skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using less water is what got me interested. When I bought it I was worried about loading the septic drainfield with excess water and soap. Then I moved to a city where water is very expensive. The energy to heat the water is a concern too.

I found that compared to a normal American style top loading machine with agitator, it takes better care of my clothing.

I happened to choose a machine that can spin at 1200 rpm, which is apparently rather fast for a laundry machine. The electric dryer seems to work a lot faster.

Now my machine is getting old, I had to repair the electronics once, and am wondering when the gasket will tear and will I be able to find a replacement, etc. I have had to repair top loaders more often but parts for these kinds of machines seem to stay in the market for 30 years or more. That's probably not going to be the case for this fancy import.
Yep. Also, I'm completely in favor of smoking, or chewing, or whatever you want as long as you aren't hurting anyone else.
This is a refreshing and useful article in light of the upcoming election and political fallout. It's a reminder that the world, despite the media/politics, is getting better and better, and consequently the need for human labor is decreasing. The Dalai Lama doesn't offer any answers, only recognition of the "problem" and hope that we can collectively find a solution.

It's especially important for us as the very people who are actively trying to make human labor obsolete. As a generally libertarian minded person, I find this is a very compelling article for compassion in a relentlessly utilitarian society.
100% is a lot better than ~80% (looking at you btrfs)
Depends on the film, you can easily make viewers nauseous watching TV. The iMax film To Fly, had an insanely long run because it gives people a gut wrenching feeling at a few points. And 'shaky cam' footage bothers a lot of people.
Because Linux package managers do not manage user packages they manage system packages.
Exactly!

The real hook wasn't the lame virtual-points Zynga oppression, it was how the main character reacted to their situation and then how the system reacted to them.

It's all ground that was covered before (and arguably better) in Network 40 years ago, but it does it well.
Don't worry, they'll just run a story about a guy who used it and his junk fell off.
If I had to guess? Laziness mostly, and picking the most interesting story with accuracy being an afterthought.
i was reading this and wondering why there would be so much emphasis on stuff like apt...then realized that there are indeed developers who've only ever used OS X (and perhaps windows). i guess i assumed everyone ended up with Linux as a daily driver at some point, if even for a short time
My theory about how this error happened:

Bloomberg reporter checked Wikipedia where it clearly says, "In 2014, Altman was named president of Y Combinator, which he had been a part of as a founder..."[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Altman

Of course, if the reporter had spent a few more seconds reading the entire sentence he may have gotten it right: "In 2014, Altman was named president of Y Combinator, which he had been a part of as a founder in the first batch of funded companies in 2005."
Who knows; it seems like everyone wants to put them in car radios too, which still strikes me as unbelievable.
No it is not.

People were making custom AIs for starcraft 2 since it was in beta. They can't beat any human worth their salt.
God that sounds horrible.
Except those forms of evidence aren't independent.

Contamination affects all of them and on top of that most of the people analysing them know the results of the other methods.

It's a sham by design.

Reminds me of personality tests in custody disputes. Everyone making the evaluation demands to know the results obtained so far. What a joke.
I feel like almost all issues in this article stem from not following ops best practices. And similar issues would happen no matter what technology was being used, they just happen to blame their issues on docker because that's the tool they were using at the time.
Yeah. Anyone remember WakeMate? They had nonstop problems with their hardware. And Lockitron had yield issues for two years on their deadbolt operating robot before cancelling it. Hardware is hard.
I don't know that it's that implausible that flying shrapnel could kill or seriously injure someone if it hit them in the right place.
The systems binaries are only writable by the root user to prevent malicious changes. The unixy parts of OSX are the same as they are based on systems designed to safely accommodate multiple users. Unlike Linux, OSX has been considerably updated to accommodate the modern single user desktop. There are application bundling schemes for Linux applications that take a similar approach to OSX bundles but they are not widely used.
Ironic Computer Space Simulator for the PDP-1 (2016)
It could be they tried to be correct and did the best they could on a meager time budget. Doubly so for TV news

