skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The comment you replied to is asking “what happens to adopted children”. Strangely enough crossing the border legally doesn’t magically result in your adopted children getting new DNA. So claiming that “illegal immigrants” won’t put their children in that position is beyond stupid. The question is how does this impact legal immigrants.

This is sampling at actual border crossing. So all the actual families crossing are victimized in order to punish brown people. Because none of this is being done on the northern border, despite Canadians living illegally in the US generally taking higher paying jobs than migrant workers from Mexico and Central America
Where is Elon Musk getting the $10M of cash to buy into this offering? Isn't his wealth tied up in his companies?
The New ‘Infrastructure Deal’ Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
Just put it on my reading list based on the article. Now for getting around to actually reading it ;)
There is multiple points of evidence that Seth Rich was in contact with wikileaks before his murder and was either leaking documents or intending to leak documents.
> Does the clock speed permanently reduce as soon as you use a vector instruction? I would have thought that the clock speed goes back up once the temperature has gone down.

It's not about temperature, some instructions lower the clock speed as soon as they're processed, and for about 1 millisecond, by design. CPUs from a few years ago do it for all the cores in the socket, more modern ones only for the affected core IIRC.

1ms is a lot of time, your core just needs to be processing 1000QPS to have a permanently degraded system.
TFA doesn't show die-off, though. The graph just shows "after 1300 hours at 85C, still producing at 86% output". The slope doesn't imply a drop right after (but of course who knows).
It's currently a series of playable modules, not tech demos.
Computer Science and Engineering are more trade-focused programs that provide real value. Liberal arts are inherently fuzzy, and worthless economically without the paperwork that signifies completion.
As an investor I bought few years ago MSFT stock.
I did it as I saw two things:

1. azure

2. o365

1. because I knew what happened (and was happening) with AWS

2. because microsoft moved to subscription model

Those two things, connected with third "secret" incredient: BIGGEST user base (corporate) which WILL use those two offerings = success.

Satya is/may be great. I bought stock around 2014/2015 because of the above and nothing more.

If you have a big userbase you can monetize it really really well.
Photos are not appearing - but still an interesting device.
> I don't understand what Stripe engineers work on all day.

Software products are icebergs. For all the things you see as a user, there's way, way more going on under the hood that you never see or think about. Some of that is platform/infrastructural work, some of it is features that target things you don't know or care about.
Reminds of of the Bijlmermeer in Amsterdam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bijlmermeer

A bunch of those buildings were demolished... It also didn't help that El Al Flight 1862 crashed into 2 of those buildings
Question: Are these correlations typically transitive? That is to say, does it typically happen that in addition to everything having nonzero correlation with everything else, it additionally happens that the sign of the correlation between A and C is equal to the product of the signs of the correlations between A and B and between B and C?

Thorndike's dictum would suggest that this is so, at least in that particular domain. What about more generally?
We do get crash reports. If you have some more details in relation to this it would be great to hear from you on our forums or on the issue tracker: https://github.com/SublimeTextIssues/Core
The attention economy is engagement metrics and trying to maximize the amount of time your eyes are fixed on an ad in effort to sway you to hand over your income or vote. Facebook isn't in the business of making the site more useful to you, they are in the business of making you spend more time on the site in ways that increase your engagement with advertising. I wouldn't equate it to NY times and other world class publications, which rely on continually appeasing subscribers who are expecting informative content. With facebook, you are the resource to be exploited and sold and the advertisers are the customer to be wooed.
I value your contribution to this thread, can I ask some follow-ups?

Does Google have multiple "Deletion policies" such that deleting data from i.e. your GCP bucket follows one policy, and the "scrubbing" described in this article follows an entirely different policy? If so, do different deletion policies have different processes and different audit trails such that the end "deleted" state is subjective and controlled by the engineering and managerial oversight of the engineering/leadership team of that given product(s)?

From my (naive) opinion, it must be really, really, hard to for example, retrain every ML model that a now deleted datapoint ever touched. Its hard too to believe that, at some high level in Alphabet's org, there is no motivation to have the positive PR of feature(s) like this, but still at essence not delete the parts of the data trail that significantly drive Google's revenue. Do these datapoints significantly impact Google's revenue?
From the cloud perspective Azure has a better privacy pitch than AWS has.

Amazon is currently expanding into markets at such a rate everyone is afraid their market will be next. Microsoft currently is staying in their lane. If someone is going to be invading my privacy I'd rather it not be a direct competitor.
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The thing with privacy stance is that it is primarily based on trust. If Microsoft now goes into privacy centric company, nothing makes me trust them as much as I trust them going back into selling ads after 5 years.

It is a sensitive branding issue.
Police entering suspect sketches in AWS Rekognition may lead to wrongful arrests
Because you have been manipulated by the fake news media.

