skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are a current feature but not the baseline which means in practice implementations are buggy or non existent. I've had a few nicer routers where I could turn the options on but most clients are not able to connect :( .

I need to be in the baseline standard to get qualified or nobody will implement it.
If you work for a company with 10,000 employees or more and don't have a gold-plated health plan then it is by deliberate effort on the part of the company to save money.

At that level a company that wants a good plan can demand no exclusions for pre-existing conditions (an issue prior to ACA), same-day partner additions, better drug tiers, lower copays, etc. Often they pay less per person than a 1,000 person company does for a much worse plan.

I know because I looked. Two employers ago we got acquired by a very large company (over 80k employees). They paid ~$800/mo for my family. When I moved to a startup, they were paying ~$1200/mo and the benefits were worse. I'm back at a large company again and it's back to ~900/mo for a better plan.

You are getting screwed because the company has decided to do so.
It's not automation in and of itself, it's the speed at which it's happening.

To use a strange analogy, in the past it has been a leaky faucet. Sometimes it's leaked a lot, sometimes it's leaked a little, but it's always been understood how to fix it. Automation (and offshoring) is affecting so many industries at such a fast pace, it's a river flood rather than a leaky faucet.

A current example is the number of truck drivers. 3.5 million. What are they going to do? That's just one of many.
I have been in a situation where the idea was to write detailed test plans and ask non-expert users to execute them all so I'm guessing that's what's being described here.
I would much rather see Richard Stallman in the White House than to see a greedy Zuckerberg. His success was indeed a lot of luck, but also a lot more greed, climbing on other's shoulders, and several other bad things.
I've long thought the Netflix app should simply upload random noise, to "balance out" the tremendous download/upload difference with which some poor ISPs struggle so.
Bezos never intended to leave the paper alone. The fact that Wapo abandoned Snowden is evidence of that. Bezos is the biggest liar. Just read any of his company wide emails and you'll see how bad of a liar he is.
The short answer is no, the architectures don't transfer. At least not today. Biological neurons are much more complex, and therefore behave quite differently from neurons in neural networks.

To put things in perspective, we've fully mapped the connectome (map of neuron connections) of the simplest animal, C. Elegans, which has only about 300 neurons, yet we still can't simulate this organism's behavior computationally.
Certainly, and I wish I could travel that way. But it's not really an option for many people.

My wife & I do still get a lot out of our backpacking travels, which nominally last two weeks but feel like a month or more.
Severe, chronic flooding will devastate California coast as sea levels rise
I don't know if "impressive" is the word I'd use, I also don't know if this is the sort of story you're interested in, but...

I graduated Construction Engineering Technology, worked manual labour and moved into an estimating/quantity surveying role at a small construction firm. I was still site foreman at the time, and did just as much physical labour after graduating as I did before.

I decided physical labour was not the life for me. Got hired on at a small oil and gas engineering firm which engineers specialty products for large diameter pipeline construction. What was I doing? Reception. Answering phones. Doing dishes. Booking flights. All the administrative things which were (I thought) far and below me, the educated man.

Fast forward 6 months, I've had two promotions, two raises, and am having my IIBA membership and classes paid for. I still do some reception duties, but rarely.

I think there's a lesson to be had here. I was pretty upset moving into a role at the bottom of the pole, after being fairly "high up" in my old role (well, lots of responsibility even if the pay didn't quite reflect that). But, now I'm making more money than I was, with as much schooling as I (reasonably) want paid for. I showed up with a good attitude every day, and no matter how remedial I felt the work was, I put in 100% effort. It paid off. It's continuing to pay off.

tldr - Started as a receptionist, now am much more
I don't think that's what's going on, since the client is asking for this stuff and not his employer.
Then add spore prints and we will really have something!
San Andreas in Steam has received several "updates" that just removed songs from the radio. :(
System works here. Sure people can cite edge cases, but they are relatively rare.

Not sure these are just "edge cases"...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/patients-live...
I have used one and everything you said is valid. It is fairly low res and the graphics are mobile quality, but that isn't what you are paying for, and calling it garbage is pretty unfair. Show me another device that is doing AR right now at the fidelity levels of HL. Your criticism is the equivalent of comparing an iPhone with a full on desktop workstation. They are not trying to solve the same problem and therefore do not need to have the same visual fidelity.

