skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I long ago enabled the "10 failed logins in a row deletes the phone" toggle.

Unfortunately this is not adviseable if you have small children. A relative of mine saw her phone get wiped after letting my toddler fiddle with it for a few minutes.
Names are incredibly useful, because I know that tptacek does security, cpercival does cryptography and DannyBee does law.

In a thread about legal issues I'll certainly put more weight towards DannyBee's comments, even if he might have totally wrong views on, say, beekeeping.
If you've visited Japan since 2007., Accenture has your fingerprints.
Windows 10 business model for consumers is also based on ads and tracking/surveillance.
What censorship are they doing that cannot be easily circumvented?
Except that's exactly what's been happening over the years. It might be so abrupt in this case that it would fail just because the marketing would be too easy. But airlines have been incrementally decreasing seat pitch for a long time and then charging a significant amount for what used to be normal.
This is the weakest theory I've read yet; people aren't exiting tether because it's too inconvenient. Forgetting that they would've already gone through the KYC process when they entered the crypto market, and there's little hassle in a market sell-order and withdrawal request. The only inconvenience is the time the bank withdrawal would take to process, which isn't necessary unless your plan is to exit the market entirely, as exchanges are covered by FDIC insurance.
You forgot to mention that there were an average 500,000 cases of measles per year in the 4 year period you're picking for the 500/year metric.

You also forgot to mention that about 1-2 in each thousand with measles developed encephalitis and 1 in 1000 developed post-infectious encephalitis and that 1 in 20 gets pneumonia.

This is not a small thing.
Could someone briefly explain the significance of this filing.?
And before long, someone asks why just automation engines? If you can get a bio-mechanical brain to drive a car you can get it to understand Math, C++, Law and what not. All at a much lower cost than training a full human being...
And before long someone will think that - hey, how do we know this has not already happened?
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It doesn't mean that aren't stuck in vicious circles.

For instance, Boeing has dumped 737 MAX planes (and duped regulators, endangered passengers, ...) to fight off advanced competitors such as the A220 and Gen2 E195.

Smaller less-capitalized companies have done the right thing and embraced innovation, somehow Boeing decided that international widebody passengers deserve better planes but that narrowbody passengers should suffer and that neoliberals will parrot that "there is no alternative".

Modern airliners can be smaller than the 737 bit have much better passenger comfort and lower seat-mile costs. Boeing has to let up on the anti-competitive behavior for that to happen.
Same same, and downgrading gpg on arch it's not really easy, and pretty unsafe
EV range is very easy for anyone to check
And rationalizing because we actually have no idea why we are doing it.
> And this is always a weird thing to me. It's like saying living in Germany sucks because almost nobody speaks Chinese. It's true, yeah, but that burden is on you, not them.

It is not about complaining that people in X don't speak Y, but rather English which, for better or worse has become a de-facto universal second language for people to communicate with. In Germany maybe a bit less but the only people not speaking English in Scandinavia are younger kids. For many Scandinavians it is easier to communicate across borders in English than in their respective languages (which are pretty similar already).

For comparison in Asia, in Taipei it is possible to communicate somewhat passably with many people in English.
Is there any function you would miss? Of those, which one couldn't you recreate in 5 straightforward lines of code?
Job postings are a monopoly of YC (you can't comment/vote on them). So you can do whatever you want on this.
Google is a large and complex company with many competing interests internally. Yes, I absolutely believe they would have created Gmail absent any advertising incentive. You have to remember how many seemingly random consumer services were created during the first decade of Google (say, 2000-2010), most of which were engineering experiments and had nothing to do with advertising.

The Ads org within Google is large but fairly compartmentalized and runs like an absolute machine -- there is no questioning that.

What most outsiders don't see, though, is how much independence all the other orgs have. For example, the fastest growing collection of stuff are the Hardware & Cloud areas, which account for probably 35000-40000 employees and are almost completely autonomous. If Ads show up on Google hardware products (let's use Google Home as an example), that's because the Home team exposed a service that allowed the Ads team to do it, not because the Home team was necessarily thinking about display/search ads during product design. In fact, there are many services Google provides where it's well understood that users will not tolerate ads at all (like Google Assistant surfaces).

The reason I responded to the parent was because they made a blanket statement, which, while true if you only look at the fiscal reports, is untrue in practice. One could certainly argue strongly that Google's inability to strike it rich with anything besides Ads is 1) the reason the stock has been in the [relative] doldrums for the past year+, and 2) why Google continues to invest in all sorts of things (like Wing, or Chronicle, or Stadia, or ...) that are pretty far afield, not to mention the pure & applied research happening inside the RMI/Brain org that's often much more academic than practical.

