skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Suggestions that Google's position in the marketplace was already slipping due to competition.

> Yet recent developments have demonstrated that even Google isn’t invulnerable. Alphabet’s most recent quarterly results showed a significant—and surprising—slowdown in Google’s ad business.

They suggest Amazon is eating into the advert industry, and it's hurting Google in a big way, and that AWS and Azure are burning them on the cloud front.

> And Google trails both Amazon and Microsoft by a wide margin in the fast-growing market for cloud computing services.
> Doctors often advise pregnant women not to fly at certain stages of their pregnancy.

More likely related to turbulences and avoiding entering labor while on a flight and difficulty using the seat belt.
But is your concern about controversy in this community or in general? HN substantially leans left/progressive (note that I did not say it was universally so). There are any number of articles posted here that take that view such as what to do about climate change, wealth, and speech. While these stories certainly get some long threads where that minority that isn't of the HN popular mindset go back and forth with those that are, by user counts these articles are not so controversial here as they would be across the broader public (remember, these are generalities that I am speaking in).

So should the general HN group tendencies be considered in what's considered controversial vs. what is just informative? Should the community focus on discussions in areas of climate, wealth, race, sex, etc. be limited only to the implementation details of the generally accepted HN point of view?

I do get what you're talking about. While I agree in with the premise of the parent story, the article is clearly written to charge emotions moreso that present rational arguments: I hate that bullshit. Personally, I'd prefer to be a member of a ruthlessly "on-topic" professional technology community where progressives, conservatives, etc. are expected to save their politics for Facebook or Twitter and provide input on those topics for which they are best qualified. Maybe it's too much to ask, though, because I ain't found such a forum yet.

HN has a small amount of absolutely brilliant content/commentary that I've not found elsewhere, as well as a larger dose of just OK content/commentary... which keeps me coming back... which comes with a large portion of utter crap which just becomes a big shit-show, and shows that this community of STEM types which, frankly, likes to see itself as superior to the less enlightened, broader public, really isn't any better at formulating ideas than that public in areas outside their specific specialties. Oh, sure, the better education means the quality of writing and rhetorical flare is also better... but that doesn't mean that the actual ideas are less emotionally driven or more well considered: just that the rationalizations are more nuanced than they might otherwise be.

OK, stepping off the soap box. I will say, for my part, I use to get much more caught up in the political discussions here and was wrong to do so. I've stopped that bad behavior for the most part: I wasn't helping, I wasn't changing minds, I was simply eroding the professional demeanor of the community.
The Chinese government can order Huawei to do basically whatever it wants, and the former has so far shown no qualms about doing as much espionage, corporate or otherwise, as it can get away with. Infrastructure is one threat, smartphones are another.
Series of posts about design patterns that Spring Framework uses
Stephen Porges: ‘Survivors are blamed because they don’t fight’
Up until you run out of bullets.
I'm sure the same could be done with anything entropic enough to identify me, like my writing style (lexicon, commas, typos).

For a long time now I've assumed that everything I post online will eventually be cross-referenced back to me, if somebody cared enough.
> Huawei is closely associated with the Chinese government.

... and Google, Cisco, ... are closely associated with the American government ...

> The Chinese government threatens democracies and good people everywhere with its concentration camps.

As an European: Well, so does the United States. Turns out that being assholes to each others seems to be a human trait.
The point of a law isn't the law in its own right, it's to solve a problem. And an unenforceable law isn't actually solving anything.
Possible, but the way these big corporations work it's more likely that just nobody cared. Maybe he even wanted to improve his work within the organization and pitched his ideas but no one wanted hear them, so he left and rewrote the software from scratch for his own company.
> WM's aren't as good because once you get into a terminal window, it's not as easy as it looks to copy from terminals <-> "gui" applications.

Most terminals have a feature to copy selected text into clipboard automatically, even xterm. This doesn't have much to do with tiling WMs.

With vim , you may need to set clipboard. I personally use neovim so everything just worked out of the box.
It's nice to see the government picking winners and losers in the market.
You can also use `.map()` and `Object.fromEntries` if you really don’t want to mutate the accumulator:

function keyByUsername(person) {
return [person.username, person];
}

const peopleObj = Object.fromEntries(peopleArr.map(keyByUsername));

But you should probably be using a `Map` for this anyway:

const peopleMap = new Map(peopleArr.map(keyByUsername));
Why Google has a target on its back in Washington
Until recently, few pharmaceutical companies pre-registered antidepressant trials, which allowed them to selectively publish. This means that antidepressants may be nowhere near as effective as commonly believed, and so doctors are overweighting the benefits compared to the costs of side effects. .

“While only half of these trials had formally significant effectiveness, published reports almost ubiquitously claimed significant results. "Negative" trials were either left unpublished or were distorted to present "positive" results.”

