skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm 100% all for more density, but just throwing up 8 story apartments in what were single-family lots all over the outer suburbs isn't really going to help anyone.

It'll help the people who no longer have to pay $5k/month in rent.

> Then you have to factor in all the other things like electricity, water, sewage, garbage collection, police, firefighters, more public schooling, etc.

Density makes all of these things cheaper.

> Those spaces should exist and be in reach for anyone who wants that lifestyle.

Low density living is environmentally unsustainable yet heavily subsidized by the government. People living in rural and exurban areas receive far more infrastructure spending per capita while paying the same taxes as the rest of us. If you want to destroy the earth just so you can have big yard then not only should the government not subsidize you, you should be paying extra to reflect the negative externalities caused by your carbon emissions.
It really is as simple as Dash’s online behavior being “assholish”. It’s on the topic of the post, he’s just an extreme example of the behavior he’s lambasting.
Except that Slashdot isn't using engagement-driving AI algos in the sense of FB, YT, or Twitter. It's a simple capped-upvotes system.

And it's still a dumpster fire.

If you want intelligent discussion, you go elsewhere. HN is pretty good (though with numerous glaring exceptions). Any part of Reddit that's not ruthlessly moderated (and/or still highly obscure) fares poorly. I've got small groups on Mastodon and Diaspora which work fairly well.

But clue flees idiocy and mindless conflict hard. And if your system breeds either, intelligence won't loiter long.
Well said.

So, someone spouts a well researched conspiracy and others engage in a conversation and the person gets to recite their well prepared talking points. That feels good to the person, that's positive reinforcement. That's a story they can take to their online echo chamber for even more positive feedback.

They hold on to the conspiracy as something to talk about, and as something they can feel superior about.

So should we just avoid debate? That doesn't seem right.
The first site to come to mind is voat.co. I explored it out of curiosity a while after the "purging of intolerable subreddits" a couple years back. The impression I got was that of a seedy underbelly of aggregate news sites like reddit, populated by a mass of displaced misanthropes. It didn't take long to nope out of there.
I'm in total agreement with you (see my original comment)
Will there be similar consequences for Bose, as for Huawei? Like companies stopping dealing with them, Google revoking software licenses? Or if it is an American manufacturer, then it's ok to spy?
Give them Linux and ublock
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>Progress is coming back, and it will accelerate... just that it will not be the ape-brain-comprehensible kind of progress we knew before...

It also wont be the kind of progress we desire, either.

It's like we asked for jetpacks, but we get self-driving cars instead...
Do you have an iphone app? It's really helpful if you can revise the cards from your phone.
How is a purpose-built identifier uploaded without explicit consent somehow not subject to GDPR?
So how would you "fix" the issue? E.g. how would you add Vulcan on devices that do not have GPUs capable of Vulkan requirements and no proper drivers?
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Most people do open source because they learn something new, and since hooks are new to React they chose to build it with hooks.
Why are condos more dystopian than McMansions? Is your idea of utopia less housing and higher rents?
The problem is twofold, they don't have a good mental model of online interactions, and older people become more susceptible to deception as cognitive function declines.
I think Google wants to allow OEMs to build devices that only support arm64-v8a arch - this will make the OS image significantly smaller because now they need to ship several components in duplicate - 32 and 64-bit versions. This is beneficial to total size of OS on the flash.

Apple did this years ago.
And someone else will say "bollocks" to that.

After all, the premise of the grandparent comment is that today some consider 40 years before now as the "golden era".
Android's build system now generates Ninja files, which are semantically very close to non-recursive Makefiles, so it's a real-world example you can examine and measure.

Android's build files currently add up to 1.5gb of text(!!!), which even with a fast parser take some time to load (~10-20s).

It's discussed further in this thread (in which among other things I suggest that maybe something is going wrong when you have 1.5gb of text):

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/ninja-build/htlu9akobq0/di...

[disclaimer: I am the author of Ninja]
Ironically Facebook’s original design around “only a list of approved friends see any of your content” may have been more correct in the long term. Randos do not scale, particularly when like Twitter you are not particularly competent at evolving your product.
> The second thing is recent requirement to provide 64-bit version of each app. My app depends on framework written in C++ with additional libraries in C. I can't and won't spend time to get the build for 64-bit version working. Google sent me a mail that "All new apps and app updates are required to provide 64-bit versions of any 32-bit native code they provide". So I won't be able to update existing app to existing users ever again, for non-technical reasons.

So the "non-technical" reason here is that you don't want to provide a build for users with 64-bit devices?
That linked study covers speculative execution and hyperthreading? It seems to be covering 386/486 era processors
You seem to have thought about this, and you're generally insightful, but I have to disagree. The problem with twitter and fb isn't the low revenues per user-day. The problem is the behavior they've cultivated and incentivized from the beginning.

