skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well, neoliberalism is a weird thing because it means different things to different people, but wikipedia puts it thusly[1]:

> economic liberalization policies such as privatization, austerity, deregulation, free trade and reductions in government spending in order to increase the role of the private sector in the economy and society

basically how “gigacorps” rule society and public needs to be lead by private institution because they can’t rule themselves fits very much (in my opinion) with neoliberal thinking... and in more modern times neoliberal thinking very much has an anti-democratic and more capital-centered (or you could say elitist) orientation...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism

[edit] just to be clear, what i mean to say is that neoliberalism shouldn’t be confused with classical liberalism even if they have similar origins, with neoliberalism being more closer to the conservative ideal economically (not socially per se)
Can I ask... How do you feel about Lenovo as a company? Do you trust their firmware? I preferred IBM, as much as a hopeless company as they are, it felt like a good old tech company.
I would love to see Apple make the touch bar an option. If Apple sold two identical MacBooks models, except for the touch bar, my guess would be that they would sell significantly more units without the touch bar.

Is anyone seriously benefiting from the touch bar or even using it for anything other than as a gimmick?
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How much more support does Boeing need? [1] Maybe the should start considering stop cutting so many corners.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jul/02/donald-trum...
> My point stands: all major enterprise dbms have limitations. And you are dismissing MySQL, but by your standards Mssql and sybase would also be dismissed.

You are refuting a claim I never made. My issue is not with the limitations, these are a fact of life with any and all technology.

My issue is with silent data corruption and subtle issues that break expectations

Thus, requiring any user of the system to be fully versed in all the documentation and to be prescient enough at all times when interacting with the database.

I can’t make such guarantees, and PostgreSQL follows the principle of least surprise much better. If I have two options and one of them has odd silent failure modes and the other holds your feet to the fire to ensure correctness. I will consistently choose the latter.
Meh, just measure long enough and you are going to see those tails of your standard normal distribution fill up slowly.
Only around 0.25% of paid customers: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/52442#rationa...
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Bullocks.

For example, try to track down this seller (Amazon Germany)

https://www.amazon.de/sp?asin=&isAmazonFulfilled=&isCBA=&sel...
For my money the best thing that ever happened to English was abandoning grammatical gender/noun classes centuries ago - no more masculine, feminine or neuter, everything is ‘the’ or ‘a’.[0]

Based on that, I propose we push for ‘it’ as a sole singular pronoun (and keep ‘they’ for plural, as knowing if someone is referring to one or many is far more useful in almost all contexts than knowing whether they are referring to a man or a woman (or ship, or country, etc.), and those few contexts where it is relevant should be easy enough to glean from other information.

If you think that could never work, I'd point out that Mandarin managed without gender-specific pronouns until contact with Europeans, and even now they are only distinguishable in written form.[1]

Alternatively, there's Stallman's proposal for ‘person’, ‘per’ and ‘pers’.[2] I'm doubtful of any proposal that involves creating new words (see ‘xe’, Spivak pronouns, etc. ), but everything else Stallman says seems to come to pass so maybe.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_in_English#Decline_of_g...

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

[2] https://stallman.org/articles/genderless-pronouns.html
While Boeing clearly participates in a duopoly... cash flow may necessitate a bailout. Cash on hand is going to get hammered by penalties for out of service planes and lost revenues due to the inability to deliver new planes.

Outside of that, it will be interesting to see how endemic the issues were. Here is hoping that this was an isolated incident.

The nightmare scenario would be multiple models suffering from a wide range of issues. Even though there haven’t been crashes, the optics and responses would be complicated.

If investigations or whistleblowers uncover other issues in other models it could fall apart very quickly. This would crush the economy with travel and shipping grinding to a halt. A bailout of Boeing would be the least of our worries...
I love slack, but I’m 100% sure it’s been compromised by at least major intelligence services if not law enforcement and criminals. It’s too much of a big juicy target not to have been.
There's a real threat in Google (Youtube) controlling what is shown on their platforms. We might be informed and willing to try alternatives, but the masses don't (yet). This gives Google enormous propoganda power, and it is clear they already use this power to further their own agenda. It's not about freedom of speech, it's about deplatforming: the ability for your speech to be heard by the masses. The argument that you can just go elsewhere is like saying you can hang up your manifesto in the forest instead of on the church door.
> Calling a person with XY chromosomes a man who prefers to be called a woman will result in firing, ejection from conferences and projects, or shunning

Most of the time it doesn't. Most of the time absolutely nothing happens. Certainly the traditional power hierarchy is unlikely to do much. It can also get you a position on a national newspaper. It's just that in a relatively few cases it's reached viral outrage level and something has actually been done.

