skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coinbase doesn't look anywhere like destroyed to me. It is still the number one place to trade cryptos in many places and has something like 30 million users AFAIK. If you look at the numbers the company is doing amazingly well. You can find like thousand silicon valley startups that are not having similar problems with executives but financially are doing way worse.

So, is Armstrong a bad CEO or not? That is very difficult to know. Maybe someone else could deliver even more profit and more products and keep them running. But I would guess the investors are quite happy with coinbase compared to their other investment.
> If these infringe, where is the similarity?

It would be quite interesting to compare the generated images with the dataset using a tineye-style image matcher. I wouldn't be surprised if large segments of the generated pictures are outright identical to some image from the dataset.
They’re all very relevant, but I try not to expect the same from OSS projects as from a VC pitch deck. After all this is work given freely.
It would be an interesting (if difficult) experiment but from what I know wild animals will absolutely gorge themselves if they can.

The difference is that in the wild, this is tends to be quickly followed by a resource crash from a normal cycle (e.g. winter crash after summer glut) and / or population explosion.

I don't know that any organism has had evolutionary-scale periods over which to psychologically integrate an access to essentially unlimited (in time and quantity both) resources.
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> It’s time for Hacker News to block this news source.

It's time for Hacker News to ask people who want to use the site for politics instead of tech (or related fields like science) to go look for another playground.
Demetrification: Removing the numbers of likes and retweets from public view
Same in the UK ... Three UK does an unlimited sim-only plan for £20 a month which includes overseas roaming, including the US (but not Canada), albeit you're limited to 12GB a month when overseas, which is still a great deal.

I don't listen to DAB radio anymore in my car as it's mono and sounds awful, I use the various radio station apps and have far fewer drop outs than with DAB to boot in addition to the far greater audio quality.

Looking at my usage for the last month I've used well over 50GB.

Home broadband tends to be unlimited as well, I'm on a 384Mbps down 37Mbps up cable connection and regularly transfer 2TB+ in a month when working from home, and nary a peep from my provider.
Lots of civilizations around that time collapapsed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRcu-ysocX4
Well, to be fair to any CEO, it's possible they had a vision and then succeeded. But then what do you do? Borrow a vision from your employees, right? What else can you do? Or maybe you agree with both employees? It's hard to be sure what to do! Smart and informed people disagree all the time.
The construciton of the london sewers is one of the episodes of the excellent BBC documentary series "The 7 wonders of the industrial world"[1] (Which also talks about Cholera and the Broad Street Pump).

Highly recommended viewing if you can find it.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/seven_wonde...
>The cable companies are a natural monopoly, just like electricity providers et al. It doesn't make sense for two companies to lay two separate sets of cable in the ground.

With all due-respect, electricity companies haven't had to lay separate lines in the states since FERC Order Number 888[0,1] in 1996 I think it was and the EPA 2005[2]. The entire premise has been defunct for over a decade now.

From what I understand, if a line falls under the common carrier utility definition, the owner of the line cannot refuse access to other providers and can only charge a non-discriminatory tax/leasing-fee for use of the line.

I think that this is precisely why we see the back and forth about the common carrier definition with the different regimes of the FTC regarding ISPs and cable providers.

The issue - in the case of the cable companies/ISP providers - isn't regulation of the monopoly but the classification of their business and how the law then affects them. If they do not fall under common carrier utility rules, then the monopoly will always remain because even breaking them up - such as in the case of Ma-Bell - still ensure monopolies in those more localised coverage areas.

Back to the electricity providers: If the argument of utility providers having to lay lines had any merit, you'd still see telephone poles with hundreds of lines on them - originating from both operating and now-defunct providers (the worst be from the defunct providers because there's no maintenance on them) but we don't see this in the states (as far as I'm aware) today, yeah?

[0] - https://www.ferc.gov/legal/maj-ord-reg/land-docs/rm95-8-00w....

[1] - https://www.ferc.gov/legal/maj-ord-reg/land-docs/order888.as...

[2] - https://www.ferc.gov/whats-new/comm-meet/042006/M-1.pdf
I’m currently spending time traveling and can sometimes go stretches without much interaction. I mostly stay at hostels and it’s wierd how that kind of communal sleeping arrangement makes me feel better even if I’m not actively interacting with people there. I think this was mentioned in the book Tribe by Sebastian Junger, about how we’ve evolved to sleep in large groups and that doesn’t really happen anymore.
OT: Recently quite a few really great articles by The Information have surfaced at HN. Probably because of the generous "unlocking" of otherwise pay-walled content. Per [0] they are apparently self-financed:

> Unlike most other news sites, we don’t have venture capital or corporate owners. I own the publication.

