skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Context is absolutely needed. How can I possibly want a particular condition at Amazon if I don’t understand it. For example, is $18 too low? Is 8-10 hour manual labor days bad? I can’t say I’m against the working conditions unless I know what typical working conditions are. And if Amazon is the best of all possible conditions for unskilled warehouse work then me calling for change at Amazon is way less effective than for some other place where my attention will have more impact.

This idea of “any change is good” is dangerous because it ignores opportunity cost. An example is that it can actually be bad to raise awareness for a rare disease if it takes away donations from a common disease. It can cost lives and do harm because dollars become less effective.

Focusing on the wrong thing can be worse than apathy and it seems really weird that people can form opinions without data and facts. Especially in a world where PR bullshit can form such emotional reactions.
It's not a decision so much as lots of difficult emotional labor that almost nobody in our society is prepared or willing to do. Absolute Truth is accessible to your direct experience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvaPmKQVIuQ
I don't know your situation, but if you need someone to talk to, I'm here my dude.
> And before you talk about how Amazon acts monopolistically by promoting their own or favorite products, it's their platform,

Just like Windows was Microsoft's platform and anyone was free to install whatever browser they wanted... Use Netscape all you want!
Personally that's why I tend to like the American anti-trust standard of consumer welfare, and it bothers me that politicians are trying to dislodge it.

It really does bother me when the facets of the complaints against the giants boil down to basically, they're too good at that, or they can do things that others can't. At a blunt level, isn't that the point?

Isn't it what we want? When we talk about services, not petroleum, I find it difficult to see nearly the deep damage that their market positions would cause in a different line of business.
Are you implying you expect Trump to not win the re-election?
Breaking Down the Chrome Web Store
Aren't the haircuts and interest rates just flip sides of the same coin, though? You can express risk in either language, and if either is rising that means that the evaluation of risk has risen too.

I don't know that this really makes me personally feel better.
Yeah, I think robotics are a big focus with this board. Using the PRU for hard PWM and motor and encoder tasks is incredible, and it's just gonna be even more interesting with double the PRU resources.
India’s Chandrayaan-2 Marks 60 Years of Moon Crashes and Hard Landings
‘Mesh,’ a Memory-Saving Plug-In That Could Boost Phone and Computer Performance
Solar Panels for Your Business
Robotic fish predator strikes fear into invasive species – Futurity
Yes, in the interests of brevity, I've omitted a lot of nuance. Let me try to add some of that back in.

I do not object to data collection that is technically necessary to provide services. For instance, I don't object to web server logs.

I also don't generally object to sites using data I have willingly provided for their own purposes, as long as they aren't doing things like sharing it with other entities or combining it with data about me that they have obtained with other entities (unless I have given consent, of course). So I have no problem with your wifi hotspot or paywall examples.

Anything beyond that -- which would include your casino example -- requires my express consent. I do think that casinos violate this principle, because they do not inform me of their surveillance before I set foot on their properties. If they did, though, then I would not object.

The essential principle that I operate under is that of informed consent. It's really that simple. Having a relationship with a specific entity carries with it a certain amount of implied consent (web server logs are an example of this) -- but even that data should remain private between me and that entity. Any sharing of it with others requires my express permission. "Sharing with others" includes indirect mechanisms such as using that data to match me with advertisers, even if the raw data itself is not transmitted to others.
When I think about basic income I see everyone suddenly being able to afford a lot more which is good and I like that. But what I do worry is that as soon as the stores realize people have more cash to spend they start to increase the prices to match that. So how do we prevent that if we implement a basic income? I think what would be better then a basic income is some sort of basic housing, health and food rights. I don't want 1000$ a month. I want to know every month I will have enough funds to feed my kids and house them and treat them when they are not well. I think this can be achieved by a number of means. I am Canadian so we have the health care mostly figured out though I would make changes to the cost of prescriptions for low income families. I have struggled at times to afford antibiotics for my kids and I make a lot more then minimum wage. The housing could be tackled as well. We have a lot of rules which I feel are restrictive for no reason in this day and age. For example the minimum square footage I can build a place for a person to live here is 700 square feet. My dad built a 2 level tiny home that was 100 square feet I would die to own. He had to put it on a trailer to avoid the 700 square foot rule. Why? My property could fit 20 tiny homes and have room left over to play. But the city would never allow it so I truly do think housing shortage is a political issue not a logistics issue. As for food, I would like to basically see a government funded/run food kitchen with basic foods offered to low income families where they can access nutritious food. I am thank full my kids school has a breakfast program, also thankful I do not need it, but come Christmas break, summer break, any break, my heart hurts a little knowing there are several kids that 100% rely on that program for getting food. One kid was caught stealing food and the teacher asked why are you trying to hide it you can eat as much as you like, his reply was his little brother at home who was too young to be in school was hungry so he was trying to take him something to eat. That is soul crushing to me. We live in such a damn rich county no kid should be left to go hungry at home. I don't have all the answers. I don't know how it would all be paid for but I do know something needs to change.
Without Google's resources Android, Maps, YouTube, DoubleClick and the like wouldn't be the powerhouses they are today. Take that how you will, good or bad.
AMD use 14nm for the IO die and 7nm for the compute chiplets. 10nm won't help much - after all the security fixes that Intel have had to implement, AMD have the IPC advantage.
You're exactly right. Hadoop and it's ecosystem are... a very poor replica of the system whose predecessor the respective Google papers were written about. There's glaring efficiency things like not supporting complex encodings (last I used HDFS, at least, it could only do full replication) or the query engines on top not implementing sampling in their aggregates as a default/out of the box, which the Google tools do.
It's not so much that voters are selfish (although some are; probably 20-30%) as that they don't like being ripped off and it has become very clear over the last ~30 years that all the happy talk of market economics is mostly self-serving BS.