Besides search & mobile (admob) advertising, the only two major product areas inside Google that take a strong stance supporting the advertising mission are Youtube & Maps, but even then Maps tries to ensure it's surfacing useful, actionable, timely, and local information, which generally place it in a different category. Maps also have strong potential via partnerships for things like ride services, appointment bookings, travel, food delivery, and the like... some of which might technically be considered advertising but which manifests more like functional partnerships.
> it's full of bias

My comment was not saying the opposite.

> best candidate

I never was talking about best candidate.
>Microsoft in particular is doing relatively well for a variety of reasons, but not because of this one.

Why exactly wouldn't Microsoft's newfound good reputation be included among those reasons? Your rebuttal would be just as unfounded as the theory you are dismissing. Perhaps it's not as determinant a factor as the author makes it out to be, but discarding it altogether doesn't look reasonable to me.
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And it's also not a coincidence that flights have gotten cheaper across the board.

Airlines have, as a whole, found that it's more profitable to sell cheaper crappy seats than it is to sell more expensive nice seats, because nobody will buy the nice seats given the option.

If someone had superior seats, why would they charge the same amount?

What I'm trying to say is that if someone comes out with a crappier seat, they will have to charge less than a normal seat. If they choose not to, they won't be able to get people into those standing seats.

When a company comes out with a crappier car, do they charge the same amount as a standard car? Does the price of that standard car rise, now that there's a crappy car at its price point?
I've got several "plastic bags". Some of them I can even identify as the crinkly colored type often used for wrapping present-type things. I can also give you something that is clearly a display board. I can't tell you what it's displaying beyond a generic "smudge", but it's clearly a display board, like for spoons or coins.

Still, I don't argue the core point. Words are flexible and I can probably jam some word onto pretty much image, but I won't deny this image is quite resistant to that.
I think that's the point. All the things that made early 20th-century New York great are happening in Shanghai now and at a much larger scale. That it's happening in a country under a totalitarian regime is not in line with Western sensibilities, but the assertion itself is reasonable and pretty objective if you've visited Shanghai recently.

It's an amazing city that (in startup terms) still has a growth mindset. New York, London, San Francisco and other Western cities behave like they've grown about as much as they want to.
Break up Google/Alphabet. Way past time.
That sounds like it's going to be a mess. If they introduce compile time checks that have the same strictness as Rust it will break existing code. It seems like Swift has already done that a few times over.
If that repo is one of your frequently visited projects, you'll be able to quickly access it through the “Projects” dropdown in the header. Does that help?
That doesn't sound quite right: https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-aler...

> “Let’s be real,” the new Democratic governor said as he announced a scaled-back plan for high speed rail. “The current project, as planned, would cost too much and take too long.”

If there is not a concrete plan that is viable, the project could sit in the "design and environmental review" phase indefinitely without moving forward.
I think we're already seeing a backlash against the always multitasking, loss of focus culture that Slack has become the poster child for in the SASS space. Just like Facebook or Twitter, Slack is engineered for constant dopamine-fueled engagement, which quickly turns it into a bad and ultimately unproductive habit for companies that use it. I am already seeing competitors like Level use Slack as a warning example and I think this is just the start of Slack's problems.
That’s interesting. I never thought about that. Any idea on the effectiveness of doing this? It just seems dicey to me with quite a lot of risk with minimal benefit. I’d rather pet a rabid raccoon than be the PR manager that pulls this stunt. But I do see your point and if done well... yea, just say you found better ways of being lower cost and everyone forgets this ever happened.
Does anyone else find the SEC disclosures format ugly? Might be time for them to adopt markdown
I think the catch with AI and ML there is "reason" but it's just math or something that happens because.

If it is "reasonable" (trying to find a definition here) can only be determined by humans.... provided they care or understand it.

I always quote this one but I really like it:

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”

