skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The same thing that, at the turn of the century when one in ten people were employed in agriculture. (today it's closer to 1/100) they go find other work.

Same goes for a farrier or a blacksmith or milkman, or ice delivery, or newpaper boy shouting "extra, extra - read all about it" from the street corner. In some cases, the job is simply gone. In others, the work still exists, but is nowhere as common.
I use another browser on my phone for fb, and it's the only thing I use that browser for. This is amazing! I can finally read all of the messages I had without installing their app. Thank you so much for sharing that!!
I built an off-line voice recognition system 10 years ago using Microsoft Speech API and I guarantee you it worked quite well. There's nothing in base voice recognition that would require uploading everything to the cloud. You only have to be willing to read out some text for few minutes, once, to train the model.
My trouble with Anker cables is I'm not able to buy them in a reasonable way. If I go on Amazon, most of their products "do not ship to your location (Europe)". For the few that do, Amazon wants to charge me $16 in "import tax deposit" (when the item cost is way below the threshold for import tax) plus $15 for the cheapest shipping. That's on a cable costing $4.99.

This is a major beef I have with Amazon in general, and the reason I almost never buy stuff there. Most stuff I want doesn't ship to my location, there's no way to filter out unavailable items from search, and shipping is usually horribly expensive. When AliExpress offers a better experience, your ecommerce store has some serious issues...

Now, I can go on eBay and get an Anker cable more reasonably priced, but then it's 85% likely I'm getting a Chinese knockoff. Then I might as well buy 10 straight-outta-Guangzhou $0.99 cables and get 1 that works well for a year. Which is what I do now.

Does anyone know a quality yet reasonably priced micro usb cable brand available in Europe/Scandinavia?
My own app! Responding to user feedback and hearing from people who like it reminds me that I've helped at least one person. It provides just enough sanity.
The difference between a company genuinely caring about their customers' experience with their product, and one who will do whatever it takes to manage their public profile isn't all that different to all practical intents and purposes.

That said, I'd consider it more carefully if i was going to engage with them beyond buying accessories. Or if they nearly burned my house down, I guess.
That would be my rhythm too. Let something sink in for few days, try a few things, and once it clicks, crank it out in a few 12 hours shifts.
It won't be a popular opinion here but here it goes:

Well if it all goes to hell we will all be in the same handbasket. I'm simply not willing to cut people out of my life and miss out on things that are important to me because my data is mined and might be used against me. All these distributed platforms are a joke, no really they are technically cool but no one I care about is on them. Maybe if your entire social circle is technically sophisticated you can leave FB for something like diaspora (I don't know if this is the "new hotness" or if there is something better but I really don't care). My social graph is so far from able or willing to switch to something else it's not even funny. Like it or not there is a social stigma around NOT having a FB account. In fact I've thought on multiple occasions that someone is hiding something if they don't have one. You might hate me for that or hate the fact people think like that but good luck changing that mindset.

Look I've been on the other side of this, I paid for App.net (I think that's what that twitter clone was called) and tried multiple distributed platforms but they all fall short or require too many compromises. I tried to get friends to use Signal but no one really cares. iMessage/FB Messenger are just easier and everyone is on them. You want people to leave the "evil facebook" then make something better and easier to use. The best doesn't win, the easiest does.
Has anyone tried running Fastly behind Cloudflare? Are the tradeoffs worth it?
A good number of people I know have left facebook for everything but the events. Its still the one central location where pretty much everybody is.

I would love nothing more than a standalone events app that not only had future events, but a, 'hey, I'm at %location%, anyone want to meet up?' that allowed for multiple degrees of social interaction --- e.g. just friends, anybody.
Do you really think the quality of those found in non-cities even approach that of cities?

Maybe you have some alternate theory as to why remote workers overwhelmingly choose to live in cities?

https://zapier.com/learn/remote-work/how-manage-remote-team/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/karstenstrauss/2016/02/04/the-t...
Pretty insane that the semi-famous "Bitcoin Pizza" would now valued at ~$22M.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericmack/2013/12/23/the-bitcoin...
Except, it actually does. ML is just advanced statistical modeling which performs complex computation over large amounts of data to give out better results. Because Apple can afford to do things at scale and use their marketing prowess to buy sensors at an economical price, they can afford to use multiple sensors to give out a reasonably accurate metric. All the technologies that you mentioned do solve problems they are intended to solve. Why so much negativity?
Not all the memories I value on Facebook are my own posts. Most people don't have copies of the photos they've been tagged in unless they manually downloaded them.
The secrecy issue has gotten out of hand.

The classic military view of secrecy is time-limited. "Where the ship was last week is unclassified. Where the ship was yesterday is confidential. Where the ship is now is secret. Where the ship will be tomorrow is top secret." The opposition will eventually find out what you're planning on doing. The goal is for them to find out the hard way, when incoming fire starts hitting them.

