skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How we actually define a company to be a monopoly seems to be somewhat arbitrary? I agree that Amazon engages in anticompetitive behaviour but I'm not sure that it can control prices or exclude competition to that extent? I mean every company can affect that, at what point does it become problematic?
Developing nations (as the US was in the past) typically do not care much about IP. Read "The Lever of Riches" for a history of economic growth and IP law.
Two professors sent 80k fake emails to VCS to study gender and racial bias
Most days I randomly grab a t-shirt to wear. Today I ended up wearing my Cloudflare shirt.
https://regex101.com/ supports 4 dialects. Certainly not exhaustive, but very handy none-the-less.
That hyperlink goes to another Vice article:
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mbmqxq/heres-the-memo-cur...

Edit - Which apparently has the document embedded, but doesn't render in Edge.
Here's the funny thing about recessions - they're usually predicated by some exuberance somewhere, and when it bursts it then ripples to the rest of the economy.

1930 was the stock market, 2000 was the dot com, 2007 was real estate (there's a bunch of recessions in between I'm skipping because I'm less familiar w/ them).

This time around...there's actually NOT a lot of exuberance. People are still scared and not getting ahead. Unemployment is at record lows but wage growth is stagnant, meanwhile people's basic expenses have exploded through the roof. Who has money to spare on stupid fads & bets? People are just trying to afford housing, healthcare, and education.

I feel like a lot of the talk around recession is simply people EXPECTING a recession and reacting accordingly, which will cause some downturn but won't impact the fundamentals of people buying shit in the economy.

I'm not saying we won't ever have a huge recession again, of course we will, but I don't see a current real indicator of it.
Heh, and the poor mods keep trying to keep thread title up to date
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I highly doubt my adblocker is 100% effective. There's also the common decency of being respectful to your customer. Why should I support a company who treats me like a resource to be extracted?
Thanks for your honesty; I get really annoyed sometimes when economists are held up as the gold-standard of societal prediction. Some of the 'newer' ideas that have made their way to the core of economics study, like game theory, are still painfully simplistic models that fail to take into account more complicated dynamics that result in outsize error signals. Usually, in the physical sciences it's possible to justify throwing out some higher order terms, but when you start talking about "externalities", things can get unhealthily misrepresented quickly. Frankly, it's no wonder that our species hasn't achieved a higher level of self-reflection when human behavior itself is so complicated.
yes, exactly. the whole point of layers of management is to insulate upper managers from the decisions they make, particularly those that slight the customer or the front-line worker.

a more generous phrasing would be that insolation allows managers to take emotions out of a situation to make the most rational decisions for the business (and its shareholders).

in any case, direct relationships are a big deal for social creatures like humans, from how you treat people to who gets the benefit of the doubt to who gets the juiciest resources, like the best jobs. we employ the ideal of the meritocracy as the polar counterweight to that tendency, to varying success.
I sure hope not. I can't think of anything more inappropriate.
This was well cited with a lot of fun media references. The author makes a few interesting points on rationale for randomization, calling known unknowns and confounding factors as something one could plan for and avoid.

Anybody know of other writers that do research and writing in this style? I quite enjoyed it.
Perfect, thanks!
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You can actually set the minimum score requirements to whatever you want. The default is 0.5, but there's nothing stopping you setting it to 0.0 and letting everyone through.
Interesting. I am in NJ and someone I work with just got cardiomyopathy from Chagas (heart down to like 25% efficiency now), no idea how she picked it up. I will ask her if she ever had a bed bug infestation.
It's a shame it has come at the tail of your career, instead. :(
There's no evidence that law enforcement took any action till afterwards, and on multiple occasions. So is the medium to blame or is the clear lack of policing?
A person can be sound and rational but people are tribal. It is deep human drive to find a tribe to belong to. What the internet has enabled is forming tribes irrespective of geographic proximity. Sites like 4chan/8chan allow people of radical persuasions to find each other and band together, growing their

That creates a powder keg waiting on a fight/flight trigger. Without a tribe to back someone, such a trigger will cause a flight response, but with that tribe they’ll feel emboldened and choose a fight strategy. Sites that encourage the formation of communities that promote violence will inevitably lead to actual violence once they’re past a certain size. It doesn’t even really matter what the ideology is, it just matters that they preach violence.
The ability to kill anyone one chose would be a far more terrifying weapon if used to instill fear. If someone used to this ability to kill individuals who didn't fit their agenda but kept anonymity about their goals, whatever changed they wished would only happen fairly slowly and haphazardly - those replacing the dead wouldn't have that much chance to produce different policies.

