skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Listening to people biases the outcome towards those who feel confident speaking up, and have time and energy and ability to do so. Having those circumstances apply is a privilege, and does not implicitly grant those who have that privilege the right to control the outcome.

Telemetry provides unbiased data about the vast majority of users, especially including those not privileged enough to make their needs known (for any one of thousands of reasons) — with the notable exception of various Linux distributions who have decided that they do not wish their users to be represented in the data, and certain power users who simultaneously demand the right not to contribute unbiased data yet seem to feel entitled to have their needs met.

I didn’t know that Firefox disabled ALSA but it doesn’t surprise me at all that it impacted users whose telemetry is disabled for idealistic reasons. Open source is discovering that the economics of free and the burden of long tail support are not compatible goals, and there will be many more pain points in many more open source products along this road. In the past, the squeaky wheel would get the grease; now, sometimes, the car might be converted to a tricycle and the squeaky wheel disposed of as superfluous to the greater good.

Most of the time, I take for granted that this is where the rubber meets the road on their ideals: The distro’s ideals demand that their users not be represented via telemetry, and so their users pay that price in exchange for the ideals they (often unknowingly) signed up for with that distribution. If upstream fails to take them into account as a result, the distro already accepted on behalf of its users that upstream will make decisions that aren’t compatible with their users as a result of disabling telemetry. Idealism is not free of costs.

In my more cynical moments, I wonder if this is because they fear that unbiased data would show that their use cases are in the severe minority (like, 0.0001%), and so feel think there’s a higher chance of having their needs met by withholding telemetry and then banging the outrage drums loudly to make their numbers look larger than life. Game theory suggests it’s a possibility, anyways.
$7,500 is dirt cheap in comparison with state run public schools in the united states which sometimes boast per student costs rivaling harvard tuition.
Hijack. Has ANYONE found a way to play multiplayer Catan online? All the sites dont work it seems.
Its only the output binary size that matters. If the libraries are in there then it counts. Where it gets a bit funny is graphics libraries and gpu features. You wouldn't include vulkan in your size but you get a bunch of features that weren't available on older hardware.
Imo Netflix is much worst in that regard. At least in this case, you can hope to won a capital attrition war and become the really big player. But for Netflix, it's literally a never ending spring in a hamster wheel. You have users that can almost instantly leave your platform if you don't have interesting content, so you need to perpetually use whatever money subscriptions generate to produce even more content, even more quickly as you get more users with varied tastes. If you slack on content, you get less subscription money.

Considering that a large part of the culture defining movies/franchises/series IP is also not owned by Netflix, they can't really hope to just end up outcompeting everyone else down the line. Think about it: food delivery is pretty generic, you don't really see the difference apart from cost. So if let's say Uber manages to bring down costs, outrun the current big competitors, and use that dominant position to keep prices lower than future newcomers, odds are customers will just keep using Uber.

But in Netflix's case, people will still want disney movies or HBO series. That means there's no real hope for a profitable market dominating position down the line, so they will need to perpetually produce a very expensive product just to pay off the cost of other expensive product. If Netflix starts to lose subscribers, it still has very fixed costs (content acquisition & debt service for already made content) whereas Uber or Doordash have most of their operational costs directly tied to demand. No orders only means loss of revenue, but no additional losses.

Netflix just seems like a very weird and very... risky investment and much more so than the already very shaky business of food delivery. But I always assume the markets see something I don't, so maybe I'm totally wrong!
The article itself suggests that it's a possibility. There's no evidence connecting the hack to Nortel's flagging fortunes, and there's no evidence connecting Huawei's success to the information in the hack.

The article makes a much stronger argument that effective Chinese government support of Huawei and the failure of the Canadian government to support Nortel, as well as Huawei's ability to hire away many of Nortel's top researchers, led to their success.

(The journalist's own summary of her article: "It turns out Canada really blew it." https://twitter.com/natalieobiko/status/1278366529591980032)
There's some discussion on the r/COVID19 subreddit about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/hkgj7a/covid19_out...
Reddit itself was such a place not that long ago. Lust for power and money seems to frequently find a way to corrupt even those with the best of initial intentions.
I foresee a future where the entirety of listings on food delivery apps will be ghost restaurants - those whose menu and processes are optimized for delivery.

Many high street brick-and-mortar restaurants will shut, but those that remain will likely make being "not available on any food delivery app" a unique selling proposition.
I think the parent comment meant to say that once you see the answer to one of the questions, the question seems easy and simple in retrospect (i.e. the questions are NP hard, in a certain respect).

That's the fact that is usually touted in regards to these questions.
Your views, while very common, or at least commonly expressed, really bother me because of what seems to me like an obvious reductio ad absurdam.

