skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When it came out, Google+ addressed many of the complaints I had with Facebook (already dominant).

No annoying app/game spam which was a major annoyance on FB back then--I didn't want to grant god-knows-who access to my profile just to play a game or take some stupid quiz. And gee, look what happened with Cambridge Analytica and friends?

The other one was lack of a simple way to post to specific sets of contacts. Silly irreverent posts, photos, links, etc. went to friends. Daily life/bloggy type stuff went to friends and family. Things I wanted to share with the world went to public. Facebook never made that easy.

Plus I was already using their IM platform as GChat-cum-Hangouts on phone and desktop so no need to dick around with Facebook's IM app.

But regardless of how good or bad any feature of G+ (or any other challenger) was, the issue was the same: unless all of your contacts actively moved over, you were shouting into the wind.

The days of choosing your favorite webmail provider allowed competition in that space because they all did basically the same thing. Nobody else had to do anything differently. You just pick the one you like and maybe set up a forwarding address at your old one.

With closed social networking sites, you can argue that the only thing that matters is size of userbase. And if Facebook was the first to get not only the kids and the techies, but your mom, your neighbors, your barber, and your bartender, how many of those do you think will care enough about a cleaner UI or better photo hosting to cross-post or pull up stakes?

I don't even care about Google+ per se. I am bummed about some of the groups I was in who had to find a new platform, but mainly I just wish there was some way to accomplish the same thing while allowing people to choose their preferred service.
See which iOS apps can export/import plaintext or other common formats, especially in an automated way.
The Nobel Prize in Economic Science Goes to Banerjee, Duflo, and Kremer
Those human size autonomous quadcopter companies are all so optimistic about the future that they don't even realize how pie in the sky they are. Holy shit the business model on those is so crazy. Fly out to the suburbs and land autonomously in your back yard. Then it flies out and lands on the roof of your office, or at the airport, or wherever you want to go all controlled by your smartphone. Like these things are going to be flying in areas where only expert pilots would even consider in aircraft that are horrendously unstable and light and in close proximity to obstructions.

The videos always show some guy in a business suit flying some laser straight path right to the building, not being buffeted around by the wind reflected off of the buildings and one engine out from a pigeon that got sucked into the motor.
I have never found Uber eats, or Grub Hub for that matter, to be particularly great services. Only twice have I ever not received my food but my god the delivery is expensive. I could either order 3 items from Taco Bell or an entire pizza plus wing and a 2L of Coke for the same amount of money. Also the local chain pizza delivery is almost always faster.

While I'm not in one of the big cities like NYC/LA/SF or in a big tech area, my state or metro area isn't tiny either. I've since stopped trying all of the tech-company food delivery services and likely won't be going back. Also, not too keen on them skimming tips.
Regulators should not pressure a companies unrelated business lines to effect change elsewhere. If the company is doing something illegal then target that specific activity.
Too bad FFBuffer is not implemented from the FastFlow project. They are using queues without memory fences.
I mean, the obvious answer there is to educate doctors on what is actually scientifically proven. If doctors (who ought to be one of the most scientifically minded professionals engaged with on a regular basis) are susceptible to salespeople selling them false science, then we should probably not allow them to be doctors anymore. The lack of critical thinking in that profession then ought to alarm us, and ought to be the first thing that's fixed.

On the other hand, if it is actually a superior product, then I don't see what the issue is in it costing more. Doctors would know about the cheaper version and prescribe it if the patient wanted it? Of course, given that insurance for everyday needs screws up the pricing dynamics, I do think the alienation of pricing from the consumer, thus reducing demand for the lower priced versions, is a valid criticism.
I read this a couple of times and I can't tell how they are sponsoring the Rust Project. Apparently Rust uses some AWS services, are they now getting these for free, is that the sponsorship?
Was there a point in this message? I did not get it.
You can go directly for confiscation, it is just a 100% tax in the first year. You can also ask to pay it in advance. You cannot go more punitive than that.

