skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for your comments.

1. This is a fair point. In the Supplemental Material, we explore cross-country differences in email usage. When we statistically adjust for country-level differences in email usage (using World Bank data), the country ranking remains essentially the same (adjusted rankings correlate over 0.90 with non-adjusted rankings). Also, when you restrict the data only to drop-offs performed at hotels -- which tend to rely on email more than other settings -- you see the same pattern of results.

2. Also a good point. However, there are mechanical problems with using the marginal differences between conditions -- for example, countries with high reporting rates in the NoMoney condition will be naturally capped in the possible size of the treatment treatment effect, compared to those with low reporting rates. Because the scale is bounded at 0 and 100% you're also fighting against reversion to the mean at the low and high ends of the distribution. FWIW we find that absolute levels of reporting rates correlate very highly with other known proxies of honesty both within and between countries (measures like tax evasion, corruption, etc), whereas relative differences between conditions do not.

3. We explicitly test this by randomly varying whether the wallets contained a key or not (valuable to the owner but not the recipient), while holding the rest of the contents in the wallet constant.
Your second link is about someone who flashed their own copy of Windows 3.1 into the boot ROM of their own ThinkPad X200. Lenovo didn't put Windows 3.1 there, that user did.

Your first link is about Lenovo's IdeaPad line. IdeaPad and ThinkPad could well be thought of as products from two different companies.

Lenovo was already making laptops when they bought the ThinkPad line from IBM. Their own laptops evolved into the consumer oriented IdeaPad line, while ThinkPad remained the business oriented line.

They're both part of Lenovo, but are largely separate teams with different business goals and philosophies.

In particular, ThinkPads were never infested with any of the stuff you're talking about.

Here is the original notice from Lenovo about this. No ThinkPads are listed:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190303121854/https://news.leno...
It kinda hit me why Frank Zappa fanatically transcribed _all_ his music (at one point he had a young inter named Steve Vai do it); submit those despot copies to the copyright office. It's what the major labels did, and he was decidedly independent with a good helping of paranoia to boot.
> If there were no zoning laws, people could always move if they don’t like how the free market is changing their neighborhood. And housing would always be “affordable”.

I think this is a very optimistic view of what would happen.

Zoning laws are not perfect but without them there would be a race to the bottom and the public left to pay for the externalities.

edit:

I might be wrong on this but I think that Victorian England kind of points towards what would happen

I know it's not 100% applicable but ...
Hm, I’m interested, but isn’t SMGL practically a different language? Apart from syntax, are those concepts translatable to HTML? I mean, can I use it to write web pages?
The parser for Sorbet was actually entirely given to us by GitHub. They were fabulous partners early on in the project and we're grateful for their contributions.
Ask HN: Why is Android plagued with malware when it's based off Linux?
As I understand Linux has one of the most secure kernels, so what makes android so vulnerable?
Checkout motherfuckingwebsite[1], bettermotherfuckingwebsite[2], and thebestmotherfuckingwebsite if you want to see what can be done with pure html and minimal css.

[1]:https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
[2]:http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/
[3]:https://thebestmotherfucking.website/
My advice would be to simply don't hang out too much with people who believe in bullshit. People who look things up on their phones are mostly fine; they have a healthy habit.

(IME, people who complain about others having their phones out tend to be insensitive and disrespectful. The scenario I usually see is such a person happily getting their fill of social media, putting their device away, and then imposing themselves on someone else and expecting them to drop everything they were doing and engage in a conversation.)
But most sane persons will block their ID and make a new one as soon as they see they lost it.

Without it someone could get a credit based on this ID and you wouldn't have a strong case in court that you didn't take it.
The Standard library has to use unsafe because of performance considerations, it is extremely well tested for that reason.

