skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There seems to be a blame everything on tech thing recently in the news (what is "tech" for even?)

Why not break up other industries, like some of the giant food and household companies and the shit they're practically poisoning us with. It feels like pandering to go after "big tech" constantly.

These industries are just hard to break into. Who is going to compete with Google at search at this point? We watched Microsoft throw money at and fail miserably. Social media comes and goes, Facebook the website is dieing, Facebook the company is will be around by running other social media, opinions of Facebook specifically aside why is that a bad thing?

We need politicians that are younger and in touch with the world. But still, anything but Trump at this point unfortunately.
Off-topic, but, it's very interesting how they translate the Asterix and Obelix character names across languages.

In Spanish the druid is called Panoramix for whatever reason :)
Nothing beats a plain Google Docs doc IMO. Synced everywhere, historical revisions (more useful than done.txt as I can see things I deleted/changed as well), it just works for me.
Apparently everything.
I was hoping 'scientific' meant publishing the training data and resulting AI model in order that others could either use it or reproduce it. A lot of neural net A.I. isnt really scientific in this sense.
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> “The problem, of course, that Dorsey and Zuckerberg and everybody else are running into is they’ve built an entire business model in which metrics are a central component or central mechanism by which engagement with the platforms is driven.”

This is the heart of the matter. These platforms exist not only to enable polarization, but their very business model thrives on polarization. There are a lot of other second-order effects, too, such as "The Perception Gap," which I saw posted to HN recently: https://perceptiongap.us/
I tend to agree, I think if IBM were to release some core designs to go with it then they could potentially spur something interesting.

I really see it two ways, the fact that Talos has real hardware that isn't priced up in the stratosphere (it's not cheap, but it's not insane) and then the ISA being opened. Those are giant steps for a company like IBM. At the same time, as big as those steps are for IBM, they seem like pretty small steps in terms of taking on the world with this stuff.

Throw in something like the full G5 design? We might be talking about something different.
Correct! At least not when he was running for the presidency.

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/jul...
Good point! :) Thanks for sharing that.

> Apache Kafka is an open-source stream-processing software platform developed by LinkedIn and donated to the Apache Software Foundation, written in Scala and Java. [1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Kafka
I may have been overly generous with the "of any kind" :). That's a bit on the expensive side and the ecosystem and platform flexibility in terms of upgrade are still pretty slim/locked in. Something that's open and cheap enough to spark general interest would be much more interesting.
Even after those failures they seemed doggedly committed to keeping the MAX in the air, until the issue was forced by foreign regulatory agencies.
That 'military objectives only" thing was tried in WW2, but found wanting. In bombing against both Germany and Japan, it was found that destroying civilians' homes was far more effective.

Read up on Curtis Le May's methods in Germany, Japan, and then later in North Korea. He was a great proponent of fire-bombing large areas in the centre of cities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo

One fire-bombing raid killed as many people in Tokyo as were killed a few months later in Hiroshima's atom-bombing.
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The USA has such a terrible track record when it comes to breaking up companies. Not what companies but break up but how to do it. Look at AT&T. The solution for one national monopoly? Why a collection of regional monopolies of course! I mean that's what the RBOCs (Regional Bell Operating Companies) were.

So whenever I hear about some kneejerk proposal to break up tech I expect to hear someone propose that Facebook should be broken up into two companies: one for surnames A-M and another for N-Z.

I think the only tech company where you could make any case for being anticompetitive right now is Amazon. Fedex and UPS exist largely at the whim of Amazon. Any online retailer is now at a severe disadvantage to Amazon itself as well as Amazon marketplace sellers.

Second place are the two app stores.

We're living in an era where China's tech giants are tools of statecraft and not subject to the same level of scrutiny as US companies. The Chinese market is artificially restricted from competition. By any measure of government intervention China cheats here. It doesn't really seem like the right time for the US to kill the golden geese.
>"you want all cultural divisions to remain the same for the foreseeable future and view any intermingling as a form of cultural destruction."

You have deceived yourself, good sir. I don't know why, but I'd reflect on it for your sake.
This is at best disingenuous - you are a VP at facebook and should preface a comment that tries to claim FB is respecting people's privacy with a comment to the effect of:

"I am a VP at Facebook and my income is based on how effectively we track and abuse the privacy of the general public, whether or not they are user's or have agreed to any contract with my employer"
> You are in fact arguing that the state shouldn't necessarily collect all it's owed. I doubt that attitude would get you far in the Accounts Receivable department at any business.

Most AR departments will, in fact, be willing to write off some of what they're owed. There's a cost to pursuing the debts, both in employee time and in goodwill.
I beg to disagree. About Japanese society and cooping strategies, that is.

