skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's really dig into this. Monopolies are bad, but I wouldn't clamp down on the size of companies per se. There is a much more clever thing to do:

Managers wanting to seem self-important, and speculation-prone owners, are too obsessed with growth and seek to maximize revenue. Even maximizing profit is still meh, because that still creates some incentive for growth. What we really want companies to maximize is profit / revenue, or profit / employee. In other words, productivity for productivity's sake.

BTW, co-ops are generally great, and already have the incentive to maximize profit / employee. Perfect!

But how do we get non-employee owned companies to do the same? Tax them based off of revenue rather than profit. Then they will only grow if they don't need to burn productivity in the process. Yes, capital expenditures no longer have the nice side benefit of reducing profit, but the incentive for productivity makes up for it.

Also, it's fair because stupid things like income tax are effective taxing revenue rather than profit, and finally it's also way simpler to levy / harder to evade.
If it's a direct tradeoff then yes, health wins. But you can care about both.
> I thought that sites must give you the option to not provide consent and still visit the site.

What the heck? That seems a bit overbearing.

It's my server. Don't agree to my rules? GTFO. Why should you have the right to ignore my rules and still use my server? That's like having your cake and eating it too.

"Thanks, I don't consent to your monetization scheme but I'll go ahead and use your bandwidth for free."
Netherlands hasn't had increased unemployment due to COVID?
> Here in Toronto area, most of the big food outlets are closed, because they are not able to get workers.

Huh that surprises me. Here in the UK the big food outlets have gone on a big hiring spree to keep up with the extra demand from people all eating at home.
> Things like hardware flow control, cut-through switching, jumbo frames, SR-IOV, RDMA, etc... are just a few checkboxes away and can give even small VMs crazy good bandwidth and latency.

This comment's dismissive tone really leads me to believe you have never really dealt with the details of said technologies.
Seems like we've uncovered the root cause of failure; besides, isn't the concept of cookies a part of the HTTP protocol?
I was on a surface (aka "target" to you) cruise, and spent all my downtime in the medical department hacking away on an unused little laptop. This was when MARSGRAMs were the height of fast communications, and the procedure for sending them was to handwrite your message on a slip of paper and pass it to the radio guys, who would then type a bunch of them into a computer hooked up to a packet modem. That was pretty low priority for them, understandably, so things would wait in queue for quite a while before they could get around to doing some data entry.

I knocked up a little QBasic app that let you type in your MARSGRAM message and then write it out to a floppy, batched alongside everyone else's messages. Once every couple of days, we'd run that floppy to the radio guys who'd pop it in their computer, blast out the messages, and write any replies they'd received to it back out so you could take them back to the department and everyone could read notes from their loved ones.

I'd have a hard time exaggerating how well this went over with everyone involved (except maybe the MARSGRAM operators who were suddenly carrying a lot more messages than they were before because it was so easy to send them). "Hey Captain, I heard you say you were missing your wife. Want to send her a message and hear a response in a couple of days instead of months?"

It worked out pretty well for me personally, too. I had a great boss at the time who told me flat-out that I was an idiot for pretending to want to work in medicine, when my heart was clearly elsewhere. It'd never occurred to me to make a career out of computer stuff before then, and a short time later I was out of the Navy and enrolled in a compsci program. Thanks for the kick in the right direction, Ken!
These top tier engineers from Airbnb, Uber, and Lyft aren’t going to suddenly downgrade to your average mom-n-pop shop because of business-related failures. You have nothing to worry about.
I use Brave + uBlock and get nearly this exact experience. Disconnect and Privacy Badger also work well.
Not because of the law but because those pushing tracking and designing the banners intentionally make them intrusjve. Purely technical cookies (eg login, spam protection) don't need a consent by the user.
If we can ever move minds to different hardware, will dualism make a comeback?
It's worth noting that much of his work at the patent office related to questions about transmission of electric signals and electrical–mechanical synchronization of time, two technical problems that show up conspicuously in the thought experiments that eventually led Einstein to his radical conclusions about the nature of light and the fundamental connection between space and time.
Places to buy property post-pandemic
> Good clinical outcome and virological cure were obtained in 973 patients within 10 days (91.7%).

