him an hour remot desktopping in to run some command line utilities to remove old Office install, clean up some stuff and get the machine licensed. It was unbelievable.
Full links here from last month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18810272
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Curious how you would define the set of values. Microsoft has dramatically different values from Google, so much so that Google's company values were in many ways explicitly a dig at Microsoft.
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Bad idea. This will greatly exacerbate street congestion. Imagine rush hour, only all day long.
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Most likely explanation: the ambulance attendant looked at your LinkedIn profile.
Is your perspective that if everyone shared everything, that we'd all see that we've all got embarrassing/illegal/otherwise unsavory aspects and would eventually change society to see people more realistically? Sort of a "nude beach" perspective? I'm just trying to understand where you're coming from.
Those are all related to their own problems, not weakness in the overall economy.
> USSR, at that stage in the cold war was living everyday with an existential crisis. It would not be uncommon for them to be so paranoid. And, it's a smart move. The amount of scientific and technological know-how generated from such a project would be tremendous. And the USSR military leaders would have surely known that.

Shuttle was under development in 1976, and Energia-Buran as well. 70's are relatively successful years for USSR, that's why a project of such magnitude was undertaken.
I am not a big Microsoft fan, having not used Windows or any MS products in about 16 years, until VS Code came along. But this kind of black and white thinking is just at odds with reality. Nothing is wholly good or bad, and so to with Microsoft.

They were part of a small group of companies that pioneered Desktop computing. They did so with forceful business tactics, but they changed the world nonetheless, and really did help place a computer in every home.

Ths history books will remember their contributions as well as their sins.
If?? Cisco did contribute technology to Golden Shield project! http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2015/03/china%E2%80%99s-go...
> Mostly not.

Doesn't matter. Your claim, as written, was wrong.

> The reality shows the opposite. See the UK: nuclear power does not finance themselves by market mechanisms.

Again, I didn't say that it would. I said that anything that is economically sensible finances itself, pretty much by definition. I didn't say nuclear power is sensible and I didn't say that it finances itself.

> What does it have do with France what the US does?

If your explanation doesn't generalize to the US, then it is wrong. You might as well say France builds nuclear reactors because it is France. You only need a single reactor to build a nuclear arsenal, so having an interest in nuclear weapons is no explanation for why France (or any other country) would invest in building out lots of civil nuclear infrastructure.

> They are not bankrupt while they get more government money.

You are supporting my thesis. Go back and read it. It's about a private company, contrary to a state, being able to relieve itself of the bill. That's exactly what's happening here, whether Tepco is formally bankrupt or not.

> There is lots of money spend on research in Germany ...

Way to miss the point...

> The Energiewende is not about short-term CO2 reductions. It's a broad long-term project to switch the energy landscape to renewable energy.

What's the point of switching electricity to renewables if not CO2 reduction? There's enough coal for hundreds of years.

> Coal is next.

Good Luck with that.
I just don't hear any good things about Azure. That is unfortunate, because I'd love AWS to have some competition.
A 120,000 suburb in Silicon Valley (3,000,000 in contiguous cities/suburbs).

Start and end points both in the same city limits.
What you're looking for is called 'MicroG'.
They even have their own LineageOS builds with it.

Haven't tested it though, and it comes with its own set of security concerns.
That just isn't true. Ilhan Omar voted for it and it died in the state Senate and she specifically condemned the practice.

http://checkyourfact.com/2018/11/29/fact-check-ilhan-omar-vo...
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Everyone I know quit using Skype too.. it's tough to have this argument without access to expensive market research reports, though

More anecdotally, the only time I used Skype in the last few years was when I had a remote job interview with LINE. (Ironically, LINE's core product is a Skype competitor, and they refused to use it for the interview even though I said I'd rather stick with LINE and not install Skype. If that isn't a red flag, I don't know what is, haha)
but bad news for global green politics. Most ecologists would rather limit international trade.

(Just floating another point of view out there)
> They’ve either forgotten the past or they don’t care.

