skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And? The fact that I dislike a politician doesn’t mean I write code to attack him.

For example, if 97% of the worlds leading authorities on climate science have consensus, wouldn’t you agree it is better to rank such consensus higher? The right wing perceives this as an attack because they think their view on climate science deserves equal ranking.

But that’s so, how far do we take it? Is flat earther articles deserving of equal ranking?

Victim mentality breeds conspiracies around search tampering. The more fringe the beliefs, the more victimizAtion is roled out.
It's probably just the original people leaving and less competent people taking over the project /the UI who need to change things around.

Questionable analytics probably show more engagement (scrolling) with the new layout.
The best traditional HN bad car analogy I can provide is Illinois State DOR is angry the new car factories are relocated in the rural south where the property taxes are low and what tax they do pay goes to the locals and not Illinois DOR, and they're selling those "foreign" cars in Illinois, so Illinois is going to add a special registration tax for cars registered but not manufactured in Illinois.

This is kinda a bad example because Illinois still has a handful of plants left, although they're doing everything they can to push them out of the state as fast as possible, I selected them more as an example of a very high tax state than as a non-mfgr state.
> Dijkstra was trained as a Mathematical Engineer for example.

"Mathematical engineering" looks like a modern invention. In any case, his undergraduate degree was in physics.
Notmuch is excellent. I guess if your email is in maildir format, you can use it directly within Notmuch.

One thing that sets Notmuch apart from other MUAs is that it never ever touches your email files.
That's such a typical and idiotic response that it makes my blood boil. That someone can utter such mind-boggling bullshit in 2016. It highlights how the authorities, while having ostensibly good intentions, are absolutely and near-criminally clueless to the realities of modern technology. And I use the word "modern" loosely.

It reminds me of Theresa May's desire when she was UK Home Secretary of making it illegal to use non-Government-approved encryption algorithms. AFAIK, there are still plenty among UK Conservatives who believe it should be so.
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Ehhh... Google Finance's news section has become a total crap fest, lately featuring user generated sales pitches from SeekingAlpha and some shady looking crypto currency sites. Seems less political them desperate (not that most of the big financial sites have paywalls), but it sure doesn't seem to prioritize reputable reporting.
The Economist itself has a left wing bias.
> It's also why you're supposed to remove famous people from such data sets.

I foresee an article - top 10 signs you shouldn't trust a dataset is sufficiently anonymised.
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I'll buy whatever they're selling. I'm very happy with Firefox quantum, and I'd like Mozilla to have a sustainable income that doesn't come from the AdTech/surveillance industry.
The logic here is that Google will never send/sell your data to third parties ?

How do you think Facebook et al gets a hold of your google data ? How do you think companies like Cambridge Analytica thrive ?

I am genuinely curious to know what your view of the world on these topics is and why are you so insistently (and apparently naively) defending google in this regard.
Sure, but the publicly available data is huge for lots of people. I don't see why you'd make an exemption for celebrities. If you can deanonymize people in sensitive data sets, don't release them. Saying "we'll protect the VIPs, the rest can go deal with the fallout of their employers looking at their personal health issues" isn't an option to me.
> Problem: The Firebase Android client library is proprietary, meaning FOSS apps can not use it. Apps that do not comply are reported to the user as "using too much battery".

This is a standard on the industry.
From 1999: https://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/11/05/how_ms_played_the_i...

It doesn't matter how much money Google is going to have to pay in the future as a fine for this practice. The amount of money that they will get for kicking out the competition is going to be way higher. That is a learned lesson from Microsoft (and probably others before them).
Love to know more about you. Anyway to connect or blogging ?
It's hard to find them too, it's better to build something where they come looking for you.
Good point and easy enough to add, although it does not fit my use case: I want the files to be readable on mobile, plus I only put non-confidential, to-be-public, or already public data in there.
Google loves to reward bullshit platforms like Express and The Daily Mail. It is an absolute disgrace that those two tabloids exist as promoted search results.
Most of the examples you listed require only an email address, PO Box, or a telephone number.
Native btrfs RAID1 wasn't stable when I started using it. I still wanted the stable non-RAID for the sake of snapshots.
Besides the question of whether the Fibonacci sequence is a good or bad example, here’s a different objection to the author’s thesis:

If software development is ripe for a mathematics-driven leap forward, just like logistics and baseball, why hasn’t it happened yet?

If software developers and baseball coaches were both sitting next to low-hanging fruit that merely required a bit of mathematical knowledge and spreadsheet-wrangling to exploit, I would have expected the people already using computers -- the software developers -- to find it first. What’s different, and why?

