skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook Was Mystery Firm Bidding Against Google to Buy Fitbit
The link you supplied only affects a single chapter in the book, but your phrasing suggests there is more to this story...
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That's a different issue.
But consumerism is needed to provide something of value back to those that gave their time to get you food and a roof.
The images shows they reduce the width between a passenger and the arm rest when the majority of people are already cramped in these seats. Really, the model in that picture must be tiny to have that kind of room. So, this may help children sleep on aircraft but the design as shown is useless to me or most other tall adults.
Are side projects really that big of a deal? This is tech. Everybody has side projects. Can you imagine if a herman miller furniture designer was sued for making chairs on the side?
Gathering intelligence on - and data from - bad actors.

Do a search for "site:telegram.me" including a keyword from any illegal activity, such as carding, and you'll find hundreds of channels with interesting behavior.
> No, they were pretty clear about that when they wrote that pesky constitution thingy (and for good reason.)

They were clear about many other things, but the idea of interpreting constitution as it was meant by the founders has long been dead, with the coup de grace having been delivered by Helvering v. Davis. The constitution is dead, and its skin is worn by 9 people in Supreme Court who get to decide what they want it to mean basically any way they please.
Except that many girls are made to feel abnormal

How much of that is due to the efforts of men or boys? Or how much is due to bullying by other girls in middle school and high school?

As far as I can tell, schools have put in enormous effort to stop boys from fighting each other. I can’t find much evidence of their efforts to stop girls from bullying each other by spreading rumours. Girls are highly susceptible to peer pressure, particularly from other girls.
This is why you should pay for WhoIsGuard.
I've had this same idea before and used this process successfully for fuzzing interpreters, though it was partly manual, partly a hodge podge of shell scripts.

There are already fuzzers based on this idea, for instance tavor (https://github.com/zimmski/tavor). On the purely generative side (no execution), there's blab (https://github.com/aoh/blab).

What these lack is probability parameters for each rule so that the probability distribution isn't necessarily uniform.
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It excludes photographs, but includes certain data derivable from photographs. Storing the photograph is not a violation, but the lawsuit alleges that the facial recognition software that Google runs constitutes a violation.
For what it's worth, the FPS T machine attached processors used transputers plus vector units.
oh boy. here we go
If you need a closed cycle, start with a closed cycle and use substitution rules that preserve this property. There is a variant of the Hilbert curve that works this way.
I never thought I'd say this but well done Facebook.

That being said, a few things come to mind:

1. Can they hold out against the inevitable pressure that's gonna be applied now that they have actively come out against the government and said "No".

2. Does this mean they can do it but just won't do it?

3. Will we ever find out if the government secretly forces them to do it?
<conspiracy tinfoil hat>

Is it possible that there may be some kind of political angle to all of this; that archiving this information for the future might allow someone to find out something that someone else doesn't want to come to light?

</conspiracy tinfoil hat>
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True. I added that to my comment, thank you.
Awesome. Being able to remove add-ons that are somewhat inefficient with functionality inside FF is good with me.
Agreed! This is my dream seat. I like the aisle because I can get up but sometimes I miss window seats because you have a wall to lean against. This brings the wall to any seat.

I would happily pay a little more for this seat.
There is no new money in flow or out flow in bitcoin.
It's a zero sum game. If someone buys bitcoin his money goes to the person(s) who sold. Nothing goes "in Bitcoin".

I agree mcap is meaningless just like they mcap of USD/EUR/GOLD etc. It doesn't matter if is large or small it just has no meaning just like the price per unit has no meaning. Mcap is just a multiplication of the price.
>In general, I prefer a standard format supported by many free software tools

Which are? This is the first I'm hearing of ttyrecord in the first place.

> Especially if I can pacman / apt-get install the tools.

asciinema is in the arch repos, "ttyrec" is in the AUR. Both are in the debian repos.

> You want to show features, not look cool

The use you're talking about is in marketing material. Looking cool is a feature!
They are pretty robust - I've never heard of anyone successfully being sued for recruiting to go work for a new company, regardless of whether you were still employed. It might be grounds for dismissal - but doesn't appear to break any laws.

I would be super interested if anybody has any counterexample - even a single one would be interesting.
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A very smart question, and a legitimate concern as well.

This is precisely why I am generally against ML / AI in use to make important decisions, from what your insurance rate "should" be to how many taxes "need" to be collected.

For what it's worth, I think ML / AI will fall by the wayside when -- and only when -- companies realize it's human learning and natural intelligence, when grouped together -- run in parallel -- that is ultimately a more effective pattern-finder that will produce more meaningful data.

Ever notice how fast a group of internet vigilantes can 'doxx' someone? What if that was turned on other problems? That's real human intelligence in action.
Is that what was punctured?