Although their stories provide high value information to high value individuals / decision makers [1], I feel genuinely happy to see an example of a new good quality original journalistic platform surviving. Or perhaps even thriving.

[0]: https://www.theinformation.com/about
[1]: Compared to stuff like investigative local news where the monetary value of a single story is so much lower, but perhaps requiring similar amounts of journalistic effort.
Backblaze seems to have made a business model out of unlimited cloud backup for a single computer.

They do it by building their own super high capacity, super low cost storage pods, deduplicating data and relying on the fact that most people don't have multiple TB of data on their personal computers.
I didn't want to talk about compilers, because examples are different, and despite the fact that I work on compilers at the moment, I don't have as much in-depth knowledge as on programming languages. In particular, while I'm sure that there are a number of novel things in LLVM, I have no clue which ones. In Swift, though? I see quality of life improvements, but nothing remotely scientifically novel in terms.

Agreed about ideas being recycled over and over in academia.

Regardless, I believe that my point holds: it's very hard to judge "scientific progress" by looking at industry, because most of the time, you're looking at stuff that was discovered decades earlier.
He's not a crank, he's a journalist. Its his job as a journalist to generate interest in the subject - and in that regard, Hancock has done a lot to bring people into the subject who otherwise would've been ignoring it for the authorities ..
Sure, I just used medical as the example because that’s what the parent comment talked about. There are many other industries with problems maintaining a good work/life balance for people who work there. Often those gigs are lower paid than tech work. I worked many more hours and had a more stressful, less predictable life when I worked at a nonprofit, before I became a developer. Now I mostly work 9-5, sometimes an extra hour or two here and there but no expectation that I’m doing stuff outside of work. I have some side projects, meetups etc that I spend time on, but can also spend time at work learning new things or trying stuff out.
Big factor in switch to more multiplayer is that the games are much more resistant to piracy, thus selling better as you said.

Sadly this brings also single player games which could be be easily offline, but they need access to server anyway.
Definitely. And definitely not industrial :)
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That's true. I once attended Comiket on day 2 and it was quite shocking that at least 90% of attendees on that specific day were women. This would never happen at any western comic convention.
For comparison, I have an unlimited plan from Telia (Finland) with network speeds up to 200Mbit/s on 4G, no data caps and 15GB of roaming "EU-data" for 23.90€/mo.
I read somewhere that running very long distances is basically the only physical thing humans can do better than any other animal.
the number of people that Chinese travel infrastructure does

... and that's not my argument. But lowered real costs -- not merely price, but time, convenience, flexibility, time-sharing (work/eat/sleep in transit), predictability, safety, baggage allownce, efficiency gains, and more -- should increase effective utility and utilisation.

The biggest pitfalls of rail have been right-of-way acquisition in mature economic regimes (high induced land values, themselves a result in large part of improved transport, impede further transport development), transfers and mode-transitions (especially rail-to-local endpoint travel), and technological lock-in and stagnation.

China has the benefits of late adoption, relatively low economic development, and critically, a regime of weak real (land) property rights. All enable it to adopt recent and advanced technologies, and to plan and acquire rights of way at low cost.

Even in parts of the United States where China's other, and more usually noted advantage, exceedingly high population density, is more closely matched, the US is hugely hampered by built rail infrastructure and extant technologies, high land values, and an increasingly oppressive private land ownership tradition.
..."nobody has ever heard of".

You shouldn't project your obliviousness on everyone else.

Vancouver, WA is a suburb of and part of the greater Portland area. Also referred to as the Portland / Vancouver metropolitan area.

It's completely understandable that the "flunkie" at the counter assumed someone leaving from the largest city in Washington would be be referring to the 4th largest city in Washington (Vancouver).

Sounds like the big fee was well deserved.
Why are employers apprehensive about remote working?
the scheme fell apart when Tinley was out of town, and had to hand over an administrative password for the spreadsheets to Siemens' IT staff, so they could fix the buggy scripts

This is like the story of the accountant who never goes on vacation, but when she finally does it turns out she had been skimming money.
If more people tended their own gardens and reaped the rewards of such an activity, there'd probably be a lot less mocking ..
Make all Indian women more independent and self-reliant.

- They often don't have a say in choosing a life-partner
- They're often don't have a say in pursuing higher studies

Public(free) health/education is utmost importance. Even most Govt. primary school teachers send their kids to private schools, others don't have private schools near by.

These issues are not black/white like most microbial diseases.

India is a democracy; democracies are flawed coz, like everywhere else power attracts corrupt people; and corrupt fight bloody.

Does health of NGOs in a country and their ability to influence Govt. policies within a term(4-5yrs) tells us more about a Country?
This would be a replacement if Java had the concept of a continuation, but as far as I know that isn't the case.