We've seen from recent economic crises that people are willing to tolerate and even vote for austerity; but since then they've noticed that all the austerity happened to people at the bottom of the economic pyramid and those at the top barely suffered at all. They've also noticed that a considerable portion of their taxes is pent on policing whose purpose is not the prevention of crime but the maintenance of the economic status quo.
Prime movies is all you can watch rental service. Buying movies from Amazon digital is buying a perpetual license. The distinction is in selling access versus selling goods.
Stallman's mistake was expressing his key point in two sentences using many words of three or more syllables.

This apparently put it beyond the reading comprehension level of the reporters at Vice and Daily Beast, and of Selam G., and so his point was completely misunderstood/misrepresented.
But now we have the technology to automate and scale it.
By the time these bans come into force hardly anyone will be buying new ICE vehicles anyway. It's already cheaper to lease and run an EV than it is to lease and run an ICE.

The decline will be rapid. Why maintain a fuel supply chain when there aren't many customers?
Banks are there to give capital to businesses, which do solve every single problem from the beginning of capitalism. This is how it works.
> Conferences don't exist to convey information.

This, for me, is the only reason to go to conferences. Watching presentation on YouTube is just not engaging enough and I drift away.

I don't care about being seen and I'm definitely not going there to "see" any specific persona.

All in all (I am talking about tech conferences here) they're a way for me to gauge the current development in my industry.

On top of that I specifically and without exception avoid all off-topic/non-technical talks. Maybe if more people did so we could have better conferences.
Cord cutter since 2009 and social media quitter since 2015 here. LinkedIn and WhatsApp are sufficient to maintain professional network and personal ties. HN is interesting when you get to read some obscure articles.
No they are not. They use energy, a lot of it. They want to run their data centers off of renewable, "carbon-free" energy sources and made some great strides towards that. But they aren't there yet.

On top of that, renewables aren't carbon neutral per se, either. And the hardware you put into those things isn't free either.

Now you might argue the services google is able to provide with them warrant the environmental costs, but that's another question entirely. And you might argue that google did a lot of things to reduce their footprint (and they did) but it's hardly close to zero, let alone negative.
Why would I want to talk to somebody?
I hear you, and my point was that sometimes those games go sideways in a big way.
Yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Gmail
To very good approximation, 100% of the energy used by a contemporary computer is turned to heat. The amount of negentropy generated by the computations is utterly dwarfed by the increase in entropy in the computer's surroundings. Computers are space heaters that happen to do some calculations as a side effect.
I think the point is that the danger may be more with the competitor than with Amazon.

Or even worse, they're all equally terrible. Which would mean that no matter what we do, we lose privacy and freedoms.

The public is being manipulated into taking actions directly contradictory to its own good either way.

One road to death and despair, the other to disease and destruction.

You could say, "choose wisely", but it doesn't really look like it matters.
(not a finance guy) - what I was told when the Fed did this on Monday/Tuesday was that there was a perfect storm where businesses had way more withdrawals from their accounts than deposits (taxes + payroll iirc) which led to a situation where banks didn't have the cash on hand for the repo market and minimum balance required by statute. But that doesn't explain why the Fed is doing this over the next few weeks.

No idea how accurate that is as a characterization, so someone help out via Cunningham's Law.
Extremists in Bangladesh are locally organized, capable of coordinated attacks, and part of an international movement. Extremists in the US are neither of those things. Often, Incidents in the US are chalked up to “white national extremists” based on nothing more than some murdered having searched such websites. There used to be an organized extremist threat in the US back when the KKK was active, but that was crushed. What’s left is remnants. That’s not true in Bangladesh. Extremists systematically killed journalists a few years ago. Before it was banned, the Islamist party got 3 million votes in national elections. Extremism is being bankrolled from foreign countries through schools that teach such views. There is a deep well of support for such views among the people—1/3 of Bangladeshis believe that people who leave Islam should be executed. And, finally, there is a real risk of extremists taking over the State, as happened with Pakistan and Afghanistan.

