skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But what will the humans be working on while the bots take care of it all?
I think you are way off base. The user in question would clearly be using facetime :)
And then we've compounded the mistake by conflating morality with correctness.
Easy enough to have crippling anxiety about the people on the other side of the fence.
This is just a worthless advertisement.
Interesting, for me, gender, like race, plays no part in my decisions or thoughts.

I always find it intriguing that so many people actually care what gender or race someone is. Very jarring that people can't get over such basic things.

Before someone says that I am making small of a large issue, perhaps that is the entire goal, to eradicate those notions that we are different simply because of our race or gender. I choose to believe we are the same, we all get the same chances, modifiers might be different from situation to situation just as in any situation, but very much the same, regardless of what you say, and I always will.

So, gender of the president? I don't care. Can be anything you want, as long as they are worthy of the position in their ideals and plans.
I've volunteered with 3 Day Startup in the past, which is more about teaching students that entrepreneurship is an option, as well as highlighting the importance of talking to users, but one of the things that consistently came up was that teams greater than 5 were nearly always the team with the most problems. My guess has always been that it's somewhat related to the design by committee or too many cooks problem, but we also never totally figured it out.
I would advise against specializing in any proprietary language or ecosystem. You might find it lucrative, but the long term damage to your career just can't be compensated for.

Also, don't believe them if/when they tell you they are looking to migrate to something more reasonable as part of their attempt to get you to join. I interviewed at a place that did VB6, but they promised work in .NET during an upgrade, but I suddenly found myself reading COBOL and being asked how excited I would be learning JCL. They are still on VB6 and I left there only 8 years ago.
If `function2` needs to log something, then it should have a type signature which reflects that.

Logging is a side-effect. Logging requires configuration to be passed in; it means having access to some file descriptor or other object to interact with, it could potentially fail to connect, or cause a computation to hang, or cause a service to trigger, or make a disk run out of space, etc. If a function wants to log something it's not a simple reader anymore but something more complex. The fact that in Haskell this is reflected in the type signature of the function is again a good thing. It's not "polluting" the method signature; it's putting more information in the method signature. Not letting you hide side effects in a computation that appears to have no externalities is a strength of Haskell, not a weakness.
It's best for a person to take care of themselves, but it's foolish to expect that when they never got the resources, whether that's financial, mental, educational...

> Homelessness should be declared illegal so that civil liberties aren't an issue when we force these people to work or become wards of the state if they are not capable.

I think that's called slavery. That seems like the direct opposite of giving people agency and, if anything, the attitude that created all these problems in the first place.

USSR tried outlawing homelessness at one point, I think, but there wasn't exactly a job shortage or someone trying to make money off of the desperate.
The open source projects are not exploiting in the same way? I am not sure I see your point. Amazon is offering prize awards for projects. I think more companies should start offering these types of opportunities for students to garner industry experience.
That's a fair question. So long as the owner is still the defendant and the owner is charged with an actual crime, I don't have a problem with assets being 'imprisoned' similarly to people to prevent them disappearing during a trial in case they need to change hands in a judgment/sentence. However, they should not become the property of the state, which is what happens in civil forfeiture confiscations by default. An public or private escrow service seems like the most appropriate solution in your scenario.
> Don't forget that you'd have to do that in an entirely carbon free way and cease all current carbon emissions

Plenty of carbon is naturally removed from the environment, at least partly by photosynthesis; that's how an equilibrium was maintained before we humans in wealthy countries started releasing so much more carbon into the atmosphere. We don't need zero emissions.
Mainly because the set of features in XAML-based frameworks is geared more towards apps and less towards documents, unlike HTML5; and probably also because some people much prefer C# over JS?
That is the case with many ARM processors. There is a lot of work being made on iGPUs on ARM processors aswell currently such as freedreno, will hopefully be possible to have a good fully open source experience in a few years with arm linux computers.
If an individual is unable to survive on a minimal fixed income then they are almost certainly in need of other social services.

People can still fail while on BI; it won't protect you from losing your home, for instance. BI makes failing just a little less devastating.
Well then you'd know that Loudoun is a large county. I'm sure you lived in the eastern part - probably ashburn where they build dense complexes of 450k townhouses that span as far as the eye can see - to house all the 'creative class' workers who make 100k a year and feel good about themselves.
Probably never going to happen.

https://abevoelker.github.io/how-long-since-google-said-a-go...
Here are some examples with source codes: http://www.cshtml5.com/samples/showcase/index.html
This comment and your other sound like you think drugs are not a big part of the equation, which is totally wrong.

