skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tencent's QQ have these online-time badges, you won't understand how much people want it, especially teens. It's like an honor that can be used to show off.
Yazz now runs on OpenShift
Had a similar experience with an old set-top-box: a Boxee.

The new owner couldn’t add Netflix to it until the old owner removed their “sync”, even though the old owner wasn’t a subscriber anymore!
> after I watch great movie X the service cannot recommend me another movie that is of the same caliber

Statistically, after viewing a great movie the next one will be rated as less satisfying. We build up our expectations to a level that is not in sync with reality. This psychological insight was used at one of the early Netflix challenges by one of the top contestants.
Management and "the market" were providing faulty feedback that engineering couldn't push back against, no matter how much force was applied.
This was useful to me; I now know to bin Chick-Fil-A with the likes of Disney and Apple.
There's no known link between cosmic microwave background and cancer. Would do for one hell of a difficult thing to study, too.

There's perfectly ample evidence for cosmic rays (ie. high energy radiation from astronomical sources) increasing risk of cancer as does any ionizing radiation. Maybe GP conflated the two?
this is quite interesting... here is the whole paper: https://weis2019.econinfosec.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/...
hey were weak at the time

Didn't "Weak" Poland survive longer fighting a two-front war than France did in its single-front war? And for the remainder of the war, escaped Poles fought for Britain and other allies.
Not OP. I have to admit that my apartment in Japan is covered in mold. It makes for good cheesemaking ;-) Some people in the UK seem to be quite concerned about the health effects of mold as well. I know people who have spent tens of thousands of pounds battling it. I don't have any idea if its justified or not. I know nothing about the topic. However, I can at least verify that the people I know in Japan don't worry very much about mold growing on surfaces in the houses in the summer. You try your best to keep the house clean in the summer and then before new year you do "ousoji" (big cleaning) and clean every surface.

The biggest thing about mold in our household is clothes. You constantly have to take your clothes out of storage and air them. I've had a fair amount of clothes ruined to mold and that's the biggest problem I deal with.
This is also covered in the article - it costs uber huge sums of money to enter a market because they offer driver incentives that are uneconomical, they have a huge advertiser budget and they use below market rates to achieve growth. It also costs them a lot because they don't move into a market to be in that market, they move into a market to dominate it.

That dynamic isn't true for its competitors. Any current driver for Uber can go "fuck this" get an off-the-shelf taxi company app and start working for themselves. Since Uber is paying minimum wage and still making a loss, there's a strong incentive to do this the second Uber raises prices in an area. At which point Uber has to go back to its incentives to regain its dominant position in the market. The result is they can't sustainably raise prices or lower costs without destroying the growth that justifies their tech-like valuation.
The context is that someone claimed it's pointless to even diagnose them. An undiagnosed problem isn't going to be following that guidance.
> It alarms twice as many times as it should.

That's not what a false positive rate is. It alarms on half of everyone that goes through. It's utter garbage as a first-line test.
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probably not.
engineers only account for a very tiny portion of their entire employ base.
They have a large army of operation people(for recruiting drivers, promoting, etc) and dispute/problem resolution people deployed at every city they are present.
They need to work with each municipal govern body on regulations, transportation coordinations, airports, even minor issues like which side of the street pick-up is allowed.
They also have to hire PR speciality to boost public image, lobbyist to dissuade politicians from initiating any regulations.
They still need to pay some sorta insurance for drivers as they are still contractors.
These are all huge costs
Yeah, but illiterate shepherds with decades outdated weapons have held off the US in afghan for however many years now
This is, incidentally, Imogen Heap's Next Big Idea: to give each musician a sort of CV of record on the blockchain called a "creative passport", such that when they present the passport to a record label or other business partner, everything they worked on or contributed to is visible and attested to. It's a big idea, and I don't think even she is aware of the various pitfalls (blockchain is energetically expensive and cannot fix bad data on its own), but dreaming big is just how Imogen Heap do and it may call attention to the problem in a way that will bring forth actual solutions to parts of it.
A false positive rate of close to 50% means that every second alert indeed pointed at something real. That should not cause the staff to get unmotivated. Again, without the false negative rate we can't judge if they are complete bullshit or not. If it were a 90% false positive rate then sure, that would clearly have the effects you outlined. I don't think at around 50% that's the case yet.
As far as I remember it's the same question. It's easy to say no ... I mean, I have a Twitter account, but I can't remember the last time I posted. Easy enough to forget about, no?
> A false positive rate of close to 50% means that every second alert indeed pointed at something real.

