skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a difference between someone mentioning, with intention (that they happen to know X and implying they could offer to make that introduction), and an automated system just bulk sharing a whole address book.

If the question were framed more like:

"Do you consent to sharing your entire address book, so that we can better market to you and your friends and offer targeted ads based on that data to our real customers?"

Would most people actually answer yes?
Has it always been the case on HN that submissions relating to hallucinogenic and/or disassociative drugs rocket to the front page?
Can you expand upon you thought? How do each of these acquisition make a case for the acquirer tending towards a monopoly?

It seems Boston Dyanmics is a solution looking for a problem. It can be a great company but it's going to take a long investment by Hyundai. It's been in the hands of some huge companies and none of them have been able to squeeze a profit out of it.
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Well... With this, in France, we now have the three big services owned by sony, and each makes you pay 5€/month. Don't think that because they bought Crunchyroll, they will merge rights and subscription. Why would they, that would make less money.
Unless I misread, the bet has nothing to do with natural pandemics or how we prepare to respond to them.
Irrelevant. Employees != company.
You would have gotten caught then. Signature matching doesn't appreciably increase the security of the election; It simply disenfranchises people based on a shoddy test.

Besides, the ballots have long been separated from their signatures. Suppose we take your numbers seriously: The solution is to re-run the election or to let Pelosi become President and run it next year. Letting legislatures choose the president because of FUD is incredibly dangerous.
Anyone getting tired of those toxic PC enthusiasts who stirs a fight in a team accusing its leadership for being incorrect on sensitive issues?

I don't know if Gebru actually qualifies aside the matters of ethical AI. In my experience those people who work in engineering who sidewalks into some non-engineering matters often lack skills to compete where most do, and decided to leverage their incompetency with some other topics. And Gebru is doing exactly that in Google.
The person who posted the grandparent comment (beginning "It says something...") to the person (ansible) who mentioned their name, and also the poster of the the great-great grandparent to this comment.
I don’t think it exploded. It broke up by hitting the ground (not by exploding) which caused fuel and oxygen to leak out, which then ignited in a large fireball. But maybe this is splitting hairs. It sure looked like an explosion.
If you translated the whole cookbook, then it’s different from translating a single recipe.
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What Amazon is doing is not fine in any way. Having seen their dev process from the inside it is an absolute nightmare. They give zero shits about the wellfare of their devs nor about their contribution to open source.

The only reason they ever release things to open source is to try to get people to use their paid services. Eg: attention. They view open source only as an advertisement and nothing more.

The problem isn't that they use open source. It is that they spend a lot of dev times fixing all the bugs and then don't contribute them back upstream. They have sooo many internal patches that should go back but they go "if we contributed them back people wouldn't use our more reliable paid service based on that".

They are the exact opposite of the healthy hacker mentality that has brought Linux to the state it is today. Fuck Amazon * 100.

The world isn't a better place in any way with them. Their services aren't cheap in any sense.

Also, behind the scenes all those services you think are "ultra stable" are actual unstable and flaky as hell. Ask anyone who has worked at Amazon for more than a year and they'll tell you that it is constantly in pants on fire mode. All engineers are required to be on call because they have that many fires every single fucking day.
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It also didn’t help that the legs didn’t deploy
At least when you pipe to bash it feels gross and wrong. I can't believe they made it a fucking feature
But but does the gov't pay you if the house price goes down?
Ok, and I just want to continue to point out that there are various legal standards a case must meet before proceeding towards a victory and the mere existance of the case is not one of them. People today, 9 December 2020, keep citing this particular case because we are currently living in the hours of human history where it is not thrown out of court so they would like to say the matter is unsettled, as if there won't be yet another frivolous lawsuit tomorrow when this one fails. The matter is settled legally and this lawsuit doesn't seem to open any questions. I really want to end this comment with, "let's see what the courts have to say," to seem amicable but my point is that the courts already have weighed in on this many times.
Who are these people?

Those expressing a point of view you took issue with, whose point of view seems just as valid to me as yours.

This is the article I linked, and it’s a (judicious and even handed) critique of decolonization ideas. It opens with a Tagore quote:

Yes, but it goes on to explore other perspectives, and how art that Tagore appreciated alongside others has, in some contexts, been presented as objectively superior.

