skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm saddened to read a plea for more causality (a topic that should definitely be more popular in all social and scientific claims), followed by personal and very unproven opinions, presented as tangible hypotheses.
> I think this is great for someone like me, who likes video games, but doesn't want to spend that much money on a computer. Before I would not be able to play the latest titles because my computer is 6 years old, but this would make it so I could.

> There are probably tons of kids out there whose parents would scoff at the idea of giving them a $1000+ computer but now would be able to play the latest games with this technology.

Isn't a console affordable enough in that case?
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How is designing for laptop networking for a system predominantly used as a server with marginal desktop market share justified. Why not roll out something discrete for the negligible percent of laptop users instead of imposing configuration overhead on all users?

Debian prides itself on stability but voted for an 'init' that is rapidly changing with unlimited scope outside the purview of Debian. Thus we have a lot of extremely questionable networking functionality like 'predictable network names' and more just rolled out and 'imposed' on everyone without discussion, debate or technical scrutiny by a single group.

Alpine Linux servers and VMs boot in seconds and are easy to configure and use. Void is equally fast for desktop users. The real problem seems to be a lot of developers are unfamiliar with the shell and its extensive use in everything from the system to the apps ecosystem. And we are left with a situation where the shell is demonized by people who are not familiar with it.
Yes, can attest to that. I had a BSNL connection, which would always inject some JavaScript/etc stuff for Http sites. With HTTPS sites they could not do anything. But I got rid of the connection anyway.
The email should be received, filtered, and put into a database with an index. If any information escapes this database, outside of going to the user's email client, then we have a privacy problem with google "reading" the mail.

This definition isn't perfect but it should be enough for to you understand the intent.
And at least 16.7% of Americans are in their clutches:

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/one-6-americans-t...
From the eligibility requirements for the patent agent exam:

Acceptable Computer Science degrees must be accredited by the Computer Science Accreditation Commission (CSAC) of the Computing Sciences Accreditation Board (CSAB), or by the Computing Accreditation Commission (CAC) of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), on or before the date the degree was awarded. Computer science degrees that are accredited may be found on the Internet (http://www.abet.org).

[page 6 of this pdf: https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/documents/OED_GRB....]

A lot of fed jobs have engineering-centric requirements. This one, for example, wants an accredited degree or experience under a PE....to do network management. https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/525193800
Programming competitions demonstrate problem solving skills a lot better than a multiple choice exam if you ask me.
Do checkout "Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?", It's a concise book that talks about capitalism and its effects on culture and public thought. I haven't read lost futures yet but I found this really good video discussing Mark's idea by Cuck Philosophy called "Hauntology, Lost Futures and 80s Nostalgia" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSvUqhZcbVg
Or maybe it’s because of internet points? Do you also see it happen in real life?
Outlook meeting times on Slack is an interesting one. Do you see it more like alerts or someone else's meeting times in Slack that you can see?
We start using new features pretty much as soon as the new JDK version is released to general use.
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Even though a CDS contract has the look and feel of insurance, it is carefully written to not be insurance legally, which would attract an additional regulatory burden (only regulated insurance companies can sell insurance, pretty much any financial market participant can sell credit protection against some debt).

But it doesn't mean it is not fraud.
This will result in one of two things from me:
1) auto forward everything to a non-gmail archive account
2) if blocked, finally leave gmail
Really? Here's a video of someone doing it, and it certainly looks like it tries to fight you (and the trim motor continues running) but there's a clutch that starts slipping:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQirIH_DuAs
Yeah, stream overuse is definitely an issue at our company.
Correct. Profiteering off of chaos is a business model. Except now the ultra-rich are moving from financial instability into political one. The more chaos, the better, and with political instability you can also gain power, not only money.
Because they very explicitly say they don't:

https://gsuite.google.com/learn-more/security/security-white...
I started using them ASAP.
> You are being rather reactionary.

That's very telling of the motivations behind this stunt.
evidently. but it was seriously considered. and they "only" controlled desktop at the time. which was everything. but still! :D
Childhood trauma is also a predictor of psychosis.

And cannabis is a pretty good tool to help alleviate the symptoms of (though not cure) trauma.
Pack your bags and come over here. ;-)
I suggest that anybody downvoting this read this[1] article for a surprisingly comprehensive overview of how Google et al are ruining democracy and (mostly-)free society as they shift our economy from the traditional forms of capitalism that were built on mass-production, finance, etc into ^surveillance capitalism^ based on omnipresent surveillance and behavioral manipulation.

