skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the problem: Humans are not angels.

We, the people, we are not angels. So we need government to protect us from each other.

But those people in government? They aren't angels, either. So the trick is to have the government keep us from harming and oppressing each other, without the government harming and oppressing us. That was the point of the "limited government" idea, and the Constitution - government couldn't do everything; it could only do a few specific things. That is, they optimized for minimizing the harm government could do, rather than for maximizing the good.

And it's worked reasonably well, though not perfectly, even while government grew enormously compared to the original idea. Still, the fact remains that government is not run by angels. Those programs that you think are a good idea? Imagine that they're being run by selfish, foolish, corrupt people. Are they still a good idea? (Some may be. Surely not all, though...)

Reminding people of who the government works for may help, somewhat, for some time. But it won't really fix the problem.
> ...giving me the ability to send you a file and still control your usage.

This is exactly why DRM is malware. It's not your device. You don't get to say what it may or may not do. That's for the device's owner to decide.

malware: Software that is specifically designed to disrupt, damage, or gain unauthorized access to a computer system.
<https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/malware>

Your explicit intention is to disrupt the operation of the computer running the DRM software. This disruption is not authorized by the owner of the device. Ergo: malware.
But did he lick it? Common law doesn't recognize property rights unless it's been licked.
Hacker News. :)
No. No they don't.
Microsoft bundled Internet Explorer for free into its operating system, whereas Netscape Navigator was not free at the time. This was deemed "unfair" because Navigator was Netscape's flagship product, so if users were given a free alternative, Netscape would be put out of business.

It was really an absurd case considering that 100% of internet users use a free browser these days.
DRM (Digital Restrictions Machinations) being an ineffective and harmful measure isn't ambiguous. There is no reciprocity to them, and they are generally neither imposed by nor respectful of creators.
Disagree. The important point isn't whether or not an actual human is "spying" on my activity, it's that the platforms providing the targeted ads are not behaving responsibly with regards to the content being shown.

I don't care about being shown ads for products I might buy. I care about targeted disinformation being fed to "persuadables" in order to affect massive political upheaval (current political breakdown in the United States, Brexit in the UK, other instances all across the globe in smaller nations.)

The only important thing here is that e.g. Facebook has the data and sells access to nefarious actors. Selling the data "directly" or not isn't the point.
Publication standards are different between disciplines. Traditionally, a materials chemist publishes many times more papers than a structural biologist. With a metric like that, you run whole sub-disciplines out of town.
I think this context might help:

"1 in 5 kindergarten children in NYC is obese."

"Nationally, healthcare expenses related to obesity is $1.72 TRILLION, which is almost 10% of the GDP."

https://www.wnyc.org/story/nyc-free-lunch/
Command Line Heroes Season 3: The Infrastructure Effect
GitHub Enterprise Server 2.18 is here
That actually is why anti-monopoly laws are called "anti-trust". "Trust" in this case was an entity that controlled a number of companies.
> I've worked at several places where certain key roles are staffed by people that couldn't figure out how to effectively work remotely if their lives depended on it.

For me it was the opposite: I was highly productive, but the onsite managers did not know how to work effectively (if at all honestly)
You have a point but then Intel has been crushing it...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Processor_families_in_TOP...

They have cornered at least 85% of that market...

And most likely, it's the nVidia connection with NVLink which matters most in there if we talk about SIMD...

They said it better than I could (in June of 2018): https://www.top500.org/news/new-gpu-accelerated-supercompute...

In the latest TOP500 rankings announced this week, 56 percent of the additional flops were a result of NVIDIA Tesla GPUs running in new supercomputers – that according to the Nvidians, who enjoy keeping track of such things. In this case, most of those additional flops came from three top systems new to the list: Summit, Sierra, and the AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure (ABCI).

Summit, the new TOP500 champ, pushed the previous number one system, the 93-petaflop Sunway TaihuLight, into second place with a Linpack score of 122.3 petaflops. Summit is powered by IBM servers, each one equipped with two Power9 CPUs and six V100 GPUs. According to NVIDIA, 95 percent of the Summit’s peak performance (187.7 petaflops) is derived from the system’s 27,686 GPUs. (emphasis mine, Summit being a POWER9 supercomputer with 4608 nodes with 2 POWER9 and 6 V100 in each)
Tesla's self-driving car computer and its two AI brains
> And when Bush was president, people were spreading conspiracies that he arranged the 9/11 attacks to start wars in the middle East. Comment sections online have been shitshows since... forever?

I'm not sure how this helps your case. 9/11 conspiracies flourished on the internet.

> Similarly, rapture claims have been around since long before the internet even came into existence.

Sure, but the internet enables it to spread to people who weren't previously involved in those communities. Maybe it just becomes more real when you see it happen to someone you care about.