You can always take any existing regime of discrimination and make it more fine grained, but at some point that has to stop or there is no insurance. If discrimination has to stop somewhere, then there's no principled reason why the discrimination you like is necessary, or natural. Even apart from the existence of protected classes in society.

If an insurance company can discriminate arbitrarily, why not do it in real time? Your car could have a monitor that would tell if you are tired or drunk. Would it make sense to allow them to charge you extra minute by minute? The ultimate would be to have the decelerometer that sets off your airbag signal the insurance company, and charge you based on the projected average repair cost before you come to a stop.

Sometimes people say car insurance is like health insurance and sometimes they say it's not, but both have extensive regulation that prevents the insurance company from maximizing returns, because insurance is extremely susceptible to devolving into taking in money and paying 0% out. It seems fundamentally wrong headed to me to have in your mind an ideal of an untrammeled insurance market of any type, when it has to be heavily regulated to be of any use.
TengineKit is an easy-to-integrate face detection and face landmarks SDK
Most people know that they can harass customer support to do ridiculous things, but they don’t act on it. Maybe because they don’t think it’s an honest way to act, or maybe they don’t think it’s worth their time to harass customer support over something like free pizza.
Do you have a source for this? Curious to read about it.
Really interesting, don't know much about CDTE cell production, Just curious, do you have a small start up working on this or is it mostly theoretical at this point (or are you doing this as part of your day job at a larger company)? I did a bunch of thin/thicker films in grad school and post-doc times and now work on thicker porous films.
This can't be right. First, this therapy was advocated by Trump, and everything he touches is wrong and must be burned to the ground, just like the media says. Second, the media has been telling me this literally kills people. So I'm going to ignore this and be thankful to Big Pharma and Gilead for providing me with the remdesivir miracle cure. Obviously this is HN, who always follows facts, so this satirical comment will fade, because clearly the good rational people of HN all knew HCQ/AZ/Zn worked all along, and they were never ever deluded by the media. Right? right? Plus, there's no moral liability issue the the media has in possible causing more death by discouraging and misrepresenting a useful therapy, so let's just ignore any culpability and get back to being grateful we have a Free Press, unlike those commies. Happy 4th!!!!
The semantic web was meant to be the substrate on which personal agents would serve people by doing the type of thing you described but it didn't happen

> The entertainment system was belting out the Beatles’ “We Can Work It Out” when the phone rang. When Pete answered, his phone turned the sound down by sending a message to all the other local devices that had a volume control. His sister, Lucy, was on the line from the doctor’s office: “Mom needs to see a specialist and then has to have a series of physical therapy sessions. Biweekly or something. I’m going to have my agent set up the appointments.” Pete immediately agreed to share the chauffeuring. At the doctor’s office, Lucy instructed her Semantic Web agent through her handheld Web browser. The agent promptly retrieved the information about Mom’s prescribed treatment within a 20-mile radius of her home and with a rating of excellent or very good on trusted rating services. It then began trying to find a match between available appointment times (supplied by the agents of individual providers through their Web sites) and Pete’s and Lucy’s busy schedules.

I think Alan Kay is right, the computer revolution hasn't happened yet. There is much potential that computer networks can unlock but we haven't done the work to unlock it.

--

https://twobithistory.org/2018/05/27/semantic-web.html
Mostly, I suspect, the secret is volume. At small scales like a single household for a handful of meals, prep time scales sublinearly with number of servings, because of setup/teardown time, and if you have some experience that can extend to not-identical meals made from similar components.
am i reading that we need to get militantly centrist?
To clarify, the total funding amount is a bit more than $700m. $903m according to Crunchbase.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/postmates
Yeah - I was shocked to see that "The Big Hack" was their suggested "read next" article. You'd think they wouldn't want to remind people about it.
Every traditional delivery place will already do this, call Dominos and make up some way they got your pizza wrong and they'll send a new one. The benefit from gaming the system isn't worth it for most people.
I don't live in the Netherlands but I just wanted to say that it's a very inspiring project and also that it is a great thing of you to do that you are giving it away to someone else.

Upvoted and hoping it finds a good home :)
Problems:

- Of the countries in the world, none are really free, and generally have quite burdensome taxes relative to their benefits.

- Representative democracy has not improved a whole lot from the v1.0 created a few hundred years ago. For example, voting is largely between "person I don't really like" and "person I hate," and you're just 1 vote in millions, meaning voting is irrational (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_voting)

- In referendums, people vote without really knowing much about what they're voting on.

- There's a lot of people who want to move to a better country, but immigration policies are very restrictive.

Solution:

- To create a new country, Sordelia, based on liberty, sortition, and deliberative democracy.