This is the problem with the culture war: everything is fought over the highest-level most visible cases. All the low stakes of thousands of people are placed on a single case as an incredibly high stake. And the people are fired/deplatformed over it are very rarely innocents who have made a mistake on the first instance - it's nearly always people who knew what they were doing and chose to pick that fight, who happened to lose this time.

So in most situations the balance of power favours the traditional side; it's just that in a few cases the internet mob can focus the outrage laser and achieve dominant power. That's an unstable situation, certainly.
Nope it's very much still unsecure by default.
Ask HN: Who Here Is Working to Fix the Environment?
So yesterday I posted this (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20339865) and it seems that a lot of people are very pessimistic about the future state of the environment. And today I've learned that insects are dying at an alarming rate (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20352002). It seems like every day there is a new piece of bad news.

Well...

Are there any people who are actively working on fixing the environment? It seems like if we don't do anything then in ten or twenty years (my lifetime!) there will be a "crunch" where something truly horrific may happen. In one sense, fixing the environment is the only issue we have because if we don't fix it then nothing else will matter in the face of how horrible the consequences will be.

How are you fixing it? What technologies are you using? How did you get into this? I'd like to know everything and anything people on HN are doing that's geeky to solve this thing.
I will immediately tell my Mom to not rely on such services and install something else.
I'm a "tech people" and tip my hat at you wise sir (#no_sarcasm).
If the same service could be used for paywalled news sites as well, this could be great
If I started a Twitch (or Discord) competitor today, I would use Janus as a base for web-rtc to share the load https://janus.conf.meetecho.com/

In fact, Evasyst is a blend of Twitch and Discord and uses Janus for this reason. https://evasyst.com/
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The Blogging Musician reaches 250 articles
It’s an MVP. It doesn’t have to work.
Despite the title, the thesis statement of this talk is not really about Go.

Carmen first lays out the history of Go to add context to the main thesis - This talk is really about software engineering, also known as programming integrated over time. She recognizes that the big leap forwards is to remove features
Conflict at Walmart threatens its ecommerce battle with Amazon
To cause "hysteria" in the way you're implying the general public would have to read the headline any other way than it is meant in the first place. But joe shmoe wasn't ever going to consider that 1000 years ago earth may have been in a different place climate wise so they're going to read the headline exactly the same whether it has the qualifier "in recorded history" or not.
I think they mean MicroLED rather than mini oled. MicroLEDs are meant to look and act the same as oleds but since they’re non organic, which means they don’t burn out like oleds do.
... to say the least.

Understanding enough about the thing to start making something with it makes it an order of magnitude easier to learn about in depth.
I bet the server is publicly accessible because the data collection from the IoT devices does a POST directly to the ElasticSearch server.
Flip it around. How high does that cost have to be before it stops being excellent value in this case? Why would you assume zero is the only cost that makes sense here, that's insane!

edit: On reflection I think you've got a meaning from what I said that isn't quite right. The cost of moving is one of the things that might make this market inefficient. Anything that is a barrier to entry, a barrier to switching provider contributes to market inefficiency. It's an economic term worth knowing as people bandy it about here a bit. Barriers to entry, imperfect information, market power of suppliers (here), nonzero selling costs, nonzero switching costs all contribute. The question in most markets is to what extent do they contribute? How inefficient is it? Here paying money for gross incompetence when you found that out you'd be pretty determined to dump the supplier because you've been conned, and conned badly. Now you are aware of being exposed to a large risk, ever increasing legally once you do nothing when you clearly know the risk exists. So it's a good measure of how efficient this market is because nobody of any competence or sanity wants to stay with this supplier anymore.
One word: Vimeo.
So what does viable mean?
As I mentioned [here](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20322875), negative reviews (especially to brand new tech) tend to get much much more traction, because the ones that are currently satisfied to the machine have no reason to 'whine'.

