skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But what are the alternatives?

- Paper towels? Environmentally unsound.

- Washable towel on a continuous roller/spindle thing? Common in past decades, now pretty rare. Requires regular servicing. Expensive? [1]

- Don’t offer hand drying at all? Uncomfortable especially in cold climates. Might discourage people from washing their hands at all.

While I agree they need to be quieter, Hand dryers are still the best technology we have right now.

[1] The British Library still uses these in their washrooms, presumably because of noise concerns with hand dryers.
The author of the referenced post, Venkatesh Rao is a unique cat. The terms/concepts are from him and he's been building up a lexicon for years.

He deals in abstract concepts, and it's semi-humourous by intention. The most widely read but is a long series on a "nature of the firm" concept developed by analysing "The Office."

Top down, in this context, means something like Canberra. A city that was built from comprehensive designs created a priori and a formalized (legible, in Venkat's terms) decision making processes.

Bottom-up means something like language, which is created by people using an illegible (more or less meaning impossible to describe mechanically) and distributed decision making processes.

Personally, I think bits of it are quite brilliant.
Well, I can't complain about visitors and views and the resulting business out of that. Maybe I'm just very lucky, but it's not such a big deal as OP wants it to be.
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Great examples. What happens if Google botches up LLVM? They're far more powerful than Redhat.
Isn't one of the points of separation of power that the government (executive branche) should not have priority access to the judicial branche? Fining individuals, even loony ones, while not even attempting to fight the big battles (FAANG, personal data trading for 'profiling' or even government profiling within the EU) is imho just preposterous.
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That's really good to hear. It wasn't a personal attack, just calling out that one specific point you made. For reasons the sibling post pointed out.
The problem with this hypothesis is that it seems to imply that his money resulted in some sort of advantage other candidates did not have. In reality he was outspent by nearly half a billion dollars in the general election and he was also outspent by every major competitor in the primaries as well.

If it wasn't an economic matter and instead he just hired better people - that would still be quite an amazing skill. To be able to have hired better people for his campaign than professional politicians who have been studying and living politics for decades?
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Yes, there are reasons to rewrite a library, but people expect you to tell them why you are rewriting it.

So... why are they rewriting it?
Sad that it doesn't work on Firefox.
> we absolutely should penalize corporations who take advantage of addicts for a profit

Often we end up doing things to make sure they have more profit. I wouldn't be surprised if this e-cigarettes ban is coming from cigarette manufacturers lobbying for it.
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The Financial Times, his former editor at the Telegraph, obviously the Guardian

I would note that all three of these are extremely anti-Brexit. Lots of people believe (rightly or wrongly) that Leave wouldn't have won without the support of Johnson and blame him personally for Brexit, which they see as an abomination. They aren't going to be even handed in their judgement of him: really, I'd say anything they write about him is going to be a smear.
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I'm really afraid to click one of those links on mobile. Does it just spawn 100 new tabs?
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i am a bit confused by the problem here. if you decide to wash your hands and your face don't you get the same germs still on your hands onto your face?

if that is a problem then isn't the solution to wash hands more thouroughly?

on a side note, what concerns me much more is how many places i have to touch in a bathroom before even getting to the sink and start washing...
yes, I agree completely.
Yes, it does. Though in Firefox it spawns 20 at a time and every time you click on the original tab it spawns another 20.
Modern hand dryer models, including Dyson air blades, do often have HEPA filters on their air intakes.
I've always been placing FBP under dataflow.

Regarding distinguishing features though, AFAIK, one of the more important ones is that in FBP, connections between processes are done via named ports on processes, and that the wiring of these connections is thus enabled to be done separately from the process implementation itself. Dataflow, AFAIK, does not specify how the data network is specified.

We tried to describe this feature under the "Reusable component" with a figure (fig 3) in this (open access) paper: https://academic.oup.com/gigascience/article/8/5/giz044/5480... (link goes directly to the relevant section).
> Google is limiting third party email software on Android

Interesting interpretation.

https://developers.google.com/terms/api-services-user-data-p...
Patching is just a subsidy for the manufacturer. This malware just soft-bricks (the device can be restored by reinstalling the firmware), so it inflicts a cost without generating extra garbage. Sounds great to me.
And spend the next 20-40 years hanging out?

Hopefully, over the next couple of decades more people reach a healthy 100.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/there-are-more-ame...
That could explain a part, but not the entire phenomenon.

Fear is a negative emotion, but is quite visible to those who are under it, and they would try to get rid of it.

