skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why take the brand hit on "United"?

Maybe because United badly wants Republic to not go into liquidation? As to how badly - the dollar value is the difference between how much United is paying to contract versus how much they would have to pay their own Union staff.
Well now I'm pretty curious, how does McDonald's operate all of their distribution channels with the whole franchise/renting model? Most of the Micky D's I've seen have tons of freezer food that they put through various machines to make all of the food items quickly. I can't imagine they let owners get their primary products from anything other than a distribution center. Do the owners need to buy those products separately? Can they buy from alternate distributors? Do they franchise their distribution somehow? Maybe I'm overthinking all of this. But I am genuinely curious how that factors into the franchise model since that means McDonalds is still very liable for food production.
It looks like [email] is used with more than one account. Which account do you want to use?

- Work or school account

- Personal account

I get this prompt every time I try to log into Azure with my work email. If I choose the work account (the most intuitive option) my azure subscription list is empty. I have to log out and select the other option.

Why is there a difference and why isn't this transparent? I am authenticated, you know who I am, give me access to the things I'm authorized for. I don't know what kind of weird backend situation MS has, but asking me to understand it is terrible UX.
I think the federation model of Mastodon is nearly identical to SMTP + mailing lists. When you create your own mailserver, it's an island. You can join some mailing lists to meet new people, or you can contact them directly if you know their address. By design, you and I can both have "foo@<different_instances>".

You can have ten different email addresses or Mastodon accounts if you wish. By default, they are separate. If you want them to mirror each other's content, you have to do that manually. I'm OK with this.
Are you telling me most tweets arent promotional already?!
The very first anecdote (IIRC) in Cialdini's Influence is about exactly that effect. Seems to happen most when people don't have a good way to evaluate product quality (which is most of the time, really—consumers with the time and information access to be well-informed about more than a tiny fraction of what they buy is a first-week-of-Econ-101 fiction, like physics' "spherical pig" but even less connected to reality)
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Authorea (www.authorea.com) supports including data/code in articles. There's even some in-article iPython support.
That's a pretty big claim, one which I'm guessing you're offering absolutely no evidence to back up?
really really amazing
Do you always disclose customer information?
Thanks, that didn't occur to me since I was mostly thinking of EV certs for some reason.
>Custom desktops are relatively easy to build, even for customers.

An ordinary desktop, perhaps, but a truly innovative product not so much. Consider something like Microsoft's Surface Studio and Surface Dial:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/devices/surface-stud...

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/accessories/surface-...

A Linux desktop with similarly novel modes of interaction would be awesome, and might be just the thing to bring the masses to Linux.
Got laid off. What can I learn in 2 months to get a job
I just got laid off. I have got 3 months of severance package.

About my last job: I worked on a banking application support project, no coding. Just checking some usual stuff in Unix.

The only thing I'm good at is "searching for something online, in shortest amount of time". Other than that, I've interest in investing in stocks (I do not trade, only 'delivery' - so far I'm profitable); this is more of a hobby. I also keep myself updated in what's latest in technology, read tech news websites, Hacker News regularly. But I'm unable to make use of these things. I feel like a total loser.

What skills can I teach myself in 2-3 months to get a job (technical or non-technical role).
All this talk about prescription OD's; how many people die from too much acetaminophen in the pills they are taking to try to get high from the opioids? I don't know the numbers, but they shouldn't count as an OD, it isn't the same thing.
Injecting non-sequiturs into threads wastes everyone's time, which is what you did. Incidentally: the clarification downthread, while valid, is not the reason your comment is a non-sequitur.
Are you sure you mean doppler shift and not just phase shift due to the distance the light traveled? AFAIK the Time of Flight cameras like the ones from PMD use the phase shift with the obvious problem of the calculated distance being ambiguos beyond a certain distance due to the periodic signal.

But sensors like Velodyne, SICK and I think Hokuyo are pulsed and measure the actual time it takes for the pulse to travel from the emitter to the target and back to the detector.
Slavery, Prohibition, Women being unable to vote, Gays being unable to marry; the list of inequities imposed on others due to democracy, and faith in the State to "do the right thing" is long. The aforementioned aren't small data sets, nor are they outliers. That's not even mentioning how many murders the State has contributed to (see: Germany and Russia for significant contributions, in the millions of murders) under the guise of "protecting it's people". (see: USA's actions in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, etc.)
The easiest way to merge multiple toots originating from the same person (through multiple federated accounts) is not to need to merge them in the first place.

Admittedly, the current intent is that you (person) keep individual toots to specific instances and don't "cross-post", but there may be all sorts of reasons to need to cross-post across identities but try to avoid spamming federated friends.