For example, had twitter not created a culture of basically brigading, they would be in a different place. But they at minimum allowed and probably incentivized that to become part of the twitter experience, and I don't think it can be recovered from.

As for facebook, if it took you until 2019 to say Alex Jones can't build his business on your platform, you haven't even started to think in any serious way about what behavior you want on fb. Well actually they have: mark wants dollars and doesn't give a shit about anything else.

You may find this interview with former Reddit pm Dan McComas fascinating: http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/04/dan-mccomas-reddit-pr...
Yes, I write for AnandTech (paid as an independent contractor; I'm not one of the salaried editors). I've done some Spectre/Meltdown regression testing for AnandTech, and I've never been instructed to not do such testing in the future.

Microcode benchmarking is not the hill Intel wants to die on.
Apple's Yearslong Rise Is Littered with Accusations of Theft and Dubious Ethics

Fixed it.
You can't. End of discussion. I've tried. My parents are not very diligent in keeping up with tech at all. In fact, I'd go as far as to say they are tech illiterate.
MacOS is free? Where can I download it? I need to setup a MacOS VM for development.
Is SpaceX’s Raptor Engine the King of Rocket Engines?
Comments and articles both definitely have a time component in the sort. For comments, time might mostly be a tie-breaker, because up-votes do have a greater weight. Articles always drop over time, upvotes only keep them around for slightly longer. I don’t know what the precise sort is, but FWIW I think Paul Graham published what it used to be, once upon a time... you can probably find the old code. I’d guess it hasn’t changed all that much except maybe for how it handles gaming / voting rings.
Usually the companies able to benefit from data science are also the ones best positioned to benefit from digitalization. They have their processes under control. I worried that all the others will just be relegated to ... wherever.
That's plausible? (technically)

I'm speaking from the UK where demand peaks are morning and evening and we don't have sun, so wind is the good match.

The problem is you're proposing a grid structure that I don't think is politically achievable. Solar is cheaper, so why not cover 100% during the day, wind is cheaper, that starts covering the night time, then suddenly your nuclear is uneconomic. And while you're spending the decades getting that power station built you're also having to explain why you aren't building out solar and wind to cover demand.
What's wrong with being anti-Soviet?
Here in the Netherlands at least standard onshore windturbines are in the 2-4MW range (but up to 8MW is installed), and offshore 7-10MW is now standard.
I keep showdead on all the time, because sometimes I see insightful, thoughtful answers that are dead for no reason intrinsic to the comment. Then I can vouch for them, and I hope they become visible to others — though the workings of that system are opaque to me.

I get annoyed reading the same smarmy-sounding "Please don't post unsubstantive comments" replies from dang all the time — but it's what makes this site work, when so many others don't.
We already have that, qualified earnings.
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Better headline would be "Can a regular person challenge a law firm and win?"

I don't think anybody would be surprised to learn that the answer is no.
Sharing, copying and indexing are things that you can't do if DRM gets in the way. If the alternative is a printed book vs. a fake digital book that you can't actually use effectively because of DRM, I'll take the printed book 100% of the time.

Related: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
Equities don't seem to be a good place for cash reserves. If you want to be able to plan future hires or purchases for your business based on how much money you have available, putting your money in an investment that can lose substantial value in a short period of time doesn't seem like a smart thing to do. A stock market crash can happen pretty quickly.

Owning a business is a risky enough investment, so you don't want to compound the risk it by investing your cash reserves in someone else's businesses.

The same is true for individuals. You don't want to put the money for your kid's next-year's college tuition into stocks. You're going to need to have that money available whether the market goes up or down this year. Stocks are a good investment vehicle for the long-term, but risky in the short-term.
I don't know how this works in the US, but I wonder if allowing/encouraging the general public (i.e. you're not an alumni, and perhaps you never went to college) to sign up and use university libraries would increase usage?

Just had a scan of Glasgow and Edinburgh University's library membership pages. The general public can access the libraries but how and what you're permitted to access can vary between institutions.
I agree with you that it does not matter who makes this argument (even though I do not entirely agree with the argument being made, but that has nothing to do with who makes such argument).

(Even if someone write a computer program or book or movie or whatever but they are murderer and whatever, if the program/book/movie is good then it is good, anyways. And if it is no good, then it is no good, anyways.)
https://aem.asm.org/content/72/2/1346
Did you see this: a random jury of your online peers https://www.minds.com/minds/blog/power-to-the-people-the-min...

I support this kind of stuff in theory but it is incredibly difficult to get to scenarios where this actually happens. You need to be massive scale for it to occur with any regularity.
Until we find the next opium to balance the trade deficit?
The Persistence of Chaos - $1M for malware infected laptop
My point would be that there are a lot of illegal business practices. You as a costumer cannot buy expired food.