The article says that it was the tail of the helicopter that was punctured; they don't say anything about a rotor. I was assuming by "tail" they mean the narrowest (fixed) part of the body toward the rear, not one of the rotating blades. The article includes a picture of the damage, but that's not clearing up the ambiguity to me -- it's not tapered like a tail, and it's too fat to be a rotor.
I don't know anyone who has a startup as a side project. This isn't as common as you think it is.
I doubt it's going to affect their hiring and retention at all. This isn't like the guy left Apple and started a company. He started a company, ran it on Apple's dime while it was getting started, then wandered the hallways recruiting people for it.

It's pretty easy to see the huge conflicts of interest here.
That's exactly what the Assistance and Access Act of 2018 in Australia was for. It allows law enforcement to compel third parties to subvert encryption. This doesn't necessarily mean break the encryption itself, but could mean deploying a malicious update to a target device that keylogs or screen captures, or otherwise allows eavesdropping. Keep an eye out for similar bills in your respective governments, it passed without struggle in Australia despite the seemingly negative opinion the public and media had on the issue.

https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/about-us/our-portfolios/natio...
This is a rhetorical question, isn't it? Otherwise the answer is: of course!

People judge a website in milliseconds just by looking at the design. When it's cluttered etc. they leave instantly.
Doesn't explain why the paper plane glides, though. I was always frustrated in physics class. There just wasn't enough precision to describe reality and everytime a test said "ignore friction" I would mentally shout out "but there is friggin' friction". Math made a lot more sense and it was only with advanced math knowledge that I would finally be able to make sense of some of the entry physics stuff.

If only they had told me everything (including friction), then maybe phyics would have made a lot more sense to me. But then again, school math never even mentioned imaginary numbers. School is very incomplete.
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Only when unfolded. Folded is the same.

And the point is this is for sleeping leaning against a side. You wouldn’t be using the armrests then anyways.

I’m 6’1” and this design looks like a huge improvement to me.
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This is the same company that screwed our profession royally for years by colluding with other big companies not to hire each others employees.
NASA says moon rocket could cost as much as $1.6B per launch
Which other employees did Apple destroy for leaking and other stuff?

(Serious question) I tried Googling it but all the results are either about this article (Google is obsessed with newness) or about employees suing Apple, not the other way around.
Yes, we need to move away from the notion of a migration "chain", it's not a very useful way to think about schema changes. Most people have an ideal schema in mind - they should be free to simply craft this directly, with tooling to make the changes necessary to evolve the schema accordingly.

I wrote a tool for this exactly this purpose, and there are an increasing number of similar tools to support working this way.

Another common problem is migration tooling tied to an ORM as rails/django do (it looks like refinery avoids this, which is good). Working with migrations directly on the database level means you can support multiple (or zero) ORMs and apps with less lock-in, support more database features, and confirm the structure of the database directly.
You could imagine measuring in terms of each customer's annual incomes. In a year, you might provide value corresponding to 1% of ten customers' annual incomes, or you might provide value corresponding to 1% of a thousand customers' annual incomes. In some sense, in the former case you created a tenth of a person-income of value, whereas in the latter you created a hundred person-incomes worth of value. It'd be an interesting measure.

It would be difficult to make meaningful for a large group because a transfer from A --> B --> C --> D won't measure the same as a transfer from A --> C --> B --> D even though the outcome is equivalent.
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I have no clue what this does, but I love this app for bucking the trend of native apps going web-based. More of this, please!

Also, it looks very nice and Cocoa-y.
I recommend the following broad approach:

- Maintain your current SQL schema in one place, using normal version control.

- Use that form to set up new development versions and so on.

- Also maintain migrations (maybe using a migration tool, maybe just write them by hand).

- Make your system for applying migrations guarantee that the result of applying the migration to the previous schema exactly matches the new schema.
Yes I shouldve clarified - I am asking about the technology used on the "core" google maps
Germany is that way to a lesser extent. I know my German friends visiting the US find it very odd that people who do not know each other well (or at all) will greet each other when passing by. It seems superficial and fake to them.

To a lesser degree, I felt that way after moving to Southern Californa from the East coast: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cvzm3sZWAAETO_b.jpg:large
It absolutely has bias, just not so much with respect to Tories vs Lib Dems vs Labour.

Its bias is, like most London based governmental institutions, towards Blairite/Cameron-esque "moderate centrism". This can be summed up as:

1. Feminism/social justice is good.

2. The EU is good.

3. "Experts" (academics) are morally good, wise, and always right. They may in fact be the pinnacle of civilised society. Graduates are one level below academics and the uncredentialed (e.g. older people) are below graduates.

