skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The autocomplete provides a valuable service: it shows you suggestions for search terms; it's similar to if the credit card number is sent to the server and the server sends back whether or not the number is a valid credit card number (although this is now done on the client side).

It can also be turned off extremely easy, not exactly what we know as "malware" if it allows you to turn off its "malicious" activities.
I have experience with both WeWork facilities (via my former employer) and IWG Regus offices (via current startup), so I'll try to comment on the perceived differences.

The main factors for our startup choosing the Regus office in San Francisco were price and privacy.

Regus was vastly cheaper when we evaluated the two options. I'll have to check with the CEO for the exact numbers, but it ended up being several hundred dollars cheaper per month. Also, WeWork offices generally have glass windows, while Regus offices are still traditional closed rooms with doors.

In terms of other benefits:
- meeting rooms tend to be easier to book at a Regus location, since they don't seem to be used much.
- WeWork offers a bunch of consumable amenities: all types of milk, coffee, tea, kombucha, (previously) beer. Regus only has very limited options for coffee and tea.
- WeWork spaces host social events frequently. Regus maybe once a month? Our building management tend to host more events than Regus, interestingly enough.
- Noise level. Common areas in WeWork are similar to a coffee shop if there are lot of members in that location, whereas it's usually quiet in the kitchen & common areas on Regus floors.

This might read as an IWG support post, but I still miss the social aspect and youthful energy behind WeWork, as one of the sibling comments alluded to. But does it make sense for a seed-stage startup to pay for the cost differential? No.
The other half of the question is why centos has to wait until after RHEL8 is released to start the work instead of being given a month or two advanced access given their (quasi?) official status these days
I see this every time I try to log in to twitter. I've used different computers, different browsers, different operating systems (Debian, Xubuntu and Windows 10). I've opened tickets with twitter (they don't seem to care). I've googled for solutions, nothing. Can HN help me out? All I have is that screenshot (which appears whenever I try to login).

Edit: I am w8rbt on twitter as well.
Supermarkets purchase their inventory so it's in their best interest to sell it. Amazon doesn't really care if the 3rd party seller's inventory never moves because it doesn't cost them anything.
Hence dartboards have the mathematical property that a dart thrown into one is infinitely more likely to land on an integer than on a computable real (or a natural number, but for different reasons).
I'm a huge fan of Alistair Cockburn's thinking on this point. He argues that people - and their characteristics - are a far greater driver of project success than methodology.

The argument is not a formal one, but I think still holds a lot of weight:

https://ameyakarve.wordpress.com/2012/07/22/characterizing-p...
>In which case you have to ask yourself, are you so brilliant that you’ve found an important topic that no one has considered yet, or have all the brilliant people already figured out that topic isn’t worthy of study?

Imagine how many inventions we would have missed if all inventors had shared your mindset.
Did you forget to include the source? (I'm using an app so maybe it's not displaying it?)
The tax industry lobbies heavily to influence tax code and laws to maintain their relevance. The IRS has tried many times to either simplify the tax code or offer services to tax payers to simplify reconciling obligations.

Remember in 2016 when the IRS wanted to mail out prefilled tax forms that tax payers would just sign and send back for or with a check? Remember how the tax industry lobbied Congress to pass the Free File Act of 2016 which permanently bars the IRS from providing free filing services?

I suppose that wasn't malice.

What about when big corporations lobby Congress to not close loop holes?

http://www.citizen.org/documents/corporate-tax-lobbying-repo...

Call it "plain old politics" or call it "malice" but either way it's intentional.
Watching Netflix via a surveillance device or watching VHS rips of old shows is a false dichotomy.

rms wants people to live in 2019 but with free software.

As in, with more free software, not just software from the 80s.
Facebook launches 'clear history' tool – but it won't delete anything
Facebook paid people to listen to voice recordings, too
Sigh, obligatory repost, given the topic:

24/192 Music Downloads
...and why they make no sense

https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html

[edit, add prior discussion on HN:]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19318898
If it means that some academics are choosing to cite their own papers rather than keeping up to date on the literature of their field, there's likely to be some potential insights missed.
I assume that we want to access these arrays as "array of structs" for most functions but as "structure of arrays" for some calculation intensive functions. The article suggests storing it as array of structs and to make copies for those calculations but this seems inefficient to me. Modern C++ should provide a way to efficiently decouple the access model from the memory layout.

Can we hide the actual memory layout without big overhead using C++ inline/template functions/classes? Would that be the visitor pattern?
> GitHub Package Registry is free for all repositories during the beta. And it will always be free for public and open source repositories.

https://github.com/features/package-registry
The 'costs' to the taxpayer are in taxes they already owe and should have paid though. Perhaps the increased enforcement will encourage fewer people and corporations to under-pay their taxes, resulting in greater efficiency than that shown by the direct collections of unpaid taxes.

