skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> " Everyone knows that's unhealthy."

For the last couple hours I watched a few dozen+ people order 20oz+ high-sugar coffee drinks from that place with the green logo. The everybody you're talking about is not here, nor is it at my local supermarket when every week I see people load up on soda, cookies, etc. People that clearly don't need the calories. So where is this awaremenss and knowledge?

> "the weight itself is what many people have limited or no control over."
Yes, I realize it's a fairly complicated issue (e.g., gut bacteria likely play a role). However, that doesn't mean we normalize unhealthy decisions (like the ones I've mentioned above) and then cry about the cost of healthcare. We can't openly promote "love your body no matter what" and then purposely fail to add "and btw, you're going to die younger." We can't deny the value of exercise and replace that with "beat your depression with ice cream. it's ok..." That's just not working.

Yes. Agreed. Some people have medical issues (e.g., some neuro meds are notorious for putting on weight) but that's not everyone. That doesn't explain the obesity rate. And that certainly doesn't prevent humans from "gravitating to the norm."

p.s. For the record, I drink my coffee black. And there's a good reason why I've learned to do that.
Disagree. We’re allowed to dislike the legal framework we live in. We’re allowed to say, if we wish to, that our laws appear to force[1] parents to use censorship to limit what their kids see, and that that is a bad thing. Furthermore we can say we disagree with the rules defining that censorship — for example, I have always been more disturbed by violent content than sexual, and I wish that fictional depictions of murder were even more unusual than fictional depictions of rape currently are in daytime television, i.e. never.

Of course I already know the standard counter-arguments, but those don’t change the visceral annoyance I have with a system that considers all full-frontal nudity to be a bigger problem than watching someone being shot, stabbed, or poisoned. I am also annoyed that the rules of these parental filters seem to copy American sociopolitical norms by default.

[1] reality depends on your jurisdiction, and I am not a lawyer in any case, but people still get to say that if they mistakenly think it’s true :-)
I don't like that the start page is so "Microsofty"--it contains MSN News and you can't disable Bing.
> those are all examples of our government's power shrinking!

No they aren't. They are examples of the government's power growing and being manipulated. There's no power to manipulate if the government stays small.

So many of our problems today are the result of a government that is so large and powerful that it is more profitable to direct resources to lobbying instead of directing resources to providing better goods and services. When government is small, there is less incentive to corrupt it.
If you work in a very narrow field of science you're basically on your own and have to cite yourself because there's nobody else to cite.
Do not forget that "capital" purchases can also subject to local property taxes (called business personal property). You can imagine a large farm that pays property tax based on the farm size, but a manufacturer with large capital equipment on a small lot would not pay so much property tax. To make sure that all capital is taxed, you have to pay taxes on Capital purchases, at the market value of the item.

If you can lease it instead, the tax burden is placed on the lessor. In Houston, that's around 3% of the value of the property.
Counter example; Duck Duck Go and Mozilla.

Breaking them up doesn't mean that Google Search may not monetize by placing AdSense ads, it means that the Corporate structure exists such that Facebook could offer monetization to Google Search at a competing price.

And with disparate boards/shareholders.
While the Orleans Parish Levee District had its share of extracurricular casino shares and real estate deals, there’s not really a smoking gun here
And again, you're talking hypothetical. Anything is harmful in theory. I can think of a thousand ways in which privacy itself is harmful in theory, it's not even hard. But unless it actually happens somewhere to someone it's quite likely my assumptions are faulty.
Mercurial works correctly but is unbelievably slow compared to git.

If you don't think about performance ahead of time (preferably at the algorithm level) then you will build something correct but slow and it'll be very hard to make it fast without redesigning major parts of it. It's possible to make design choices that paint you into a performance corner very easily, especially with something designed to work on a lot of data. O(n^2) might look like O(log n) for small data and in testing.
It did well enough? OP didn't ask why this release in particular seemed to lag behind more than other releases.

The answer to that was provided generally, but it's because CentOS had to redo their entire build system for 8.
I work almost exclusively remotely. It's been great for me. At first, it was hard to stay productive, but I got a dedicated home office and now I love working from home.

People get so stressed out from commuting, even if they don't realize it.
Cloning it still runs code they don't want to run on their servers.
This happens because people want a disagree button, but have only a milder version of flag button instead. Sometimes one just wants to support a viewpoint without bringing additional arguments.

I think it would be better to display separate agree disagree and flag counters on each post, and not reduce karma if there are more disagree votes than agree.
> (b) it is not really possible for those whom he wants to "empower" to live like it is 1980s while maintaining life as it is needed in 2019.

You say that as if it is a law of nature, rather than specifically and intentionally caused by people he has made a life's work of railing against.

