skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Replying to this just for anyone else that reads this later:

Tim Cook confirmed this was still the case in this 2018 interview with Vice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD1cP8SK3Q0&feature=youtu.be...
The SVG 2 Conundrum (2016)
Yes, this. Doing the right strategically for maximum effect is better than merely doing it for performative effect.
I'm aware that at least in the UK and many other countries that the drive for 100% broadband and mobile coverage has seen subsidies to cover rural area's.
Kubernetes uses the Docker daemon as its container runtime. The docker daemon is running on all your hosts, and Kubernetes talks to the daemon api to start up containers.

user_request -> kubernetes api -> docker api on a host

You can drop in other runtimes, like using containerd directly.
Google fiber never came here. It was Verizon 5g that made Comcast and at&t offer gigabit internet in my neighborhood. I was even ready to shell out the $2k setup fee and Comcast was like mmm no gigabit for you.

So I don’t believe it is subsidy I fully believe it is competition. Google realized that it’s incredibly difficult and expensive to lay fiber and stopped. 5G realized they don’t need fiber to be competitive.

Competition always ends in a win for the customer
We need to focus on growing food differently because as we do it right it's not environmentally sustainable.

We can not keep up replacing perfectly good computers every couple of years.

As we start to get most of our materials locally we will see a shift in the market from services to secondary or primary area.

I don’t think that this future is possible or desirable. It isn't worth wasting our lives on bullshit jobs and wasting the planet's natural resources.
Federal funding mostly comes from the states with the highest economic activity. Unless you're disputing that states with higher number of individuals and economic activity doesn't correlate with more taxes paid to the federal government.

And on the iowa website itself [1] I can see the grants and federal funding used by the state government. My point being that if the more rural cities were required to pay for everything themselves, they would not be able to.

[1] https://iowadot.gov/transit/funding-programs-and-application...
As someone on the other side of this, recruiting for a big bank, it was depressing.

The reason we defaulted to the GPA was exactly because it was so easy to do the work.

Let me explain.

When we visited a school (usually Columbia or NYU for me) we had 100s, usually over a 1000, resumes. When I talked to the students, they were all bright, smart, interesting and motivated. From their resumes I got the impression any of them could do the job. And yet we had to pick maybe 10-30 from the school for that summer. (Keep in mind we recruited from many schools for many different positions).

So you have 1000 resumes and they all seem smart and interesting and you have to pick 10. What do you do?

The GPA is a great way to numerically and “objectively” make a cut. Then when you see a typo and maybe you can exclude that one and so on.

The reason you have to rely on these non predictive elements is exactly because everyone signals well on the predictive elements.
Thank you for the correction! My calculation error (I had written "11 W/m², 90 times less than direct sunlight"), though unintentional, is an excellent demonstration of why using medieval units is a bad idea.
Those in glass houses...

“They were models. Eastern European, definitely,” she told me. Among the lab’s staff, she said, “all of us women made it a point to be super nice to them. We literally had a conversation about how, on the off chance that they’re not there by choice, we could maybe help them.”

And what did these people go home and start doing for Eastern European models since then? I find this pretty condescending. I know a few Eastern European models who are incredibly smart, and perhaps dated some folks who they wouldn't have dated if they were born in the U.S., but used those relationships to get themselves out of possible hellish, abusive, misogynistic situations back home (this is somewhat speculation, but our current First Lady seems to fall in this category). They were young but had been through hard times like the disintegration of the Soviet Union and starvation, and aren't so naive. They were honest about things, and weren't living in delusion. Some of the toughest and smartest people I've ever met in fact. There just seems to be a lot of phony moral outrage here.
There's no reason algorithms have to be terrible, after all, most of what we do is expressible algorithmically when we give recommendations (similar interests, right level for the reader, not too advanced or too introductory, something they can use or that leads to other insights, etc.) It's just that the algorithms are generally so bad because they are optimizing for the wrong things and not any of these things that actually make for good recommendations.
The alternative for most is cigarettes. Do you really believe that vaping is worse than that? Are you going to wait another 30 years before picking up a cell phone? What about GMO's? New medicines?

Waiting to prove a negative is a silly stance when you know the alternative will kill you and severely lower your quality of life until that day comes.
from the article:

"What Goodreads is good for is keeping your own list of books you want to read or have read this year. It’s a list-making app."

That's pretty much all I want from it, so it works great for me. The recommendations are often (but not always) good enough. I usually don't read based on recommendations from GR but occassionaly something good does come out.