I have a hard time ascribing too much to effort. For the one wrong fact, there could be many things that were checked and were true. But of course the wrong thing stands out

That said, I feel like journalists know how to Google for basic company info...
They also said the fund was based in Palo Alto instead of Mountain View.
There's "silicon" in Silicon Valley. The reason it exists is hardware, yet they seem oblivious to that fact and make it seem that, somehow, SV's pursuit of hardware is a new path.
Gotta wonder about that claim in light of the story we're all discussing.
A seismic anomaly?
>There’s no evidence that immigrants (documented or undocumented) cause any more corruption or crime than native born residents. Indeed, the evidence we have in the USA generally suggests that first and second generation immigrants are less likely to break the law than other residents.

The immigration restrictions are a big confounder here. The US is much more likely to let doctors and engineers immigrate. If these folks then have low crime rate, it could either be because of being an immigrant or because of being a professional. If it's more the latter, that isn't great evidence for letting other kinds of immigrants in.
Aol time warner hasn't existed for years and aol is owned by Verizon.
Many of the people on HN are in their twenties, some of us are slightly older.

In 1963, the Ku Klux Klan bombed a black church in Birmingham and killed four little girls, because the church supported the rights of blacks to vote. Blacks were still banned from attending University of Alabama in that year, the governor himself stood in the school's door to block the first student trying to attend, blocked by federal marshals. In 1964 three civil rights workers were murdered in Mississippi, with the help of local police. In 1961, groups riding on integrated buses in the south were attacked in several places, with the help of police, beaten to a pulp and the buses burned.

Even in the north - in 1965 Martin Luther King went on a march in Chicago against de facto segregated housing, which was met by what seemed to be a forming mob, he was hit by a brick and the white and black marchers were met with projectiles and feared a riot might ensue.

If you look at the Fox News viewer demographics, much of their audience were in their 20s and 30s when this was all happening. They grew up with it that way.

This isn't ancient history to some of us, and is American history. You go back farther and it is jim crow, lynching, and not all too far back, about 30 years before my grandfather was born, slavery.

Considering this, seeing blacks relegated to Oakland (which is itself being gentrified) and lacking in the makeup of startups in San Francisco is not surprising. Things have in some ways gotten better, but black men are still killed for little or no reason. Look at the case of Amadou Diallo, who was shot 41 times for opening his door - the police brass have been editing his entry on Wikipedia with exposed IPs, which has led to a little kerfuffle. So they're being paid by working taxpayers to rewrite history any how...
He talks about projects at the beginning of the second session, and implementation (of something that hasn't yet been implemented) is one of the possibilities.
Haven't seen either of these yet, but the way you're describing them it sounds very reminiscent of Ender's Game too.
With AWS API gateway + lambda + dynamodb, I maintain exactly zero servers. Zero physical servers. Zero server OSes. Zero sysadmin.

It's perfectly reasonable IMO for that to be called "serverless".
Rolling Stone Loses Defamation Case Over Rape Article
Thanks for the correction. It has been a long time since I had to setup docker manually.
Scientists/physicians have done the necessary research studies to demonstrate both efficacy and safety. They are, in fact, legally required to do both before their products can even be administered to patients. Studies have been done involving tens of millions of patients, entire diseases have been wiped off the earth, etc.

Meanwhile, astrologers are in possession of plenty of empirical data that it's a bunch of hooey with no evidence supporting its efficacy. (It is, of course, generally regarded as safe.)
After we figure out how to increase the mass of our atmosphere 90-fold, maybe. Venus is around human body temperature at the altitude where atmospheric pressure is similar to Earth's.
The "free repair" includes "reinforcement of the washer top."
I haven't had any trouble with mine, but I don't pay much attention to it.

