skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't show real world numbers when the phenomenon in question can't have controlled experiments run on it, and I don't need to show real world numbers to make a case for the logical soundness of a principle, in this case the principle that prioritizing improvement of a metric other than overall performance will generally lead to less overall performance improvements than not doing so.
Catagory theory is a fantastic tool for understanding programming language design. As a user, you don't need to understand catagory theory, but you benifit when the language designers do.

As a software engineer, category theory is sometimes useful in API design as well; although more often than not, your API is constrained by the existing ecosystem too much for category theory to give you much benefit (and, frankly, simple enough that category theory is overkill).
I think my 2007-ish macbook pro had the best keyboard of all. Light action concave keys

I don't think that the superiority of concave keys gets the attention it deserves.

- the keys fit your finger better - the force of the keypress is evenly distributed across the surface of your finger, especially as the key bottoms out. New keyboards deform your finger pad as you press down and are less comfortable.

- the concave shape helps you locate the keys and center your fingers by feel. This leads to more accurate finger placement initially and as you type. You will type more accurately.
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tldr: this worked for me to bypass the paywall on desktop: open the WSJ.com article in Chrome, open the dev tools (ctrl-shift-j), toggle device toolbar (ctrl-shift-m), select the "pixel 2" device, reload (ctrl-r), close dev tools (ctrl-shift-j).

Ah, a WSJ.com article behind a paywall... Usually it can be bypassed by browsing in Chrome's incognito mode. But this time it wasn't working for me.

A little research and I found that WSJ.com secretly scores users who browse their site, and present them with either a "hard" or "soft" paywall depending on the likelihood of them buying a subscription: https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/02/after-years-of-testing-the...

So based on a hunch, I simply enabled mobile device view (selecting the "Pixel 2" device type), which modifies the user-agent string so that the web server thinks you are browsing from mobile, and it worked! It bypassed the paywall for this article. My hunch was that the scoring system probably assumes mobile users are less likely to buy a subscription because it's a PITA to enter credit card info on a mobile, and is more likely to give them a soft paywall, eg. free browsing of article for 24-hours.
Are you able to share any info regarding the type of customer (B2B or B2C), the number of customers, and the method of customer acquisition? Depending on the nature of the product offering, healthcare can be seriously difficult market to enter.
As someone who likes a lot of punk and some hardcore, I will never understand the appeal of Henry Rollins. Overrated musician, overrated human being.
China seems to do okay without much in the way of professional journalists, musicians, authors, and artists.

I'm not saying it's right, but it should be pointed out that it can still work.

China has structured their society to operate without much copyright enforcement.

It should make people think about what kind of society they want.
What is it that you think that quote means? That's boilerplate language. The plea agreement is in fact very detailed and precise about the sentencing range Hutchins faces (it's relatively low).
Hammer and sickle is just ridiculous, but what about calling somebody a horse? https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-47862596
Just an FYI -- you can get a hearing test at Costco or you can request your results and bring them to Costco.
I went to a local video game museum the other day. It was a ton of fun. You simply can't emulate the feel of the Arkanoid controller (a knob which you turn clockwise and counterclockwise to move the platform), or the way games actually looked like on a ye olde CRT (although some might point out that there's decent effort done here and there), not to mention games for vector-based displays.
Unless you live and work in Delaware, you will foreign qualify in another state. You pay taxes to the states you operate in, so if you e.g. register in Delaware and operate in California, you'll be stuck paying both CA ($800) and DE ($400) taxes.
Crews of cargo ships generally go unarmed, for insurance reasons, and they carry cargoes worth many millions of dollars. It's not hard to understand why a group of pirates might choose to take the risk of raiding such a vessel.

It's harder to see the logic in what would essentially be a glorified home invasion. Where's the money in it? Why wouldn't this hypothetical seasteading couple simply get their own AK47s and threaten to shoot back? Are pirates really going to risk death over someone's household goods?
NY is not one of those states, and NYC has a mesh network with a $20/mon suggested donation.

map: https://www.nycmesh.net/map

(I'm not a member - applied and considering it... for work, I need high speed and low latency... thoughts welcome!)
would love to have an 'interview' section. This has some info.
https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards
I clicked... long video that shows Bluetooth audio out-of-sync with computer video, due to 220 ms delay vs aptX 40 ms delay.
Feeling significantly worse at 30 isn't common, except for some increase of back pain if you work sitting down.

Something else might be at play. Do you get routine medical check-ups? How's your hemoglobin?
Just from the headline I knew this was gonna be about Centralia PA. Hooray! What do I win?
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Also Fort Collins CO - they recently (last year?) passed city approval to roll out municipal broadband. it is actively laying fiber now and expected to be live by start of 2020 or earlier. Gigabit speeds. It would be great if Boulder were next to get this. Comcast fought VERY hard to prevent it...
That's not the OPs point. The plea bargain system is principally unjust. If prosecutors had enough evidence of some crimes, then the accused should be tried for them and not go freely. If prosecutors don't have enough evidence for some of the alleged crimes they stack up, then the charges should be dropped and the accused should only be tried for the crimes for which there is sufficient evidence.

