skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could buy them from Volvo in Sweden instead. That's the truck and bus company that is still Swedish not the car company that was sold off to Ford in 1999 and is now owned by Geely.
> So would I. Suggesting they're bad for most people means that they're likely "bad" (i.e. not the best available workspace).

Why are we trying to force everone into a one-size-fits-all workspace to begin with? Why not let people work in the spaces that work best for them?

> If you're defining "works well" as "gets their work done", then I won't dispute it.

> That's not the issue though. Do they do their best work? Do they lose productivity to the open office? Do they try to find jobs without open offices?

> Yes to all of those questions[1][2][3][4].

What you have is an impressive collection of links that study how the majority of people work best. None of that disproves what I'm saying, which is that there's a significant minority who works quite well in open offices.

> That's the thing, though. Remote-only companies are exactly that. You can opt into an office if you want to -- just gather some coworkers or go to a coworking space.

Sounds great to me. I've no idea why you're bringing this up as if I would disagree with it--I think remote work with the option of coming in to an office is a great idea. It's an effective implementation of what I said: "[W]e should be focusing on finding office situations that work for each of us, and letting others choose office situations that work for them."

> The oppressive decision-making you're referring to is inherent to open-office-only companies, where they say, "If you want to work here, you'll work in a large, loud room full of distractions."

Okay, so why are you attacking the open office when the oppressive decision making is clearly the real problem?

The company I'm currently working for has an open office, and most of the company works from home most of the week. I, the extrovert, have spent exactly one day in the office ever (not by choice--I live too far away or I'd be there every day). So there's nothing inherent to open offices that suddenly turns management into authoritarians.
Interesting there was a small Help link[0] next to the text areas for a quick minute, but they have since been removed. This was definitely there in the past month.

dang, was that something you were testing?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
From the article

> Also, iOS only looks for an excessive number of app provisioning profiles, not the number of apps you have installed
NewsFi – news ranked using Facebook data
I'm pretty sure this isn't the first time such news surfaces shortly after Apple releases new line of devices.

Even if this situation coincidentally has happened recently, the subtle message is still here: "you can rely on Apple Watch and you should buy one - better safe than sorry"
I think it depends on the countries. While I can believe this is true in the USA, for sure it doesn't apply to Italy, UK and Germany where l/acc stuff is being read by many in the cultural elites.

Also mind that l/acc is not an explicit political movement and even if you read and agree, probably you won't identify as a l/acc, something that many regard as nonsensical.
It would be so much more palatable ethically if the US had universal health care.
Honestly, I just wanted to know a real world case where this person had a mac, didn't know the limitations, discovered the limitations, and then switched.

Your sarcasm is misplaced.
> This is great, but also sounds kinda pricey and hard to scale? What is the business model behind this?

Wonder when AI will be smart enough to sounds completely natural. I've listened to a generated audio from an AI that was almost there. Trying to have the right intonations and everything.
I thought this was abuse as labeled by Apple. What happens in this case is that the apps in the store typically need to be re-downloaded because the cert was revoked or something.

Please someone correct me if I'm wrong because I really want this kind of thing to work.
All I know is Google shows me Meghan Markle news every single day. I don't click the articles, but one day they will break me.
Right, but if you're a large software distributer, the onus is entirely on you to QA software releases on every possible OS configuration.

If this were an individual working alone (or even a small company), I'd have some sympathy. But Google has enough to pay QA engineers and build a sufficiently sophisticated test lab. They should get no pass for this.
I remember when I was a kid we were spending 6-7 hours playing in the snow. In the evening we'd come home and there was ice on our clothes, shoes and socks. Wasn't a problem. We'd jump off the clothes and take a hot shower or drink some hot tea. Good times. Kids are very resilient. While it was really cold outside the energy generated from our play would warm us up all-right.
I think that only works if you tell people that will hold you accountable, like if you tell your spouse that you'll mow the lawn, they'll hold you to it. If you're posting "I'm going to lose weight this year!" on social media, people probably won't hold you accountable and you'll still be glad that you collected a bunch of likes and thumbsups without having to accomplish anything.
Which is why SIP exists.
Datadog: A Real-Time Metrics Database for One Quadrillion Points/Day
Geely only owns Volvo Cars. The buses and trucks are still Swedish (AB Volvo).
Does it really not work? It seems to have done okay in various contexts - Maoism in China and Ba'athism in the Arab world stand out to me. Maoism evolved and became very successful. Ba'athism mostly fell apart with the Arab Spring revolutions (the Syrian civil war is the last stand), but it lasted a long time and brought a lot of improvements to some really weak countries.