> it's telling the businesses and users how they can sell that data and what they can use it for, so it's not a choice by the user on what they do with their data, and more a collective decision with the government.

That is true, and that should happen in cases where market incentives do not align with social or public interests.
If you don't mind the question, what's the niche?
>>> Advertisers, hold sites accountable if your advertising appears next to this hateful stuff.

This.

One thing that could be very effective is screenshotting genuine brand ad next to vile screed.

How long would it take for a 'bot to look like a white sheet wearing moron to YouTube, and then a little bit of sentiment analysis and you could automate this. Just publish the "daily worst brand fuck" on FB or YouTube.

(Alongside the "monitor tweet feed of politicians for death threats and pass to the cops" idea I have when I get the time I am really honestly going to ...)
> We need massive rewrites to the rules that limit the deployment of new nuclear technologies.

I am not sure rules is what holding nuclear back. Here is an interesting comment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SXxJWUv-x4&t=77m59s
From my perspective it seems like even 5 years ago data scientists were more about creating and validating ways to look at the data whereas today it is more about processing the data with the standard tools and methodologies. Data processing is as big as ever but takes a fraction of the effort to apply it.
Sortof...

Always loved computers, but unlike maybe most people here, for what I could do with them (not the beauty of their logic blah).

Did a Masters in Bioinformatics, that came with a few Oracle lectures... and then as this was in 2000 was enough to get a job.. and well I was given some problems and there was a shelf of books.
shrugs
These are some great tips! Been looking for something similar to this app to help create anki decks directly from documents, kudos.

A sidetrack but are there any good resources on using Anki for learning mathematics? Google brings up a lot of varied and conflicting info. I know nothing is a substitute for working through proofs yourself but surely flashcards can help with memorization of proofs and theorems?
Huawei is a massive org which does tons of technical work, and beyond a handful of things it's already down to ring tones, which only shows how desperate the accusers are.

You might as accuse Google of ip theft due to that Oracle/Java thing. Or Americans of it since I'm sure it's happening at some level, eg Uber from waymo lawsuit.
> What would you rather they do?

I would rather that they document why they need background location access and not try to hoodwink their users into granting them carte blanche access to the users' location data. There's a fairly established pattern in mobile apps where they show a screen informing the user of the reasons why an app needs location access before requesting it from the OS. And that isn't the case with the app in question. Nowhere in their product documentation (for both the app and the headphones) do they mention that their product needs background location access.

Also, let's not forget the context of the post here. The Bose Connect app (at least on iOS) does not demand access to the user's location. They got sued for lesser privacy violation (in my subjective opinion) and rightly so. Any app demanding background location access, especially an app for a pair of headphones is a serious concern, IMO.

The other commenter in this thread seems to be insinuating that I have a bias against Sony. But that's certainly not the case. I've spent a lot of money on Sony's mirrorless cameras and lenses and continue to do so. Sony undoubtedly makes great hardware, but on the other hand, privacy is also very important to many of us. One could argue that privacy is far more important than the fancy hardware.

Finally, coming back to the "feature" in question, "Adaptive Sound Control". The feature seems to be built around classifying whether the wearer of the headphones is standing still, or walking or running or using a mode of transport and applying the user selected profile based on the activity. Couldn't this be implemented in a much more efficient manner in hardware with an accelerometer in the headphones? I understand that this would mean a slightly reduced battery life on the headphones for people using the feature, but would be a better trade off, IMO. And yes, decisions like this are a product of a company's design philosophy.
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I’m not sure I agree with the last line that these groups prize unity at the expense of truth. My takeaway from the rest of the article is that trust (performed as social cohesion) is the underlying social value that we are actually talking about in many of these conversations. Both verifiable truth (e.g. scientific predictions that we can trust) and fictions (e.g. elaborate stories that give us a shortcut to trust, as mentioned in the article) play a part in building trust. Successful organizations understand the right mix of truth and fiction to inspire trust—the morals of bible stories are powerful because they are “true” for many people to the extent that seem to reflect many people’s day to day experience. So, rather than unity vs truth, maybe we should think of unity as a function of a variety of strategies, one of which is truth? And successful organizations as ones that find the right balance?
I think by AMD's new lineup they're referring to Ryzen 3000 series, which isn't out yet. If the rumors are true, the top models come with 12 to 16 cores, higher IPC and higher clocks than the current Zens, pushing 5GHz boost.

A current 9900K might be some 20%-30% faster than a current Zen, but it will no longer be so when with the new lineup.

Meanwhile mitigations are eating up Intel's performance advantage..
Microsoft webdev survey on form controls
"Not if we price in carbon emissions"

All those things can be carbon neutral, except waste to energy.