The please bargain system is nothing but institutionalized blackmail, and many innocent people have become its victims.
Having that option makes folks anxious about using their mouse when it’s not plugged in.
Seems like it’s “he tried to obstruct, here is the evidence, it’s Congress’s job to do something about it”
TBH with 5G coming around the corner, I'd hate my city to plow 10s/100s of millions into laying fiber that might not get used.
> When someone writes tests I will always call those tests out. Because I know that writing tests isn't always the funnest work and as such I'm really grateful that they took the time to do it!

This sentiment, of applauding people for good work , works both ways. It makes the applaud-ee feel good, it does believe me, even if its simply because someone noticed it and cared enough to say it. It also makes the applaud-ee tad bit more respectful towards the applaud-er and try to return the favor. Add more people in this and its a recipe for a healthier work environment.
Don't see how that will work, given that a lot of the more desirable apps use native API and their developers have no desire whatsoever to put in more work to adopt yet another Google OS, in addition to Anrdoid. See e.g. what happened to Windows Mobile. Excellent OS (better than Anrdoid in terms of UX IMO), but failed to get traction with devs.

It's not like all Android phones will just cease to exist when Fuchsia comes out. So even if this is done near flawlessly (chances of which are slim given how different Fuchsia promises to be), Google would be expanding the already insane Android testing matrix for devs.
Oh so very much this.

I have an HP2420dn laser printer. I have had it so long I can't even remember when I bought it, but it has probably been around 20 years. Every 10 years or so it needs maintenance to replace the wear parts. Nowadays I can't find anyone who will do this work because new printers are so ridiculously cheap that the maintenance market has collapsed. So my perfectly serviceable printer is probably going to end up in the landfill. Sometimes I despair at the state of "civilization".
Every company summarizes their engineering interview process in their profile. You’ll find it in the right-hand side panel.
That seems like a loophole. You call the charges bullshit and ask for donations, and that proves you're innocent?
He not only wrote the malware but personally sold it for $7000 per copy to botnet operators and other kinds of cybercriminals to facilitate bank account theft and fraud. He's changed now and is trying to be a force for good, but he definitely made mistakes in his past.
Sounds simliar to the Thinkpad keys/keyboards - the best in the industry IMO. Mac trackpad + Thinkpad keyboard = perfect laptop :)
How exactly would Hutchins benefit from a system in which he was essentially required to take this case to trial? Stipulate that the FBI has him dead to rights, which it sure seems like they do. Then, in this case, the plea bargain system helped him: it enabled him to agree with prosecutors not to try him on all 10 counts, and to reduce his sentencing level, which prosecutors would not have an incentive to do otherwise.
How is this website legal and different from hosting a movie/TV series? It is basically stealing the original website's content.
The government absolutely does not have anything near unlimited resources. I've been listening to the Ken White podcast All the President's Lawyers and something he repeatedly says is just how shockingly few criminals, especially white collar criminals, actually get prosecuted because there's simply no budget to go after them.
It's sad you have dropped Bitcoin support!
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It’s not really about hegemony at all. The US does extradite people but this isn’t about that.

He was arrested in the US for his impact to people and companies inside the US.
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I know very little about that world, but I heard Dodd-Frank made going public less appealing. The first google hit for "IPO over time"[1] shows a drop after the dot-com bubble around 2000 and not much around when Dodd-Frank got passed--but it seems surprisingly flat. Money has been really cheap since the recovery. This, plus the amount of VC money, has likely made the threshold for IPO much higher.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/270290/number-of-ipos-in...
Well, you are obviously wrong. /s
Yes. Or rather the paywall journal version of that paper. :)

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2019.03.007
Moar conspirology! It used to be Trump in cahoots with GRU. Now it's 
reptiloids
 Assange.

Since when leaking the evidence of shady dealings is something immoral? Really, why outrage at Assange who is merely a messenger rather than at people whose deeds were so embarrassing so the leak is widely seen as damaging?

How about simply not doing stuff which will cost you an election if made known to general public? Nah, too hard.
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What if the aim is to solve problems that have never been solved before? In which case, you don't know which tools you will need before. You are stuck just learning a bunch of tools and hoping you learned the correct ones.

That's how life is. Some (most) times you don't know what tools you will need in the future.
I hate that I'm responding here, but have to point out that your comment is obviously not true.
I run Fedora 29 on TP Carbon X1 6th gen. Perfect - no issues for me.