4. Culture is primarily about interesting local dances and dresses and more of it should be encouraged through immigration, but beyond that people's morals and cultures should be essentially homogenous.

5. Climate change is the most important issue of our time.

6. A reasonably large welfare state but without very high taxes is economically optimal.

If you want to see the BBC's biases in action, try a simple experiment. Load BBC News Online every day and count how many pieces of news are directly related to the above agendas in some way. When I've tried this I tend to find that there's always at least one article about women or female empowerment and often more like 4-5 of them, and that's just the first point.

Corbyn supporters feel like he gets a lot of stick from the press because as an unreformed 1970s era socialist he doesn't fit into the biases of most journalists: he doesn't actually seem to care much about social justice culture wars, he has historically always been anti-EU and now tries to just avoid discussing it, he's quite badly educated (two E grades at A Level) and doesn't have a degree, culture-wise he doesn't seem to engage in travel except for political reasons, he has no track record of environmental activism and finally, he defines himself through wanting much higher government spending/taxes. This runs against most of their preconceptions about what progress would look like.
Originalism is alive and well. It’s revival and subsequent spread is probably the most lasting legacy of the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
The irony might seem spectacular — between marketing and HR at Apple, essentially, how execs choose to treat others based on whether they're customers or employees.

However, it's (morally questionable but) common practice (and actually CYA legally-motivated more often than not) in all corporations and even smaller companies.

We might naively expect Apple to behave differently in this instance because of their marketing stance, their privacy-minded public/commercial image. Until you realize it's just that: posture, image, product. The point is business-minded designs, not morally-driven values, the alignment of both being serendipitous, circumstancial. The "why" is customer seduction, not social politics, let alone HR policy (and to be really fair, they never communicated externally on that, in their usual secretive behavior).

TL;DR: It's great when you sell a product that supports values you agree with, but let's not confuse sales/marketing/PR with management/legal/HR. A corporation has many heads who do not operate in the same space nor speak to the same object.
Good point about homework, honestly I didn't even consider that angle. The only homeschooled kid I know is my cousin, whose parents homeschooled him because they considered him some kind of special genius (he's smart but no smarter than your average high achieving kid). He's in college now and a nice kid but just feels a bit off. They didn't homeschool either of his siblings and both of them are much better adjusted socially. Tiny sample size and definitely biased but all three grew up with the same parents, same level of extracurricular activities, etc and the only one who's not all there socially is the homeschooled one. Obviously I'm a bit biased though!
I have a 100-minute subway commute and a Windows 10 laptop. The ability to download is nice. If I wanted to, I could watch two movies a day in 4k.
No, translation to other languages. It's kinda strange that Finnish government pays for translations to Spanish or French or German. If I were a Finnish citizen that would definitely that wouldn't sit well with me.
Agreements not to poach are illegal. In fact, Apple itself was hit by a suit by the US Department of Justice over that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
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Why did you get downvoted?
You seem to know just enough about ALSA to know that it's a shitshow, but not enough to know why.

Here's an actually productive piece about improving ALSA:

https://github.com/linuxaudio/Linux-Audio-Workgroup/wiki/Tow...

Finally, ALSA doesn't have any routing behavior. You seem to be stuck thinking about a tiny subset of audio interface hardware (admittedly, perhaps the biggest selling because it's builtin to most mobos and SoCs). The pro-audio/music-creation/pro-sumer end of the audio interface world features hardware that doesn't work like the garbage that Intel's HDA model forced into the world, and ALSA was created without a focus on HDA (because it didn't even exist at the time ALSA was being shaped). The "pin routing" model that HDA uses is not shared by a single high-end audio interface, is frequently violated by manufacturers and does almost nothing but cause headaches for system programmers and architects.

Audio on Linux is actually better at a technical level than on other OS's, but the user experience is frequently poor. That's a very different story, and one that doesn't really lie at ALSA's feet at all.
Sometimes small changes can make a big difference!
> Airlines also have zero incentive to increase passenger comfort

Airlines seem in a constant fight for passenger comfort to me! Some have as many as five cabin tiers, attempting to make as many people as comfortable as their budgets will allow. There's competition to make the most luxurious lounges. Out-fitting of power and WiFi seems to have been effective. Whole new aircraft like the 787 are designed with passenger comfort as a priority.

> In no way am I advocating another 9/11

Well at least you're being moderate then!
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> Isn't "minimizing energy" a definition for entropy?

No. I’m not really sure how you’re trying to define entropy, but you’ll probably have quite a bit of difficulty with endothermic processes if you try to think about entropy like this. For example, if you sprinkle sodium acetate in water, the sodium acetate dissolves, and the solution absorbs heat in the process, thus increasing the energy of the system.

