skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't matter; before anyone even thinks of replicating it, it's already all over the fitness & lifestyle magazines and news columns regular people read.
At least there would be a record of Twitter banning people for acting "in bad faith", which could then be discussed.
There is a long standing misconception regarding the value of "insight" coming from traffic analytics.

There is no shortage of companies getting megabytes of data points per person, yet they don't seem to be getting terribly ahead of ones who don't.

The a/b testing cult is a prime example. I knew companies who "optimised their websites to death" blindly following the deemed "signal." I knew of a guy who ran Borland's internet marketing and a lot of stories from him how hundred thousands in ad spend were ending up bidden on common sense defying keyword combinations.
I am not sure what you're talking about, Uber has the same lawful prices as normal taxis in Prague. Uber also does not drive anybody, it's Czech guys with their own companies that use Uber, Bolt and other platforms or their own marketing to gain customers and (happily) pay a small fee (way smaller than what traditional taxi company charges) for that service. While Uber has created great competition on the market, the traditional services do anything they can to limit entry to the market and ideally limit the total number of taxi drivers to a very small number.
This is like when you walk into a super complicated legacy code base and immediately have the one magic architectural change that will simplify everything...once you rewrite it from the ground up.

The music metadata situation is pretty bad, but the source of the problem is not really carelessness or greed or avoidance of responsibility (although those are all true). The true source of music metadata complication is the insanely complex copyright regime that music operates under. It's a legacy codebase about a century in the making that is constantly being patched up by congress, mostly by trying to change who is being protected from whom. (Among the folks favored at different times: labels, publishing companies, performing artists, song writing artists, radio stations, streaming music services, live venues, ...).

Perfect compliance with these laws is effectively impossible, so everyone is just doing the best they can. And any attempts congress makes to change how things work end up being gigantic legal battles because it's a zero-sum game and the more money in the "right" hands (e.g. these artists being ripped off) is less money in the other "right" hands (e.g. the unprofitable streaming service we all love).
Spending a significant fraction of our lives at work is also ironic: in a free, democratic country like the U.S., you're in an autocratic micro-regime most of the time¹.

¹ Granted, that you're free to replace with another or try to start your own!
But shared, on-demand rides offer a much shorter trip time than a gypsy bus, by matching people going on the same route.
That's a really good point! In some way my question is related, but it's about the "redshifting" of processes (in the sense of dilating their frequency spectrum) that very deep parts of us may be dependent on to keep sense of time.
Well, that's basically true, isn't it? Oxygen is extremely reactive and was poisonous to early life: https://slate.com/technology/2014/07/the-great-oxygenation-e...
This is a really great article digging into the economics of Uber. The unsustainable economics of the industry were a lot more obvious to obvious in markets where Uber had well funded local competitors and ultimate failed like China. When Uber and Didi were competing everyone was using car service to get around. A 45 minute ride could cost 1 us dollar. You had people in jobs making 600 USD a month riding to work in 100k usd Teslas when previously they would take the bus or subway for 15 cents. Everyone was taking advantage of subsidies. When Uber left China, DiDi prices went up a lot of most people stopped using it exclusively and regularly. Taxis in many cities are both faster to hail and cost less money.

The issue I take with the article is that the authors appear to believe in some god-given right to car-based public transit. For example, people what work night shifts at low paying shouldn’t have to pay the surges prices a rich person trying to leave a club would pay. They also believe that adults shouldn’t be able to get themselves into money losing business deals (which is what sounds like is happening for both drivers and Uber equity holders). They also believe that people should not use money raised voluntarily in the market to subsidize services.

It is not clear to me that those beliefs are self evidently true.

As an example: Regulation that subsidies late night taxis for low wage night shift workers economically distorts just like uber drivers that are receiving food stamps. Why is the former okay but the later is not? Both are subsidies to employers who can have a job filled by paying a lower wage than the market would otherwise bear.
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This is also incredibly worrying for the original goal of open source which was individual user's rights. I think it will be very difficult to make a license that cleanly allows me a personal user to change/use/distribute the source, but not a big business like Amazon. And sure, maybe its as simple as "are you profiting from it" -- but then we get into weird edge cases of me using your software on my router that I use for my real estate business or something. With open source, the requirements are really easy, as soon as there is a door for someone to get a cut of what you make, we get into the territory of whether you become a big enough target to start demanding a cut from. And then it's up to the courts to decide. That might be great from the author's point of view, but I think completely goes against the whole point of the software user's freedom.

