skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fairly accurate! A few corrections:

> Note that the current developers and maintainers of iD were not involved at this time, and I'm not even sure of any of the original devs are still with Mapbox.

At the time I contributed my first (‘Mapbox’s first’) PR to iD, the only previous developer was Richard Fairhurst and the codebase was strictly a proof-of-concept. He continued to be involved for a little while and we had very open lines of communication (and still get along to this day)!

Out of the original developers, about 2/4 are still at Mapbox, but the other two don't contribute to it anymore, for the obvious reason: it's utterly thankless, a guaranteed pit of abuse regardless of how you do it. It's hard to find the sort of therapist-saint-developer-warrior who can work with the OpenStreetMap community without losing their minds.

> What is different with iD is its privileged position

iD's position was earned. I was there, as we worked through months of community process and testing and adjustments to acquire the near-impossible consensus that the OpenStreetMap community desired. Saying that it replaced P2 "in due course" and now has a "privileged position" forgets that the community, not us, made the decision and pressed that 'merge PR' button.
This looks pretty good. The only thing I don't like is the coloring of tokens in the examples. It doesn't make them easier to read; it's just distracting.
We're left with the legacy of pop-SJW as a result of the blossoming of "rude media" in the 00s and early teens. Jezebel's entire schtick was to say the most inflammatory stuff they could think of and dress it up in pop-crit theory clothing. The intellectual legacy of Denton's family of muck-raking websites isn't truth-to-power journalism, it's twitter pile-ons over prom dresses.
Property, physical gold and other valuables, appreciating or slowly depreciating physical goods. Financial instruments in various countries (I am not US based) etc. Of course, also on Wall Street
> Bootlickers and the civility police won. [...] And even worse things have survived. [...] It is the anti-P.C. media, where the audience’s vicarious thrill comes not from watching scrappy underdogs heckle their supposed betters, but from watching guys sitting comfortably atop social hierarchies belittle and dominate their lessers. [...] a position of maximum privilege is male, and young, and probably has some money to throw around

The rude media has died because the rude media is boring. You can only blame déclassé white men for the worlds problems so many times before everyone tunes out. What was new in the 1960s is not new, interesting or even right 50 years later.

OP should probably read some of that anti-pc media, like Mencius Moldbug or RMS. A few people who have something interesting to say and have been crucified for it by OP and OP's friends. To quote Moldbug (2013) [0]:

> The logic of the witch hunter is simple. [...] The first requirement is to invert the reality of power. Power at its most basic level is the power to harm or destroy other human beings. The obvious reality is that witch hunters gang up and destroy witches. Whereas witches are never, ever seen to gang up and destroy witch hunters. [...] Obviously, if the witches had any power whatsoever, they wouldn’t waste their time gallivanting around on broomsticks, fellating Satan and cursing cows with sour milk. They’re getting burned right and left, for Christ’s sake! Priorities! No, they’d turn the tables and lay some serious voodoo on the witch-hunters. In a country where anyone who speaks out against the witches is soon found dangling by his heels from an oak at midnight with his head shrunk to the size of a baseball, we won’t see a lot of witch-hunting and we know there’s a serious witch problem. In a country where witch-hunting is a stable and lucrative career, and also an amateur pastime enjoyed by millions of hobbyists on the weekend, we know there are no real witches worth a damn.

[0] https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2013/09/technology-...
If the EU and its supporters didn't constantly lie and obfuscate about the fact that the goal is a United States of Europe - with all the destruction of national cultures and ethnicities that that will bring - people might cut them more slack. At least they could be honest about their sinister plan.
The best part is I'm honestly not sure if you're being satirical.
What do you think Amazon do? Their entire store is an ad targeting platform.
Borrowers Are Going Underwater on Car Loans
I always found that it was best not to lie to users for their own good, at least if you want them to continue considering you a trusted source of computing information.

You don't have to explain what firefox is, or what IE is, just that "this isn't IE but it does the same thing and will keep you safe".

Maybe they'll have follow up questions, and you can answer those, but lying is just a good way for them to go back to IE and not tell you because they don't to be treated condescendingly.
Being an ignorant dick prevents you from having sex with anything that isn't your hand.

Just saying.
Real fun. I spent quite a bit of time and it was really tough to close the browsing window :)

I didn't realize there can be less frantic clicking by using the observer or self-starter skills.

I saved the screenshot before I was done clicking
https://imgur.com/erAxNzF
This is odd because history actually suggests the exact opposite. It suggests that not only will Apple be the company that makes AR a category for the mainstream (if it is to be one at all), but that they'll also own the revolution as well. Apple Watch and AirPods are two recent examples that make the case for the latter.

