skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm concerned about the key-removal functionality. The website (https://keys.tdjs.tech) reads: "Enter a message clearsigned with the key you wish to remove (message content is not important)"

My understanding of this is that anyone with a copy of anything you've ever signed can revoke your key. I hope I'm misunderstanding.
Quoting from the article:

"Instead, it will try to capture a student’s social and economic background in a broad array of data points. The new tactic is called Landscape and doesn’t combine the metrics into a single score."

So they didn't really drop it. They just revised it a bit and gave it a new name.
Microsoft needs to realize they are doing their name harm by not giving power users and evangelist-style technologists an obvious and easily-selected low- or zero-surveillance Windows version.

If this article is mislead to select LTSC instead of Enterprise as that option (as is suggested in this thread), the confusion of Microsoft's messaging is largely to blame. Microsoft should have marketing material aimed at individual technologists who want a premium Windows experience with ~0 surveillance.
Basically has to be right? Even if the shipping labels were completely standardized, you still have to deal with irregular package dimensions, composition, and label locations. The sort of stuff that robots aren't so good at.
I've been using Windows 10 as my daily driver for web (PHP/Node/JS) development for over two years without the need to recover/format/reinstall at all. This is the exception, rather than the rule, at this point: https://char.gd/blog/2019/the-state-of-switching-to-windows-...
> have written negative things is not particularly relevant

I disagree. Everyone has a bias or agenda. It's useful to know what they are. Hence the common HN trend of including "Disclaimer: I work for $relevantThing". Isaac's book summary leads with: "A New York Times technology correspondent presents the dramatic rise and fall of Uber." He clearly has an agenda. If Uber does well, his book and its prediction of Uber's demise will be wrong.

Looking at the Isaac's NYT titles and summaries (https://www.nytimes.com/by/mike-isaac), the GP has a point. None of the articles are positive. That said, I think it'd be difficult to find anyone praising Uber over the last few years.

- How Uber Got Lost

The once-swaggering company is losing more money and growing more slowly than ever. What happened?

- Two Top Uber Executives Are Out as CEO consolidates power

A month after Uber’s rocky I.P.O., its chief executive laid off two members of his executive team: the chief operating officer and the chief marketing officer.

- How the Promise of a $120 Billion Uber IPO Evaporated

- Uber's Stock Disappoints, Capping a Rocky Path to Its IPO

- Uber IPO is Expected to be Priced at Midpoint

- With Uber's IPO, Dara Khosrowshahi Is Taking Travis Kalanick's Company Public

The C.E.O. wants to prove that the start-up has evolved past a raucous, and profligate, tech-bro culture. But Uber’s past is simply not that far gone.
Maybe some of the beekeepers in this thread can help me understand this. I live in the PNW, I've got a garden that I love to tend, and I make sure that I've always got something flowering.

I've been really curious about maintaining a beehive for honey (and as an interesting project), but the amount of conflicting information online about raising bees in a suburban environment is unreal. Everything from, "You are doomed and also the honey will poison you because there's a rhododendron within 10 miles" to "Everyone should raise honeybees in their backyard! Totally maintenance free infinite honey!"

A lot of the sites are super, for lack of a better term, "woo-woo".

I wish there were more sites that focused on the mechanical elements, broke down the costs and what to expect, and really took you through the bootstrapping process. (Maybe these sites exist and I just haven't found them yet.)
Houston is squeezed in geographically by flood plains and marshes - which developers merrily ignored and developed on. When a hurricane hit, surprise of all surprises, a bunch of houses in these areas were flooded. Thankfully a lack of regulations managed to not solve any traffic or density issues while all also making the city more vulnerable to disasters.
A corporation (Google) who steals IP themselves. They steal from big fish to the little dreamers they inspired and such is well documented. See this popular HN thread... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18566929

I use to feel bad for Google and wanted this thief to face justice. But umm he's just doing what he witnessed and was taught(told) to do while working for the big G.
jwenig@coursedog.com, would love to hear from you!
It is rather knee-jerk dismissive, true. Snarky? I'm not sure I have the evidence to claim that.