> What unacceptable opinions have seen an increase?

Well, according to the original post, we've seen an increase in support for suppression of objectionable speech ("cancel culture"). We've seen an increase in support for violence against those with differing opinions (antifa, etc), and more to the point the black-and-white labeling of opposition that would lead you to feel a bunch of idiot far-right trolls count as nazis and thus deserve to be punched.

If you don't think the internet aided the rise of these opinions, you probably don't spend much time on lefty internet.

> Hence, why most of the allegedly "radical" views being spread online are pretty mainstream.

Well, perhaps you're right that the word "radical" is wrong. What we're seeing maybe could be described as an expansion of the overton window in all directions, which makes total sense given the nature of the internet vs the nature of mass media.

I mean apparently even being a flat earther is now a viable mainstream opinion
I interpret it as a point about the mechanism being in place.It being marketed as a parental control is accessory.
You are being downvoted, but you are right.
I mean I don't like JS either but the whole "fad of the day" thing is getting pretty old don't you think? It's been six years since React was first released.
Hot Chips 31 Live Blogs: Intel Spring Crest NNP-T on 16nm TSMC
>There is no central organization that is writing checks for the work in CentOS

What are you talking about? Redhat acquired the CentOS project and hired the developers as full time employees dedicated to working on CentOS. There is absolutely an organization behind it and it is 100% not made up entirely of volunteers.

https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-Janu...
Right. The purpose of citation metrics is to measure the intellectual influence of a person's ideas. If an academic's works are never being cited by anyone else, the correct conclusion would be that their ideas have little influence -- regardless of how many self-citing papers they've published.
They have land and water use comparisons that are obviously favorable (not obvious because it's obviously a perfect invention, but obvious because it would be bad marketing to show worse performance)
One thing I have noticed with statistical profilers is that conditional jumps tend to be highlighted a lot.

On the other hand, if I can massage the compiler into using CMOV instead of e.g. JNE, I often end up with much faster code, so the clustering around that instruction ends up being useful sometimes anyways.
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Fujitsu begs to disagree:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/22/fujitsu_post_k_a64f...

Fujitsu had already built SuperSPARC-based supercomputers, and Oracle recently ported their Red Hat clone to AArch64 (no legacy 32-bit or Thumb) and produced an ISO for the PI-3.
Intel Talks at Hot Chips Gear Up for “AI Everywhere” – InsideHPC
Right, but it sounded like that flexibility was at least partly about not needing to buy the computational resources on a rigid schedule, which, in turn, is due to capex accounting requirements.
Elizabeth Warren is an idiot, and her ignorance is destructive and a threat to a productive and free society. Arbitrarily destroying businesses doesn't make anyone richer.
Interesting, I wonder if the higher frequency ends up needing more current because the body can't respond as fast, acting like a filter because the muscles can only move so fast. Biology and electricity mix in interesting ways.
I agree that most anecdotal startup advice is BS, which is why I barely pay attention to it. What I'd like more of is textbook-like material offering terminology and detailed case studies. Simply knowing the common name for something (e.g. marketing terms like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good) or the usual process of how things work (like a typical schedule of the process for accepting angel funding) is far more useful than advice that seems like darts thrown at a dartboard.
Hot Chips 31 Live Blogs: Nvidia Multi-Chip AI Accelerator at 128 Tops
Like many other good things, you've got to figure out what to do when the @ssholes show up.
> I don't see how it provides value to either the person attempting to acquire these points

It obviously does. correct? why else would be they be doing it if it provides no value to them.
Hmm... a typical home Air Conditioner is 15 to 20 SEER, which apparently stands for 15 BTU/hr per Watt.

15 BTU/hr == 5 Watts of cooling per Watt of input.

So it appears you are correct. To move 500W watts of heat, you only need 100W of air conditioner power.
I was not aware of that. Thank you for the information.

In that case, I have no idea why there is an extensive delay.
Plenty of new smaller software companies (startups especially) are totally remote and distributed. "9-5 in an office" culture has been deeply ingrained. The managers with the practice and skills with managing remote teams don't exist in enough number to fill a large company. The investors, the workers, and everybody in involved would have to learn new skills and ways to function.

The thing that ruins the growth and economics is that nobody knows how to do it yet and trying is either risky (you fail) or expensive to train/experiment until you figure it out.
The "most desirable society" is subjective. Value is subjective. Trade, and the market, is based on that fact.

Trade in the market creates wealth. The efficiency of the market lowers the costs of goods. These two things work together to make everyone richer.

> Also, even if we wanted unregulated capitalism and natural selection of markets, we would need to first eliminate the existing monopolies, oligopolies, and externalities, since they all cause market failure.