I wrote multiple projects in Rust and I never had to use unsafe even once. Arguably all these projects weren’t all that lowlevel, but why would I write something that somebody else has already implemented and tested? The beauty of Rust, after all is that you can go to the lowest level if you like to, but you can stay high level if you like and you still end up with code that is surprisingly performant.
In the way that being content is an evolutionary disaster, it makes sense that we always have an itch to scratch.
When teachers end up physically fighting among themselves often, yes principal is responsible. Absolutely. Principal should have deal with the problem when it appeared first time. Principal is responsible for school culture.

But, teachers are allowed to have sex.
How will this be difficult to fake?

Very easy, but it'd be tax evasion which is a serious crime.

Most taxes are pretty trivial to evade if you put some thought in to it. Very few people bother because the reward doesn't outweigh the risk. Saving a few tens of thousands of dollars a year isn't worthwhile if the penalty for being found out is losing everything you saved and years in prison. It's actually one of the few places in criminal law where the penalty actually works as a deterrent.
This is a joke? You realize work visas are different from travel visas, right?
It makes sense to tax homeowners who leave their units vacant, since their decision to keep scarce property off the market is a waste that exacerbates the housing crisis.

The same applies to landowners who leave land vacant or underdeveloped when they could develop it into an apartment that alleviates the housing crisis.

It also makes sense to tax landlords who charge market rents. While tenants suffer from the shortage, it is landlords who reap unearned windfalls. While vacant property owners waste value every month that could benefit society, landlords capture that value for themselves, so the city should take a cut.

And if we charge landlords a tax for the high rents they collect, then we should also charge homeowners for the imputed rent they would have collected, to remove the inequity between owner-occupiers and landlords.

If we combine these 4 taxes, we would have a pretty good system for encouraging vacant landowners to use their land efficiently while also raising revenue from the landlords who benefit from the crisis. But then we would realize that the simpler solution is a higher, fairer property tax to begin with (by repealing Proposition 13).
112 high severity software bugs in just 6 month. It means one new firefighting every single working day. And equal amount of non-software high severity incident. That's just frightening.

Is there similar data on other cloud vendors?
Interesting, I hadn't thought of Google acquiring Opera!
A new shape memory alloy has been created that surpassed titanium nickelide
Prop 13 was actually intended to make Howard Jarvis and his friends at the Apartment Owners Association even wealthier. He did a great job of selling a tax scam to the public. A property tax law designed to benefit low income families would only have lowered property taxes for primary residences, not for places like the Los Angeles Country Club that pays $200k a year in property taxes on 313 acres of prime land.
From what I've seen that effort seems to be going into proprietary platforms like Stadia. There no guarantee that will trickle down to the open source community.
This epitomizes the difference between open source and commercial:

- looks like crap

- missing a ton of regular expected features

- has a couple features that you'll find nowhere else

- you'll spend more time getting it working than using it

But damn is it awesome.
I think it is because of Zen, most people in Japan don't actively practice Zen anymore but the influence is still there. Think of the tea ceremony, Bonsai trees, sword making etc, everything should be perfect, clean, minimalism that is how one reaches Satori, the Japanese are very self conscious. Same principles of zen applied to the modern world.
probably next time it'll go even higher, it just needs more and more
Ask HN: Best DB tech to build “Facebook” today?
If you were building something like Facebook (or Google+ etc. - something quite isomorphic to a social network), what database technology would you choose?

A classic relational DB like MySQL, an extra-featured-RDBMS like Postgres, a super-scalable one like CockroachDB? Or a column-oriented RDBMS? Or maybe a document DB like Mongo? Or jump in and pick an actual graph database since your data would look like graphs anyway (eg. Neo4j or Arango DB).

Or a 2 tiered system with a "core" relational or column oriented system, and a graph DB for advanced analytics that might require graph traversals?
I would consider the insight required to realize that Fresnel lenses work at all to be very much a new step in optics. Geometrically speaking it is not intuitive at all.
pieter levels wrote an article about it referencing to the bilzerian interview, you'll enjoy it https://levels.io/hedonic-treadmill/
Check predicted crowd at European tourist destinations
Absolutely. We thought a lot about this trade-off when designing the study.