The social, political, and economic damage Google is causing as one of the leading forces pushing the world into surveillance capitalism vastly outweighs the "good" derived from a few technical trivialities.

[1] http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/shoshana-zuboff-q-and...
I know you're rigorous and mostly right, but you forget to admit that for most practical uses s-exps encode trees and are used as ad-hoc AST's. People just make implicit grammars based on spec like predicate patterns.
At least a computer could be programmed to drop bombs in every rock wall in the game. For a human, that would be too brain-numbing hard.

Programming the computer to drop bombs everywhere is giving it way too much foreknowledge. I'm envisioning a computer agent not even knowing what a bomb is. Having to figure out how to beat Zelda without any context for the shapes and colours on the screen, let alone what bush to burn to find level 8 or where to play the recorder to open level 7.

This would be a test of general intelligence so I have no problem giving the agent access to the Internet. If it can figure out how to find an FAQ for Zelda and make sense of that information well enough to win the game then more power to it! That's much harder to achieve than building a bot with all of the rules of Zelda pre-programmed in.
I'm not sure how to react to you implying that it hurts small companies more than big companies, and that it's an impediment to scaling.
They are also too smart for their own good. There is a direct correlation between Ivy League grads going to work on Wall Street and market crashes.
We wouldn't want it to be too easy to create a new microservice, would we? :) Kidding aside, the closest we got to was a template service with a hello world API which has all the basic configuration goodies in a repo. Anytime we need a new service, we fork it, and start working on it in a few minutes. Wouldn't that work?
They may look deeper and see that childhood trauma is a predictor for psychosis. And many people who are dealing with trauma symptoms find relief in cannabis.
It is not beyond them, but tailoring experience for your user base to make their experience easier is almost always a good thing.
Always surprises me how much algol did embed.
One could argue that one has to be weird to try drugs.
I know one guy for sure how went straight to psychiatry right after first time mushroom usage. I don't know whether he was beforehand that weird, but he needed a long time to recover afterwards. And he did never drugs again afaik.
These are all pilot qualifications. The first officer was new and had ~200 flight hours. The pilot/captain had over 8000 flight hours. [0]

Look at Ethiopian Airlines own job postings![1]

>Qualifications:
Must hold a current and valid JAA/FAA or ICAO ATPL/CPL
A current 777 type rating
Minimum Flight time
*3500 hours* jet time
*2500 hours* Pilot in command on jet aircraft
Command time in excess of 500 hours on 777

[0]https://www.ethiopianairlines.com/corporate/media/media-rela...

[1]https://www.ethiopianairlines.com/corporate/careers/vacancy
Agreed. I think it's one of the biggest privacy achievements ever. We have been seeing a tremendous normalization of defiance with how user data is frequently unknowingly misused and it's time for correcting this. GDPR is a good start, hopefully US soon follows.
"remotetime.zone" is available for 4.99 on Name.com

https://www.name.com/domain/search/remotetime.zone
This might say more about moving to the Bay Area than Cannabis.
It'd be your browser providing this. They already get all your keystrokes.
I'll take my data being protected over your ability to scale any day, and remember, if a US company wants to do business with EU citizens they still need to comply.
That happens to most fines, everywhere.

In case this is in accusation of corrupt practices aimed to increase the EU budget, note:

- Fines account for <5% of the EU's budget

- The EU budget is relatively small compared to national governments' budgets. EU: 150 billion, Germany + France + UK = 5 Trillion (5,000 billion). That's leaving out 24 smaller economies. National governments have a lot of input in the decision-making process and couldn't care less about a billion here or there. Especially if it risks impacting perceived rule of law.

- In any large bureaucracy, individual decision makers have incentive structure that often diverge fundamentally from those of the organisation as a whole. A prosecutor will have no financial or career advantage tied to the EU's finances. In this specific example, the commissioner responsible (Vestager) is somewhat likely to leave the commission after the May elections anyway, because of another pro-competition decision that was decidedly more important and not appreciated by France and Germany, namely prohibiting the Siemens and Alstom merger.

If you sum up all the fines collected by continent, you will see that (a) EU companies pay fines roughly equivalent to their share of economic activity in the EU, (b) Asian companies pay comparatively more, and (c) US companies are actually fined far less than their share of the economy would suggest. The most likely explanation is that rather high standards of enforcement and corporate governance in the US require less EU intervention.
>the best argument (not only for cannabis, but for stronger drugs too) is that illegalization has been tried for a long time and it just doesn't work.

