skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like you're personally offended by the project. If some of the code that got presumably stolen is yours I can definitely understand.

Looking at how slowly that project is moving though I think your conclusion is right: They don't care. In some other comment you mentioned how the project seems to be stuck in the 2000/XP area. How relevant does that make this project today? But whether it's based on stolen code or not, it seems like the right choice to focus on getting that completed before moving on to everything that came after. And after all, Windows isn't just the kernel. They have to implement a lot of user space too, because software out there might assume it's available and behaving in very certain ways. Just an explorer clone sounds like a mammoth task on its own.

I still find the project very interesting and overly ambitious, even if code was stolen. I think at their current pace, reactos won't become usable before operating systems became largely irrelevant and everything runs in the cloud. Everyone still working on it today is probably just doing it for the challenge.
This is not a particularly compelling article.

First, it shows that corporate profits fluctuate between 5-10% of GDP since 1947? The article paints that as "less for everyone else"--but it seems like a lot for everyone else.

Second, it cites a study, but then immediately admits it "should be taken with a grain of salt" because it refers to a hypothetical model without necessarily connecting it to the actual economy or ruling out alternative explanations. But then it proceeds to take the assumption that corporations are "extracting economic rents" as a given.

It cites the decline in labor share of income: https://www.kansascityfed.org/~/media/images/publications/re.... It tries to link that to rent extraction, but the timing is peculiar: https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/employment-and-gr....

Given the narrative of rent extraction, you'd expect the declines in labor share of income to have happened during the long period of deregulation, reduced antitrust enforcement, etc., starting in the 1970s. But labor share of income was 65% in 1950, and 63% in 2000. It's 57% today, and the vast majority of the decline happened in the last two decades.

Most of the decline is the result of a handful of sectors: https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/employment-and-gr.... Half of them are ones where technology has turned workers into commodities, like retail, or where technology enables massive productivity without much labor, like internet or software.
The number of housing starts in Los Angeles right now is basically zero[1]. 30 years ago the pace of home building in LA was three times higher with a population 20% smaller.

1: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LOSA106BPPRIVSA
I am a big believer in this, so far doing a form of trigger point therapy on myself and exercise/stretching has relieved all my nagging pains (right shoulder, right knee, both wrists).

It seems completely insane to me that you would have a painful wrist or knee and start a regiment of ibuprofen for it.
Why would you suppress your bodies signals that something is wrong rather than trying to get your muscles, bones and tendons to work correctly and healthily together. It's like fixing your car by turning off the check engine light.
Ugly like a Thinkpad is normally, or ugly even for a Thinkpad?

Because I would normally put the Thinkpad in a "a design only an engineer could love" category.
Show HN: Keypad2text – transform text to keypad code and vice versa
Could Ancient Greek Philosophy Help You Work Smarter and Better?
Do you often need to scroll a map on your car's screen?
You don't even need really healthy food and you don't need to cook, just don't eat too much and you already solved half of the problems if not more associated with over stuffing on calories. The problem is cultural and by the way, exists also in countries with universal healthcare. Rich people always get better health treatment and high IQ and future time orientation also helps. This is just another identity politics drivel applied to whatever subject, I just ignore it and when there are elections I vote for Trump or its equivalent in my country.
In this week's UK news: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-48826850

"Cancer Research UK says bowel, kidney, ovarian and liver cancers are more likely to have been caused by being overweight than by smoking tobacco. It says millions are at risk of cancer because of their weight and that obese people outnumber smokers two to one. But its new billboard campaign highlighting the obesity-cancer risk has been criticised for fat-shaming."

[..] "NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens said: "The NHS can't win the 'battle against the bulge' on its own. "Families, food businesses and government all need to play their part if we're to avoid copying America's damaging and costly example.""
They have one wallet. But there is no reason for a wallet to depend on facebook being online, and presumably there will be 100 points of failure for the ledger on launch
I see way more worrying signs with much more immediate real world effects. All suggest the coming of the prophesized "long winter" in the tech industry:

1. PCB makers deferring new equipment installation: https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20190702PD205.html

2. Highlights of the day: Semiconductor inventory piling up: https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20190626VL202.html

3. Chipmakers likely to post disappointing 2H19 results: https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20190702PD203.html

This was for long talked about by economists in the "Big Semi," and I tend to trust those guys. The semiconductor industry employs very serious economists.
You're not being fair to Europe's very impressive contributions. After all, European companies lead the way in the production of rolling pollution machines, aka ICE vehicles.

Besides, the US has cleaner air than most of Europe, thanks to the intense diesel particulate pollution across European cities. Who can forget the infamous Paris smog photos from a few years ago (which is still an ongoing problem)?

