skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what happens when new laws are made to invent new crimes. Driving while being distracted is a problem that had appropriate laws before cell phones were a thing.
>Microsoft teams is an extremely high quality product already.

Lolwut? Have you used Teams? The product is bad ripoff Slack. So many issues, crashes all the time.
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Yes... great isn't it! Not sure why cars haven't done this before.
The base model 3 is only 0.5s faster to 60 than the base E class, and that gap doesn't widen by all that much as you go up both product lines.
To add another invalid reason for working at a startup:

- get good experience on many different technologies

If you want to learn how to do things quickly, often in a way that barely holds together, then yes, you will get that work experience in a startup.

If you want an opportunity to learn how to do things right, you need to work with experts. Your startup is incredibly unlikely to have experts on many different technologies.
And Gmail
Upselling is standard practice for car sales. I don't think barely anybody ever buys the base model of a car.
Kinda like `Object Oriented` Programming, which is not about Objects.
I agree with your 80/20 prinicpal. However, I don't believe that staying late at the office is any indicator of productivity. In fact, I would argue that staying late at the office may have the opposite connotation.

Sure, staying late makes sense sometimes(deadlines to meet, production bugs, making a client happy, etc), however, staying late on a regular basis would indicate to me that these people are either very inefficient, need some extra manpower, or have a process problem.

Hours worked does not equate directly to productivity.I think believing that they do is a toxic mindset.
> It'd be nice if it would sort itself in favor of the little guy, but I'm just not seeing it.

Smaller farms already exist, despite the unfavorable business conditions. If we're talking something like corn or soy beans, we're talking about massive direct subsidies as well. But if we're talking about thing such as berries or apples, there are lots of successful smaller, local producers.

Imagine how much more successful those smaller farms would be. And, it might re-invigorate complementary local businesses, such as small tractor dealerships, fertilizer, what have you.
These comparisons of wealth across different eras seem kind of stupid:

I, a barely-middle-class individual, can own and have access to things and services that the richest nobility of 100 years ago wouldn't have been able to even dream of.

Everybody can go to almost anywhere in the world within basically 24 hours, whereas a century ago long-distance journeys were measured in weeks and months. In a couple generations, hopefully, ordinary people may even be able to take trips to the moon, and at least into orbit during this generation.

How do you account for that in these kinds of comparisons?
The usual narrative. A tool that almost nobody is doing right - but blame the people and not the tool.
To save the monarch butterfly, scientists are moving a forest up a mountain
Versus management demanding everyone work 50-60 hours a week in an at will employment state? I won’t disparage your work ethic, but recognize that allowing yourself to be exploited enables your company to more easily exploit the unwilling, and without labor protections, it leads to systemic employee abuse.

You can’t say it doesn’t happen. HN is littered with these abuse stories.
UDRP process is often abused to shut down criticism: https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisions/text/2017/d201...

The world would be better off without UDRP.
3 is reasonable. I think you stated that well, "the user isn't actively trying to circumvent it", though I might expand that to include the application isn't actively trying to circumvent it. For passive mitigation of standard browsing as a means of helping protect yourself, yes, but even there, it won't take long for systems to figure out a way to circumvent that.
Since literally the last 30 years in almost every major city

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_improvement_district

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_improvement_districts...
It's a mistake
It is a mistake.
Tuition was much much smaller in that era too.
It seems the ones in the article end after you pay off 2.5x the original loan, at least.
> In your view of the world, people like me essentially wouldn’t have access to opportunity that would be reserved for the wealthy folks.

I hate to break it to you, but this is already very much the case. Do you think the education you got was even CLOSE to what a Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg received? You are dreaming.
Me too. Am Gen x in 40s. They paid for my $100k college education and I'm eternally grateful, and forever indebted.

Nothing is free. Unless you're a low life, you will always feel indebted to them and make up for it through other means.
It's an issue that not everyone has access to this support, and whether or not any individual person does is random and dictated by birth
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Thanks, I think I added the link to the paper while you were writing this. From skimming it I can't tell the answer to my question though.

How do they know what appears "black" in the image is really black vs. relatively black?
8 days later, it’s unbanned again. I wonder why!
That doesn't really disagree with what I said.

How many days is it reasonable for something to be front page news? Personally I'd prefer 365 different headlines then the same one for 4 months straight.
The difference is that the base model EXISTS in the other stores.