No it doesn't.
Interesting that it runs NetBSD, I’d imagined it would be a variant of OS/X.
That's some pretty impressive ingrained bias towards rent-seekers. Why not 1.1x or the board can try doing the work?
That has nothing to do with Uber/Lyft, and everything to do with mobile phones. I have an app called "mytaxi" on my phone that does all of that with taxis.

I also remember several of my friends telling me about their idea of exactly that app shortly after the iPhone was introduced, so it's not like everyone got that idea from Uber/Lyft.

The "innovation" Uber/Lyft added was undercutting taxis by replacing employees and a fleet of cars with "self employed" drivers bringing their own cars and subsidising the whole shebang with huge amounts of investor dollars. Oh, and flouting laws and regulations.
The API situation is interesting because they allow using MongoDB inside your application as a backend [1]. So what happens if you make a wrapper for the API and distribute your wrapped API as a service? How thick does that wrapper have to be before it is considered a different application. To take the most extreme example, what if i just rename find() to query() making it no longer a "MongoDB Service" but a "AmazongoDB service"?

[1] https://www.mongodb.com/licensing/server-side-public-license...
Sure, but that is stretched over a lifetime of work. If you just measure current wealth you won't see it.
Exactly. If the public justification for a behavior doesn't actually make sense and the behavior continues then there's probably another private motivation which is being satisfied.
Yes, this. Six story 2x apartments per story + shared community space per 4 blocks = 48 units vs 4 units. The density also supports and drives community resources like shops, pubs, doctors and schools and makes public transport feasible. No need for 20 floor monsters.
I'm mostly playing devil's advocate here, but also interested in a potential de-FAANGing law or executive order not setting a dangerous precedent for arbitrary redistribution of power in the future.
I myself prefer transcendentalism.
I need to be surrounded by more positive emotions. I read this text, "Self-Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson - modern translation, at least at once a year: http://www.youmeworks.com/self_reliance_translated.html

Great discussion in this topic btw.
I'm sure some people believe this (although this is the first time I've heard of it). However, Japan is really a secular society. People observe religious rituals, but I literally don't know a single person that actually follows the Shinto religion strictly (and my wife's father and brother were Shinto priests!!!)

Most people build a new house because that's the dream: to live in exactly the house you want to live in. If you buy an old house, then you are putting up with somebody else's choices. That and the fact that until recently houses weren't built to last. You seriously don't want to live in a house built in the 1950's. It wouldn't even take an earthquake for it to fall down around you and kill you ;-)

Housing standards have improved dramatically over time and the difference between at 10 year old house and a new house was historically stark (well, at least since WWII). These days it's starting to even out and I see the used house market starting to pick up a bit (personally, I even prefer the houses built 10 years ago to the ones they build now -- It seems nobody wants windows in their new houses any more...)
>Many commercially available small wind turbines with plastic blades and steel towers are infamous for their low reliability, high embodied energy, and limited power output.

>Building them out of wood addresses these issues.

Well, wood isn't going to improve the reliability or power output. It can be significantly less embodied energy per blade, depending on construction however. A blade hand carved from a single piece of air dried timber has a lot less embodied energy than a blade made from laminated wood covered in resin, which in turn has less embodied energy than a fiberglass blade, though it isn't as big of a jump in percentage terms than it is from air dried timber to laminated timber.

That said, as you go smaller, the blade itself is less of the embodied energy of the wind turbine. On the small turbines that used to be common on yachts, the blades are really a minor part of the construction, the generator and the pole weigh in far higher. Also, given that turbines are a swept area game, I suspect that using hand carved wooden blades only saves you anything in situations where you cannot have larger blades. Also, they will tend to be less efficient blades in terms of power conversion due to the limits of hand carving.

If you are interested in the best thing environmentally, clubbing together with others to install the largest turbine you can is still generally the way forward. If that is not possible then I'd say hand carved wooden blades do have a place on small tubines, though I am doubtful it is that environmentally beneficial, unless you have scavenged the other parts. Scavenging the parts for small turbines is perfectly doable though. Personally, if I was scavenging already, I would be also looking at cutting out blades from scrap metal sheet.

edit - blades from scrap metal being a hell of a lot quicker to fabricate than hand carving wood.
> When I put a Facebook pixel on a landing page, Facebook doesn’t tell me who they are or where else they have been, and I have no idea what they do on any site other than my own.

You are not constantly tracking them, Facebook is. I understood the parent comment to be aimed at Facebook, not some individual advertiser.
> How do US universities work with regards to this? In the UK you don't really need to pass anything to graduate.

