skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, just for being simultaneously (a) the means of innovation and (b) the goal of innovation.
Quality in this case could be website design, the overall quality of games, or discoverability of good games.

Price in this case would be margin. If Steam takes 10%, Epic could take 5%. Games makers could pass the savings on, or increase their own margins.

Yes good customer service requires customers. What's your point? Your first customer experiences good customer service, mentions it to their friends, who then shop with you, who then mention it to their friends. It's called word of mouth. It's a powerful marketing tool.
He didn't run to the UK. He waited in Sweden for 5 weeks to be questioned and left after he was told that he was not wanted for questioning.
I think that's a good question.

They could delete it... and then repopulate that data the next minute pretty easily.
Having to handle library versions and long library dependencies isn't a result of a programmable language, it's the result of having better tools for sharing and integrating code without having to reinvent and maintain independently everything for every tool, and that's generally a good thing (even if it has extra steps to solve over having everything imaginable already in the base language).

And incompatible implementations are not really exclusive to metaprogramming either. Pytorch, Tensorflow, Numpy and the Python standard libraries are not compatible by default, each has to deliberately create (or not) tools to convert from one type to the other (or build entirely on top of the other).

You can argue about the Lisp Curse, in which having a lower entry barrier to make your own tool makes it easier for each create it's own "perfect" one (which is flawed/lacking to everyone else), while languages in which the sunk cost is higher would make people gravitate towards something already created and improve it with their own use case. That's definitely true, but since that's something cultural then it can probably be handled in some way (for example deciding global common interfaces for interoperability, blessed packages for each domain and the most popular extensions of the language being promoted as official language feature after enough deliberation).
Came to write this. Companies forget that their product isn't evaluated in a vacuum, that for any serious business need, a person or an group is going to evaluate multiple products for a extended period of time. Having no trial period or a very short one means losing out of business simply because of short term greed. Also, it doesn't help that psych pop is used to arbitrarily justify any conversion tactic.
> real families

That's... still discriminating against people who don't fit a chosen definition of "family"
The tradeoff here is between right to repair, and users having secure, trustworthy devices that will not spy on them. Put yourself in the shoes of an abused family member who lives with a hardware tinkerer who can pwn your device, unbeknownst to you, enabling further abuse (not talking about physical abuse necessarily here).

Just to take one slice of the population as an example, Apple has many gay and trans employees and no doubt users as well, so they are keenly aware of the problems these people can face whether while growing up, or afterwards.

As another example, take a look at the /r/atheism subreddit FAQ about coming out to your family, and read some of the horror stories there. People get disowned, kicked out of their parents homes, physically threatened, and even physically harmed in some cases, just for thinking for themselves.

As another example, in some cultures, honor killings are also a thing.

Users deserve to have their personal devices be secure, even from hostile family or household members.

On the other side is right to repair. I would love to see both sides be satisfied, but I do think the right to repair folks have been too militant in ignoring and dismissing the legitimate concerns Apple has about preserving user privacy.

Then there is the bogus line of argument that Apple is only against right to repair because they are heartless, greedy, profit fiends. But there are plenty of profit opportunities they have forgone, such as gathering personal data to exploit for ad networks, which argue otherwise. So I don't buy it.
OK. Don't take this the wrong way but let me repeat the statement + question:

Put another way, Ford understood that to get what he wanted he'd have to consider the fate and faith of his employees. Do you think that's how Bezos thinks?

I think what you're saying is - correct me if I'm wrong - Bezos does __not__ factor in his employees in the way Ford did.

p.s. The fact that we even have the term "human resources" tells us a lot, eh.
Initially I thought this is just a fluff piece with some idealistic goals.

Turns out it has actual, detailed examples of how a leader can cultivate culture. This is super valuable because a lot times it's not intuitive how a leader's action leads to people behaving certain ways.
That's the premise of the movie "Galaxy Quest" [1]. It's a great film.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177789/
He didn't run to the UK. He waited in Sweden for 5 weeks to be questioned and left after he was not wanted for questioning.
I'll be happy when they let me use their products like Google assistant without collecting all this info in the first place. Even a degraded experience would be fine. Why does assistant need to know where I was last week or what I searched for to answer simplistic questions?
I wasn't trying to excuse anything! I was pointing out that the problem is much broader than China.