Market failures are only made worse by government intervention. Unforeseen negative consequences distort the market which causes more problems.
Zero Instrumentation Observability for AWS Lambda
My first day at a big4 consulting firm I was given the best advice I've ever received. "You need to get comfortable saying no to requests that aren't important". It's so easy to drown in consulting by trying to please everyone. Sometimes you just need to say "no, I can't do that now I'm too busy.".
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?

It’s the same with the startup world. If you’re the only one doing a thing, are you brilliant or foolish?
really?

for last three-four years phones have ca 2-3-4Gb of RAM and 32-64Gb of storage

nad if are talking about RISC-V phone, it would be produced in no early than 2020, so not sure code density is a significant factor

I don't think
I suspect that they want to keep their infrastructure and processes loosely coupled to the upstream to maintain independence. Given the fate of certain open source projects affiliated with large corporations (Sun's ones in particular come to mind) I think this is a prudent course of action.
It could be because it is already running as part of the desktop environment - just like Chrome in ChromeOS.
The price adjustments are so fast (and, checking the Wikipedia page, it looks like they managed to squeeze in a lawsuit and a settlement in the same time period!), it makes you wonder what it was beside price that made the 6502 so popular.
Like I said, 3 channels, ABC, NBC, CBS. We watched a lot of stuff that wasn't necessarily developed for children, but at the very least wasn't overtly "mature". The US FCC kept a tighter rein on what was on TV at the time. No swearing, no nudity, not much overt violence. You can see the effects of this in the shows that have survived as "classics" today. "The Brady Bunch" is non-controversial pablum, for example. Get home from school at 3:30pm, flip on the TV to watch whatever local TV host ran a few old Warner Brothers or Terrytoons animated cartoons. Maybe watch "The Lawrence Welk Show" or one of the regional pro-wrestling leagues that predated WWE or roller derby or some re-run, then network news, then Prime Time! The Brady Bunch, Charlie's Angels, westerns, lawyer shows, cop or detective shows, medical dramas, network and local news at 10 or 11pm.

I will grant you I'm smearing this out over time. Prime time shows in the 60s weren't the same as during the 70s, local TV cartoon hosts disappeared by about 1975 (no more Binky The Clown, or Cactus Jim or ...), and certainly what got re-run before network news and after 10 or 11pm local news changed.

This is totally ignoring the 6am - 12pm Saturday all-kids programming. Mostly badly-animated cartoons, some weird live-action ("Land of the Lost"), but all aimed at and advertised to children. You could waste all Saturday watching crappy animation, then reeling around because you had lost your stereoscopic vision.
To what extent do you suppose "continuously tweak your system" really means "show up"?

That is, could you substitute any other activity that requires you to actually pay attention and be present and get equal progress?

I think there may be a category theory of self improvement. The more I look at the things I've done to improve my situation from health to work to finances, the more they start to look similar (in a nutshell, it's not math, it's not psychology, but it might be both).
looks like a success
it is encouraged to publish it under a license - also when you press "e" twice it shows something weird
Where is Netscape now?
We know that FB tracks us just as much as the people who have accounts. But we have less access and fewer rights.
I consider retired to be a occupation, in the same way that bald is a hair color, and pizza is a sandwich.
Ask HN: Twitter has been broken for months. How can I get them to fix this?
Honestly, I look at what we can measure and monitor at big tech companies today and there's nothing I want more than metrics driven legislation.

There is no reason that we should be passing any legislation today without attached measurable criteria for success and criteria of measurable side effects that might be impacted. If the legislation does actually measurably improve something or causes unwanted side effects, it should be removed automatically. In 2019, we absolutely have the technology to run the government the exact same way as tech companies.

So many of the services the government provides could easily be metered and we charge citizens directly based on what they individually consume instead of indiscriminately taxing people to pay for those services.
Here is the CDC take on the products used in fluoridation. https://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/engineering/wfadditives.htm...
They are all subject to NSF Standard 60 requirements for purity. "Some have suggested that pharmaceutical grade fluoride additives should be used for water fluoridation. Pharmaceutical grading standards used in formulating prescription drugs are not appropriate for water fluoridation additives. If applied, those standards could actually exceed the amount of impurities allowed by AWWA and NSF/ANSI in drinking water."
The reason for this is almost exclusively the Earned Income Tax Credit. A single filer claiming two children and earning $11,000 would be eligible for a (fully refundable) credit of $4,410. While this credit distributes a ton of needed benefit to low-income working families, I'm sure you can see where there's a strong incentive to defraud the system here. Both unscrupulous individuals and tax preparers can make a substantial amount of money quickly.

Since you can claim self-employment income without documentation, regular audits are necessary to prove actual income. It's also common for people to claim children who don't truly qualify; again, this would only be provable through actual audits.

In contrast, the average middle-class taxpayer tends to have both less built-in incentive to game the system and less flexibility (as most of their income will be documented to the IRS).