Websites don't need to keep adding features, it's fine to look the same 12 years down the road. I think this website (HN) is a pretty good example of that.
Can you elaborate on the circumstances? Regardless, traffic collision at-fault rulings have little to do with professional error liability.
Sure, but as pointed out both in the article and my comment, you can get those same advantages with a greenhouse, except maybe for "location".
Here is its homepage: https://www.bokniseck.de/de
I’ve got 3x1gigabit connections for a total of $160/mo and I live in the us of a!
People could just be using it as a shorthand for things that are aspirational goals. Like when startups say "It's like Uber but for custodial engineers!"
Sorry, I don't get it. Somebody having assistants who look like models and are from Eastern Europe is suspicious of trafficking women? How? Why?

I have heard about Epstein, obviously with hindsight all sorts of things he did can be seen in a new light. I just don't understand what is so damning about the passage above.

Would somebody who is trafficking women really take them everywhere he goes? I thought it would be more of a secret affair.
To add the Reddit figures to the discussion. There are something like ~2,100-2,200 comments posted to Reddit per minute on average across a year at this point (around or slightly over three million comments per day). That's not the peak minute figure of course, which is no doubt several times higher.
> the one which claims, "There is no advantage to a two-speed transmission"

The post does not say those words.

The discussion of how Tesla can "already" achieve a fast 0-60 is a pretty clear acknowledgement that the number can be improved. But there's "no reason" because it's already so good, and there are important downsides.

That's all paraphrasing the post itself. It is not the blatantly false technical argument that you imagine.

And the post I made earlier was not a novel argument. It was taking "no [good] reason" and using that to classify a couple obvious "reasons" as not good. A very small logical step.
That can in many parts of the World yield a bit of a chicken and egg combined with the - if you build it - they will come approach. Though in most, it's supply and demand and TAX distribution according to that populous. Even in cities you will see poorer area's subsidies by more affluent area's, though that is not always the case and opens up a whole area of have and divide politics and economics.

But it gets down to local experience and equally the country for people, so one perspective can seem complete polar to another's experience.
That's a good point about wind!
No, 'neoteny' doesn't "usually" mean "animals with childlike features", but rather "the retention of juvenile features into adulthood".

It's conjectured that a lot of humanity's advanced intelligence & culture has been achieved with the help of our species' extended retention of juvenile learning-capacity & neural plasticity:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoteny_in_humans
What about potatoes? Seems like those are a fairly good staple crop.
> Taking money from a dirty source is one thing; hiding it from the university because they've blacklisted that person in particular is about as unforgivable a crime as you'll find in academia

TBH, I've never heard of a blacklisted donor at MIT, so I'm a little surprised (pleasantly, as an alum).
You are a hero and deserve a medal!
Post author needs to discover the difference between break and brake.
Why would Bill Gates need Epstein to be the middle man for his $2 mil donation? Why didn't he just donate to the Media Lab directly?

And given his insistence that the donation be made anonymously, it seems like he was well aware the optics would be bad if the public knew there was a connection between the two, and yet he chose to make the donation through Epstein anyway.
No, the brain cannot flood itself with serotonin on demand ever.

Dopamine, sort of maybe but only in extreme situations.
Norepinephrine, maybe, likewise.

Endocannabinoids, nope.
Ampakines, way no.
Glutamate, only in extreme conditions.
Other neuropeptides, likely no.

Do not try to weasel out of this statement without providing actual evidence that any "mental" treatment comes close to drug effects. Or other unsourced statements about "scattershot". Research had barely started.

(Not efficacy. Efficacy requires also psychological work, which can be enhanced or retarded by drugs. Also to be evaluated.)

Experiences are unrelated to efficacy for treatment most of the time, unless they are. I point you to studies of efficacy of prayer - not very.
I suppose one could frame it as “play stupid games, win stupid prizes.”

To be frank, and I say this having addicted family members, sometimes it’s rather hard to care about a junkie.

I’m not exactly in the “fuck ‘em” camp, as a society we should have a better answer than leaving them a nuisance, but the idea that we should give up at a certain point is scarcely exotic.
>Characterizing the Gates foundation as sharks? Interesting.

Don't know for the parent, but as a European, where we have seen all kinds of things in the political and economic sphere, we tend to be less gullible and more cynical.

Many charitable funds are basically ways to take huge tax breaks and still have control of your money.

Others are based on you giving an insignificant amount of your fortune (which can still be huge percentage wise, but it's insignificant in its consequences to you: if you have 100 billions, even giving away 99 of them leaves you with enough money to sustain a lavish lifestyle for several generations) and trade it for a say in global politics and power. In other words, you use your funds to 'play god' and help manage the world the way you like it...

>What? source for that claim please. It's far from an obvious or widespread idea that making access to small amounts of capital easier leads to more problems for poor people.

https://www.businessinsider.com/hundreds-of-suicides-in-indi...
What kind of speeds do you get to non aws, gcp, and azure sites? I’ve found in my travels that you get ridiculous speeds to “net neutral” sites but once you go off the grid you’re back down to T1 speeds.