He would rather it be effortless for you to live like he does, and spends all of his time on that problem. On what planet is that somehow hypocritical, except to the people who are his targets, and create entire business plans around preventing people from living like Stallman?
I'm surprised to hear people can just turn their brains off at the end of the day - for me I'm always aware of my email and I'm monitoring it, just in case of an outage or some other emergency
Maybe adjust the cost of upvoting and downvoting. So a downvote to a reputable commenter might cost 10 or 100 karma. Upvoting might also incur a cost.
Maybe it should depend on the reputation of the post (post karma) or the poster (reputation) and also it should cost people with more karma more to vote (but not linearly).

As a side-effect it would allow real-time insight into a sliver of online virtual economics.
This is terrible news.

I prefer Mercurial to Git. I intensively used both for years and I can't say that Git is any better than Mercurial.

I do think they should at least come up with a plan to seamlessly migrate existing repositories to Git. Still, shocking.
I suppose it depends on the attitude of management towards distributed work. If it's something they just tolerate to attract people who might otherwise not work for them, you're probably right.

But the situation may be different if they see it as a way to attract better and/or cheaper employees and to reduce the facilities costs associated with those employees.

That said, when things go south, companies (and managers within companies) do lots of haphazard things in an effort to be seen as doing something whether or not it makes long-term sense.
> POWER is a monster of an architecture

FWIW: the original RS/6000 devices were 20-40 MHz in-order CPUs with architectures objectively simpler than a RISC-V microcontroller like the E310.
It should be "guests"; full title from link is: "Airbnb quietly shut down a top host amid scathing reviews, but hundreds of guests were left to stay with him". The dropped plural throws the whole thing off.
A bunch of folks have pointed out how factually incorrect this comment is in the specifics but I'd also like to mention that amending the constitution isn't a bad thing. "Originalists" are a weird bunch since they seem to hold the original state of the document as immutable while the founders had the foresight to include remedies to amend the constitution within it... it's a living document.

Also, just to reinforce the point other folks have mentioned - that clause doesn't work like that.
Fair point.

I was mostly just making the counter point, however to expand on this, at least with the email thread you can take longer to compose your response or go talk to someone about it if you think it's important. It's viewed a bit weirder to follow up a face-to-face meeting with your counter points in an email.

But I actually just think communication is hard for a lot of people. Locking people in a room and expecting them to come up with a decision is a pretty poor way to work. Combining both text and talking, and giving enough time between discussion and decisions is probably a winner.
There is no central organization that is writing checks for the work in CentOS; this is being done either by volunteers, or by organizations which have loosely-aligned goals.

Oracle completed and announced their clone of Red Hat 8 on July 18th:

https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/announcing-the-release-of-ora...

Oracle is generally faster than CentOS in reissuing upstream changes, and perhaps CentOS as a project was able to take some direction from the results of Oracle's speed and focus.
The right to know what is running on the devices that control your life is a right, and we are humans.
Possibly Barry Marshall and Robin Warren who discovered H Pylori causes peptic ulcers and subsequently won a Nobel Prize. They were ridiculed by doctors and scientists for their theory.
> And who SHOULD it be working for?

The people that employ them: taxpayers.
A physical store, at a minimum, has built in advertising based on location. Budget in local advertising and people will shop there if prices, service, location, and the products are good. I couldnt even imagine how a new online store would be able to start competing with Amazon. There are existing webstores that over the years have lost a lot of business to amazon (Newegg, Sweetwater, B&H Photo, etc). Even local stores are losing business to amazon.
And the road to mediocrity is paved with thought-terminating clichés.
Sounds like fun!

But you have a paradox.

Do you demonstrate one big thing to not do and go out with a bang, winning a Darwin Award, or demonstrate many smaller (less lethal) things to not do? Which generates more net benefit for the world?

Always these career choices, and what kind of advice is there on that?
Looks like the Always Free page was updated to include a free IP too, so you'll still be able to use it for free cloud hosting of small loads.

"Each month, eligible use of all of your f1-micro instances and associated external IP addresses are free until you have used a number of hours equal to the total hours in the current month" - https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/gcp-free-tier

Wasn't there last time archive.org crawled the page, so it is a new addition.
We unfortunately have some Agile/Scrum cultists who bring everything to a grinding halt with their mindless adherence to their view of how it should be done. Completely paralyzes our team when they start bloviating.
often but not always, for example a function using asm() to access, say, some AES intrinsics is pure (const even) since the output only depends on input, but oftentimes compiler by itself will not declare a function with an asm() block pure or const
> Not true. They make money by monitoring their customers' online activity and using the data to target ads, which they sell to advertisers.

That's only half the truth. In real-time bidding system, personal identifiable information is actually sent to advertisers at scale.