The disadvantage of using a clear business-card case over a traditional wallet is clear, in that it is relatively unusual. The advantage of using a clear case, however, is that it affords considerably more experimental control in that you can be relatively certain that every recipient knows what is inside. With a wallet, there will be variation in who decides to inspect the wallet, and that introduces selection effects into the experimental design (i.e., are those who are willing to look inside a wallet, compared to those who don't, different in their degree of honesty?). This makes interpreting the evidence a lot more challenging.

FWIW we examined how our measure of civic honesty compares to other known proxies of honest behavior (tax evasion, corruption, etc) within and between countries. If there was something artificial or unique about our setting -- such as using unusual clear business card cases -- then you wouldn't expect our results to generalize or correlate with other measures of honest behavior. However, we find response rates correlate very highly with these other proxies of honesty, suggesting that they are tapping into some broader construct.
Yes, yes, yes! I refuse to use anything except Mitsubishi UB157 for handwriting for years now.
Also my first observation is that these laptops are far too big and powerful for my work with Linux.

I don't need an 18-wheeler for my commute to work.
you can solve that by ticking a checkmark in `Folder Options` that puts folders in separate processes
For this Googler, teaching code is a “drag”
It's improving. Baytrail devices apparently run just fine with a reasonably up-to-date distro, that definitely used to not be the case.
I just picked up a Sole treadmill. Gonna rig it up to my desk to see if I can work and walk.
Thanks for sharing this, interesting.
Tablets still have big niches. Education, touchscreen computers, etc.
Ha! I'm familiar with the phenomenon, but I hadn't heard it described as a "treadmill" before. Most metaphors out there (eg most computer science jargon) fit well on a superficial level, but the analogy breaks down when you go deeper. But sometimes, someone comes up with a metaphor for something that's such a good fit that it just makes my day.

The Hedonic Treadmill is definitely one of those. It's not just the repetitiveness, but also the exhaustion, the endlessness, the pointlessness even to some extent. And, in some sense, maybe even the progress you can make over a long time when using a treadmill frequently. Like, you learn to embrace the pointlessness of being on a treadmill, running but going absolutely nowhere, and that insight in itself makes it so that you're not running nowhere at all. Kinda sorta.
Global warming is eating away at the glaciers on The Himalayas
Slack’s IPO Is Going to Be a Success. Here’s Why
Oh wow. Not sure how I missed that, thanks.

Considering hardware projects are just software (CAD files, schematics, diagrams, documentation) I’d love to see Github or Gitlab or someone take this on.
MySQL then, MySQL now.

A great read from Pinterest engineering:
Learn to stop using shiny new things and love MySQL

https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering/learn-to-stop-usin...
Not sure if I am understanding you correctly but they didn't kill him because he brought them gifts, they killed him because previous outsiders brought disease and death, so they are rightly xenophobic.
I agree that writing them only to catch typos would be stupid. But if you're going to write them regardless, catching typos comes for free.

Ps and luckily, even with dynamic languages any decent IDE will catch most typos
Shelters in LA have waiting lists, and Section 8 housing has 37,000 families on waiting lists. Sounds like it’s not a “lifestyle choice” for a lot of people.
Very cool, will try this out! I've been doing a fairly extensive integration with their primary VGS tokenization service and it's been a solid, though young platform with a few missing pieces they have promptly addressed. The use of a programmable tokenizing L7 proxy seems to me the best path forward to isolate sensitive data in systems for regulatory and security purposes. If you store sensitive data in your application, you really should look into it.
>There is no such thing as private property

This isn't true from the perspective of the legal system and isn't true from the natural law framework on which US common law is based.
That's the worst name for the simplest thing. I'd call it 'illusion of impact'. What happens to you seems like it's affecting you but really doesn't. After a while you feel no happier or sadder that you have always been. It's because your happiness is biological and you can improve it or harm it lastingly only by affecting your biology. Getting more money won't affect it. Sleeping longer, moving more, eating with more variety or leaving people and places that cause immense daily stress, properly diagnosing and treating that reflux, fixing your teeth just might.