If you just do a cursory analysis of the potential competitors and what they're good at, it becomes actually very easy to say that Apple will own this market.
I recognize the social need to project the avoidance of religious discrimination, but if the "genoicidal" and "oppresive" behaviors can be directly tied to radical religious motivations then the label is apt.
The modern mindset for technology is not that it should enable users but that it should herd users, like cattle. A whole lot of people in this industry who like to think of themselves as technologists have this mindset. We should be surprised at the result.
So did the Octopart guys ever become billionaires?
What CPU are you running? Spectre mitigations enabled? Hyper Threading?
I feel the exact opposite way - I'd rather risk the minuscule chance of being randomly shot than risk tyranny. Far, far more citizens were killed by their own governments each year in the 20th century (Some 2+ million) [1] than are killed by mass shootings (< 50) [2] or all guns [3] in the US every year. More people are killed with hands and fists, or with knives, or hammers than are killed with AR-15s, AK-47s or any other rifle in the United States every single year [3], yet we don't call for bans on those?

By the statistics, even if widespread gun ownership only has a 0.0001% chance of preventing tyranny every year then it seems worth it

Furthermore, how do you reckon you would deal with tyranny, if not with arms?

[1] https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM
[2] https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/12/mass-shootings-...
[3] https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
You poor autistic kid. It's no surprise that you're a lonely incel.
"Simply put: Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are all trillion dollar companies because data is the most valuable resource in the world, and Alexa is among the world’s greatest data collectors."

... the value of which is a massive bubble due to the (mistaken) notion that if we just pile up enough garbage we can somehow wring gold from it. The gold, of course, being the ability to manipulate people into buying a different type of garbage.
Comparing voice assistant to an electric car is like comparing ebook to a private jet..
My Alexa performs really poorly. I converted my house into a smart home (with devices I made, as I don't trust the average vendor), and she's handy for turning devices on and off, but she even gets that wrong sometimes. My wife will be asleep and I'll say "Alexa, lights off" and she'll hear "lights on" and the house goes full brightness.

Don't get me started on playing music, she's useless for that. Yesterday I asked her to play a song fifteen times before I got angry and gave up at her inability to understand what I'm saying.
Even if you return all your books on time, it's still valuable, because of the huge jump they're seeing in the rate at which books are returned.

Random anecdote: About 15 years ago, I was looking for a somewhat obscure book, and found that it was something like 6 months overdue. Later on, while hanging out with a friend, I mentioned this to a friend who had a common interest in the subject matter, with some comment to the effect of, "What happened there!?"

Well, this friend went over to his bookshelf, picked a book off the shelf, and handed it to me. It was the very same 6 month overdue book I had been looking for. He explained that he had lost it somewhere, and, by the time he had found it, the fines were already up to something like $50, which he couldn't afford, and he wasn't done reading it yet, so he figured he might as well keep it since it was the last library book he'd ever be checking out.

IIRC the statistic quoted when CPL announced this program suggests that some version of that story was playing out for thousands and thousands of books every year. Which negatively affects access to information for everyone in the city, not just the people who were getting slapped with fines.
Want to be funny? Tell it, don’t read it
Actually, we were supposed to be living in skyscrapers. Oh wait, we are.
Disclaimer: AWS employee, not remotely related to any Alexa work

From the public record you can actually be pretty certain that Alexa doesn't send anything back to Amazon other than actual requests (and false positives). There was a murder trial a few years ago where an Alexa may have grabbed some audio of the murder. A judge ordered Amazon to turn over anything they may have, and Amazon said they didn't receive any requests during that time period, and they don't get any recordings other than those requests. So Amazon has effectively stated, under threat of criminal prosecution, that they don't record anything other than those requests.
When you count for the employment tax for every employee, it's not exactly cheap (around 30-35% of the base salary). The difference really is that whether the engineer is looking at the heating coil or not, the company is still paying them.
There is a market for a lot of things that are not good for us as individuals or society at large. I would suggest people not feed that market. But, that's just my 2 cents.
The one that I've noticed getting much worse over the last couple of years is Google (and to a smaller extent DuckDuckGo) removing the least common search term if there aren't thousands of hits. Precise search terms are very valuable for hitting the right results in a pile of unrelated slop and Google is even doing things like returning all Windows results when I search for linux and some CLI app that isn't available for Windows and never was. I can put in full paths out of /sys and Google will happily remove linux and the entry name because I'm only getting 5000 hits. The only thing I can think of is that they're trying to increase the number of ad impressions by having you need to do more searches to find what you're looking for.
It's definitely getting into a gray area. If I own a DVD, I can loan it to a friend legally. I can also invite a bunch of friends over and show it to them. I can even make a copy for my own use, like a backup or format-shifting. Sharing credentials doesn't violate copyright as far as I can tell, it's just a ToS thing.
The CEO was asked about Uber's financial relationship to Saudi Arabia in light of Khashoggi's murder by agents of the state of Saudi Arabia.
they talked about this on the Masters in Business podcast on Oct 30th. pretty interesting stuff.
Apple's software first approach and last mover mentality will give them a huge advantage in the Augmented Reality Space.
To all of you moralizing how could the Uber CEO say the wrong word about the horrific Kashoggi murder... look in the mirror for a second.

