skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I say we should publish blogs or whatnot about bad products,

1. With what piece of hardware will you write this post? What assurance do you have that the manufacturer will allow you to write negative blog posts about them or their partners?

2. Via what infrastructure will you connect to what network, upon which to publish? What assurance do you have that you will be allowed to use that infrastructure to publish negative content about that infrastructure owner or their partners? What about the owners of the network?

3. Upon what websites or domains will you publish these? How will you share them? What assurances do you have that they will remain visible and accessible?

>then capitalism will figure it out

"Hand wave" fallacy. There's no substance to your argument. This is a meaningless statement.

> After all, without the government, only corporations that are providing value will continue to exist.

Evidence for your claim? Supporting argument?

> The reason why many corporations today aren't providing real value is because of rent-seeking.

Evidence for your claim? Supporting argument?

Based on what you've said, why should I believe you have a better solution that regulatory status quo? Enacting change requires solid evidence, arguments, logic, and reasoning. Wouldn't you agree it would be foolish to undertake a new endeavor without a majority of the above?
Do $5000 ARM servers kill the point of the Raspberry Pi?

The point of an open ISA is not "every product made with it is super cheap" (licensing is a tiny aspect of it), and expecting a newly developed, small-volume product to compete with something made by an established player at multiple orders of magnitude larger scale is totally unrealistic.

There's smaller, cheaper RISC-V products out there if you want something risc-v to play with. Serious adoption is going to happen at different places and not bound to "what does an HiFive dev kit cost", that's a rounding error in many places.
I can't tell if this is supposed to be a parody or not, there are clues both ways; for example: The number of characters to add to your .profile to import, is the same length as the PS1 export line; or that there is a unit test...at all, haha
How does the 'this authenticated person seems to be nearby or holding me' signal get from the device into the security domain on a continuous basis?
Personally it's the freedom that I enjoy more. For example I have 400 songs into my Christmas playlist. There's so many duplicate, like Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas is there 9 times, but it's fun to have the different versions. Sure it would be fine to have 2-3 albums of Christmas, but then I would have to choose and there would be less diversity.

It's also amazing to discover stuff and follow new paths. Sure you could try to buy a random new album during a month, but that would be your whole exploration for that month, I could explore many more albums in a day. Right now I listen to a lot of a cappella group because of a good Pentatonix song I heard a few days ago.

I also enjoy just being able to listen to any CD. When I heard about A star is born, I was curious and I just had to open Google Music to listen to it, without paying more.

Would 12 CD a year would be enough to entertain myself? Yeah I have no doubt, but it wouldn't allow me to discover to having that much freedom.
or just add `export PS1='--> '` to the bottom of .bashrc and if you don't like it, remove the export. it does suck a little less, but it sucks with much less. the stuff of self-taught digital nomads.
I think you lost the topic here. The OP was talking about judging people based on just having Facebook on their resume. Likewise, under that rule, you too would be judged for having worked in finance. Your history is therefore relevant, and by your arguments I'm assuming you think it's fair to judge that way?

Good for you for changing careers but that doesn't make you better than anyone else nor is it applicable to any other person's life. Anyway, I'm not sure what ego has to do with anything but I'll take that as a sign that there are no better arguments forthcoming.
Sure, but HarrisX is well-known. Their full data is available there for download. I don't think it should be written off just because it was commissioned by Amazon.
This is really a fun library to play with! :)

I've just written a little post about using Rant in Python if someone doesn't want to go into C#.

https://kleiber.me/blog/2019/02/08/quick-tip-text-generation...
> Malcolm Gladwell’s books are enjoyable—there is no denying he tells compelling stories—but ultimately they rely heavily on anecdotal evidence. In general, I find that books by journalists cherry-pick examples to fit the argument, and gloss over (or completely ignore) evidence to the contrary.

The irony.
More than half the prices are set and paid on AirBnb. The app has no competition, they're a monopoly.
Landlords don't give out $75 promo credits for new users.
"Hacker's Delight" (https://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Delight-Henry-S-Warren-ebook/...)
has a whole chapter on this. So, yes, it is well known.
Author is an idiot.

Random HN commenter:

> Any guaranteed return above bank interest rate is appealing for investors. Guaranteed return of 50%/year is an amazing investment opportunity.

Illiterate startup founder:

> You would think so, but no. ... Knowing that many of those investments will be worthless, they want to maximize the number of shots they get towards a billion dollar company.

If the 50%/year return is guaranteed as the commenter plainly states, then they know for a fact it won't be worthless. VCs would love a truly guaranteed 50% return. Anybody would. The problem is nothing is guaranteed.
Yes, and that's not even the tip of the iceberg.

I do still eat chicken, but I recognize it as a personal moral failing and point of shame. The fact that I come from a culture where it is normalized explains my behaviour, but doesn't absolve my responsibility.