Carbon touchpad is one of the bext non-Mac ones I have tried. is it perfectly up to par with Mac...no, but I havent found any that were.

Can I get my TP keyboard and Mac track/touchpad? That would be nice :)
Your hypothetical "crime" would be immediately thrown out because you would not be able to prove damages. No crime was committed against a citizen of Hungary, and Facebook is not considered the public at large.

A more apt hypothetical would be if you were tricking people into distributing hate symbols from abroad. I think you could make a cogent argument for arrest in that case.

The victims of the malware were on American soil. If someone remotely takes control of your smart oven and burns your house down, you have standing to charge them with a crime. The difference is he violated a US law, against a US citizen, while that citizen was in the United States. If you do that and are currently in the US you should expect to be arrested.
Can't access the link anymore, "Sorry, that page doesn’t exist!"

Can anyone still access? Can anyone throw this in the WayBack Machine?
Cultural attitudes toward the free market can make a big difference. At the turn of the 20th century, during the Lochner Era, the Supreme Court upheld contract liberty and prevented numerous attempts by governments to undermine it. That never could have happened without the political attitudes that existed at that time.

Widespread belief in principles like private property rights and contract liberty can act as a moat to prevent things like regulatory capture.
Pleasure craft get boarded all the time by the coast guard. [0][1][2][3][4] Often on trips from the west coast to hawaii, often on trips sailing north from southern california.

The coast guard, can at any time board / search your vessel without any probable cause or warrants. Even in international waters. It's on you to make sure you're not doing anything illegal that would warrant a seizure of your vessel and all the property on it. ( again, even in international waters )

You're right though, they likely won't sink it.

[0] https://www.uscg.mil/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=luZU9g1tNsc%3...
[1] https://www.sailfeed.com/2012/10/coast-guard-boardings-and-y...
[2]https://mblb.com/admiralty-maritime/the-fourth-amendment-rig...
[3] https://www.getmyboat.com/resources/tips-for-renters/638/wha...
[4] https://coastguardnews.com/what-to-expect-during-a-coast-gua...
I don't use fastly on the supply side but I do use it as a consumer and the services they host that I use have good responsiveness and availability.

The fastly engineers I know are nice people. They take care, they're smart and afaik they've stayed small and focussed as a group. They're active in operations groups, standards.

What's not to love?
>The USA does not have jurisdiction over the entire world.

Maybe not the whole world but the US has the hegemony over countries where the US military bases reside. All of those countries have signed their sovereignty away through various extradition and trade treaties which give the US DoJ a massive reach over the citizens of those countries.

In 2019, if you were to try to escape the long arm of US law, your options are extremely limited. I can't think of a country that would not hand you over to the US because of a massive pressure that the US State Department would put on the host country. Just look at Ecuador which sold Assange for billions in aid.
The question is why does capitalism need to be protected from government run alternatives if it's so super duper?
It doesn't matter because (some of) his victims were in the United States when he committed crimes against them.

Now that I'm thinking about it more, I'd be upset if they didn't arrest him while he were here.
>The problem is the US arresting someone who was. not. in. the. USA. when committing the crime (if he did).

How is this a problem? if you cause material damages to Americans and you then go to the US the country is going to come after you.

Why would the US not protect its citizens to the best of its ability and prosecute people who harmed them, even if they harmed them from a place that wasn't the US. We're talking about global financial crimes, they don't know any borders to begin with.

If you kill someone outside of the US, and then you travel to the US, I'd be concerned if you wouldn't get arrested
Gold subscriptions. I'll be working on making that clearer soon.
>a speedy manual review process is the best anyone's got.

This is a policy choice. We could not have copyright, and just leave the documents up.

We could give platforms immunity, and enforce copyright by going after the individuals who uploaded without the rights to do so.

We could give platforms immunity, but require them to respect court orders to remove specific copyright documents.

We could give platforms immunity, but require them to remove copywrote conent when notified. (A la DMCA)

We could give platforms immunity, require them to remove copywrote content, and require them restore content on a counter-claim and defer the dispute to the courts.

What we are doing is requiring, by policy, platforms to proactivly remove copywrote material but making no policy requirements against over-removal. If we are seeing the best possible implementation of this policy, then maybe it is simply a bad policy.
Good piece. In some ways the hype is even worse than OP suggests.

It’s not even that the current trend of “machine learning” (ie data processing) is at best a tiny subset of what anyone would consider to be actual intelligence (ability to act rationally in a wide range of situations, including novel ones, ie common sense).

It’s that the very idea of “artificial intelligence” is impossible. Terry Winograd, one of the earliest AI researchers in the 60s/70s wrote a great book about this called Computers and Cognition in which he lays out a coherent theory, grounded in philosophy and biology, for why the pursuit of machines that think like humans is doomed to fail. The crux of the argument is that the essence of intelligence/common sense has to do with something other than symbolic representation, ie the kind of thinking one does while playing chess or using language. It has to do with “being-in-the-world”, which sounds weird but is a really useful concept from Heidegger.