They do have a good point, but the discussion is obviously more nuanced than that. People generally know that exercise is good for them, yet many/most people don't engage in it to a healthy degree. So some discussion of other approaches is appropriate. Let's not make "the perfect the enemy of the good" and all that.

And we don't need to be either/or here. For individuals that have even a moderately elevated risk, doing both is probably a great idea (and of course this is already broadly recommended advice). Doing just one would still be better, and most people would choose a pill over exercise. Still a win in my book.
The level of greed, hubris and stupidity of some people never ceases to amaze me.

Levandowski was paid a bonus of $120 million while at Google, which is more money than any reasonable person will need for several lifetimes. This was actually a running joke at Google (while I was still there) to describe $120M as "1 Levadownski". Like Sundar one year was described as earning "only 1.7 Levadownskis" (he got paid $200M one year).

Why someone would risk jail time doing something so clearly wrong (taking material trade secrets from an employer) for even more money is just staggering to me. Even if he escapes prison time the stress and cost of a protracted criminal trial is huge. The loss of reputation is likely permanent.

I get why some high fliers have big egos and they privatize their success (even when pure dumb luck can be a huge factor). This is the hubris part. Right or wrong, that belief in your own abilities is almost a prerequisite for disruption.

The interesting part is how he "cheats". Like he clearly went to efforts to cover his tracks. Those aren't the actions of someone who felt they didn't do something questionable. So at this point, it's not about the hubris of the individual, it's about being perceived as being gifted, intelligent, a visionary and so on.

Honestly it makes me glad when such charlatan have their almost inevitable fall from grace.
*No, not bicep curls.
They succeeded at building companies, but they also externalized a lot of issues. Tenants being evicted to turn rentals into Airbnb hotels, additional traffic in cities, jobs turning into precarious gigs, etc.

Ethics are important, because they change the criteria for decisions from being only dollars matter to "what's the right thing to do." A society full of ethically challenged dollar maximizers is not that good a place to be in.
>Remember that "theft of trade secrets" is how Silicon Valley was built. Fairchild was "theft of trade secrets" from Shockley; Intel was "theft of trade secrets" from Fairchild. When Camenzind left Signetics and designed the 555 (under contract to Signetics), he was "using trade secrets" of Signetics

Do you have proof of this? Claiming all those companies were founded by people who stole confidential documentation from their previous employers is a pretty bold claim to make without evidence.
Eliminate or reduce mandatory parking minimums. It's pretty clearly implied from the article given that's basically what's talked about.
I guess I'll just say it. I love windows 10. I tried a mac for a couple of years and it feels like the OS is stuck in circa 2008.
Examining a video’s changes over time helps flag deepfakes
Can you state in a few lines what you think he should get more credit for?

He's an interesting guy, a good businessman, and I enjoy reading his anecdotes, but I kinda figure he gets about the right amount of credit for his achievements.

If you mean "new kind of science" for example -I think he got about what he deserved on that.
Probably not cancer? Cancer is usually caused by a large enough number of mutations occurring in some cell over its lifetime that it starts reproducing uncontrollably. It's very bad in that a single bad cell can kill you but it takes a bunch of mutations to occur.

A typical child has 0-3 or so new mutations depending on chance, how old their parents are, etc. We might very well expect that if this treatment was badly targeted it would produce many more. Generally a random mutation won't hit anything that has an effect at all on a cell's operation. Fairly often a mutation occurs in an area that's critical to a cell's function and the fertalized egg never turns into a pregnancy. Rarely the embryo turns into a child which survives to birth but has some problem with missing some protein or other that you need. If this was, e.g., AMY1 which is used to digest starch and which you probably have a bunch of copies of if your ancestors were farmers no big deal. But if it hit Factor VIII then you've got hemophilia and that really sucks.