I think that's pretty typical in untreated patients. Average recovery period is about two weeks. [1]

> Death rate with HCQ+AZ is 0.75%

The death rate of COVID-19 in the general population is less than 1% (0.25%-1% depending on the study). Even New York, the worst city (by case count, and fatalities) in the worst country in the world is ~0.7%. All this study shows is that HCQ+AZ doesn't kill people faster than not taking HCQ+AZ.

> AND, death rate in france for closed cases is around - 15-25%.

Not worth re-hashing CFR vs. IFR (and the associated adverse selection risk) but you won't get anything approximating your risk without referencing serological studies. I can't stress how this number is not representative, and treating with HCQ+AZ does not by any means get the number from 15-25% down to 0.7%

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/health-52301633
Your privacy pass is useless. You ruined shopping for me and several others on niche e-commerce. So much that the e-commerce owners had to add my IP as a whitelist. I'm glad I buy a lot, otherwise me and them would be screwed.

Destroying people's businesses is not nice. That's why no one cares about security, "security engineers" don't test or measure the impact of their strict measures.
What configuration management tools use this methodology?
if you can fit your model on a single GPU, do that, before parallelizing. Getting more grunt from tightly bound parallelism is one of the hardest problems in software engineering that there is. Weather prediction and climate modelling (two distinct fields in supercomputer) do qualify (you can't fit a high res model of earth in the ram of a single GPU).
The compose email box in a webmail client, like the one Gmail displays in the bottom right corner.

Alternatively, you can put user options there too, like a sort of floating toolbar. Sites like Medium do this in their WYSIWYG editor, and some of my own sites do this to display such options to logged in users.

Oh, and media players you might want to keep open as you scroll down the page/through the site. YouTube has a miniplayer option for just this, and a site with a music jukebox might want to use the same thing there too.

And yes, those mini carts you see on ecommerce websites when you add a product to your basket.
Changing one amino acid increases heat tolerance of wheat Rubisco activase
Students cheapskates unless they're forced to buy something by the school.
Intuitions behind knowledge graphs and reasoning
...Featuring an ultra-comfortable and stable fit, Surface Earbuds offer intuitive touch controls so you can start a phone call or change the song without taking out your phone....Screen-free integration with Microsoft 365 lets you catch up on emails with Play My Emails in the Outlook Mobile App for iOS or allow you to dictate in Word, Outlook or PowerPoint. -- Woooah. I can listen to Powerpoint decks! TAKE MY MONEY!
> If the information is worth it, I pay.

So it's up to you to decide if the information is worthy? After already seeing that information? And you promise you will forget that information after not liking it and not paying for it?
I can’t recall having seen bugs in Doordash, and my wife hasn’t complained about it. So YMMV I guess.
Which search engine will understand sarcasm first? Which one will separate confidence from facts? These are the things that should have been focused on decades ago.
Not only that, but I can’t find any review videos for the Surface headphones 2 on YouTube, and I’m looking for new headphones.

Whenever a new Sony/Bose/Apple product drops, the reviewers are all over it. No wonder the first Surface headphones flew under the radar so hard.
I have done the opposite. Before this, I would do take out once or twice a week and just pick it up on my way home from work. Never used delivery apps. Since lock down, I use Doordash 2-3 times a week.
Ji Chaozhu, Interpreter for China During Nixon's Trip, Dies at 90
Maybe I've been using macOS with default wallpapers for too long but the Windows wallpaper in this post feels so familiar.
Vain = any person who does something in service of their appearance that I don't do
Show HN: Alert when oversaturated using PSI, *before* machine slows to a crawl
That’s because React isn’t a form library, it’s a rendering library. People have built form libraries on top of it. Here’s one I’ve used and contributed to that builds two-way binding for form state in React:

https://github.com/Shopify/quilt/blob/master/packages/react-...
Why do you guys even use WSL? React does not work on Windows proper? If a few command line tools is all you need - there is MSYS and Git Bash. Genuinely curious: I use it mostly for testing, as some of the software we make supports Linux.
Not only is it cheaper to use Ritual. The rewards mean free food.
What is up with having to CONSTANTLY sign off on all these privacy policies.