None of that is true in the US. People who say “hurr durr but Republicans are a white nationalist party” do so out of ignorance, because they have no idea what it’s like to have extremists actually threaten your democracy. And their ignorance is dangerous. It’s dangerous to a world that needs US leadership to overcome extremism. Their false equivalency and apologism undermines the people in countries like Bangladesh who continue to fight for liberal democracy and the rule of law.
This is my favorite excuse in sports because they "retiree" almost always comes back out of retirement which leads me to believe they've had enough time with their family.
NPM, Inc. Announces Leadership Change
Well part of the idea is that they get it back pretty quickly. If the fed just gave it all away it would rapidly expand the monetary supply and cause a lot of inflation

Though there is something to be said for longer term QE operations only going through banks rather than through citizens
I have the original Threadripper 1950X overclocked to 4.1ghz and I’ve been pretty happy with it. As a developer I can’t find much reason to upgrade 2 years after its release. Single core improvements (from AMD or Intel) aren’t game-changing. More cores won’t do anything for me (.NET Core, angular, etc)
I’ve considered switching back to intel for their 5ghz processors but based on benchmarks, I wouldn’t see anything but marginal improvements.
All in all, competition is good, but I wish they’d focus on single core performance improvements.
Daimler abandons internal combustion engine development to focus on EVs
Insidious, isn't it? It's moments like this that I wish to all the devils ever worshiped by man that the left had jumped on the "red pill" metaphor from The Matrix instead of leaving it for misogynists and reactionaries to appropriate.

Because until the Wachowski sisters brought in the "Neo is the One" plotline with the attendant messianic tropes, the relationship between Morpheus and Thomas Anderson/Neo was one of a union organizer showing a worker blinded by false consciousness exactly how he allowed himself to be conned by his bosses.
You also can't use them with gloves on, and at least where I live, I'm always wearing gloves in the winter.
This is one of the reasons why I only run BOINC on CPUs during summer and on GPUs and CPUs the rest of the year. My 10 year old i7 have been running 100% mostly 24/7 for 10 years with no problem, while 2-3 graphics cards have given because of the heat
Robot fish
By "programming language" he probably means something that has robust flow control mechanisms and metaprogramming facilities.

You can definitely tell there's a different "feel" to bash and Tcl, Python, Perl, Go, etc, yes? Shell languages basically evolved out of batch processing languages that were meant to only run programs in sequence and it shows.
All open source is not equal. Fetishizing "open source," without considering the use cases and who may profit from it, is not something I feel comfortable doing.

I'm not ragging on open source as a concept, just that this example particularly is a bad one for justifying its utility.
Only to get tired of them two weeks later and suddenly find himself with another CEO spot?
Thanks...I know there are lots of folks dealing with worse, at least i'm fortunate to have a good paying job with a compassionate employer to worry about. But it's still not always clear how to prioritize and when it's appropriate to start making decisions to reduce responsibilities and impact of away time.
This law is a step in the right direction, although in its current form it's toothless and uses disgustingly submissive language (e.g. the user may not out or the user needs to be informed about how theur data is going to be abused). The final goal of such laws should be to poison user data: so that collecting it and storing would open all sorts of legal and criminal troubles and that no company would want to touch user data with even 10 foot pole. This will open more ethical business opportunities that currently can't compete with data mining model. An analogy in real world. If theft and robberry was legal, no other business model could exist: if you sell gas for 3 bucks a gallon and your neighbor sells it for a negative price, but sells user address to theft agencies, you'd be out of business long before everybody realises the true cost of that "free" gas.
No they are saying that if you buy a meal, you should be able to package it up and sell it to someone else, which you can do. If I go buy a hamburger, I can walk right out onto the street and if someone else offers me money for it I can sell it. What I can't sell is access, which is what a buffet is, you're not paying for the individual item you're paying for access to the buffet.
The relevant figure to look at is borrowing costs per dollar borrowed against typical return on capital. 0.36% shouldn't make a big difference there.
Why is getting old a bad thing in your book?
At the beginning of 2018 I was in a pretty bad state in many ways. One of which was my health.

I did a lot to turn it around, including running regularly, and a better diet. I lost a lot of weight. But what's more amazing in the long term is the mental transition that's come with it. When I get anxious, often I think "when is the last time I went running?" and if it was more than 2 days ago, getting my gear on and getting outside is nearly automatic. It's an emotional outlet. Anxious? Run it out. Angry? Run it out. Happy? Run with it!