Also, even a bunch of seemingly random deaths with implications would likely produce terrifying fits of paranoia and retribution in the populace - remember humans can't not-see patterns in the thing they focus on, so a death-weapon would change the world this way - not sure if that what your psychopath wanted.

If an actor could kill "anyone nominated to head party X" then things would get ugly but even more, "do these things and you're immune" notes could certainly get people moving, especially if these were seemingly benevolent. "Random company heads die 'till CO2 production declines X amount" for example.
There is also demand, and capital, and it's allocated somehow (inflexibly, because people tend to like ownership), and there are governments (agents with systemic effects, almost by definition), and there are various currencies and boundaries in the world, and million other things,... and slowdown in economic activity in any geographic area can come for all kinds of reasons, and it's generally a symptom and not a cause.

Increased (or trying to artificially increase) economic activity (as measured by GDP) is also not good by itself, but only in relation to meaningful demand.

Otherwise, digging and filling holes (like in a war, basically) would be an overally good thing, which it is not.

There's no need to increase spending via a central bank currency manipulation, just because it's lower than before, nor is it the only way to achieve that.
Mercedes is what I have the most experience with. There is actually a class action lawsuit against them in the US because of their faulty AC. This is insane, a supposedly premium brand cannot install a working AC. I think I just keep purchasing Asian brands for now.

https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/lawsuit-news...
I don't bank online. At all.

Maybe I'm old; maybe I'm paranoid. Maybe I worked in internet security for five years (including security of banks).
Free speech isn't currently threatened here; providers are just exercising their freedom of association.

I also think waiting for "academic consensus" to act is not the neutral position it seems. Skepticism in the face of a pressing concern is not neutral, but instead acts to support the status quo. [1]

If we don't do something, more people will die. Possibly a lot more people. Academics have documented the dramatic rise in online radicalization. [2] Violent radicals themselves have described how online fora have pushed them towards extremism. So if you're going to argue a wait-and-see approach, I think you have to justify the bodies that will stack up in the meantime.

[1] https://twitter.com/jichikawa/status/1134323822096658433

[2] E.g., https://www.amazon.com/Alt-America-Rise-Radical-Right-Trump/... and the many resources it points to.
4Eur/m is really really cheap... .

I do have FTTH (Switzerland, outskirts of Zurich) with unmetered 1Gb/s upload & download but I pay 54 CHF/month (cable installed by Swisscom but I'm using another Internet provider).

My parents live in the south of Switzerland, in the middle of nowhere, and for unknown reason one day the local gas & electricity company showed up and installed there as well FTTH (I'll never thank them enough as before the copper cable often did not work at all) and if I remember correctly they're paying ~60 CHF/month for symmetric 1Gb/s (sunrise.ch).

In general I think that in Switzerland we're currently all ok with having to pay ~60 CHF/month for such a speed.
Why not mark every produced gun with small chips? It need 2 sort of chips. One for private weapons, like many americans have it at home. And the other is for police or people who work for the government. Simcards in mobilephones can be tracked and located, guns should be too.
Everyone who buys agun,will recive a box wich he has to place infront of his house. If the private weapon leaves the marked area without permission, there will go an loud alarm from this box, also an automated policecall. That the weapon is leaving the registered area without permission. If private person want to take weapon to a shootingranch, they can have a second gun there, or need an timelimited ticket for a route, from home to the shootingranch.
For citys, areas or bulidings, these Boxes which can register the chips on weapons and play alarmsounds, will directly alarm, if a non allowed weapon is entering an area. There are solarpowered dustbins. Why not install an weaponalarm on it? If anyone makes a buisness out of this idea, feel free to think on me. Good luck.
I dont think Apple is that hard on this. I peeked a bit the guidelines, couldn't find the section you mentioned.
I should clarify that the theory also encompasses the additional inference that the above statement justifies racial violence today. The gist is that you shouldn't worry about how people today might judge you, because you'd be judged positively by the N billion people who came before you; therefore your actions are correct and justifiable.
Why? Those publisher protections are directly modeled after the first amendment. This was literally the idea.

I didn't make this up, it's the entire intent of the system.
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I would go so far as to guess that gaining both legal and physical access to land that could be used for subsistence farming is not excessively difficult. There are a number of areas of the US where various government entities offer land on the condition that you do something productive with it.

You may find that the choice becomes one between:

A) an impoverished person with land and the ability to grow food, without knowledge or experience of doing such in a marginal, unpopulated, and isolated area

B) an impoverished person living in a car or on the streets relying on low-wage jobs or begging who values being in an urban area
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While I believe this is a clbuttic in the making, I have to wonder about the professional appropriateness of such a thing, especially in $CURRENT_YEAR.
If it's true that privacy is dead, how come Satoshi is still unknown?
Conversely, are people who buy a Prius always virtue signaling?