For example, is it that far fetched that at some point someone will come up with the abstract argument that your blogging service is really actually just a fancy interface to your MongoDB instance -- and thus you should pay up since you are a MongoDB provider.
"As part of the fix, Boeing has reworked MCAS to more closely resemble the first version."

Be very wary if pilot training is not part of the "fix" to getting the Max back up in the air. If MCAS is being "rolled back" then certain situations such as "The Max wasn’t handling well when nearing stalls at low speeds." come back.
As a parent paying college tuition right now I want to agree, but as a professor I see the other side of it. I teach at the graduate level and despite the high tuition we lose money on every student that we accept. It costs a lot to have faculty spending two hours with each student alone in office hours, plus six hours of class time per week, and countless hours of support virtually 18/7 via email.

My time as faculty is just the tip of the iceberg: the cost of the buildings and grounds, IT costs, academic and administrative support, and the costs to support research, let alone student services and things like admissions, career services, etc.

My father was an engineer that spent his retirement volunteering to teach computer skills to anyone who was interested. I will be retiring in a few years and I plan to follow in his footsteps, however humble my contributions may be. I would love to contribute to a change that would make high quality education available to many more people at a much lower costs, but as a long time participant in MOOCs, I am just not sure they are the way.
I think such featurse should be instead configurable only by the user, per URL, with customizable thresholds, and that no reporting should be implemented.
That was my original question. What is the probability of them failing at the same flight in the same way (say they got frozen at the same angle, hit by blizzard, etc, etc). Intuition is that the chances are high given their low MTBF.
peeing on things
That's because that AI would always have some exploitable flaws that people pick up on really quickly. I wouldn't be sure that DeepMind wouldn't fall into the same problem, it would simply take longer to get there.
Dumping usually means selling below unit cost, which they're not doing. What they're doing is failing to cover their fixed costs in the same year they incur them. That's completely normal, especially for new businesses. Whether they ever will be profitable is a different question entirely.
It's almost as if guaranteeing loans to for for profit institutions which receive the money that is printed out of thing air is going to exacerbate social inequality!

Don't get me wrong, 18 year olds are generally stupid (I was at that age), but blaming them seems like the kind of thing the profiteers from this mess would want. It's also not a very logical position. It's almost as if this type of idea would be something a propagandist would want to disseminate.
In the name of security, Big Blue decided to add keycards to go through every single door. It's understandable. They first added the card readers over the span of months, getting people used to them even if they weren't functional. Then they added the turnstile at the entrance. It's a good idea to allow only authenticated people into your building.

What they didn't take into account was the number of people that go in and out of the building every single day. Imagine a 12 story building with at least a hundred people on each floor on the average day. And they had to be funnelled through a single turnstile. Then there is the elevators.

One morning, everything was activated at once. The line backed all the way outside the building and wrapped around. You could spend up to twenty minutes to get into the building. Then once you are in, you have to wait for the elevators. You have to scan your keycard to get to your floor. Now try doing that with 30 people in the elevator and they all want to go to a different floor.

"Can you press 11 for me?"

They couldn't, because their card only works for the third floor.

In less than a week they shut everything down and went back to the designing board. They had to rebuild the reception to add 4 turnstile. The elevators keycard readers were never reactivated again.

I started taking stairs and never looked back.
This is exactly why we must support decentralized and censorship-resistant alternatives. Mastodon and Pleroma are steps in the right direction.
While all the other credit card issuers are falling over themselves to invent new fees and penalties to soak people with, I think Apple's game is to just be content getting a little piece of, well, everything.

As soon as I have my Apple Card, I'm putting all the others in the shoe box. I hope Margaret Keane likes Paleo, 'cuz the golden eggs are going to be in short supply soon.
I always wondered that too. And Uber itself makes no bones about how its ultimate strategy is blatantly anti-competitive. It's weird; it seems to go to a degree well past Microsoft's bundling Internet Explorer a bit too tightly with Windows in 1998, for example, which I understood to be the basis of their getting sued by the Justice Department.

