skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Monopoly of what? A platform of their own creation?

It's not of the app market or the mobile phone market, there are strong viable competitors in both.

No one says Toyota is a monopolist of Toyota cars and yet Apple is called a monopolist of the App Store, iOS, and Apple phones.
Eliminating cars does not mean eliminating roads.
Correct: low-information snark is unpopular on HN, and I for one would like it to remain that way.
Tell that to Google. Their "regular" (recommended) release channel in their managed Kubernetes Engine product regularly falls off the back of the supported range, while their "rapid" channel barely stays within it.
The anti-drug propaganda you were taught in grade-school was at least somewhat true.

Basically after prolonged stimulant [ab]use, your brain stops "caring" about natural rewards because they're so insubstantial in comparison to synthetic ones. Like a captive-bred animal, your brain no longer appreciates its own procurement of rewards because it has been trained to be hand-fed cocaine-battered filet mignon.

I'm not a psychiatrist or neuroscientist so my understanding is limited and based on anecdote and experience, but I've never met a career meth-or-coke-abuser who found happiness in anything once they went sober. The cravings never go away; they literally need the drugs just to feel anything more than melancholy and they are always irritable and underwhelmed without them.

There is some argument over whether dopamine receptors repair themselves; I don't know if this is true, but if not that then there is something else permanently lost to amphetamine usage.
The Illusion of Control in Web Design (2018)
That mischaracterizes street drugs in production quality, goal, and financial model. Viagra is closer to the model of endorsed recreational usage.

If they went and produced 'Oxycotin gets you high and it is legal!' like a head shop the operation would have not reached multimillion dollar size before it got cracked down.

Jumping through the hoops is the part the system understands as important though.

Those two differences although irrelevant to end outcome being bad and condemnable are pretty damn big distinctions akin to claiming you "unleashed a savage wolf to attack unsuspecting children" when you sold out a pit bull puppy who was sourced from a dog fighting ring and the dog mauled a kid who yanked on his tail.
We wouldnt have this conversation if UBI paid for all basic needs.

Hey everyone, I would like to have the government enforce my idea of ownership, and come after them for copying something. Because without owning everhthing why would scientists, open source developers and wikipedians and creative commons people and folk musicians ever produce anything?
I know several regular middle class people who became "accredited" investors by simply lying on the form. While I don't condone that, it seems like no one really verifies assets in most cases.
The content seems quite outdated (repost?). Notably, Dailymotion does not accept user generated content anymore. Only partners can upload videos.
> The idea that privacy needs to be conceded in order for a healthy ad market to exist is false.

You can't in practice verify that clicks or impressions are real, as opposed to initiated by bots, without correlating them with real human behavior.

If you have an idea for how to verify a click or impression was real without also gathering some kind of data, go make ten billion dollars selling that technology.
Great, now that all the valuable companies have done their IPO and the stock market is about to collapse, let's allow the peasants to come in and buy all our bags of crap before they become worthless.

It's all for their own protection of course. We really care about the peasants. Especially when they bail us out.
I heard Kip Thorne say, "Einstein was a mediocre mathematician. Now don't get me wrong; he was a vastly better mathematician than I'll ever be, but Hilbert was a great mathematician." We undergrads are sitting around thinking "great: Hilbert > Einsten > Thorne >>>> us. We're doomed"
And GKE stable is on 1.15.

Although you can't launch new clusters on it anymore, Google hasn't even forced clusters on 1.14 to update to a newer version yet.
I love that LG is still playing around with new form factors. Between this and the V60 the line up looks interesting.

That being said, I don't think these will catch on, and that's very unfortunate as it disincentivizes companies to try new things.
Life is unfair & no one wants to feel bad.

I am not white nor black.

I have been innsulted by social justice individuals for defending my friend who was being insulted by them.

Whether right or wrong, insults are not the way to cooperation. Everyone is challenged differently and some less than others. What matters is not my prestige or wealth compared to another, what matters is that I am content and live with dignity. I will never be treated as another nor do I want to, I am me. I have dignity and although I am not fully content of my situation, I am joyful because I have faith what I am doing is right and will lead to contentment.