It's not directly selling the information, but advertisers who make generate too little revenue can't participate in those RTB platforms, so there is effectively a minimal amount that advertisers pay per potential click, so close enough to actually selling the data.
The second paragraph beginning "The real magic, though, is flexibility: " describes practical benefits that are not just due to accounting.
I'm not sure. I rarely have to do that explicitly in my head.
Well I can't prove it but I strongly believe that our brains use part of speech too, unconsciously.
Perhaps a model should learn to infer/guess them implicitly, from data.
That's exactly what deep learning POS tagger do, they are far better than hard coded algorithms. SOTA has 97.96% of accuracy.

In my opinion, having a world model (for common sense) and situational awareness (e.g. through sensor fusion, or from prior conversational history, or using some externally supplied conditioning) would be far more important.
Haha you basically want a general intelligence (AGI), I want it too! And not enough persons works on "architecting" such a thing. Opencog may interest you a lot then.
But the reality is many other "simpler" tasks are needed to make this happen.

having a world model (for common sense) is an NLP task
There are some interesting results https://github.com/sebastianruder/NLP-progress/blob/master/e...
OpenAI does not work on this task sadly, at least for now.

You think adding POS tags would help it generate meaningful sentences?
I would be clearly insufficient yet necessary.
I believe they already use internally a POS tagger and a dependency parser.
The people blocking the bridge were the (ur-fascist) Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office and the (fascist) Gretna Police Department. It should be mentioned that the nearby Oakwood Mall was in the process of burning down due to fires set by looters (that still being no excuse)
start with a square where the diagonal is 1 unit.
Yes, all future success stories will play out differently.

And no, we have identified patterns accross many past successful cases so we think we can risk theorizing some formulae and advice.

Top of my mind:
- Build something really wanted/needed
- The A Team
- Timing
- Early/easy access to funding

And whether you like it or not: luck!
no, they failed because they failed. If she'd won some of her gambles she'd be a hero.

My go-to ex-post example is FedEx, whose founder took their last month's payroll to Vegas, and won big enough to keep the business going. I was taught about that in business school (as an example of entrepreneurial spirit). Founders who do bad things and lose are convicted of fraud (and gambling with your employees' payroll is definitely fraud). Founders who do bad things and win are hailed as heroes.
That's exactly my problem with the whole idea of "more debt is better". There is obviously a limit. Where is it exactly? How do you know?
> If the Power9 GCC / CLang compilers mess up, you call Red Hat for support

uh, where and when exactly did they offer that? Actually I don't remember anyone anywhere offering commercial support for GCC or LLVM/clang.

Well, I'm not the type of person to look for commercial support for anything ever, but I've heard of several companies that provide support for DBMSes like PostgreSQL. Not so for compilers.

I just googled "gcc commercial support" and the results are the GCC FAQ, a mailing list post about it from 2005 (!), GCC on Wikipedia, "Office 365 GCC" (lol) and so on. Looks like it's just not a thing at all.
I haven’t heard anyone say this for quite some time!
Jammers are cheap and since a lot of expensive gear has GPS tracking these days, thieves are using simple jammers you plug into the cigarette outlet in cars.
This is increasingly becoming a larger problem since they jam a relatively large area.
except it doesn't.

as a producer, you are led to believe that you will make more profit by using DRM. but by the time you dilute all your returns with the restricted distribution channels, same loss due to piracy (because, surprise, drm doesn't prevents it) and no forced sales increase because people who would buy with drm would buy without it anyway, you realize your profits are now lower than not using DRM. But there is no metric you can easily check, because all distribution channels sell you on DRM, because the distribution channel do make more with it. (the only paper I've ever read exploring this hypothesis had to use borderline porn content metrics)

unless I misread your comment and your desired usage control is antagonistic to your own profit.
I don’t think anyone “constructed” running. People have been running for millennia.
You seem to be arguing that the same principles of government should apply at every scale. I don't think that can work. Should the small town consider purchasing a couple B2 bombers? Should the national government decide if my road needs to be repaved?

The plan we are discussing is a plan for national scale governance, and since your example is not on a national scale, the plan would not apply. If the isolated town wishes to enact their own laws to regulate Walmart, they may do so.

The locals may govern themselves locally. National leaders govern on a national scale.
> The solution for one national monopoly? Why a collection of regional monopolies of course!

Regional monopolies are far less of a threat to politicians operating at the national scale. So much of what we are observing comes down to people and institutions vying for power and trying to neuter those people and institutions in competition for that power.