It could be that software is inherently less amenable to statistical and numeric approaches than baseball, and that’s just the way it is. When you look at baseball the right way, you have a great mass of data with fairly simple and consistent rules, ideal for a statistical approach. When you look at a typical software system, you have a mass of special-case business logic, with no real simplifying assumption to be found.

In cases where “big data” is available, successful companies are using statistics to exploit regularities in the system.

So maybe what the author is arguing for is already happening, albeit on an somewhat smaller and slower scale, and maybe this is inherent in the nature of software.

Applied mathematics, basically calculus, is great but it can’t do everything. The author seems to be ignoring discrete mathematics (which a lot of the “Lisp hacks” he dismisses would fall under). Then there are sociological issues, such as documentation, unit testing, debugging, modularity, maintenance of legacy systems.

Plenty of researchers have tried applying a data-driven approach to testing and debugging, and I think it’s safe to say no-one has completely cracked it yet. If another recent paper posted here is to be believed, we don’t even know if there’s a significant difference in bug rates between static and dynamic typing.
In the US the difference is that jails house people before trial and for misdemeanor sentences (generally less than one year) and prisons are for felony sentences (generally greater than one year).
Those two categories aren’t mutually exclusive. “Reputable reporting” outlets are usually made up of a large majority of reporters with left-wing biases because the majority of journalists have left-wing biases.

The NYTimes obviously has a left-wing bias but they are still considered reputable.
Put Hanlon's razor away before you cut yourself.

They already have an internal whistleblower willing to testify that driving MCAS from a single sensor was a deliberate regulatory hack.

Hanlon's razor only applies when no evidence to the contrary exists. That is not the case here.

See the Austrailian 60 Minustes expose.
I'm not an Android dev, but according to the source in the article [1] this limitation is applied since Oreo, which is released two years ago. Why this problem arises today?

[1]: https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS/blob/mas...
> I see a lot of people who come to Emacs from Vim expecting Evil Mode to be the panacea for Emacs. It's not. At the end of the day, it's still Emacs

Yes. I've been Emacs guy for close to two decades now, and switched to Evil about four years ago, because Vim controls are just better, no two ways about it. However you still need to escape back into Emacs every now and then to do various un-Evil'd tidbits. That's easy for me, but would be problematic for someone who expects Evil to (as you put it) "fix Emacs".
From what I can tell, you need firebase-messaging, which doesn't seem to be on that list. Am I reading it wrong?

Edit: seems I was reading correctly: https://github.com/firebase/firebase-android-sdk/issues/125#...
I’m not fully aware of the situation regarding Telegram-FOSS, but I’d assume Telegram can sue them for license violations regarding code that they own the rights to.
Half a billion US dollars of revenue per year!?

I would have hoped you could just bank that and pay for Firefox development with the interest. What is Mozilla spending that amount of money on?
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A quick search for "google election reaction trump" yielded a "Leaked video shows Google's top brass 'upset' over Trump 2016 win" video by RT on the first page.

If there is a clandestine operation to remove those videos, it's not going very well.
We all know that heat is the enemy of Li-ion batteries. I'm working remote in SE Asia, and even with office A/C it's very hot here. This laptop is a little over a year old, has never been used outdoors or outside an office, and it's already in "Service Battery" mode and shutting down at around 70% charge.

Something sounds very wrong there. Unless you are regularly using it in areas above 35° C it shouldn't really matter.
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Well, you bought a new license and they the RAM was used. No installation of anything but the license. At least that's how I remember the podcast explaining it.
Cannot really be said in a general way. With a lot of effort probably all of those could lead to more serious things, but not easily in a platform and setup agnostic way, i.e., you probably need time and be able to try multiple times to get you a realistic chance.
If it's not possible to try multiple times (e.g., your try crashes or runs into some other protection mechanism (no-execute flag on page set, return address validation, ...) then there's, again depending on the specifics of the bug and it's context, a very slim chance to achieve a (arbitrary) remote code execution, or something similar serious, realistically.

Also, for side channels you often need to be able to run code on the host, in some way, at which point it's probably not really interesting to exploit through VLC (as it runs normally as non-root/non-admin user anyway). Else, you'd need to be able to get some VLC responses which have a code-address related measurable characteristic (normally time-deltas), not sure if VLC can be forced to leak such infos from remote.
And there's a whole lot of cases where bug A isn't exploitable, and bug B isn't exploitable, but bugs A and B are exploitable.
Funny, a lot of left wingers would say Economist has a neo-liberal (right wing) bias. It seems the Overton window has shifted the right so far to the extreme that someone like Milton Friedman would probably be considered left wing.
Well, the NHS is literally "free at the point of delivery" so of course private sector healthcare is more expensive - although it is fairly common for employers to provide private health coverage.

