skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every time I visit a Tumblog subdomain it just kicks me back to my own Tumblr dashboard and has for around 2 years now. When it started happening people said it was a bug but seemingly it's intentional? Not sure I understand the point but presumably this is for some sort of metrics they push?
Read an intro to statistics instead. Don’t become another CS punter throwing neural nets at problems with no understanding of the underlying material.
Ebola is not a problem. The number of deaths caused annually by ebola worldwide is about ten times the number of people who die by falling out of bed per year in the US. Just to give you a perspective when you go to bed tonight. Nobody cares about ebola except a very small fraction of people who ignore the most basic principles of hygiene and germ theory. The press likes Ebola because it's easy to rile up people and cause panic for no reason whatsoever.
Antitrust law isn't a tool to secure democracy but to secure competition. I don't think the worry is about actions taken by Microsoft hurting democracy; the concern is MS systems being insecure owing to a lack of competitive pressure and, as a consequence, being vulnerable to democracy-disrupting attacks.
It's an El Al flight, and their entire fleet of 787-9s use RR Trent 1000 engines.

I'm exaggerating a bit about my concern. I know the statistics on modern aviation safety, even with Boeing's, uh, recent track record on such things.

Frankly, in the grand scheme of things, I'm more concerned about my safety driving in Tel Aviv than I am about my flight getting there ;)
Meanwhile my apartment charges me $15 more per month in parking to charge an EV with 40 Amps. No fee for the electricity.
I'm curious to try it out, but results don't load for me.
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Isn’t Rust Vec a pointer and a length by itself?
It certainly has an impact when it comes to the operating system and metrics they collect.
Uhh - what?

https://examine.com/supplements/creatine/ - just scroll down.

https://examine.com/supplements/creatine/#effect-matrix - that's not selling anything.

https://examine.com/supplements/creatine/#scientific-researc... - click on 'fully expand' - there's all your science + citations.

And the references themselves have carrots next to each reference so you can click and see what is being referenced...

Here is an example of what IS being sold: https://a99d9b858c7df59c454c-96c6baa7fa2a34c80f17051de799bc8...

And that creatine caffeine page... https://examine.com/nutrition/does-caffeine-counteract-creat... - literally has 7 references right at the bottom. Again, with carrots to see where the claim is.
A thought experiment: Google could, in a proverbial heartbeat, unilaterally make and publicize a change to its search rankings that amounted to "achieve AMP-like performance with your site, OR ELSE". AMP as a technology is irrelevant to this end.

Instead, AMP is about control and disintermediation – eliminating the need for users to ever actually visit the sites of content producers. The economic impacts of that redirection be damned.

The objection to AMP is thus not about the performance. It's about Google's proprietary end-run on the web platform, and its (ab)use of monopoly power to achieve that end.
Indeed. I sincerely hope they improve the situation. A favorite site of mine, Metafilter, went through something similar a few years ago. Google cracked down on user-generated content too broadly, similar to here, and they have had a tough time recovering despite their care to follow the guidelines. It’s frustrating to see it happen again.
So that more secure implementations than MS's can offer a transition for organizations dependent on it.
Often it's 20. Not sure why 20 is so common.
Does anyone have the cached view of this before it was deleted?
I personally find incompetent drivers to be far more hazardous than cyclists. Your point in defence of drivers here doesn't seem to address my issue of the ease with which drivers get licenced to drive but calls to question a matter of lack of infrastructure for cyclists. That would be great. It would also be great to improve everyone's driving.
> Filing your electric car is at least an hour if you have a DC fast charger and that gets you only 80% full.

..What? Where are you getting your numbers from.
With JavaScript disabled, the Wired article loads fine and the outline.com article doesn't load at all. I'd say you have that backwards.
According to this article [1], you plan to move Tumblr's backend onto WordPress. Considering that Tumblr's infra stores over 1 trillion distinct product objects, this would be one of the most technically ambitious migrations in history. Can you share any thoughts of how it will be approached? Will you be pruning/purging old content or inactive users?

[1] https://poststatus.com/automattic-has-purchased-tumblr/
My friend toured the USA in his 2012 Model S before the SuperCharger network existed by only charging at RV parks. The truth is that gas is harder to find in some places than electricity. You just have to take a few minutes to think about the grid and where power is at and the entire debate about feasibility of EVs is flipped on its head.
Do folks on your team understand how poor your product is for users?
You can check for yourself, by clicking on the domain name next to the submission title. Or use HN search to filter by points>N or comments>N:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=nytimes.com%20points>30&sort=b...