More generally, it seems strange to me to consider having to pay taxes owed as a cost that should be avoided. IE if the police had to spend money to catch a bank robber, we wouldn't weigh the cost to the robber of having to return the stolen money. (Which isn't to say that under-paying taxes is morally equivalent to bank robbery, but I think the analogy holds.)
The FSF has been very pragmatic.

It hasn't capitulated, though.
Duck Duck Go isn't a search engine - they don't index the web except in the most misleading sense of the term. It aggregates results from real search engines like Bing and Yandex, who cover the cost of indexing the web with their own version of adsense.
Growing up in air-polluted areas linked to mental health issues
Yup, I self-cite quite a bit. But not to demonstrate productivity or some other arbitrary metric(s). I self-cite because the images I use in my research are really difficult to make and I'm in a niche enough field that using the images really helps people who are not familiar with the area understand what is going on. These images were arduous to make, so I reuse them. (I should note, that I've gotten in "trouble" for reusing them without a citation).
This is what I could call are a sincere definition.

I understand why someone could view this as limiting, but saying DRM is malware and it's only purpose is to limit you is intentionally ignoring other information about DRM to make it sound even worse then it is.
The effect of fluoride is in addition to the effect of toothpaste and other fluoride delivery modalities (25%). Even if that were not the case, prior to the adoption of other fluoridation modalities, fluoridation reduced cavities by as much as 65%. Additionally, for urban centers it costs less than a tube of toothpaste per person per year. Finally, it works without requiring a behavioral intervention - people naturally drink and eat. It is not considered one of the top ten public health interventions of the 20th century for nothing.
I have Sennheiser Momentum True Wireless with aptX HD support and the sound is marvelous. No compression artifacts at all.

AptX HD implementation on Pixel 2 XL, on the other side, is subpar. I sometimes get nasty clicks on music with high dynamic range and there's no way to avoid them other than to set output codec to anything but aptX HD, which tremendously affects the quality.
Uh...

>> and things carry on as normal otherwise

I don't think consumers will agree with you.
Code density matters for I$ thrashing reasons, but it's probably not a significant enough factor to overtake the market supremacy of ARM.
Sure. Here's the section from the post for context:

<quote>

Here, the eligible column indicates when the instruction is eligible for retirement in the sense that it has
finished executing. nop instructions have no dependencies
hence basically execute instantly (in fact, no not execute
at all) and hence are eligible on cycle 0. The other
instructions come eligible as defined by their position in
the mov -> add -> ... dependency chain. The actual column
shows when the instruction actually retires. You can build
it by basically scanning down the eligible column and
retiring up to 4 uops if their eligible cycle is less than
or equal to the current cycle.

</quote>

Basically instructions [1] need to execute before they can retire. Instructions execute out-of-order when their inputs become ready and when some other constraints are met (e.g., their execution port is available). This post [2] is a good introduction.

So here "eligible" is the cycle at which an instruction would be expected to complete execution (starting arbitrarily at cycle 0), if you have a chain of mov instructions they will be eligible at 0, 4, 8, 12, ... since this chain has latency 4. If you have a bunch of independent instructions with throughput 4/cycle, they would be become eligible at 0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,2,2,2,2 since 4 can start every cycle and they take 1 cycle each.

"Eligible" is relevant here because it defines when the instruction can retire. Unlike execution, retirement happens in order, so you can imagine the retirement unit maintaining a pointer to the oldest (i.e., "higher up" in source order) instruction, and asking "is it eligible yet?" every cycle. If yes, that instruction will be retired in addition to up to the 3 subsequent in-order instructions if they were also eligible.

So from eligible cycle analysis we can reconstruct the retirement pattern (sometimes more than one pattern is possible, I didn't touch on this yet in this post).

Let me know if it makes some sense?

---

[1] Actually uops are what execute, but they are equivalent for this example.

[2] https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2018/03/05/a-whirlwind-introdu...
Exactly. The ‘best’ communication method for an issue is entirely contextual.
The anti tech sentiment amongst candidates like warren and sanders is a bit annoying. if you rank order the problems we need to solve as a nation this issue wouldnt even make it in the top 10. its getting more attention than it should. i think a part of the reason is just this deep seated feeling within people that if some group of people became really really successful (and especially really really fast) there must be something unfair or fishy about it. that they don't really deserve it or somehow cheated. atleast this is the feeling i get when i hear warren or sanders.
But what if people didn't have these views before and platform polarization is in fact creating these extreme views. That could very well be the why.
"Although Google's exercise of this power has not been malicious so far, the point is that nobody should have such power, which could also be used maliciously. You might well decide to let a security service remotely deactivate programs that it considers malicious. But there is no excuse for allowing it to delete the programs, and you should have the right to decide who (if anyone) to trust in this way."
Maybe "non-redistributable" instead of "non-copyable."