Or they're too young to know or remember!

Working with recent grads, I've discovered that for most of them Bill Gates has always been this grey-haired, well-natured philanthropist. They can't believe it when I tell them of how universally reviled Microsoft was, and I feel like Grandpa Simpson talking about onions in his belt :(
> Android is the Windows 98 of mobile

IMO Android UX is way better than iOS when used on a right device. I switched from iPhone to Pixel and it's a delight to use. I am not going back to iPhone soon ...
I think most commenters here are missing the point of this op-ed: it's not to convince people to pay for news content, it is to promote legislation that allows the author's News Media Alliance to form a cartel that is exempted from anti-trust regulations, so they can try to force Facebook and Google to pay them directly. His organization spends of a lot of time over these past couple of years railing against Google and Facebook, and take note that the true target of this article is not consumers of news, but Facebook and Google.

The author of the article, David Chavern, since he took over the reins of the News Media Alliance, has argued that media cross-ownership rules are antiquated, that greater consolidation of news firms would be beneficial to citizens.

"A new op-ed from trade association News Media Alliance’s president and CEO David Chavern dismisses the contributions of leading tech services and argues publishers should form a cartel and extract rents by implementing controversial new regulations. In reality, though, leading tech services have taken great steps to empower publishers in the Internet Age, while the “cartel solution” would do little to bolster innovation."

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Do you think it could be better, if an assessment is done with artificial intelligence, without human interaction at all?
Yep, let Prime lapse a year or two ago as well. Moving my business to other companies now.
Honestly, I think they should be provided at the outskirts of the city or metro area, and riders should transition to some kind of transit or circulator vehicle to get to their final destination. Or to a bike or e-bike or some kind of urban-friendly light electric vehicle.

With automated parking (for individually owned vehicles) and, you could just step out of your car and onto a waiting vehicle.
The monthly jobs numbers account for layoffs.
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Say what you will about Kraft singles, but they melt like nothing else. Kraft doesn't belong everywhere, but it has foodie applications. [0]

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Cost/bureaucracy of doing business is a common annoyance unfortunately, not exclusive to one or other country and those should be passed onto the consumer.

These are rarely trivial on a small scale, small margin business.
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With software systems that are being strategically used for abuse in guise of its declared purpose, I wonder if there are underground hacker groups or individuals who are using their skills and resources to help quell such abuses.
Countering so-called fake news by producing other fake news? Propagandists gonna propagandize.
I would be surprised if that was the approach Microsoft took, but I wouldn't be surprised to see a supported way of running Windows Apps emerge.

This could be used as a way to maintain backward compatibility in Windows as it evolves in the future.
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I wonder what the longevity of something like that is. And for solar panels what do you do if it's a supervolcano that blocks out the sun? The real solution is a radioisotope thermoelectric generator which will give you a few hundred watts for decades. But I don't think they sell those online...
I've had similar issues with several wordpress installs.

Some of the less known issues I found that can add to this problem:

Spiders/Indexing Bots
Brute Force Login Attempts
Hidden Hacked Pages

Helps to look at logs sometimes, if you get hit with all three of the above at the same time, it's a tricky mess to clean.

You may find relief making an aggressive noindex robots.txt file (there are tons of bots to block which are worthless and use up your resources. - it may be best to say * disallow all, then specifically allow google, bing, etc (would love to find a way to tell archive.org it's okay in that situation))

Even when doing the robots block, I've found some aggressive spiders or bots that use some of their user agents need to be blocked via ip subnets and cidrs with htacess for example.

Brute force login has many options for slowing down access. I love a combo of ipgeo block, sucuri, graphic captcha, shield security

plugin for disable xml-rpc or use the setting for such with the shield security plugin (this blocks massive login attempts) to block all xml-rpc use.

Hidden Hacked Pages
If you find bots spidering a bunch of product pages for things in other countries in your logs for example, you may have been hit with a bunch of pages being created that you may not see on your may front end, or even in the backend admin area of your site.