Only a small fraction of the genes in your body are involved in cancer and it's very unlikely that if you get a germline mutation that it will be one of these that it affects. Again, it's different as an adult because mutagens affect different genes in different cells and you only need the mutations to line up the right way once across essentially all the cells in your body to give you cancer. If one cell in your body gets Factor VIII knocked out then it doesn't matter, other cells can keep making the clotting factor you need and you'll be fine.
Well, obviously this is a complicated subject, but if they're going to cherry-pick the offensive, you can cherry-pick the defensive. Theranos is an obvious counter-example where being unethical didn't really work out for anybody. uBeam will likely go the same route, and there are some other less well-known examples.

A much more interesting debate is directly between Uber and Lyft, because most people (even many investors) would argue the main difference was that the founders of Lyft weren't as morally reprehensible as Kalanick.

The sad reality is it seems like poor ethics is rewarded by those who know how to exploit it properly. What most people are really interested in is where is the line? Because let's be honest - most people aren't studying ethics in entrepreneurship because they care about ethics. Most people want to know what they can get away with and still get rich.
For example, consider that users of component Foo discover that it crashes when it tries to access the internet with BarCorp FireWall 2019 installed. There might be a hotfix released that fixes Foo to not crash.

Since it only affects Foo users that are also BFW users, it might happen that the hotfix happens to break Foo users who have QuuxCorp Internet Optimizer installed instead. The testing might not have caught it since the primary purpose of the testing was to ensure that the issue is fixed for BFW users, with minimal sanity testing that it doesn't break non-BFW users.

So QIO users can mitigate themselves by uninstalling the hotfix. They didn't need it anyway. Eventually another hotfix may be released that supersedes the first one and is tested for both BFW and QIO, and this latter hotfix will eventually be bundled up into a general Foo update.

All this happens independently of another Foo hotfix released after the BFW one, to fix the issue where it crashes when you open a .txt that's actually a .bmp.

The equivalent with Linux packages would be to have .1, .2, .3 package releases, but QIO users can't can't keep the changes in .3 and remove the changes in .2.
Do you want to live for 1k years?
I really wish developers at least would be more indignant about Apple's closed ecosystem. The fact that you can't run OSX VMs, can't run iOS simulators anywhere but OSX, can't run builds without OSX. You have to pay Apple to deploy software to your Apple phone from your Apple computer. Microsoft was never this bad.
There's a lot of different benchmarks there.

Look at PostgreSQL, where the split-L3 cache hampers the EPYC 7601's design.

As I stated earlier: in many workloads, the split-cache of EPYC seems to be a benfit. But in DATABASES, which is one major workload for any modern business, EPYC loses to a much weaker system.
At high pressure might be to superconductivity research what in mice is to medical research.

That doesn't mean that it is not useful to conduct these experiments. They could give further insights into how superconductivity comes to be - or maybe discover a superconducting material that requires high (but not too high * ) pressures to form but remains stable when they are lowered back to normal pressure similar to how diamonds are stable at normal pressures but are require high pressure to be formed.

* Pressures only reachable by using diamond anvils would be highly impractical to produce any useful amount of material ;)
> I feel like most software engineers don't really take intellectual property all that seriously. Most will not think twice about backing up emails when leaving the company which might contain code diffs, design docs, etc.

You can't be serious. I would never think of doing this, and I can't imagine who would.
I have no idea about this guy, but in my experience, people like this always seem to be pleasant, creative types on the outside. Every now and then in conversation they hold weird viewpoints you just can't reconcile with their projected image, and wonder if you've misjudged them.

They usually turn out to have an underlying wonky or absent moral compass, and abusive personality traits.

The outward image is a confidence trick, and that's how they got where they are.
Yes, trigonometry should be avoided whenever possible (which is much more than people often expect) in favor of vector methods in pretty much every context.