The $35k model 3 doesn't exist yet. But Mr. Musk has been touting that number for the past 3 years anyway. Its not common practice to tout a number for a mythical, non-existent car.
So you recognize the abuse disparity. Good! You can then understand why people fight against abuse despite the complaints from the comfortable.
This is just another generic, pretentious piece warning of the dangers of technology (is this about video games? the internet? who cares, it's all technology) that gets even the basic facts wrong.

Some highlights:

- Physical book sales are up (https://qz.com/1510303/book-sales/), not down, as the author claims.

-"World of Warcraft beats Wikipedia hands down." -- what does this even mean? Wikipedia get billions of page views and has hundreds of millions of unique users every month, while WoW subscribers have been hovering around 10 million for the past few years.

-"Now that sight and sound are covered, new internet appliances promise to offer touch, smell." What website promises to have a smell-o-vision feature?

Overall, lots of fear mongering and little facts, with a click-bait title.
The article suggests that parental support is increasing. Furthermore it seems to be caused by rising rents and non-rising wages making it difficult for young people to support themselves like they largely did in the past.
Facebook will limit reach of groups that share misinformation
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for the mobile app, the plan is to use QR codes + cameras, but its just byte blobs, so other transmission methods could be used.
For precisely this reason, the most valuable real estate in Berkeley is BART parking. It's also (officially) not for sale at any price. You have to sit on the waitlist for a few years. I'm sure there's a black secondary market somewhere but I haven't found it.

BART is looking to eliminate all its parking, so this strategy won't work much longer. (They claim that the parking program doesn't bring in much revenue, but also refuse to charge a market-clearing price!)

Maybe the houses away from BART will get a little more affordable and those willing to walk 45 minutes or so will get a break. Or it'll end up like Sunnyvale where most of the "Caltrain" parking is actually provided by the City.
Browsers have never worked that way, though. If GitHub was written back in late 90s, say, every time you clicked on a folder in the file tree, you'd get a page refresh with a new URL - and then the Back button would just go back to the previous URL.

Now, they do the refresh by fetching data from a web service and updating the DOM. But the URLs still change - as they should, since you are accessing different resources as you browse - and so the history tracks it accordingly.

The only time when we had something like you describe was in early Ajax days, when DOM updates were already done, but before the history API, and before the hacks that preceded it were devised. In those days, any website that did it would behave exactly as you described - the Back button in the browser would navigate off the website, even if you were clicking around it for the past hours. And then the website offered its own Back button implemented in HTML, that would navigate within it. Users hated it, because it broke all established conventions.
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And to think that this great company was defeated once and for all at the Battle of Colachel by Travancore King Marthanda Varma and faded away soon after :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Colachel
Until you're forced to start publishing quarterlies, or until the employees all unwittingly sell to the same would-be hostile takeover buyer.
The FAFSA already takes such money into account when calculating aid. 'Secret support' makes this sound like it's a conspiracy on the level of the USC scandal.
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Yes. The goal of OpenBSD vmm is primarily simplicity and a small, easily audit-able codebase. FreeBSD’s solution would not meet OpenBSD’s requirements and vice versa.
The value of the 5 whys, IMO, isn't to find absolute truth, it's to avoid making stupid and easily avoidable mistakes by forcing people to talk to one another while developing solutions. In many places, people have multiple concurrent demands on their time, and that can force people into a reactionary get-it-done-quick mindset. The 5 whys are a way to minimize the impact of time pressure by having a thorough problem-solving rubric that is expected to be followed. Basically, it's cover for people to devote more time to communication and critical thought.
This is exactly what one would expect to happen as the wealth gap between young (disproportionately affected by stagnant wages and student-loan debt) and old (disproportionately benefiting from low taxes on property/investments) continues to grow. Some parents pass the proceeds onward, but only to their own children. Some parents can't or won't pass anything on to anyone. The end state is a rigid class system in which most people's wealth is determined by their parentage instead of their own efforts or accomplishments. The solution is to levy less tax on the young and poor, more on the old and rich.

BTW, I'm on neither side of this. I'm too young to be funding my daughter's college or early adulthood, but far too old to be on the other end of any such transfer. If anything, I'd be negatively affected by the suggestion above.
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You're right! I wasn't aware of that.
>> The thought experiment was scientific evidence?

