skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not following the reasoning here. macOS is delivered anew once per year with more often than not big new feature (like a new File System). Those last year, macOS was released for free - and without tracking or ads.
Windows is evolving twice per year, for the same free price, or at least till a new major version is out. The two update more or less offer big change in only one of those. For me, it feels the same at the end, with the exception of ads and tracking - that is a major difference.
The lede is buried:

To build more houses for people (that will be near jobs, businesses, and schools), we have to have better transportation. There simply is no alternative.
Exactly! There's rarely need for actually wandering between bookshelves any more. It's as nice as ever, but the books can be reserved online where you probably are anyway doing the research about what to read next.
Would I like time to seem to last longer than it does?

Undoubtedly yes. Life is too short.

Extending life arbitrarily to 1000 years would lead to some very strange outcomes. Presumably reproductive cycles would stay the same length. This would cause an uncontrollable population boom. It would also mean that you’d be living at the same time as your grand-grand-grand-[...]-grand-children. The family dynamic would become totally different, and I’m not sure that would be a good thing.
> 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.

Why can't they do this for everyone?
The message has to be signed with the private key of the key so no one but the real owner can delete it. In fact, in the readme:

> If a user can prove that a key belongs to them (by signing a message with their private key) then they are able to remove their public key with no interaction needed from the server operator. Once a key is removed, it is removed from all servers in the pool.

This is a pretty fucking awesome idea.
That's not entirely true, though engaging with doses of realism is a bit of an uphill battle.

My own brand of mildly pessimistic realism has proved reasonably successful here. Though it's involved adaptations. And occasional "what, me worry" parries.
> If it took you three billion dollars and five years to conceptualize an apple that cured something, and suddenly it was commonwealth, nobody would look for apples that cured something

This can be solved by government grants, a high but still normal VAT on all medicine purchases is enough to cover all our current medicine research costs, you'd just have to earmark it.
> I live in a poor country which is poor mostly because the established economic powers are able to strangle new centers of wealth creation in the cradle, using the government and laws. Don't let that happen in your country.

Is there any country in the world that still prioritizes freedom over having a massive regulatory state? It would surprise me.
European here. Shipping from US can be insanely expensive. Once I had to pay $40 to ship a pen. I can totally believe the $370 figure.
“Normies” don’t use the word “normie”, and the label of harm applied by the SPLC isn’t prescriptivist, your beef is with the white nationalist Internet kids.
Is My Millennial Co-Worker a Narcissist, or Am I a Jealous Jerk?
Thank you! No, but I do intend on open sourcing it soon, among other things.
Ruby is exceptionally beginner friendly
> choosing which stats to include in the presentation is also in itself a form of analysis

Agreed. But it’s less reductive than a private company deciding on its own what does and doesn’t constitute adversity (and to what degree).
>a diverse student body is part of the educational mission of a school.

Why? Why should anyone attempt to intentionally manipulate the ethnic backgrounds of college students? If you award admission bonuses for the symptoms of racism like being worse off financially or going to a poorly-rated high school, wouldn't you be adjusting for adversity in exact proportion to actual hardship instead of assigning an arbitrary value to skin color? This entire process can be completely race-agnostic and still compensate for systemic racism at the same time.

I'm also curious what stops me from putting whatever I want in the race field on my application. I don't recall my university running a blood test to check if I was fibbing.
That's basically the problem: If they stay on cours improving the UI, in 5 years or so we reach the consistency, polish, performance and usability that windows 2000 used to have.

There are some nice improvements since then too, but also a lot of user-hostile functionality. It doesn't seem wort the trade off to me.
I ended up deriving sin and cos myself. I was trying to make a Spacewar-style game and knew I needed to make the ship move depending on how it was rotated. Plotted a circle on squared paper and tried to figure out the coordinates at the circumference for all the angles I was using.

Quite a surprise when I was finally introduced to trig at school and found out it had a name!
Ah, very cool (and relevant). I happen to work in lower & upper schools helping build schedules and all the things that go along with that. I believe I came across your product in the Spring via Google.
Great to hear that - that's why we need help. Would love to get in touch to learn more
Levandowski ripped entire archives of files and plans
Sounds like something macos had for the last decade or so, or is my memory deceiving me?
Skilled stone Masons are paid for the "transaction" of laying stones.

A music streaming "transaction" pays an Artist $0.005, on a good day. Not enough to make a living and sustain cultural values.
I forget, did Fairphone 2 ship w/ Android or a AOSP variant without Google Play Services?