Perhaps the appellation is an empty way to dismiss someone without engaging them?
They don't in one step but in this analogy the pamphlet isn't static it constantly changes to show you more of what's engaging to you (or people like you as the algorithm understands you or as you engage more and more with that initial resonance) so that small initial resonance gets cranked up and up and up. It's hard to see how putting up a larger speed bump along that route won't decrease the number of people who get sucked into these radicalization spirals.

The internet has shown just how much making that slide easier means way more people fall into it. Used to be to get sucked into a world of neonazi/etc propaganda you had to know one and consciously choose to associate with it but now it gets lightly slipped into discussions online and is easy to find articles taking you to the next step.
So we can either:

(1) wait for 200 countries to properly implement secure hardware tokens for every citizen (population of estonia: 1.3 million, population of the world: 7.6 billion) and wait for all apps and sites to properly support 200 different cards,

or (2) implement a universal http standard to abstract logins away into authentication managers.

The former requires bureaucracy, logistics, physical production and transportation costs, hardware adapters, and countless unknown considerations to get everyone in the world to be able to use it and get support for it.

The latter requires a browser plugin, and for web apps to implement an HTTP extension similar to a content security policy.
In 1993, Knuth requested of Stanford University (who granted his request) that he be allowed to retire early (and take up the title of “Professor Emeritus of The Art of Computer Programming”), so that he could complete TAOCP, which he regards as his life's work: https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/retd.html

Needless to say, the measly royalties from a technical book (especially one that is never going to be assigned as a textbook to large classes of undergraduate students) would be tiny in comparison to the Stanford professor salary that he gave up.

Also, if he were doing it as a source of income, he'd probably actually publish the long-awaited volumes so that they can sell and make money, rather than spend decades of full-time labour polishing each one (Vol 3 first came out in 1973; Vol 4A in 2011; Vol 4B is only about 1/3rd done), continually missing estimates, until they were at his desired level of quality.
Promises made

2009: Widespread broadband for everyone by 2010

2010: At least 50 MBit/s for most households by 2014

2011: 50 MBit/s everywhere by 2018

2014: Let's hope we can reach this

2015: Digital Agenda -> 50 Mbit/s by 2018

2016: The goal cannot be reached

2016: Gigabit nets by 2025, fastest internet on the planet

2018: The goal cannot be reached

I have a whopping 3 Mbit/s at my home. It's so slow the technician that wanted to sell me a 10 MBit line didn't believe me when I said that I decline because it's not possible. Mind you, I live in an area where most houses are from 2010 or newer so it's not like they had no opportunity to set up decent connections.

On my daily train commute there are two 10 minute patches where I cannot make phone calls...the list goes on.

Pretty embarrassing for a so called industrial nation. I had better connections in every single country I have been to.

A common excuse that you hear is that Telekom had plans to roll out fibre everywhere in the 1990s but had to cut that plan due to the cost of setting up a phone system in East Germany.

tl;dr: it's pretty bad
Correct, but in reality, the police doesn't go do some random control in the streets of some randomly selected rural area. They will target locations where they are likely to find drug dealers, target behaviors that are likely to be drug dealers, etc. So the numbers aren't those from your theoretical example.

Though in reality, I mostly hear about racial profiling in France in the context of looking for illegal immigrants where the odds are even more skewed against a population than your example.

The moral argument is orthogonal from the efficiency argument, and I totally agree with the frustration generated by misguided checks (and am reminded of those every time I take a plane).
There's always some indicator which yells that, I don't see any reason to believe this one over any of the other ones.

There's been a consistent drumbeat since the end of the great recession that "the next big drop is coming, just look at this chart!". Spoiler alert, they were all wrong.
I have a simplistic test when it comes to hate. I take the part of the message that identity the target and I change it to the opposite side of the political spectrum. If the comment/speech still sound like hate then it is hate. Thus my definition for intolerance is intolerance when it is independent of the reader/authors opinion about the target.

A lot of people disprove of this approach, arguing that by doing so we ignore the oppressed or helping the oppressors, and thus we end up with different view about intolerance.
And what is more convenient than an ad blocker?
IIRC it’s 10 days for the first year and after that what you describe
I'm interested in learning more about VGA and HDMI, because I'd like to build a hardware freeze button.