- Laws are voted on based on a small, randomly selected citizen's assembly. The random selection keeps the assembly small, so every vote counts, yet is statistically significant so that, if a law passes, we're highly confident it would've passed before all the voters. This assembly will learn and debate the pros and cons of the proposal before voting.

- Laws that would violate fundamental principles (like freedom of speech) are disallowed.

- We aim to purchase land from a developing country. There are plenty of good reasons they'd sell to us, beyond the immediate payment. The developing population and infrastructure will bring an increase in trade and jobs for their country. There have been many historical examples of special economic zones (SEZs) having positive influence on their neighbors, and Sordelia's effect on nearby countries will be similar.

- We'll have pro-growth and pro-immigrant policies to attract people to our country.

- The rise of remote work makes this even more attractive for moving to Sordelia.

If this interests you, join us at:

https://sordelia.org/
The telecommunications industry goes from a massive bubble in year 2000 to an extreme cost focus just one or two years later. Sending tens of thousands of engineers into unemployment and cutting research and development to the bone.

Talk to anyone who had a job in the sector back then, they will you this.

All those engineers eventualy were reemployed in other industries such as software and that helped creating the boom that came there. But it also created an opening for the Chinese electronics industry to move into that area as they were cheap and willing to invest unlike us in the west.
Thank you! My mistake.
Hydroxychloroquine, Azithromycin, and Combination in Patients with Covid-19
Yup, that's how I found the video. It was in the list of references. He's a smart dude.
Bets after games started sting Bellagio
MGM Resorts allowed nearly a quarter-million dollars in winning wagers to be placed well after the games already started, according to an ESPN report.

The bets were allowed to be placed because incorrect start times were posted on some Chinese and Korean baseball games due to a manual entry error. Nearly all of the bets, about 50 in all, were placed on self-serve kiosks at the Bellagio between 1:30 and 3 a.m. Sunday when the games in question began at 1 and 2 a.m.

Looks like a repeatable timezone hack.
I'm suggesting that I don't know if Nortel was hacked by the Chinese, and that I don't know if any such hack was responsible for the company's eventual downfall, and that reading a Bloomberg article will be of little or no help with either condition.
privatisation is useful if a problem is too hard... just let the market decide. less so if every aspect of the issue is well known I think...
Edited now. Welcome back.
Corporations don't pay taxes, people do. A corporate tax is shared between workers, investors and customers, the latter two can just walk away.

High marginal tax rates redistributes people, not money.
And the fines imposed, if they ever get collected, are irrelevant... the damage is done. In the case of the IBM's Xu who got 5 years prison time, so what? He's a fall guy. The damage is done.
This is the problem of using a website/front-end created by some arbitrary person (Peter Levels in this case) to view what is essentially a read only copy of some crowdsourced data
I've always wanted a 3D printer, but will soon be in a situation where even if I purchase one now, I will lose access to it for two years in the near future.

How fast is the tech advancing? Would it be worth waiting until after those two years?
Explanatory article: "Study finds hydroxychloroquine may have boosted survival, but other researchers have doubts":

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/02/health/hydroxychloroquine-cor...
>A water scarce country like India

What makes you say that?
Wait, so Nortel was killed by Chinese AND Assange?!
I think personally I wouldn't say having a "witch" as a character in a game would make it occult related, but assuming that you do find it that way, then here are some games I've enjoyed that I don't think even remotely touch on the occult.

- Photosynthesis, a competitive puzzle game where you are a species of tree. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/218603/photosynthesis

- Flash Point, a cooperative game where you are a team of fire fighters. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/100901/flash-point-fire-...

- Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra, a game where you make stained glass windows. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/256226/azul-stained-glas...
Haven't documented it, but I keep an oss version of my website so here's the blog part, built with Zola https://github.com/kipply/cupcake-template/tree/master/blog
This is why Boeing should be bailed out (but with prison time and fines that impoverish for anyone involved in the cover up)
You posted the same post 4 days ago.
I think the comments are somewhat telling about this paper and preprints as sources of medical decision making overall.

Comment 1: "A subtler point is that the reported age profile of the treatment group is impossible. Group A is aged >60 years, and almost half of the treatment group was in that group. But the IQR was reported as 40-60, so only 25% of the treatment group had an age >60. I hope this was due to excessive rounding, or a similar error that can be corrected."

Comment 2: 'I know nothing of this field but study seems well done'

Comment 3: lauds the authors, makes no comments about the study, and rants about the pharmaceutical industry

Authors include a hand surgeon and a family practitioner (Zelenko) who has been urging hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for a long time now, and was one of Trump's main sources[0].