I don't disagree with your assessment, except I'd say DRM doesn't exist to restrict the machine - the goal is to restrict the user. Which is necessary, when users aren't trustworthy.

But I'd disagree that DRM doesn't serve you a purpose. It serves the purpose of establishing trust and enforcing conditional exchanges of information. The alternative, like you imply, is no communication, or communication through a different medium that doesn't involve your hardware at all.
Yeah but that's the thing in a way: people don't necessarily optimize. They just run the stuff right out of the box or after compiling it themselves...

That's the hurdle which needs to be overcome and that's why x86 is years ahead because people have been taking care of the optimizations for you...
Indeed; if Google is selling users' data, where do I sign up to buy some?
In the US, the federal trade commission (FTC) i think has to approve those purchases, to prevent exactly what Facebook got away with.
You might be interested in the concept of tax integration. Tax laws are generally designed to take this issue into account.
The primary social function of giving advice is a domination game (http://www.overcomingbias.com/2015/03/advice-shows-status.ht..., http://www.overcomingbias.com/2014/01/advice-isnt-about-info...) - that's why there is a lot of shitty advice. That does not mean there are no good business theories that cover startups. Some of them are scientific theories with all the required rigour - but not all theories need to be properly scientific to be useful, in our daily life we live with lots of ex-post theories, they are not perfect but are still useful. By the way I am the author of one non-scientific startup theory myself https://medium.com/hackernoon/aggregators-bffd36063a72 and I hope it can be useful:) There are also useful advice. It is good to read them, evaluate, adjust them you your circumstances, etc. In the end you need to decide for yourself, but they show you the possibilities.
yep. Online platforms can just peek at the data and when they see something selling they can make their own version. They are taking zero risk.

In contrast brick and mortar has no idea what does well until they start buying the product to sell themselves.
might be too little too late.

I used to be powerpc developer myself, now nearly all the communities, the ecosystem, the core developers are gone, it's beyond repair, sigh.
"It Is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It" -Upton Sinclair
Mozilla is its offspring, isn't it?
Not just individual scientists but entire labs.
Strange, I use google news on a semi regular basis, and have the opposite experience; most are fairly bland coverage of climate science research announcements with the occasional hyperbolic doomsday stuff.
Blaming the law and society should be a separate thread. Conflating that with tech companies abiding to them is plain wrong and dilutes two separate issues.
That might seem like the case, but television time among men went from about 12 hours a week to 20 hours a week from 1965 to 1995, and from 9 hours a week among women in 1965 to over 18 in 1995.

Among children, it's more dramatic - with kids watching 4.5 to 5 hours a day in the 90's.
Yeah, its so terrible being able to search the whole Internet for free, carry a computer in your pocket, and order anything delivered to your door.
Node v12.9.0 (Current)
> Boeing is an American company and the FAA declared the Boeing Max safe to fly in US airspace, and didn't require the re-certification it should have had after major structural changes to the 737 design.

There's a pretty strong argument to be made that the 737-600 (first of the NextGen) was a far greater departure structurally from the 737 type certificate than the 737-Max was from the immediately preceding 737 aircraft. The Nextgen aircraft have a wingspan 16 feet wider, a wing area of 125% of the Classic 737, and a length as much as 44 feet longer (even slightly longer on the -Max).

Certification of derivative aircraft on a common type certificate is extremely common and generally has proven to be safe over the years. This specific certification has serious deficiencies, but that doesn't mean the practice in general is wrong (IMO).

In fact, the costs of certification from scratch are so high that it in some cases holds back development advances (because the optimization questions now include regulatory optimizations like "what can we certify under the old type certificate?" in addition to the actual physical engineering concerns.
Might be easier to lay off everyone on that half-full 3rd floor and save money on your lease next cycle.
Since Red Hat make Red Hat and Red Hat also make CentOS, could Red Hat not simply ask Red Hat not to put in those references in the first place? Or when they do put them in to always include a flag to easily remove them?
I read that meaning you can start with the actual pre-trained GPT-2 models but I never got an answer when I specifically asked if that was the case.
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Capitalism is a system that sounds great on paper, but doesn't work in practice.
Honestly, no I do not see a liberal bias. I do see a corporate bias: things like "can't raise taxes on corporations, they'll only pass it along to the consumer" get passed along without any question. "Can't raise taxes on the consumer, they'll only pass it along to their employers" - now that's considered laughable and weird.