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2017/Samsung-Recalls-Top-Load-W...
Check this and the github education pack out: https://aws.amazon.com/education/awseducate/
"The relationship you have with a corporation can easily be replaced unlike the relationship you have with your government."

That was exactly my (counter)point. Your argument is theoretical, but in practice often the relationship with a company is as difficult to change as with government.

The example raised of sugary drinks, in practice, due to aggressive marketing and positioning meant that sugary drinks were the only option in most places I lived for quite some time (school, public places, fast food, work) unless you had access to a tap. (The bottling of water in the last few years has made a dent in that stranglehold.) Clearly the market can be easily manipulated at least in the short term, with advertising, market monopolisation, lies from sugar industry lobbyists..

"just that in a private entity the policy choices are un-complicated by constitutional concerns or by concerns about them being universally applied"

Arguable. Private policy choices, if economically successful create internal feedback effects and spread. (Bear in mind economics does not follow peoples values, wishes or best interests.. at best it follows their desires, and not even always). But even otherwise, it matters little if you are one of the unfortunate kids attending that school with skewed religious / political content.
You haven't seen precision until you've tried an induction stove. Instant heat, almost no residual temperature (they heat the metal of the pan directly rather than firing radiation / hot air at them) and super easy to clean.
Answered in this thread 7 minutes after you posted :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12877188
(Dystopian Sci-Fi Rap) KXNG Crooked – Welcome to Planet X (with Eminem)
Just to clarify my post was saying that the relation between union and and management is the problem - not the existence of the union. I ascribe this as much (if not more) to management than to the union.
Btw this is known as the gell-mann amnesia effect.

I don't read much news, but I do read the nytimes tech section. It seems accurate with some necessary simplification that doesn't hurt the truth.

Their other articles seem pretty well researched and fact checked.

That said their election coverage seems pretty biased.
You must be a riot at parties.

> Black Mirror seems to be optimized for people who are blunted both in terms of intellect and social emotion.

Are you sure Black Mirror is the stunted one?

> They're basically exactly the world we're in, but they replace a few things with something slightly different.

That's the key to good speculative fiction--unless you're one of the folks that needs aliens and spaceships and nanojiggers and other raygun bullshit to think something is scifi.

The trick for good science fiction is that you focus on the people, not the tech--and you only focus on the world insofar as the people experience it. "Fifteen Million Merits" and "The National Anthem" used existing social technology but showed how the human cost of certain scenarios.

"The Entire History of You", and "Be Right Back" focused on only a single real application of a novel product but again showed a solid study on how people would find ways to make themselves miserable even through the best of intentions by the creators.

Simple ideas played out through character drama--that's what makes good science fiction.
I agree that it would be terrible science, but since that seems so clear - the bicycles could barely power the screens in front of them at the speed the people were riding, let alone the greater world - I gave them the benefit of the doubt and assumed that they're literally make-work. The (presumably uneducated) riders may believe they're doing something necessary, but this could be a picture of a dystopian post-scarcity future when both work and scarcity are imposed artificially simply to keep people in line.
You’re missing my point, which is that the “cultural factors” are not about individual people being inherently “corrupt”, but more about institutional strength and power distribution in the whole society. The US has a long history of integrating immigrants from a variety of cultural backgrounds, historically including large numbers of rural peasants from quasi-feudal societies, and plenty of people from places dominated by local “corruption”.
Metallic Hydrogen can also be a liquid and even a gas, the metallic part indicates it's an electric conductor, not a solid.
The "idea" behind metallic hydrogen is that since hydrogen is above the alkali metals in the periodic tables there should be a phase where it behaves like a metal, the state of the phase is not defined as a solid/gas/liquid in fact in all honesty it would exist as all 3 and more.