But you're right that I only read the headline, and the article does make it sound worse than the headline did :).
you write "unfairly", but you probably mean "incorrectly"

there is nothing unfair about people assuming or suspecting things, we do not regulate each other's thought processes.
Do you have a source? Where is your proof that he did not attempt to gain unauthorized access to a federal computer? Genuinely asking because that is the exact crime he is being charged with.
Pity the geniuses at Google couldn't/wouldn't design their heavily replied upon APIs to keep functioning if their BILLING is broken.
How does that matter? The article clearly states that Microsoft was still hanging on Window and PC software for majority of its revenue and made terrible bets (like Nokia acquisition) under Ballmer. Satya worked hard to change the direction of the company. He pushed to cut budgets from other departments and invested in Azure. Another important thing is that he resisted the urge to make shiny bets (like self driving cars) and kept the company focused on its cloud strategy.
Yes, if you choose to delete it, it will be deleted. (It takes nontrivial amounts of time to delete it across distributed service architecture but the deletions do get propagated.)
> is that he's currently being held for not being able to justify bail jumping

What justifications do you think there are in English law for failure to surrender to bail?
When I talk to others about this their justification is that it helps them be aware of local and world news. But ironically we seem to have more TVs at a time where we have more agency to check the news whenever, wherever anyway.

You’re right in that it’s pretty much is visual/auditory littering at this point.
All of the top fastest growing cities in the world are in India
> Actually I asked you for that info to support your idea that others freeload on US bought R&D. Now you are asking for the data that would show your supposition is incorrect, instead of having some to indicate that it may be valid.

It was an attempt to employ the Socratic Method. A rhetorical question. The US spends more on medical R&D than most other countries.

> But a true assessment of the situation wouldnt just look at cash spent anyway. Humans are complex, cash doesn't fully account for their motivation and achievements. Many people do great work for lesser remuneration.

This is true, but then what you're really getting at is whether markets or governments generally spend money more efficiently. I would not have expected that to be a comparison you'd want to invite.

> In principal sure; like the profits from crack cocaine

"Sometimes people want dumb stuff" is not much of an indictment of a system that causes people to get what they want. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

> cutting down ancient forests

This happens when the value of the forest as a forest can't be captured by the market. This is basically always caused by poor regulation, e.g. if the forest is a carbon sink then cutting it should be priced appropriately to account for the carbon you're releasing. Markets require externalities to be priced appropriately.

And half the time the stupid consequence is directly caused by bad regulation, e.g. the government owns land and sells only the logging rights, so there is no option for the market to use the forest as a forest, the only choice is use it for logging or nothing.

> making nuclear arsenals

Compare the costs of maintaining a nuclear arsenal with the costs of the world wars that ended and haven't happened again since they were developed. Which one is more efficient?
No democrat with standing in the party is for open borders.

Julian Castro isn’t even an elected official.
> All that besides, the US did not request his extradition until Trump became President. So he could have gone to Sweden, done his interview in the case, probably been let off with a fine, and then go on his merry way.

Assange had no way of knowing that. The Trump admin's extradition request was sealed (we only knew of its existence in advance because it accidentally leaked in another case's court filings).

That said, fleeing to the UK is a bit of a "out of the frying pan, into the fire" situation.
This is one of the best HN articles I've red in a long time - a fascinating look at a very well-developed infrastructure system in one of the most technologically advanced cities of its day.
They cannot repopulate the data from the model but the models can be analyzed to identify people.
Maybe at the level of viruses/bacteria, but even something like Dutch elm disease (fungus) or something macro like an insect that finds itself accidentally over-adapted compared to native species could be devastating.
> Drug company offered 'bribes' to doctors to boost sales

Oh wow, such news.

In other shocking developments: water falls from the sky when it rains, and cigarettes are addictive.
Exactly, like the guides do not leak anyway.
The First Plane in History to Fly Without Wing Flaps
> Pretty powerful speaker.

Ironic.
https://wongmjane.com/ lists Wong's writeups of apps features, uncovered by reverse engineering.
hey if you've managed to get companies to give you money with no contract and no requirement for a deliverable, then good on you :)

But that's not what kickstarter is and not what their T&C's say.

to quote https://www.kickstarter.com/terms-of-use

"When a project is successfully funded, the creator must complete the project and fulfill each reward. Once a creator has done so, they’ve satisfied their obligation to their backers. "

You're clearly paying money to the creator in return for the stated reward, you're not investing in the hope that they might create (unless that is what was stated in the Kickstarter)
> There are still some constraints on our ambitions. In our first phase, we will be focused primarily on remote engineers in North America, starting with the US and Canada. While we are confident that great work is possible within close time zones, we don’t yet have structures to give remotes a reliably good experience working across large time zone differences.