If someone wants a single number for representing a rotation, consider using the stereographic projection (instead of angle measure), which takes only 1 division to go back and forth to cartesian coordinates.

Floating point is fine for modern hardware though.
> Unix culture values code which is useful to other programmers, while Windows culture values code which is useful to non-programmers.

I don't even know what that's supposed to mean.
What does that have to do with Anthony getting arrested? I wasn't comparing how controversial they are on Twitter.

So far the worst thing that has happened to Musk legally is some dropped SEC charges and new controls for one of his companies. The Solarcity deal isn't being investigated by authorities and was approved by 85% of shareholders in 2016, where its connection to his cousins was well known. Otherwise none of what you listed is illegal or in the same ballpark as what Anthony did.
Street cars lose against cars on the open road. I think they end up performing best on otherwise pedestrianized streets - assuming good attention is paid to safety design.
This will probably drive Wish out of business.
The Haiku Operating System
It depends on how you define fair: suppose you can save $80M by spending $60 million on software, which the supplier costs $2 million to produce and sell.

What is fair? That the supplier makes $58M, on an investment of $2M? Or is it more fair to buy it for $4M, and the buyer has a benefit of $76M?

The fact that you're paying way more than what it costs to produce doesn't mean it's not fair. Depends on the benefits that you get.

Another company may only get a benefit of $40M when buying the software, so it would make sense for the seller not to ask $60M.

So one way to define fair, would be to base the price on the value it brings you, not on the amount of money it costs to produce. But this varies per buyer.
> monorepos can only work well when there is a mechanical tool for ensuring correctness and that refactorings can be done atomically across the whole tree

Isn't a compiler such a tool? I use a statically typed language, and if I would try to do this:

> everything can reach everything else

then there'll be compilation errors.
It was a feature advertised in commercials. It wasn't meant to be surprising
That is the main counter so you wouldn't be able to edit that one as it is "owned" by someone else, but you can generate your own counter. If you decide to upgrade to Pro, you enable more customization. You can use your own email.
Same here, although my gaming is limited to FIFA and the Borderlands series. FIFA IMO is unplayable now because the whole experience is built around Ultimate Team which requires buying "cards" for the top players. The game would be unrecognizable to someone who last played say, Fifa 2010 which still had a standard team-based play structure without these additional in-app payments.
I subscribe to the conspiracy theory that there is a concerted effort from within microsoft to "engage in the community" where they encourage their developers and customers to respond to online posts that may be considered "anti-microsoft". Read everything with scepticism and check posting history.
> They just revised it a bit and gave it a new name

I don’t think that’s fair. Saying “this student is from a 6th decile income and 9th decile funding school district” is different from combining those data into a single measure. The former presents information. The latter analyses it.
If intended at a personal volition / willpower basis, yes.

If aimed at society-wide transformations to built space, values, and practices, it could prove highly useful.

We once had environments in which the advice was essentially impossible to not follow. And though there were other health complications, and the issues of cardiac, pulmonary, and malignant diseases existed, they seem to have been somewhat less prevalent, even among otherwise susceptible (largely: elderly) populations.

Everybody can't go gangbusters on healthy diet and ample exercise. But those who can benefit. An environment which makes this integral to everyday routines helps massively. An environment which makes this a stuggle (viz: virtually all modern industrialised countries and practices to some extent or another) is an immense impediment.
Whatever you're doing, it's not typical.

My main desktop has been upgraded from Windows 7, WIndows 8, 8.1, and now Windows 10. I've never have to re-install in all that time. It's stable and fast. No update issues.

This is really the norm. And I'm not particularly easy on Windows -- I have tons of development tools, games, customizations. I've changed hardware.
> I personally think Hugo will overtake Jekyll in terms of popularity for static site generation.