The problem is an identity centered around attributes. The solution is an identity centered around objectives.

Color is minor. Respectfulness is not. For being treated without respect by SJWs I now avoid them. I have dignity as they do. I will not tolerate being mistreated.

Stupid is the idea that attributes physical or spiritual as sufficient to determine your tribe. Goals are better. People change, spiritually and physically.

Goals are ideas in action.
If I had to write a hierarchy of identity defining objects I would go with: 0) Goals (what I want) 1) Spirit (what I think) 2) Body (how I look)

As far as I understand, it is already like that. Looks trickle from ideas which trickles from goals.

That is why a common enemy is a cause for union. i.e. a common goal. This is why the race to the moon united americans (common goal, again).
The problem with DNT was that it was off by default, advertisers didnt support it, and that it was yet another bit advertises used to create IDs for anon users.
With PCIe 3 yeah.

With 4, the limits on how long you can make PCB traces are pushed or surpassed inside a normal desktop.

When 5 doubles the frequencies it's going to get really hard to make reasonable connections.

And you also need increasingly complicated multiplexing chips for any motherboard that can divide the primary x16 slot into two x8 slots.
Your state may still require you to file a 'corporate' return for your LLC. In my state you wouldn't pay anything if your receipts were under some level, maybe $100K. But if you didn't know you were supposed to file, they'll come looking for you after a few years.
> “Others might do a bad thing, therefore you should be banned from doing a good thing” is not a logically coherent standard — yet that is the essential argument of the SEC and it’s “accredited investor” protections.

No. That is not remotely close to summarizing the SEC’s stance on accredited investors or the regulations the SEC enforces to protect retail investors. The securities regulations are, at their core, a disclosure regime. They aren’t intended to police for bad investments and they aren’t intended to prevent you or I or anyone else from making stupid decisions with our money. They’re merely about how much information must be furnished to potential investors before they invest. That’s it.

If you want to sell securities to everyday folks, they have to be registered. Full stop. Any unregistered sale is an exemption to the rule but anyone can register their securities for sale and provide potential investors with a prospectus and some basic information about the investment.

Generally speaking the registration and disclosure requirements are eased or exempted for people with a higher income not because they’re smarter and can avoid bad investments or because they’re better situated financially to absorb the loss. It’s because they have the resources to do the diligence and hire people ask the questions and get the necessary information to make the investment. Think of it as outsourced compliance. Rather than the entity paying for the cost of registering the securities and everything that entails the investors pay for it up front.

And that makes sense. If I have a question about Apple’s prospectus I can’t ring Tim Cook and ask for more information. What you see in the disclosures is what you get. But if I’m one of the 35 unaccredited investors in my friend’s company and I have a question I can absolutely call the CEO and get the answers.

And now think about the middle ground: JFrog, for example, before they filed their S-1. If you or I invested $5,000 and we had a question about operations do you think we’d get answers? No way. If Elon Musk invested and he had the exact same question do you think he’d get answers? Of course.
> kindness. The only logical reason to do this is because death itself is feared even more.

Or it could be out of selfishness because loss is feared even more.
A "standard" wall plug (i.e. 120V, 15A, which is actually 12A continuous) charges at 5-6 miles of range per hour for a Model 3.

You don't get 11mph of charge unless you use a 240V-15A outlet. The 11mph you quoted assumes a 240V outlet.

In practice, as you state, even with 5mph of range, taking multiple days to charge isn't actually an issue since you aren't fully filling up your car from empty every day.
I don't trust US companies with the data either, but let me tell you the difference I see.

- US companies have data. Law requires that government must ask or hack to get that data.

- Chinese companies freely share data and government has unfettered access.

There's a fine line and I have 3 points to make.

1) In one companies can say "no." In the second, companies can't. The ability to say no is important because as consumer opinion is changing we've seen more companies exercise that power.