Edit: Ah, well, I guess sibling comments have answered the question, more or less. Thanks!
Network effect for Uber is having the app installed. It is more comparable to a central market for a single, homogenous good.
Are you also opposed to companies making store brands after seeing how well other brands sell in their store?
Really wish this would get more attention. I suspect that ESR has fallen out of favor with many because of his Libertarian leaning views, but he is a historical legend in the free software movement. He's also completely right about this problem. As someone who makes his living via SaaS I would love to find a solution to this. I tend to think the Instructure/Canvas model is a good one: the product is open source. The money is made (mostly) from hosting (since ops is hard and most schools have better things to do).

Aside: ESR please add TLS to your blog. It's 2019 ;-)
> This is, of course, assuming that we can freely increase intelligence with no repercussions -- are these high IQ individuals at risk of [schizophrenia](http://www.schizophrenia.com/sznews/archives/000607.html), or other mental disease?

You realize that all of the studies cited in that link show that schizophrenia positively correlates with lower IQ, right, and that higher IQ is protective? (Which is correct, as the inverse correlation between IQ & schizophrenia has been documented for a very long time, and is re-documented on the genetic level now that we have schizophrenia PGSes.)
I’d say the opposite. Intolerance should not be tolerated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
power and frequency are linearly related, it is the voltage that scales power in a quadratic order.
Seems like more of a cat adoration project than a scientific study. Unlike other cat cam projects there is no mention of domestic cats predatory behaviour, and how this impacts the environment. Seems like mostly POV for cat lovers.
Do not forget Poland itself was aggresor occupying part of already independent neighbour Lithuania some 20years before WW2.
The 8% interest on the loans seems high to me. Around here (Poland), a standard credit card is at 10% interest, and student loans should be much safer for the bank.
Bypass Twitter, straight to the source:

https://github.com/entropic-dev/entropic

Motivation and detailed docs here: https://github.com/entropic-dev/entropic/tree/master/docs

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Also want to mention a similar effort: https://open-registry.dev/
Depends. Some commercial entities deliberately choose GPLv3 to sell unrestricted version in addition to distributing the GPLed one for free.
First, "dropped" is sort of a misleading term since it's not saying anyone actually has lost money. Rather, the cohort of Americans in that age group has less money than previous cohorts did at that age.

Second, 18 to 35 is sort of a crazy range, it seems to me, since the net worth of the group is likely going to be dominated by those in their 30s who are mid-career.

Lastly, it's unsurprising that those who began their career in the throws of the 2008 collapse were stunted, relative to basically any other group.
why I just ask someone to repair my iPhone screen, it would cost me $50 to $100? should not less than $8.50 as that actually assembly the whole phone.
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Waiting at the auto repair shop today, a woman came in asking to speak to the manager because she believed the shop had removed the tires from her rental car and replaced them with different rims. The manager was able to appeal to the fact that there were security cameras directly watching the bay to get her to file a police report instead. I talked to my mechanic later, a young black man. He said another customer once accused him of stealing the emblem off his BMW, and the cameras cleared him. Cameras really can protect employees who do a good job.
Subjective:

I think voting for our financial incentive has been obfuscated by the recent "authoritarian" vs "socialism" platform the Republican and Democrat have been pushing. We can't vote for what makes sense because we are voting on vague and diluted ideologies that will not find compromise. Even if I go out to vote, I can't vote for conventional fiscal responsibility.

At least when we had "political fluff" vs "extreme rhetoric" there was an opportunity to compromise and move forward.
what's the difference? unmodified vs. modified code?
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Therac 25 or Normal Accidents yet.

For reference, the Therac 25 was a computer-controlled radiation therapy machine involved in several over-exposures due to replacement of physical controls with computer based ones without complete understanding of the interactions of the controls.

The Max feels very much like that. No one can really keep a whole aircraft in their head, much less a whole aircraft development project. We use computers for that, as well as mental heuristics. But if those computers and brains are not fed all the proper data and connections, they will not find the all the problems.

Additionally, there seems to be a lot of the tail wagging the dog. If this system is expected to perform according to X specifications, then by golly it will, and we will show that it does.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

Edit: Please don't take the above as absolution of Boeing. Someone (a lot of someones) really should have known better.
Are millennials evenly distributed or maybe tend to move to states where your vote is irrelevant?
> because Google is getting better and better at compromising privacy, thanks to fancy designs/dark patterns

You're suggesting that the situation is getting worse, which I don't really see much clues from the linked report, though I don't want to spend my weekend on scrutinizing 44 pages report. I don't work for Maps, but AFAIK it used to track you silently and didn't give you control on user history. But now at least it tries to get a consent (even though it's admittedly just a nominal action) and give you some amount of control on your data, which is better than typical web practice on average. Can you explain why this should be considered as going toward "dark patterns"? All those works were strongly pushed by Privacy team. I don't expect you to praise their works, but you still don't have to use that level of derogatory words as well.