Removing those pages is a start, and then a plugin like 404 to 301 redirect may be beneficial - but you will likely find a bunch of bots coming to index them, and other hackers who have been sold access to your site trying to login and make more of them.

For me it was more log checks and looking up ips to add to the server block lists to slow it down. Just make sure you don't add google's or bing's ips to the list.

With a few sites I had that got some of these issues I decided to pull down wp-login.php - and in an effort to lighten up the load on the shared server, I decided to use one of the plugins that make wordpress into a static site (there are two good ones in the repo now)

Once I generated the static html and css, I created a new wp-login.php that would log all ips and user agents / date to a separate text file, and display a message on the screen warning the visitor hacker that I was casting a spell on those who access the login page.

The amount of bots trying to login, and trying to access the old hacker-created-pages that were made over a year ago is still crazy. Their bots are still coming and trying the same login page and trying to access the same pages that have been removed over a year ago.

If I had left those pages available as php pages, each one of those visits would of been taxing my sql, even if they were showing the wp 404 page, or failed login.

I hope your issue is simpler, like a bad plugin. Certainly I've run into that issue with other problems not related to these as well.
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> I think you have causation wrong here. Users leave search history enabled because Google makes it unnecessarily hard to use the app with it disabled.

That's a fair point. Nevertheless, most people on the team were not there when this feature was first introduced and we can only work from where we are now. To undo the status quo is something few are in a position to do.

> So what you're saying is "there's no incentive for allowing the user to have a good experience using the app without sending us data", or did I get that wrong? That doesn't sound awesome.

Correct.

> If your answer to the latter is "No", I don't care if your values say "The User is the Alpha and the Omega, thou shalt have no other priorities before the User", it's a red herring because you aren't following your values, you're following the money.

I think we are in agreement.

I don't think anyone is following the Values because the incentive structure doesn't align with it. I would like to believe it takes time for these changes to manifest but frankly I'm skeptical it will ever happen.

I'm not trying to convince you things are great or even okay. I just would like to dispel the notion that everyone or every team at Google is scheming together to get as much of your data as possible. Google, like any company, is made of individuals who largely are there to make money and whose actions are driven by the incentive structure. As it stands, the incentives are largely around getting more users and there is very little incentive to create privacy focused solutions (customers don't really seem to care.. or know..?)
I don't bother there anymore. Either they fix it, or someone else will have the content. Not much OC but advertising now. Rampart.
Yeah, those help. But it was ultimately recognizing which pie was shrinking and which pie is growing - and is still growing.

MS is a software company. Now that they've remembered that, it's producing results.
Google is notorious for refusing to allow users to say no.
They misread the book "Nudge" and use the nudge techniques t to shove or one could use less charitable descriptive words.

e.g. I would like to make the choice to NOT bind my location data to my identity. In theory I can do that by not logging into Maps. In practice Google refuses to allow that choice, constant nagging, attempts to force their desired choice by nerfing logged out features. When you don't allow your uses to say no you're not actually providing them any choice at all.

Google either needs to commit to allowing their users to say no or we (their users but also citizens) need to have our courts and governments force them to do it.

Note to you Google folks reading this (I'm looking at you Larry). Seriously. Step up now because you will be sued for this, and you will force legislation if you continue down this path.
"Ballmer made several missteps:"

Growing an already massive company company by 3x in revenue is the important thing, which is the 'bottom line' in which missteps have to be contextualized.

Any company in tech is going to make mistakes, this should be happening, so listing them off doesn't so much help - what matters is how all of this works out in the mix.

I worked in mobile during that time, it was vicious. Surely MS could have done better, but I view it more as lost opportunity than failure.

Remember that 80% of acquisitions fail. Google spent $3B on Nest. Apple spent $3 Billion on Beats, it remains to be seen if they'll make that up in profit.
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I suppose it could be used in espionage situations where it would be too risky to carry a receiver.
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