I'm not seeing many off-topic NYT submissions getting significant attention. Also, NYT has always been a prominent source of good HN submissions. I don't think this has changed much.
Are you implying that Microsoft is smaller than Google, Facebook or Amazon? Using market capitalization as a measure, Microsoft is currently the larger company.
Any large infrastructure project isn't going to be done by a single private organization. It is way too big of a gamble, it has to be funded and overseen by the United States government. The only reason a transcontinental railway was built in the U.S was because of government subsidies. These subsidies were competed over by Union Pacific and Central Pacific, whoever built the most rail first got the most land grants and cash. You could argue that the quality was low because of the initiative but it was iterated on and improved over time.
So it's better to bet on something whose lesson is yet to be learned? :)

Anyway, I don't think anyone has forgotten those lessons, but they're not very relevant to modern managed runtimes. (also mioco seems to be single-threaded)
Including macOS, iOS, android, chromeos, linux? (Laugh at the last one if you must, but it is more viable today than it was in the 1990s chiefly because platform agnostic web based content is more normal in niches formerly occupied by Win32.)
Why Universal Basic Income Might Not Be the Answer
It's less of a walled garden than OSX, which isn't even virtualisable.
A 6% to 30% fatality rate depending on how early the treatment is not what I would call a cure. However, at best 6% fatality rate is still huge progress.
Here's a counter example:

The floating islands of Lake Titicaca.

The islands take a lot of work to maintain, they're actively dangerous to live on, and not especially comfortable. The islands continue to exist because tourists visit and pay enough for souvenirs to keep the islanders from moving onto dry land.

Just one example.
> significant but not catastrophic

So... not great but not horrifying?
If I were facing a 75-90% chance of dying, I think I’d be pretty happy to reduce that to 6-30%.
But the "tech folks" are not the ones who are talking about breaking up tech companies, pundits are.
I live articles that show the process of designing completely new hardware.

I do wonder if this article is missing any dead ends; only showing the iterative improvements?
So we didn't need regulation to erode its market stranglehold after all and it was just good fashion competition? :)
RV plugs curbside. We could make this standard if we cared to.
Did you know a huge part of the cost of operating an electric subway is the delays involved in getting a dollars from every person who gets on through a slow down called the fare box. Another is a stooge whose only task is to open/close doors. Another stooge starts and stop the cars. In Toronto these stooges get about $50 US per hour for salary, pension and various benefits. That is $150 an hour.
Elevators were like that years ago. They had operators, and in a fully automatic elevator, they would ask you what floor and push that button. Then they fired them. End of the earth is looming said their union. Ho-hum said thje world.
We need fully self driving subway cars, with fitted electic doors on the cars and on the track - just like the doors that stop you falling down the shaft on an elevator.
That way subway operating costs would fall by 60% or more.
WE also need fully tracked packaging. Buy a wrapped chocolate bar and they know who paid for it, and you pay a25 cent wrapper deposit. Toss away the box and they know who tossed it = fee for you. Dispose properly and the candy wrapper deposit is scanned and paid to you.
We are going to have to deal with our trash. This applies to all trash, even on the high seas.
The UN, after 20 years, needs to declare coal burning plants and act of war against mankind = cruise missile to destroy it. Cars must all be electric in 20 years. Any after that confiscated unless converted to batteries. No excuses.
It is as stark as it can be. Do this or the world dies!!!
On a more serious note, I'm surprised there hasn't been much discussion about potential malware in official Linux package repositories vs. developer-centric source repositories like npm, rubygems, crates.io, etc.

One would hope that the bar is higher with strict maintainership rules, but there are a zillion packages, and you can't vet them all. Also, practically everyone installs binary packages, so until we have fully reproducible builds, hiding malware in some obscure but heavily depended on package could actually be relatively easy.
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T-Bot = Clippy v4
Let's forget "conspiracy" and let's think "curiosity" for a moment.
How is it possible that Epstein, who is accused of organizing sex with children and apparently with lots of evidence against him, and who has apparently tried to kill himself two weeks ago, has to appear in court and is facing many years in jail, apparently has a lot of dirt on others,
(a) is not on a suicide watch, (b) is found dead in a specialised institute where suicide is said to be impossible (stated by a man who was imprisoned there).

I do not buy it when officials say that it was not necessary to have him on suicide watch. For whatever reason them come up with, I do not buy it.
I find it extremely suspicious that he was found dead. We have to wait and see what an investigation will bring forward... but probably I will not buy whatever will be stated.
> It's 2019. EVERYONE does this to get attention from people.

I don't. Nobody I respect does. None of the scientific papers they cite do. Nobody in my friends list on Fecebutt does. Nobody I follow on Twitter does, to my knowledge. Slatestarcodex doesn't. HN doesn't. Wikipedia doesn't. Library Genesis doesn't. The Pirate Bay doesn't. JSTOR doesn't. Sam Zeloof doesn't. Ken Shirriff doesn't. The only sites I've visited in the last couple of days that pull that kind of bullshit are the Daily Beast, Vice, and Bloomberg, neither of which is to the trustworthiness standards of the sites and people listed above, and examine.com.