That said, IMO, it really is prototype hardware with the intention to iterate on it until it finds a market segment. I doubt MSFT is making any money on the device.

Disclaimer: Work at MSFT, have nothing to do with HL.
This is correct; and, it helps eliminate the issue of so-called "food deserts"[1], because geography/neighborhood will no longer be a barrier to higher-quality foods.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert
I ain't even mad. Life is about finding out exactly how much you can get away with.
And that's a bad thing why?

Why shouldn't there be nice, exclusive areas to live in, just like there are exclusive schools to attend and exclusive companies to work for?
It might as well be owned by Amazon
The reason people say 2024 is because there is an age limit to be President. You have to be 40 or older.

Oops. I was wrong. Only 35. He could possibly run for the next one depending on his exact age.

May 2019 - 35
Going +1 on this. I'm not an engineer, but I'm a plasma physicist who lives doing Particle-in-Cell sims, so a very different regime and perspective.

Accuracy isn't really at the forefront of our concerns because most EM solvers since the 70's are good enough in those terms, and going to higher order methods aren't worth it for us if it is so much slower. What we need is speed. For me, give me a way to do 50 simulations in a month that are converged enough that allow me to do a parameter scan over laser phase, focal point, etc. Allow me to do more 3D simulations. That what I need. The reason is that for me, plasma is so fuzzy anyway that the nth term error in the expansion pales in comparison to if laser focuses half a micron off target, which is a much more common source of error bars in a real experiment.

I imagine it's similar for engineers, our solvers are good enough for most problems, just make them faster and allow us to do more 3D simulations in shorter time.
Ask HN: Is it time to give up?
So, I've been trying to get a developer job for months now, but just can't do it. I lack a degree, but have about two years of freelance work behind me. I've been looking all over the U.S. and at first, got some leads, along with a few interviews. However, its been over a year since I've done any sort of work related to IT, and the number of job leads I'm getting is shrinking.

I currently have one job I interviewed at a month ago telling me they're working on the "SOW" still, and another one I interviewed at month ago telling me they are still deciding.

I don't see anyway out. Should I give up and pursue something else?
I actually disagree here. I think someone young, energetic, and highly intelligent & analytic is exactly what we need to break out of the rut we're in. And so far the tone of his tour across the US seems to indicate that he wants to be fairly centrist and bipartisan, but without necessarily sticking to political norms.
Because we have never had machines capable of doing human metal labor. That is making executive decisions, displaying creativity, learning over time etc. These are fundamental human capabilities that machines are becoming capable of. It will be impossible for the human labor market to shift when nearly every job has an AI that can do it better, faster, with less mistakes, and most importantly for cheaper. On what aspects are humans supposed to compete?

I also recommend the CGP grey video.
Not every place is a Web startup.
However "look the other way" isn't a very viable strategy either, it can also easily end up with corporate abuse. So what to do?
Maybe "The software currently requires an AVX2 and FMA capable CPU, e.g. Haswell." holds the secret? Some kind of experimental test bed for using CPU vector instructions to speed up compression/decompression?

Disclaimer: I have no idea what I am talking about. For all I know possible use of these instructions is already a feature of HEIF and that statement is irrelevant.
In the pursuit of success like Zuck's sometimes being 'unlucky' can also mean getting lucky.

Being raised in a family that struggles to make ends meet might give one the grit and character one needs to succeed. Not being popular, athletic or good with people might push you into more intellectual pursuits.
Either you replied to the wrong person or you are majorly projecting your own displeasure. They just asked if the other person was planning on sticking with the iPhone in the future or moving to something that still includes the headphone jack. There was no negative tone to be inferred from that post.
Mushroom Serves Up SD-WAN Tunnel Technology
s/bazaar/bizarre/
The nuclear option - changing the rules to allow majority votes to override a filibuster - has existed in potentia for a long time. The republicans have used it lately for things they consider crucial to their agenda. If the democrats wanted single payer and considered it crucial to their agenda, they could have done that. Of course neither of those "ifs" are true and we can use the lack of action to judge this.
No. I do not know how this name was chosen.
Good tip, thanks. Plan in advance for high load before advertising or cache all the things.