2) More data is more power. In the first model data is distributed, in the second model it is aggregated (this is why I'd also never install a WeChat like app even if it came from Facebook).

3) There's a big difference, as an American, if my data is held by another country or not. American politicians and companies have to care about my voice (even if not much) because I elect them and can sue them. I cannot influence CCP politics, laws, or trade agreements. So at least if the data is in an enemy's hands locally I have some chance of doing something about it.

One of the key points here is that disliking one doesn't equate to liking another. Disliking Chinese companies does not mean I like that US companies have it. Disliking that US companies have that data doesn't mean that there's no difference in China (enough of the 五毛党 talk). Nuance exits. Good and bad are not discrete values but a continuous spectrum. I'll fight to stop both, but fight harder to prevent the one I have less autonomy over.
I think you’re redefining the term european language —which typically means a language that developed in that region. It’s like saying English is a Japanese language because a percentage of people in Japan speak English except it did not originate there.

Indo-european is different but that is ancient family of prehistoric languages and hardly anyone would think this is what people mean.
SSH is basically everywhere, and the key generation topic keeps coming regularly. At this point it probably deserves an entry in the Cryptographic Right Answers (https://latacora.micro.blog/2018/04/03/cryptographic-right-a...) to end debates once and for all
I did, although, I cannot remember why it was ruled out.

EDIT:

Okay, reading past mailing lists inside the company, it seems like key disclosure laws may apply in Estonia, which raised a few eyebrows here.

As a hosting company it is obvious that we will deal with bad actors at times, and we already have procedures in place to disclosure the little information we have to authorities if asked.

However, I read more than one account on authorities raiding data centers for drives without talking to anyone before doing so, and we want to have the legal right to deny them access to the encryption keys in court.
I've got to be honest. I'm not going to bother with the asteroid part. I'm just going to tell you that what they're for. After all, you can't check.
Mostly skimmed over here, but a key point is that you should be trying to build a cheap version of what you'd use at work. The closer you are to your work environment, the more you can applicably "try things" at home, and bring them to work with you. And since most of us are pretty busy, it's nice to not have to learn a whole new skill set just for maintaining our home networks.
That infographic says 2500 feet, but the article says '2500 sqft in a hypothetical 5000 sqft lot'. So it's a ratio, not a set limit.
Your general point is true. I'm pointing out an alternative where zoning stays predominantly single family yet the real estate prices grow unbounded.
U.S. Warns of Global Bank Heist Campaign by North Korean Hackers
Okay, I think I have been understanding LLC wrong this whole time. I thought they are the equivalent of SARL in France.
SpaceX's next-gen rocket, Starship, will have a 9 meter fairing and aims to be able to launch 100 tons into orbit for ~$10-100/kg. They also plan to support 3 launches per day. LSST has a primary mirror that's 8.4 meters wide, so something like it could potentially fit. Enormous radio telescopes can be constructed from a large array of smaller satellites via radio interferometry.
Chemical oxygen isn't enough. At a pressure altitude of 60,000ft you cannot get even close to the equivalent of 20% o2 at sealevel.
That's the single remaining killer feature of RAR for me. I think the last time I actually used it was years ago when pulling a backup off of a degraded DVD-R, but it still provides a bit of peace of mind for long-term storage.
My point was merely to inform.
Plainly whoever is issuing the cert we're discussing sees their role as much broader. Presumably the OS manufacturer also sees it that way.
Wireless Pentesting Part 3 – Common Wireless Attacks
> Why do you have cloud companies advertising on the billboards in San Francisco, but not in Beatty, Nevada?

To be fair, I think I should specify "user-targeted" advertising. Targeting by content/placement location isn't privacy-invading by nature. :)
> You've made a compelling argument that Apple should be allowed to, in their freedom, do whatever they feel appropriate with regard to their own App store.

They're free to try. There's more of us than them though and we're also free to continue enforcing our existing anti-trust laws and make new ones for important digital platforms.