Truly, we are meant to run. We are meant to exert ourselves. And our bodies crave it, if given the ability to.
The Repo Market Explained
Nice article, but these days I am always suspicious whenever I read anything that offers a "surprising view" on some historical figure.

The reality of today's history is that there are way too many historians and it requires lots of hard work to add new factual knowledge (other than speculations and theories) to the field.

So to make a name or at least somehow make money in this discipline, historians have an incentive to come up with "shocking" and "controversial" theories so a lot of work that gets exposure is stuff like "was Socrates sexist?" or "Atheist and gay, Frederick the Great" or articles like this which questions a figure we know little about, it's actually a fact he was a great builder but as the only highlighted point in the article says "he had seven wives and a number of concubines" ... which of course is the point why he wasn't "great" ... if you want to learn something about Ramses II I recommend to just read his wikipedia page, it's more interesting and way more informative.
Supply inelasticity. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21028982
How about all the series of cascading failures due to a rapid loss of housing and healthcare and jobs that are affecting people who aren't bank executives? Who is on top of that one again?

All the homeless people who live near me have started using the nearby car wash as their toilet, which is making the whole neighborhood smell pretty awful as everyone refuses to deal with this problem.

I'm so glad Wells Fargo does not have to worry about it's margins shrinking by less than a percentage point so that they can continue generating $250 million in profit per day.
One can construct an aligned pointer on a chunk of allocated memory by asking for the needed quantity plus the size of the alignment and the "nudge" the pointer you get to the next word boundary (and you can do something with the "wasted" byte before it, like storing the size of the object).

But that sort of trick is only worth it if you are writing a compiler and its runtime, an interpreter, a memory allocator (in particular GCs) or at the very last some sort of high performance library (you would return your "featured pointer" as an opaque type to the user).
I wonder what level of obfuscation is necessary to safely publicly share your email. Is foo (at) example.com enough?
Tell that to Oracle...
Why not just go after the much smaller number of boot-wearers?
I'm an American, and miles are confusing.
Just about all of these images have a characteristic "swirl" somewhere. Weird ears and eartings, impossible hair textures, confused "hats" and nightmarish hands/other faces in the image are also clear tells, but that little swirl is usually there even in otherwise "perfect" images.

I wonder what causes it.
A very cynical take - it seems you're taken from the place where a therapist to many people is like a doctor's visit. Figure out what the problem is, fix it, and then move on. Maybe that works if you only have one problem. Maybe that works if you have nothing fundamental and deep down to get over.

Our society doesn't offer many places for people to feel safe truly opening up emotionally. It can take people a very long time, and sometimes it takes 5 sessions just to build up enough trust to start to scratch the surface of whats really going wrong. I wish your comment was empathetic towards things like that, but instead it feels dismissive, and I'd worry it makes people second guess going to therapy, or starting.

Most therapists can help anyone. The right one for you can be life changing. Don't give up finding one, even if your first, second or third don't get you as far as you need to go. It probably took decades to get you to where you are, don't quit after a few weeks trying to work on it.
Your ego isn't something you just "check"
People toss around the word ego with zero understanding of what ego is and how it functions.
YOUR VERY SURVIVAL IS AT STAKE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8NNtpzYQx8
But how developed does your consciousness have to be to even begin to grasp it?
How often do you consider possibilities that have never happened to anyone in human history, and try to account for them?
I don't know about you, but I find it easier to consume massive quantities of Coca-Cola than I do black pepper.
It has this. For example, the default 0 value:

19.32b (on black)

1.09w (on white)
One can understand whether a group of people's needs are met or not without further context, pretty trivial.
Given my obvious enthusiasm for the project in hand, I'm not sure why you're so negative about discussing some of the challenges they face.
Strength = percentage alcohol, though? Alcohol = a liquid that contains alcohol?

Units aren't the only confusing thing here.
What's old is new again :)
Do you have a point to make about how this is better, or is this change for the sake of change?
Based on what I’ve read from old library archives, quality changed for popular science type magazines after the 1950s. Everything becomes closer to being ads, or just glosses over the basic details.

I doubt it is intentional, the journalists now aren’t capable of understanding, but they know how to write things in a way to get as many clicks.
How about "Beige Tyranny"?
So, banks don't trust each other's collateral, but the Fed does, and that judgment is more correct?
Therapy can help you recognize and set boundaries.
Funny enough, the patent office has similar questions about AI:

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/08/27/2019-18...
They weren't back then. Google had plans but they didn't start yet. They prioritised that after the leaks. Now they are encrypted.
It might not be the most important issue in the whole Manifest v3, but it's the only issue mentioned for deprecating the particular API that uBO uses to block requests.
"resigned"
Context: https://design.lyft.com/re-approaching-color-9e604ba22c88