You can take PEDs and barely work out at all and eat junk food all day and you'll make more progress than even the best training/diet regime done with the highest intensity. There are studies that show PEDs and not working out at all resulted in more gains than rigorous training without PEDs.
> Everytime this topic comes up, I flash back to "The Coming War on General Purpose Computing" [http://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html]

Don't forget the sequel Fighting Back in the War on General Purpose Computers:

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT6itfUUsoQ
This is definitely correct.
Every Cloudflare pro plan site I know of now routes to LAX for South Korean users.
For business sites, going over a certain amount of traffic, they also route to LAX for South Korean users.

I also have confirmed with Cloudflare support, that sites going over a certain amount of traffic have to upgrade to Business -> Enterprise plan to keep South Korean users to route to ICN (Seoul). This is causing huge continous performance problems for nearly all Cloudflare sites in South Korea.

http://www.todayhumor.co.kr/cdn-cgi/trace
http://www.ilbe.com/cdn-cgi/trace
http://www.issuein.com/cdn-cgi/trace

All show loc=KR, while using a slow LAX colocation. The first two from what I know, are business plan sites.
If we're talking about Google before Brin's PhD thesis, I think it would have qualified. It was not at all clear back then that using backlink data would yield more useful results than mere textual analysis of page content. One can definitely imagine a scenario where you try to build a search engine based on going down the rabbit hole of natural language processing as the key feature and then end up with something that doesn't work all that great.
Looking at the website, I'm at work on OSX, so can't download... but it's unclear if this is free, open-source or commercial software... the marketing of this page/site is pretty hard to tell, and hideous overall.

If it's commercial the lack of any pricing or licensing information leads me to want to avoid at all costs... I'm assuming it's a commercial product, and it's completely not clear short of giving your email address to download.
> Why would they want to alienate us?

I would imagine that most of apple's customers are not developers.
Fair point, I got carried away a bit there :)
That's a poor opinion. I wonder if a prosecutor without that discretion would've ever been able to make a civil rights charge stick in 60s Alabama in any majority-white county.
There are no market forces which would bring CO2 capturing technologies to the forefront. i.e. it's cheaper just to dump it in the atmosphere.

Something like a carbon tax would very quickly make CO2 capture relevant.
The promotional video shows someone using Linux. Do they mention Windows somewhere else on their site?
Aren't both Lawrence and Austin big college towns?

Maybe the state does not want its representatives chosen by out of area students who will not be around long term to deal with the outcome of their votes, good or bad.
(0% of families dissipate their wealth within three generations. This suggests that there is a constant up welling of people who accumulate wealth. The proposition that there is some fixed group of rich people sitting at the top is absurd.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014241278873246624045783346...
Various forms of next generation nuclear would meet that requirement right? People are certainly writing papers on building better nuclear power plants. Doesn't even have to be something exotic like fusion.
I agree, caricatures and knee-jerk reactions are not useful and not informative. It prevents finding common ground, which is essential to democracies moving forward (a good thing - I want my fellow citizens, even those who disagree, to have a say).
You make solar power cheaper than coal, and atmospheric carbon useful for something, and you'll soon have to regulate it extraction, not emission.
Post offices certainly vary widely in terms of quality of service. The recurring problem that we have is that the delivery person won't actually attempt to deliver, even if you're at home and the package requires signature - they don't even knock on the door, just leave a sticker outside saying that you weren't there to sign, so please go pick it up.

I don't know if there's a good system in place to deal with it. So far, complaining, either directly to the supervisor over the phone and in person, or filing complaints on the USPS website, have resulted in no improvement. I think it's because they have a shortage of applicants for those jobs, and so are very reluctant to fire anyone; and reprimands just aren't working.
Limited to students only?
Ignoring costs, it's "trivial" to do with nuclear energy providing the carbon capturing power. But doing so requires a tremendous amount of power (proportional to how much hydrocarbon-based power we're using now, as noted elsewhere in the comments) and a tremendous amount of resource investment (building the power plants, building the carbon capture mechanisms, etc.). So: doable, but insanely expensive.

That said, if the alternative is the death of most ocean life, the depletion of most of the planet's food resources, and therefore the death of a large chunk of the planet, we may end up reevaluating our willingness to spend that kind of change.
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I like mozzarella, but I don't savour it. Some dishes call for cottage cheese as an ingredient, but I don't nibble on cottage cheese at a wine tasting. To me, these are two very different things.
They definitely should have tried it with Arabic, Cyrillic, and maybe Wingdings for a control group.
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I would say these numbers are really sensitive and may lead to calculations for active user numbers, etc.
Yeah, internal reports are way more interesting than publich post.
My first company Light Up Africa Inc., a hard tech startup, was a part of the Impact Engine in Chicago. We did not have access to 3D printing, hardware facilities, and labs to help us prototype and iterate effectively. And that is just step 1. We then had to manufacture in parallel while continuing to research.