Well, this does not sound right. But I saw punitive taxes are a very popular opinion in some places.
I had a Dell XPS15, Ubuntu 18.04, with a set of fixes applied (I think GitHub JackHack96 dell-xps-9570-ubuntu-respin).

It worked OK with either 1080p or 4k external monitors - this was my everyday development machine.

No way was it perfect, but it was usable. Windows 10 has other issues. I don't use Mac, but I could see it clearly is far better at dealing with HiDpi monitors.
>maybe that's also just coming from my own experience of sleeping extra well in higher end hotel beds than my own bed at home.

Not trying to argue with you about your experience or anything, but I think it's possible that certain elite athletes have different needs.

Just as a thought exercise, think back to all those high end hotels you've stayed in, and try to remember the comfy beds.

Now, would those beds have been as comfy if you were 7 ft 1 in, (2.1 meters), tall?
>AGPL is no problem whatsoever server side excepted

Not following what you are trying to say here, Server Side GPL requirement is the reason why AGPL was invented in the first place.
maybe it does, my neighborhood also has multiple groceries stores
Its certainly not enough to tip anything yet. Companies other than Facebook/Google/Apple are still blocked on their capabilities by their engineering workforce (in terms of size and skillset).

Eventually it will get there, but that will come coupled with an overall economic recession. While there's some instability with failed VC companies, there's still WAY too much capital in the system to not keep everyone employed for a long while, as long as there is even the chance of investments panning out.
I've been working remotely for over 10 years and I get way more done than I never did in an office.

Why? No water cooler talk, no long lunches with coworkers, no general conversation/disruptions that always seemed to happen 4 or more times/day, and no commute.

The downside is that there's much less socialization, but I can always get that on my own time.
Desktop GNU/Linux, better?
What if the drug companies are raising prices because of Eroom's Law[1]. They have fewer and fewer blockbuster drugs and are plowing more money into research of diminishing marginal returns. Eventually the returns will be negative if they aren't already. Why aren't there more competitors though? Is there some sort of anti-trust situation going on?

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eroom's_law
Law of unintended consequences, maybe? California did something pretty bold, and only time will tell if it was a good idea or not. Seems like there's a lot of fallout though, so far. Anecdotally, I know a few people whose small businesses were impacted by the change; neither knew it was even an issue until one was sued by a contractor they'd been working with for a few years. I wonder what kind of due diligence the State went through when making this broad-sweeping change.
> They also have perfect tracking

They have perfect tracking of completed purchases, but have no idea how effective their ad was for the people who didn't buy it. Did they miss the ad entirely because of poor placement? Did they see the ad but not value the deal? Did they clip the coupon but not make it to the store before expiration? Did they clip the coupon but find a better deal in the store? Did they clip the coupon, find the store was out of stock, and not feel like dealing with the store's rain-check process (if any)?

Arguably the tracking isn't perfect for completed purchases, even. They get purchase date and store location, but that's not all that much: online retailers get much more information when someone clicks on a banner ad and then completes the purchase. They can even get some information out of a failed sale, depending on how far the potential customer made it through the process before bailing.
It doesn’t
A lot of startup products go from free to monetized (an infinity x increase in price) at some point.
Consider that a king size bed is only 6'8" long, while the average player's height is ~6'7"
> The big tech companies give lots of stuff away for free.

I'd like you to think about that for a bit and then tell me if you can say it again with a straight face.

Do you really think "for free" is what people are being sold? People are being sold to advertisers. That's definitely not free in my book.
That's a very fair point. Although you could probably make it 5mm thicker and it'd still fit a lot better in a pocket than any other modern smartphone.
It's never a guarantee

and either way it's all different beds when you are traveling a lot and thats always going to eventually present a problem

having a bunch of different high-end mattresses means a lot of different comfort styles.
*Nobel, and for what it's worth, the peace prize was added after Alfred Nobel's death and is considered by many not to serve the same purpose at the other Nobel prizes, and so it has a different reputation. It is sometimes used as a nudge to people who have the power to do good things, rather than as recognition after the fact.
Ah, I wasn't aware of that!