I don't necessarily deny that Google's previous (and probably current) business practice has been done in a quite privacy-invasive way. That needs to be corrected. But there's much more things to be considered as well, which slows down the pace for a good reason. So the best thing Google can do is improving the situation carefully rather than breaking everything by changing the fundamental at once.

Let me give you a super simplified example of ads; which privacy invasive practice has gone too far. But it's also true that this has powered the web ecosystem for a decade. Any kind of significant updates would lead to direct revenue impacts on not only Google but publishers and advertisers. This is real existential threats to them; surprisingly many publishers and creators solely depends on ads revenue. There are also indirect impacts on users via garbage ads and more pay-walled contents. Of course, I know what would typical HN user's answer be; "I would rather choose garbage ads than tracking and I will pay money!" But the history shows that most of attempts to prove this kind of people are significant has miserably failed (except very few examples, such as NYT) including Google's own.

BTW, one irrelevant stuff; is there anyone who have a concrete, feasible business proposal to materialize this no-ads-willing-to-pay demands into the reality? Then try a business and be the next Google/Facebook/Amazon. I'm serious. I always have been thinking about a way to do this so the web can run without ads, but because of Dunning-Kruger effect, I'm getting less and less confident about this idea :)
The article makes that point, too:

> [Uber etc.] also have none of the Facebook-type network effects (following what is known as “Metcalfe’s Law”), by which each new user makes the network more valuable to all other users, which makes it nearly impossible for smaller competitors to survive.

However, I think that's wrong. If I'm in a city with two "ride sharing" companies, but one has twice as many cars on the road, I'd expect to wait longer for a taxi from the company with fewer cars, right (or, if I check both, most of the time the one with more cars will show a shorter waiting time). Thus, as a customer I'd be inclined to choose the one with more cars.
Why lie?

>Польский поход Красной армии (17—29 сентября 1939 года), в советской историографии освободительный поход РККА, в современной историографии также советское вторжение в Польшу

Polish march of the Red Army, liberating march of The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army in soviet historiography, also Soviet invasion of Poland in modern historiography.
Drivers don't really compete with each other. Maybe in some extreme future case, but its hard to imagine driver/rider ratio going out of control. So far more drivers just means lower ETAs which means more riders.
So, nothing a spray can with black paint couldn't have fixed, but let's blog about it instead.
On one side it's depressing, but on the other side it's not as harsh as media wants us to believe in recent years. -30% is not "one house and 2 cars less than the parents", as many articles claimed over at least 2018.
The submitted title was "Amazon has exhibited offensive and aggressive behaviors toward open source", which was taken from the body of the article. That's not necessarily editorializing, if the language is representative. But we've changed it back to the original article title now.
I think the corporate patronage is alive and well. If you look at Apache or Linux Foundation, lots of contributors are employees of large corporations. This works out ok in the sense that lots of great software is being created.

I think the problem with Elastic is they have lots of VC investment pushing for a big payout, so it’s not a “pay the hackers” it’s a “make a big payout for founders and investors.” Which I’m not against and think is cool, but I don’t really care about it that much.
In practice, lots of initial authors choose licenses out of tribal affiliation and not simple logic or strategy. People who are inclined to distrust the FSF are likely to pick a permissive license even though the truth is they expect things that can only be guaranteed by a copyleft license.

Conversely the LGPL and family exists in some sense because the free software community tried to apply copyleft to project that can really only be successful with a permissive license.
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> A benchmark for me would be a game that can handle a MMOPG like eve-online

I don't think they managed to connect Excel to their game environments yet.
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I am talking about mass shootings not small ones, like the guy snipping people from a tall building window, people with more then one big weapon, this people would do less damage with a small gun. About statistics you can make them to show what you want, I assume if you extend to all the shootings not only the mass ones you get more small guns because probably there are much more small guns around.

About fast reloaders, you can have laws for those too.
It’s important to realize that this way of advertising is definitely important for advertisers, and adds a lot of value to them. It’s just that it’s not visible to publishers.

Having said that, 2009 is a long time ago, and I would like to see this study repeated before drawing conclusions about the current ad landscape.
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In the us, credit card interest is around 25% or more.