Don't worry though, the US invented the modern electric car, twice, in the form of GM's EV1 and Tesla. We'll lead the European automakers out of the dark ages - underway right now as they all chase Tesla - and take care of the problem of the ICE automobile that Europe was heavily responsible for. In the process cities like Paris will be smog free again, finally.
Renault Megane owner here (the small Talisman), i want to address some of the criticism in this thread and the article.

> The steering wheel contains two dozen buttons

The buttons on the wheel are pretty well designed and usable. The left side is all about cruise control, one button for each action: faster, slower, ON, OFF. That's it, look at the picture to check it. All these buttons are close to your hand, have great feedback, and very simple to use. It's really nice to have them here. Right side is about phone handling and the (crappy) "Siri" or the car, I only use the button to answer the phone. Behind the wheel is the radio control, which is actually standard for a Renault car.

> The cruise control buttons being next to the handbrake button reminded me of the worst car I drove

The button in the middle of the car is only to choose between "Cruise control" or "speed limited". People rarely change it and I end up mainly using it after I moved it while cleaning the car. It's okay to place it here.

> Touch screens in cars should be banned.

I have to agree the UI on this car entertainment system is terrible and slow. Some controls such as the light power on the dashboard requires 3-4 presses, which can be difficult while driving. It's a shame they never addressed this problem, this UI can receive OTA updates.

All in all, this is a really nice driving experience. The main feature are available on buttons and really fast to reach. I've droven a lot of rental cars, and I remembered fumbling several minutes in the menus of a GM to change the steering wheel settings, which is WAY simpler on a Renault.
This is disgusting that youtube would ban computer security videos.
> That is definitely not compatible with actual mathematical “randomness”.

Of course it is, the concept of randomness is much broader than you allow for. The specific issue you refer to here is if you are sampling with or without replacement - both are valid.

There is another issue which is the distribution you use. Should songs be equally likely to occur, or should the ones you've played more occur more likely?

You may also extend sampling strategies to genre, or to exclude repeated artists, or whatever - but all of these things could still be done via random sampling.
Uranium -> thorium -> radium -> radon -> ... -> lead is a natural decay chain that does not typically activate other atoms to become unstable, so the decay energy between uranium and lead represents all the radioactivity there will ever be from that uranium. You can't predict exactly when it will be released, and because radon is a gas, you can't as easily predict where it will be released, but once you get to stable lead, it's done.

If you tack up a slab of any stable nucleus higher than iron on the nuclear binding energy curve to the inside walls of a neutron chain-reaction reactor, you can probably get it to absorb neutrons of the appropriate speed and become unstable, promising future radioactivity with an amount of energy between its current state and whatever its final decay product may be. That may be less total energy than the difference between uranium and lead, but it probably runs faster from start to finish than billions of years, and is probably more energy than the absorbed neutron.

So aside from natural reactors, which mostly shut down a long time ago, the only increases in radioactive potential are going to be from human-built reactors. The radon is just moving primordial radioactive potential from where the radium is, which is also where the uranium or thorium is, to wherever heavier-than-air gases can accumulate. If you remove the radium, you stop that. If you encapsulate the radium in a glass that traps gas, you stop that.

Mostly, we don't bother trying to remove trace amounts of uranium and other radioactive isotopes from mineral resources, but if a fungus could do it cheaply, it could make coal ash less dangerous to process and store.
https://www.toptal.com/tracker

IMO Best one on the market... better than harvest or rescue time, captures screen shots etc. Crazier yet... it's FREE

... I have zero affiliation too btw
No, because society has already accepted the status quo and needs to be convinced to change it. Technology can't gain acceptance by being just as good as the status quo -- it has to be better.

Every time a self-driving car causes an accident in a situation where a human driver probably would not have (and sometimes in pretty obvious ways, like driving into a freeway divider), it will hurt acceptance of the new technology. Politicians will never miss an opportunity to grandstand against tech companies. People will be afraid to ride in autonomous vehicles.
To each of their own. I can monetize all of those? Great. I find it acceptable trade off.
I have a Hyundai i30 (Elantra GT in the US, I believe) with a similar set of buttons on the steering wheel. The only button I don't use is the one to activate voice recognition for Android Auto or Car Play (I use neither).
This is true, but there were runups like this before the Federal Reserve. Quite a few, as it happens.

What, for example, is the NPV of a tulip bulb? Or a share in the South Sea Company?
They're starting to become standardized. Apple announced LHLS, a "low latency extension" to the HLS standard, https://developer.apple.com/documentation/http_live_streamin....