In general, entropy increases but energy just moves around.
> If you thought Apple would own your mind forever you'd never work there in the first place.

Only a very small fraction of Apple's employees will ever attempt to be entrepreneurs. It's no threat to the extreme majority of all employees in Silicon Valley. Outsized total compensation and great benefits is all most tech workers in SV are after, entirely reasonably so.

I agree that it will scare off many employees that are heavily inclined toward starting their own thing. It's an interesting question as to whether companies like Apple are better off or worse off in that scenario. People that are particularly entrepreneur-minded often don't make for great employees (I'm in that group).
EXACTLY. THANK YOU.
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lol, now is 3 dots funny? or is it 4?
How common was the name? I assume at least fairly common if he had such a high initial ask.
Some of the statements in the article really weird me out though:

> Who hasn't struggled to sleep on an airplane economy seat, forced to improvise a makeshift pillow out of a rolled up sweater or scarf?

> A new seat design comes with an innovative solution to this inflight issue, using "padded wings" that fold out from behind both sides of the seat back -- allowing both for additional privacy and a cushioned spot to rest heads for some shut-eye.

Train seats have long provided padded headrests and "horns" on the side so your head doesn't move all around while you're sleeping. On some the headrest can even be reconfigured to provide a cradle of sorts.

The "blinkers" effect looks useful, as both a bit of a privacy screen and a way not to e.g. get light in your eye from the bloke across the aisle.
I vouched for this post to bring it back from the dead, because HN flagging shouldn't be used to engage in partisan political suppression.

As a Brit I've also found the rhetoric around the NHS to be depressing. People talk like one of the major parties has a manifesto pledge to shut it down, but there's no such discussion anywhere. One major party spends much of its time attacking policies the other doesn't actually have. This doesn't seem right.
There's no reason why that (using a class compliant MIDI USB device) would not just work out of the box. I have more than a dozen MIDI/USB devices in front of me, and they all work on a plug-n-play basis with my Linux systems. Some of them actually a little better on Linux than on macOS.

What actual problems were you facing?
Bitcoin is a scam inflated by cryptography and currency illiteracy. Same category as flat earthers and Anti vaxxers.
The overwhelming majority of people want more than the basics. They don't just want a roof over their head, they want a nice roof - one they can stand up under, maybe with a kitchen, running water, separate rooms for their various games... They don't want to eat just rice and beans, they want more.

You are one of them: if you were not you wouldn't be reading this forum.
As the other poster has listed: the superhuman Poker AI is already built. They extend the poker-AI to play another game here.

Actually, CFR is really interesting, because it calculates an estimation to the Nash Equalibrium and plays theoretically close to optimal in randomized strategies. Its a straightforward concept from a game-theory perspective, but the "estimation to Nash Equalibrium" part is the interesting part. Since a real Nash Equalibrium is too difficult to calculate, it seems like their estimated Nash-Equalibirum is good enough in practice.

Any "game" with a Nash Equalibrium with randomized strategies should benefit from CFR. Which is most games of "bluffing" and hidden information (Poker, Avalon, Pokemon, Magic the Gathering), and even real-world negotiations, diplomacy, business transactions, etc. etc.

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Since CFR has already proven to be superhuman at Poker, the research problem is now in extending this Nash Equalibirum estimate over to other games. IMO, Avalon / Wearewolf games are too simple, AI Researchers should move to Magic: The Gathering or other more complex games like that instead.
Looks like there are four board members: Korey, Rubio, and two VCs. If they held equal votes, it's possible the two VCs wanted to oust Korey but Rubio did not.

As a result, the VCs probably waged a backchannel PR war to pressure Rubio to support Korey's firing.
This is called priority inversion.

One way to deal with this is to make it so that when a low-priority thread dequeues a message from a high-priority thread then the low-priority thread temporarily inherits the client's higher priority, then later goes back to its lower priority. The problem is identifying when to go back. Solaris doors was an IPC mechanism that did this well, but at the price of being synchronous -- when you throw asynchrony in that approach doesn't work, and you really do want asynchrony. If you trust the low-priority threads enough you can let them pick a priority according to that of the client they are servicing at any moment.
Restricting the movement of labour does not in any way benefit the individual. Presumably, as a member of this profession you must realise that competition improves compensation.

You are not owned by your employers. Anything else is like a turkey voting for christmas
Nope, hunting was primarily a male task. In 97.6% of 141 societies hunting was done exclusively done by males. In 98% even setting up traps was done by males. Interestingly, cooking was overwhelmingly done by women.

https://sci-hub.se/https://www.jstor.org/stable/3773347
Currently the most technical explanation of how this works is here: https://www.codeweavers.com/about/blogs/jschmid/2019/9/10/so...