When do you estimate that will happen and why do you think it will?
Is this site saying that for 240 dollars I can buy LTSB? I've been trying to get a hold of a copy but unsure about the legality of those 30 dollar keys online since I don't understand licensing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_elasticity_of_demand

Econ 101. If bananas are too expensive, eat apples. If houses are too expensive, die on the streets. They're not equivalent at all.
Thanks a lot for your response! Those were absolute valid points.

I thought about dictating the price the solution should cost and then share the revenues (something like 75% for me and 25% for them). Of course I would discuss the initial price with the partner but in this way I would properly participate in the revenues especially since the pricing is quite unclear at the moment.

Also, from a legal point of view: who would close the contract with the customer eventually? Is it the partner or me?
GigaDevice Intros General-Purpose RISC-V MCUs
Yeah, I work at an EMS using university. We started using it about a decade ago because the alternative was Ellucian's R25, which didn't really compete well on features, and my previous boss had use EMS at Harvard. Overall, I think EMS has worked pretty well for us, but even now, we still deal with the politics of automated scheduling vs. faculty desires. These tools can work very well, if people will let them.
They were the key engineers of those companies, which were (in the first two cases) the only ones in the industry at the time; their heads contained nothing but (what today we would call) "trade secrets".
It's still a huge improvement (not that this is good, just that a single metric for adversity is completely ridiculous).
Indeed true, but Windows Server 2019 is more expensive.

[0] https://www.cdw.com/product/microsoft-windows-server-2019-es...
EU plans €100B fund to build European competitors to US and Chinese tech giants
Many of us don't want new features, we want a stable OS that we control that stays out of our way. Windows 10 is not that.
It claimed you can save up to $3-4 on the first ride, then gave me a 10 cent discount. I understand it says up-to, but it knew then and there exactly how much I can save on that ride.
Link? The 41% figure is usually the Williams survey[0] in 2014, which doesn't exactly say that.

[0] http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/AFS...
Volkswagen and NXP Show First Car Using UWB to Combat Relay Theft
Where I am, in Vancouver BC, the price tag for detached houses starts around a million, it's hard to actually find a condo for as little as 200K assuming you'd like decent access to transit or to not live in a sardine can.
I see your point. But treating this as if it is only a "try harder" or "you've got what you had coming to you" isn't a very interesting conversation either.
I agree that Levandowski didn't invent everything he "stole", but this is not significant from the point of view of legal precedent — whether you write code at work or your coworker writes the code, the law considers it to belong to your employer — and some of the cases I mentioned above also included the departure of executives, not just engineers.

(Edited to clarify and correct spelling.)
Because it could save a whole bunch of lives?

I won't need this pill (I don't think), but there's probably a tremendous number of people who could have extended lifetimes because of this. Yeah, they should improve their health choices, but good luck forcing that on people.

I suppose the downside is taking the pill and thinking you can eat like crap. (Like overeating on low-fat cookies - still an unhealthy choice).
I can certainly notice a lack of polish. As someone who is now considering win 10 over ubuntu, I can spot many minor annoyances, for example can't change volume by scrolling on the taskbar speaker icon, or ctrl-w doesn't close the settings window. Then, apart from games, windows surprisingly doesn't have that many mid-tier apps, unlike mac os, so not much better than ubuntu in that regard. Such a sad state of affairs.
True, but choosing which stats to include in the presentation is also in itself a form of analysis.
I don't think the issues with Windows 10 bloat is historical. In fact, I recommend removing 10 and using 7 instead. 10 is just a bad joke that makes a brand new PC look like times square.
Internet Archive on steroids?
Like I said, I'm just talking about anecdotal experiences. I have no stake in the trade war, I've just been wondering why shipping from there has taken months in some instances. I'm talking about a pair of shoes, not a washer & dryer.
I use to feel bad for Google and wanted this thief to face justice. But umm he's just doing what he witnessed and was taught(told) to do while working for the big G.

Google blatantly steals IP from the biggest fish to the little dreamers they inspire and such is well documented. See this popular HN thread... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18566929