But the journalists (ok, let's them call so for now) do not seem to be driven by fear. The media owners might be, but the journalists aren't. They have a positive emotion, they want to do thing the way are being done; they seem to be driven by shared ideology of progressive liberalism (see twitter for blue checkmark social bubble). They believe they are doing the right thing, even if it means being silent about some wrongdoing. The end justifies the means, and talking about some issues would be like helping to the enemy. Nobody wants Trump in 2020 again, right?

That's why you are seeing dissent only in media, that are not progressive. And they happen to fall outside main media sources by definition.
I thought you could change your life and take the right path in terms of education. If this is so then the site can help you https://phdessay.com/ I think you will always be happy to help from free essay.
I believe you and the prior posters are using different meanings for the word equivalent.

Buying the same asset under a different name (say, packaged under a different ticker on another exchange) would be a wash share.

Buying a truly different underlying asset in the same sector/region which has 99.9% correlation with the original asset you held would not be a wash sale.
What's replaced it is running services or application servers that contain an embedded HTTP handler, and putting a load balancer in front of it.

Also, rather than guilt by association (Android et al, which was done under different circumstances compared with the hundreds of other libraries Google has released), why not actually hear out the concrete proposal and then criticize it?

Saying no one in category X can ever build anything good is just illogical.
> 6) There's no killer app

Have you looked at Cro? Cro is a set of libraries for building reactive distributed systems taking advantage of all Perl 6 has to offer. The high level APIs make the easy things easy, and the asynchronous pipeline concept at Cro's heart makes the hard things possible. https://cro.services . With HTTP/1.1 / HTTPS, HTTP/2.0 and Web Sockets support out the box.

> 10) Maturity of implementation, tooling, support, etc.

Comma is an IDE for Perl 6, based on the JetBrains platform, with detailed syntax highlighting, grammar support, auto-completion, refactoring support, integrated test runner / graphical debugger, stack explorer and direct profiling. https://commaide.com
You'd be surprised how low pay is in sought-after fields. Everyone wants in and accepts less.
> what concerns me much more is how many places i have to touch in a bathroom before even getting to the sink and start washing..

Or worse, how many places you have to touch after you've washed, and when you've seen people leave who don't wash their hands.
This is incredibly useful but too bad it's using LLVM instead of being a replacement for the preprocessor. If it was, I would seriously consider it for work. Video games companies sometimes have to use the provided compiler instead of LLVM, same for embedded (I could see this project work for C too anyway).
Security firms demonstrate subdomain hijack exploit vs. EA/Origin
So does that mean all that propaganda about them having a monorepo is bullshit?
Hi everyone.

Author here. There are multiple comments criticising the choice of word ‘markets’ so I’ll explain my motivation here.

Yes, both biology and free-market economy are unplanned. However, just because life had a billion years of headstart, biology is much more complex with several levels of emergent structure (ATP, mitochondria, cell, organ, organism, family, tribe). All such systems interact and influence each other in ways that we don’t fully understand (or perhaps can even hope to understand). This richness came about by a blind process of natural selection.

Markets, relative to biology, are much simpler because products and services are designed not by a blind process but motivated individuals. Perhaps, as someone else pointed out, I could have called it 'abstractions'. But the point is that what we produce in markets (like a chair) is limited by the human mind’s ability to understand and design for the complex system that’s a human. In that sense, I call markets square. Because they only address the richness of nature bluntly, the subtlety of nature is necessarily lost in market transactions because it is human mind that’s doing transactions.

If we give markets millions of years, yes, perhaps the “invisible hand” will create the same richness and subtlety in offerings and transactions that we see in nature. But I’m not so sure about this. Maybe our mind will prove to be a limitation in our ability to design solutions for complex systems.

The overall point of the essay is to do with our inability to comprehend complex systems, but our tendency to act as if we do.

Hope this clarifies.
I'm not sure about the Pepsi ad, but in basically every false advertising case the company accused goes for the "no reasonable person would believe that" defence.

For example, Apple advertises an iPhone as "twice as fast for half the price"? They say no reasonable person would believe that [1]

Or Vitaminwater says the drink "could promote healthy joints, support optimal immune function, and reduce the risk of eye disease"? They claim no reasonable person would believe vitaminwater was a healthy drink [2]

I mean, this seems like a hole in the law that you can drive a truck through.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2008/12/apple-says-cust/
[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/coca-cola-glacau-vitaminwate...
There's a clear conflict of interest: moderating comments critical of the organisation who employs you can easily be considered biased to a disinterested party. It doesn't matter if there is bias or not, the possibility that people will see it as biased is enough for people to recognise it and lost trust. This kind of moderation should be done by a disinterested party, and the Google employee should recuse themselves from addressing it (just refer it to another moderator).