Why not just put control in users hands with their browser. Browse in incognito mode if you want less tracking. Block javascript, use an adblocker etc.

This doesn't require that websites allow you to do this, just do it, delete your own cookies.

Am I missing something. The CONSTANT popups on websites that serve EU visitors is SO SO annoying.

If this is meant to have people think big govt is competent and helpful... not sure it's working.
Donate a portion of it.

Spend it on the people you love (including yourself).
I do find this post amazing, totally on-topic
Good grief, using that quote for that purpose. Madness
Such as? I don't mean to sound facetious, but if we take the intent behind GDPR and the current state of user tracking across the web what changes, at a regulatory level, would you suggest that still fulfills the aims of GDPR that doesn't result in our current situation?
Has anyone been successfully sued/fined/punished under GDPR in a meaningful way? Clearly TC still gets away with this nonsense.
They featured WSL in the Surface Book video! And terminal is in the dock!
Yeah I’m confused by what their marketing team did here. It’s a super text heavy page with a just a couple of pictures showing the products from far away. Odd way to announce a hardware lineup.
Nice milestone. I think the first test hop to 150m will be in a few weeks. Very exciting!
Dell xps developer edition or thinkpad preinstalled with linux? Have someone else spend the time to get it to work just like you would with windows or macOS.

> all of the Windows stuff works flawlessly together.

Did you mean all surface stuff? What is it supposed to work together with? Headphones better work with everything and the pen and dial are kinda neat but don't scream "ecosystem".
It seems people in old Novgorod didn't speak a Slavic language, but something they picked up from the Varangians.
Going further it would be interesting to see a galactic model with potential distributions of the previously unknown and hiding blackholes that would explain galaxy rotation we observe. I would assume there must be an unusual distribution of these blackholes to have the effect on galaxies that we observe but can't explain without dark matter.

The other question/thought I have is would it be possible that so many previously unknown blackholes could actually explain our observations and could it be possible our observations are not consistent with reality rather these newly found blackholes cause the slowdown/bending of light escaping the outer portions of galaxies which simply give an illusion in how we observe the speeds of galaxies. In other words could the inner portion of galaxies be spinning faster than the outter parts as explained by gravity, but we observe a consistent speed across the entire galaxy because the light escapes at different speeds from the center out (consistent with blackhole distribution) giving us the appearance of consistent speeds across the galaxy.
I felt that is what happen when you put a Industrial Designer in charge of Software Design.

I know it feels a little harsh, but Jony without Steve is a Designer without Product Manager. Steve Jobs is great being an Editor and Product Executive.
> It does not. I mean, this might work a little! It might save some lives at the margin. It's not going to significantly affect the course of the pandemic. It's just not.

This is a really good take on it for those who aren't into reading scientific papers. It's totally plausible HCQ does help a bit. If true, it changes virtually nothing about our current situation. The decision making is all the same.
In this case, it's probably labeled a tech company because:

- Founded by IT people (Garett Camp co-founded StumbleUpon)
- HQ in San Fransisco
- Uses technology to link drivers and consumers

An USP compared to a traditional taxi company is their app, which added convenience to taxi services - don't have to call someone, don't have to worry about handling money, etc.
When AI Goes Wrong and how to fix it
Should you hold it against companies which are laying off people or doing pay cut?

I have an emotional reaction to this. Maybe I should be equally needy and switch jobs as soon as I get a better offer.
Other similar filter lists:

EasyList Cookie: https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easylist-cookie.t...