I find it weird that when it comes to Saudi Arabia the vast majority of Americans seem to only care about Kashoggi and when to comes to Libya Americans seem to care only about four Benghazi Embassy workers. It occupies 99% of the outrage space.

So much outrage and ink spilled, Benghazi Benghazi 24 hours a day for years, by Republicans because it made the “untouchable” Hillary Clinton lose a lot of political support.

Meanwhile, the Saudi coalition bombs Yemen relentlessly, creating arguably the worst humanitarian disaster of modern times, and we continue to sell them weapons.

Meanwhile Libya is a failed state, an embarassment to the International community, millions of people live in dangerous country overrun by gangs, because we invaded and removed the government and created a political vaccum.

But we care ONLY about four embassy workers and one person who isn’t even a US citizen.

When a major stadium in Beirut was attacked by ISIS same day as the Paris attacks, countries around the world flew French flags but Lebanon was a footnote.

We certainly do seem to think of Arabs as “others” even if many of them are white like in Lebanon.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/16/world/middleeast/beirut-l...

Boko Haram is terrorizing Nigeria, but we don’t talk much about it. People are fleeing a drought in Honduras. Right in our back yard, the Zetas and Sinaloa cartel have been beheading people and running entire cities for decades, but not getting nearly the coverage of ISIS. Instead many people just focus on how there is an “invasion” of refugees at the border and we need to declare a national emergency.

We need to start thinking of all humans as equally worthy of our compassion.
None of that is scary. Moreso invasive and annoying. Perfecting Alexa in any meaningful way will take decades unless business interest shift away from it completely.

This is jus another hack some suit is probably pitching Bezos on but has no real roadmap for actually achieving it.

Propping the product up with more crap.
Acquired a few years ago.
I wouldn't rule out an infection in that case. I have a friend who has phone malware that shows ads about every minute or so. I offered to help factory reset it (last I checked everything she wants to keep is automatically backed up to the cloud) but we just haven't gotten around to it. And yes she really does use her phone regularly.
> You go, putting aside the fact that you're tired and were looking forward to some quiet TV. You meet someone who you end up dating for a few years.

This is literally how I met my wife. Mutual friends were going to a Billy Joel concert and one couldn't make the show, so I was invited. I was tired, had a long commute home, didn't particularly feel strongly about Billy Joel, and generally didn't really want to go. For some reason, I said yes and ended up sitting next to a nice young lady who laughed at my jokes and was fun to be around.

I always reflect on that when I'm feeling like saying "no" to things.
It's a home router, who cares. Chances are any security issue it has can only be realistically exploited on the local network. Is it really worth the trouble of constant software updates to bother to prevent? I don't think it is.
I've personally never used my voice to interact with any technology in any capacity. Whenever I see people try to talk to their phones it inevitably does something different than what they had wanted so they have to touch the device anyway. I've assumed it was a gimmick since its inception so I find it hard to believe that such a large percentage of people actually use it to make things easier.
Only gay people who hold views they disagree with, to be clear. Sexual orientation outing is just one of the many weapons available in their arsenal for use against the "up". If they were to out someone they agree with, it would be punching down, and that's a no-no.
UK General Election 2019 – Live Facebook Ad Tracker by Age and Gender
Masks need to become fashionable :|
> but I would argue that if you use the tag sometimes, then you might as well use it consistently every time you declare a struct. There is no harm in it.

Sure, but that's a preference. Which was my point. I'm not against people tagging structs, but I'm also not against typedef'd untagged structs. And clearly the C community at large isn't either.

> But struct tags and other names live in different namespaces.

I'm aware of where tags live, I just see no necessity in defining something that will never be used.

> Your second example could just as well (and without using a __ prefix, which is reserved for the implementation and therefore, strictly speaking, is undefined behavior in user code) be:

This is pedantry and off topic. Name it whatever you like. It can be zyzzyx, for all I care; it's an internal tag at this point. You're correct about the __, that was intended to be _; and is simply a preference on my part. I'm not evangelizing it's use.

> Arguably, if you "own" the my_struct_t type name, you also have a right to declare "struct my_struct_t".

That's not the point. I will never call "struct my_struct_t" outside of a self-referential context. So it's pointless. I could define a tag. I could not. My code will compile the same.
I've never had a voice assistant ask "Was that answer correct?" or say "Ohh that's what you meant" [Edit: I've only used Siri]

The idea of voice assistant predicting what the user wants seems impossible without that feedback.

If companies can convince the user that their assistant knows what they want, then it can actually just push out what it wants and users will comply.
I hate to be this person, but this is my biggest spelling pet peeve.