The first production of metallic oxygen was a liquid, this is the first solid one, tho at these pressures it's really unlikely that it would effective as fuel store.
One of the more interesting parts about metallic hydrogen is the information we learn also applies to hydrides (hydrogen alloys) especially things like Lithium-Hydrogen since basically you can stabilize a large amount of hydrogen atoms (6 or more) around a single atom of Lithium, this might actually be very interesting for a lot of applications including energy storage.
Hydrides should be considerably more stable and more importantly at considerably lower pressures which would mean that they can actually be used for various applications since you are not going to find something that only can exist at 400 gPA levels of pressure or higher very useful for high stress applications.
No google in the 80s :-)

It was clear they just assumed things and didn't do any checking. Part of that was probably the pressure to hurry up and get it in the can, the rest was it was just a job to them and they simply didn't care. They got the video of the hole in the building, and that was good enough.
To reiterate: just because he recognizes the malaise, doesn't mean he has a cure. I had a political scientist who described Communism as having diagnosed the disease (class struggle), but having been unable to come up with a reasonable cure.
You're not too far from the truth in some of this, but what is your goal?
If you're doing any sort of table scan op then DDB perf/cost will be less than stellar. If you have an index / range key it works really (like really) well -- even in massively parallel situations.

If you're dealing with a TON (5+ TB) of data I recommend heading in to RDS, BQ, or redshift.
Wouldn't that be more of an AR experience? Similar to the game in the original Star Wars on board the Falcon?
Not just startups, the trope is prevalent even among established companies. Off the top of my head, here are some examples:

• Cisco was started by a husband & wife duo - Sandy Lerner and Lenard Bosack

• Steve Jobs did not start Pixar - depending how far you go back, it was Alexander Schure that gave birth to the original roots of the company (as CGL) and later on, branched off by Edwin Catmull and Alvy Ray Smith.

• Elon Musk did not cofound PayPal - He founded X.com and that company merged with Paypal which was founded by Peter Thiel, Max Levchin, Luke Nosek and Ken Howery)

• Same Elon did not cofound Tesla - it was started and incorporated by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning

• Etsy was not cofounded by Jared Tarbell - It was a trio of Robert Kalin, Chris Macquire and Haim Schoppik that launched the initial company.

I could go on but my memory is escaping me at the moment. I am sure other people have more examples.

tldr; this is common enough. :)
With my supermarket, each time I buy a chicken I maintain zero farms. Zero physical farms. Zero farmers.

It's perfectly reasonable IMO for that to be called "farmless chickens".
I'd think it was Megatron but "Revenge of the fallen" happened.
I counted at least 5 factual errors in the photo caption and first 3 paragraphs.

We also heard that this reporter was 'encouraged' to write this by someone from a competing accelerator with an obvious agenda. Seems like manufactured controversy otherwise.

All that said, we like hardware and we like Luke, and we're excited he's in the new batch! And we're thankful for the work he did to get our hardware program set up.
Taleb doesn't take himself seriously, Pinker takes himself far too seriously. Taleb is entertaining, Pinker draws out his ideas to the point of tedium. Taleb is a skeptical empiricist, Pinker likes to get lost in theory.

Pinker certainly has Taleb lapped in terms of old guard intellectual credentials. Whether that is a good thing is debatable.
Hell, I'd take a solid foundation with no apps (aside from a media player, browser, SMS, and dialer) in a heartbeat. What makes the alternatives so problematic is the complete lack of support from OEMs.

These OSes exist today, and I'd like to use them, but they're typically limited to a very small handful of (typically obsolete) devices. As long as this is the case, they'll have a lot of trouble finding enough developers and users.

If we could simply link our own kernels against these drivers the way we do with the nvidia driver and DKMS on desktops, it would be a revolutionary step forward for alt smartphone OSes. We could start working on userland instead of spending so much time devising hacks to simply get graphics and radio working one handset at a time. Unfortunately, the OEMs couldn't care less and would much rather our phones become e-waste than eat into next year's sales figures. Until then, we're pretty much at the mercy of Apple and Google :(
Writing something that is neat and and understandable is not boring.

It can be challenging and frustrating to get to that point, but it is pleasing once it is done.