AdGuard Annoyances filter: http://adguard.com/filters.html#annoyances

(There is also "Fanboy’s Annoyance", but it blocks more than just cookie notifications. For example, it blocks social media share buttons which I use a lot. So I don't use it.)
I think a fair amount of cyberpunk also had an eye to the past, with the East India company and others like it serving as reference points to the mega corps of the “future”

The East India company is gone, the railroads and US steel aren’t what they once were. And this age shall pass too.
Honestly, it’s rather appalling for you to go off theorizing about the Finns originating from Huns, as if there hasn't been solid work by archaeologists and linguists for a long time (well over a century now) on these matters. There is really no room any more for the proverbial man on the street to contribute any insights based on his own intuition. It is rather like when laymen post on discussions about dark-matter physics "Hey, what if...?", when actual scientists have long since considered the possibility and rejected it.

The Uralic languages (namely the Finnic and Saamic branches of the family) were already spoken in what is now Finland, northwestern Russia and Estonia in the centuries BC. The Uralic languages had spread gradually over the area both through migration of a hunter-gathering population from Central Russia and language shift to Uralic from substrate populations around the eastern Baltic Sesa.

The Huns, on the other hand, were a federation of steppe pastoralists pushed into migrating west by climate and demographic factors. They spoke different languages entirely, and as steppe pastoralists, they were not very interested in the areas where Finnic and Saamic were spoken. They were hardly even interested in areas of Central Russia just north of their path of migration.

And most other languages in Europe belong to the Indo-European family, not the "Indo-Iranian group" (though there is a Central Asiatic and Indian-subcontinent top-level branch of the Indo-European family known as Indo-Iranian).
Ah, I see you've never talked with a legal team.

1. Is there risk?

2. Does adding a consent screen reduce or remove risk?

3. Is the risk reduction from 2 less than the cost?

Congrats, now every website in the world gets a cookie consent screen even if not technically required.
> Several Austrian and German Newspapers present me with a clear popup choice "Accept Tracking" or "Pay Money"

I'we only seen "Accept ads" or "Pay Money", which makes it bit different.

There are also non-tracking ads, and you can consent to be tracked even if you pay money.
> It does seem to lead to some strange loopholes though, like requiring an account for access.

That's false.

Requiring an account or even payment for access does not replace or imply consent of any kind, and all rules still apply even if the user is still logged in or paying.

In fact, it's probably more complicated for logged-in users since you have to comply to requirements of data-scrubbing, removing/anonymising logins/emails/passwords from your database upon request, etc.
Hercules is a great emulator. I used it to run z/Linux (debian, IIRC) some years ago when I needed to do a port of some libraries and had no access to the real hardware.

IBM, of course, very much wish that Hercules didn't exist. I remember them stamping with great prejudice on a company, some time in the mid 00s, who were offering a sort of System Z overflow capacity box. It was basically Hercules running on a beefy x86_64 box, and it was being sold as a way to do more System Z stuff without buying more capacity from big blue.
The idea that dark matter is hidden inside black holes has been ruled out via observations looking for gravitational micro-lensing† which is basically looking for distortions in our views of the sky. Although we cant easily locate specific black holes, we know there is not enough micro lensing going on for the explanation for dark matter to possibly be black holes (the total mass of the black holes would have to be many times more than the amount of visible matter in the universe)

† https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_microlensing
Oracle DB is not intended for WordPress and RoR web apps. It's an entirely different beast of an offering, and if your business is in need of what it can do than by this point the "huge complexity" is nothing compared to what your organization is probably already dealing with.

When you have thousands of engineers, "complexity" is very subjective.
> It will be a year or more before high quality studies are done.

I beg to differ. At least on paper, there is at least one trial (target size 3000 individuals, but they claim they might have enough power with lower numbers):

https://covidpep.umn.edu/
Jekyll is the only thing I don't run in Docker and it's nice to see he went from 8s to half a second.

Full builds for my site (almost 300 posts) takes like 20 full seconds, but incremental builds when actively writing to see changes takes about 3 seconds.

So if that 3 seconds ends up being half a second or less that would be a pretty big quality of life improvement.