I let myself to generalize a bit and say that most of the people on the spectrum feels well in more or less rigid, closed set of social rules. The more logical the better. In reality, a lot of awkwardness comes from the fact that daily human to human behavioral protocol is very open. Anything may happen and it feels overwhelming just to think about all the possibilities a conversation may leads to.

Japanese society is normalized to the point that the citizens may feel upset just by the fact that they are in certain situation and there is no how-to around. People are following social rules everywhere. Japanese society is strictly formalized and everyone is expected to behave properly in given situation. You go to restaurant and you don't have to wonder how much should you tip to the waiter. You don't tip. Simple as that - that's the rule. They've made a lot practical improvements to make the daily struggle as easy as possible. They are always avoiding conflict. When someone step on someone's shoe in metro they say "sorry" (both of them!) and go on. There is no ambiguity in your daily life.

More of it. Being socially awkward is perfectly acceptable or at least tolerated. I am talking about bigger cities, of course. You can walk the streets of Shibuya in a diving suit and no one would say a word. You can refrain from talking to people, too.

They are, almost naively, honest and even Tokyo - 38M people, 13M in the city - is so safe, that you can leave your bag to reserve a table in the crowded fast food and go to the counter to make an order. No one will take it. No one will abuse you and you don't have a reason to feel vulnerable.

If there's a rule, so it is. People are obeying the law and keeping to the rules. This is extremely safe environment for people on the spectrum.

One thing that is usually omitted in any analysis is the weather. Seems non important. But if we consider that ASD is commonly accompanied by depression and/or anxiety I'm willing to weight a weather as a factor. The thing is that winter is almost non existent in Tokyo and to the south. But, what is more important, there is sunny all year long. All year long you have something in the air that will brighten up your day. Just imagine that - plum trees are blooming in February. November and full sun so you can wear t-shirt and hoodie? Go ahead, at least in Tokyo. Much easier to keep in good shape then, say, in London when most days are gloomy.

Of course no country's perfect. What I've said above is the norm, but there are always some exceptions. Big cities are loud and bright. Sensory issues may be problematic. Some rules are less logical that it seems. Japanese language is not direct and sometimes people are expected to notice when should they react.

I do agree that Japan is not country for everyone but as long as ASD goes I'd rather say it is better suited for people on the spectrum that we may suspect. Especially for foreigners as we are naturally allowed to make mistakes.
> What exactly does this mean? Google ads can't show on Google search?

I think it means they couldn't both be google, any more.

[edit]: to be specific, they couldn't both be alphabet companies anymore, I worded that sloppily but following the quoted material.
The time will surely roll itself back if we put it in the law!!

TBH I don't see any difference from her platform then the one Trump had, which is to turn back the clock and make America like its in the 80s, perhaps just with less racism.
Does costco have a web platform for selling goods? Does it exceed the revenue limit? Does it sell own brand goods through its web platform?

Yes to all three, so it would be caught by this law as it is stated here.
While this distinction is accurate, I'm not sure it's useful?

If you can target with enough granularity, which is fairly typical of these modern ad networks like Facebook/Google, then you have the data about those users who click through by the fact that they saw that targeting. It may not be perfect data, but it's close enough to be incredibly valuable to companies.

I can't buy an email list from Facebook with salaries attached, but I can target those who have a salary in the range I'm interested in and see who I get through.

You're right that this is a distinction, but I think it has very similar outcomes.
By sending it me you have to copy it, either onto a medium or network, I then have to copy it (from some medium/network at least into main memory and then copy either into video or audio memory which then do magic to highlight pixels or create audio waves)

The copy is essence of what a computer does. A computer can essentially only do some math and copying.

If you ask me to install some DRM software (or maybe even some hardware containing DRM stuff as in HDMI) you are asking me to run additional complex software where the only purpose is to restrict the functionality of my computer.

I do that, since I like some movies and other things I get this way. However the software serves no purpose to me as the user. It is there to do Digital Restriction Management.
Amazon, Google, etc. are global companies. Every other country wishes that those companies were theirs. They're major drivers of prosperity in the US - armies of well-paid engineers and lower prices for consumers. Planning to wreck them seems terribly shortsighted.
Creating good movies/series is far more than just having a lot of user preference data. Hollywood has been doing this for decades and still most movies fail. Netflix has had some good hits and some duds. Apple might, but data isn't very valuable.
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So not really a leading question, just curious... why shouldn't I be OK with buying the cheap mega-supermarket brand product? As the consumer, I just want a cheap price - I personally don't really care where the money is going. If small companies can't produce a less expensive alternative, then won't breaking up the larger company just increase costs to the consumer? Thanks for your thoughts.
Or they understand exactly what’s at stake, and that’s why they support plans like these.
To be fair, your sequence seems to approach 1.414141414... which is a rational number.
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Translations from their FAQs:

> If I disconnect my activity, will I stop seeing ads?