You can go on complaining about articles being disingenuous and so on (although I think you're choosing to miss the point it's making), but you started out by claiming that nobody in Bangladesh has any truck with such ideas and I'm pointing out that they are in fact being debated there as in other places, even though you may not approve or agree with many of the people articulating them.
"truth", "counterfactuals"

Words that no longer have a definition aside from whatever the user finds favorable for their own means.

I prefer we remove all the stops and see what the chaos brings. Survival of the fittest. Zero censorship of political speech true or false by whomever's standards.
Didn't Georgia do a hand recount? The video seems to show the process of scanning the ballots, not a way that massive numbers of physical ballots could be discarded.
Who would you have it be? The government? A committee? Honestly, a private company making the decision seems like the least problematic of all options. You're free to "vote them out of office" with your dollars if you wish.
I remember when GrubHub was still significantly bigger and it looked like Amazon was going to make a serious play in the space.

Certainly the pandemic helped with mass adoption but they've also just built a more competitive product.
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Visiting a doctor in US costs a fortune. Even with insurance a doctors visit costs me 200-500 out of pocket. That’s nuts. I’ll pass unless I really need to see the doctor.
Last I saw the internal petition supporting her was at above 1,200.

Stereotyping is doing a lot of work here, driving people's assumptions about Gebru.
What if Covid was just released through bat research? Given the proximity of two bat research facilities to Wuhan, accidental release of a wild virus into human population seems much more likely than a gain of function scenario.
Honestly I never understood why Netflix didn't make a stronger push to acquire them, it's such a great addition to their existing offerings and would boost their customer base as well.
This doesn't strike me as that strong of a monopsony. There are already other well established streaming services; and it isn't that uncommon for users to use multiple services.

If Sony tried doing anything crazy with their monopsony power, studios could just license to Amazon or Netflix (or try out any number of the smaller services). This hypothetical fight would probably hurt both crunchyroll/funimation and the studios; but it would be an existential threat to crunchyroll and funimation.
They are sovereign on this matter. There are no laws in the Constitution to micromanage the state elections (that's where the "Supremacy Clause" would come up). This simply isn't a matter of the US Constitution.
I'm in for no such surprise. I worked at (and also ran) some of these companies in China and the business charters, org charts, and operations were not much different from US companies. And private companies on both sides of the Pacific can be tools of the government.

Google is an arm of the State Department [1] and Facebook and other SV companies have ties to the CIA [2].

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/assange-google-not-what-it-seems-27...

[2] https://theintercept.com/2016/04/14/in-undisclosed-cia-inves...
Sure, and by that regard, as much as this sucks to go through in being raided, all she has to do is stay quiet and hire a lawyer, even if she did it.

Corrupt governments suck, but lets be real, we are long way from rooting out the corruption, especially at the state level.
> The elf binaries ran essentially flawlessly on my linux machine (although my machine was under powered for the game.)

> Sadly we never released the game on Linux to the public.

That's an improvement over not having a Linux port at all, as it reduces the investment needed to publish the game to Linux eventually. Once the Linux gaming market is big enough, studios might consider to release the game.
I don’t believe anyone has claimed she said “I will resign on date XXX.” The wording I think she and Dean have said she used was “or I will work on a last date” or something. As in “or I’ll work on figuring out what my last date at google will be.”
> These conspiracy theories would die by themselves in a month or two.

You mean like how the antivaxx and flat earth conspiracies naturally died out?
I don’t count that as bug but I see what you mean۔ The search engine only has so much context about the content.
Thanks for the Vox link, it really explains what you meant.
There is no specific data because measuring is basically impossible. You´d need to control for all variables in a situation like that and that just cant be done or at least wont be doable any time soon.

This is all just an emotional reaction based on what you consider to be probable. It isnt based in science or data, it´s based in hypotheticals.
People are freaking out about the guns.

Sending people to "administratively" steal all of her phones, computers, records, and storage devices for publishing the truth when the state wants only lies published instead is the real story here. Whether they do it with firearms or not is mostly irrelevant.

This is a story about government censorship, a 1A issue.

The government's power to issue search warrants should be pretty significantly scaled back in general, and its power to do anything in the absence of one should be severely restricted to zero.
> I'm an absolute Stadia fanboy.

I'm horrified of Stadia. Google does not need to be in the games business.

I'm a twice-burned Google Play Music user with thousands of dollars in music purchases.