Also, I can attest that is extremely difficult to build a startup with a heavy research focus. However, from the brief write-up presented, I don't see how YC is in the position to help build and scale hard tech startups at scale - especially those with a tremendous need for capital invest to further research and manufacture.
Boulder house prices are probably as high as East Bay in California at this point.
In a way, every point estimate or threshold is "arbitrary" in the sense that it and its consequences are indistinguishable from nearby point estimates/thresholds. So in statistics people usually pick a threshold based on some reasonable risk function and some utility function, and call it a day (but it's important to be clear which functions are being used!). Since there is rarely one right threshold, it is pointless to look for one, but also pointless to complain that the one that was chosen was arbitrary. Unless, of course, it is so far off as to be noticeably less useful in making decisions, and making good decisions is, after all, the whole point of point estimates and thresholds in decision theory.
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Growth hacking expert here: Add a link to your site directly in the header to increase traffic to your product.
The tilde key is also the ` key. (I have no idea what the name of it is).

That's used in markdown and ES6 pretty commonly.

Losing that key is a problem for me.
Because no one is forcing coal power plants to pay for it.
Whatever you do, do not buy a Google Apps (sorry, G Suite) account for personal use. I made this mistake years ago and it bites me constantly. You get locked in to paying per month just so you get access to the things you bought through it (movies, apps, etc) and for that privilege you get locked out of many new features like Spaces, Google Now email cards, Fi, the new Trips app, Google Play Family Sharing.
Yes, you're right on all counts. The article was stacked, and anyone who cares already knows to avoid fries and milkshakes. And it is harder to count when eating out, but it is doable if you pay attention and slowly getting easier over time.
They're more comparable to AZs or datacenters than GCP/AWS regions.
I spent about $400 -- I figure a sub $100 laser printer is much the same thing as buying a cheap inkjet.
Them being circular has nothing to do with what are they representing. They are showing off the idea of hiding implementation through abstracting it. This is the exact same concept that both of these photos are showing.
Toy devices? Are you not exposed to modern mobile devices?

Anyone with a child that has access to a tablet can tell you that touch-input is succeeding.
I did not agree at all. In my experience it's much easier to make 1 million then it is to invest 1 million and make another million.

Also there are many startups that require zero investment capital and if you do not have a family and you minimise your expenses you can leave on very very little. If you do have a family it's more difficult but still possible.
Although interesting that Google's turnover rate is close to Amazon's, one year turnover is horrible. Other large tech companies (like Microsoft and Apple) have much lower turnover rates.
Still cheaper than developing for Apple...
I recently started reading "Sustainable Energy Without The Hot Air"[1], which is available as a free book, and it's been a wonderful introduction to reasoning about alternative energy. The author also gave a talk a few years ago that is very approachable[2].

[1] https://www.withouthotair.com/
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFosQtEqzSE
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Since they didn't seem to specify religious jews, their survey is just mixing ethnic with belief group, which doesn't make much sense.
I'm not sure how D's purity system works, but that doesn't seem very pure to me. Mutating the database object is a globally visible effect, after all.
We are in deep shit.

We can change, or we can die. Continued emissions at our current rate will kill us. We're already teetering at the precipice of feedback loops and may be committed to some.

At this point, we need a Manhattan-Project-level effort to end carbon emissions as we know them. Else we just have to hope that colonies on Mars and the Moon will be able to sustain the species while we nuke ourselves over resource wars here on Earth.

The problem is worse than most people know. It doesn't help that we have a segment of the population here in the US that is willing to ignore all evidence on the issue.
Please do not turn HN into Reddit. The signal:noise ratio is a very important thing to maintain. If it begins to slip too much, it might turn into a monotonically decreasing slide.
Being a sysadmin was always about automation. DevOps brought nothing to the
table about that. Neither tools nor paradigm. And the name is just another one
for "administering systems", if we keep what you seem to mean by DevOps.

It's still no progress, hacky scripts written by sysadmins or similarly hacky
scripts written by programmers, and systematic way of automating tasks was
available to sysadmins and was used by them for a long time. DevOps brought
nothing new to the table.
In order to build a highly effective team, tech companies might interview 10 people for every one they hire. So having gone on 8 interviews isn't statistically enough to know that you're doing something wrong.
Somewhat related: this memorable 20-second _Kids In The Hall_ skit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-pzFNTo8L8
You're correct that it wasn't obvious (at least to me), and given your explanation it makes much more sense, especially from knowing more about the implementation.

The video reminded me of Ikea's virtual furniture app [1]. Tech-wise the comparison is superficial, as your tech is so much harder / more sophisticated, but my first thought as a consumer was "sounds like an iteration of that".

I wish I had suggestions. Computer vision research on the edge is hard x starting a startup is hard. That's tough. Maybe someone else will have more insight.