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2412901/

If this is true, then many people who currently take antidepressants may actually be better, not worse, without them, since at least they’d avoid the side effects.

Further, the “chemical imbalance” theory that is propagated through paid advertising has no applicability to a doctor prescribing an antidepressant, since the doctor has no way of measuring and monitoring that imbalance should one exist.
He is completely unaware that most(all?) those drugs can be easily quit if done very slowly.

He just wants a silver bullet.
In all fairness, I have still to see any tangible evidence of this actually having happened. NSA-Backdoored Cisco Routers, on the other hand, are well-documented.
'Our leftover ideas? We sell them to Samsung': Black Mirror creators reveal all
I think you missed the nuance. I was saying that I find that people who use that term do not generally have considered opinions. As for putting people in boxes, I thought you were the one advocating that. Wooden ones, specifically.
If you're still developing carousels then you deserve everything you get with Safari. Have fun with that :)
> We are in midst of a very hot summer

That's the problem. No matter what you think about climate change, summers are undeniably getting hotter. This might not be a doomsday, but it's something that will become more common and eventually will affect more populated areas.
> Armed individuals, enabled by the Second Amendment, is largely the reason mass shootings are not a daily occurrence.

No, it's not.

Evidence: the parts of the world with no parallel to the Second Amendment, where mass shootings are far rarer than in the US; in the US, they are nearly a daily occurrence, depending on the precise threshold you set.

The safety, such as it was, provided by the Second Amendment was the disincentive the availability of a militia drawn from the armed populace placed on the reliance on large professional armed police and military forces, which reliance was the threat it was designed as a bulwark against. This completely fell apart a little bit into the 20th Century.
> Also, this turns out to be an actual bottleneck way more often than people notice.

I wish more devs -- particularly web front-end devs -- tried out their work on something that isn't a top-of-the line developer computer. There are plenty of devices out there that are computationally constrained and/or memory-bounded. Moreover, no one ever runs these things in isolation. So, while profiling in isolation makes a ton of sense to rule out external factors, in the real world you're competing with all the other open tabs and windows. That's a tricky problem to model, of course, but it doesn't mean we shouldn't try.
>What practical protection does it provide if the requirement for a warrant/probable cause are deemed null and void?

I'm not defending the 100 mile exception. I'm only clarifying that the extent of the infringement (as far as courts have ruled) is limited to permanent checkpoints.

In the context of the parent comments however, I don't think the 4th amendment is relevant. The demand is for your account identifiers. Unless you have it written down on a piece of paper or an unecrypted device, it's the 5th amendment protecting you. Should you give them your account identifiers, it's going to be a stretch for them to use the border search exception to compel facebook (or any other service) to give up their records on you.
This is the same organization that editorialized that the very British Stephen Hawking would've died in the British NHS, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investor%27s_Business_Daily#Er...

Take op-eds with grain of salt. Take op-eds from an editorial board with a record of complete idiocy with more than a few grains.
"I often wish there was a tool that I can just fire up, choose modal logic EMC from a menu and check whether a certain formula is a theorem."

We would not need any mathematicians then :D
There's nothing wrong with mutating an argument. The whole reason JS passes objects by reference is so that you can do it.
If incognito mode discards localstorage, there is risk of silent data loss. E.g. imagine a web-based editor that saved drafts.

Websites can detect the absence of localstorage and change their behavior, e.g. notify the user that information will be lost after the session ends.
That's not correct! If at any point in your life you make more than £25k they will add this tax on you, and your interested on the student loan is still growing, even when you're under £25k.
This isn't hard to look up. MaBell, Standard Oil. It's a pretty consistent pattern.

We've been pretty hands off on the trust busting simce the MaBell breakup, and the impetus to do anything about Google or Facebook has been rather low, since there hadn't been any glaringly obvious downsides to letting them do their thing.

However, given certain waves that Big Tech has started to make; Oracle v. Google, making ad blocking in the major dominant browser contingent upon subscription, Cambridge Analytics, perceived political bias and activism by Dr-platforming, tech has not only made it painfully obvious the danger posed by massive stores of unbridled data collection, but that having platforms all economically centralized under a small number of stakeholders is a danger to the continued stability of "the System".

It's one of those wisdom of the masses sort of things. Awareness and sentiment forming seems to have finally hit the tipping point at which enough people are onboard for something to be done about it all.