#LiberalismIsAMentalDisorder
Regulations are not the problem here. He is clearly trying to imply something about his technology that, given the reality of self driving cars, can not happen next year even if everything else went positivity for him. The fact that he is using caveats around regulation etc. doesn't get him off the hook. He knows people will report the story as some amazing breakthrough that will help pump stock and sell cars. It's dishonest.
> If you believe that mechanism is sound

I don't really believe that mechanism is sound. I mean, it likely has some sort of affect in that direction, but I don't really think that it's a strong one.
Well, we're obviously talking about perfectly spherical drivers (good point though).
If people don't pay for software maintenance, e.g. Windows 10 updates, what do you do? Ads, harvest data...

Windows (likely) always could offer better privacy for a fee. You can buy a Windows computer incl. services at a price point you can only dream of Apple hardware.

Facebook/Inst/Wapp and Google show that the majority of people go with 'Geiz ist geil' (cheap is cool), privacy be damned. Awareness doesn't necessarily lead to actions (read: payments).
Aside from Kampong Glam, Chinatown and Little India, Singapore feels largely devoid of any "sense of of history." I don't mean this as a slight(it's a fantastic place), just an observation. There's a "sameness" of it all that can feel almost unsettling at times. Hong Kong is similar in this respect - a place that looms large in history and yet any semblance of the past has largely been erased from the cityscape.
I've run vue apps just as local files. you'll run into cors issues with certain resources, but other than that it works pretty well.
Does anyone know if Saudi Arabia has explored solar power. Seems like they have a lot of unused land that gets a lot of sunlight...
Doesn't Google keep track of web history through IP/browser fingerprinting even if you don't use an account? And when asked about it they give vague answers about what information is being kept and for how long. That's why I switched to using DuckDuckGo for most of my searches.
I think you might be reading into it too much. It's not an angry article, and it never dismisses people who do like to code outside of work. The title is meant to support people who don't want to code in their free time. Maybe they chose those particular words poorly, but it doesn't take away from the overall premise.

The author even says, after listing activities one might do outside work, "But is it really necessary? That is for you to decide." It's about not needing to feel obligated to be into all that, not disallowing it.
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Looks like a good article with a somewhat misleading headline. This is more about the various sources of algorithmic bias and how to fix them; it only briefly talks about myths.
By the way, I deleted my entire history two weeks ago, and since then I didn't notice any downsides yet, such as a deterioration of my "search experience".
I say strange bedfellows for a reason. The Iranian Revolution had two components: people wanting a more democratic country, and people wanting a more theocratic country. The result was a weird hybrid, and arguably the latter group got the better deal.
Scott Adams just interviewed Michael Shellenberger on his podcast. Michael explains nuclear power and how it compares to the competition.

https://blog.dilbert.com/2019/04/30/episode-512-scott-adams-...
To be fair, companies do say things which they don't do or takes years to do it in the way that was advertised. Asking for a third-party auditor isn't unexpected or unwelcome in most cases.

I had a similar concern where I was unsure if Google deleted my data and then anonymized it for helping their models anyways. In my opinion, that would be materially different than deleting all of it.
The base model listed on the website is indeed $39, but when you go to a store or call Tesla you suposedly can downgrade it to the base model that does cost $35k - the model on the website includes autopilot and a larger range than the $35k model.
Does the logo look similar to the female reproductive system to anyone?
The key thing is electricity. Spend 48 hours on your own without it (and without any preparation).

The first 24 will have you eeking out the last bit of battery from gadgets. You can also turn in early for the night, listening to a battery powered radio.

Then in the second 24 hours, with no electricity, see what happens. You might use the daylight hours to tidy up or fix a few broken things. You might read those books that have been collecting dust. You might actually write something with pen and paper. Food is cold, beverages are cold. There is no power shower. Daylight hours matter, you have to get whatever it is you are doing done before it is dark.

48 hours is about enough. You can remind yourself in that time how 24/7 media distractions don't really help. When you get back online none of those missed emails and notifications really mattered. It feels like a mini-holiday has been had. Warm food tastes great again, as does tea/coffee.

Turning off a phone for a few hours only gets you part way into the digital detox experience, flicking the big electricity switch and keeping it off for more than a day is much more enlightening.
> Scrubbing this data from your Google account...

What about those of us without Google accounts? I use pretty aggressive tracker blocking, but wouldn't be surprised if a PREF cookie, ETag, browser fingerprint, or some other tracking mechanism snuck through at some point. My parents don't use any Google services other than search (not logged in), but Google likely has most of their web browsing histories going back years, thanks to ads and analytics.