What I would be worried about is how on earth anyone could actually evaluate the actual privacy of multiple competing suppliers - of course they will all claim that privacy is important.

And what about emergencies - where even if you have private healthcare you will be taken to an NHS hospital.
You seem to be confused, developers work with text. What more can computing power bring to text? The only thing all that CPU and GPU power brought to the desktop is useless power wasting eye candy like beryl or whatever it's called now.

Plus, in this environmentally conscious time, isn't it nice that people want to do more with less? Why waste GPU cycles adding shadows and lens flares to text? I don't get it.

I like using tiling WM's (dwm and Awesome) because they organize windows for me and nothing is hidden in a bar. The concept of workspaces is much nicer than shuffling windows around a screen. I can quickly jump between workspaces and immediatly see my windows and contents. What more do I need? GPU rendering of windows? Why?

I along with many others enjoy doing more with less. My old i3 Thinkpad runs just fine. Plays youtube videos, streams music and edits text using OpenBSD. What more do I need? Why pointlessly throw more at a problem that doesn't need it?
>For example, if 97% of the worlds leading authorities on climate science have consensus

Let me give you a tip. The people who don’t trust climate science aren’t going to give a shit if climate scientists agree on something. It’s like saying “97% of numerologists believe in numerology”.

That’s an appeal to authority. Even ignoring the fallacy, it has even less power when it’s that very authority that’s being distrusted.
I’m doing the research work for you, though it’ll be a while before I can stop procrastinating for long enough to write a whole thing about it. While you wait, https://github.com/overtake/TelegramSwift/issues/163 is probably a good start.
Thank you for your reply but I still don't buy it. As far as the program is concerned it is returned a memory block, what this "memory" is effectively behind the scenes is none of the standard's business. As long as the implementation manages to maintain the illusion it's perfectly fine AFAIK.
The problem is when this breaks down and the kernel realizes that it can no longer maintain the masquerade. If at this point it did something stupid like map this block nowhere or remap something that's already been allocated and let the program continue like this, then yes that would be a clear violation of the contract. But it does no such thing, it kills the program instead.
If there's no program then there's no problem. At no point did a single C instruction get executed in an environment that did not maintain a coherent memory model.
>In neither case is there any provision for returning a non-null pointer to anything other than an allocated block of memory of at least the given size.
A pointer to virtual memory is a pointer to memory. The rest is an implementation detail. If, when dereferenced, the kernel issues an order to Amazon for more RAM and waits for it to be installed to resume the execution, that's none of the C standard's business.
It's like people who use that comic sans-esque font that comes as a pre-installed option on Samsung phones.

"I want to be different"... just like the millions of others who also choose that font.
Interesting bundling their services via the browser. Its a single point of entry vs Google (seemingly) access disjoint. Password management, notes, file transfer (and storage?) browse and secure connections through one browser is something I think Id want.
Thats because market penetration and revenue matters more than a few CSS animations
"We lost" doesn't sound like some employees, sounds like org-wide political conformity.

I actually think the various independent creators on Youtube played a huge part in helping Trump win. The question is whether the de-platforming has anything to do with that. The algorithm itself just lets you binge on more of what you're looking for, and a large group of those that binge Youtube the most are drawn to right-wing views.
> show Google suggesting more positive terms when users type “Hillary Clinton” than when they look up Mr Trump.

maybe because it's the truth? in the sense that there is more positive things to write about hillary than about trump? for one: hillary never paid off a porn start to conceal their relationship
Perhaps they have different bias, depending on the subject? (I don't know, I haven't opened one since leaving school)
For anyone wondering what the (remastered) game looks like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW283uY3sLI
Well seeing that

- none of the upgrades have been announced.

- he didn’t say anything about specs besides the memory and processor

- you can get third party RAM for the iMac Pro.

So the question remains - what point was he trying to make? Unless he like the other poster was bundling the cost of the monitor with the Mac Pro as if you have to buy both.
My private medical insurance is £1200 per year for my wife and I, FWIW. Includes various add-ons including "advanced cancer cover". Also many big employers are providing health insurance as part of their benefits package these days.

I have nothing against the NHS, in fact I'm very much for it, but for non-essential items they can keep you waiting and I can't afford to have a lot of time away from my business.

Not that I'd trust my insurance company or health provider any more or less with my data than the NHS or their contractors, of course. It's not really something I've ever considered.
"Google after the election" renders no results on Youtube unsurprisingly

I just tried and literally 9 of the top 10 videos are either the video you are referencing or videos talking about that video.

