skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to reiterate the practical issue here: We, as people, are just exceedingly bad in having AND putting the right data at the right place in any model. It's really not the models fault, and the contribution of ML is marginal in that regard.

Whether it is subsidies of farmers, education, tax reduction, minimum wage, austerity measures... history is full of deliciously wrong predictions and policy measures.

Almost all of them can be reduced to the simple fact that the DPG is not stable when varying the policy, and that simple fact is due to people being deliberatively reactive.
In other words, you are missing data. Data about human behavior that is simply not observed, because it didn't happen, or because it happens inside people! And then, no matter how well you fit your conditional expectation (or other moment, or whatever you fit), the errors are simply not predictable.

We miss the counterfactual data, AND we aren't even smart enough to use all the data that we have. The less we theorize, the less we use prior logic, the more we run into these paradoxes where our policy does the exact opposite of what we intended.

This is pretty much the only real constant you can find in the last 100 years of social science.

It is therefore entirely correct that social science focuses more and more on causality - and where it can be identified. Yes, it is much harder, and the opportunities to do it correctly are scarce, but necessary. In this, trusting in more data and AI is precisely the wrong approach.
You realise you're arguing against fundamental economics right? The convenience of paid services is a product, literally all products have a value so if you price it right then people will pay for it. If you somehow were able to price discriminate perfectly then you could completely remove piracy.
I don't think that's a fair characterization. The linked article is a "Times Insider" article, so an article about the reporting that went into a much longer article. It focuses on the difficulties the reporter had researching the topic, and I don't think that any of it is fear-mongery like your all-caps title.

The article whose reporting this one focuses on [0] is quite long and strikes me as being well-researched, thorough in its explanations, and not over the top in its take on the issue. Sure, there's a little bit of intrigue, but that just makes for interesting reading.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/health/drug-resistant-can...
Yes this also fits the note on Basecamp: "as it’s out there
it may as well be out there".

I don't think they would say this if a hacker was holding it back for ransom.

So the hacker tried to sell it for $150000 but now everyone can buy it for $18.
The seller can also perform a dead drop instead of mailing the package. Although, it seems difficult to do a dead drop in a place like NYC without getting caught on camera.
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I can't tell where you're going with this. Are you saying that there aren't enough non-medicinal-value fungicides to use on crops? Did you misread the sentence you replied to?
I used to use Snapchat previously, but all my friends (school, college, etc) started posting on IG stories rather than on Snapchat. My snapchat became a ghost town, and I shifted as well.

Still active on Reddit, but its more of community than a tool for personal relations. Android user so no iMessage. Slack & IRC not good to connect with school friends.

What I mean to say is the country I am in Facebook has a complete monopoly in our social life. And I am sure even in the US people cannot leave FB ecosystem.
There were a third attendee that also were not present in the group photo.

"Asked why Bezos wasn’t added to the photo along with Jurich and Bashir, the spokesperson said that the Amazon CEO declined to be included."

So in total three people were missing from the group photo of the total 18 that attended.

Does it, in your opinion, indicate a certain disregard for these three people...?
Poor title, nice article
ATT nor Verizon would be able to acquire Sprint the company. But if the company goes down without being acquired by T-Mobile, let's say their customers would migrate to the remaining 3 carriers proportionally existing market shares. This outcome would be pretty great for AT&T and Verizon and strictly increase the market concentration.

Approve or not approve, regulators are sometimes forced into a position of "picking winners" :-(

Another thing that needs thinking through is what happens to Sprint's spectrum if the company goes under. What kind of rules will be placed on that auction? Would ATT and Verizon be likely winners of such an auction?
This post is amazingly written. I have been thinking about things related to this topic and how to implement them in my life. It's been only a few months since I actually started thinking about this. I realised that I am an average person but slight burst of decent things in time. And to become great I have to work towards it.

I have learnt that building habits is a big part of this. You need to build good habits to actually reap the benefits of the compounding. My thinking of habits came from Anki. While reading up on Anki, I noted the benefits of compounding and consistent effort.

What I am still trying to achieve is the iterating process. To figure out the right inputs to get the desired output. Once I saw there are a lot things that I need to do parallelly, I created a schedule to work on them everyday, but that was very difficult to follow. Something or the other was left out. So i had to drop a few things from the routine. I am still trying to find a good way to experiment and find the right path. This blog post gave words to what I am trying to achieve, and how I can approach it.

Thank you for writing and sharing it.
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How does a guided bullet work? I always thought that was one of those perpetually ten years away kind of things.
The deepmode extensions sounds great. But how does it know, what I am supposed to be working on? And how does it handle context switches? For example programming, then literature research.
Be shadow banned by Fb & Google and your online presence is dead. You can scream and scream all you want but no one will hear you online.
I agree with both this & the parent comment. I think the tone & aesthetic of those have been more dominant -- at lot from those in particular setting the tone -- in that span.