If I delete my Google cookies, will Google delete my history and not try to re-identify me? It seems like "privacy theater" otherwise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Hersh#Seth_Rich
Tiny Wings still exists, and even came to Apple TV a couple of years ago, with some updates for newer iOS versions.
Five Lessons from Clippy's Failure
The video DSL looks like quite a nice idea. I could see myself using it to keep videos in git: add all the raw source clips once as immutable blobs, then do all of the editing with text. (The same could be done with shell scripts and ffmpeg, but urgh).

I wonder how it fits with the ideas of FRAN (functional reactive animation)?
I doubt it will take away the pole position for anyone searching for Gitlab though. Right now for me, it is Gitlab main website, Twitter, Gitlab.com/Gitlab-com, Wiki etc.

Let's see where this link ends up after a month.
I remember a time where people were saying that Facebook would never manage to make money or monetize.
when was that? 2016? :D
> art galleries, theaters, cute mom & pop retail, auto service & repair, manufacturing jobs

> LVT says the state should not only stop protecting these things, it should do a 180 and actively kill the uses by levying taxes they can't afford.

Do all of those things have to be at ground level? Remember space is not taxed (the marginal tax on building up more space vertically is 0), only land. If a theater is on the 5th floor of a larger building, does it stop being a theater?
There's literally snow on the ground for the majority of the year in Edmonton. There's snow on the ground right now.
Well, as the decades roll by more and more innovation will be constrained by regulation (not just housing, but also transportation, medical, etc). Instead of tech startups, I think we may need political startups the aim of which is to change public policy, regulations and educate voters.
I'm not sure what you mean. The blog post discusses solutions to all the problems I listed. They wouldn't have been problems using pread, which has a straight forward implementation.
I guess this is an awful way to do it, but I heard stories about people that got away with a script that did and find and replace on build files to set some crazy paths.
If extraordinary ability is a function of a percentile of the population, then a smaller population will have fewer geniuses and prodigies in art, literature, science, and politics. A smaller population leaves us poorer and less capable. There's no reason our current (or a larger) population isn't sustainable by changing how we generate energy or dispose of waste.
Why can't a CEO do weed?
I won't blame someone for preferences and enthusiasm. :)

IMHO, at some point in a student's programming education, I'd definitely want them to be aware of program size and GC. But I couldn't say exactly when they need to start seeing it, and when it's OK if they don't see it. Of course, the professors are the ones with all the teaching experience, and one can always ask them on `racket-users`.
I assume SFBA == San Francisco Bay Area

I work at Stripe and I'm not sure the answer to the question, largely because it hasn't come up that I know of; most folks enjoy working in our SF office (even many who usually decry open seating plans).

I often work from home (or will WFH until ~11am, and commute in after traffic). I also know some SFBA Stripes who work from home more often than in the office. To an ancestor's point, I am not remote and often do code in my PJ's.

I think there may be at least one Tahoe/Truckee-based remote, but I may be misremembering...
Living outside US jurisdiction, I strongly believe, my data will end up in the hands of the interested party, specially when/if I am targeted, no matter what setting I choose. I rather get some services running smoothly in my devices when I have these settings (i.e. historical data) enabled. So, I prefer keeping these enabled.
> why not also assume they are on the internet?

Not many people assume they're "here" to begin with, but yes, if anyone is here it makes sense to scour the internet. Evaluating the data might be more difficult for them than we think though. Physically connecting to the net may be the easiest problem to overcome. Depending on how they perceive time, and how fast their cognition and data mining is, distilling meaningful information could be a long and arduous process.

How perplexing of an experience it is would depend on their own history and value systems. If they think we're nice, we're in trouble.
IE was available for Mac OS and desktop Linux wasn't really a "thing" in those days so I'm not sure who they were giving the finger to. BeOS users?
> But one thing people often forget is that AWS is cheaper than everyone else.

GCP is, AFAIK, usually cheaper; but AWS is more established, and the “no one ever got fired for being buying...” player of public cloud (which has to chafe MSFT, since they pretty much displaced IBM in that role for on-prem.)
How about riding in a car? Statistically much more risky.
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FWIW, I make money hacking on Arduino :-)
> ...and HN lately, have become extraordinarily negative places full of comments trashing people...

Considering that one of the tenets of good engineering cultures is blame-free environments, this negativity around ambitious engineering goals astounds me.
> The main argument it makes that actually affects its readers is that the social media giants are cracking down on what they consider antisocial behavior. It doesn't seem possible to me to make you "less free" by banning you from doing something that was impossible before the Internet. Alex Jones may not be able to post to YouTube any more, but he's no less free than he was in 2005.

Leaving aside how I feel about this, I just want to thank you for this, to me, new idea.
Yeah, Apple had the foresight to see the next big thing in tech was going to be privacy. But I think it’s reflective of a larger societal problem: we don’t know who to trust anymore. It seems like every company is trying to scam its users, so Apple is betting that there is a valuable segment of the market willing to pay a premium to do business with a brand that has no ulterior motives past selling you a device at a high markup, and maybe some value-add services.