> Well, I guess you could even look at it that way (it is a question about thought that we are trying to answer, after all), but I'd tend to think that that is a category error, strictly speaking, in that we are dealing with a formal (language) system, so it's more on the proof side of things. Unless you consider it a question of finding agreement about definitions, in which case that thought experiment is simply an exercise in (empirically) determining the definition that you are using.

Let me see if I can show you what I am getting at (looking for yes/no answers but I'm not going to stop you from digging deeper, lol): Are all claims about reality scientifically testable?

> I don't see any reason to think that representation is optional.

Can't something be true regardless of whether or not it's being represented?

> Every instance of Peano axioms that I can think of has a physical representation, just as every instance of cake that I can think of has physical representation.

Wouldn't that be because you can't think of those things without a representation, not because they are dependent upon a representation?

> Making the assumption that there is such a thing as immaterial Peano axioms seems to me as reasonable as making the assumption that there is such a thing as immaterial cake.

So what material(s) are the Peano axioms composed of?

> ... some people think that things that exist for a span of time that has no extent (like, 0 seconds) can be said to exist ...

Heh, yeah I don't even know what that means...

> In my book, that is a pretty useless definition...

Do you have any definition for "exist" that you consider useful?

>> That "the universe can change states" is known by observation.

> Then ... in which sense isn't that scientific observation demonstrating the existence of the potential for the universe to be in different states?!

Yes.

> I simply meant which reasons you would give to anyone who was interested, or possibly to humanity as a whole, to try and convince them to care about morality under that definition.

I'd probably say a reason for someone to care about morality would be if they cared to maximize joy/happiness in themselves and others.
100 billion kilometres wide, is that correct?
Only in that those who aren't getting support are left behind, and feel like failures because they're not able to match the success of their peers, not knowing that they're working with significantly less resources. Also could lead to a lack of sympathy on the part of those who are getting extra help, thinking that those who can't keep up with them are either lazy or less capable, when in fact they are starting from a place of privilege.

Causes resentment and division, basically.
MASSSIVELY UNDERWHELMING

As a person who has no interest in these intergalactic shenanigans, it looks just like another ball on fire. I wanted to be excited, I really was, but this is just another picture.

A giant leap for mankind, and i fully recognize that, but the awe... nada. It's just another picture really. There is nothing fascinating about it.

Hats off to the people who brought this to us though. I know gravity of the matter and how daunting a task it was. Keep on!
Every time an article which invites arguments between "native" vs. "web" is posted, this needs to be said:

What we really need to settle this, is a cross-platform UI framework that compiles to native UI and code on each OS/hardware.
Try ripping the Wi-Fi module out, if you're certain you won't need it. I wish we had free software on those...
You might enjoy Austria, where being drunk on your bicycle or as of recently electric scooter will cost you your drivers license.
OOP has some very clearly defined concepts, object being one of them, and the concepts are almost always baked into the languages themselves.
Depends on your desired level of despotism. Could be achieved with 'shoot anything that moves' strategy. Asymmetric response with artillery and airstrikes on any hostile target.
You can't end a 5 Whys with 'another team I depend on screwed up'. You have to own your software or service. If you depend on something, you need checks, alarms, and whenever possible the ability to handle dependency failure well.

Imagine you're built on a public cloud in a single Data Centre. That DC has an issue. Your 5 Whys shouldn't end with 'the Data Centre had an issue' It should continue with 'my service was only in one DC.... Why?' and continue from there.
No, it's the car that allowed the drunk person to drive it. The corrective action is cars should have breathalyzer interlocks as standard equipment.

I'm not actually joking - applying this process seriously requires looking at not just who did what (people) but the presence or absence of mechanisms. Corrective actions that rely on the good intentions of people "remembering to do the right thing" rarely work.

I review several RCAs a week in my job. If I saw one for a scenario like this where the actions or inattention any of the humans involved here was identified as the ultimate root cause, it'd get kicked back for re-work.
I get what you're saying, but don't try to act like working more is equivalent to being more efficient.
It seems Amazon's evilness mostly stems from their reputation for how they treat their employees - not how they treat their customers.

My weak sauce rationalization re Amazon is that I wouldn't work there (I love hearing the big sigh from recruiters when I ask if the client they are hiring for is Amazon.)

Others who choose to work there do so voluntarily. They haven choosen their own pain.