It seems that you have imprisoned yourself in a sort of filter bubble of dishonest hustlers. You might want to rethink your life decisions.
Some do MD5($password) in a sql string.

I don’t... but i’ve seen it
Not to mention this thing kept installing itself even when I uninstalled it for the 5th time! I gave up!
Having a monopoly is not illegal. Abusing that monopoly power to take over other markets is.
Similar thing happened to someone in DC with "NO TAGS"

https://www.nbcwashington.com/investigations/The-20000-Ticke...
> 1) Nobody takes the Microsoft Store seriously
> 2) People barely take Bing seriously

The problem with using these as factors in dismissing a monopoly (or the converse) is that it's simply declaring that being really good at a thing by definition makes you a monopoly.
He's not demanding they have no bugs, he's merely refusing to provide a workaround for their bugs at his own expense and inconvenience (sure refusing to may actually involve other greater expense and inconvenience but that's beside the point).

The suggestion in the latter half of your comment is notable in that that's not what they said or offered. They don't even seem to have offered any recompense, which could at least be seen as a reasonable middleground (though still a compromise for Droogie who is denied his vanity plate post facto)
Google would face the exact same criticisms if it tried to strongarm publishers into caring about performance.
Of course there is a cultural aspect, but Brazil is seriously impacted by organized crime syndicates which operate for money
Their best-overall reduced down to 29%.

The 6%-figure was for a sub-population of victims who received one of the treatments early. There's probably a sub-sub-population of young-adult victims who're in good health and received early treatment who had a near-0% rate, too.

From glancing at Wikipedia's numbers, it seems that the average Ebola victim faces about 50% odds, so this'd improve that to about 29%.

But, with-or-without this treatment, people who receive care, especially early, enjoy better odds than their peers who don't.
On the contrary, it makes me more confident.

Engine parts melt and fall off, and the plane doesn't seem disturbed. Awesome engineering!
BTW, what happened to Outlook on iOS recently? Three months ago it was snappy, started immediately and notifications were cleared the moment messages were read; these days it takes ~5s to start, unread notifications stay for another ~5s after the message is read, confusing me about having new mail, and if the same mailbox is set up on two iOS devices, only one gets notifications. Is old Microsoft back?
I can imagine that false positives are incredibly frustrating for legit creators, and something we will try to eliminate.
Living in the city was great in my 20s. Now that I'm past 35 and have a family, having a private backyard to ourselves is a lot more appealing than dealing with loud people in commodified, crowded restaurants and movie theaters. My family is quite neurodivergent and everyone has sensory processing issues anyway. The city is simply too noisy, too active, too high pressure for us.

It's unfortunate that in the US, backyards and car dependence go together.
>I mean, trying to keep a secret cabal among journalists must be pretty tough

It does not have to be a 'secret cabal', just a group of like-minded individuals soft-coordinating their responses. JournoList [0] has existed for three years before being made public. When exposure forced JournoList to close, the response from the members was immediately to create another group like it [1]. What also telling is that the members don't think of themselves being a part of 'secret cabal', which allows for the double-think of coordinating responses while being sincerely sure they do no such thing [ibid.].

JournoList is not just an isolated example. There was at least GameJournoPros (no good source link unfortunately), explicitly modeled after JournoList and it's safe to assume that many more exist.

[0] :: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JournoList

[1] :: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JournoList#Cabalist_spin-off
Allowing countries to decide what to ban is just saying that ag goods are exempt from free trade.

Why should the US put up with this? We have a natural advantage in agriculture, with very high productivity.

If you're against free trade, ok, but that's going to apply to European exports of all kinds. And if the trade motivation for links with Europe goes away, so does the motivation for defending Europe via NATO. NATOxit (NATOff? NATOut?) would cost Europe enormously.
Returning from a canoeing trip a few years ago, there were tens of canoes paddling in the bay of the rental store. Apparently, the particular lake we were on had received a "Michelin Star", and therefore been placed on the bucket list of a number of people. I can't imagine the Michelin people, adding the site to their list, were commenting on the particular beauty of a particular bay, nor felt that canoeing was an ephemeral joy that was felt independent of where one was travelling. Nevertheless, a number of people had travelled a great distance to experience only that. Yet we were fortunate, I think, to have spent the rest of the weekend in peace, only having passed one or two other groups.
I agree, I got the impression the author was desperate to find explanations that would distract from the issues of race and gender. Despite its length, there is no sincere consideration of the perspectives of others or attempt to understand them. In fact it's outright dismissive, and attempts to reallocate credit for hard won civil rights progress from minority groups to rich white people.