I do see something akin to conservative bias. Conservative framing of every debatable issue occurs. Conservative writers get what amounts to affirmative action. By calling "liberal bias" on every report they don't like, Republicans have conditioned editors, reporters and fact checkers to merely repeat what Republicans say verbatim. No analysis, no context, no history. Democrats, on the other hand, what they say is totally up for shredding based on who, history and context.

I find the idea of "shadow bans" laughable. I get downvoted and argued with all the time. My opinions are not popular: you are arguing with me about something you take as gospel, and I think is totally false right now. I've never been "shadow banned". I know that HN does something like that, mostly for people who just disrupt conversations. But here's some news: getting argued with because your opinions are poorly formed, poorly stated or even false on the face of them is not bias, and downvotes are not shadow bans.
IIRC this was something JAI was trying to do.
Because sometimes a technology in and of itself is not profitable, and is instead only profitable to specific large companies that would purchase them.

There are tons of reasons why it would make sense to purchase a company, that would never be profitable on its own.
Haha, privacy advocates love this sort of sensationalism. They run around saying the world is ending.

Then, when they spend all their time yelling that autocomplete is surveillance, they wonder why no on is listening.

I, for one, am fully informed of all this and choose to share my info. Even better, when Google gets "My Timeline" wrong, I correct it. For free. That's right. For free.

Because there's no nuance to their arguments, they end up looking like the crazy guy with the sign about contrails on Market St. Then when MKULTRA comes out, they act like they predicted it when the f-score of their predictions is near zero.
Do extensions from the chrome web store work? If so, there are many extensions for swapping out the new tab page there.
Walmart sues Tesla over fires at stores fitted with its solar panels
> std::vector uses constructors and destructors to create and destroy objects which in some cases can be significantly slower than memcpy().

This is precisely what vector::emplace() solves, and std::move should be faster than swap and pop.
Modern C++ has changed a lot, this article ignores the massive improvements added in c++11,14,17.
Does the 5C/Nano work with Android phones with USB-C?

I thought I was waiting for a 5C NFC, but maybe I've been overlooking the obvious. For some reason it never occured to me that it might work plugged directly into my phone if only it had the right shape.

(I have a 5 Nano, which was great until I got a USB-C Macbook and broke several keychain adapters before giving in and buying one of those hubs that stick on one side converting the 2x USB-C to the same + USB-A, HDMI, and SD.)
It's a nonsense argument. Companies tried to buy Google and they didn't sell. Yahoo (among others) tried to buy Facebook and they didn't sell. There will come along a startup with a visionary founder who doesn't want to sell and they will topple one of these giants with better tech.

There have been quite a few technology IPO's over the last couple years and I'm sure many of these companies were approached by incumbents but did not sell. And some of these companies will become giant slayers.
> I know what it's doing from the ground up

Do you now? There is not even a hidden embedded micro-core running a "secure operating system"?
http://talktotransformer.com

Seems accessible to me
It's fun to read older business books like Built to Last and Good to Great that use the "let's study successful businesses to see what they do" methodology. It's fun because many of the companies featured in those books either are bankrupt today or facing some sort of existential difficulty.

It's survivor bias bullshit wrapped up in feel-good propaganda and people eat it up every time. Study successful people and emulate them. Of course! How could we go wrong?

Nevermind that the successful people are more likely to just be lucky or even just plain wrong about the reasons for their success.

I attribute my success to hard work, getting up early, making steady progress every day, picking great people to work with, and staying ahead of the curve. Sounds great, right? But to really know if any of that matters, we have to study a large number of people who also profess to do exactly those things and see if they're way more successful than average. If they're not...well then I'm just wrong about the reasons for my own success and other factors are more important.

It doesn't sell books though when your message is "in order to be successful you have to be naturally smart, tall, and attractive, work about as hard as everyone else, and be well-connected and lucky."
"What gets measured gets treasured."
I think you have a good point but chose to place in response to the wrong comment.
Solar storm only affects really long wires, not short circuits around the house and a battery.

https://www.cnet.com/news/we-arent-ready-for-a-solar-storm-s...
You can weaken "completeness" though. In each of its many manifestations, completeness asks for the existence of something for all subsets (sequences, functions, ...) of reals. We can instead ask for the ones that are definable by finite means (aka computable, constructive).

To find (=construct) the extreme value, for example, you probably won't be able to find a general procedure; it has to be treated case by case. Now you'll appreciate how easy real numbers are. It gives the assurance that the extreme values exist.

I would not have thought it would interest Hacker News readers, but here's more about computable numbers: https://observablehq.com/@neobourbaki/computable-numbers
It fluctuates; recently, Apple was the highest, then Amazon.

The point is that few are talking about Microsoft as a monopolistic threat anymore; alternative technologies (Linux, MacOS, iOS, Android) have come along and knocked them off their once-dominant position.