― Frank Herbert, Dune

I would argue that it is clear that to some extent, Google does not care about the end results.
The recent yield curve inversion got a lot of peoples' attention as that has preceded recessions since the 1960s or so, but I can't point to a better article than mainstream news.
Maybe they have a higher reputation but that doesn't mean people like or will buy their consumer products. They still have a huge problem there.
This is my suspicion, as well. I don't buy the complaints about thin margins driving these decisions. The main innovation of airlines appears to be exactly how much misery people will put up with and still buy a ticket.
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Being such a tall person, your concern is appreciated.
In economy class my knees touch the back of the seat in front even before it reclines.
Slack is hostile towards users. They aggressively push a narrative that if Slack is annoying - its a management problem.
> What does Mastadon or Scuttlebutt count as?
I think they are currently illegal because of various copyright and data protection laws in the UK.
I don't know if you have children yet, but I regret to inform you if you don't that significant sleep deprivation is in your future unless you plan to extensively involve caregivers outside of you and your spouse.
We need hyperloop to work and national high speed rail to offer alternatives and competition. I do a 2 hour flight, about 1000 miles for work once or twice a quarter, I’d seriously consider a 4-6 hour train ride if the experience was better. Rather than paying extra to carry my bag on, I wouldn’t mind paying extra for a proper meal and some comfortable work space. And if they streamlined the security process the time difference would be that much smaller.
thats still only half as much as Lyfts $100M/year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19282624
i use to think this way too.

When i was HS living out in the countryside of North Texas the father of a friend of mine would take me hunting and target shooting a lot. He said he did an experiment once where he shot 3 groups of 5 shots then measured his precision and accuracy. Next, he drank a beer (i know, not the wisest thing to do) then repeated the shooting exercise. He did this for a few iterations and his conclusion was that it didn't matter that he didn't feel the effects of the alcohol right away, his shooting steadily declined on each iteration.

I think sleep is the same way, whether or not you immediately notice you're not getting enough sleep your performance steadily declines.
> Who upvotes this garbage?

Barely anyone, it seems. The content may not be great, but there's no need to be mean. It could be someone just trying out blogging for the first time. It also might be that English isn't their primary language.

We can just flag stuff like this and move on.
I've listened to a couple of Robert Macfarlane's books recently after a recommendation from someone on HN - "The Old Ways" and "Landmarks". Both very different to what I usually read but very enjoyable.

I'm now reading Nan Shepherd's The Living Mountain - which is every bit as good as Macfarlane suggests. Also planning on reading The Peregrine by J.A. Baker.

A review of the The Living Mountain: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/sep/20/living-mountai...
I think threaded conversations become more important as an organisation's channels become increasingly noisy. Threaded conversations can partly alleviate that.

They probably want to prevent organisations from disabling a feature that may assist with their scaling on slack.
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs... seems to indicate otherwise
People want cheap flights. Some people want more comfortable flights and are willing to pay.

I fly about 3 times a year domestically in the United States and Delta, American, and United all have a "Comfort or Economy Plus" section with extra legroom. It costs between $50-200 per flight extra but also includes boarding right after first class before everyone else.

For me it is totally worth it. I don't need first class treatment but at my height the extra legroom is absolutely worth the price.
An uncomfortable truth about our society is that if you get rich by faking it, then you really have made it.
I bet that is good. I occasionally use duck or goose fat and they come out fantastic that way too. But that's quite conventional at this point!
I'd love to see a modafinil, caffeine, and nicotine group added to this study to see if there's any difference. 50% reduction in quality is a lot!
Not GP, but I suspect the "huge" part of "huge hinterland" is the main aspect being questioned.
I think you are still being sold even if you pay. Nothing really stops that. Even if they give away or even pay the bigger providers they are ultimately selling a white list. Since if they just accepted whoever gave them money with zero policing of abuse, even a warning and take down system for spam then nobody would accept their whitelist as it eventually becomes a blacklist of "the one spammers use" and their business model essentially becomes a scam.
This happened to a coworker of mine once. The feature was turned on by our IT department after he set up his work email on the device so he didn't really know about it.

He came to work one day pretty upset about Apple's "Delete your iPad when your kid plays with it" feature.
my guess on why samsung did it: the leaker (as in, the person that gave ifixit the device) had an NDA with samsung and samsung is just enforcing it -- they are asking for them to take the teardown down instead of suing for breach.

(of course, that's all a guess, i'm not even close to be a lawyer).
This would have to be coupled with a reduction in carry on luggage size. Overhead compartments are already frequently full with the current number of passengers in economy cabins.
Probably not, technically, but it's sort of in that (Gandalf The) Grey area where nobody really gives a shit so you'll get away with it. This is just a random project on GitHub, it's not like a major corporation is putting this out. If they did, they could just remove the copyright images and possibly rename it if they felt it was really necessary.
All the "censorship" amounts to at the moment is ISPs redirecting DNS queries. This is trivial to work around.
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They also don't give the option of disabling vowels.
The S&P 500 by itself is valued at almost $24T (https://ycharts.com/indicators/sandp_500_market_cap).