Email doesn't need to solve the problem because there isn't a "public feed" to try to hit. The issue here is that the individual feeds in an instance are always going to be complicated game to play to get attention and the next steps are going to be instance-feed-optimization (IFO?) techniques including mass cross-posts, whether the Mastodon community wants to see that or not. (Just as advertisers still care to optimize how they show up on the Twitter public feed...)

Portable cross-instance identities are a possible way to mitigate some of the worst of that. My pessimism/cynicism thinks that maybe Mastodon instances shouldn't have instance and federated feeds publically visible. If I were to run my own instance, that would be the first things I'd disable.
Used Ion for years but finally just "upgraded" to fvwm2 and multiple tmux terminal windows. Reason? More often than not dozens of Unix hosts are being accessed through SSH rather than X. Tmux is always there, regardless of method of connection. Also, use the antique "nvi" (rather than Vim or Neovim) whenever possible. Same reason; it's always there, no tweaking.

If I find myself craving extra functionality I'm probably overthinking things and am in need of a vacation.
So I am going to reply to this one as its the root one.

Just Curious: Whats the appeal here? Why did you all decide to work on this? What were (if at all) you using before this was made by you?

Regards,
Amazon Web Services Inc. is wholly owned by Amazon, Inc.

That is not true of the franchisees. That's a pretty big difference.
Not excusing any crashes for npm (having those for any package manager sucks), but `npm init` doesn't download anything or make a project that needs to, it has readable config files and `npm --help` at least gives you a list of commands. A lot of the small stuff goes a long way to making things more approachable.
There's a toolbar with 100 buttons of the same size: "Write, Chat, Reply, Reply all, Archive, Address book, Get email, Tag, Quick filter".

My main Thunderbird toolbar has get mail, write new message and quick filtering. It took me perhaps 10 seconds back when I first installed it on this computer to hide a couple of other buttons like chat that I don't use myself.

The second toolbar when I have a message open has just 5 buttons (reply, reply all, forward, mark as junk, delete) and I use all of them frequently.

I agree with your general point that clean UIs that prioritise more important features tend to be nicer to use, but I think you're dramatically overstating the problem here.

Why can't they just show suggestions when I'm in the compose window and I type the first few letters of the person's name or email?

That's exactly what it does, and has for as long as I can remember.
I am sure you are important to make one of your superiors look like she has a large and important team. You can take pride in that at least!
> Multiple identities seems like a problem best solved by client-side tools (e.g. tweetdeck handles this usage really well IME).

I agree in the sense that I might want something like a role / brand identity and a personal identity, but I was considering something more like instance-specific aliases or identities. The first-pass solution at this would be one where you can specify that different accounts on different instances are all the same person so that posts duplicated on multiple instances (i.e. in the local feed of that instance) can be de-duplicated in a federated feed that includes more than one of the aliases.

External clients won't be able to stop people from following one of the alias instances and not the "canonical" instance, and they won't be able to make servers de-duplicate content that is cross-posted to multiple instances. If this isn't addressed in the protocol, you'll get people hacking together "boost bots" that duplicate your identity to multiple instances (with the issues that comes from hacking something like that into your client) in the same way that they are already using "follow bots" that just randomly follow tons of users on other instances to force more thorough federation between instances.
That is actually quite a common practice in Germany. There are some car parks just on the outskirts of a large city that is always 50% full of cars with some form of bike carrier attached to it.
Hey shaharsol, this looks great. Double check your strings though :)

"Scan 58f90084fa38b600114b33ea succerssfully started."

Also the "Profile" and "settings" links don't go anywhere.
My bike ride is right about 8km, but in the summer there is no such thing as a "non-sweaty pace". That said, I'm lucky enough to work in a place that has shower facilities in the basement so I just pack my work clothes in a bag and shower/change when I get there. The worst part is putting the sweaty clothes back on for the ride home.

When it is not hot out (like now), I'll just wear appropriate pants and skip the shower. I find my dress pants rub too much in certain areas when on a bike so I still have to change, but it is quick and I shower at home.

I have to say that I really love biking to work. It's way less stressful than sitting in traffic and there are some health benefits too. Plus it has a way lower carbon footprint.
As I understand it, the work account is actually tied to your company's office 365 subscription or something like that.

The private account is the one created by you.

If anyone knows the exact difference, please explain! Would be greatly appreciated.
Sure, daniel dot doyon at gmail
The difference is that email don't have communal public feeds like the instance feed and the instance federated feed. More of my thoughts wound up here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14159523
My floppies would like to have a word with you.
The owner/operators purchase from approved vendors; I've been out of the game for awhile, but we bought everything through two distributors; bread products from an approved vendor, and everything else from a second vendor.
Google Home can now distinguish between multiple users
Good article. I like the colors you chose for tmux and vim
One of the things I really liked about the movie is that Kroc didn't actually come up with many of the ideas at all. He was just very successful at recognizing good ideas, good talent, and synthesizing them together.