On an old church projector, there was a button on the remote so I could freeze the screen. Then I could switch from PowerPoint to QuickTime Player (or whatever else) without disturbing everybody who was watching. Newer equipment (some projectors, most TVs) lack this feature. I'd like to build a box that stores the current frame in RAM, and has a simple toggle switch between the stored frame or the live video feed.

After a recommendation for the NeTV, I asked bunnie, and he said that the NeTV2 is a good choice for HDMI. It's pretty expensive though, and doesn't support HDCP.

https://github.com/AlphamaxMedia/netv2-ideas/issues/21

If anybody else has some guidance about how to proceed with this project, or some mutual interest that could translate into nagging me to actually do it, please get in touch!
> Sure, you buy at the Apple Store and you get 2%

Well, 3 percent, which is kind of the point here -- you get the Apple card for use with Apple purchases.

> The 2.67% back is 40% more cash back, so yeah, transfer 100K worth of assets to a BAML account that you're holding for the long term (and I believe IRAs count), and enjoy. It's a better product.

Will add it to my list of cards to research, but looking now, it seems like a 75 percent boost to their card offerings, and the 1.5 percent cash back card comes with a 95 dollar annual fee. Is there a different card you were thinking of?
Google's latest reCAPTCHA is v3, which works behind the scenes to generate a 'trustworthiness' score for each user. There is no longer any button for the user to click. You're thinking of v2, I think.
Private companies are incentivized to make money, they can host and kick off whoever the hell they want. I don't understand what you're getting at? It's capitalism at work.

If 8chan wants to exist on the internet without worrying about being knocked offline then 8chan needs to either build their infrastructure or find companies that are willing to risk their reputation to support them.
When I had a high stress corporate job with a lot of internal politics and back stabbing I used to look at an old site called 'cute overload' while on conference calls, it was amazing how it would deflect anger and stress looking at adorable hamsters and kittens
We don't see voting rings involving orange accounts getting more traction than voting rings in general. Our systems certainly aren't perfect, though. If you think you see a post that is being affected by sockpuppet voting, you're welcome to send us a link so we can look into it.
Quite a lot: In the 80ies in western germany the then responsible person at the ministry for postal issues (Postministerium) had family connections to a copper producer so everything was build with copper, besides at that time it was clear that there is no long-term future for the technology.

After reunification most areas in eastern germany were rebuild using fibre-optic but the system was a technical failure, too expensive to maintain as the last-mile was still copper mostly and hardware to translate was not available for too expensive - so no fast internet for most east german cities and villages until the mid-2000 as the state did not care anymore:

In the 90ies neoliberal privatisation wave, the privatisation of Bundespost created the Telekom AG that also got most of the infrastructure instead of playing it clever and keep infrastructure in state control like Sweden did and of course they have no incentive to invest in infrastructure because they want to generate profits and opening the ground is expensive - so copper it was again with fiber to the curb at the moment (VDSL) in most cities. The same idiocy was done with the Bundesbahn (rails) - instead of keeping the infrastructure in public hand it was given to the new Bahn AG that destroyed most of it in an insane effort to go public (I'm not joking, destroying trains to avoid having to sell them to the competition, stopping to service rail-tracks to spare some money... the problems are still felt)...

Telekom now behaves much the same way: Unfortunatly they are asshats and when another rural ISP or fibre ISP develops a city the Telekom comes shortly after and attempts to kill their profit instead of doing something about underdeveloped areas. Also the regulators failed to open their new VDSL lines for the market, so you'll have to pay their premium prices.

So that's it for landlines.

I learned that Sweden did the clever thing and build the fiber-infrastructure with public money only once and ISPs can rent the lines and compete with services / price but there is a fiber line to your home.

I don't know about mobile market in Sweden but in Germany there was a huge auction on the start of the 3G technology that cost most ISPs billions of euros for licences, this money is missing and the result are higher rates and less coverage.

Besides that there are 3 big corpoorations having 3 distinct networks (with no roaming, even in sparse areas) - Telefonica with the most budget prices and most users but only good coverage in bigger cities and basically non-existent 4G in rural areas, Vodafone (better, depending were you are) and Deutsche Telekom (best coverage but far from perfect)

Regulators did nothing and so the shitshow goes on....
I'm certain age has nothing to do with it. The only thing that determines someone's opinion here is how much they care about accurate AV reproduction, and that's not driven by age, only passion for the content.
I've read the website, but I could't find a hint that the engine is distributed. Even the spark benchmarks compare a single instance with multiple nodes.

Is it distributed? How do I set it up in a distributed mode?
Does it support nested parquet (something that even spark itself struggles to support inside SQL).