It's no longer available for purchase, so I imagine these models are targeted at new customers as well as previous gen customers.
Insect-based food 'better for pets than top steak'
Who cares? The goods crossing the ocean should not have their shipping subsidized. Drop shipping doesn't change that. If it's cheaper to use a drop shipper then they are providing a service anyway so I wouldn't call it rent seeking. That would only work for really in demand products anyway in which case good? Not to mention any drop shipper is taking on risk.
Very cool. I believe there is a company https://www.ablschools.com/ that has a pretty good solution for k-12. You might want to check it out if you have not already!
Right, that's totally how people will reason about a date that doesn't exist. This is why the other side of the business can't stand talking to some of us.
Another unit conversion:

1 Levandowski = 1.3 Rubins [1]

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/25/18023364/google-an]dy-ru...
> Regulation is strangling the life out of us.

Specific regulations may have problematic impacts (or positive ones, or some mix).

Statements about "regulation" in abstract are meaningless, except to subtract from the idea that specific insight matters, and add to the idea all one needs to approach any given problem is a general ideological approach.
To vastly simplify: Since one signal is zero resistance (zero loss) and one signal is infinite resistance (zero loss), switching between the two requires a finite time spent at a resistance between the two (nonzero loss). Every change requires a change in entropy to represent it. This is also known as Landauer's principle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle

> How do you combat this? Well - it ain't easy - but what if you could, instead of grounding a voltage representing a "1" to make it a "0" - you instead used it elsewhere (in some manner) to generate a "1". That is, instead of wasting that voltage and energy as heat due to resistance, you used it instead to perform the opposite function elsewhere in the CPU?

That's different and wouldn't really apply to a concept like resistance. It also doesn't need to be the opposite function, just... something.
If Levandowski had only taken the secrets that were in his head, he would have been fine. He took actual code written by other people.
Parent is correct, despite being grayed currently by downvoting. UPU is an international postal treaty organization that was subsumed into the UN. Every country used to have conclude treaties with every other country (read Anthony Trollope's autobiography for a fine account of his negotiation of one such treaty between the the US and Britain). China has gamed the system on this rule, so the US is forced to threaten withdrawal to fix it.
Governments do not prioritize the freedom of their subjects; it's contrary to the incentives of everyone in the government. People win freedom by limiting the powers governments have over them.
ya, I guess that makes sense. Thanks for being the first person to explain it to me like that.
I appreciate your POV, thanks. I do think psychographic profiling was pretty roundly proven by reporting and testimony at this point though. You might be interested in this piece from today though, it takes a bigger view outside CA as well:

"It was somewhat surprising that Facebook succeeded in hogging the limelight in a field so rich with villains. The bigger picture…was the way in which the Cambridge Analytica story opened a window onto a new constellation of international billionaires, corrupt politicians, and war profiteers who were apparently amassing enormous power. That story isn’t only about technology, data, and psychographic profiling; it’s also, at root, a story about the consequences of entrenched economic inequality, the privatization of essential public assets and government functions, including even national security, and the challenge to conventional foreign policy posed by the bargains being struck between international kleptocrats…"

https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/08/27/the-oligarch-threat...
Your drastically oversimplifying LDL's role in disease.

High LDL is a very weak predictor. This has been known since the Framingham study. Looking at a combination of LDL, HDL and trigs is a much better predictor.

High LDL in combination with low trigs and high HDL, is actually protective (Not a risk factor at all)

The Jeppesen Study (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11176761)

the Framingham Offspring study(https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.11...)

How oxidised the LDL particles are is really the major metric that matters. From looking at cell cultures we know that high levels of non-oxidised LDL have no atherosclerotic properties inherently.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-13-0620-4_...

Personally its my opinion that the lipid hypothesis is essentially junk. The level of LDL is a major distraction, from root issues such as inflammation, oxidation stress and diabetes, which are caused mostly by sugar and refined carbohydrates consumption.
>Weirder when you think about it from a fuel efficiency perspective; it probably takes a few drops of diesel to move a t-shirt 5000 miles.

Yep, try looking up the fuel efficiency number for shipping freight by boat, train, or airplane. It's really amazing just how efficient boats are. There's a good reason our distant ancestors had worldwide trade routes centuries or even millennia ago using boats.
I did a fresh windows 10 install on a brand new machine within the last month.

There is advertising in the launcher (can't remember what windows calls it but the start menu). There are popups on the desktop from Microsoft that I haven't been able to stop. (Something about "Teams" and it's tied to having installed MS Office).

I had to be sure I bought the Pro version, there are a lot of skus that don't include full disk encryption built in. Setting up bitlocker is not nearly as easy as setting up full disk encryption on Apple or Linux. I don't really consider that an optional feature so I don't understand why it's considered some kind of premium thing.