The intelligence community has a longer-term view. "We know, and they know. We think they don't know that we know they know. We hope they don't know how we found out that they know." This protection of sources mindset leads to things being kept secret long after all involved parties know.

The anti-terrrorism community has adopted the intelligence community mindset. This is a problem.
Great. He is also a JavaEE guardian.

https://javaee-guardians.io/who-we-are/
I don't ask for those things anyway, precisely because I don't want Google to have that much information about me. I'd love to have a local-only, offline map system.
What about Ether? Does it makes sense to buy now and hold it, at $170+ ? Price is at all time high and most people on the web seem to be optimistic about its future (post-purchase rationalization?)
Have Aliens Built Huge Structures Around Boyajian’s Star?
> The rightness question seems to me to look a lot more like "If you can collect data from a billion users without doing any harm to the users, and that data is going to be more useful than a statistical subset of that data, why should you not collect it?"

In this particular case (speech recognition), one harm done to the users is tying the product to the Internet, and thus requiring what should be closed-loop tasks to go through vendor's servers.
Problem-Solving vs. Product-Pushing in Marketing – Who Wins?
Sounds like the intended use isn't last-mile, but it could be in the case of larger items.

However, I'm not sure how people would react once they start being crushed by large household appliances falling from the sky. Nothing's perfect I suppose.
Can a concrete ship be used as a mine sweeper or for some other strategic use case?
I have looked at the TOS in Spain and you won the bet :)

They can shut down your account for the reason you stated
The modern chaebol is still organized along military-bureaucratic lines. Or at least the one I worked for was. You can still have this experience today!
> people that don't have more knowledgeable peers to help them see the limitations of what they know

I've definitely met people like that; people who are used to being the smartest people in the room, and so when they make pronouncements without thinking long about a problem, everyone around them is used to assuming what they say is right, because they're smart.

And once they're around other smart people, it's like talking to a brick wall—they're so used to everyone else accepting their bullshit, that they don't know how to handle being called on it, and they don't know how to defend their ideas because they've never had to before.

Oy. Frustrating people.
I've seen colleagues try < 100% work and what would end up happening is that they would work the usual hours, but just get part-pay. There are really no solid checks and balances other than a manager's goodwill when you start working part-time. The only way you can actually curtail hours is if the manager says "ok, s/he is working part-time, so I'll give them fewer responsibilities." Quite often, project deadlines and not-so-nice managers ensure that you end up working full or more hours even if you are officially part-time.
> It's interesting to find someone on here who maintains all of their files/email/photos/etc locally in a redundantly backed-up manner at home on their own personal server. How did you do that? Can you recommend me a way to do that for a non-technical person?

You missed a very important point I'm trying to make with my question.

Can you recommend me a way to do that for a non-technical person?

Many people on HN forget that there are many non-technical people in the world and that they don't have a data server
with raid drives in their house running OwnCloud/Flex for all of their backup needs. Hence why they use the cloud and that shouldn't be appalling.

I mean this analogy can be taken to some extreme places if you start looking at the fact that you trust a bank, the stock exchange, a government, etc. You could minimize how much you trust each of them because your personal happiness is based on them. And PLEASE don't tell me if your bank was all of a sudden taken to a negative balance you wouldn't be sad, mad, angry, etc.

The point is, many people don't like Facebook, Microsoft, etc. and they press that opinion on others in a manner I don't always appreciate. It's a company that offers a service I like. If it goes away I'll be sad, but life will go on.
Is the herring they use as bait the same fish I buy in cans or jars in the supermarket? I'd rather eat that than lobster most days.
Most of sales is pretty depressing and drips of desperation while one person in the office crushes it and others struggle. I'm talking "prestigious" areas like commercial real estate too. Most salespeople are not in high margin, booming areas like IT/software.

Higher the margins and technical complexity the better.
Did you use any alerting mechanism that informed you about the how many % were affected by this?
The difference here is they splash "Unlimited" on their website in 32 point font in the 1 sentence summary, and put "at our discretion" buried in their 2500 word terms of service. If they want to operate the service under those terms, fine, but they should have to advertise "as little as 0 bytes of storage", not "unlimited".
We're talking about cargo drones, so I'm assuming the rotor would be relatively heavy duty compared to the size of the craft. And since we're talking unmanned, you can probably accept higher landing speeds than normal. You are really just interested in preventing a catastrophic landing, so navigating towards an empty area and not exploding on impact.
Asking for weather is an API issue, it totally does not require uploading your voice.
> so I wouldn't mind if they set some reasonable limit to encrypted uploads (say 1-10TB).