I advocate for freedom for the common man. What are you doing here?
Instagram, please make this 1 change
The rationale for the support cycle bump is a little surprising to me. I always thought it would happen with feature stabilisation, but tne reason given is simply “people weren’t upgrading”.
I was curious just how many kids were killed by the old style refrigerators. I remember when I was a kid TV shows would have special episodes warning of the danger of being locked inside by accident. Unfortunately the articles cited on that Wikipedia page don't have good numbers. There are a handful of anecdotes at the end of the article, but sadly no statistics.

I have a feeling this is one of those cases where a small handful of cases got a disproportionate amount of media attention. It doesn't hurt to fix the problem, but it ends up being one of thousands of possible problems that people arbitrarily decided to fixate on.
I'd say they shut down quite a few "partners" when they shuttered Parse.
This is in fact one of the core criticisms of these sort of policies. The concern is that by increasing the allowed density on land, the underlying price of the land also subsequently increases.

Accordingly the "value" that one gets for their dollar decreases. While before one may have paid 1.2M for an house and full lot, now suddenly 1.2M can't buy a full lot, but 900k can buy a 1000sqft apt part of that lot.

There's an upside for someone that needed more room and could never afford a 1.2M house, or a renter that just wants more apt options, but there's a downside for someone who could afford an entire house but is now seeing the price of an entire house go up.

All this being said, in practice it is arguable whether the land values do increase that much. The fact that these changes are being applied city wide at once may limit the effect.
Does that matter? If you poke that person, won't they still hurt regardless of who they are?
Yup. We encountered this exactly on our initial set up for our company. This made us decide to domesticate our company from Delaware to California, with a little bit of money lost for this learning process.
The next big safety feature will be one which lowers windows in the presence of an occupant in the rear area if an occupant has not been observed in the drivers seat for x minutes if the temp is above 60F/16C for example.
There's a #lang sicp in Racket that emulates the Scheme of the SICP book, with all the functions you need.
This is just an operating system vendor designing its own APIs.
FWIW brutalism was quite popular here in the US too.

I think the design and living considerations of these structures outstrip American development in virtually every regard: https://designyoutrust.com/2018/01/bublik-circular-apartment...
> If Microsoft say, added something to your host file, that blocked all ad trackers except from the Microsoft network, everyone would be up in arms.

You'll love this: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-10-h...
New Zealand stock exchange halted trading after DDoS attacks
I didn't visit Delhi, Tehran, or Kolkata the last time I was in Europe.

My mistake! I'll be sure to next time I'm out that way.
Why Google Translate Fails at Japanese [video]
Also setbacks help slow the spread of fire if one building catches on fire.
You used to be able to fetch public events (not for a user, not private events, just public events that you can easily browse to anonymously) and I had made a site that showed everything that was going on in my city. It was fantastic, you could see all concerts/gigs/plays for each day at a glance.

One day, Facebook just killed that endpoint for "privacy reasons". Anyone can still open a web browser and visit the event page, but accessing the data programmatically is now gone.

I guess they wanted to be the only event viewer, and since everyone only adds their events to Facebook and nowhere else, there is now no way to get event info.
Commit 1M: The history of the Linux kernel
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century

Seems moderately depressing so far.
Shut Down Police Unions, Don't Defund Police
It looks like generic filler SEO content 1&1 are trying to do
>"According to various estimates, between 20 and 45 percent of the people who get Covid-19 — and possibly more, according to a recent study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — sail through a coronavirus infection without realizing they ever had it. No fever or chills. No loss of smell or taste. No breathing difficulties. They don’t feel a thing."

PDS: Which leads to the inevitable philosophical question -- is a virus really a virus if it doesn't do anything?

And by extension, is a pandemic really a pandemic? If most people aren't suffering from the effects usually associated with pandemics?