A couple large companies going public and raising several billion dollars will not make the market crash. All of them listing at once is a symptom of where we are in the economic cycle, and where these companies are in their individual growth curves.
I've had a profoundly awful experience with Azure in particular. Most of Microsoft's offerings are pretty good (I quite like Office 365 in both a browser and on an iPad) but Azure is hot garbage. Their APIs are inconsistent (the Ruby ADAL connector has been broken for a year, and it's an easy monkey-patch fix so that's doubly awful), Azure AD insists on being king-shit-of-all-it-surveys and does not want to federate with a (better) directory option (what Okta does to get even halfway-decent integration is kinda heroic, and also terrible), and even once you get past all that the technical offerings are, in my experience, significantly less reliable and comprehensive than AWS or GCP, to the point where I would regularly see stuff like "the audit log doesn't show the restart you requested on that server". And all this (because, again, the APIs are bad) has you swimming through the tar pit that is their web console. It's tremendously bad in ways I didn't think web applications could be. The horizontal-scrolling blade nonsense is unintuitive and doesn't correctly handle browser history (so on refreshes you get lost, sometimes, but not all the time) and it looks ugly and action buttons are in stupid places.

Then, when you have to ask for help, you get thrown into a tilt-a-whirl of awful, near-nonsensical customer support and it takes an act of Congress and God to get escalated to somebody who 1) speaks English clearly and with enough care as to be understood, and 2) understands the problem at hand. (And, not or.)

Granted, I'm probably not their target market. I don't want a more expensive datacenter in The Cloud(tm) so I'm not grateful for incremental improvements over racking servers. But it's a really unpleasant experience compared to either Amazon or Google and I'm mystified as to how it can be so cumulatively bad.
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> On the other hand authoritarian governments are able to move swiftly and decisively on issues and infrastructure. For example, government simply can deny cars with odd numbered license plates to drive on Mondays to reduce traffic and pollution.

How is that only available to authoritarian governments? Athens (GR) has had an even/odd number plates policy since the 1980s...

It's obviously true that the decision making process is easier in authoritarian regimes, but that's no excuse for the west simply not developing fast enough anymore. No big infrastructure projects (no matter how long decisions would take, nobody even tries), no real visions for Europe's future (Trump has one for the USA, as simple as it may seem, at least it exists). Laissez-faire attitude on unqualified and illegal mass migration (i.e. "come and take our stuff!"). We're so stuck that we won't even notice if one day China decides to wipe us off the face of the earth in order to replace us with a functioning society.
I agree that they completely ignore Amazon which has a similar curve to Microsoft, except higher in ranking.
Believing your own lies?
There is no "state of the art" of predicting the future, sadly.
Passcodes are protected though, aren't they?
No. The bull run could sustain for another 10 years or end tomorrow. I bet people predicting the downturn are also still heavily invested in stocks.
In the past year or so, pulling non-spam out of my gmail spam folder has become routine. Previously it was very rare that legitimate mail ended up in my spam folder, including personal mail from my father from an email address he's been using for decades. A biz that call's gmail's problem gmail's problem is not a terrible smell.
not only that but... people trust chinese phones with a chinese OS? i mean, if they steal R&D, what are the chances they are also stealing your data?
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* Announced: FOSDEM 2019, dated: 2 February 2019

* Prototype: Q3, 2019

* Expected Released: late Q4, 2019, pending on software availability
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I've never looked at Data Science in R, but Hadley Wickam's R for Data Science is great in my opinion. Really applicable, down to earth, and focuses much more on the meat of data science (data manipulation and munging, visualization, relational data, and efficient programing) more than the typical "fit a neural network to this idealized toy data set!"

Its also available for free online at https://r4ds.had.co.nz/
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Maybe if the transaction rate can be increased by a few orders of magnitude.

The biggest problem is that decentralized systems tend over time toward recentralization. That pressure will not go away, and it can only be fought against if there is no friction in the decentralized system.
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Slack is a junk product.
Are you saying that we can only expect lawyers to follow the law? I have no legal training, yet I manage to avoid breaking the law every day. Why are developers special here?
Oh, I'm not shy. Far from it. I just am politically savvy enough to know that saying anything outside of what is expected just opens you up to attack. It's an impossible game to win.
As distasteful as it may sound, it is. Maybe you can accuse of not having morals but if a company's doing something so evil that I may object to it, the odds are that what they're doing is illegal in the first place so all I'd have to do is whistleblow confidentially and the problem sorts itself out. On the other hand if they're doing something very evil but legal, then the problem lies with the lack of regulation of it, as it's virtually guaranteed that some other company is also doing that so quitting a job over it would be ineffective, in that scenario I object by voting towards whichever party proposes the regulation I deem necessary.