This is a pragmatic perspective, but if you care I will share a principled one.

I think the bigger problem is with the principle of individual liberty. What right has a king or bureaucrat to order armed thugs to enter my home and tell me what plants I can or can't eat, smoke, or whatever?

I also think if you look at history, one of the most glaring lessons is that authoritarianism "has been tried for a long time and it just doesn't work."
I’d argue that anyone using the phrase “getting with the times” isn’t “getting with the times”.
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It seems like EU's policy of retribution on Big Tech for US fining European banks.

https://www.fnlondon.com/articles/european-banks-face-dispro...
Grand idea.
Count yourself lucky. Hoorah! for any alternative to Disqus, of course, but OMG the layout of their WWW page is heinously awful example of what can happen when children are permitted to do CSS.
around $70 p. a. IIRC.
There's nothing really stopping the EU from making the fines larger if they don't correct their behavior. The point of a fine like this isn't to completely cripple a company, but to make it understand that there are very real consequences.

It's very simplistic to look at their yearly revenue and say they can just absorb it. If the money they made off of an activity like this was less than the fine, absorbing it won't make sense.
I meant disabling the system if they disagree.

I agree that one can argue that this doubles the chance of system shutdown compared to properly detecting that one sensor fails. That's obviously only ok if the system is expendable to a certain degree.
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CLOs are comprised of loans made to small businesses. Small businesses are inherently risky. CLOs exist because they are a relatively inexpensive form of long term funding. Let’s ponder the type of people who start and operate small businesses and whether or not they get access to competitive bank financing...

Once upon a time, seeing entities willing to write loans to small business was worth celebrating. Amusing that once we find out it’s Wall Street stepping in to facilitate this at a scale the government cannot, it is dangerous gambling.
Hopefully far more than €3 a year.

What price do we sell our personal data for?
> The tab key should always accept the current autocomplete option, if there is one (whether it is highlighted in a dropdown or suggested inline).

Someone please let Slack know. I type "@dustin" and see one of five Dustins, the one I want is highlighted, so I press tab and it selects the next Dustin and usually I press "tab enter" to then submit my comment and now I've pinged the wrong person.
Yep very similar. There is built in some automatic compensation for years of service, and the payscale is inflation adjusted. For a given position, there is a small range of possible salaries. So it is in principle possible to have a bit of independently negotiated salary. In practice almost everyone falls very close to each-other.
> it took over 1 year to implement all of the GDPR required features for me

> we don't even store that much private data!

What do you store? Because I can't imagine what would take that long.
I'm all for the movement to teach math and science differently so students garner a greater appreciation for critical thinking, but when the author suggested learning literature, poetry, and history are wastes of time, I strongly disagreed.

The arts and history teach us empathy and give us context of the human condition. There is so much more to being a cog in the machine, as you said correctly. The more I see the way people behave in today's "current events" realm, the more I believe these things are more important than ever.
Pretty naieve view to accept an effectively unaccountable body of such incredible size. Almost every policy is without a voter mandate.
> It turns out that people in London, England

Together with all the other millions of people that write London around the world.

According to google trends London is searched about 20-30 times more often than Lon.

Sorting Lon before London (in absence of more information) seems a bad choice.
It's a combination of education, access to birth control and low infant/mother mortality that does it.
Especially the last one - it's shocking how big a killer childbirth is to women without modern medical procedures. Same thing for children: vaccines, hygiene and nutrition make it a rare tragedy instead of a normal part of life.
I have the Black & Decker Buffer from Amazon that is about $30. It’s fine on it’s own.

But then I found an old Lutron floor dimmer switch in a drawer and it worked perfectly.

The black and decker is a 2 prong plug.

This is seriously an awesome tool / toy.

I’ve seen other massagers for like $700 that are basically the same thing rebranded.
Elizabeth Warren recently proposed an amendment to abolish the electoral college. Would that qualify for you as reorganizing the power structures in a positive way?
I visited (from Germany) last summer & it seemed very reasonably priced to me. Guess it depends on expectations & context!
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It did cross my mind!
All costs aside, I think this is discounting the benefit of a place for 18 year olds to go where they can make mistakes and grow up semi-independently (or sometimes completely independently) for four years in a relatively safe environment.
Excellent article.