Maybe I'm completely wrong, but I'd be willing to bet money that Stadia is going to be shut down and all of your purchases, saves, etc. will be deleted.
BTC is high because BTC is in limited supply. While US govt is pouring in trillions of dollars out of thin air into the economy, BTC is seen as a safe store of value. You can’t create that much BTC out of thin air. Just like gold, BTC is a good place to store money that doesn’t lose if value. Albeit a risky one. Gold is perhaps better.
Personally, the Google Cloud Console UI is an engineering marvel. The amount of complexity is, to my imagination, mind-boggling. That is just works most of the time is amazing. Complex workflows that other require you to visit 10 pages to complete a thing is seamlessly executed for you with sidebar UIs, etc.

I'm sure the performance bit of it would catch up soon. But who is using it anyway, and surely these people have pretty good internet. Not vindicating, but I'm sure the optimization will come later.
Very, very impressive.

One small nitpick: The result ulrs don't behave like regular links.

Can you open the recipe, preferably the original url, in a new tab when a middle click happens on a 'Read Cooking Directions' link?
But This IS a philosophy debate. Fundamentally what is at stake here is how western society decides free speech is to be handled, and if it can be handled at all with social media.

I urge anyone here to define metrics for harm reduction that are operationable.

If you get any far with that, then tell me how you feel if the tools that will achieve these operational metrics were inverted in their purpose.
I’d like to use this, but I’m not approving that massive list of permissions.
I don't disagree with most of you say, except for this:

> You mention her having a research career - but she's not in research. She works at Google. Her job, however they try to fancy it up, is to sell ads. Explaining to people that language models are racist and energy inefficient is not a good way to sell more ads,

She was hired to do research, and her job was explicitly related to ethics, so this is very much in line with her work. My company has a research arm, and people who are hired into it are very much expected to publish papers and will be judged based on their ability to do so. Having disagreements about what the company does in public, and sending sensational emails to coworkers would not be tolerated here either, though.
I'm talking about China, like it vs the US.

Edit: I've missed one "while" before they.
There actually is unclaimed land left on Earth. I know there's a bit between Egypt and Sudan. Claiming the land would worsen their claim on a different, better, piece of land that they both claim is theres; so neither does.

Unsure of the status of non-government large, well funded groups of people with guns there is though.
I still can't believe they changed their mind about this. It's the cause of so many bugs and security issues.
Russiagate was the greatest psyops in the history of media.
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I suppose it's an ethical dilemma if you believe human cells are somehow special in the universe. If you're a materialist who just believes we're advanced animals then why object?

The only thing that concerns me are health related issues. We've been eating animal meat for tens of thousands of years and it is generally recognized as safe. Sure, there are obvious health issues, and even the occasional prion disease or parasite, but basically we know the risks and, in the "first world" anyway, we mitigate them. It seems that the consumption of human flesh has caused issues in the past due to prion diseases. If we're confident there isn't a path where the prions could infect the lab meat, or we test for it, then "eat up" as far as I'm concerned.
If you play on any platform with the official Stadia controller, it also connects the same way (unless you're connected via USBC).

There's no bluetooth with the Stadia gamepad, so it's either wired via USBC or WiFi direct to Stadia servers.

You can bring your own bluetooth gamepad if ya want, though.
Strangely enough, western property rights turn out not to prevent famine at all, though I imagine the property owners suffer least in these situations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine_in_India
The bet _specifically_ excludes how we prepare: "I assume a mere lack of preparedness doesn't count"
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How does the bonus structure work at Google? In my company, you get your prorated share of the annual bonus if you leave during the year, so this is not a factor here.
These are just 3 examples of thousands of acquisitions by big companies with dominance in their industry. The trend is very clear, a handful of companies buy out competition and own virtually every serious competitor in the market. There are ongoing lawsuits against tech companies for doing this, and unfortunately companies can lobby to keep the laws on their side. Also, businesses like BD are always going to tend to want to sell rather than compete, this is obvious.

I don't see how one could argue there is no natural tendency towards monopoly capital given these key facts.
What tactics?

Seems to me the age old skills of recognizing the source’s reputability still stand strong today. Many people just can’t be bothered to do it.
If you are looking to tinker with the UI to fine tune it to your needs a KDE desktop is great (kubuntu). And it can definitely be made (relatively quickly) to closely emulate macos UI (search for kde macos reddit)

If you are looking for a drop in replacement for macos elementary is definitely the way to go.
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I wish computer security training included courses on avoiding or destroying the bureaucracy that seems to inevitably form around cybersecurity dogma.