Guess who just finished their Conflict of Interest yearly refresher!
Chromium does 1 at a time for me, 1 every second - was quite intensive.
jeremy vine is a very well known journalist and radio show host
All of these things are interlinked and the tradewar is absolutely part of it.
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Nobody is claiming HTML is not necessary. It's just not sufficient.
I pretty much agree with all the article. Back in 2001, when Web Standards were on the rise, people used to validate their HTML code. It was shown as a badge of prestige when you had 0 errors. Semantic HTML was a hot topic and most of the developers I worked with were a sort of HTML taliban. But the popularity of frameworks helped developers forget the basics and concentrate more on learning how to get the most out of these projects. If we also sum that I don't see true impact on SEO by having the best HTML I think it's pretty clear semantics and validation isn't relevant anymore.

When people ask me why SEO isn't working. Well, try to see the first results on Google, and check their code. Most of the times you will see worsen HTML validation and semantics trumped over better (not perfect), not mentioning the first page is mostly paid ads. Google is not like back in the 2000s. Things has changed.
It would be nice to see what sites it is going to open.
And maybe worth mentioning you can use Container Tab (or maybe even anonymous window) to test/verify this without compromising your real fondly crafted advertising profile.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Rolling_animals
it says: "It looks like you're visiting Track This on your phone. Please use Desktop to activate your persona. Trust us, you don't really want to open 100 tabs on from your phone in any case."
i just let my hands dry naturally, and teach kids to do the same. as long as it's not freezing cold outside they will dry soon enough. it's the most environmental friendly too.
"The words required of them fall out of their mouth in smoothly flowing paragraphs."

This made me chuckle. I see what you are trying to point out, and generally agree, but it's sort of a way to make a fundamentally negative behavior seem almost endearing.

"the sword was deployed in smooth swipes and swift thrusts to achieve victory over the enemy" sounds different from "make the enemy's guts spill and blood gush in torrents until they flee in terror".
> In our current internet, we need a big brother like Google or Bing to effectively find any relevant information in exchange for sharing with them our search history, browsing habits etc.

Seems like you could access Google/Bing/etc. (or DuckDuckGo, which'd probably be a better start here) through an anonymizing service.

But, no, going without search engines entirely doesn't make much sense.

I suspect that what you'd really want is more control over what your computer shares about you and how you interact with services that attempt to track you. For example, you'd probably like DuckDuckGo more than Google. And you'd probably like Firefox more than Chrome.

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With respect to the future internet...

I suspect that our connection protocols will get more dynamic and sophisticated. Then you might have an AI-agent try to perform a low-profile search for you.

For example, say that you want to know something about a sensitive matter in real life. You can start asking around without telling everyone precisely what you're looking for, right?

Likewise, once we have some smarter autonomous assistants, we can ask them to perform a similar sort of search, where they might try to look around for something online on your behalf without directly telling online services precisely what you're after.
It isn't clear to me how you would prevent sociopathic behaviour.

If current trade relies on trust, sociopaths could take advantage of that trust. If you replace it with a trustless system you take all the humanity out of it(?), which starts seeming a bit dystopian to me.

Plus to me marketing is very broad, and can basically be divorced from economics. Marketing (propaganda) still existed in the USSR.

Can you be more specific about this new economic belief system?
Meaningful markets account for a relatively small portion of modern economies.

Companies hate to compete and avoid doing so whenever possible. This can be as simple as ISP’s avoiding investment in areas with an existing ISP to complex backroom deals.

Internally, companies have full on top down planning just like governments. At larger companies this often results in silly levels of inefficiency.
Unfortunately, a lot of people don't care...
If Walmart can ask you for a dollar charity on your bill, so can some independent contractor.
Simpson’s Paradox

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7FJRnxbRtT7Sbzizs/simpson-s-...
While this looks and feels fun, I also felt so bad - it's such a huge waste of energy, computing resources and bandwith.
> I'm not sure what think is wrong with the ad besides making an offer they didn't want to make good on?