I get the time zone thing. So why not South America?
I too am sick and tired of this zeitgeist and I hope it passes soon, because otherwise I think people will just tune out until every only community is nothing but a hateful cesspool.

Musk and Tesla attract more than the average share of hate, but this sentiment feeds on itself and grows like cancer. Yesterday's thread on Eric Schmidt leaving Google was dozens of people competing to see who could trash him better.

Apart from the bad effects of negativity itself, it is also supremely boring. HN's comments are slowly going from being able to find tons of interesting ideas/reactions/perspectives to finding only different ways of trashing the same person/company/idea.
The remark I was responding to was "can you live in the same property for 30 years". Changing homes is not living in the same property, so I believe I chose the correct metric. Home ownership does not guarantee that you will be in the same place for 30 years.

All of this isn't even to consider the fact that most homeowners don't literally "own" their home in that timespan, as 30-year mortgages are very common. A lot of people buy homes because mortgage payments are oftentimes cheaper than rent payments (there are exceptions, obviously.)
"I'd like to buy your minivan for $5k" and then taking an entirely different car instead is not a consensual transaction.
ML Model Ensembling with Fast Iterations
For that matter, if more altruistic people had access to these tools, couldn't you argue that security bugs would be found quicker as well? As of right now, it's possible that there are a million security bugs that black-hat hackers are sitting on that the average person doesn't have the tools to know about.

Isn't security-through-obscurity considered the worst kind of security?
Build a Pizza Detector and Recreate Dominos Points for Pies App on iOS
In general models trained on individual users' data get rebuilt when the underlying data changes so as to properly reflect the current state of the source data.
Eigen is still the best-in-class C++ library for linear algebra as far as I know. It's been around for a while, is still actively developed, and I don't think there's a risk of it becoming obsolete anytime soon.

That being said, the learning curve for someone not familiar with C++ to write code using Eigen is much higher than writing the same code in Fortran. If you're not already a C++ programmer, you just want to do some math, and Numpy/Matlab are too slow or constrained, then Fortran is a solid choice.
He waited in Sweden for 5 weeks to be questioned and left after he was told that he was not wanted for questioning.

After he left InterPol issued an alert which made him fear that it was about more than the Swedish charges and that he would be extradited to the US.

Of course, he was not in custody in the UK and they had nothing to charge him with at first. Eventually he sough asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy because, of course, the would do to him exactly what they are doing now.
Here is a video and a little more info:
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-manchester-48123041/u...
Air guitar became a serious sport
Nobody went in the direction of seamless internet payments before PayPal, despite banking existing for centuries.

Nobody went in the direction of landing boosters, despite rocketry existing for decades.

'Nobody is doing it', is more often than not, an argument for 'it' instead of against.
Subodh Iyengar about Facebook's IETF QUIC Deployment at EPIQ 2018
I thought they were going to announce some new features copied from GitLab :o
It annoys me when onboarding basically means having to delete the demo data that was automatically added because I like my apps clean and tidy, and because random data makes it difficult to discover the app's functionality my myself. Maybe there's a compromise where you can suggest to the user that they can import demo data to see the potential of the app?
I wonder what's the new engine. They were using PopCap Games Framework.
This is 'The Poor Widow': http://kaalvtn.blogspot.com/2013/01/a-poor-widow-bogey.html (entire site is interesting)
That is true, but also a non sequitur.
‘The Adjunct Underclass’ Review: Teachable Moments
Get more hydro then as it's faster at adapting to changing loads than nuclear.
except he might thence be extradited to the US after facing the Swedish charges
This is what the ASME was formed for - to create standards for safe pressure vessels. At the time it was founded, there was just over one steam boiler explosion a week in the US...
Down and Out in the Gig Economy
Fair point. I stand corrected! :)
Yes from many perspectives it is semantics, but not all. "Thinking of God", depending on the definition, might involve a large amount of mental activity, which seems contrary to clearing one's mind of thoughts and being present and aware of one's surroundings. I'm curious whether this is maybe a form of "higher level" meditation that I've just never heard of.