Traits of a good founder.

Plus one on it being a good startup movie.
Shoot me an email at daniel dot doyon at gmail
It seems to me that there could exist a paypal-like system for micropayments. Maybe there already is and I don't know about it? Getting a critical mass would be necessary, a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem. If there was a service that went something like this:

- pay a flat fee of $x to deposit any amount up to $y

- pay nothing to transfer <$1 to another user (really just shifting numbers in a spreadsheet)

- pay $x to withdraw up to $y

You are incentivized to deposit more to make it worthwhile, fees don't eat into your per transaction revenue, and you're incentivized to wait for at least $y to cash out for maximum benefit. The company can invest that $ in the meantime and earn a low yield on a money market.

I'm sure if it were that easy it would already be done, but it makes sense to me.
I enjoy these posts as well. Love to learn about other industries.
Mine:

Corporate account, used for Windows logon

Skype personal account

XBox account because they made me make one when my kids were young

A second personal account used for something I forget. Posting on MS help fora possibly.

Mind you I have three active Google accounts.
Thank you for the example. I do not know Bazos' background so I couldn't comment on if he had prior retail and logistics experience.
I haven't seen child-targets marketing from them in decades here in Canada. Where do you live and what do you see?
Shopify Goes Squarely After Square with Point-Of-Sale Device
It's unfortunate that IE 11 is still in such widespread use compared to Edge. Looks like IE 11 will be the boat anchor for web tech for a couple years at least.
A lot of people here say C#. Well, that is a decent option, but I think F# is overall better (however, obviously C# have a bigger job market).

F# is similar to oCalm, still can do the things C# do, still you can use C#, still you are using .NET.

That is a lot of plus!

The main downside is the smaller job market.

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BTW if you use PHP/JS, C# will not teach you much. Is also "OO" and much code around, specially old or coming from the corporate world is not eye opener.

PHP/Js are less well designed languages, that encourage and celebrate bad practices... but most decent developers learn to workaround that and coming to other languages will look at first like "same".

Require some study and effort to see how much C# is better.

In contrast, F#, Pascal, oCalm, Haskell, Rust, etc will open your mind and increase your skills, because will move you out the comfort zone.
Thanks for the mention Vijayr!

I'd also add https://flippa.com to this list.

It's interesting to see which businesses are being put up for sale.
Haven't used it in years. Some questions:

1. Can I tag messages? If not, it is unusable for me. Once you get used to notmuch/sup type workflows, everything else sucks.

2. How good are its searches? Can I say I want all messages after a certain date, with a certain word, with no attachments (or with attachments > 100 KB, or with attachments whose name includes "xxxx")?

3. Does it support virtual folders, which essentially are saved searches?
I would suggest some sort of a generator instead of creating CLI as if you have many endpoints, this will be a chore.

As an example: We worked on something similar for a school project in Python, where you would simply write classes for each things, which would then create a JSON file.

In your case, might not be what you want if you do not want to tie to a single language though.
Fair, but if you abuse the the CDC's age-adjusted cause of mortality statistics a little, decreasing the likelihood of CVD/stroke/cancer/diabetes by 2.3% would result in more lives saved than eliminating all motor-vehicle related deaths. (560 / 100k vs. 13 / 100k)

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/2015/017.pdf
The SEO is not a problem.

1) It's not conflicting with anything major (Unless it does, short 4 letters names are way too common).

2) It will transfer along the URL redirections

3) Docker has enough credit and following to gather SEO on any new domain and product name that comes out

The new pages will be top links on google very quickly. No worries about that, machines are fine!

The trouble is with humans, they can't keep up. All the existing content -documentation, community, articles- will stay under the Docker name, forever splitting the knowledge and bringing confusion onto mankind.
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My recollection - and I admit it's been a while - is that the events of the Jihad were expanded on in some of the Brian Herbert / Kevin J Anderson works, but that the basic notion (electronic computation forbidden, and why) was well established in the very first book.
Is this a cultural thing? When compare to Europe, this type of anti-bike rage happens much more less frequently.
I've been using abduco and neovim as my dev environment for the past month or so and am very happy with the setup. I don't rely on mouse events so didn't notice that missing. Whenever I log in local or remote I start a new session or attach to the existing one with `abduco -A nvim nvim`.
I'm not sure the extent to which Tesla blamed the 3rd party. This is obviously a pro-electric-vehicle source. They are trying to give Tesla a pass.
Tesla Recalls 50K Vehicles for parking brake; Owners Sue Over Autopilot
"a culture in which the truest sign of intimacy is not needing to say a thing" - what a wonderful sentence! I must have been Japanese in a previous life :)
Why is it that heavy objects looks like in slow motion when falling?
I'm just curious as to how it works.