You know, what's interesting is that up until this point in world history -- we've never called Cancer, AIDS, Heart Disease, Diabetes, Drunk Driving, World Hunger, Massive Unemployment/Job Loss, Poverty, Inequality, Racism, Alcohol Addiction, Crime, Terrorism, Social Unrest, Opioid Addiction, Illegal Immigration, Global Warming, World Wars, and the threat of (possibly immediate!) Nuclear Annihilation, or just plain Old Age -- "pandemics".

Perhaps what something is, or isn't -- is all in the languaging...

You know, there are whole industries (employing huge numbers of people!) that have sprang up around just creating problems for other people...

As in, they make money, actual money(!), and lots of it, when other people have problems...

Including (but not limited to!) News Media, Polticians, Lawyers, Medical Cartels, some factions of some Governments, and some Corporations/Big Businesses...

Prove to me that you don't have a vested interest in the outcome of anything you report -- and I'll consider what you have to say.

Otherwise, you're a shill for one complex or another, adding to the cacophony of crap (AKA fake news/false information/disinformation/lies/propaganda/fraud/misrepresentation/sophistry) out there...

https://www.amazon.com/Virus-Mind-New-Science-Meme/dp/140192...
It’s an interesting question. I’m willing to spend time and energy on top of money for a lot of things. For software, it feels more extra than, say, going to the grocery store, but I don’t know if that actually makes it wrong for a software company to require the effort. And that’s complicated by the value some derive from small exercises like that.
Nonsense. If you read your own link red notices are simply issued for wanted criminals likely to flee to another country; what crime was committed is largely irrelevant.

This is opposed to yellow notices, which are for missing persons.
Cake or Death: AMP and the Worrying Power Dynamics of the Web (2019)
There's also the Web Monetized site Cinnamon: https://www.cinnamon.video/
The most serious scientific computation gets done on distributed memory systems, not shared. That likely just means bindings to MPI and other appropriate libraries. That will often do pretty well on shared memory too.
I usually refer to LLVM documentation. You can look at this [1] to begin with.

For sample code, etc, I would recommend to read D's atomic primitive implementations [2] instead of C++. C++ standard library is an unreadable monster. Fundamentally C++ atomic types are a flaw as std::atomic<int> is a type by itself, whereas in reality the operations has to be atomic. Also you can't get the value type for the type underneath the std::atomic template.

Whereas in D, the operations are atomic and you can operate them on the primitive types. You can see numerous examples in D's standard library implementation (which is readable than C++'s) [3][4]

[1] https://llvm.org/docs/Atomics.html

[2] https://github.com/dlang/druntime/blob/master/src/core/atomi...

[3] https://github.com/dlang/phobos/blob/master/std/concurrency....

[4] https://github.com/dlang/phobos/blob/master/std/parallelism....
Miranda Cosgrove and Epic Bucket List Date
Let's help this guy get a date with Miranda Cosgrove.
A jet-turbine can use a bypass to exchange some of the speed of its exhaust for a greater mass of exhaust moving at a slower speed. This is desirable as matching speed of the exhaust to the airspeed increases propulsive efficiency. A modern jetliner flies relatively slowly to its (un-bypassed) jet exhaust speed, therefore it will slow it down a lot and move a large mass of air - this is a high-bypass turbofan. A jet flying at supersonic speeds obviously has less need to slow down the exhaust, therefore such a high bypass ratio would actually be counterproductive.

Despite having zero bypass the Olympus engines in the Concorde were the most efficient heat engine of their day, achieving 43% efficiency [0]. Their propulsive efficiency was in the 50%s (compared to the 60%s for a B747-100) [1]. Despite this going at supersonic speeds does require an awful lot of energy over subsonic speeds so even with its high efficiencies it burnt a lot more fuel than an equivalent subsonic flight.

Even if Boom could produce the most efficient engines seen, it would still require a lot more energy for the total flight, and therefore would have worse total fuel consumption.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce/Snecma_Olympus_593

[1] https://www.nap.edu/read/23490/chapter/6#37
So much drama. Ugh. But, I won't be shedding any tears for Facebook.