[0] https://forward.com/news/national/447109/zelenko-hydroxychlo...
As pointed out in the comments on the site, the key issue here is that it is not a blind study, but a case series study where the demographics of the control group are unreported:

>The main problem with this work is that the demographics of the control group are not reported, so we have no idea if they are similar. This them means that we have no idea if the differences in outcomes are because of the treatment, or if they would be expected because of the demographies of the groups.

>A subtler point is that the reported age profile of the treatment group is impossible. Group A is aged >60 years, and almost half of the treatment group was in that group. But the IQR was reported as 40-60, so only 25% of the treatment group had an age >60. I hope this was due to excessive rounding, or a similar error that can be corrected.

It appears that the researchers selected the treatment group based on a set of quite specific criteria and then compared the outcomes of those patients with outcomes in the general population (see figure 1).
Refactoring is only error prone if you don't have integration tests. The advantage of extensive integration testing is that you can relentlessly refactor without fear of breaking things.
> There were little spurts of protectionism in argentina and brasil but those happened only around the 2000s and only as a reaction after many years of gutting the countries under free market policies.

Have you tried selling software or licensing technology to companies in Latin America? In my experience you will need to double or triple your prices because pay a majority of your income in protectionist taxes.

The result is they have local companies selling some select technologies we have, and little or no access to most technology we have.
Something something lucky 10,000
This is like a worse version of javascript semicolons.

Sure you dont HAVE to... but there's gotchas and corner cases to not doing it that you don't have to think about if you close your file desciptors when you're done with them
The most commonly used JIT in the world is almost certainly the one in the OpenJDK, which is of the advanced kind. And it does not suffer from the problem you are talking about, because it only ever looks at code that is getting executed.

Basically, it will do something like: interpret a function for a the first few thousand times it is executed, collecting execution metrics. After a threshold is reached, next time that function is called, start compiling it, optimizing based on the execution metrics collected earlier. Leave behind a few hooks for future changes. Keep collecting metrics from function execution. If the profile of execution changes significantly, re-compile the function according to the new profile (possibly doing things like un-inlining).

This is perfectly aligned with a startup vs normal production use workflow. The only problems can appear if you have a continually changing pattern of execution through the same function.
Then the capital accumulated in HK would build Shenzhen, again.
I don't kickstart board games but I do play a fair few of them (these days on https://boardgamearena.com/ but under other circumstances as physical tabletop games)

What you describe is a fairly common "promo" incentive, once upon a time you might get it in the version bought at a big event or that sort of thing, these days it'd be for Kickstarter backers.

Yes, you can make small customisations that don't significantly change gameplay, for example Viticulture is a game about owning a small vineyard and to add variation you get a "Momma" and "Papa" for your vineyard which tweak how much money or starting equipment you get plus they have names and little illustrations to give them personality. Maybe Papa Phil gives you slightly less money than Papa Eric but a piece of equipment that's worth the difference if you need it - having Papa Phil saves you taking an action buying the equipment with money, but if you don't use that equipment at first you're still short of the cost whereas someone playing Eric can spend it how they wish. Clearly having one or two extra Mamas or Papas as a promo isn't game breaking (so long as the designer doesn't add Papa Scrooge who has twice as much money as everybody else put together or suchlike). In fact Viticulture went with event cards for Promos, which is a bit trickier to balance, but seems to have worked OK in practice.

But often the correct way to design games is to simplify until it's good, not add more and more until playtesters would rather say it's great than risk being asked to waste another six hours on one more test session. Promo features fight that. Would Viticulture work fine with no Mamas and Papas? Yes it would. Would Can't Stop be better with fancy cosmetic player pieces instead of the typical generic ones? Er, no, not really. So such promotional features aren't very good for the hobby as a whole.
I have an algorithm in C# that converts hands to numerical values from 0.highcard, 1.pair, 2.twopair, 3.trips ... to 9 (royal flush). From there it can compare the hands and determine the winner(s).
Tabletop Simulator is usually the go-to for basically any online board game.
Reminds me of one of the reasons Obama brought up in a debate (I forget which one tbh, might of been the one with McCain) that he wanted affordable healthcare because his grandmother was denied care due to a preexisting condition or something to that effect.

I guess banning preexisting conditions would of been a more interesting alternative. Not sure what negative effects that ban would have, maybe coverage will rise due to surgeries not going as hoped or other cases.
Working for a very large tech company as a technical manager with lots of offshoring to India and outsourcing to East-Europe and the Middle-East it didn't feel there was a difference between how outsourcing and offshoring worked regarding engineer quality or turn around times.

But you are right.
Hanabi is a good cooperative puzzle game based around a fireworks factory.

If you like games with an economic component, the Power Grid franchise is fun to play. Each map has a special twist on the rules, such as not being able to buy uranium on the North Korean market, and you can only buy from the North or South market each turn (not both).