Making a show of torturing the animal in front of the customer is particularly abhorrent.
You can do this with a ton of other services as well. It's pretty common in the bug bounty scene. I did it with MoviePass domains awhile back.
>Sun deliberately made the CDDL incompatible with the GPL!

>

>This is a claim supported primarily by one former employee of Sun. Others disagree. And even if it was verifiably true: What about Open Source values? Since when is the GPL the only acceptable Open Source license?

Lots of hand-waving and false equivalency here. We're not talking about "Open Source values", we're talking specifically about the Linux kernel. And the Linux kernel is GPLv2 licensed. The Software Freedom Conservancy analyzed the situation and determined that a GPL-licensed project cannot legally incorporate CDDL code into the binary[0].

FWIW, Ubuntu has done so anyway via a kernel module and yet has to be sued for it, but the Linux kernel project may still refrain from doing so out of an abundance of caution.

I believe someone else summed it up quite well when they said (paraphrasing), "Solaris intentionally made ZFS difficult to incorporate into Linux by the licensing, so the Linux developers are (understandably) tired of bending over backwards to try to accommodate ZFS."

[0]https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2016/feb/25/zfs-and-linux/
Reading the story and the links, made me think.
We have VC chucking in massive money and expecting billions in return and failing that dish out a swift euthanasia to the vast the majority within the cohort that didn't do well enough.
Then Growth-stage funders, who seem to have more conservative investment/expected returns - but still "high expectations" compared to a regular old business or an interest rate.
My personal knowledge comes from the other end, "guy with some cash started a company, knew some people with some spare cash, built it and sold it into an existing corporate and exited" He became guy with a bit of spare cash, who moved one up the totem pole with his next company.
From both ends, it all seems a bit "jerky" and inefficient - potentially profitable companies fail as they either don't match the ridiculously high goals set for them - or don't have enough cash reserves to get them over a small blip in monthly revenue.
Maybe more importantly, as a startup your employees care about this - as you've tied their income/job to the prospects of the company. Therefore that "next round of funding" determines whether anybody turns up on Monday.
Now if your company IPOs this all becomes much simpler - keep the shareholders happy, grant employees options - the vast pool of money you're swimming in smooths out the bumps - or at least makes the rules clearer.
There are rules, motivations and just generally "things" that happens "pre-IPO" and stuff that happens "post" - and they are very different. Different from a financial perspective - but from a company perspective it's just people going to work, making something interesting, and wanting money..
I'm absolutely not making a case that women weren't effectively forced into domestic servitude in the past (and, depending on a a range of factors, in the present). I'm also not making a recommendation that anyone be a full-time homemaker. Given the state of the world, that's a very risky path.

But.

There are women (and men) who would prefer to work in the home and they should be free to do so. It's demeaning to equate a person's effort in homemaking with servitude. There is not something inherently inferior about maintaining a home and it's only a perverse economic system rooted in traditional misogyny that tells us otherwise.

As I said initially, the choice should be there. The social and institutional compulsion obviously should not.
Personally these days I just buy albums and individual songs from iTunes. I like to "own" my music. They key is to have a budget and try not to exceed it.
Here's an article if you're interested:

https://mises.org/wire/how-government-regulations-made-healt...
>Once we can crack the micropayment nut, it opens a whole new world of ad-free low-cost subscriptions.

Online payments are hard to do because of lots of legislation around money. This means that it's going to be annoying. There are also many people that can't pay online, because they simply don't have access to these payment methods. You could argue that we will eventually digitize our money and that would solve the problem, but I doubt that that's going to happen any time soon. People would be too afraid that Visa and MasterCard would basically control their life.

The way you might make it work is if you did what Steam does - you can put money onto the platform that you can then spend later. If you had an entire ecosystem built around that then it might be possible that people would do micro payments to content providers.

>I'd much rather pay $0.50 a month for a social network that has no interest in my data than deal with ads or data tracking.

I wonder if it could cost that little. I guess it could.
I don’t think we disagree much. If businesses want to do things where informed consent isn’t possible (e.g. because of the complexity of the bargain which they require users to accept), then they probably shouldn’t be doing them.

My point was not that advertising doesn’t need to be regulated (and that better protections for users/people obviate the need) but rather that advertising is not the only way to duplicitously exploit personal data to for profit.
Right - but again, this was part of an eminent domain play.

What I was trying to suss out is whether there's any evidence that this is a (widespread, feasible) tactic outside of ED land grabs.
Open source doesn't imply "does-not-cost-anything" at all considering you can still sell open source applications. And yeah, open access is a better word.
And for anyone wondering, the only Bernstein submissions that were rejected were the pqRSA ones.
> There are lots of things that cost money in hardware design, and ISA licensing is a very small part of them.