Did you see in the linked article what it takes to turn off telemetry? Are you saying that this is not longer necessary and now it can be done in an easy, convenient way?

It took me a while to clean up all the garbage apps MS bundle into it.

The things that I see listed in the link are current and real.
I also know a lot of rich people who pirate the shit out of anything they can find.
> every OS is calling home to some degree.

It's funny to speak in absolutes. Plenty of operating systems don't phone home regularly, just not ones popular with consumers.
"The College Board, the New York-based nonprofit that oversees the SAT, said it has worried about income inequality influencing test results for year"

If only these systems in place focused on this rather than race. I know race in the USA correlates strongly with socioeconomic status and outcomes, but its turned out to be such a divisive issue that consistently antagonizes stakeholders and leads to controversial policy decisions.

Sure poverty disproportionately affects some ethnic groups more than others, but it nonetheless has pervasive effects on the health and economic outcomes of people of all races. Hopefully the next system to replace the last takes into account the economic handicaps of students and not their race.
Right, but the point is that all the solutions to the last mile problem are... cars. Which is fine but if you're going to do that then what's the advantage of not using it the whole way? The throughput of highways is great, there's no schedule to follow, you don't have congestion and surge pricing at popular stops with hundreds of people trying to hail a cab at rush hour, and if you're price conscious gas is cheap and you can find perfectly usable cars for less than $1k.

And you can use your car for more than just your daily commute.
Roads make driving more convenient at the expense of other transportation methods; being able to walk to the store is more convenient that driving there. You can't do it though if there's this huge highway in the way and your city is so low density that the store is miles away.

If this argument doesn't convince you, think also that driving may be convenient, but I find more convenient if we lived in a planet that's not a literal oven
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I think I’m well within the minority here, but I am Conservative and support this initiative. I support it mostly because I’d prefer a transparent system used widely to a bunch of different opaque systems at all the various universities. I also ascribe to the belief that someone who is exceptional in an area where the average may be below proficient is truly exceptional. That being said I want to work to the ideal that something like this won’t be necessary in the future of zip code does not determine outcome.
> I'm also curious what stops me from putting whatever i want int he race field on my application.

Nothing, as we found out with Elizabeth Warren being "Indian". As you said, no test. Of course, I'm not sure I'd be comfortable handing my DNA over to every school to which I wanted to apply.
Can someone explain the difference between this situation and the following situation:

- engineer at Company A has expertise in a certain field, and is really, really good at solving problems in this field and knowing what to do next at any point in time. They bring quality to Company A's systems.
- engineer moves to Company B to do the same kind of work, and uses their expertise to bring Company B's systems up to high quality as well
- Company A says that this engineer must have stolen trade secrets.
Hackers could have breached BioWatch for years, records show
He's already off the Pronto.AI about page, his current startup where he was the CEO until this news: (mentioned towards the end of the NYT article)

https://pronto.ai/about/

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:I7ifOu...
Well, I think most people would look poorly on (say) signing a deal with the Mob eight months before birth to steal your child from the hospital and sell them into slavery. Another argument that gets bandied about is how we shouldn't pollute the planet and ruin Earth for our presently nonexistent grand-children. Another example of worrying about the life of non-existent children is when people start saving early for a college fund.

I'm not sure about the exact philosophical mechanics required to transfer rights from the future to the present (or however you want to phrase it) but parents should not be drinking during pregnancy; and it's for their future child's sake that they shouldn't.

Foolishly subjecting your child to an unproven genetic therapy could ruin their future to an extent closer to the mob example than the TV example.
Some would argue that any metric for adversity is inherently unfair. Probably the best example to support this view is that of a student with hidden adversity, e.g. abusive parent or unreported learning disability that had to be overcome, despite being an "advantaged" ethnicity and living in an affluent suburb.
I'm glad you like it, but I use Windows 10 daily and I have a bunch of ongoing issues with it.

I had to have IT reimage a Win 10 Enterprise machine because Cortana had somehow gotten so screwed up (how? I turn it off) that my Start Menu stopped returning results and I couldn't launch anything by typing.

On another Enterprise machine, my Start Menu periodically starts coming up black and then disappears. I have to force kill the Cortana process to get it working again.

When I switch from corp to outside networking, DNS and routes often stop working correctly and I have to run a magic dance of network reset commands to get things going again, unless I want to reboot. Which I don't.

A few months ago I started up a batch job to run overnight on a Win 10 Pro box. A Windows Update dialog popped up saying it was going to reboot my machine. I clicked the button to reschedule it for the next day. An hour later I passed by the machine and saw it rebooting and applying updates. (After that user hostile experience I switched the machine to Mint and haven't looked back. It ain't perfect, but it's much better, and I actually feel like I own the OS now.)