Interesting times ahead.
Trajectory Optimization for Self-Calibration and Navigation [pdf]
There's plenty of evidence of hacking and corporate espionage; that was what prompted the trade war in the first place. I don't know what public evidence there is about Huawei specifically, but I think it's naive to assume they're an exception.
I don't think the hiring process is the reason for Google's inability to gain market share in the cloud market. Google's hiring process has ensured that the quality bar has been very high. They have unique offerings like spanner, which other clouds are simply not anywhere near of. Their failure in cloud is mostly because the inability to sell primarily, and secondly maybe because of their support being not as good as other clouds. But both are specific classes of directions taken by their leadership.
Microsoft doles out PowerShell 7 preview. It works. People like it
The US has concentration camps? Do tell.
Can you further fund Purism and their phone?
We’ll see if it happens, but I think that people are going to become less and less accepting of entitled or narcissistic behavior like that as time goes on.
> "Yes, that's the point". It's a totally different model. It's not for everyone and that's fine.

"that's the point", what's the point? I don't see why anyone starting their own business that is not firmly entrenched in whatever ideology the author has would ever consider implementing this.

Not only is it damaging to the business (what venture capitalist would ever invest in a business operating under such a model?), it's also directly damaging to the founder who after 4 or so years wont even be in control of the company they've dedicated so much to found.

When a founder decides to abandon their office job what they really desire is to work at a business that is run by a committee of employees and power in that committee isn't determined by merit and skill but by TENURE. /s
https://subscription.wsj.com/wsj-com-wall-street-journal/
That's true w.r.t. power user examples, and I agree that it's infuriating, but OTOH I tend to assume the people making such comments are just parroting ideas. I'm certainly not convinced they're all FAANG employees, as suggested by the comment I was responding to.
This "solution" ignores the fallout of said actions. The British lost their highly profitable Indian colony because the citizens at home could not stomach the killings of hundreds of Indians. The average American would not be OK with seeing videos of millions of refugees being mowed down at the border.

And that's ultimately what it would take. When you're dying of dehydration or starving to death, you aren't going to care too much about people shooting into the air.
I was at NTC (south of Death Valley in the Mohave) one summer when the temp was 125-130F for a week. We were in the box the entire time. We used ice filled camel backs, sucking water all day (and rarely urinating) First sgt would bring out pallets of bagged ice that would be half melted by the time they got to us. As a side note; 125 feels cool after spending all day in, and then climbing out if a M1A1! Really odd thing was shivering at night when the temp dropped to 85-90. And urinating all day when it was only 100, but you were still drinking like it was 130.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/googles-dominance-is-no-longer-...
>The point is emergency management here. And I'd bet anything that somewhere there's a workable plan drawn up for exactly this kind of occurrence.

Aside from ACs having a limit on cooling far below “everyone packed in a building”, if you’ve ever done business in India, I don’t see how one could assume there would be a plan drawn up for this grand of a scenario, much less many smaller scale scenarios.
It has happened: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_cooperative

Co-ops being people who like to share, you should find plenty of examples online - here's one for UK co-op companies, for instance: https://www.uk.coop/developing-co-ops/model-governing-docume...
Did you know about these?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Ameri...
> the “chemical imbalance” theory that is propagated through paid advertising

I've never seen a pharmaceutical ad that used that term. The only thing I recall from the ads is them distinguishing clinical depression from feeling blue.
They have basic rules, follow might be a bit strong
Anecdata: I was talking to a cousin of mine at a family reunion. He carries a handgun (legally) and is familiar with the proper use and handling of guns.[1] He told me that he had only ever had to draw his gun twice (gun held at the side pointed down at the ground, not raised, not aimed) and that was enough to calm the situations down. I could see his relief.

I don't know how much statistics can help with decisions (like "Should I own a gun?") when so much of the "on the ground" events depend on the character of the person carrying.

[1] Not to brag, but uh, he can shoot the pips out of a playing card while riding by on horseback. He enters contests and such. ;-)
Oh I'm sure he already knows.

...and really how hard would it be to build one of these, the level of CV required is already solved off the shelf, the rest is sensors, servos, a gun to strap to it and programming.

I'd expect a none-trivial percentage of the HN could build one with the resources available.
> Of course, writing a text-based browser in Lisp or any other language is far simpler but also less practical.

Emacs has a few; the included one is called “ewww”, and is pretty nice if you’re into emacs already.
I believe the true loser in this is Google. If i am any non us, android-reliant phone manufacturer, i am planning my exit strategy. Sure it won't come today or this year, but it is vital for companies to start to distance themselves from google licensing for their own betterment.
Not long ago I lived in Morehead, Kentucky while my wife finished up nursing school. We lived in a cute 2bd house walking distance from downtown for $425/mo. Our grocery bills were $120/week and included meat/fish, fresh veggies, and wine for every meal. We did a lot of hiking and rock climbing. I learned to play the banjo.

It's not a booming economy but they have the same minimum wage jobs that they have everywhere else. If you are content with that (and I say this without judgement - many people get their life's meaning outside of work) then there are plenty of places in the US where you can have a comfortable life. Just not expensive cities.
The anatomy of Laravel’s tap() function
https://acoustid.org/
No, those are two totally different technologies. One was x-ray (and terribly dangerous to use in that way) and the current in millimeter wave (which literally cannot make a nude image. The best it can do is the cartoon outline)
You know there are a ton of correlations related to race and gender.