Indeed - and this is exactly the point of ISA licensing (and IP blocks): to make it sufficiently cheaper to just license the ISA or IP blocks instead of developing the product from ground up.
For men over 45, there is a correlation between milk and BPH (enlarged prostate and difficulty in urination). Farmers inject hormones (and other things), and the animal produces its own. All of these excrete into the milk causing irritation to the prostate and the resulting enlargement causes difficulty in urination. Same problem with whey protein powders and cheese. BUT! If the item is cooked, then there does not seem to be an effect. [1]

[1] http://vqrn.com/Prostate-Milk-Problem.html
I like to think it would be different, but I guess I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't any different.

Not likely I'll ever have to consider that problem so I'll remain morally confidant... if only due to circumstance ;)
In a nation that has its own fiat currency, the money does not come from someone making an effort. It is printed, invented. Taxes only control inflation.
What you're witnessing is the inevitable backlash. It's your device. But Spotify also has the right to block your device.

> ...how long until someone creates a solution to scrub the audio of ads in real-time?

Let me tell you a little open secret. Ad-blocking in general can be circumvented right now. Even the most aggressive ad-blocking techniques can be brought to their knees, because they can be detected and the website can serve the content in such a way as to make ads impossible to block without ruining the content.

Not many publishers do it because publishers have chosen to not piss off the minority that has ad-blockers installed. But this minority has been growing and what you're seeing is them fighting back.

You ask how long will it take to block audio ads? It's irrelevant, because the publisher can deploy DRM in such a way as to make ad-blocking attempts illegal and easy to trace, since the streaming is done in real time from a central source.
And thus users can receive big fines as to stop everyone else from doing it.

That publishers don't do this yet, that's only because they preferred to play nice with ad-blockers. But threaten their bottom line long enough and they'll fight back.

And who can blame them? Here's Spotify with a pretty good subscription model and users are now up in arms for no longer being able to get their content for free without ads.
I'm sure they do. This is pretty standard at lots of big tech companies (Airbnb, most likely Uber, etc).
For whatever it's worth, I think there's a difference between mentioning libertarianism in a negative light and holding it responsible for society's ills. I think libertarianism is worth debating, and the political Libertarianism practiced in America is often ridiculous and utterly biased against individuals. But I don't think that being refused access to a service if you reject risky and unethical advertising practices is a consequence of misinterpreted libertarian theory.

The highest-profile appeals to corporate interests are made by politicians who don't claim libertarian ideal. The ability to cut consumers off from non-essential, non-monopoly services for terms violations is standard throughout countries without any libertarian tradition, so the exotic element in the US is the legal protection for spyware creators and malware distributors, neither of which stem from libertarian theory. The spyware aspect is about the lack of a direct constitutional privacy protection, and the conservative/literalist readings which have steadily eroded the penumbra reasoning. The malware aspect is the result of repeated failures to hold companies responsible for allowing data breaches or serving exploits, which owes more to special interests pandering and gross technical ignorance among legislators than to even a pretense of libertarianism.

You're right to say that cutting off service access is legal, and you're right to say that the most influential form of libertarianism in the US is twisted and often counterproductive. But I suspect I'm not alone in finding the attribution of any business-related badness to libertarianism tiring and a bad basis for a productive conversation.
xDrip is such a great piece of software that few people know about.

If you’re want to see the future of medical care using smart devices, start there.
Depends how you liquidate. If they were sold gradually during a bull market it wouldn't effect things much.
Complexifier, Mr. Bezos? It Is a Real Word, Just Not in English
> Reading only very popular books is a recipe to read only books that fit into your own preconceived worldview.

... under the assumption that everybody who rated the book shares your preconceived worldview. Assume that not to be the case on Amazon.com (or similarly large review platforms).
RISC-V has already been adopted by many companies as low and not-so-low performance embedded microcontrollers. It's just that you don't see it. And it's really perfect for that.

I think that's pretty exciting.

As for super low cost hardware development: you can add a RISC-V CPU to FPGAs with as little as, say, 1500 LUTs, which can be purchased for less than $10.

I don't understand you mean by "proper open ISA".
I think that the problem is that the time when technology causes dramatic unemployment is likely to happen long before the time when technology can provide unlimited resources. So the question is: what do we do in-between?
YouTube user Allieway Audio has started posting a series of great tutorials and introductory videos for Orca:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaI_TuISSJE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR1TMGYhCoE

To give a bit of context the primary creator of this project has been essentially living off a sailboat for the past few years and has traveled some 28000km around the world in the process. More info at their site at https://100r.co/ :)
Fake news is like a vaccine which protects us against a zombie apocalypse.