Although in this case it simply seems a way to interact with some kind of environment, which in object oriented languages is easily achieved with dependency injection (which does mean you have to pass through an extra argument to every function, but that's not usually that big a problem, and it can give hints on how to combine and divide environments).
s/mant/many/
As a full time employee? - No.

As a consultant/freelancer? - Yes.
Once a month seems about right, and for me it's not the same group of friends necessarily.

My wife and I have some couple friends and our schedules are hardest to align. (Kids, work, family time). And then we both have some single friends without kids, with which we can just choose any time and it will probably work to meet up.

That's just part of getting older and starting a family I suppose. Priorities shift a bit :)
I've got an unlimited, uncapped 4g Sprint account for $15 a month in the high desert of SoCal, mergers are great sometimes.
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Well, the tone that you describe is very "evolutionary" PoV -- where everyone (young/old, man/woman) have different role in a pack of humans.

It's definitely not playing nicely with our modern sensitivity.
I"m into that topic before it became mainstream, long term /r/collapse reader.
To be honest, I don't think there will be a rebuild after this one. No water, no food and wet bulb temperatures over 35 °C for many hours a day, good look under this conditions. Maybe some smaller groups will find some sweat spot to survive in, but large scale civilizations I doubt that.
I imagine this is targeting Redhat Desktop installations then, as Red Hat is pretty big on GNOME, and as we all know, GNOME/Redhat has been at the spearhead of many unpopular systems, such as NetworkManager.

So my guess is, they're targeting Redhat Desktop, because it's the most likely Linux desktop to be seen in the corporate space. My old university had RHEL client machines.

Maybe they're just trying to get ahead of the curve with this?

Edit: Also, lately there has been more noise from more governments about using Linux, so yeah, getting ahead of the curve.
Female foetecide has been a big problem in India and it's being tackled by the Government as well as the Civil society. However, this particular story has a lot of inconsistency and doesn't provide a true picture. The problems with it are being actively discussed here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IndiaSpeaks/comments/cgvumc/we_need...
Quality over quantity! :)
> what motivation is there for Samsung, Sony or Huawei to help Google to get user data?

I'm not sure about their motivation, but several vendors are famously known for bundling spyware with their phones. Usually within the keyboard app or some telemetry system.

> bring your device to AOSP-like state

That's a solution but is impossible without having a clean ROM at your disposal. Google's spyware is contained within Google Play Services, which you can't get rid of that easily.
- CMD + A to go to front of current line.

- CMD + E to go to end of current line.

- `sudo !!` to run last command with `sudo`
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> laws of Czeck Republic

lol they even have the country spelled wrong...
Hey!
I'm the author of this article. I completely understand this criticism. I was very afraid of how this might come across. My sincere apologies for this. My intention was to highlight the effect skewed sex-ratios have on the population, as an aggregate. I abhor the thought of men acting entitled to women, and being treated as possessions. But I also wanted to highlight the impact that is already being felt in countries such as china where 'family life' is taught to be a 'truth' that every human must go through. Sorry again!

Some articles that got me thinking : https://www.ft.com/content/d44122c0-a435-11e5-873f-68411a84f...

https://www.economist.com/special-report/2017/11/23/a-distor...
Am I the only one, that thinks that that is not a good feature.
Instead A calling B calling C and having a well defined hierarchy and encapsulating complexity you have
A calling B calling C calling maybe B calling maybe C again.
I mean I see real value in have unidirectional call graphs because they are some much more easier to reason about.
I feel like this is another gimmick to break abstractions and increase architectural complexity.
You can't just for example take C and maybe rewrite it without having to know and touch B. This increases coupling and so is a bad idea in my book.
> And I think imperative languages are way more easy and clear to read and write.

Because it's what you've had exposure to. Perhaps, they're even objectively easier to read and write, I don't know. It's also completely besides my point.

My point was that I want my programs to work as desired. That's orthogonal to how easy it is to read and write. I don't want runtime exceptions where I could've gotten a compile-time error.
It's the males who are "mutated". The biological female is the original gender.

Somewhere in the past our ancestors evolved a male counterpart to enable sexual reproduction.
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I wanted to show how much we tend to condition ourselves. I don't have the intention to make fun here.

It's good you are asking about the how - please see once you think "I am <something>" - this is what will determine your whole behavior on many levels and this is what you will become in many ways. Try to be conscious through the day and see every decision you are making - is it in some way based on the idea of yourself? A simple pattern of a mind "I will (not) do that because I am (not) a ...".

One way to go beyond this is to see clearly - every single moment of your life you are not "somebody" defined. Instead according to the situation around you become somebody. In the office you become an office worker and behave in one way, at home you become a family member and behave another way, at a party with friends it is again another way. Sometimes you can even forget to "be someone" and just be - for example in moments of great joy or intense activity.