People are so keen to jump at the fact that mind somewhat affects the body, but often miss the fact that mind is the part of the body.
Philips announces lights that beam data at 250 Mbps
No your probably right, probably is pretty wasteful
When I was a kid I found it confusing people would confuse there, their and they're – or rather being taught that people confuse them. I'm not sure whether it was due to me being more literate than verbal or not but "they're" at least has always been distinct to me. Maybe it's due to accent changes. I used to pronounce bull and ball the same.
Sure, as long as you've shown the mandatory "request presented in clear and plain language to provide consent by an affirmative act (such as checking a box online or signing a form)"[1], make it clear that sending the form is considered consent, and describe explicitly the process by which such consent can be revoked.

[1] https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/dealing-with-customers...
Amazon launches domestic ticket sales in India, alarming airlines
I don’t think this is as simple as you suggest (because I’ve tried things like it). First, you have to keep track of which documents need the same header/footer (unless all are exactly the same). Second, you have to extract the title from the content somehow. There are a bunch of little steps like these that make it more complex (in my mind) than just writing HTML directly.
I feel I am not a very good developer because of a similar feeling. I do not enjoy producing lines of code, but I enjoy solving difficulties. That is one of the reasons I love making prototypes. One of my favourite professional activities is to provide support. Some other team call me to help on issues. Often I know far less than them and they do not always tell all what they have done. It is like an Agatha Christy novel where I have to find the culprit (the cause of the issue). Someone else provides a clean fix. I love problems where the solution is surprising (for example https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41061400/perl-join-strin...).
> By extension, are you proposing a ban on water filters and filter cartridges?

Not necessarily. But filters are cheap pieces of plastics, whereas the whole magic is in the cartridges, so the pricing structure seems OK.

> Keurigs and their cartridges?

Definitely. Keurig deserves to be dissolved for DRMing coffee and for being an ecological disaster.

> I don't think I've ever had one of my consumer printers break (and I use third-party ink so I'm not even subsidizing them in the end), so the extremity of this argument is surprising.

I had consumer inkjets break on me as often as they run out of ink. And for everyone I know, even in my family, the result was always the same: if basic maintenance like cleaning and re-cleaning heads and banging a bit with a fist didn't work, the printer went to trash and a new one was bought.

To be clear, I'm not against consumables in general. I'm against selling a product way below costs, hoping to recoup the subsidy through inflated pricing of consumables. I feel it's an unfair practice and that it promotes wastefulness and negative ecological externalities.
Nice, makro-history is interesting. Most of you probably know it, but regarding ancient history Noah Yuval Harari is a master writer, apiens: A Brief History of Humankind is a great book on this topic.
I own an 4K X1-extreme, which is basically the P1 without the Quadro card and Xeon/ECC option.

I run Ubuntu 19.04 on it and have so many problems.

- Grub has ridiculous performance issues on 4K screens, it renders at less than 1 fps, making it a real pain to do anything in it.

- You can't update the bios through Linux, the update tool is windows only.

- The Lenovo TB3 dock never works properly.

- The dual GPU situation (Intel + nVidia) requires all sorts of hacks to make it somewhat workable.

- The power usage is an abomination under Linux as it can't properly scale the nVidia GPU.

- Working with the TPM under Linux feels hacky, but maybe that's mostly due to my lack of experience and the lack of documentation.

OK, so all these problems are all due to my specific situation (running dual boot, and an external 4K display through the TB3 dock), but I really, really hope they start fixing these issues if they are going to officially support Ubuntu.

One plus though: due to the high power consumption under Linux, the coil whine is a lot less notable...
"Someone" means a human, and that's where you are probably quite wrong.