Of course, that moment doesn't last for long at all before ascending the next hill.
I have no goal. :)
It feels like everybody has pretty much forgotten about, or at least gotten over the emotional impact of the deepwater horizon oil spill despite it being one of the largest manmade ecological disasters in history. brushing it under the rug is probably closer to real life and appropriately uncomfortable when fed back to you as fiction.
I suspect there are multiple reasons for the DNA changes. One that comes to mind is the number of times the lungs have to repair themselves due to the tar and other contaminants. The hot smoke might even contribute to the tissue damage. Cancer is uncontrollable cell growth. The cell/body's ability to control a certain type of cell division has been lost.

So, my thinking is, in the same way that you lose quality as you make a copy of a copy in a copy machine the same happens to the cell's DNA. The more a cell has to divide the less the DNA can remain without errors. DNA can tolerate a number of errors but it can eventually lead to cancer. My guess is that not one issues causes the DNA changes but and array of them given the number of substances a cigarette has.
My plan is to turn my old laptop into a spare Elementary-based workstation and see how it goes. In current situation it does not make much sense because comparable non-Apple notebooks are not sufficiently cheaper and I consider macOS the best offer at the desktop OS market today, but I don't like the direction MacBooks are going so I want some backup solution for my daily needs.
So we've reinvented Tableau and other data analytics packages instead.
Story time. I build an app and I got interviewed by a local newspaper:

"Is the app secure?"

"Nope, but it's in my plans to start encrypting user's data at some point"

The next week (she didn't ask me for a review or anything) the newspaper printed: "[me] built an app encrypting all of its users' data"
I don't know if it's US production influence, but seasons 1 and 2 plus the bonus holiday episode were, compared to season 3, raw and felt more real. If I had to explain it, I'd say it's because it was a pure British production. I really hoped after the bad 1st episode that it would get better, but it didn't achieve the same positive effect as the previous seasons.

That said, if the content of season 3 manages to push some of the concerns outlined into the general public's perception and highlights them, then it's a good thing and well achieved.

The thing that stuck and was funniest for me was from the worst episode (ep 1) about the adapter and planned obsolescence.

Since San Junipero is mentioned here positively, I should add that it didn't work for me and seemed like ep 1 just too long for the content, but that's a subjective thing I guess. I kinda found it uninteresting and boring and honestly the ideas brought forward not crazy or exciting. Maybe it's because having lived in the tech world, the concepts are just as old as the availability electricity or even anyone who watched the matrix or read the mangas it's based on would find it "old".

Playtest reminded of the No End House creepypasta.

My favorite episode, despite the plot flaws, was Hated in the Nation, and that one almost saved the season. In light of InternetOf*, it was the episode I enjoyed the most.
Oh good! This is the guy behind mangos, too.
In the UK basic level the English language exam sat by all 16 year olds did used to do this to some limited extent (you were given an advert and had to analyse it in terms of how it tried to persuade you etc).
Yeah, the vodka situation has gone out of control.

Traditional Polish test of vodka quality: did it have any flavor? Did you go blind? Do you have a horrible hangover? If all three answers are no, 100/100.
It seems like a pretty difficult problem since there are so many permutations of applicable transformations.

That's part of why video encoding can be very slow --- with motion compensation, to produce the best results the encoder should search through all the possible motion vectors and pick the one that gives the best match. To speed things up, at a slight cost in compression ratio, not all of them are searched, and there are heuristics on choosing a close-to-optimal one instead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block-matching_algorithm
Well, actually I just typed [] in my browser's console, expanded it, then expanded the prototype and found a method called "forEach" which sounded like what I wanted. Fiddled with it a bit until it worked.

Clean room usage~
Metallic hydrogen is atomic, recombining two atoms into an h2 molecule releases huge amount of energy. Iirc 4x as much as burning h2 in oxygen.
> Try running a few docker containers to support development work

If I don't do that, then am I not a professional?