I thought those were no longer valid to be applied to huge swaths of people as it is discriminatory. I mean, not everyone who is part of a race or gender will have that correlation applicable to themselves.

Yes, some teenagers are dumb. Most. I was. But I've meet teenagers that are way smarter than I'll ever be.

I'm afraid many people view discrimination from a situational ethics point of view; it's only discrimination if it is the type of discrimination they don't like. Otherwise, it isn't discrimination.
People became obsessed with their home valuation. How much more money your house was worth since you bought it became one of the main methods of social boasting for decades, regardless of whether you were actually able to really profit from any of it.
Define primarily how you like, but it's a lot less that way than most people assume it is.
It’s become increasingly clear that genetics play a huge role in which psychiatric drugs are effective and which ones are not. Genetic testing for psych med effectiveness should become standard practice given how in some people, SSRIs (often the first line of defense in psych meds) can cause extended periods of psychosis.

Funny thing about psychosis — when you’re psychotic, your erratic and extreme behavior doesn’t feel abnormal. You don’t feel like anything has changed. This happened to me on Prozac — the most commonly prescribed antidepressant — and it took me 3 years to put my life back together after all the damage I did to my personal relationships during that period.

The anxiety I was dealing with was crippling, but it didn’t dismantle my life the way the side effects of that drug did. The treatment was absolutely worse than the disease. If they had done a genetic test first, they would have seen a red flag and avoided SSRIs all together.

This testing exists today, but it’s only used in patients who show strong resistance to pharmacological intervention. It should be standard.
> but eglibc contained more than glibc did

That "more" being "you can remove things." Straight from the project:

> EGLIBC's goals included reduced footprint

> A primary feature of EGLIBC is support for configurability. You can build EGLIBC without support for NIS, locales, or other things that you may not need in your embedded system.

So sure a full-fat EGLIBC was as big as GLIBC, but that was clearly not the point of making all the big stuff removable, and binary compatibility was not guaranteed as a result.

> the primary motivator was that glibc refused to support architectures that the maintainer didn't like

Given that reducing size is the first listed goal in both the opening description and the mission statements it seems like your claim is more about what you wish was true than anything else.

Furthermore the "why not contribute to GLIBC?" FAQ states "The GLIBC maintainers have stated that they wish to focus on server and workstation systems." Given servers with non-x86 architectures definitely exist (PowerPC says hello), along with GLIBC supporting an exhaustive list of architectures anyway, it seems this is really just about size after all. Unless your argument is GLIBC maintainers held a grudge against ARM specifically?
Huawei may support riscv just to piss off ARM.

ARM is a british company owned by a Japanese group. Them getting involved must sting much harder than Qualcomm.
Pitot and static tubes are irrelevant here.

Would it trouble everyone to get a basic grasp of what we’re talking about before replying? I’m getting a little tired of constantly correcting basic stuff in the replies.
We're evaluating Basecamp, Asana, Codegiant, and Nuvro.
Quite a few I should think, people do change their visa status, renew visas, swap between different types of visas depending on their work/student/marital status.
> Settling on a single implementation fixes that issue.

When Microsoft was in a monopoly position, they ignored the standards and pushed ActiveX plugins. Chrome this year wanted to push other browsers to adopt obsolete U2F specifications because they used them in Google products. If there's a single implementation, and the gatekeepers are majority from one company, standards and interoperability become irrelevant.
Slime toys always remind me of video artist NobodyTM's take on the social context of the stuff https://youtu.be/U2Odw8okDls
You're charged interest only from the day of your first repayment.

https://media.slc.co.uk/repayment/qsg/how-much-do-i-repay.ht...
The argument isn't that the quality bar is too low, but rather that they're measuring "quality" in the wrong way.

If you'll permit me a joke, if Google was only hiring the tallest 0.1% of people, that's a high bar that might not result in the best products.
Certainly countries with lower populations and fewer guns experience less shootings, but USA is not such a country and guns are ubiquitous, which is also precisely what guarantees law-abiding citizens the means to thwart assaults and attacks on them.

Conservative estimates of defense gun uses are on the order of hundreds of thousands per year, while unlawful homicides in the mere thousands, and most of these are gang-related. That's solid evidence the Second Amendment is working as intended - to guarantee the natural right to self-preservation for each individual. It has nothing to do with any organized militia now.
The one that beat Kasparov in 1997 could evaluate 200 million positions per second which is quite a lot. On the other hand beating me could probably be done with a modified pocket calculator.
Sailfish OS claims to be mature and available for "corporate customers." I haven't seen any evidence past their own website, though.