Always weird to learn a new bit of vernacular. I suppose "more appropriate for a specialized journal" is the academic equivalent to "don't call us, we'll call you".
I personally find the beds in the fanciest hotels the hardest to sleep in because everything is just so... fluffy.
I truly do not understand the purpose of a free market for pharmaceuticals. The demand for these drugs is almost completely inelastic, as it is driven by the statistical incidence of the underlying medical conditions. This makes central planning remarkably easy compared to typical consumer goods. The government already sponsors the vast majority of exploratory, pre-clinical, and early-phase clinical research; all it would take to expand that program to include later-phase clinical trials would be increased funding. A nationalized pharmaceutical industry that provides drugs at cost seems like it would be a tremendous boon to our society, only requiring the "sacrifice" of the opulent lifestyles of the executives and investors profiting off the extortionate practices of our current system.
> in California, a 2014 state law prohibits people convicted of grand theft from serving sentences in state prison

Seems to be working!
I did that for a while too, but realized the mental overhead wasn't really worth it - occasionally I'd get the super generic coupons of "Spend $20, get $2 back" and those were worth it, but most of the time I was adding coupons I'd never use.

The mental effort of going to the site at all was what I was trying to circumvent - now I don't even need to think about it (the clearer abstraction is that going from "2 to 1" is a much less drastic jump than going from "1 to 0" - completely removing the overhead is what makes this worthwhile, IMO, not the actual speed of the actions)
I use to use a similar bookmarklet that I would run on the Safeway Coupons page. But it stopped working after they moved away from Angular and I was too lazy to update it.

https://gist.github.com/pbojinov/d572b5494a4f26390aeb5136d70...
> and have several chargers and USB devices plugged in just via the 4 USB-C/Thunderbolt ports.

You may have missed the YubiKey and the wired network. :-)
> Galicia

We clearly don't.
> ban assault dogs

Unironically, yeah.
It was $40b at start of 2015 and was rumored to be at $50b mid 2015. It's $53b currently.

That said with dilution, it's likely 2015 share price is less than it is today.
> Overprovisioned renewables

Requiring far more investment.
Absolutely true, they need organ meat too, which I was classifying as "meat". Though, point taken, unless you slaughter livestock by yourself (which we do), it's pretty much impossible to find. Even our chicken ABSOLUTELY LOVE meat and other random carcass scrap.
Can you name a couple ex-Googlers who ran their startups into the ground after 6-7 rounds of funding? Or even 2-3 rounds...
I will never give face to google!
I have a tickling suspicion that if any free-software OS has any chance at replicating that sort of global unification/consistency across apps, it's Haiku. Sure, there are plenty of apps that are just straight ports from the Linux ecosystem, but there are also lots of apps written first and foremost for BeOS/Haiku (or ported to Haiku exceptionally well) and consequently feel like they "belong" just as nicely as the ones that come preinstalled.
Based on the postscript:

> ps – AWS credits are available for other open source projects!

it sounds like it
Riot Games is a subsidiary of Tencent
Every year when I go to re:invent, Amazon's big conference in Las Vegas, I schedule nap time from 3pm to 5pm. When I'm there I meeting with lots of different people, from as early as 7am to as late (early?) as 1am, and sometimes I'm out till 3am or later.

That nap is the only thing that makes it bearable. And I get mocked for it and I don't care. But sleep is no joke.

I also do all the blue shift/night shift stuff on my phones and laptops year round, and that seemed to make a big difference when I started doing it. I went as far as replacing every light I need at night to one that can go as low as 1850K, so I see no blue light for a few hours before bed.
Remark from our vet, from feeding raw to our 3 cats: "we've never seen cats in such a good shape".