Just see if you can observe this through your day - you should see yourself that your personality is flexible, it is not set in stone. See if you can find where does it come from, what defines it - I promise you this discovery will be one of the most wonderful things happened to you.

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I was not aware of this quote and I don't really think that all problems are caused by this, but I did notice the said inability. It's is astonishing how people are unable to be in silence and with themselves. The constant need for some drowning noise: radio, TV, Youtube, just headphones with some music 100% of the time they are awake. As if they are afraid to hear something unpleasant if it becomes quiet for a minute.

I, otoh, find it very meditative. And my recent hobby/passion/activity are the long (in time and duration walks— 30-100km). These are organized events, so lots of people go, sometimes in thousands (most choose shorter distances though), but I go alone and it is so… healing(?) experience. For 5-18 hours you are just with yourself and your thoughts. There is nothing you can do, just walk. Sure, one can listen to audiobooks or music, but I choose not to—it spoils the experience somehow.
Seemed like a JS specific problem to me, because it's single threaded.
I use it all the time to whip up quick scripts. The other day I made a cli tool that allows you to use Jmespath syntax for yaml files.

Memory management aside: compilation-time guarantees of your code is probably the best thing about the language.
This doesn't seem much different than planned obsolescence to be honest.

If he had done this to 100 companies, then he would be considered an enterprise, not a criminal.
How about they have a policy of X cancellations and then a cool down period, then they could say "I'm sorry sir, because of your cancellation yesterday I can't book your flight until next week" and then allow only booking in an emergency (like they're trapped away from home).
Your Google got a monthly salary figure not an annual one.
Why buy a leaf when you could manage with a 1990 Honda Civic?
> - Google, FB, Amazon basically wrote the book on distributed systems (Read Designing Data Intensive Applications), both from a research perspective and a very well architected, open source solution

Most of the science behind these things is actually older. They industrialized it, removed the kinks, built upon actual experience, all of which is extremely precious, but I don't think it's as groundbreaking as people believe.

> - Google, FB have profoundly impacted front end development with cutting edge Javascript runtimes and open source front end frameworks

If you're talking about JITs, that's gradual improvements on prior work on JITs (started during the 60s, ignored by industry until Sun picked it during the 90s... for an academic project). Again, very useful, but not necessarily groundbreaking.

> - Amazon, Google, Microsoft have basically invented/popularized a way to do computing(Cloud), server management that has enabled tiny tech companies to become giants by outsourcing IT infrastructure

Again, industrialization on prior academic work (e.g. virtualization, distributed component-based architectures, etc.)

> - Apple/Google have created devices, OSs, and software that is nearly impossible to live without these days, additionally creating platforms for millions of developers to make a living on(App Store)

> - Amazon has set the bar pretty high for automation in operations and made 2 day shipping a thing we expect from everyone

Mmmmh... I was talking of "scientific progress", you seem to be talking of something different :)

If you recall, my point was that it's very hard to measure "scientific progress" by looking at industry, because industrialization typically happens decades after the actual discoveries/inventions. I think your point is that "industrial progress" may be good, which I'm not debating :)
Brake pads are physically worn by braking. But the EV has an electric motor, which is the same thing as a generator. I don't mean they're pretty similar, they're the _same thing_ because of how electricity works‡. So this means (albeit with some extra circuitry) the EV can just run everything backwards and turn your movement back into electricity to brake the vehicle. It does still need brakes, but it uses them much less than an ICE vehicle.

‡ And likewise an electric pump and a turbine are the same thing in opposite directions. At Dinorwig, for example, the pumped storage facility, when water flows down it drives a bunch of huge turbines to make electricity for peak usage and when they have spare electricity to store those same machines function as pumps to move the water back up to the top lake.
why does is being low-budget and "one-man-studio" mean it's a cash grab? I would say it's actually more likely these are a fruit of the developer's passion than something made by a larger studio.
Maybe, but don't Ubuntu and Debian also come with GNOME as the default desktop?
> Throwing toilet paper in a basket and taking it through the garbage route is a very sensible solution

Except most places I've been to and seen the practice have an open basket, I've never seen any soiled toilet paper in them and not entirely sure I'd like to...
And other places in Eastern Europe too.
Hey! I'm the author of this article. I apologise for that particular phrasing. I sincerely meant it as a pool of men, pool of women kinda way. I was trying to be dispassionate about it, which may have come across as insensitive. Apologies.
I was trying to base my tone on these articles that got me thinking
Economist's analysis of marriage in China :
https://www.economist.com/special-report/2017/11/23/a-distor...

FT's article on 'missing brides' : https://www.ft.com/content/d44122c0-a435-11e5-873f-68411a84f...