Lost -> Lose

Loose -> Loosen

"I lost my keys"

"I hope I don't lose my keys"

"I need to loosen the jar"

"The jar is now loose"

I'm even seeing HN comments getting this wrong.
I just got into learning music production and have been using Bitwig 8-track that came with my baby synth. I love it so far, honestly just for the aesthetic and the little tool explainer that appears at the bottom when you hover over anything.

If I stick with this for long enough I’ll spring for the full version but $400 is a steep price.
Evolution is really really really slow. Ships are not.
Recently published book on this topic:

The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution by Gregory Zuckerman
'Let me mention some things not to do. The number one thing not to do is other things. If you find yourself saying a sentence that ends with "but we're going to keep working on the startup," you are in big trouble.'

Since many start-up ideas are bad ones, it often will be rational for start-up founders to quit and do other things.
A very cynical but funny take on this premise can be had in Venkatesh Rao's series of essays ["The Gervais Principle"][0]. He posits three groups: Sociopaths, Losers, and The Clueless. Here the Sociopaths are the intelligent but ruthless C-levels who build and oversee organizations. The Losers are the ones who actually get the day-to-day work done, at the expense of their own progress in life. And the Clueless are moved "up" from the ranks of the Losers by Sociopaths into middle management, where they insulate the two productive groups from each other.

[0]:https://www.ribbonfarm.com/the-gervais-principle/
A decent book about Jim Simons just came out last week

https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Solved-Market-Revolution-eboo...

I'm most of the way through it, it's an interesting read
There was a book published last week on Jim Simons and Renaissance Technologies:

https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Solved-Market-Revolution/dp/0...

The author was interviewed on the Masters in Businesss podcast:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2019-10-30/gregory-zuck...

Simons is a serious mathematician:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Simons_(mathematician)

He won the Oswald Veblen Prize in 1976:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Veblen_Prize_in_Geometr...
It's such a privileged thing to say "Let's sweep over the horrendously long history in this country of racial oppression and discrimination, such things are not relevant to today's concerns. Everybody has equality of opportunity now, so therefore racial inequities no longer exist and we should ignore race entirely. This is post-racial America."
Anyone who exercised options or got stock 2014 onwards lost money. They hired the bulk of their employees saying they were a rocketship, and the employees who probably needed the $ the most were the ones who got fucked.
> I guess the reason is probably that it probably requires a developer with a midi device

That is not true at this point. AFAIK Windows, OS X and ALSA all support virtual MIDI devices. Windows and OS X (last time I used it) ship with virtual General MIDI outputs and there is a lot of free third party software for virtual input.

I'd rather say that the reason is probably that you need a developer with domain knowledge and interest, and a consensus on what the standard should include.
> The difference really is that whether the engineer is looking at the heating coil or not, the company is still paying them.

And while they're looking at that heating coil, they're not doing something that could be generating more value for the company. But opportunity cost is extremely hard to measure.
On what basis can you compare a writer/editor from GMG with the private equity group that purchased his employer?

Are you saying that we can't trust his motives and competence, because he was fired?
Gawker was trash, but I wouldn't lump all of the "rude press" in with them. There's value in low-budget "answer to no one" journalism, specifically in that the wealthy who often control the bigger outlets and their friends can be taken to task.
what about speech is nontemporal?
The thing is, they will never have the numbers to disarm the population, at least in the door-to-door sense. You'd have to be a moron to sign up for that job. All gun control is to increase the power difference between individuals and the state, because armed individuals are the final check on the state - the state's entire power derives from a monopoly on violence.

I'm hoping more people will do like you and draw conclusions to Hong Kong. When 50%+ of your populace has taken to the streets, and still can't achieve their goals it should be illuminating.
Didn't say "never use", just "never rely". Have a second plan to the extent practical.
A 3D print-out you could call home
U.S. Military Is Monitoring Groups Protesting at the Border
How does this have anything to do with anything that could be on topic for HN?
>“We are going to be shocked by the speed, the chaos, the bloodiness, and the friction of a future fight in which this will be playing out, maybe in microseconds at times. How do we envision that fight happening? It has to be algorithm against algorithm,” Shanahan said during a conversation with former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Google VP of global affairs Kent Walker.

So, A Taste of Armageddon[1]?

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Taste_of_Armageddon
It's a single multiplication - with an irrational (transcendental, actually) number. That is most certainly not "easy" for a computer, and elsewhere in the comments you can see how much of a problem that actually poses.

Also, counting digits in base 2 is not the log2. The former gives you the latter but not the reverse. Finding the number of decimal digits in a number given in base 2 is not a simplification.
I bought one of the first BMW 328 convertibles off the line. I drove it 20 years with over 500,000 miles with minimal repairs - even the soft top was still working fine and looked "ok" when I finally hit a large pothole and totaled it.