> Everyone knows that pigs can’t fly — just like everyone thinks they know that bytecode interpreters, as a technology for executing high-level languages, can’t be sped up without resorting to labour-intensive dynamic compilation.

[citation needed]

PHP (in recent versions) is a good example for a bytecode VM that's quite quick. So we already have a spectrum that probably covers an order of magnitude or so, just in the basic speed of bytecode execution.
The world is evil and degenerate only for your personal definition of those words. Your worldview is the actual defense mechanism.
I'm pretty sure prohibition had the exact effect it was actually intended to have. There's a reason US prisons are a big business now and US has the highest incarceration rate in the world.
> FB & Twitter are a prime example. They increased headcount and costs by 10X-100X, after becoming massive platforms scaled to serve everyone in the world. The product twitter and Facebook serve is still the same product they served with a 10th of the employees.

I think you're vastly underestimating the complexity of running a product like Facebook or Twitter. At scale, every minor problem gets magnified in both product-terms, and raw technical-terms. This requires investment of people and resources.

As a simple example, consider that Facebook has to build, and evolve its own php-esque language runtime. This has properties tuned to the specific traffic patterns of Facebook, thereby saving many millions of dollars in server costs.

So, no, I vehemently disagree that a handful of resourceful people can clone Facebook, beyond the most obvious high-level features that you may be familiar with from your personal usage. Similar arguments will apply to Twitter.
Good choice : you can communicate directly with Google servers AND the chinese government.
> - "Less than what we're going to make."

Do you have a source for that assumption?
A good faith interpretation would be that the US has the most advanced system for financial regulation, while the EU is better (or emphasises) antitrust and privacy regulation.

Both seem to perfectly consistent with New York being the world's premier financial center and Europe being somewhat renown for stronger consumer protection.

(which leaves Volkswagen as a terribly embarrassing example of regulatory capture in Germany)
Wow. This is a failure from so many parties. The pilots for not knowing the correct procedure. Boeing (who should bear the majority of the blame) for allowing sensors that are not properly redundant, purchasing sensors that appear to fault on a regular basis, not properly training, and not making sure that a problem that was well understood can never happen again, the airline for not informing the next crew of problems from previous flights, the regulators of the United States and Ethiopia for allowing these mistakes to happen.
It took me half a day: Had to download a GDPR pivacy policy template, read through the thing. Double check all the sections applied to what I was doing (cookies, etc) and fill in my details.

What have you spend 1 year doing if I may ask? Did you previously store passwords in plain text and you had to update that?
Agreed, and this needs to stop in my opinion. The EU makes an enormous amount of money by suing tech-giants over and over again without doing enough research to know what companies in this sector are doing.
I struggle with this a lot, too. Maybe "complex numbers" is a misnomer, and we should call them "complex operations", or "complex methods".

I have a hunch that for math people complex numbers are tied really close to the operations you perform with them. But to me, the lay man, the numbers are just data.

From reading around on HN I infer that there are certain things that are grouped together because they share certain actions. Groups, sets, monads.

However, if you were to encounter the number (1, 5) in the wild, you wouldnt know if it was a complex number or just a 2 dimensional vector until it is operated upon.
I don't know if that's the case with OP, but there's a good amount of HN users who think internet companies are above the law. Some of them also cheer it as a good thing.
About $8 billion revenue per quarter for EU + Middle East, let's say roughly 60% of people in Europe use the internet and > 90% of them use Google.

Therefore: 8,000,000,000 / (500,000,000 * 0.9 * 0.6) = $29.63 per person revenue per quarter. Could be as much as +- $10 given how arbitrary (research based, but still guesswork) my inputs were...

Somewhere around $100 per person per year seems insane but I guess how much do you spend per year on stuff?

P.S. please feel free to correct my figures!
Outlook has had this for very long time. Even consumer versions have some of the rights management features.

At my new job I am using Gmail via GSuites for first time and I didnt know how antiquated Gmail is. Lots of missing features and rather confusing UI.

But adding more security options and giving users control is good.
As a software engineer having to deal with OPS teams that are reluctant to push new software updates to production because according to them, well, most of the time developers introduce new bugs in new releases, so they rather stick with what they have.

Anyway, I would not want to be the software engineer in charge of the Boeing 737 MAX 8 new update. Imagine what will happen if there is another accident after the software update? Do you think the proposed software solution is enough?
Since I had a chest cold I also tried it on my lungs thinking it might help loosen things up. Less sure that worked (it felt nice), but I do feel much better today.