Obviously though yes, those places with no wind, sun or other resources. Nuclear will have a place.
The original site was - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popbitch
(scurrilous media gossip from within the machine)

Mine? - Mainly what people have eaten for lunch...

..but if I had to come up with a proper answer it's that it's connected a pretty disparate bunch of people who once had a random common interest, over what happened to them in the next decade or so.

A shared diary?
"The 25c clock" seemed like a snappier title than "A simple hack that lets an Apple II keep track of real time (while it's powered on) and do some basic multitasking" even though that would have been more accurate.
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That’s very true. Thanks for the great input! Do you think it would be better for businesses to invest in money market funds or other reputable bonds then?
The article certainly does not support that answer, nor does the amount paid out in malpractice claims every year.
In fact, law firms are probably amongst the easiest things to sue and win in most states.
We support API versions 19-26 on our Android side, and it's a pretty major pain. The permissions model is different, background services work completely different, and then there is the tendency for things to just stop being supported (looking at you, GCM). Compared with the Apple ecosystem it's incredibly jolting. I mean, I get it. Android started from the opposite end of the spectrum from Apple, and now they're sort of meeting in the middle. But it's been a much smoother ride working with iOS over the last couple of years than it has been working with Android.
But then you need to bring the conversation back around to "why ruin it with hidden data collection"

When I set up my QC35 II, I couldn't get it to pair, so I reluctantly downloaded the app. I got my headphones set up and noticed the other features, which I thought could be useful, but uninstalled the app anyway, because the amount of times I would change these settings didn't outweigh having another app on my phone that could be collecting data.

I hate that I was correct in uninstalling the software due to privacy concerns, and only reinforces my distrust of hardware and software vendors.
Microsoft's looking for feedback on form styling, which seems relevant to HN. I'm always recreating input/select widgets or trying to make date selections widgets that don't suck - hopefully this ends up with Microsoft petitioning standards to have better form controls and including them in Chromium.
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> ...(as the Milky Way and Andromeda are)

Very neat, I never knew this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda%E2%80%93Milky_Way_co...
It was added in version 4.1.0 according to this post [1], after the lawsuit was filed.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/bose/comments/690592/bose_connect_a...
There is a belief, shared by many of the folks who make arguments like this, that there is some obvious definition of "assholes" shared by every decent person, and that anyone who claims not to be able to see it is actively siding with the assholes. I'm pretty sure most of them don't actually have the same definition, but somehow they never realise this.

You can see a hint of this in the final paragraph of this blog post: "Because if your website is full of assholes, it’s your fault. And if you have the power to fix it and don’t do something about it, you’re one of them." Either you purge the people he thinks are assholes, or you're one of the assholes who needs to be purged.
Yes, - and a lot of online communities on the internet has reached that scale. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Reddit...

In case of reddit, the problem is even more interesting. There are subreddits, so it is naturally segregated, and moderators and community are local. The communities can use downvotes to 'stone' an offender, and local elected moderators can enforce a ban. In case moderator or community mishandles the process, 'federal' admins can intervene. So we are pretty much at medieval level of justice there (much better than whatever constitutional dictatorship facebook and twitter have).
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Those two things are related. The warning messages are what happens before the account gets shadow-banned. Sometimes you can walk back in a dead commenter’s history to see what caused the problem and it’s obvious. Sometimes it’s not apparent because it can happen for multiple reasons.

Personally, I’d rather have the constant out-of-bounds reminders than not. I’ve never seen one of those warning messages on a comment that didn’t deserve it, I’ll take the ‘please play nice’ requests all day if it quells ugly flame bait, and that’s exactly what it seems to do. He’s giving people both notification that it’s out of bounds and advance warning that there could be consequences. Much worse is out there and easy to find. Do you have examples that are much better, on a comparably sized forum?
To be honest I fully agree that in many senses AI will never be a catastrophic danger to humanity. I just do not see how entropy is part of that.
If apps ever had a version that worked as of iOS 5, you can still download “the last compatible version”. I’ve downloaded older streaming apps recently on a first generation iPad running iOS 5.

Any iPhone released since 2013 - with the exception of the 5C can run the latest OS.
Was? As I always said it is Statistics. If you want "data scientist" employ Statisticians.
It matters because Dash has an agenda that’s not apparent if you just read this post without further context. He’s a fairly extreme political activist who often calls for censorship of views he doesn’t agree with. This post lays the framework for centralizing control of the dialogue on a site. His behavior suggest this works in his favor as he can leverage social media to silence those he disagrees with.
This might by far be the most beautiful headline I have read in a very long time.
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You've written a lot but said very little, contributed no new information, and didn't answer my question.