Heck, consider Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh's revolution survived years of the most powerful nation on Earth dropping more firepower on the tiny nation than was dropped in all of WWII. They won, America left, and Vietnam is a modern communist state.

Then again, I don't completely believe this... I'm kind of under the spell of Tolstoy right now, and tend to think that history just sort of happens, and we attribute the ebb and flow of it to the success or failure of individual leaders and their decisions, ignoring the broader forces. A lot of what led to success in these countries was going to happen regardless.

preemptive edit: Yes, I know these were murderous dictatorships. No need to mansplain how wrong I am, guys.
Thankfully, with SIP, they don't.
The problem is that similar data can be found for sugars as well, so it's not just the one smoking gun, much like removing fats from the things in the 90's didn't suddenly make everyone skinny, even though there was research to suggest fat was the problem.
Rethink the policy, or rethink the fundamentally broken pro-rich government?

The goal of government is apparently to give the poor as little as possible to help themselves and keep them from rioting, and therefore any policy that doesn't risk (too much) rioting from that is "good policy"?

Come on.
For some perspective, think of all the notable people you can name. Not just the huge names, but people from your particular field / sub-field, etc. How many made this list and similarly useless ones? Like the Academy Awards, sometimes the out-group is better company.

Even though he's an ass, I find Taleb's approach amusing. Copied from his webpage:

> (Please refrain from offering honorary degrees, awards, listings in "100 most...",& similar debasements of knowledge that turn it into spectator sport).
> Why not pick some stable tech and take the opportunity to get really deeply into it? The only reason to chase buzzwords is if you plan to leave soon!

Or because you respect the perspective that introducing new skills brings. I'll pick the example everyone loves to hate; Java developers. I used to work at a shop where most of their people had invested in "stable tech", which for them largely meant writing Java code that would get shipped onto Tomcat or WebSphere or something similar.

It was hands down one of the worst places I have ever worked from a technical perspective. Anything that didn't fit neatly into that universe was a no go. We had some version of WebSphere that was like 12 years old because people had gotten "deeply into it". High availability was basically non-existent because everyone was "deeply into" a toolkit that didn't provide it natively. Everything was built on "stable tech" that generally didn't support HA (like putting files into CIFS without any locking, because that was the stable tech we had chosen).

I'm not saying everyone needs to chase the latest and greatest thing, but the ecosystem moves because needs change. Sometimes learning new tech is less about how to use the tech, and more about understanding what problem that tech is solving. Perhaps the newest tech isn't a perfect solution to that problem, but there is always value in understanding what problem it is attempting to solve. Kubernetes is not a perfect solution to a problem, but avoiding it to a degree where you don't even understand the problems it is trying to solve will devalue you as an engineer.
I’m a patent litigator. I’ll do the work for free. I’d do it myself but I don’t want to also front the ~$20k for an IPR filing fee.
IMO the insidious part is that it's both ageist and a relative (vs absolute) competition.

Ageist because someone 31, 41, or 51 could achieve great things for humanity, yet doesnt deserve our accolade?

And strange because if 200 find a way to revolutionize the lives of billions. We still have to pick 30? Why not celebrate everyone who markedly improves the lives of 10% of the planet or some other absolute measure?
Disclaimer: this affected me tangentially which is why I've been trying to figure out what exactly happened and where it came from.

The issue was not Chrome in and of itself, but Google Keystone, which is the update daemon for Chrome. I don't think Keystone is open source so you can't grep for 'unlink("/var")' to figure out what was going on.
So I guess this kind of leads to my original point. If you're a school, nothing has really changed that would require you to invest gobs of money to teach AI. It only matters if your idea of research is trying to create something you can go to market with.

So basically every graduate chemistry program.
Probably because satellites in LEO are too low to get such a broad view, and the camera-equipped satellites that are higher up are all over the equator.
Xenofeminism is powerful
(Cross post from another comment elsewhere)
I'm not the best at understanding or explaining accelerationism, but I'll give it a shot.

Accelerationism is that the current neoliberalism order will "naturally" progress to a next phase of society.

I gather that left-accelerationists (L/acc) usually subscribe to the labor theory of value, and so automation's decrease of labor value to 0 will result in a collapse of capitalism that derives value of goods and services from the labor needed to produce them.

Right-accelerationism (R/acc) seeks to embrace the disruption of technology to a logical extreme for technologial progress. Neo-Reaction (NRx) wants to revert back to pre-democratic ideals as they see democracy as being incompatible with their techno-libertarian ideals.