By the way, the image at the top should be served in different weights (bytes) for different screen sizes. Instead it's unnecessarily large (bytes) for a small screen phone where it's kind of 1.5 x 2 cm. It's wasted bandwidth on the server and not nice to look at while it loads one line at the time.
On Peninsula and in South Bay, RVs Have Become Symbol of Homelessness
Google's TPU proves that 8 bits is still good.
New details emerge on Fruitfly, highly-invasive Mac malware
Upvoted, it's easy to blame others for not taking care of the people, while walking by and not noticing thousands of homeless people on your way to a 6+ figure job.
the federal government can reimburse the person I was replying to because they control and mint dollars. With Ethereum you can control and mint your own currency, I didn't want to use the word currency earlier, it is more of a digital asset or app credits.
Bezos' plan was always to have a mouthpiece to spout propaganda. Why else invest in a dying medium?

Same with Carlos Slim and the NYT. This isn't rocket surgery.
You actually only have to be 35, and he will be in time for 2020. The 2024 stuff was starting to come out before Trump won, which significantly increases the chances of a one term presidency based on the polls & media coverage (imo).
I guess in my mind signal == attacks, but I guess there's also value in having reports when your policy broke things if you don't have other methods for detecting that, or if your integration tests disable CSP.
> The clutch has an added benefit of you get rear ended and drop it - engine braking is a thing.

There's no engine breaking when stopped, if the engine is running.

I typically do keep my foot on the brake when stopped in traffic. And I do balance brakes, clutch and throttle when stopped on a hill. But except for stop-and-go traffic, or when getting ready to punch it, using the clutch and brakes together seems pointless.
My favorite for now stays mkdocs (http://www.mkdocs.org/). For relative small ones with the material theme (http://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/) and bigger ones (because of top bar) with bootswatch theme (http://mkdocs.github.io/mkdocs-bootswatch/). It works the same, just builds a site from your MD files but creates a static site which can be hosted anywhere (e.g. github/gitlab pages via auto CI). Editing and creating your own theme is also easy and documented.

Installation is easiest I found for docs sites (pip install mkdocs) and it's blazingly fast. Comes with good themes and proper responsive design (saw some issues in Raneto on my ios). Has proper live reloading and build in serve functionality.

For large projects (enterprise size) we have made our own version based on what I learned from the Polymer docs (https://github.com/Polymer/doc) but removed the GAE requirement. Also, we are considering if using SO Enterprise is a good solution. Personally I'm in favor for in house docs and knowledge sharing for that. It's so flexible and people are already used to it. But that is a different ball park considering the OP.

To end with a positive note. Raneto seems to support much of the same as mkdocs or any of its alternatives. It looks good and whilst static site is something I want I understand it is not a deal breaker for all. In addition, Raneto mentions authentication is built in which is a nice thing if I want to host for internal stuff on a public domain so external customers can also use it without requiring a VPN account. Overall, nice work! Not for today, but I have bookmarked it.
Because I believe they sacrifice quality of life for density, and I think we can do better.

We don't need to pack everyone in like sardines. As you already noted, there's plenty of space in the world. (You just have to turn your eyes outside the peninsula).

P.S. I do not live nor aspire to live in the peninsula, or anywhere near it
> And please don't say "patent free" unless you are certain Pik will not infringe on those same patents

HEVC/HEIF: Absolutely can't use because patents. Pik: Maybe can't use because patents.

Pik has potential to be useful, HEVC does not.
I still haven't found anything similar on Mac. It's the biggest thing I miss after making the switch. Preview is close, but still not the same. And Gimp, the usual recommendation, is far, far far far too heavyweight to be a valid comparison to Paint.
Please. Most (if not "basically all") of their employees already moved to work there.
You can use Window's built-in Snipping Tool to do that more quickly than with paint (still love paint though)
Would be nice if Microsoft open sourced it so others could learn from it or actively develop a fork.
My understanding, as an American, is that people in single-payer countries tend to see doctors much sooner than Americans do.