No.

> Does disconnecting my activity mean that it's deleted?

No.

> Why am I seeing businesses I don't recognise?

Because they are creepier than you thought.
Shouldn’t this be senators job, not really the presidents?

Also, it’s policy proposals like these that are going to push Trump to win in 2020. All the Democrats are suggesting more and more socialist policies, while popular with their base.. is pretty detached from the middle and right side ideologically. People want cheaper products, more money and stability. Focus on that.
It's OK for competitive businesses to offer house brands but not monopolies.

Bundling Internet Explorer into Windows was only disallowed because Windows was a monopoly.
People forget that his healthcare proposal as a candidate was to the right of Clinton's.
3 of the top 11 supercomputers in this years ranking are Power-9s.
I have a 2009 Mac Pro with dual 3.2 GHz hexcore Xeons (so 24 threads) and 2 older GPUs and 48 GB RAM that cost less than $700 for the whole thing. I'm beginning to think I lucked out on it more than I already thought I did.
Of course I was using shorthand. The point wasn't to paint an accurate picture of the biology of sex selection, but to point out the reason for having a "women's" class: that, on the whole, men have biological advantages in physical activities, and that for most sports, not having a women's class would effectively mean excluding women from competitive versions of that sport entirely. Obviously somewhat less so in ultramarathons than say, sprints or weightlifting; and it's obviously more complicated when you're talking about the top 50 people out of 7 billion, rather than the top 50 people out of a few thousand, or even a few hundred thousand.
Agree, these were fire death traps and there should be criminal punishment.

I have no problems with tiny safe apartments though, I wish we’d zone for more of them.
money? Or maybe just Facebook is at its core opposed to the idea of not misleading their users.

I mean it's also worth noting that to access the misleading "clear history" feature you have to create an FB account so they can track you more.
n.b.: The 2015 International Building Code removed the requirement for at least one room with a minimum 120sf. Rooms must now have a minimum of 70sf. http://media.iccsafe.org/news/eNews/2014v11n20/2015_irc_sigc...

Ceiling heights must be at least 7'6". https://codes.iccsafe.org/content/IBC2015/chapter-12-interio...
Well, what about the EU browsers solution? Google could still have its own app store, but instead of being pre-installed and integrated, the user would have to select one or more during the initial system configuration (and have a menu for changing that later).
> Of to the 2 Billion people using Chrome, point out just one for whom the privacy implications around autocomplete have imposed a non-theoretical cost.

You've never accidentally typed a password in a URL bar? You've never accidentally focussed the browser window when typing something you don't want Google or anyone else to know?
Diesel is pretty easy to get. Even in a power outage you can open the stations reservoirs and pump it out manually the main issue is getting the station to agree to it, makes sense for a single big customer but not to do it for everyone looking to gas up their car.
Based on what we knew of enigma and codebreaking at the time knowing frequently-used or high-value words and phrases may have assisted German codebreaking efforts.

Considering the circumstances extreme paranoia seems justified.
Tupelo as it relates to IPLD and IPFS
Opossums and guinea fowl are both great at finding and eating large volumes of ticks.
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I'm glad the conversation of social skills is finally coming to the fore -- software as with any other human endeavour is a social exercise and to pretend social skills are somehow less valuable or necessary than technical skills is fallacious, you can't really have one without the other
Except that auditing involves tax return in which the IRS has suspicion that there is more income than claimed, right? So of all the people who reported income of less than $25,000, the IRS apparently believed that 0.69% of them actually had income of much, much more. Maybe millions.
They are comparable, though.

In both cases, there's a limited number of slots available for what's fundamentally a required educational program, and increasing that number of slots is difficult on a structural and staffing level.
I think it is very easy to answer to this question in a way that will steer the discussion away from your work, if you want. Just answer with general decription like "software developer, in a small company", whatever. Unless you are really unlucky any natural person will just lose interest.

I myself ask this question now and then just because there is nothing else to talk about.
I don't think they can specifically address a single entity like that: the laws have to be applicable across the board. I believe otherwise it would be the constitutionally-forbidden "Bill of Attainder".
Heterodyne is a signal processing technique, and superheterodyne is an application of that for radio tuning.