[1]: https://www.wired.com/2013/08/a-new-ikea-app-lets-you-place-...
Sentiment-analysis software can help companies figure out what’s bothering workers—or what they’re excited about.

You don't need an algorithm to tell how the worker in those cramped cubes are feeling. You can already tell the must be miserable.
> Kinda strange that software is not seen by YC as "hard tech".

Could the reason be that pure software patents have a weaker status than hardware patents and/or are more difficult to enforce?
Maybe link to the main page [1] should be better and more clearly.

This project is obviously still in development. You can see their roadmap almost on the bottom of the main page [1].

[1] http://www.cshtml5.com
It sounds complicated, but neural networks these days are basically just a bunch of filters with nonlinear cut-off and bining. (From a signal processing point of view..)

Super simple to implement the feed-forward scenario for decoding.

Not entirely sure what the residual memory aspect of these networks add in terms of complexity, but it's probably just another vector add-multiply, or something to that effect.
Did you build in release mode?

cargo build --release
I have an old model-M, and I love it, but I don't use it often. I sit in a recliner quite a lot and that doesn't work.

I did build myself an oversized desk recently, so probably I should get the M back out and have it on the desk for occasional use.
Given that you'll notice whether or not function2 does any logging, it's definitely not an implementation detail.
NT 3.1 yes, Windows 3.1 however no
People did know what it was for, but they knew what it was. Because it could be explained simply.
In theory, the new functionality is cool and will help people be more productive. As a reasonably happy work customer, I'm quite excited to try these out. But I am not sure why they decided to rename it...again. Does no one at Google understand branding?
The jobs have always disappeared first, then new ones have appeared. People have always not known where the new jobs would come from, and they have always appeared.

Even right now, when software is eating the world, unemployment in the US is low and decreasing. The disaster is a bit like that my new diet, it always is happening soon :)
carbon is bad, mmmkay?

I like this reference: https://350.org/about/science/
If only nuclear companies didn’t cheap out on everything and bribed their way past all regulations and inspections.

EDIT: mostly talking here from a German perspective, where several scandals of corruption, bribing inspectors, and drilling holes into the containment vessel under operation have become public in the past years.
Uhm... What?
Looking back I don't see that the OP mentioned the other big issue with plea bargaining: when innocent people plead guilty because it's often the best choice. My bad for adding my own context onto it.

Decent writeup:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2014/11/20/why-innocent-peop...

tl;dr: the current system incentivizes defendants (especially poor ones) to plead guilty regardless of innocence. This is caused by a combination of prosecutors/judges trying to be "tough on crime", overloaded public defenders, excessive bail, mandatory minimums and several other things.

I don't think plea bargaining is absolutely unfixable or evil but I also don't think it's a well-functioning part of the system as-is. I believe this is one of those cases where removing an option might be better for the justice system as a whole.
is it a turd though? google apps works great for me, and seems to be pretty popular as far as i can tell. what benefit is there to rebranding?

i suspect you're spot on with the new leadership guess - somebody wanted to leave their mark.
The Newsroom s03e03 climate change interview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM0uZ9mfOUI
Normally I'd agree, but there are some good arguments for every side there.
At 50x designed max load bad queries would be one of the easier problems to solve. We design systems all the time that have hard scaling limits, and it's only a problem when you operate the system past those limits. e.g. I wrote a service with ACID assumptions from the underlying database but now the largest ACID db box I can buy isn't big enough. Oops. There's a bunch of possible ways around that but they usually involve a nontrivial amount of engineering effort.

I wouldn't expect any service to survive that much unplanned load. Maybe they could've estimated better, but how likely was it for the game to go viral? Worth sinking lots of dev time into and delaying launch? That's a hard question to answer without the benefit of hindsight.
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if only there was an organization that was given the task and jurisdiction to prosecute criminals.
Around 2009-2010, EBS volatility was leading a lot of people to run their database on instance storage instead of EBS. (At the time I suspected that even Heroku was doing this.) That seems pretty crazy, since the other name for instance storage is "ephemeral storage". If you have replication you reduce the risk, but it's still a wild thing to do. But I understand it. Would you run Postgres on NFS? If not, then why is EBS okay?

I haven't heard of people doing this for a few years, so I think PIOPS must have really improved things. But I agree, it sure is expensive! So I'm curious if anyone is still taking the instance storage approach to get more consistent disk performance.
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An earth even 10 degrees warmer than now will be much more habitable than the Moon or Mars ever will be.
That's what you get for relying too much on autocorrect...
I used their soap for years. As much as I like the company and what they do, I just don't like their soap for saily use. It's great for camping trips, though.
https://lifthrasiir.github.io/rustlog/why-is-a-rust-executab...