This is Silicon Valley (big tech) versus Washington D.C. (big government) versus NYC (big finance).
If anyone wants a few free coins to play around with, reply with your twitter handle (that you used to sign in to the site) and we'll credit you! (But really you should donate because climate change!)
>All the documentation I spotted currently still lists evolve as "experimental", and that doesn't help with any confidence of which tools/extensions to use in day-to-day operations

I believe it is bug free, and fit for real world usage, and has been for years. If you read the details, the issue is there is a chance for performance degradation, and they consider that as "backward incompatible".
Why we are not building our decentralized app on Ethereum
This is actually a relatively common thing. When people immigrate to a place that generally treats them like a foreign entity, they are more likely to strongly identify as that entity.
The FSF's goal is to make technology not a boogeyman, modern tech culture has a goal of making the inside of every device opaque enough that a boogeyman could hide there.
The need to step outside of mainstream views has been important for intellectual progress over the years, indeed. The problem we have now is we're stuck with a series of bad faith, polarizing and disingenuous views that "suck the oxygen out of" actual wide-ranging thinking - IE, climate denialists can still get a lot of money, anti-vaxers can pull in a lot of money from scams, etc.
Yeah, because they live underwater and can use said water to flush the waste salt. My question is how a non-water mammal gets rid of the waste salt...
To be honest, that doesn't sound easier to me.
Alan Kay on Personal Computing (1989)
The Deadliest Being on Planet Earth – The Bacteriophage [video] (2018)
Since torrents and music downloads were killed there is not much to use it for...
Thanks, I was producing approximations of sqrt(2), I should have said so.
Far more people work in "small tech" than work in "big tech" and would either be unaffected or benefit from these initiatives.
Equifax may not be a great example here, since Congress already stomped on it explicitly because it was concerned about the privacy implications of digitizing the information they held. That fear led to the Fair Credit Reporting Act, which substantially curtailed many of Equifax's most egregious business practices.
Except that the specific example everyone sites is Amazon, and Amazon isn't even in the double digits of all retail in the US [0]. WalMart on the other hand is 8.9% of all retail [1] -- nearly double what Amazon captures. Neither one is that much of the total market. Online is also a surprisingly small portion of total retail still, esp. when you start looking at the magnitude of the numbers.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/13/amazons-share-of-the-us-e-... -- 49% of ecommerce, 5% of total retail
[1] https://www.pymnts.com/consumer-insights/2018/walmart-amazon...
The ISA is mostly the same. I mean, look at https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/ssw_aix_72/as...

There are differences in details about uncommon instructions, irrelevant assembly language changes, some instructions privileged for one arch and not the other, that kind of things.

But for the bulk of the ISA, it's the same. You probably can create a single userspace binary compatible with both? Not sure but seems doable.

The microarch is likely different but then it is also different between several members of each category, so the word does not really designates the micro-arch, but really the ISA. And then you have other brand names using that, and they are so similar that e.g. Freescale switched from PowerPC to Power while incrementing PowerQUICC II to III. I remember Linux has an eieio macro that just emits the aforesaid instruction for PPC, and actually the opcode does something similar on Power (mbar) and IIRC the assembler is happy to emit it regardless of the ISA.

So it was kind of messy when you reached the differences, but everything was quickly workable and you got use to it. The reference manuals of Freescale are very good and the "[...]Programmer’s Reference Manual for Freescale Power Architecture Processors" EREF_RM often directly points at the few differences with PowerPC.
Rugby players eat huge meals, because playing Rugby genuinely burns that many calories. The problem they face is that once they stop playing Rugby, they tend to put on weight due to being used to the large meals.
> "a 15 minute fact-to-face is better than a multi-day email chain"

This truism seems to never get old. It's carelessly tossed about but never proven. It's mostly just accepted as-is and hardly ever challenged:

Why is it better?

Do you really have be in the office every day, the whole day, just because a situation where a "15 minute face-to-face" is required might come up?

If so how often does this happen?

Why does this need arise?

If you have to clarify matters in personal conversations all the time doesn't that tell you that your company's processes and communication behaviour are lacking?
No, as a keylogger is the term for a malware to capture ALL your keystrokes in secret (to usually later fish out the interesting ones like passwords). It is misleading, to mix it up with a software, that captures your textinput from a textfield, even though it is not communicated clearly to the average user that his text goes to a server.
this. So much. Copying the success stories makes no sense unless you also understand how other people following the same strategies failed. You have to study the failures in order to understand the successes.
What's a good strategy for hunting on AngelList? During a recent job search for remote roles, AngelList was one places I searched.

I found a less serious crowd compared to indeed or linked-in about hiring now. Previously when working full time I connected with a founder over a two year period and ended up working on a year long project.

What's the best way of connecting through AngelList? Are most people connecting over a period of time or do you find most are using it like a job board where they try to fill a position asap?
Companies have been broken up before, it is a necessary thing. It's easy to claim others do not understand economics, however your comment does nothing to convince anyone that you are correct.