In my mind this is different than using your PhDs to build dark patterns to trick consumers, survelience tech to monetize people, using that surveillance information and neuroscience to manipulate people, and so on.

edit: to add -- I forgot about Apple, since I stopped buying their stuff a few years ago. At least they see that privacy protection may have some value in the marketplace.
> Many of these fail two courses and are asked to withdraw.

Wait, after a single failed course?! That seems... cruel to do to people straight out of high school. I failed linear algebra 1 (sort of by accident). But here in a European country, people fail stuff regularly, only like the top 40% maybe have "clean years" every year, actually some very good students sometimes fail stuff too when I think about it.
I expect that at the resolution that this picture is taken it would be surprising if new radically physics was found, since it would require our current models to be very different from reality to see significantly different results
These printers are a bane of my wifi existence too. I live in a suburban neighborhood with overall very little 2.4GHz interference, but there are three HP printers in range which seem to absolutely BLAST their signals.
First time reader. The definition of technology seems very narrow --- almost exclusive to the entertainment. I don't think e.g. an optimized GEMM on GPUs or SQL query would be covered in this article.
I just stumbled upon Veritasium a week ago while learning about the double slit experiment in quantum theory and trying to see some actual evidence [1] of the experiment.

[1]: https://youtu.be/Iuv6hY6zsd0
If it fails to pique your interest, oh well, but the more you read about black holes and what is observable about them, the stranger it feels to be looking at it face to face.
Driving while using a block of wood isn't illegal though.
Security isn't just about intrusion prevention, it is also about ensuring that the resource is available to the people who need it when they need it.

So, carry on with keeping bad actors off the network and ensuring that there is sufficient capacity and resilience in the network.
It's been done since the 1970s.

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

There are some proposals to do it in space.

https://www.universetoday.com/139566/instead-of-building-sin...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Interferometer_Space_Ant...
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I can't help but think this is a bit more of an apples-to-oranges comparison than it's being treated as in this post. Org's introduction (chapter 1.1 of its manual) begins,

* Org is a mode for keeping notes, maintaining TODO lists, and project planning with a fast and effective plain-text markup language. It also is an authoring system with unique support for literate programming and reproducible research.*

Whereas the introduction to Markdown from its original author begins simply,

Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers.

These are both lightweight markup languages, sure, but they're designed for different domains. What makes Org-mode interesting isn't ultimately its markup language; look at all the comments here talking about tasks and tags and such. What makes it interesting is its implementation. Markdown, conversely, was explicitly intended as an HTML preprocessor. You can do anything in Markdown that you can do in HTML for the simple reason that if you can't do it in Markdown, you can literally use HTML. That's not what Org-mode is for.

I think the thesis of this article is basically "Org-mode's specific choices with respect to markup syntax are better than Markdown's." And, well, fine; I'm not entirely sure I agree, but I'm not sure it really matters. What does matter to me is that Markdown (a) works very well for what I want in practice and (b) works everywhere I want it to. If I was one of the folks who lived in Emacs, the chances are Org-mode would handily hit both of those points for me. But I'm not. And as lucideer noted in his comment, just because it's possible to use (a subset of) Org-mode's markup outside Emacs doesn't mean it offers any particular advantage over, well, Markdown.
> and ban charters.

Why? What's the difference between publicly funded versus publicly funded and operated?
Prior discussions (didn’t notice these when I submitted this story):

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=996
The point is that these country codes predate the existence of TLDs by over a decade.

ISO codes are this way because either the countries wanted the specific codes or didn't provide input.

Almost all ccTLDs match their 2-letter ISO3166 codes.
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Trickle down economics is a made up name given to the theory of supply side economics. I wish more people would realize this and that supply side economics does actually benefit society!
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Why? The original comment was around GCM being deprecated in favor of FCM. It was literally a simple API key change and that is it. Not sure why this is so hard to comprehend.
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Ceph?
Sometime in 2018 or '17 I've read that GitHub is again blocked and programmers have to switch jobs because it's pretty hard to do programming without GitHub now. So, they can come after your repos too.

(The source of the info was a Chinese redditor who makes Arduino-like robots, so I hope she knew what she was talking about.)
I don’t talk about Tesla. I am talking about a small car, electric or not, that cost a fraction to buy, drive, insure and will be easier to park. And then renting for that fishing trip or long road trip when your small car won’t do.
This is also called an aptronym.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym
Headline from next week: "GitHub Was a Haven for China's Censored Internet Users".