This video is a great explainer (and I also highly recommend every other video on the channel):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz_mMLhUinw
It's all good until the illegal wiring burns the place down, which is liable to a) kill those people and b) be pretty bad for everyone else in the building.
Much of the empirical work published in academic journals on startups is not ex post.
I'm typically a smaller government type of person, but I'm actually ok with the specifics of her plan. One power that I think should never be stripped from the government is the ability to regulate parts where the free market becomes dysfunctional. I think her plan encourages competition and makes the markets healthier, so thumbs up from me.
I wish it wasn't so expensive to have a switch next to your circuit-breaker that was labelled 'electric lines/natural gas/water' and depending on which selection would cut-off the home electricity from the others and enable the electricity to come from, respectively, the central grid, a small natural-gas-fed generator (with auto-start battery?), a pico/micro hydro generator in the basement/crawlspace.

Having the ability to convert your electricity bill to a more expensive water/natural gas bill and still have power during an outage would be quite nice.
55% of the Americans use FB every single day of their lives.
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Then it should apply to walmart, target & costco then, which many of the same arguments applied now and 30 years ago and have a similar range of market cap. But these regulations never materialized.
True, but you can still imagine why they'd be worried to find so many of these related code words regarding the most critical secret operation of the war being published in this cryptic fashion.
If you leave facebook you can't access the "clear history" feature, so they can track you and keep that information forever.

Facebook is a morally bankrupt company and the only real fix is to black hole their many domains.
> Neither of us knew about Reflog at the time, so that didn't even get onto the list of things to try.

...so you thought you lost a day's or a month's work, you didn't actually lose it.
Can someone walk me through how I can set up the data to plug into this dashboard?

If I had a series of CSVs, how simple would it be to just attach it to these visuals?
So you say Git has complicated interface? (rant)
You as the consumer aren't the only entity that matters. The long term health of communities might not be aligned with short term consumer benefit.
First of all, RTFA:
> The tenants who had been living in the minuscule spaces "were offered emergency relocation assistance by the American Red Cross," the NYC building agency says.

Second, they were $600/month, which is low for NYC but not exactly the kind of rent level for people who would otherwise be homeless. This was also lower east side. For the same price you could split a bedroom somewhere further and commute in.
This, but with the additional stipulation that content production companies are forbidden from partnering with connectivity companies for promotional purposes (Think T-Mobile's binge on plan, where certain streaming platforms don't count against your data plan)
What part of this is unconstitutional? Progressives breaking up big companies has a long and (mostly) celebrated history in the US.
Fedex literally just ended their contract with Amazon lol
Much of the empirical academic literature on entrepreneurship and startups does not suffer from ex post rationalization.
There are dozens of politician plans and manifestos to reorganize 'big tech'. Interesting that the New Yorker chose to feature the Warren team plan so prominently. A more rounded comparison of plans would be useful at this point in the candidate beauty contest.
Really curious what happens to the stock price of these companies if a progressive dem like Warren or Sanders wins. I mean, on election day will the price of these stocks drop double digits? Doesn't seem like these risks have been priced in at all.
My thermometer is a pretty clear indicator of a quantifiable externality of coal.
Doing this saves you about two bits worth of information while usually greatly increasing complexity.

To see why consider how geohashes work. As you add letters you telescope in to a more precise region. The land/water distinction is less information than even what is encoded by the very first character of your 9 or 10 character geohash.
Adult website data leak connected private users to content uploads
It's completely different and meant to be inflammatory rather than accurate
Alternatively, it would just cause small companies and startups to never innovate, because they know that they can't make money off of it by selling to a bigger company.
To answer with another question: how can you tell the difference between big pseudo-monopolies truly providing the best product or service vs. smaller companies being unable to enter the market with a better one because a big company has locked them out?
Eh, it's more complicated than that.

> Princeton University researchers have found that the climate models scientists use to project future conditions on our planet underestimate the cooling effect that clouds have on a daily — and even hourly — basis, particularly over land.

https://www.princeton.edu/news/2018/01/10/spotty-coverage-cl...

However, note that "the researchers found that inaccuracies in accounting for the diurnal, or daily, cloud cycle did not seem to invalidate climate projections, but they did increase the margin of error for a crucial tool scientists use to understand how climate change will affect us."
>Yes, but it seems intellectually dishonest to go after big tech (where, often, the "product" is free) yet avoid going after -- say -- big telco or big cable or big pharma -- where you come out of a retail store feeling disgusting because you got ripped off so badly.

You must be living under a very heavy rock if you don't think she's going after pharma and telco companies. She spent half of the last debate ripping on pharma companies.