There are some more uplifting things like The Martian (great) or Interstellar (admirable ambition but falls short) . . . but I think space movies have to be slightly discounted as cultural products because they're something of a subgenre that leans more towards escapism (by definition) than futurism. (Less so with books since there's a lot more room to build out the world vs. squeezing a standard plot (problem-solving drama, Frankenstein story, everyman vs. even-more-powerful-and-evil elite) amongst cool FX shots)
I realized my comment was factually wrong but HN doesn't allow deleting, only editing.
As far as I can see, there are no financial interests behind this article (in fact, all the financial interests are against it because it's criticising the lucrative medical system). Maybe it's slightly over dramatic but at least it seems pure in its intentions and it's good to see that the writer feels strongly about the topic.

This is real journalism and we need more of these articles. What we need fewer of are articles which promote financial interests and drive wealth centralization. These are abundant and nobody seems to be pointing those out.
> Are you saying that there aren't enough non-medicinal-value fungicides to use on crops?

There's going to be a significant overlap between fungicides which don't kill crops and fungicide with medicinal value.
The fact that you have to waste ever-escalating amounts of electricity to make bitcoins doesn't ensure that it's decentralized.

If anything, it means that economies of scale will favor larger organizations. In fact, that's what we see, with a few large Chinese mining syndicates controlling a majority of the hashrate: https://www.buybitcoinworldwide.com/mining/china/

Compare bitcoin to a real decentralized system like bittorrent, or hell, email.
In Portugal they can't buy drugs legally. So they need to resort to black market, just like anywhere else, except countries where weed is legal from authorized vendors. If you're caught with heroin, I understand the government makes an intervention, confiscating the substance and forcing you into some rehab program. Of course better than jail, but still far from walking into a bar and, no joke, asking for a beer.

As an aside, could somebody (specially someone with specific knowledge) enlighten me about the difference with Spain? Here possesion of weed was legalized in the eighties (though later re-punished in public with a fine and confiscation) and possesion in general was decriminalized while it's an amount small enough to assume it's for own use.

Has the situation in Portugal really improved there because of legal status or because rehab programs receiving proper funding? Or even economic upturn?
Microsoft doesn’t want to — they want to bundle as much as possible into patch releases these days, and push as many things into new builds as possible.
Dependence on good income: if you are not dependent on a good income, you have more jobs to choose from.

For example you can study literature, or work with children. Another option only women have is becoming a mother, staying at home or working only part time. Some men do that, too, but as a man you can not really count on making that your career. Mothers have the first choice of staying home or not (because they have the wombs).

Other things, like being more sociable, might be affected by biology. I am not sure. Maybe being more popular as a kid makes people more inclined to take up a people facing job.

I love maths, and even I find it difficult to stay focused on it if I am not forced to do so. Maybe it is different for other people, but I could imagine that is also a factor that makes women drop out. Not because they don't like STEM, but because they don't have the pressure to stay in it.

Another way to think about it: what do women do who don't go into STEM? We are trained now to think that they fail in life, but the reality is that they usually go on to do other interesting things.

I have had female colleagues in IT who told me they would try this now, and they could always drop out and have kids if they don't like it. Only one of them stayed in tech, and she became a teacher. That was in a job where they ended up putting the IT staff into the basement, while marketing and HR resided on the first floor with big windows. Not the only time I witnessed that attitude towards tech workers.
> NextCloud comes to mind...

Cern is actually for some time already using Owncloud for this. https://owncloud.com/cern-smashbox-and-owncloud-collaboratio...
It was made at the request of the companies so there could be a coordinated day. Once the patches are out they can be exploited, so having a coordinated day helps to ensure everyone can get patched in time.

Again, Microsoft only changed because their customers asked, basically demanded, that they do it that way. It wasn't really MS's decision, it was them responding to their biggest customers.
My phone required it.

When purchased, it had an IMEI of all zeroes, and came with a step by step guide to setting the IMEI from my old phone into it.

Apparently that works around phone providers who blacklist or whitelist certain manufacturers.
Nice and fun concept!
You can easily create a game with this concept.
The funny part is during hiring etc people pore over CVs like this too. I was in academia for a few years and invited talks etc pile up rapidly, and are pretty repetitive anyway. I stopped reporting most invited talks and just had a section on selected invited talks.
That’s mental and very damning. Most defences of MS in this thread lean on goodwill, which is completely lost here. After this behaviour, I’m surprised you even gave them one more day. Acting like they’re in a goddamn Scorsese movie.. shame on those kids. They weren’t raised right.