That's what I would've said a couple of years ago. Now it's clear that fake news is more like a vaccine that really does cause autism.
A Simple Baseline for Bayesian Uncertainty in Deep Learning
I wonder if they know that the current AI tech always has a non-zero error rate and as a rule it's not very robust to the data distributions it hasn't seen, which can be something as mundane as e.g. a different brand of the sensor or different compression settings.
What about others ?
Ask HN: Why I am seeing Techcrunch logo as HN favicon?
Using Safari, I remember visiting TC links, but somehow it did stick to homepage. Other URLs are fine. Related img: https://imgur.com/a/QRgD55g
The Thingmaker and the Burning of the American Child
> several tactical and strategic reasons for choosing Japan over Germany (such as superior German air support, the perceived greater likelihood of Germany's imminent surrender versus Japan, and fears that Germany might better be able to reverse engineer a dud than the Japanese.)

...well, there was also the fact that Germany had already surrendered by the time the first atom bomb was built.
Remember that GPL is a product of the realities around the open source ecosystem when Bill Gates and Steve Balmer where CEOs on Microsoft.
Moreover the situation with some android OEMs that don't provide source code for their devices shows that this is still happening today.
These articles are making me want to try to fail at building a billion dollar company.

P.S. Kongregate gave me one of my first tastes of passive income. Thank you!
I think you can just go to chrome://dino/ :D
While I agree that access is a problem, I don't know how much I believe Gaben's comment anymore. Sites like Kinguin and G2A are doing very healthy business by selling grey market keys for mild to significant discounts to Steam. Their user experience sucks (like actively unethically user hostile bad). Search is horrible. Pricing is nontransparent, aggressive spammy upselling is rampant. The checkout system makes it feel like your credit card information is being posted directly to the dark web. You have to be careful to buy a key that matches the region where you live. Literally the only thing they have going for them is price.

I'd guess those sites are two orders of magnitude smaller than Steam, but a quick search reveals G2A has 700 employees and 16 million customers, so they can't be doing too bad. If access truly was the problem than these sites wouldn't exist.
NetStorm was awesome, and in many ways ahead of its time! You might know that there was actually a failed attempt by fans to pick up with the source and continue to improve/support it. Alas life happened and the effort petered out and was abandoned, but we briefly tried. Wish you guys could have been given the time and money to do a proper reboot!

Edit: Doing a quick nostalgic search, it looks like there ended up being at least one other effort to reboot it that went somewhere. Nice!
To give an idea of how ridiculous and flexible Orca is:

https://twitter.com/neauoire/status/1079220288875769858

https://twitter.com/neauoire/status/1087846391831883776

:)
The irresistible rise of hazardous toys in modern American history.
Zerodium might generally traffic in RCE because they're typically of the highest value. They would likely judge that to be of comparable value to some RCEs, if for no other reason because of the number of devices affected. Zerodium also isn't the only one out there.
I have not used it in many years, but I have foggy memory of IBM's Power cpu compiler doing similar trick for remainder.
There is at least one "holy shit" moment in every single chapter in that book.
A fraudulently issued cert compelled by government might be detected by CA reporting. This was already done to watch for direct government controlled CAs issuing bad certs.

Stealing your own existing cert is less likely to be detected.
> UBI doesn't really make sense as a replacement to almost any traditional welfare programs for the simple reason that by limiting the money to only those who qualify for it, you can give more.

For means-tested programs, you can replace means-testing with unconditional benefits and appropriate progressive tax rate changes, and acheive exactly the same effects (modulo differences in definitions of income, but is there really a big benefit there?) while eliminating duplicate bureaucracy. Most UBI proponents don't prefer as rapid of a claw-back (which sometimes exceeds 100% in some ranges) as the aggregate of existing means-tested welfare programs, and would instead claw-back at a slower rate but extend the claw-back higher up the income distribution so that the drag is on the rich rather than the lower middle class, to improve upward mobility compared to existing means-tested welfare, but if you wanted to optimize only for bureaucratic efficiency without moving the claw-back higher up the income distribution and keeping it below a 100% marginal rate to eliminate perverse incentives, you could do that with UBI and tax changes, too, and still have a (smaller) net win.
Weirdly, it’s not age but an individual perception thing.

Many many people don’t really notice or care about the needles (me included) because as OP parent posted, we have other stuff to deal with that takes up way more mental space.

I guess this isn’t apparent because the needles are the obvious bits but then rest is all the “thinking” that invisibily surrounds the injection.

There are however many people who just can’t wrap their head around needles and can’t do it. The needles themselves are tiny so it’s not that - it’s just how they perceive the world.

Any technology that helps these people and makes their lives easier should be embraced.
Actually, it's "you agree to allow us to run code on your device with no ability to audit it or analyze it ahead of time for malware". If they want to "play" an ad, they certainly have the ability to do it.
Mobile networks caught selling your emergency location data to bounty hunters
This should not have been downvoted (at least the first part of the comment). The commenter before explicitly stated in his ideal world land would be taxed at a fair value instead of people purchasing it and owning forever..