Read and compare the comments of this article and other news about the butterfly switches/keyboards. There are practically none comments about the butterfly's advantages. In this page, I see 4~5 comments about how butterflies are better (out of 27) even though this was submitted to 1 hour ago. [0] Considering this is HN (which likes bashing Apple) and that this is an issue more about reliability than the butterfly keyboard itself, and that the title really doesn't indicate the loss of the butterfly switches, it's a pretty high value (IMHO).
I have yet to found anyone to complain while using the butterfly keyboards so IMO the criticism given to Apple with the butterfly switches are exaggerated.

The butterflies are innovative brand new switches, it's pretty reasonable for Apple to fail to predict these long-term failures. I was expecting 2018-style fixes where the fixes don't reduce the advantages of the switches; however I'm suspicious if the scissor based switches can retain low-pitch & stable keys.

When SJ did things, SJ wasn't worried about how others would say about new things. (To be fair, there were less people complaining as the market was much smaller before.) As a result, the (iterated and polished) end-results were pretty good, and people got to use the polished result.

I get to get worried about Apple when seeing these articles lately, as it looks like Apple has no more ideas and merely applying feedback to products.

I hope, (as a customer that prefers butterfly switches vastly over to more traditional switches or mechanical switches) 2019 & 2020 MBPs get a permanently fixed, better quality butterfly switches that can mitigate all customer dissatisfaction.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20353336 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20353528 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20353685 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20353617
Yours looks very nice also.
Thanks for sharing :)
Not sure about recent incidents but cascading downtime is definitely a problem e.g., when S3 has an outage.

I hear the multi-cloud redundancy idea talked about a lot but I'd be curious to see data around how many people do this in practice.
Interestingly, the one version of the butterfly keyboard, that seems to be reliable, is the smart keyboard for the iPad pro, which to no surprise is covered with a thin sheet. It is completely resistant to any dirt of liquid and even feels better than the MB Air keyboard.
Is there a way we could do this, namely get air temperatures prior to the last glacial period?

It seems that you are setting an impossible bar rather than seeking an honest inquiry, happy to be corrected though
Vimeo does not support creators (it doesn't pay them to make content).
Great. Love it.

"Your password must have at least 1 Numeral."

Please add: Your password must not end with a numeral.
That’s on the business to judge of course, as are all deals. Isn’t it on the business to model marketing effectiveness?
It's a pity they can't get them reliable enough.

My son has a 13" 2017 MPB and really likes the keys. I have a 15" 2015 MPB and need to replace it, and have quite enjoyed the butterfly keyboard when I use his.

I'm really looking forward to getting one with the touchbar, although I'd like a physical escape key.
>It's a term loosely used by people with a large following, and right there the definition crumbles - what's a large following?

30,000 followers, according to the UK's Advertising Standards Authority.[0] People who have more than that will be classed as "celebrities" and fall under a tighter set of regulations.[1]

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/07/30000-followers-...

[1] The ASA is an industry self-regulatory body, rather than a government-run regulator, so they can't make anything illegal per se.
I can also guess people's height to within an inch or two, but I can still have an abstract conversation about a friend-of-a-friend I've never met, without expecting to be (constantly!) told how tall they are unless it's relevant to the story.

So in terms of the order we learn things about people we've never met (when it's not directly relevant), we expect gender much earlier than many other attributes. It mostly reflects our values as a society, as language often does, but that's kind of my point.
Yes, they are. Just a fancy branding with some minor technical differences, but the mechanical scheme is the same
Most? I've never worked anywhere that uses it.
It's not an intricate pattern/geometric order. It's a transition in the "connectedness" of the structure.
They took down Connect because they didn’t want to spend the effort to make it GDPR compliant.