Like good luck seeing 10mbps+ to a server in the US. In the us I know my transfer speed is limited by the router I’m hitting. So I can go to .jp sites and still pull 30mbit
Someone's "remote" is always someone else's backyard.
I feel like you try very hard to establish a strawman. No one expects 100% perfection. Establishing and following industry standards is a good first step.

Like no unencrypted local passwords. Individual default passwords for every individual device. Not using outdated version, especially once vulnerabilities are known. Including an update mechanism and providing updates for at least X years.

And yes, trained specialists will be able to work through such checklists for many commonly used software, just like your car mechanic.

And by the way, no one expects your car mechanic to [a] be perfect (you really never heard a story of a car breaking again just after leaving the shop?) or [b] be able to handle any kind of vehicle unknown to him.

The goal of rules like that is to punish the worst tier, thereby raising the bar. But this will probably be more hard to implement in the US with their everyone-sues-everyone mindset. Reminds me a lot of the great GDPR scare but now imo quite reasonable actual cases happening.
What Color is your Function? (2015)
Reddit scifi/fantasy subs are pretty good for recommendations.
That was true maybe 5–10 years ago. I’m saying that this term is no longer used today, in 2019. Do you seriously still use it in discussions with your colleagues, on social media, etc.?
> or live out in white bread suburban hell until you are in hospice care

Funny how 95% of world population would be ecstatic about moving there, yet you describe it as hell.
So why not try random instead?

It sounds like a great opportunity for an experiment. Say you have 20 slots, pick 10 using the GPA/nitpick method, and 10 at random, and then compare the results 5 or 10 years later.
> Part of the liability should be shared with the people owning the compromised machines

You’re voluntarily signing up to get fined when someone hacks the computer in your house, because you connected it to the internet, right?

> Currently there is no penalty for manufacturing insecure hardware

I’m glad you see some validity in the counter-points, but doubling down on this idea of punishing manufacturers for things people do with their hardware seems misguided at best.

You can’t prove any hardware is secure, if there were such penalties there would be no hardware, this is a total and complete non-starter. Moreover, there are lots of other bad things you can do with hardware, this would open the door to holding manufacturers accountable for everything. Do you think Intel or Dell will accept fines for every successfully hack into machines they made?

This isn’t unlike suggesting that ISPs should be held liable for people doing illegal things on the internet, or suggesting that it should be illegal to pay ransoms. It’s hurting the wrong people, and failing to punish the people doing wrong.

> this situation is a consequence of that

That’s a purely subjective opinion that ignores multiple causes, and ignores the single most direct cause: people who wish to do bad things. It would be just as valid to blame this on a failure of the education system & social civics as to blame hardware manufacturers. Maybe we should fine teachers who have students that later do bad things?

> We have regulations that (mostly successfully) prevent companies from selling hardware that blows up and destroys your house, why can’t we have the same for networked hardware?

First, the analogy is bad because there are zero good uses for consumer bombs in houses, while there are plenty of non-harmful uses for IoT devices.

Second, because there is a market for simple hardware that can be deployed inside of secure networks, and doesn’t require a team of security experts to run. Secure hardware is more expensive to produce than simply-connected hardware.
I mean like that time when this was just an episode in millennia of history...

I also mean like that time when the eventual demise of most empires and huge nations was my point, which China and India managed to avoid, and not China and India themselves (which are totally orthogonal to the point I was making, and in fact an exception to the rule I posited)
I'm confused by the blacklisted donor thing. The first questions I had when reading about it was "when did he end up on this list?", "why did he end up on it?, and "how big is this list?"

It doesn't seem like any of the journalists even asked. That sounds like a very interesting story in and of itself.
I had similar thoughts/assumptions when I noticed in the graphic that people leaving New York and Chicago are back tracking the same paths taken 100 years earlier when the industrial North attracted people who needed out of the south.
Business Insider ran a story about them at the point of acquisition.

April 9, 2012 "Instagram was acquired by Facebook today for $1 billion in cash and stock. It only has 13 employees and a handful of investors. ... Meet 11 of the lucky employees and 9 investors behind Instagram. ... Two other employees were hired during South by Southwest last month and their information wasn't available for this story. "

https://www.businessinsider.com/instagram-employees-and-inve...
You can set up that MDN shortcut easily using the website https://mdn.io/, which does nothing but redirect to an I’m Feeling Lucky Google Search like you described. In your keyword bookmark (Firefox) or custom search engine (Chrome), just use the URL pattern “https://mdn.io/%s”. I titled my bookmark “Search MDN via mdn.io” and gave it the keyword “mdn”, same as deathanatos.
I find this focus on identity politics so toxic it's starting to make life miserable.

I'm currently driving a VW SUV company car in a german suburb and the amount of hate I receive because of it is ramping up daily. Even from people driving similar polluting cars, like high-powered station wagons.