I haven't heard of xenoaccelerationism (X/acc?) before but upon a cursory glance, it seems similar in that it embraces the disruption of culture and identity politics by technology's increasing encroachment and control on nature. It sounds like an overlap with transhumanism, but I am probably uninformed about the finer details.
AltStore: iOS App Store alternative that doesn’t require a jailbreak
Good point, I think it should be mentioned because those DBs are special in that they are optimized for analyzing data changes over time. They store timestamps effectively and often allow filtering and aggregation on tags and in time intervals. It is not common to query RDBM for a chart of 10-minute averages of latency, histograms, quantiles, etc and do things like downscaling from 1-second intervals to 1minute intervals Great examples: Prometheus, Graphite, InfluxDB
> How the hell does that get past QC?

Did you see the list of prerequisites? The test matrix gets to be massive when you have all those specific conditions to test.
Is compute the limiting factor or data?

I see an asymmetry between academia and industry. Academia has the models, industry has the data. Compute is more balanced because it's usually commodity hardware.

If industry is outpacing academia in research, I think that means data is the more valuable quantity, not compute.

And the article's theme of concentration is more a problem with data. Is Facebook dominant because of its algorithms or because of its database? If other companies had Google's index and user telemetry could they not compete with a rival search algorithm?
It's a symlink and / has to be writable by the logged in user, so it's actually just effectively

rm /var
World of Undersea Volcanoes and Lava Flows Discovered Off Italian Coast
> Do you disagree that there's a difference between those two things?

Yes. Although, I didn't make the assertion that they are the same.
There's no reason you can't do all of that with basic user level permissions. A browser shouldn't be screwing with OS files in any significant way (i.e. other than user level settings) to begin with.
Good read! Adrian Tchaikovsky explored octopus consciousness in the sci-fi novel 'Children of Ruin'. They really do seem alien.
> Testut told The Verge that measures to block AltStore would break key functionality for developers or iTunes syncing.

No, it won't. Keep in mind that we didn't have the 7 day side-load for free apple ids prior to 2015[1]. All apple has to do is disable sideloading for free accounts. I imagine it won't impact many legitimate developers, who probably have paid developer accounts anyways.

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2015/06/10/xcode-7-allows-anyone-to-down...
That statement stands specifically in opposition to "forced assmimilation", which is a term that normally refers to things the minority are forced to do to conform - mandatory conversion of Jews to Christianity, that kind of thing.

The important bit has to be "Europeans cannot define themselves anymore through the colour of their skin and/or their religion" - that is, something like the American ideal. It is not necessary to be white or of a particular religious denomination to be American; the whole point of the "melting pot" is that it's open to everyone who chooses to have that identity.

What they are arguing is that "French" can no longer continue to require "white, Christian" for someone to be considered French.
I'll step up and say it.

Google in 2019 is a bloated and incompetent company consumed by internal politics that has no vision. Chrome has been nothing but a ploy for google to ruin the web from the get go.
Ask HN: Help understanding startup equity (for employees)
I worked at a Canadian startup for just under 3 years. I signed a stock option agreement at the very beginning of 2017.

My understanding of private equity was:
Over a scheduled period of time, options would be granted to me. These are shares in the company that can be purchased at my given strike price.

So a smart person would do either two things with their vested options:
1. Purchase them, and then immediately sell them back if there is a positive spread.
2. Ignore them because the spread is negative, making the options essentially worthless (unless you want to hold onto the shares for a year or more and hope the company goes back up in value. I'm taught that this is generally an awful idea.)

I'm hinting at some incomplete knowledge here because unlike a publicly traded company on a stock market, I'm not sure who would be purchasing the shares from me. I figure it would be either the startup themselves or the investors involved with the startup.

This is the curve ball:
[When asking what the current value of a share is, in order to determine the spread] "it was just re-evaluated to that new strike price. You don't know the value until it goes public. It is a much better value now than it was previously so you are in a better position."

Current value re-evaluated to a strike price? This is a puzzling statement to me, but more importantly, I'm not allowed to know the value until the company goes public?? I find that to be very suspicious. I'm supposed to take my employer's word that the spread exists? But I'm not allowed to know what it is?

My instincts are raising red flags. A good majority of my options vested but now I feel like I just have to forget about them. I was very sure that startup equity could be of tangible value even without the company being publicly listed on the TSE or NYSE or wherever. Had I simply had the wrong understanding of this or is this abnormal, or perhaps normal but rare?
You are right, but there are other cases like say distribution of common JS libraries. The way it is working currently is via CDN, even then the client could fetch the same object from different sources. Instead if you could describe the object as some sort of signed E-Tag, then the client can just reuse previously downloaded/authenticated/decrypted copy. Of course your actual bank statement should not be distributed this way.
Not necessarily. Governments tend to have pretty decent records and processes of their own. Note all of the difficulties Trump has trying to just make the US government do whatever the heck he feels like on any given day.