It should be celebrated that the institution finally- after generations, sees having buildings named after slavers as problematic all on its own. It shouldnt take mass student protests to move such things forward, especially when they are symbolic and represent little to no cost to the university to implement. I would like to think that competent people dont need it explained to them why a person of color might be uncomfortable at an institution that celebrates people who raped and murdered their ancestors. This article reeks of willfull ignorance.
Teen hacks school software, exposes data of millions, is suspended for two days
I drove 1000km in my Tesla in one day last week in Europe.

It took approximately 12 hours in total with approx 1.5-2 hours of charging time.

"8 hours of battery logistics" is something you've just made up.

It's more like you're in range of a rapid charger and it's a non issue, or you're not in which case you cannot do more than a full charge in a day (a European 230V outlet takes more than a day for a full charge, American 110V is slower).

Granted it won't do that in winter in the mountains whilst pulling several hundreds pounds worth of stuff. That's something that, like, 0.5% of car owners actually do. The emissions from that sort of activity are probably less important than stuff like tractors.
>1. The monopoly in desktops is old and considered waning.

Yet their desktop monopoly is as strong as it ever was. I think people just lost interest in the desktop.

Still I don't think there's a point to breaking up Microsoft, there's not much to gain. They aren't really misusing their desktop monopoly. People can actually picks alternatives, if they really wanted, both for the desktop, and the applications they run. We're no longer locked into paying Microsoft, most just choose to do so regardless of their options.
Medium isn't the Medium it used to be. WordPress.com and Tumblr are now controlled by the same outfit. Then there's Blogger, a Google toy.

How long before someone else sees opportunity in current limited amount of choice for blogging consumers?
Because the cars are literally that much better than ICE. There's no comparison in the driving and ownership experience. Plugging in is not an inconvenience. Going to a gas station actually is an inconvenience and I'm dying to dump my second vehicle for an EV
This is what you'd believe if all you'd known about the Microsoft antitrust case was what Wikipedia records about it it in the short "Settlement" section of the Microsoft Antitrust Case article.

In reality, the case broke Microsoft's monopoly on pretty much everything but desktop operating systems (the market broke that later on) and a chastened Microsoft was unable to apply its 1990s tactics to the emerging mobile market, in which it was soundly trounced.

The antitrust objectives of the government were essentially accomplished. Microsoft remains a fearsome competitor in the moribund personal computer market, and essentially nowhere else. Its browser, the focus of the case, is an an also-ran fork of Chromium. It has more or less entirely lost the server market, outside of line-of-business applications in the Fortune 500 that it would have retained regardless of its monopoly status. It's been sidelined almost entirely from mobile computing. Microsoft doesn't even control office software anymore!

Linux nerds dearly wanted to see Microsoft split up, because that's a theatrical and cathartic ending to a case many of them had (weirdly) personalized. But it's clear now that splitting up Microsoft wouldn't have served any public policy objective, and Jackson was wrong to order it split up.
It would have been hard to predict that in the 1990s though. I certainly did not.

Also we cannot measure to what extent the DOJ probe and its aftereffects distracted Microsoft from further dominance and led it to not compete as well. So maybe in some form the regulation did it in after all.
Update: It's uh, less than $3M. https://twitter.com/danprimack/status/1161038705295089664?s=...
By providing PHP-backwards compatibility HHVM, Facebook provided an off-ramp for themselves and other existing PHP users at a time when HHVM was much faster than the PHP interpreter.

But then PHP sped up, and once it became clear that people had stopped using that off-ramp, Facebook demolished it. The off-ramp was infeasible to maintain, and of no benefit to anyone.
Last minute airplane swaps are not uncommon, so such a feature doesn't necessarily help.
Thanks for the info. It seems like plenty of organizations legally know the SSN. I am amazed that US government considers SSN to be private.
Really??? That's bizarre.
They said they work at MS, not that they work on Teams.
The people that I know that works in security research treat responsible disclosure as "you have X time to fix it before we tell the world", to give them a chance to fix things before everyone, with who knows what intent, gets to learn about the issue. There's always a time limit and then its released regardless.
Microsoft has one of the best software security teams in the world, one that arguably created the template that Google and Apple used to create the other best security teams in the industry. The idea that a Microsoft breakup would have improved computer security is an extraordinary claim.
Follow-up, for people who encounter this thread in the future: I did some more hunting and found `nocache` (https://github.com/Feh/nocache , though I installed it via the Ubuntu repositories) which does this by intercepting the open() system call and calling fadvise() immediately afterwards.
> Except they still control the OS market.

So is MS disturbing macOS competition? I guess not much. And don't forget that MS only have strong consumer OS market share, not entire OS.
> what did they even want from Yahoo?

They wanted Yahoo itself... not the random acquisitions that Yahoo made for no good reason
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seems to be working fine for me -do you have JS disabled or anything?
It’s astonishing how bad Microsoft seems to be at things like this. I don’t really understand what’s going on in there.
That's why insulin is given in pill form, right?

The hormones we are talking about here are proteins. They are injected into cows, because they are destroyed by digestion.