Two of them have been on raw since kitten, one of which was pretty young and in pretty bad shape while being fed commercial crap after she got abandoned by her mother. She was no more than a couple of week at the time, bloated belly, etc. Everything she was eating was pretty much passing through undigested.

As for the third one, we transitioned her from kibble to raw and she got noticeably less bloated and got much nicer pelt.
I've been looking for the same thing. Unfortunately, its been hard, especially since I moved outside of the bay area.
Why do you think the usability is crap? Can you be more specific? I haven't had any issues with audio/bluetooth/wifi and many many people at my workplace use linux for development and I haven't heard about audio/wifi related issues since maybe 10 years ago.
Remember that one for “uniformed” people (soldiers, police, nurses etc.) or those that are interested in them? Now that was a chin scratcher
Gradually move their workforce there to reduce cost is what they will do.
Summary (from 4277 words): From a study of 18 players, testosterone levels
fell from 88th percentile among males their age to 32nd percentile by
midseason. Their grueling travel schedule, and not the exertion of on-court
play, was to blame as non-player personnel also experienced similar declines.
Studies show five hours of sleep per night over the course of a week lowers
testosterone levels by an equivalent of 11 years of aging.

Verbosity is an existential threat.
I read Kimball and assumed Ralph Kimball.
The web could also be associated with all those subjects, but despite that there is value in the world wide web. Regarding the environmental impact of Bitcoin, pre-mined coins like Telegram ICO solves that problem.
We just goes from one fad to another. These people will all just get jobs at a scooter company or whatever comes next.

You get used to it after being in the startup scene for even a few years. Everyone just bounces around to whatever nonsense gets financed.
You seem to be under the strange assumption that it's morally acceptable to use knowledge others generated to claim an advantage for yourself over other people. If your friend did research, and found a great house for him and his family, at a great price, told you about it, and then you went and bought it, most people would consider that highly unethical. Your friend did all the work to generate the knowledge, and you used it against him. Certainly you could demand that if you pay someone for knowledge, then it ought to be yours, but I think you undervalue knowledge at that point. The idea you could pay a few tens of dollars and be entitled to someone's perhaps decades of research is absolutely ludicrous. Be willing to pay thousands upon thousands for that privilege (which by the way, you can certainly negotiate).
A) Uber EATS isn't getting axed, their engineering efforts are because it doesn't need more bloat since it functions efficiently enough.

B) You ordered from a restaurant that had poor service, two years ago. You should have ordered from a better restuarant, and you still can. Maybe from one you recognize and have eaten at before. That has very little to do with Uber EATS.
it doesn't. From cppreference (whose model Rust roughly follows): "Relaxed operation: there are no synchronization or ordering constraints imposed on other reads or writes, only this operation's atomicity is guaranteed"
It works for you, yes. This entire page and thread of comments exists because for someone it didn't.
Delivery people in NYC still race around on their bikes during blizzards.
For lazy ones like me, here's the direct link to the repo https://github.com/aigoncharov/class-logger
A friend of mine on FB campus noticed it. I thought it was pretty funny, and no, I didn't do it (you can add photos to a search term?).
How we launched a new website working as a distributed team
I'll agree that comparing to any other organism is going too far.

But if we focus on vertebrates, they are all so very very complex and adapted. Everything you've listed for a camel is at best a cherry on top. All other vertebrates are within a couple percent, and many of them have feature lists just as long.
I didnt use it that much, but ICQ was great
> in the post-mortem of the models, what would we likely say had gone wrong

I think it's a really interesting question, even though on a charged topic and difficult to forecast.

Balance of feedback systems? There are so many feedback systems here, positive and negative all overlapping. Even if you are 95% sure you have each one figured out, after a little over a dozen factors that error compounds and you're at around 50/50 of getting something wrong.

Of course, could be wrong in the other direction too... that's why errors are bars not arrows.