Proof from when I blogged about it, but they reworded it as soon as it started getting press: https://www.brentozar.com/go/gdpr
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for reference (for everyone else). Darwin is 12 deg south of the equator, which makes it closer than Hawaii/Honolulu (which is 21 deg north), or Nicaragua which is roughly the same at 12 deg north.
Darwin is typically hot and humid.
In that case you can expect it has also been syncing with other misconfigured es servers around the world.
I suspect it's a case of the "designers" being addicted to the "new and fresh" paradigm and not caring about anything but trying to redesign everything they can.

I'm not a fan of regulation either, but I have a feeling that if the operation of the steering wheel or pedals weren't standardised, we'd have even crazier car UIs with their own self-consistent-but-globally-inconsistent designs. ("Turn the steering wheel clockwise to make a left turn --- because you're changing the view in the windscreen, not the content behind it!")

The regulation that required the shift quadrant to be in the PRNDL order many decades ago seems almost quaint in comparison:

https://jalopnik.com/why-prndl-5870701

(...and as the mentions about the horrible Jeep shifter in the other comments here allude to, maybe that regulation has laxed over the years.)
Out of curiosity, does Google open zip files to properly index what's inside them when it crawls websites?
Boeing and the US government recently killed the Canadian aviation industry by putting on 300% duties on our main manufacturer because of a government bailout it received. See:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/us-issues...

As a result Bombardier, Canadian's only large aviation manufacturer, was sold to AirBus:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/bombardie...

The cause was a Canadian province (equivalent to a US state) did a $1B equity investment in Bombardier in order to help it survive a tough spot -- a bailout. Thus 300% duties were imposed on the company as a result, thus killing any potential plane sales to the US.

But if the US government bails out Boeing, should countries around the world also impose business destroying duties of 300% on Boeing because of the unfair government support? Or do business destroying duties of 300% only get imposed on the aviation industries of smaller countries who do not have as much clout?
> The idea that sending me an unsolicited message entitles you to any information about my activity is absurd.

What about for solicited messages? Just curious.
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Even if you know what gender the person is it's not uncommon to use they

"Well officer, I saw them walk from their car up to the door then they turned and looked around, that's when I saw them pull the ski mask down, draw their gun and enter the bank"

---

Manager: What was the customer doing when you told them to leave?

Clerk: Well I had been trying to help them with their project but they kept stepping into my personal space, then he places his hand on me and that's when I decided they'd crossed a line and needed to leave

---

Most people wouldn't even bat an eye swapping they out for he/she in conversation in person.
The problem with "it" is the word's existing use to refer to non-person objects. One could easily interpret being called "it" as an insult, ie: this thing is not even a human.

I might not even be willing to refer to a dog as "it" in most circumstances.

Honestly though, I'm with you that it's a linguistic gap English needs to fill. Similarly, the second person plural pronoun need to be accepted as "y'all"- and I say that as someone not even from the southern USA.
>> Just don't think they have much respect for their Mac customers anymore and know they'll stick around.

Jusdging from the irrational enthusiasm in most of this thread, it looks like you are right.
Not in so many words but this is what reports claim [0]. The "for the sake of design" was obviously my addition because that's the real life implication of his "focus on design": great looking but less functional products.

> Ive came to feel that the company had lost its focus on design as key senior roles were stacked with operations and business-focused personnel

I read this as "they were less focused on design even when that design ended up costing the business".

[0] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/07/report-describing-jo...
4.99 would not even cover the NY Times or WSJ alone.
Ask HN: What is the license for Windows header files?
I understand that Windows.h et al are licensed for use in building Windows applications, etc. However I'm less clear on what the license is for the text of the headers.

Are you free to distribute them? What about distribute and modify? The copyright notice in Windows.h merely says "all rights reserved" which sounds meaningless in the context, as that's the default anyway and surely they allow some rights to the user.

I believe WINE and mingw have their own version of Windows headers but I'm unsure how those came to be.
I can't decode what the 1794 usage was. The article describes it as "singular they", used presumably in reference to one of these three authors, but, well, it would help to see the passage in question.
> I think Lenovo understands that they have too many serious business and gov clients using ThinkPads to risk doing something silly like that to their professional-grade ThinkPad brand.

I think that they rely on their A team to develop the malware targetting business and government clients, rather than the C team responsible for Superfish.