For Docker related projects (Flask, Rails, Phoenix, Webpack, whatever), WSL 1 is quite speedy already since the mount is happening in the Linux VM running Docker Desktop, not the WSL mount. I wonder if this will end up being any faster with a WSL 2 back-end for Docker Desktop. I'll have to wait until WSL 2 hits Windows stable to try it out.
Gdpr does not force the banners. It forces to ask for consent before tracking users across sites. This doesn't have to be a banner and it doesn't have to be if you only use technical cookies (login, session,
..)

You only need consent if you include Google analytics or ads or a similar platform. Those platforms push the banners on people, pretending that those are needed.

The reason you see the banners everywhere is that a huge number of sites integrate these spy services.
Pandemic Modelling Will Play an Essential Role in Rebooting the Economy
That's because the main vector was the fox. The vaccination campaign that was started in the 1980s was extremely successful.
This is why my directories with shell scripts have a "make install" target. For execution they are copied to a place where they are unlinked before written new.
> I wonder if I have funny shaped ears, but nothing fits right

That's what U.S. air force discovered after WWII [1] (discussed on HN recently [2]). Also known as flaw of averages, curse of dimensionality, etc.

> There was no such thing as an average pilot. If you’ve designed a cockpit to fit the average pilot, you’ve actually designed it to fit no one.

[1] https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22956832
I thought the text looked almost legible. (I.e. Germanic.) But it was just an illusion because scratching in birch naturally will look rune like. Apparently Onfim used Cyrillic letters, but spoke a Germanic language. So my wrong guess was still sort of right but by accident. :-D

Edit:

but it is Slavic?!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Novgorod_dialect

Can you please say where you found it was a Varangian dialect?

Edit 2:

https://www.history.com/news/vikings-in-russia-kiev-rus-vara...

Maybe an (incorrect) assumption because "Vikings" ruled Rus for a long time.
One of the next obvious steps for self-driving vehicles is “flocking” or drafting; this is an almost trivial problem once two or more vehicles are autonomously locked within a few inches of each other.
That's not what someone paying on a W2 basis is going to say. Is this is a winning arguement in front of a jury? I worked for company A and then started working for company B - their direct and primary competitor (!!) AT THE SAME TIME I WAS WORKING AND GETTING PAID by company a(uber and lyft drivers drive for both at same time).

Even if not at the same time, if Company A is having to pay for the vehicle or whatever other costs and equipment are being used - in what world can someone driving the comcast truck start installing for AT&T?

This logic is so twisted.
No they are paid for with ads. How a website determines what ad to show is where it gets troublesome. There is no requirement to have 1000 trackers load cookies every time I go to your website in order to show me an ad.
I remember seeing job postings in the early 2000s requiring 10 years of php experience.

Those requirements are usually BS added by hr or a recruiter mangling what devs said they need on the team. i.e. "it'd be nice if they were familar with aws" becomes "aws required... well we're looking for someone above jr level, so all the requirements need at least 10 years..."
From the Surface Book 3 launch video: "Rendered on Surface Book 3".

That's how you sell a Pro machine.
If you disagree, give us your example TCO estimates for all of that vs cloud. I'm sure HN readers would be happy to dissect it.
If the host goes extinct the host-specific parasite is also doomed.
Page still renders content with all JS blocked. All of the other crap is gone.
I don't think there's anything going on here explicitly targeting Firefox. Adblock/UMatrix/etc are doing their job, blocking cookies and other tracking and heuristics that allow sites to decide you are "likely human" and skip showing you a captcha. Using Chrome (and being logged in with your account connected to Chrome) is providing a heuristic that Firefox cannot, allowing you to skip captcha since you are being tracked by the browser itself. So it's more implicit than explicit.
I like this approach, specially for niche websites. Usually a pool of themed questions is enough.
This reminds me of old Popular Science magazines promising a future of unrealized technology.

I do not think this is the future. But it’s something I’d like to see in a sci-fi movie.