This is the video.
https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/ad7o5DV_460sv.mp4
I'm working on a consumer product. Here's what I do.

- Include an invite for a quick 10-15 minute chat in the welcome email (more people than you would think actually take up the offer)

- Ask them why they signed up (this is key to help you determine what problem people want you to solve)

- Ask them their biggest frustrations about the solution so far

And just take it from there.
> I hope more sites test on Edge and not just on Chrome.

"Look for your friends, but trust not to hope. It has forsaken these lands."

Seriously. I use Firefox as my main browser and I'm at the point where I'm surprised if anyone tests anything in anything except Chrome, or if they even realize such test-targets exist at all.

Standard response to bug-reports? "Just use Chrome. Works for me!", "It's just Firefox. Low importance." Etc.

From the glory days of web-standards following IE's demise, this profession has sunk gutter low.
You're probably not going to get a new skill to the level where it will get you a job within a couple of months. By all means start learning, but in terms of employment I'd focus on applying for jobs that you already have the capabilities to do.
I saw it back then too. I think it's still the only movie I've ever fallen asleep to in a theater, if you don't count the 24-hour sci-fi marathons.

As I recall, if there was anything happening in the movie -- which wasn't at all clear to me -- I had no idea what it was.
Getaround raises $45M from Toyota and others to build more partnerships
One of the interesting observations I've had on the bike is that when it is hot and muggy out I don't notice the sweat until I stop. I can be keeping up a decent pace for 5 miles, and it's only when I have to wait for traffic at a crossing or when I arrive at the destination that I'm suddenly drenched in sweat.
I'm a Mastodon admin and I've "silenced" (not "blocked") one other instance. I wrote about why here: https://blog.freeradical.zone/our-first-silenced-instance/

My goal is to allow as much free conversation as possible on my instance. In general, that means I'm taking a laissez-faire approach to enforcing the rules I've set out (see: https://freeradical.zone/about/more) and not caring unless I have to. But if a user is causing problems, I reserve the right to drop them. If another instance is causing problems for one of my users, I reserve the right to silence or block them that server if that's what's necessary to protect my user.

I have about a million things I'd rather be doing than powertripping on who can post what on my instance. Barring illegal, extremely distasteful, or abusive content, I really don't care what my users send or receive. But I will do what it takes to protect me, my users, and my instance.
Blood from human babies make brains of elderly mice young again
it looks like that in monospace I think, in rendered sans serif the bars on the I don't render and it's indistinguishable from a lowercase L.
Does this concept apply to learning skills (as opposed to memorization)? The general wisdom for mastering skills seems to be "just practice a lot." I wonder if spaced repetition could speed up this process.
Leaked Document Details Apple Employee Injuries, Hints at Secretive New Products
I think the approach to that is create individual accounts across instances, but always use your "main" or "home" instance. Follow people you find in the other instances from "main" account and always reply/boost from the "main" account. Eventually other people might pick up to follow your "main" account?

It's a lot of social behavior that yes might be better if the technology did more of the grunt work for you.
Google Home now supports multiple users
That drives me insane as well. I expect it is nessecary in some fashion, but the implementation is severely frustrating. It should be "sticky" and allow you to switch if required.
Also the personal accounts can only have 16 character max passwords, so my normal wetware password generation algorithms don't work
I use the same except for ranger. I'll have to check it out now.
YES!!!!!!!!!!!! This is going to be huge. Ok, ok. /End-hype-train.

But as a SqlServer DBA I know the limits of t-sql and have been looking at postgres's ability to run functions and procedures written in different languages with envy.
If your workplace can't provide you with a charger, maybe it's time to start polishing your resume.
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Wow, that's awesome. Didn't know I can do custom tweaking with Jupyter.
That is addressed in her book...

Senator Warren is obviously an advocate for women having the opportunity to work and have a career while the book analyzes the system wide implications of those individual choices. She makes a convincing case that the results have been for parents to assume more financial risk to raise children and that the risk is higher for single income families and higher still for single income/single parent families.

Some points that really crystallized for me from her book her analysis of household spending for a single income household in the 1970's compared to a more recent dual income household. Once you take out the higher mortgage payment (to get access to good schools), childcare (to support the second income), medical care and transportation (to support the second income) the household in the 1970's had more disposable income at the end of the month than the two income modern family even though the modern family has a much higher household income.

She primarily advocates for tax and policy changes to reduce the system wide impacts on families with children.
I use the bindings suggested in the Input section at https://neovim.io/doc/user/nvim_terminal_emulator.html. Took a little getting used to but now I quite like them.