To stop the telemetry I have to use a Pihole-like setup, which is great ... until I take my laptop somewhere else.

Let's talk maintenance. When something goes wrong, Windows can be brutally complex to troubleshoot. That's why when you start having non-obvious problems with a Windows machine, most IT's knee-jerk answer is to reimage. And that's not even irrational. It's a rational response to the difficulty of diagnosing problems occurring in a complex black box. It ain't worth the time, so just wipe the thing. In contrast, I've never had to reinstall a production Linux machine due to misbehavior -- troubleshooting has always solved the problem.

And force installing Candy Crush?! https://www.howtogeek.com/342871/hey-microsoft-stop-installi... No no no no. Microsoft's treatment of their OS users can feel so exploitive.

For me I place high value on feeling like I own my OS, and that includes requiring a modicum of stability and troubleshooting ease. For my sample size of however many Win10 machines I've dealt with over the years, that bar has not been cleared.
The Oligarch Threat
Rezoning the area would be necessary, you are correct. The freeways which go through the city (instead of around it) are mostly elevated, so I don't think that's as much of a problem. And cutting most of those 4-lane streets down to 2-lane and using the reclaimed space as affordable housing or mixed-use fits in with the author's point.

This obviously isn't an overnight project, or even a ten-year project. It would probably take decades to rebuild a car-centric city for affordable housing and walk-ability. It would be easier to start from scratch, for sure. But existing large metro areas have a housing and congestion problem now, so need to start solving it somehow.
Many of our schools like BYU or UMontana have campus-wide deployments and do all of their scheduling with us, while some other campuses have started with a subset (Columbia Law School) during the first year with us. We don't work with individual departments for the most part just because they often don't have serious budgets to work with.
> Safari harasses you about being the default browser

But does it advertise to you by default? This seems not comparable at all. Pretty much every browser will want you to set it as default (and at least the option to stop the nagging is usually front and center).

Maybe this is just me, but advertising by default in something as basic as a start screen seems very user hostile....
Maybe I just don't use Microsoft's built-in software that often, but I haven't had many issues with Windows 10.
Ask HN: Do you backup your data when leaving a company?
Or do you leave a blackhole for all those years of your life that you can't refer back to?

This is for personal records, not pulling a Levandowski. Just nice to know what inane email you wasted time writing and what stupid meeting you were stuck in on any particular day when you look back at your life a few years later.

I am sure it would be against all company policy to do this even though you're the author of the content you're saving. So on a technical level, how do you not get flagged by IT doing this? I am assuming they aren't adding event/key loggers to all the laptops they give to employees?
You're purposely ignoring intent. Palantir has been a surveillance company from it's inception.
> This is really the norm.

Again anecdotally; most of my friend group (professional developers and CS students) who run Windows seem to constantly complain about performance issues and bugs (UI issues, not sleeping correctly on laptops, etc.). I don't think anyone has ever said "hey guys, come check out this slick new feature" or really anything positive at all about it.

> No update issues.

<insert anecdote about Windows 10 updates interrupting activity X and taking Y hours>

Which has happened to me. And seemingly many others on the 'net.

> Whatever you're doing, it's not typical.

That's what I'm trying to figure out. I was under the impression that running Steam games (on my personal machine) or Eclipse (in my professional Windows experience) were more or less the happy path for the use cases of gaming and development respectively.
> If Levandowski had only taken the secrets that were in his head, he would have been fine.

Kai-Fu Lee wasn't. Evan Brown wasn't (edited to clarify: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/08/12/alcatel_owns_us_emp...). Don't be so quick to fall prey to the Just World Fallacy, assuming that bad precedents will never be applied against good people.

Remember, too, that the founders of Fairchild and of Intel had lots of knowledge in their heads that had been discovered by their left-behind coworkers at Shockley and Fairchild. They probably had documents in their homes — by accident if nothing else, if the history of recovered source code printouts from that epoch is anything to go by — but because there was no prosecution to find out about it, we'll probably never know.
certainly. but the logical conclusion redefines 'severance' to mean leaving my head at the door on the way out.

trying to clearly define what exactly are ideas owned by the employer has to fail on principle. especially when you consider that even a new grad is being hired with the expectation that they are bringing ideas and techniques to bear that they developed someplace else.
Congratulations! I've been trying to crack the higher ed nut for a while with no luck whatsoever. And I used to be a professor- I'm solving a problem that I know exists, and that the people I talk to know exists! (I think the problem is partially that they don't know what a solution looks like).

Hats off to you for getting this thing going so strong! It ain't easy in that space, that's for sure!