To be fair, this has always been a problem — I think the recent failings of the historical trust model are due to better information rather than any increase in exploitative behavior. But prior to the smartphone era, trust was a fuzzy, emotional problem where a customer’s trust in a brand could be influenced by marketing alone. Today it is an explicit, quantifiable problem where users are willing to vote with their feet.

What companies are we bestowing authority upon? Do those companies’ business models truly have our best interests at heart? What guarantees do users have that their trust won’t be violated? I firmly believe that whoever can solve these questions to the market’s satisfaction will own the future.
I agree but according to the article the overall population will continue to grow until 2070.
It looks like a V with bullhorns to me, which is weird -- what does the V symbolise in this project?
Linux seems to be doing just fine keeping software maintained without ads or harvesting data.

This mindset is toxic and needs to die.
> - They can't make the $35k car they promised without losing money

Reminds me a tiny tiny bit about rpis. They were said to be a little smaller and a little cheaper. But truth is, you have a lot more chance getting a rpi+options at 50$ than a 10$ rpi w.

That said, the momentum is so huge, it doesn't matter anymore.. maybe this will apply too ?
It's been my experience that anything that can be conceived of does or will actually happen but I'd be surprised if this were a common occurrence.

On the other hand, we are talking about desperate people frequently traveling under the guidance of notoriously callous border traffickers so what do I know...
I think your reasoning is a perfect example of Confirmation bias, I do agree with your points but there is no way to analyze this objectively - market is a complex system with game theory and all kinds of players doing unpredictable things, disasters such as password leaks, etc. If results were the opposite, one can come up with various other reasons to explain their losses.
If you think Tesla's factory is amazing, you need to check out Toyota's factories. It's like the difference between a Fisher Price playset and Disneyland.

Tesla talks big about automating...but Toyota actually did it, without fanfare, and managed to do so in a manner consistent with the kanban manufacturing philosophy that has defined their productivity and quality achievements of the past several decades
You responded to his first point about people electing to not work at all if the wage is too low. That's the contradiction to your point.

If everyone getting minimum wage had their wage increased it would decrease the number of people who left the workforce entirely. The same effect would happen in for a case if all his competitors increased their wage too
I wouldn't be surprised if that's a side effect of Google's plan to "replace" Play Music with YouTube Music, even though they're two completely different services.
> The guy in that story had had autopilot malfunction several times on the same intersection

My point stands
The thing there is that almost everyone is already dependent on Office. Breaking that is nearly impossible.
It's 1.5B after several rounds of gutting the company, closing stores, firing people, etc. Banks were predicting 2-3B, to sustain trajectory they were on in 2018.

2019 is much different time, with Tesla scaling back.
Your comment enticed me to read much of it. A moving piece - a bit long - but insightful.
Driving through snow and rain with the computer vision syste that Tesla uses, requires training its neural networks accordingly, which still has to be done. Driving through snow and rain with a system which requires LIDAR for operations, doesn't work.
The problem is that of an infinitely long tail — no one is close.

The long tail can't be truly infinite. It is some very large quantity driven by the combination of many, many factors. Just that amount of analysis gives us some actionable insight.

It would be very easy to miss out on some of the factors, and be off by many orders of magnitude in either direction. The actionable insight, is that the analysis needs to be pinned down and made concrete. You'd better be damned right about it, or you're very likely going to be very, very wrong.

With regards to Elon Musk, the question is, how good do you think the analysis is. They got it spot on with rockets at SpaceX. They got batteries and motors in EVs right at Tesla. What about Tesla scaling production, automation, and AI? I'm less sure about that last one.
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I'm failing to see what has changed.

Point is that they still make the lion share of their revenue from milking PC OEMs and plumpy corporate clients.

The fact that they changed tools for doing so, does not change the scheme at large.

Their hosting service Azure just took over their AD and sharepoint clients with some extra being the genuine new clientele

I'd say that under Nadella, they grew even more recalcitrant, and dependent on their main revenue sources.

Ever got a visit from an MS salesperson recently? One that came to us to do AD was almost begging us to switch to AD on Azure.

I'd also say that MS became a little bit akin google in that their new product efforts fall into unending cycles of rebrandings, and half-hearted restarts. A lot of oldtimer MS devs I knew say that now they got a genuine fear of every new tech coming from MS almost customarily becoming an abandonware in 2-3 years term.
I have been using Vue.js for a while and I'm really impressed by it. During development using `npm run serve` and having it automatically rebuild whenever a file is added or changes is great and then baking it out for static storage using `npm run build` is a great follow up.