I don't think anyone really follows Apple's spec for various technical reasons, though. Most do some sort of chunked-transfer encoding, along with pre-signaling segments in playlists, as outlined by the Periscope folks here: https://medium.com/@periscopecode/introducing-lhls-media-str...
I don't mind touch screen for secondary functions, like GPS or media controls, which should not be operated (too much) while driving anyway. But making everything touch based is completely boneheaded and I don't plan on buying any car that increases my risk of death and injury this way.
Good ruling!
Yeah, they were used by humans. A lot of people seem to think that writing is what separates humans from animals without any interesting thoughts, but in fact many complex societies have evolved around orally-transmitted knowledge. If poetry is your metric of value, it so happens that often non-literary cultures encode their teachings into verse to increase memorizability and support faithful transmission from person to person. Examples of such works include the Iliad and the Odyssey.
I’ve thought seriously about it; the biggest thing holding me back being the lack of a job waiting for me there. Perhaps I could pick my German back up.

Why do you think that’s relevant? In your mind, you can’t comment on something unless you’re personally involved in it? It is plainly evident that Europeans enjoy a high degree of freedom and a broad and open discourse despite the lack of an unlimited freedom of speech - and in fact often a broader discourse than occurs in the US.

Slippery slopes are not in fact an automatic thing, outside external pressure. We can in fact just ban the libel and stop there. Even the US already does that, to some degree. We can just ban Naziism, tolerating it is not a self-evident moral necessity, but rather one that we as a society have decided to value. Other societies do not.

To be just as crass and dismissive as you were to me - your unlimited right to say anything you want has already been breached even in the US. I assume you are moving to Somalia to pursue your maximal freedom in a Libertarian paradise?
I was just on Seller Central yesterday and the only current barrier to committing fraud or selling dangerous goods on the worlds largest marketplace is a $40 monthly fee, a bank account, and enough creativity to make up a company name.

I hope this will help crack down on fraudulent product listings as well. There are a lot of bad actors. Youtube and facebook aren't the only major players with moderation issues
You don't even have to do that step, just uncheck the I do not agree box.
Corporations as they exist in the US are a legal fiction. Just because you have the right to associate with people does not mean you have a right to be shielded from the ramifications of what your association does. However this is not the current law as it exists in the US with the corporate veil.

Because corporations as they exist are completely fictional, you bet your ass we can take those completely made up protections away from them once they stop being a net benefit to society.

If that were done, corporations would do an absolute shit job of returning value to shareholders.
A good lobbyist will help drafting laws or regulations and bring them in front of lawmakers. A lot of laws are written directly by lobbyists.

They may also start a PR campaign for your case.
March 2016 US Bureau of Labor Statistics says that 44% of private industry workers participate in a 401k.

So no, most Americans do not have a 401k and seeing as that would be one of the easiest / most common ways to access the stock market, therefore have no shareholdings.
It's a user vs. enthusiast things. Some enthusiast people deal with computers because they like the technology or the ideas.
Hi glacials :) Small correction from someone at Twitch today:

> video was the holdout for a while because they needed specialized GPUs

This isn't quite right; it has more to do with the tight coupling of the video system with the network (eg, all the peering stuff described in the article).
They were down yesterday
Arduino based toys have their place, but in the end, the shield-bot is a toy.
Where the Pi shine's in my opinion is this: It packs the processing power of a small desktop and combines that with enough interface options (GPIO, Clock, AD and DA, I2C, etc, etc) to interface it with real world projects.
True, some things might be a bit too complex for a kid, but the opportunity to play and learn together with your kids are endless!
These clickbait headlines are not helping set public expectations around autonomous vehicles...
Spotify is the worst offender for me. Random won't play any song outside of the top 100-200 in my song library, but depending on how it is sorted. So if it is sorted from A-Z, I will hear only songs that start with A or B. If it is sorted by date added, I will only hear songs recently added.
Economists generally don't use the term "free markets". They describe different kinds of market: purely competitive, purely monopolistic, monopolistic-competitive and oligopolistic. Each of these markets show different quite characteristics, even though each is "free" insofar as the participants make their own decisions as they see fit.

In theory the perfectly competitive market is most effective at maximising net utility for all participants. But in general, very few markets are close to that end of the spectrum. Most fall somewhere in the other categories.
> men’s health issues are under-studies relative to women’s — ie breast cancer versus prostate cancer.

That sounds unfair, but according to the staistics I can find [0] [1], breast cancer kills more and/or younger people (mostly women) than prostate cancer, which kills slightly less and/or older men (many men die with prostate cancer, but not of it).

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/cancer

[1] https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/health-professional/cancer-...
Regulations are a double-edged sword and serve many lords, just like most actions of government. It's possible for the same regulation to vastly decrease the risk of harm to consumers, yet act as a barrier to entry for smaller players. This can happen both intentionally and unintentionally. It also doesn't help that drafting effective regulations requires domain expertise, so the field is vulnerable to infiltration by industry to further their own ends. Then there's the sort of regulations that account to little more than elaborate CYAs, or data collections for some governmental official's pet project.