How is Amazon supposed to distinguish between encrypted and non-encrypted data that you upload?
If it's a small project / defined REST api - flask

If it's a big project / still not sure of the requirements - django

For the frontend: React
I use Shoprunner where it's supported, because I get it for free with Amex. My experience is that it's not as good as Prime. Prime is supposed to give you free delivery in 2 days. Shoprunner is supposed to give you free 2-day shipping. These are very different things. Yes, the Shoprunner package is shipped via a 2-day shipping method, but the merchant often takes several days before they ship it. I've had Shoprunner orders take a week or more to arrive. Every once in a while Prime misses its promise date, but it's pretty rare, and usually only by a day. I don't think I've EVER had a Shoprunner order arrive in 2 days. Unless the merchants are all prepared to start passing orders off to the carriers more quickly, a carrier program will have a hard time matching the Prime experience.
vague corollary: i wish people would really value inaction. so so often the winning move is not to play. just like you learn to love deleting code, you learn to love not even writing it to begin with. i dont think we are naturally wired to understand this, but its become one of my greatest joys. the old platitude that jazz is "the notes you dont play" applies here i think. i think we could all stand to relish saying "no" and avoiding problems all together more.
I don't understand what this comment is trying to say, but despite that, I'm pretty confident there must be better ways to say whatever it's trying to say.
Researchers Discover SSD NAND Flash Vulnerability That Forces Data Corruption
Well, the reason that is seen as an economical amount of space is because they can hire people that accept that tradeoff. If people didn't accept it, then businesses would provide office space.

Business will offer the least that people will accept, it's up to you to decide if you will accept it. Working with someone is a voluntary negotiation - that's a two way street. Business decisions about floor space are not sacrosanct, and enough discontent from employees would change norms as it would for anything not vital to company survival.

While I give startups some leeway, for large established companies like Apple or Facebook, already rich shareholders are loling all the way to the bank at workers' expense. I'll cry a river if additional accommodations result in falling a place or two on the most profitable companies in the world chart. According to YCharts, FB's quarterly profit margin was an astounding 38% (down slightly from the previous quarter): https://ycharts.com/companies/FB/profit_margin

To reap riches that insane, I consider it an obligation for the leadership of that company to accommodate their workers quite generously. You might argue it's already generous, but compare that to their executive class. The level of inequality is astounding, and this is amongst rich people.
That's totally fine, as long as you are aware of the problem and decide that it doesn't matter to you.
But they have the moral(legal?) obligation to let us know how they're using our data.
For Now, AI Tinkering Has Outpaced the Cloud
Yii2. React on the front if the UX really requires it.
I can see an alternate scenario happening:

Let's say, for the sake of argument, self-driving cars and truck, fully deployed, are 10 years away.

In that time we might see a move to many more drivers on the road, not less: A lot of growth in food delivery, e-commerce and in particular shuttles offering a fast,affordable, shared transport mode, as an attractive replacement for private cars in many places.

Maybe, with all of that, instead of 1/10 we'll have 2/10 of the workforce as drivers. Consider the effect their salaries have on the families, and indirect support extended families has, we could see a really strong political base against self-driving cars.

And from that point, all kinds of things could happen, to better manage or prevent that change.
How do you fetch comment scores?
All the other things everyone else here said plus: Quick Javascript Switcher (Chrome) or equivalent in FF. They can't track you if they can't run their Javascript (and you don't request pages from them or their friends). You can turn it on for domains you need it on. I truly wish this was the default state of browsers and that it had a counter of lines of JS blocked. I'd probably be in the billions easily by now.
Graphs of the memory hierarchy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4048204

What's bayesian and frequentist statistics: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4741146

Again: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=384399

DSA math: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6195606

Automotive development: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10496625

QNX and message passing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9872640

Path through InfoSec: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11710028

What does performance in Erlang mean: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6359493

Emacs and C/C++: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8617300

Money and self-publishing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8373185

Kerbal Space Program: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12640451

Bush v. Gore: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12187666

Teaching a class: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=818367

Precedence climbing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13915458
Show HN: Hacker News client written under 1 hour
Did you miss the part about sensitive sensors? A single sensor may not be enough to classify accurately but multiple sensors measuring different things can sometimes work. Such sensor fusion has worked incredibly well for IMU's and also in self-driving cars.
HN comment scores are not public, so I am unsure how you find the "most upvoted comments"
Per my understanding of XLA, it provides the right high-level abstraction for compiling the tensorflow computation graph under a range of architectures, CPU, NVIDIA GPU, mobile, etc. but it still delegates to a lower level domain-specific API like CUDA.