They should have lost the 90 day privilege to begin with.
Breakup by region would not increase competition from the perspective of most consumers. They would have the same number of options.
India has to push on all fronts. Increasing momentum in tech advancements is especially important. Focusing only on poverty/water scarcity/culture would be narrow minded.

Besides, I can't imagine how exhilarating it will be for the engineers actually working towards this. I'm sure engineers here will relate with the need to "implement it themselves" when trying to understand or build confidence in a particular area/concept. It does not matter that it has been done before. Why should it just be for acknowledgement from other countries?
It still can be, but the new breed of hot tech companies doesn't give a damn.

Windows at least lets me mark a Wi-Fi network as metered today, which is a kind of global suggestion that "unnecessary downloads literally cost me money" - but I don't even know how much software except the OS itself cares.
A simple trick is to turn off the all the screens you don't need for your current work. Sometimes working with multiple screens is great, but during some tasks, the browser or mail program lingering on another screen can cause distractions. In my case, I often mindlessly switch to HN as soon as I start a compile/test cycle.
A balanced non meat diet is at the very least as healthy as a balanced meat diet.
Backup and Sync is not so great. I wish the Photos backup client was still available, and I'd use that together with InSync.

InSync is great and works on most platforms. I've been using it since dropbox lost a bunch of my important files in 2014. (I have multiple backups now)
That's true. lol
sorry just seen this now. I have not tried mlterm, and have not actually heard of it before! I just looked it up and I will defintely check it out.

I love gnome, but on occasions I switch to KDE, where Konsole terminal has better Arabic support.
The ninebot max looks basically exactly like the xiaomi mi scooter pro:

https://www.mi.com/global/mi-electric-scooter-pro/

https://store.segway.com/ninebot-kickscooter-max

and I've seen other like those too. Are all those just some rebranded chinese frame?
All I hear are buzzwords. Tell me how you can "just add something" when the protocol doesn't allow you to add it.
> Which may ultimately be a poorly tested, bias-ridden bit of AI code.

It already is controlled by a poorly tested, bias-ridden, strange AI system, called the market.
> A few days later, he gave me documents to sign over all my equity and gave me half of what the company had in the bank.

Agreed. That's what I get from the article as well.
> I’m amazed at the quantity and quality of the comments.

How do you measure the quality if you are not an expert?

Surely many are an enthusiast in aeronautics. There are plenty of documentaries and incredibly lots of information on the internet about aeronautics. And I believe that's still just some shallow information.
It must have been “fun” having all those follow-up skip-level 1:1s after those calls! I don’t envy your position, but good work!
Actually, the fake news these days make me re-think the concept of `free speech`.

Firstly, More free speech sometimes means more fake news. Creating and spreading false or biased news are so easy, as the society goes, the problem we deal become more and more complicate, if we cannot get the right info and we do not possess the right mind how come expect us to make a ration decision, we all know what happened to Galileo, can anyone say
what they did to Galileo is undemocratic.

Secondly, the common crowd are not that care about the truth, i discussed with a few people lives in HK through the internet, they actually do not know anything about the extradition law, and they still went to the protest. This is why I do not believe in any form of direct democracy.
Also, and similarly to where conspiracy theories usually get the world wrong - someone was actually in control. In real life, no one is.
You can't switch networking for Swarm Mode
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"For just 18 days, the band is making the sessions available via the online music service Bandcamp for a price tag of £18. “So for £18 you can find out if we should have paid that ransom,” joked Greenwood."

So instead of them paying the hacker 150k, they'll make a few million. Brilliant.
I'm not sure if we can think our brain will learn to control a new functionality, or as in the case of these people, it's only able to learn to use it if it's been there since the brain formation.

We don't know, at least by this study, if the brain can learn once it has developed.
really good point. There are a number of bands that I listened to (and ended up liking) purely because of who told me about them.
And that's just CO2. Plants cannot readily absorb methane for example, where you have to rely only on physical processes or our own ingenuity.
Check out: https://eater.net/8bit/

There's an entire series on YT of him building it, very informative!
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Let me reiterate: unless you're doing purely internal tooling, everything about how the software you're making should look and work is essentially sensitive customer data.
I believe we call it "Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism", comrade.

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/06/fully-automat...
There is a windows scheduler bug that affects epyc cpus.

https://m.hexus.net/tech/news/cpu/126440-amd-working-microso...
I’d add to that: big brands make vegetarianism more palatable to everyone. If I’m stuck ordering a salad at a bad restaurant, I’m more likely to be mocked by meat eaters than if the restaurant sells good burgers (esp in the US). When I was in the states recently and the restaurant had an impossible burger, instead of people saying “why are you vegetarian? Where do you get your protein?” people said “oh, the impossible burger, yeah I tried that recently and really liked it”. It was a very pleasant change.
Variable-argument macros, function prototypes (well, modules would be better…), // comments, stdatomic instead of 'volatile' hacks, _Bool, aligned_alloc, …
I.e. keep JIRA in one network, keep your IDE in the other?
It's not intuition. The product team was lead by a man (see the Bloomberg video). The CEO of DJI is man, every senior exec is a man and 98% of all the DJI reps that I have met at trade shows since 2014 have been men.