Personally, I think that's always wrong and this should be by default judged in favour of the customer taking them up on an offer. Advertisements aren't random remarks thrown off the cuff.
There's a patrol at Beachy Head in the UK too. https://bhct.org.uk/. I know I'll get downvoted for this but I feel a little resentful that they would seek to deny me peace in my final moments.
> If the figures come from paternity testing lab results then you are automatically

> biasing the data towards those that are suspicious

Testing labs also have a vested interest in spreading inflated stats.
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Broadcasting your searches seems, if anything, even worse for privacy, and an invitation for just-in-time spam.
> So it's a kind of research language - which is important and has its place

I'd rather say that Perl 6 is an inspirational language. With other languages stealing ideas and features from it. But also a complete, production ready language on its own. Based on MoarVM, a virtual machine specifically designed to run Perl 6 on, but with more general applicability as well.

And with some exciting developments for the GSOC: one of which should allow creation of a single executable for a Perl 6 application on Linux / MacOS and Windows.
Seems a bit like the AdNauseam project, except more refined because it allows the user to select a profile.

https://adnauseam.io/
Bold of you to assume there will be 47 useful apps in 2025
It's because Huawei is poised to take over the 5G market ahead of Qualcomm and Ericsson and refuses to give back doors to the NSA or any other US intelligence agency. It's presumed that Huawei will give access to China only.

That's what this is all about.
I got a pretty good laugh out of you saying Russia is a special case (special because you're European). Different moral ground when it's a direct military threat in your own backyard.

Unlike most/all countries in Europe, the US has truly global security interests. As the sole superpower it is in long-term security / defense partnerships all over the world, including in Asia, which pertains directly to the China situation. As the most prominent example, the world's third largest economy - Japan - has no real ability to defend itself from China in a conflict and depends almost entirely on the US for military security (including the US nuclear umbrella).

Are the Europeans going to all rush to Asia to defend Japan and or South Korea in a conflict? No. They're not going to lift a finger to do anything (protest at the UN perhaps), and more realistically can't do anything even if they wanted to. So should the US abandon Japan re defense, pretend we have no security interest there at all? I don't think so.

So no, it's not just the same as China doing it. That's merely the perspective of a European with only regional (the Russian special case) security concerns.

North Korea and South Korea are also not on the same moral ground.
This is all about the trade war. The espionage pretext is just that: a pretext. US wants to keep everybody hostage to its military, its technology and its economy.

This is not something new. The only change is that now the US admin uses a kind of zero tolerance policy and I believe it will fire back.

The free trade is replaced by America First trade: we have the biggest military power and economy so you do it our way or you deal with the consequences.

Personally I believe the policy reflects Trump's personality.
>And I'm not sure that HN is super representative of its interests either. The email was aimed at LLVM folks, not HN.

>On a more meta level, I also think it would be good for lots of folks (HN, twitter, etc.) to be a bit less harsh in their criticism of initial posts proposing new efforts/projects.

I'm sure it's super annoying when folks in the larger community with vested interests in the continuing success of projects like LLVM start noticing harsh criticism coming from credible experts like Rich Felker. =]

And then post it to HN or tweet it out to others so the concern spreads. =]

But all feedback is good feedback, right? And anyways, I'm sure the folks at LLVM will let Google have their way in the end because there's no other foreseeable outcome of this discussion, is there? At least, none worth discussing. =]
As for pricing, I'd like to mention that the creator of Inkdrop chose the monthly subscription model for his app and shared his reasoning behind this choice in his blog: https://blog.inkdrop.info/how-i-built-a-markdown-editor-earn...
Soft-bricking is hardly comparable to burning something down. More like adding an extra lock and throwing away the key. Inconvenient, but not destructive.
It's all staged. The late enterence, the demands for paper and pen, leaving it on the table and 'winging' his speech. He knows it all adds to his mystique, that sheet of paper will be passed around and talked about. He knows that he has been sat on the most influential table with the most influential people.
He reminds me of great improv, that he takes a bit and goes with it. Shame he's being kept of the telly at the moment.
I been using protonmail for years.

https://protonmail.com/
One could say the same for the ads industry.
People are seriously injured in turbulence incidents from time to time.

E.g.

https://billingsgazette.com/news/local/flight-attendant-rema...
I wonder if there is some evolutionary mechanism that rewards sociopathic behaviour in a small percentage of the population of any group.
Please let us know what links you're going to open.
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Good. Fuck thieves.
Pretty, but not particularly in-depth.

Also, nitpick but I can't hold it: Why isn't the MSE np.mean(np.square(predictions - labels)? That's even breez-ier!