COVID was a lightning rod and channeled a lot of technological advances through that would’ve been otherwise halted by the cyber hand wringers who seem to have infiltrated all approval processes.
What you lose is autonomy.
There's no reason why individual developers would have to compete on their own and cutting down on the immense amounts of red tape one needs to navigate to operate across friendly borders like ca/us/aus/uk/nz or even between states would go a long way to leveling the playing field.

I'd go as far as saying the first 5k of self employed income per year should not be subject to any filing/registration requirements and what registration/regulatory fees and paperwork should be exactly zero for companies with <100 people and <10m in annual revenue. Corporate income taxes too should be no more than 1-2% until >>100 employees and >> 10m annual revenue.

If we want small businesses to thrive and compete with big businesses we need to make it as frictionless as possible.
Cool beans. Got any evidence?
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Reese's definition of bioerror appears to be confined to accidental leak of a lab/home lab grown pathogen. I remain unconvinced of the allegations that SARS-CoV2 leaked from a lab.

The first sentence of Reese's position is "Biotechnology is plainly advancing rapidly, and by 2020 there will be thousands-even millions-of people with the capability to cause a catastrophic biological disaster." He also specifically states that a bioerror "rises from inadvertance", a.k.a. negligence.
> Trading stocks doesn't lead people to physical dependence, nor does it typically ruin their lives.

While this is true, what RH have done is turn trading into a form of gambling. That industry is HEAVILY regulated, and for a good reason: gambling addiction has ruined enough families' lives to warrant strict - and increasingly invasive - responsible gambling controls.[ß]

One of the most effective controls we have for gambling guardrails is the absolute rule of not allowing anyone to bet on credit. Not only do we block credit card deposits, we also have to restrict depositing via methods that themselves allow funding through credit cards. RH, on the other hand, has taken fire for not only allowing margin trades, but making it all too easy for non-institutionals to:

A) trade on margin (read: bet on credit) - and

B) trade complex options where the downside can be multiples of the perceived execution amounts

A gambling company doing this would have their license revoked and likely have their directors hauled before regulators to answer some very uncomfortable questions.

> Buy-and-hold will almost always lead to returns, provided that a portfolio is diversified enough.

Also true. But please keep in mind that RH encourages its userbase to engage in back-and-forth trading, using design tricks and visual cues to trigger impulses.[0] A responsible retail investor executing a long-term trade for a few thousand every two months is not the customer Robinhood makes their money out of.

Stating the obvious: I work for a gambling company.

ß: I have a pending piece on the various privacy invasions our industry is forced to engage in, but the first versions did not sit well with our comms team.

0: Before his leave, Matt Levine wrote about RH dropping at least some of the worst aspects: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-08-10/robinh...
I mean, there’s no counter petition (nor should there be) so it’s pretty tough to know whether those 1,200+ are representative.

Where I work, if someone is ousted, people might talk about the person’s toxicity or whatever got them fired one on one or in small groups, in a pretty off the record kind of way.

I’d bet the people who agree with the petition think it’s representative and the people who disagree think it’s not representative (“people are generally like me” is a reasonable prior).
vc $'s may be seriously clouding the analysis here.

in terms of revenue justifying big valuations, how many healthy companies are there, really? ("spend $20M to make $3M..." = not healthy) What about ratio of OSS successes vs closed successes, esp w/ efficiency?

e.g., the biggest co there is databricks (and i continue to root for them!), and contrast w/ snowflake who started in a similar period, grew 10-20X bigger, and started more simply (get a clone of redshift without doing business w/ aws). worse, databricks took a lot of phd students many years with a lot of big corp funding before the vc's got involved: that's a high bar an oss co must hit vs not for adjacent high-growth spaces.

the good news for oss founders is VC's are warming to investing here, and sometimes, even before OSS traction. irrespective of profitability, the founders have a better chance of flipping it to be someone else's problem.

not necessarily as clear cut for community-minded co's though that want to be financially healthy for their community. it seems the bigger and more numerous successes are non-oss, and despite the many oss attempts, the big sustainable oss successes have to doubly succeed at what is already hard. If going OSS increased chance of success -- and didn't actively challenge success -- I'd expect relatively more successes by now. I wish all this wasn't so but it's hard to unsee...
All the attention around Robinhood centers on daytrading. But it works perfectly fine for the buying and holding usecase. It's a smooth polished app. Easy signup flow.
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