In the US you have to maintain both satisfactory overall GPA to not be dismissed and pass a required set of classes (which may include a number of electives) in order to graduate.
Great article. But for me there's a huge question being left unanswered, like the elephant in the room:

Why did exactly did the engineers/test pilots feel the need to "enhance" the original MCAS with the new, more powerful version that worked at lower speeds? What did they know? I doubt they did it for the hell of it. And therefore, what has changed that that enhanced functionality is now no longer necessary, and it's fine that MCAS is being returned to its original, more subtle implementation?

These things just don't add up for me and Boeing's constant pronouncements that they did nothing wrong, everything was fine, and now they're fixing it so everything will be even more fine ring very hollow indeed. I would almost like to see everyone involved in this subpoenaed so the public can learn the truth of what, exactly, took place.

Until we have some answers, especially to my main one - what was so bad about the airframe's handling that it was necessary to massively increase the power of the MCAS system, but is now apparently not necessary anymore and it's fine for them to nerf it - I don't think I'll be flying on a MAX.
The part of this that worries me is that journalists will often have embargoed, confidential (classified?) information open on their monitors from time to time. Obviously this doesn’t matter in the part of the newsroom that reviews restaurants, but imagine this at the Guardian or Washington Post during the snowden leaks etc. It’s much easier to seize a DVR containing videos of all the secret communications than to get a source some other way... I hope most news outlets that deal with truly sensitive data have something akin to SCIFs, but you never know what pops up in someone’s cubicle...
You seem to know even less about maps than the bunch of HN users complaining about the tricks and dark patterns Google was using to convince people to share location data.

Just do a search for "dark pattern" + Google on HN.

Your business model is at odds with privacy, you have that much figured out. But for unknown reasons you seem to think that Google can win against market forces and implement privacy-maintaining SW solutions.

That is disproven by Google's entire history. It's gotten particularly clear lately with AMP & Chrome.

One more thing: the world doesn't owe Google a business model. The world can survive just fine without internet ads, Google, Facebook and Amazon.
That is not odds with philosophy adoption at all. In fact, nature of these (imagined) miners problems can make it harder to adopt philosophy that would make it harder to seek solutions to very real problems they have. If you endure pain with no display, your pain is taken less seriously after all and at some point, you need that doctor to understand it is real. And at other point you already need to stop working or fight for better conditions. Very real miners were very real dying and passive acceptance of that was not what bought changes.

But in case of tech people, stoically waiting is to your benefit as tech is generally higher status job. Moreover tech workers often time primary use stoicism to put expectations on other people rather then themselves.
That's 1 of the reasons kids are usually valued more with these calculations. I'm not advocating for gun rights here. I'm not from the US and I prefer that civilians don't carry guns at all. Maybe I should have said that outright first so I don't just get down-voted and dismissed. I'm talking about freedom in a more general sense. Gun rights is not even the freedom being taken away by this type of surveillance.
I wouldn’t be so sure... look at the cable tv market in the US. Surely there is consumer demand for clear and simple pricing and per-channel choice. And yet the free market has not provided this.
Except with all the various products Google has, search is likely the only one that could stand on its own financially.
I think this is a misunderstanding. From Wikipedia [1]:

> A false positive error, or in short a false positive, commonly called a "false alarm", is a result that indicates a given condition exists, when it does not.

So a 50% false positive means also that in 50% of alarms the condition was actually true.

What you mean is a 50% alarm/trigger rate. Which, depending on how many people do have something on them that should trigger the alarm, would result in a far far higher false positive rate.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_positives_and_false_nega...
It will not satisfy the current handling requirements, hence either making it completely unairworthy or a special category with vastly different handling from usual passenger-rated airplanes.
They have all of that money because they have made good decisions about their product so far. They focus on what matters most to users: features and reliability, not the framework the UI was written in.
Please see my other comment which references the definition of false positive rate because I think your understanding of the term is wrong. You have a 50% alarm/trigger rate in mind. And please try to reply with a bit more substance than "No".
Would you support a targeted form of gun control? For instance, if statistically it could be shown that 13% of the population were responsible for >50% of all gun crimes, wouldn't it make sense to focus on removing access to guns on that group first?
> The false positive rate is calculated as the ratio between the number of negative events wrongly categorized as positive (false positives) and the total number of actual negative events (regardless of classification).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_positive_rate

54% FPR means half of all people who aren't trying to bring anything illegal onto the plane gets stopped.

Since basically nobody are actually trying to do this, that also means that more than half of all people going through gets stopped.

The ratio of true positives to positives must thus also be vanishingly small.
It's not stable in a "crashes into the ground and kills everyone on board in spite of the best efforts of its pilots" manner.