And the biggest part about these decisions being handled by government is that there would be accountability, records, and appeals, all of which you really don't have when a corporation is making the decision.
Sounds like you are just trying to find excuses to insert your distrust of police into discussions where it isn't at all relevant.
Here is a web developer pretending to understand a multi generational gap of power. The complexities of this armed conflict cannot be possibly explained in a line as rude as `colombians don't learn from their own mistakes`. For those of us the grew up in the midst of it, everyone you'll ever talk to wants better and more often than not, working on it. It's not just 2 decades. It's closer to 60 years.
Its like taking your kid to a strip club. Its putting your child in danger to begin with. Of course trolls are still responsible for their behavior, but the parents are not off the hook.
I mostly agree, but my personal pet peeve are stores that treat small backpacks as somehow distinct and more of an indicator of theft than giant purses.

If you want to ban bags, do like, say, the Pearl Harbor Memorial and explicitly ban any bags over some certain set of dimensions.
Nvidia has created an AI-powered greenscreen for streamers
Hubris is a big fault of Google and its engineers. They have a culture of thinking "there's one way to do it, we're smart, and we know best."
I watched all these holywars as well, and I’m
on OFF side too for a personal preference (framerate >> “realness”). But how disabling RTX corresponds to DLSS speed when RTX ON at all? It was nvidia’s main selling point that dlss makes rtx bearable by rendering in lower resolution and then upscaling via trained network. Which traditional AA can not at the ~~~same quality level.
Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library
Note that their website appears to be down at the moment. Not even "server overloaded" down, but "server not there" down.

They are on GitHub, though: https://github.com/nextcloud
Let's face it the union fat cats want power and they want it so they can get their industries nationalised because it gives them more power rather than for the good of the general UK population.

We've got better things, more urgent things to spend money on that nationalising utilities etc. (we can control them through regulation anyway)
All regulation in the US is just a consequence of the lobbying war between opposed commercial interests, so in reality the difference is moot.
They don't do this on Linux, right? Why?
Internet access should be a "dangerous" permission, i.e. user should have to grant access explicitly during runtime, similarly to location. I don't need a flashlight app uploading my data to their server.
Reading.

Nothing irritates me more than google pimping me spammy videos as an answers on simple questions.

Videos forces you to consume information slowly in a sync manner.
Videos are good for sense-rich entertainment.

Information is perfectly and efficently can be (and always were) delivered at text.
Hi. I think that the quotations around the secrets is totally warranted. I was trying to state that I always thought that the "secrets" that many test prep courses tried to sell to parents/students were just question design, and not actually some behind the scenes insight.

Do you really disagree with that? That's what a lot of the marketing seems to be focused on. I felt like question exposure alone got me those same insights, and in fact, the official SAT book rather explicitly lists those things out.

Most people don't read the annoying small text that accompanies the books that spells out a lot of those strategies. Instead they'd rather pay someone a lot of money to tell that to them :)
Ah, you're right.

So plugging in numbers you get 2.15 times the radius of Earth, which becomes 13 750 km.

For comparison, Earth-Moon distance is approx. 400 000 km.
Water has the big advantage that it's plentiful, cheap, and environmentally benign.

Sure, it'll take some more upfront engineering to design a system/rack/datacenter for water cooling than just immersing a server in a tank of inert liquid (flourinert or whatever they use these days), but I'm quite sure that at some point water cooling will be the standard solution in data centers.
They'd say that violence is the only way that works. It's "demonstrated" in the first chapter of their silly brainwashing book.
You don't need a government approved license to wait outside places where you know celebrities will show up and take pictures of them to sell.
Your experiment has #samples = 1 and no external variables control, yet I absolutely believe the reported outcome.
Brutally honest but very true.
Time-Reversed Gamma-Ray Burst Light-Curves: Subliminal to Superluminal Motion
I just got Airpods. I had to sign up for Apple Music yesterday because offline support (when the watch isn't in bluetooth range of the phone) wasn't available with Spotify.

Not sure if this is simply a feature Spotify decided not to implement, or if they can't implement it due to Apple Watch restrictions.

I have similar questions with the Hulu Apple TV app. Results for content in Hulu aren't always included in Apple TV wide search, while content from other apps is.

Apple has done a lot of good things, but they went a little over the top with creating such a strict walled garden. (Another example is their blocking of 3rd party billing system - that's a clear example of Apple hurting the user experience to boost their profits)
OK, so unlinking /var is a varectomy. That fits.

I suppose if instead you just deleted random files from /var, that would be a varotomy?

I can't think of anything, offhand, that would be a varostomy.

For those unclear on the difference between -ectomy, -otomy, and -ostomy, see [1].

https://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/607/in-medicine-wh...