This undertaking isn't something to be taken lightly; CuBLAS has some pretty cutting edge architecture-specific optimizations for batching operations for matrix multiplication that came from several years of research - and is arguably a massive competitive advantage of NVIDIA over AMD. Depending on the development state of such an API internally within Google, it could mean that the Cloud TPU isn't going to be ready for wide-spread commercial use for a good while, and is very much still in the research-and-development phase (which could explain why they're only opening it up for the research community right now).
>I for one will do my part to help pick up the slack in demand.

Likewise. It's a tough job, but someone has to do it.
Is it though?

https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/300479

My understanding is the best video game netcode tends to rely upon UDP for gameplay, TCP introduces way too much overhead to keep gameplay at its smoothest: far better to use UDP and get latest player data as fast as possible, lost packets be damned.
From your prior comment:

> If Facebook were suddenly gone tomorrow, I would feel devastated (so many memories of my kids, deceased father, mom, all would be gone).

What did I take out of context?

And it's worth considering: "Facebook [being] suddenly gone" doesn't have to mean the service shuts down. It could just mean your account's been suspended for what some algorithm, opaque even inside the company and utterly occult from without, calculates is sufficiently probable cause. At best, it's going to take a while to resolve the problem via Facebook's famously helpful and proactive customer service. At worst, your account is gone forever. Maybe you can make a new one and start all over!

From your perspective, there's no distinction to be drawn between "Facebook is gone" and "Facebook is gone from me". Except that, in the former case, you're probably much better off, because in the latter case everyone else is still there - and it feels as much to them like the only way to keep in touch as it feels to you right now, and keeping in touch with anyone who isn't there feels like just enough of an imposition that, over time, they stop bothering.

(And if this seems like something that could never happen - that people would never just forget there are ways other than Facebook to stay tied into one another's lives - well, it can. Ask me how I know.)

As for the rest of your comment - I don't know to whose claims you're responding, but I'm pretty sure they're not ones I've ever actually made...
We have been sued by patent trolls at least seven times in the last ten years, all in Marshall, TX. We also sign onto the amicus brief for the TC Heartland case. This is a huge victory and what it means, in short, is that we won't get sued in Marshall, TX anymore. That's important because the venue is full of nepotism and extremely plaintiff-friendly. The longer version is we won't have to pay a "toll" to trolls who sue many other companies and us for ridiculous reasons like using OAuth or providing a link to images we host.
A very small startup team does benefit from an open plan, such as shared desks or a shared office. This scales to maybe 6 people. I think this is the environment that larger companies are trying to capture.

But at scale, this is a ridiculous setup and one that breeds interruptions. In a small team, what one person knows is often useful to another. In a larger team there are many more independent parts, and entangling communication is a waste of attention. Worse, I think it causes people to deliberately adopt a default-closed mentality to avoid overload.

Companies don't easily outgrow their early cultures; they think what got them there will continue to serve them -- in fact, they want to go back and "capture the magic" that were there in the early days. It's a form of corporate nostalgia that is one symptom of becoming sclerotic.

It's not really about open floor plan vs. cubicles. I recall the first time I visited HP's vast cube farm at their silicon valley headquarters. It was vast, drab, mostly quiet, and absolutely soul-deadening. OTOH the Dropbox headquarters in SF was open floor plan and absolutely cramped, yet buzzing with youthful energy. Lots of people were using headphones. I could see how it would be an exciting place for a young person. On the one hand the buzzing energy is a potential distractor, but it's also an energy booster. It makes your heart beat a little faster. It makes you feel like you're in a place where things are happening.

With age, my powers of concentration have waned a bit and I cannot power through distractions like I did when younger. A cube farm would be very demotivating. An open floor plan would be highly distracting, but likely somewhat better. But the best is to avoid large environments like that entirely, and stick with a smaller group where the interruptions are actually useful, where a shared office and a shared mission produce energy and focus.
Being waste does not imply being abuse.
Atomix – Software stack for distributed systems infrastructure
Some details of this analysis seem off to me. The pink QSFP cables are more likely to be PCIe than Omni-Path. The orange/yellow/green cables are likely to be some kind of network (torus? hypercube?) but I doubt Google would use IBM IP when they could design their own.
> Facebook is not about keeping in touch with friends

You are mistaken. I use Facebook to keep in touch with friends. It's a pretty epic level of arrogance to try and tell me what I use it for.
Interesting article.

If you have any interest whatsoever in the history of science, you should check out the blog. It is simply marvelous.
The second part of your proposal doesn't make any sense in the scheme of transitioning humans out of that sector of the workforce. Increasing restrictions on CDL issuance doesn't make it any easier to transition drivers out, it kicks them out. I find it comparable to increasing the minimum wage of fast food workers as the food prep process is increasingly automated. It simply makes it more and more favorable to choose the automated option.