The same point would then be that Overwatch or Assassin's Creed could be written entirely in Assembler "by someone", because a disassembler can output asm code that compiles to the exact binaries needed to reproduce it.

Yes, it can just like every other Turing complete language. Even Qbasic can do it this way. Let's get back to what a human "someone" can program in the language instead of these high level computer generated abstractions through Turing complete languages.

Waterloo Basic with all its crazy line numbers could do it entirely using PEEKs and POKEs with the logic you are clinging to. And it'll be just as unreadable as the interpreted LLVM is. And exactly as fast.

LLVM can be interpreted in Brainfuck. How far down the rabbit hole can we go before you interpret the whole thing in 1's and 0's? Crazy thought!

Try the conversion yourself and look at the results. It isn't anything like what a human could be expected to read and write. I use it often enough, and I can assure you I'd never want to be the chump who hopes to refactor it into realistic / maintainable Lisp code. What makes this useful at all is the already long-standing CLOS.

It serves its purpose. But you are over-glorifying the merits of the fact that Lisp is Turing complete like so many other languages that came after it.

Other people have already pointed out a speed penalty that I won't cover here. It works, but its not the OG... with enough time and effort, it could be. But for now, it isn't even close.
mrweasel indeed, exactly what I was thinking. SSI for the head, top, nav, bottom... unique content included. Update to the template is one simple edit.

Taking it a step further with the likes of nginx, cache the response, compress it. done.
A powerful person can feel humiliated by an outstanding gift.

It can also be seen as an temptation of evil.
Isn't autobiography a written account of autobiographical memory?
If you print ten pages a year, I'd rather you go to a print shop instead of being yet another person whose inkjet printer will end up in a landfill in a year.
The developers and technical people who invented them are the ones who made much the money. Everyone I know who works in ad tech has gone through several acquisitions and is stinking rich - they tend to be on the more sociopathic side though. Just a correlation I’ve seen.
That's a good name for it
An Applicative for Transactional Validation
Just a comment under you is a description why it's a good analogy (by user skrebbel). Do you disagree (it's a newer comment than yours)?
I agree, especially with the part about retroactive breakage. It’s very easy with static site generators; with just HTML and CSS, not so much.
It also is obvious. What do you expect? More and more happiness? Of course there is a base level and a maximum and no matter what happens, you return to it. Later you can be proud of your accomplishments.

Happiness is overrated anyway. Be proud of what is achieved, do not hang on to fleeting feelings.
Cost was about US $600K in total.
They took some things private that had been open.
Not sure who would buy such a book
I was thinking of running one of these in our garden - just to get an idea of how bad it is

https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/pms5003-particulate-matte...
Doesn't <i> mean a fontawesome icon? /s
Lack of transparency is just bad communication. I see "shield you from the bullshit" not as bad communication.

I look at it more like this: The customer has an emergency and needs something ASAP. A bad manager will pass this bullshit straight to his team, including the "Oh my god this thing is going to blow up if you can't get it done by Friday!!!!",

A great manager however, will first figure out if this is a real emergency or not, how much it will cost, etc. (S)he will take into account who is currently working on what, what the priorities are, etc. Then will present a realistic solution to the customer/management: "Look, this we can do, this we cannot do".

In this situation, as a team member, work comes in as usual, and you probably were allowed to put an estimate on it. No "Help the world is going to end if this isn't done, DROP EVERYTHING!!!".

I've worked for multiple managers that fall in either bucket, and I had cases where something needed to be finished by Friday, because the customer needed it on Monday. Asking a week later after deadline: "Did it work?" "The customer hasn't tested it or put in production yet".

Great managers however, have great communication skills. Maybe a better wording is that they are able to filter the bullshit from the rest.
A Stadia lock-is is preferable to a Windows lock-in since there's no reason for Stadia to not run on Linux.

Stadia uses Linux and Vulkan so games ported to run on Stadia should work on the Linux desktop too.

I'm responding to the mention of Stadia, but I'm not sure what this has to do with Lenovo.