It's true that I haven't spent a lot of time thinking about how to solve the problem. But it annoys me when a billion dollar company doesn't seem to either.
Instead of considering me an asshole, maybe you could think of it as a silent protest done in an intelligent fashion. You are indicating I am a fraud by employing FizzBuzz on me, I am trying to maneuver out of it by showing you my dominance and the level of my abstract thinking you won't reach. Now who is a bigger asshole when it comes down to it? You started it... I'd have preferred a reasonable interview to be honest, but when it comes to responding to unreasonable requests, I can do my part... I value my time, you attempted to offend me, so in order to get something out of it for myself instead of writing off that time segment, I have some fun with your inability to understand. If this offends you, you were repaid in kind.
Nah, they do:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Useterms/Retail/Windows/10/U...
Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard

Zuck: Just ask

Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS

[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?

Zuck: People just submitted it.

Zuck: I don't know why.

Zuck: They "trust me"

Zuck: Dumb fucks [1]

[1] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg

I see absolutely no indication that Mr. Zuckerberg changed his attitude since then.
It wasn't stolen it was ransomed. Half the money in the till was probably a fraction of the value of the company.
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Ok so here's a question for the HN community: I have IPv6 from my ISP, and as an experiment, I want to primarily use IPv6 to connect to my different home servers.

I use automatic address selection, so no DHCP. So this means that when a server reboots, chances are their address changes.

Other than setting up a custom DNS server and $somehow ensuring that each server registers itself at this DNS server at boot, are there any elegant solutions to this?
> I don’t see it. No users care that NAT breaks the end to end principle. That’s only something users care about that want to accept connections, which is <1%.

I'm not sure <1% of users want to video chat or to play games without dedicated servers.

> There is so little actual pressure to implement ipv6 that it’s starting to look pretty doomed.

There is so much pressure to implement IPv6 on mobile that Apple checks if your app can deal with an IPv6 only network before the approve it to show up on the store. If your website supports IPv6 and you have a sizable mobile userbase, you'll see plenty of it.
No, i indexes the patient, not time. (T_0, y_0) is one patients entire time series.
Edit: Let me try rewriting this comment.

Sure, there's overlap. That doesn't answer the question.

Are you making that claim? Or saying that it's likely?

Your comment had a stance for a brief moment, but then you backed up to "overlap exists" which isn't really evidence in any particular direction.
Sometimes that may be true. In these examples it certainly hasn't, and has destabilized the whole region.

Even a bad ruler is better than anomie, especially for local minorities. The yazidis may not have been happy with Assad or Saddam, but I'm pretty sure they preferred them to ISIS and similar groups.
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But ... there's 50 kg of meat for an average person. Should be good for a whole week!
All avoidable if he consulted a competent lawyer early on.
A few million they are donating to Extinction Rebellion.
"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." - Marcus Aurelius

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." - Mark Twain
I'm struggling not to find this article a bit offensive, if I'm honest. Essentially the author has said, "TLS is hard, and I don't use public networks so is it really a problem?"

Yes. It is really a problem for people who use public networks. It is not like the myriad of wifi mitm attacks went away over the last 5 years. Even if you're not concerned about hiding the content, SOME sort of integrity scheme needs to be in place to prevent folks from replacing your content with theirs.

It seems profoundly irresponsible to wave away these concerns just because TLS is intimidating.
Also, to address winking: you could define blinking as a sequence of winks. This should accommodate people with 1 eye blind though.

Wait, do blind people win this 100%?
The problem with Java is that there isn't enough of it to have anything wrong with it. The programs have all those design patterns because the language lacks so much power that you have to write it all yourself. For instance, having value types would really help.

The one thing they should take away is namespaces. You can't write unreadable enterprise software if you can't put every 10-line class six packages deep for no reason.
Looks like HN is going full circle: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
People don't come into a restaurant pouring out buckets of super-roaches that are immune to all normal methods of extermination.

If a restaurant has roaches it's their own fault. If a hospital has to fight back a resistant germ it doesn't show they did anything wrong.
There was no "stealing" whatsoever, OP got tilted by his slacker partner (understandable) and undersold his shares of the company.

As a general rule, I never do business with friends or family:

1) If things go poorly, you risk losing both.

2) If things go well, you still risk losing both.