I wrote a bit more meat under the other reply if you're interested.
...then get the trial declared a mistrial, and possibly get held in contempt by the judge for violating their duty as a juror.
So they originally stole these seeds, or at least acquired them through some other illicit means, and are now trying to hide behind local laws which allow them to save seeds from one harvest to the next. PepsiCo probably isn't the bad guy here.
I don't understand this. Were you afraid your stove was a weapon in disguise?
Cocktail Culture and the Raw Water Movement
Sorry, but this is a nonsense. I grew up in a country where people made it a national sport of justifying one side's crimes by arguing that the other sides (Croats/Serbs/Bosniaks/etc) committed the crimes too. That's just stupid. So what if he's concentrated on one side, does it make it a less of a crime? Should he have not publish it, unless he had an equal amount of dirt on Russians on hands in the same time (Syria and Ukraine haven't even happen yet in the moment of these US leaks)? And finally, if it's wrong to concentrate only on one side's wrongdoing, does it mean that all other reporters - who report ONLY on Russians for years now - are guilty the same way?
What they didn't explain was that this crazy APR1400 is the same design is the one of most dangerous and experimental US reactors, South Texas and Palo Verde, with vessels of double size and half the security measures. The only ones matching them in size and dangerousness were the experimental Korean 1400 ones.
Yeah, it's hard to see what Nadella's leadership has actually added to MS from where I've standing. As best as I can tell, there hasn't been any major new products or shifts since Ballmer left. People talk about MS "stagnating" under Ballmer, and that's true of the stock price, but revenue and profit more than doubled under Ballmer and he introduced multiple new billion-dollar products/services. Nadella has made some notable acquisitions (LinkedIn, Github, Minecraft), but I'm not real sure that these are really winners from a business perspective, aside from Minecraft.

Sure, Ballmer had failures too - Windows Phone and Zune didn't take off. But you can't win every time.

EDIT: Sorry, was lazy and abbreviated Windows Phone to WP.
Zola reveals Chelsea were close to Barella signing
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Ideas are dime-a-dozen. It's execution that matters.
Some of those things still sound like ads. I’m not convinced that a company, for example one that sells shoes, would not profit from running ads everywhere
But then they won’t be claiming “this is my daughter/son”...

They’re trying to filter against bogus claims.
Literally no one on this earth has a Falcon Heavy except Elon Musk. His few right times are way bigger than your standard innovator BS like food delivery.
If there was a right to repair and Apple released three generations of bad laptops someone else could probably fix their mistake while they were still in the denial phase.
Silent protest is hardly the same thing as not speaking in order "to learn how to listen to opponents."
I like what he has done for electric cars and without him we wouldn't have the shift towards them that is happening today. He made them cool and they are an important step forward which I respect.

What he has been saying about autonomy defies what anyone who works in the area knows about the state of the technology and is genuinely dangerous. People have died because he oversold autopilot.

https://gizmodo.com/tesla-autopilot-malfunction-caused-crash...

I wish he would just focus on building and selling great electric cars instead of pushing truth in areas where people's live are at stake.
I have been a full-time Linux user since in got a bunch of Mandrake CDs in 2002 I believe (and a part-time user before that), an iOS user since the start, and a macOS user since last year, and I cannot honestly say that I prefer one over the other in toto, really.

I've been using Gentoo Linux as my desktop/work OS for more than 10 years now, and I have no more problems with it than I do with macOS.

My Gentoo/Linux complaint is that I cannot for the life of me get PDFs to print correctly. While my one main complaint with macOS is that macports and homebrew are pretty crappy compared to portage, in my purely subjective experience of course.

Otherwise, I really like using both, each for different things. They each definitely do different things better than the other, but I don't actually know how much of that has to do directly with the operating systems.

Anyway, they are both unix-y enough for me that it's fine for what I want.

It's always interesting to me to read about people having such bad experiences with mac or linux or anything else really, since that has never been my own experience. Even with Windows, which I really dislike, I've almost never had any bad technical experience with it. (Bad user experiences, sure.)

I don't know if I am just lucky or just have lower standards?
The way I read GP's comment, is that security researchers have been able to find security vulnerabilities even without access to information.
It's hard to use jury nullification to convict; it's usually used only to acquit. First, the judge won't usually allow charges that are outside the bounds of the law to even be presented to the jury. Second, even if the jury does convict of something outside the bounds of the law, it will almost certainly be overturned on appeal.

You don't want a jury deciding to convict people for things that the law doesn't say is illegal. You really don't. That's way too close to mob rule, and that often doesn't get applied only to the people that you think it should be applied to. You don't want a jury deciding that what you did is treason, even though the law doesn't say that it is.
The main difference in my experience is the fact GitLab CI is very flexible. In this case, it would be trivial to use a node docker container and automatically build static assets on the server instead of doing it locally and polluting the repo.
> Also, the US spends more on healthcare and social security than any other country. Why are you giving those careful white glove treatment?

The US is one of the most populous countries with any sort of widespread social welfare program. Those programs scale in cost with population size. There's no reason for military spending to also scale in the same way with population size. You aren't comparing the same things, so stop pretending you are.