If this was a way to trick people to look up this video on Youtube, then well played.
Doesn't everyone get this sensation?
No. An advertisement is a paid placement created by a marketer. This is an exhaustively reported and fascinating piece of feature journalism.
Thanks for the in-depth explanation!
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> the same services and assurances that banks

Cryptocurrency is meant to replace currencies and central banks, not banks (retail). Banks are institutions built on top of currencies (there are a lot of companies doing that with cryptos btw).
Mozilla is not just "a browser company".
Thanks for the link! Just bought me a copy, and it supports Linux! I played this as a teenager and just the intro brings back some fond memories.
I remember the wave of BI vendor acquisitions in 2007-2008 when IBM acquired Cognos and SAP acquired BusinessObjects. Now, 12 years later the wave repeats. Google is buying Looker. Salesforce is buying Tableau, and probably Qlik will be acquired within the next 1-2 years too.
Don’t we talk here all the time about how algorithms can be biased (even racist) due to programmers being biased in ways they may not even be aware of?

Then we must consider the possibility of bias in this case too.
I’m surprised Chrome runs without Google Play Services.
TLDR: “dark-gray” came from when the X11 color set was imported into CSS, while “gray” came from the original HTML colors.
Perhaps a more interesting story is the Rhodes electric piano - initially invented by Harold Rhodes as a miniature piano to allow wounded servicemen to engage in music therapy lessons at their bedside, it became an iconic sound in jazz, rock and pop.

https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/04/arts/harold-rhodes-89-inv...

On a somewhat less cheerful note, a large proportion of sound recording and broadcast techniques wee pioneered by the Nazis. Hitler and Goebbels deeply understood the power of radio as a propaganda tool, so the regime invested heavily in technologies that would allow their voices to be heard across the Reich. They developed the first practical tape recorder[1], an extremely low-cost AM radio receiver[2] and an array of improved microphones, amplifiers and loudspeakers. The modern era of sound recording really started in 1945, when seized German technology and emigrant German engineers made their way to Britain and America[3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetophon

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksempf%C3%A4nger

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape_recorder#Commercializatio...
Doubtful. It's just that the left-right-axis isn't that helpful these days. You can be socially progressive but financially conservative.
The NHS has had data leaks in the past and their IT is supposedly fairly outdated (if our tabloid press is to be believed) so perhaps they genuinely believe that a specialised company would be able to do a better job?
Nope!

firebase-messaging is missing from this open source version.
yes, this is evident from claims that hillary clinton is a leftist when she is closer to maggie thatcher
Let's make them pay for using our personal data
They are arguably essentially buying revenue to help their bottom line. Salesforce hopes to add $350-400M to their FY20 revenue
> is market maturity, this is a very common thing

but the stock market is treating it as if it's still growing
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I never really understood tableu, it just makes fancy graphs from your data doesn't it? What's new about it?
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Until April 11, 2019 you could use GCM instead of the Firebase system.
KDE 3.x was also in some ways more feature rich than a current KDE. 4.x was a huge mess due to some big ego trying to push his ideas on the world but I think the current Plasma releases are on a good path torwards mature and productive - however the applications beyond dolphin are quite lacking. It's also sad that a lot of ressources and energy goes to GNOME...
No: one can still be malicious without outright intendending to kill passengers.

Boeing had their very existence and dominance in the aerospace sector severely threatened by A320neo. They needed MAX to be a hit at all costs, and this impetus, combined with the bean counterism their culture was infected with after the McDonnell Douglas merger ensured that any internal obstacles that threatened the time table for MAX would get dealt with in the short term cheapest and minimally effective way possible.

This is gross negligence at a minimum, blatant malfeasance at worst.
This is really scary. I keep getting messages from friends I converted to Signal, asking me to go back to WhatsApp since Facebook has a deal with their providers to not charge WhatsApp data.

Now picture those able to afford their first mobile plan, they don’t have disposable income, they don’t have the option to pay for Firefox, I’m afraid this will drive people to use Google even more.
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100mm with 99mm payout vs 10mm and 8.5mm payout then...
...As the article explicitly mentioned?
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Why didn't the city increase land, property or sales taxes? Did they just want to pick a big, popular target?
I'm pretty sure there's a wide range of reporting that different people call 'reputable,' so who is the authority on reputable? Is it the centrist?

Google rewards whichever ad purchaser pays them.
I cut my teeth on Industrial automation and robotics in High school on an Eshed Robotec system (now Intellitech and seem to have downsized). There's also ACS motion control and Galil motion control. All Israeli.
>The question is whether personal feelings were translated into algorithmic bias.

Activists certainly claim that personal bias will influence algorithmic bias when it comes to gender and race. I take their point. Why should political bias be exempt from that, especially in light of the highly emotional and polarizing political climate.