Note: Feedback systems here are not under-studied, they're just hard to model. This isn't an example of a black swan that would devastate the discipline, if that's what you were looking for. Those might be... supervolcano? Nuclear war? Atmospheric scrubbing technology breakthrough? Even those have calculable effects. If there's some radical unpredicted shift I can't imagine it being along the lines of "water vapor and CO2 don't actually warm things," that's just too well confirmed.
On the way to being the most downvoted post ever on StackOverflow:Meta
Because what the market will do between now and next week is pure speculation. Over the next 30 years you can expect value to grow about 7% per year on average.

edit: s/the market/value/
diff'rent strokes: never heard of Ralph Kimball ;-)
I'd stop at the 71st just to be on the safe side.
Seems like MLB (baseball) players have it even worse. 162 games in 6 months and that’s just the regular season. Games average longer and if extra innings can go 5+ hours and well past midnight.
> the management promotion game becomes almost entirely about headcount underneath you. If you're a middle manager, this is not just true for you, but also for your boss, who is then aligned to help you get more people under you, since those people are also under them indirectly.

Yes, that's exactly how it works. It helps you move from manager to senior manager. It helps your boss move from senior manager to director, etc.

Growing your team is management 101 for anyone with a minimum politically astute. So if the message you get "from above" is that the budget is unlimited (which honestly seems to have been the case at Uber) then you dream up any justification to increase your headcount.
<sniffle>
Wow. This impulse to compare any and every sort of economic inequality to slavery is pitiful and disgusting.
Only Doordash and Instacart skimmed tips. Instacart reversed course on it as soon as they were called out. Doordash defended the practice for a while before paid lip service, but last I heard they were still skimming tips.
This is the case of many predators in the wild: eat the guts/organs first (often with the prey still alive).
Apologies I thought you were talking about Hong Kong, I don't know much about the situation in Ecuador,
Assuming [this](https://github.com/fastflow/fastflow/blob/master/ff/buffer.h...) is the FFBuffer in question, it looks like it is spsc (which would not support stealing). Also, it would need some kind of synchronization to ensure consistency between the consumer & producer.
I think it really depends on the city's density, but on the aggregate (at least in the U.S.) something like the approach you describe will win out.

There is a reason pizza has been the primary delivery food for such a long time-- most other meals are more complex to prepare/transport and harder to keep at proper serving temperature & texture. When you add customization to the mix, it's even worse.
The rejections include everything from:

-reviewers not liking the name of the paper (politics/subjectivity at its worst...I think the journal was trying to take an active role in the propagation of the prevailing terms regarding the subject matter)

Not a rejection then, just a suggestion to change a shitty and confusing title to a better one. Do that and you're golden.

-Not the right journal for the topic (quasi-subjective and potentially political)

How is "your research is not into the topic of this journal" a "political" opinion?
Love the book pace, seems perfectly suitable for newcomers and super entertaining for experienced programmers, the subtext is amazing :D
I don't think that's realistic, but I do think the threshold is negotiable (between society, the organizers, and people competing). Ideally, many people echo what you're saying regarding the Olympics, but it seems like for every Olympics it comes up. Looking back, ignoring it doesn't always seem like the right decision, either.
I’d say the fall of facebook will be like the fall of Rome. It’ll peter along for a while dysfunctionally and then there will be a rapid decline when something in the model gives way. There’ll still be vestiges of it across the Internet for many years to come though.
"This whole business will be completely ruined. The whole point about being a stripper is you go in, get fast cash, no one knows how you’re getting it, it’s not documented and it’s not taken from you."

Sorry not sorry that you have to actually start paying taxes on your income like the rest of us. Some of these quotes are really helping to make the case for the law.
$200/mo is quite a lot for "basic". I could see myself doing 2k or even 20k requests per month, but nowhere near 200k. If there were a $20/mo option (or maybe even $50/mo) I might consider it. But then of course you have to deal with 10x of small-time users like me, who have limited resources and may have problems getting set up. So it may not be worth it for you.