To defend the IRS a bit more: this program is in some ways an administrative model. Taxpayers don't need to prove any need to claim the credit. There aren't multiple rounds of paperwork, and, if you aren't audited, the only interfacing you have to do with the bureaucracy is in submitting your tax return, and you'll have money deposited in your bank account in a week. It may be the most effective welfare program, even accounting for audits (many of which are triggered by obvious red flags) in its ratio of benefits to "hoops needed to jump through."
There are a few solutions:

1. Move away from what is probably a home grown bespoke time tracking system and use one of the many SASS vendors. The company can easily pay some consultants who would gladly take their money.

2. Provide a company device.

3. On the extreme, setup some Citrix terminals they can log into from their devices.
Don't forget MySpace.
A "competition" where MS owned the market with IE at 90% right up until Google ate their lunch with Chrome and became the 90% player. Google probably could have done that without the monopoly action, and now we need that action against Chrome because the real issue is the influence the 90% player has on the open standards, not the regulable bundling with operating systems.
Ah sorry for walmart I meant their online marketplace. I guess my first reply was sort of incoherent, I was thinking along three separate lines:

1. why only online, and not also physical? (Are there just not large enough physical marketplaces?)

2. What about walmart (in the context of online) - would they need to divest their online marketplace too?

3. What about telecom/media industries? Would they need to be broken up as well?
The core problem here is that universities think that citation statistics are a useful metric to evaluate the quality of the work of a scientist. There's plenty of evidence that this is not the case or that even the reverse may be the case [1], but this idea refuses to die.

[1]
That's begging the question. People do a lot of things that actively harmful to themselves and others -- my argument is that purposely acquiring karma, for the sole reason of increasing one's score, could very well be one of those things.
The discussion in the article gets to an interesting point: while the CRPD takes an absolute position on the issue of involuntary confinement of mental patients, it also takes an absolute position on requiring the state to provide the right to independent living and the right to health to folks with mental illnesses.

"if one of his (legal) tools as a psychiatrist is to be removed, there needs to be a corresponding commitment from society to do better by all its members. It is precisely this commitment that the CRPD demands through, for instance, the obligation it imposes upon states to secure the right to independent living for those with disabilities (Article 19) and the obligation that it imposes upon states to secure the right to health of those with disabilities (Article 25). If those obligations are carried through, and proper attention paid to the socio-economic factors underpinning mental ill-health, then it is not too much to suggest that the need for coercion will be dramatically reduced as the (perceived or actual) choice for clinicians such as Dr Gosney will not be between detention and watching a patient die."

Interpreted this way, involuntary confinement should never be necessary because the state must have already provided something that would obviate it. I'm not sure what that something is, however.
This 100%. I sometimes upvote posts without even reading them because the comments are very interesting.
Presumably when Chromium adds the change that destroys UBlock Origin, it will be broken on all Chromium forks.

I don't see how it wouldn't, unless they added code back in on top of Chromium to support the API they're removing.
> historically speaking, there were a lot of low-wattage / efficiency-focused embedded POWER designs.

Including radiation-hardened chips appropriate for satellites (if we count PowerPC).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAD750
And that's easily countered by saying, "total profits, including subsidiaries and franchises."

See, we can play this game all day.

The fundamental point is this: just because people might break a law (directly or in spirit) is not an argument against having said law.
6th formers are aged 16-18. I think 6th graders are much younger?
It seems to me the online world is more polarized (and abusive) than the real world.
Or how about even the portions of the companies working on infrastructure and the portion that interface/provide service to customers? Why can’t we have Comcast Infrastructure build out using those billions of tax payer dollars donated to them and then have an array of smaller players providing competitive service leasing out that infrastructure?
> They prefer the speed of Chrome.

Judging by my experiences as a PC technician, 99% of those people wouldn't know if it's the browser that's slow or their PC or whatever crap adware they've managed to install or whatever. Most people don't know and don't care. Google has just leveraged their position as the dominant search engine to ensure their browser is the default. I've installed Firefox on enough devices to see that users just don't care - they'll use whatever is most convenient at the time and then they'll stick to it because they know it and because of habit. Hell, many people don't know what a browser even is, much less what the differences are between them. It's just that "internet thing".
It sounds like your team is mixed between on-site and remote. I've never seen that work well - you need to at minimum have a remote-first team or department for effective communication processes to be engrained. Otherwise, the co-located team ends up having a lot of watercooler conversations that exclude remote, and that throws off the balance.
I'd add an additional criteria of: "when inflation is out of control". I don't know about other central banks but The Federal Reserve and Bank of Japan have been trying to raise inflation for years now, interest rate cuts are not as effective when inequality is high because it just leads to asset bubbles. It's time for fiscal policy to direct spending to productive areas.