Winograd gives the example of a man using a hammer to illustrate this. A man using a hammer has no mental model of a hammer while he is pounding in a nail. The hammer simply becomes an extension of his arm. The only time a representation or mental construct of “hammer” becomes relevant is if there is a breakdown, like if the hammer slips. But otherwise, the intelligent act of hammering occurs without any “hammer” objects in the mind of the hammerer.

I’m vastly oversimplifying here, but the book (first published 1985) is quite well argued and frankly persuasive. Highly recommended to all those who seek to separate AI fact from fiction in these buzzy times.
Any chance we can just keep the FDA to monitor imports?
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> Lobbying and campaign finance are not corruption

I pay a politician money, and he does what I want.

That is the very definition of bribery and corruption. Just because the people that stand to gain the most from it decided to make it "legal", that doesn't change what it actually is. Call it "legal corruption" if you like.

> Capital being the true democratic mean in the world's most capitalistic country is not surprising or incorrect.

Of course, there is only one democracy on the planet where that's true. How does that country stack up against all the other OECD countries in terms of quality of life for the average Joe citizen?
It is presumed that the dark matter also rotates about the galactic center. It can’t fall in, any more than the stars in the galaxy can, because it collectively can’t dump its angular momentum. However, there is controversy whether dark matter can dissipate momentum that is parallel to the rotational axis either by self interaction or by interaction with ordinary matter. If it can, then the distribution of dark matter could resemble a disk, as opposed to a spherical distribution.

Lisa Randall has written a provocative book about this which will answer your question in depth: Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe.
Regulating cities so they don't do something stupid is reasonable. Remember muni wi-fi? That ended up being a massive wealth transfer from taxpayers to consultants and vendors of gear that didn't work. After the networks were built cities were left holding the bag and trying to decide whether to continue to operate a system nobody used or throw in the towel and admit they wasted millions.
They should have forced everything to 64-bit at the same time. Vs forcing developers to support both 32- and 64-bit. Resulting in mostly 32-bit apps.
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that he was a founder with founder-level equity.

I see "founder" and "founding engineer" as distinct from each other.

"Founding engineer" in my mind just means key early engineer who played a part in building v0 of the product.
Statement from Markus: https://www.malwaretech.com/public-statement
There’s efforts to rebuild circuit QED such that temperatures this low aren’t needed. I wouldn’t worry too much about this.
I've always interpreted "Be yourself" in the sense of the old saying "to be, rather than to seem" [1]. It's not an affirmation of you being perfect, it's just saying that you can't even begin to know yourself and your true merits if you spend your time just trying to appear a certain way for the benefit of others.

Yes, the author of this piece had to learn the hard way that their attitude was toxic, but had this person never actually felt consequences from that behavior - there would be no hope at all for growing into a better person. You must be accountable for yourself, and if you think you must hide yourself to be liked or just follow someone else's example all the time - any time something breaks down, you won't know if it's because what you're pretending to be is wrong or if you're just doing it wrong.

The accountability necessary for personal growth is therefore precluded on accepting that the actions you take are fully your own, and consistent with your own conception of self. It's better to be wrong and learn why than to chase temporary praise through shallow, idealized imitations that serve to suit the expectations of whatever audience you value at the moment. Because when you cast off one imitation for another one, it will make it hard for anybody to know what you actually value - including yourself.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esse_quam_videri
It's a dorky word, but it corresponds to an actual thing that is appreciated and noticed by technical employees. If used correctly, it has value.
wait, hold up.

The point was "knowing when to stop".

Civilization creates these juggernauts that start moving and when they reach their goals their momentum carries them past need and reason.

How many laws do we need? Do we need more roads (or lanes)? Should taxes increase? in percentage!? Do we need to "add value" to every product ever? Do kids need more homework? Do you need another iPhone?
So, I guess you're cool with the Darwinian aspect of childbirth, where we just let women bite it on their own, because if they can't survive the birthing process they must've been unfit organisms?

And oh yeah, what about that part where, as part of nomadic life (you know, living in undefended tents, encampments, shanty towns, what have you), guys can pretty much just take what they want when push comes to shove, and inseminate women according to any opportunity available (see also: orangutan mating strategies), like, you know, when it's dark at night and everyone's trying to sleep and no one is looking. And before you retort that such a thing is easier said than done, consider that the definition of success is not living well after the act of conception. As long as the proverbial toilet gets flushed, the pregnancy was mostly a runaway train, with few reliable undo buttons.

How do those aspects of sex differences fit into your world view of the old dastardly, dastardly patriarchy?
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