In exactly what manner is it not obvious this is not an acceptable design outcome?
I use miro-windows-manager and love it. I just wish I could take the scripts I have written for Hammerspoon on MacOS and use them on my Linux workstation - anyone know how this might be done?
No one was bitten by a shark who never entered the water either. There is more to the gun control debates than single-input statistics like the one you cited.
Empires destroy institutions.. they hollow them out until are barely cloths for one figure residing within. Proofing something to an institution is hard. Proofing something to one person is "easyish". The problem is not that one plane manufacturers internal culture allowed falling behind, but that this rot and decay bypassed controlling institutions, because these where hollowed out for empire reasons. You can not defeat this problem unless you solve the root node. Which are hidden deals instead of proper procedure replacing the physics of capitalism.
True, but they need to peer with ISPs directly or indirectly, they can't just not peer with anybody if they still want to be reachable.
To quote an article on the subject: "meaning that every other person who went through the scanner had to undergo at least a limited pat-down that found nothing"

> And please try to reply with a bit more substance than "No".

Eh. I was hoping you'd just delete the comment rather than have two parallel arguments.
I wonder how well a tool would work that anonymises people - so those with power won't consciously, or subconciously, target people with brown skin and large beards - while still showing how they are behaving. You could even use cameras to monitor heartbeat [0] and body temperature.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/05/oxehealth-uses-cameras-to-...
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The conflicted firing of one dude does not mean that the entire institution is an embarrassment to higher education.

The title has nothing to do with the content of the article.
It seems that the writer (who teaches at another university) is salty and needed an excuse to write something demeaning Harvard
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No, it means that about 50% of people scanned would trigger a "positive". The false positive rate is the number of false positives divided by the number of actual negatives.

100 people, 50 false alarms, 1 actual problem alerted and 49 marked as safe correctly = 50/(50+49) = ~50%.
I would rather recommend reading this book about what Stoisiscm is and how to apply it; by Stockdale.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31201.Thoughts_of_a_Phil...

https://www.amazon.com/Thoughts-Philosophical-Fighter-Pilot-...

First part: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...
Here's a video of the Kusköy (translates to bird village) villagers whistling the bird language (kus dili in Turkish, which means bird language): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZg-ku_w_1I

Edit: Typos.
One of the dozen users checking in. My favorite feature of ion/notion is the alt-space scratch pad. I always have a bunch of ad-hoc terminals or other programs open that I can easily reach from any desktop. So far I haven't seen any other tiling wm that has something similar. I'm probably wrong though.
The person is probably extrapolating from the UCSF study that was done (and debunked thoroughly by various governmental and non-governmental organizations).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter_X-ray#Health_effec...

Ironically enough, millimeter wave scanning is less well-understood than backscatter x-ray!
I'm not sure what freedom in the more general sense means here. When focusing on a specific freedom, you'll often find that it's at odds with somebody else's freedom. E.g. I'd say being able to roam public spaces without fear to die is a freedom worth protecting (and it seems you agree).

Gun rights is the freedom that could be taken away (other countries have done it with great success) instead of installing body scanners, so that's why I brought it up here.
Just watch! There are plenty of super-smart and ambitious people looking to take on Google. Just let DOJ start and Oracle, MSFT, AAPL, Yelp and many other companies will tell FBI where to look. The only thing needed is the political will, the rest is easy. Those "best of the best" engineers face jail time and financial ruin, if they lie to cover Google's behind, so they have to think twice.
Have you actually used the Slack client before ? It's anything but reliable.

As you would expect from a glorified IRC client that somehow uses 2GB of RAM (lots of accounts).
The planning laws and social/physical infrastructure mitigate against initiatives and changes that would reduce the costs. One fundamental is that the rail gauge in the UK was the first one created, and this meant that tunnels and bridges were built unambitiously, consequentially there are no double decker trains in the UK. If there were double decker trains on the London commute lines London accommodation prices would be significantly reduced (I believe). That's just one small example of the complex confluence of issues that have driven the market in one direction though.

Everyone should remember that 60 years ago London housing was very poor as well as relatively expensive (although far more attainable). That's important as it shows that things can and will change over time in the market. We need to think about this because some of the reforms suggested will fundamentally alter the physical geography of the city in ways that will have consequences 100's of years into the future. Architects and planners have a very bad track record with respect to these alterations, for example see Birmingham, Portsmouth, Ipswich, Reading in contrast to Manchester, Brighton and Bristol where history has run differently (Bath is a really good story - the 60's got stopped in its tracks there).
>Why can’t we become part of the community? I’ve been a renter for a decade now and I think I am more involved in my community via volunteering and local politics than the average person.

If the person who owns your house decided to sell it tomorrow, how much protection do you have? Here in the UK, I have effectively none.
>> Yes, American society is homogenous

This is... definitely not true compared to the vast majority of the world.