The other day my wife was breastfeeding our child in our car while I was quickly grabbing something from a store when it was 36°C/96.8°F outside, so I naturally left the car running so the AC would keep them cool. I was barely a minute out of the car when a woman came knocking on the window, gesturing my wife to turn off the car, giving her the finger etc.

I can't imagine similar things happening even 5 years ago.
Most people would if it’s normalized. Not long ago Saudi Arabian money and PRC money was just fine. It’s hard not to take it when it’s about survival.
My guess is that it involves complex jurisdictional things.

Money Transfer Method A is not permitted in City/County/State/Nation B.

Person A lives in City/County/State/Nation B and is not able to download Money Transfer Method A app that is acting correctly as an app. Everything is in order.

Person A lives in City/Country/State/Nation B and downloads an app that provides an HTML gateway to Money Transfer Method A. Apple can't control that. But Apple gets the heat from City/Country/State/Nation B for enabling the money transfer through an app in its App Store.
I remember similar stories about people who took money from Harvey Weinstein, for example there was an AIDS nonprofit he gave millions to.

It all highlights the difficult job facing people tasked with taking money from donors in this way. They won't always have 20/20 hindsight. They may learn about sketchiness after they already took the money. They may be so blinded by what they see as generosity and good will that they may be less able to see character flaws. I am not saying any of this happened here, but I would not like to be in a position to make these decisions.
On his website it is defined as "the retention of child-like attributes through adulthood."
> I also think this kind of thing exists in society today, but probably bought and sold on exclusive markets to modern lords and ladies.

Can you elaborate? I don't know what you're referring to.
>Mr. Ito has been a board member of The New York Times Company since 2012. The company did not immediately comment on Mr. Ito’s decision to leave M.I.T.

This is the 7th paragraph in the story. Shouldn't it be higher up?
Invade? Please for god sake read about India and Kashmir first before you reveal your ignorance here. Kashmir has a complex history. It was ALWAYS part of India but governed under a certain constitutional provision. The Indian Govt just revoked that provision.
> His experience led him to the realization that “it was necessary to set man free from this degrading slavery.”

And we currently are doing a really good job at it through automation, and yet, people still complain.
The idea that I wouldn't already know of those things, or that they somehow invalidate what I wrote, I find fascinating...

Meanwhile, I've mentioned Pakistan already in another answer many hours ago...
Here you go: https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия:К_оценке_источнико...

Edit: also https://www.the-village.ru/village/city/news-city/358231-spa...
I don't think that thread shows that Hoffman defended Ito, despite the author's claims. I'm basically willing to take Hoffman's responses at face value. Clearly there was an ongoing investigation, as demonstrated by Ito's resignation today. When news broke about Ito and Epstein last month, Giriharadas was pretty far down on the list of people who Ito needed to answer to (since he was just part of what I imagine to be a mostly ceremonial award committee.) I see evidence that Hoffman didn't think Giriharadas should be dictating the course of the investigation, but not evidence that Hoffman tried to impede in any way. After all, this same Disobedience award went to #MeToo activists last year...

Ultimately, this thread does feel a lot like the author making a dreadful scandal about himself.
I enjoyed his book What Technology Wants. I’ll have to pick this up.
Because he had already been convicted before and was (as Swenson learned previously, as you can read in the op cited new-yorker article on the issue) banned from being a MIT donor for this reason.
Context matters.
The $86T World Economy in One Chart
Context: very small western EU country.

Over here we are:

- cutting down the very few square kilometers of forest we have because the EU declared that everyone has to be carbon neutral or pay fines, and 'wood pellets' are considered 'renewable' energy sources by the administration. The cabinet minister in charge has admitted to the absurdity but stated he is not going to stop the practice as this would lead to being fined.

- keeping open severely damaged aging nuclear plants even when under the protest of several neighboring countries recognizing the dangers. The person in charge of this matter at the energy minister's cabinet just moved through he revolving door and got a very cozy 'job' at the company that owns and operates the plants. The energy minister was not amused as it is customary to await the next elections before cashing in and this person moved in a potential election preamble period.

- The nuclear test facility operated by the government has once more run out of storage space for nuclear waste. In the 'good old days' they just dumped all the waste in the North Sea (it's still there), but now they have to store it. The cement vats they have been using were leaking in the past, and now they have ran out of space for storing them as the piles keep on growing.

Nuclear might be sound in theory, but humans just can't handle the responsibility in practice. And the one answer a neoliberal market economy based socio-economic system is incapable of providing is abstinence, as it is systemically antithetical to it and outside of its potential solution space.
Yes, he would, especially if he thought he had enough leverage to protect himself from the consequences.
So it's actually comparable I'd say, in terms of frequency. In terms of how much "writing" this actually means, it varies: an edit to a large article, even if it's just a comma, requires several seconds of parsing to produce the wikitext, a lot of events propagated in various places etc.