On the other hand, it's bewildering to think that every area of life has been subject to so much regulatory capture (in dozens of jurisdictions nonetheless) that the year 2000 formed a tipping point of corporate profits in the US. Half of the years have been under administrations more friendly to mergers, so the vertical consolidations in the style of CVS-Aetna or Cigna-Express Scripts could have gone on to become a tool for deep-pocket entrants to enter heavily-regulated markets. Instead, horizontal consolidation mergers like GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer-Wyeth dominated. Don't forget AOL-Time Warner, Comcast buying AT&T Broadband, or the saga where SBC bought Ameritech and then the remnants of the original AT&T, renamed itself to AT&T, and then bought BellSouth too. Or any number of big bank mergers. Or oil companies.

So, it seems instead of entering new markets during a time of favorable regulatory environment, companies chose to buy out competitors instead, lay off a bunch of newly-redundant staff, and pocket the profit. Hmm.
This discussion provided me some food for thought. You (and the Matlab, and many other like-minded individuals) have chosen is to work with natural numbers¹ as indexes as these provide the most value for the amount of hassle. Having a 0 based index model is not really a choice the moment where one gets forced to work with the indexes themselves. That is especially when there are negative indexes to be considered, like we happen to encounter in the real world. What is the chance to go on past the integers, having a proportion or some irrational number² like π as index?

¹ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_number

² https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrational_number
What does it do specifically on shuffling?
No, but the big corps like that because it lets them selectively ban pretty much whatever they want.
So, I'm curious.

How does https://calibreapp.com/ compare to https://www.webpagetest.org/ and https://www.sitespeed.io/ and https://gtmetrix.com/ ?

Why would someone want to pay you for your service, as opposed to using any of the above? Do you support browsers other than Chrome? Do you support a wide variety of simulated hardware? Do you support a wide variety of testing locations? Do you support any page speed test profile other than Lighthouse and Google Page Speed? Do you support running your software in a Docker container of my own choice?

Because I can get all those things via one or more of the competitors in this space, and I'm not seeing any compelling reason to even look at Calibre.

Please feel free to convince me that I'm wrong.
You don’t need a phone number to open a google or gmail account. It asks for it but it’s a skippable step
After desperately trying to find local consultants to do $75K gig, we hired remote Indian person who did it for ~$13K. The delivered quality and timing exceeded our expectations.

And honestly it changed the way i used to view remote offshore consultants.
Regulation tends to exist because the market wasn't regulating itself and abuse was rampant. So there seems to be an underlying cause of dysregulation common to these markets.
Attunity Data Leak: Vendor for half the Fortune 100 exposed terabyte of backups
The touchscreen enables a bad and dangerous ux design.

Physical knobs—where appropriate, like volume—are amazing because one can adjust the setting almost instantly, without having to keep an eye on the touch screen, and without having to develop muscle memory.

A touch screen still pales in comparison to a mouse and keyboard, for example, so this shouldn’t come as a surprise.
Traditionally this wasn't so. The dominance of this idea that that companies are chimeric organisms whose only utility function is to return value to shareholders is actually mostly an artifact of the last 50~ years.[1] We have various defenders of leveraged buyouts and activist investor techniques to thank for it. Traditionally, corporations had an embedded duty toward the societies they formed in and their employees equal or above profit.[2]

[1] https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2012/06/26/the-shareholder-v...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_board_(Netherlands)#Hist...
I wonder if all this online complaining is worse than useless, but actually counter-productive by acting as a release valve for real grievances.
Because you can pay someone to do something for $80/hr does not mean your time is worth $80/hr.
> doesn’t encrypt the destination IP address

How would that work?
depends on how you value your vacation time with family/friends/to yourself.
Yes. To see where I'm going to be going or find something. Do you not?
And practically impossible to determine. How much does Google "earn" by having a better idea of who its audience is?

How much does Google "earn" by keeping its competition weak(er)?

How much does Google "earn" by being able to speech-to-text all video and increase its corpus of knowledge?

How much does Google "earn" by being a better search engine because it can provide video results?

How much does Youtube bandwidth "cost" Google when it has links into every exchange there is anyway?
Please source these leaked documents you're referencing. If you read through my posts, I've pointed out multiple times in this thread that the docs Project Veritas leaked pertaining to their latest Google video show no attempt at being biased, nor do they single-out right-wing/Conservative/etc. viewpoints.
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Changing trust settings on device requires the password.

Better question is: what are they able to pull off the device while it's unlocked?