Say I'm sitting around and I finally decide to get pain in my wrist looked at that I've had since I broke it ten years ago. I could see a specialist in less than a week. However, I probably would have had it looked at 7 or 8 years ago if I was in a single-payer system. Maybe I would have had to wait 6 months to see a doctor, but that still puts me about 7.5 years ahead of where I am now.

I know a lot of people who have bones that never healed right because an emergency room visit is going to cost you a fortune whether or not you are insured, so they don't go to the ER because it doesn't hurt 'that bad'. I imagine that is somewhat less prevalent in places with socialized healthcare.
For some context, this paper is from Numenta, Jeff Hawkins' company. Hawkins was the founder of Palm/Handspring back in the 90s. Afterwards he became quite interested in neuroscience and neural networks, and pulled a Wolfram in his 2004 book "On Intelligence" with claims that he had a unified theory of how the brain works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Hawkins
Is Your Code Ready to Prevent the Nedelin Catastrophe?
Great job -- nice song, cool video, and thanks for the write-up!
Networking, networking, networking.

And I mean the social kind.

Regardless of experience, resume, whatever.. Networking is everyones number one way of getting a "foot in the door". Honestly, if I were you, any time you think you should spend polishing up your resume / brushing up on data structures whatever; you should instead spend your time getting out there and networking.

Ask people to refer you to other people. Meet people for friendly coffee, and don't even bring up that you're looking for work the first coffee. Start commenting on popular blogs, insightful articles on LinkedIn, etc.
I went to a defense oriented EM conference about 25 years ago. One of the military guys slams a TWT down on the table and says he'll pay $1M to model this; he was serious. Of course now I can buy CST particle studio. I assume it's feasible now.
Billionaires make it rain on Plenty, the indoor farming startup
My attempt at creating realistic images from Gameboy camera pictures[1] got posted by someone else.

I did not notice it, and the traffic brought down my tiny blog with the 25.000 visits I got the next couple of days.

It was a really cool feeling, and I learned what measures to take to keep my self hosted WordPress blog up in these cases. Unfortunately I never needed it afterwards. If someone is interested in a write up, let me know so I can make one.

Since then my blog gets about 40 visits a day. Only a small amount, but it still satisfies me and keeps me writing.

[1]http://www.pinchofintelligence.com/photorealistic-neural-net...
It might not have been done with Google's time and resources; Google likes to strong-arm employees into agreeing that Google owns their side projects. The `google` organization on GH is a compromise.
The US adds 200k jobs per month during non recession times. 3.5 million is 17 months worth. Considering that truck driving jobs will disappear over many many years that's no big deal.
In this case, "more capable" is an anti-feature. Paint "just works" because it's so damn simple and easy. And with the added benefit that it comes pre-installed, so you don't need to comparison shop between four other tools to see if you like them or not.
'Keys to kingdom' leaked by Sweden exposing military secrets, EU secure intranet
I'm surprised Microsoft CAN kill off Paint, given how much they cater to big corporate interests and keeping things backwards compatible.

For example, I've heard stories that Notepad can never be upgraded nor removed from Windows because there are big corporate users that have binary monkey-patched Notepad in order to achieve some business goals. They literally have to keep Notepad unchanged from Windows 3.x days or else some big corporate entity won't upgrade Windows when the upgrade comes out.

I think that's one reason that Windows desktop and its apps are such a hodge-podge representation of Windows UX over the years.

I can't believe Paint isn't absolutely mission critical to some big company somewhere, maybe its design wasn't conducive to monkey-patching.
this would be great if it were linked to touchbar fingerprint sensor
Literate Programming, Knuth. My methods have evolved since I first read and started toying with the ideas here, but this is where it started.

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/lp.html
Watch out you got a typo on the front page: "A central dashboard shows all secuirty events and directs your attention to the exact part of your application that has issues" - security is spelled wrong
Alexandrescu's Modern C++ design taught me how to template properly.

Also, Scott Meyers's books were very helpful.

The design of the D standard library has also been very influential on my code (Mainly convincing me of the benefits of ranges over iterator)
"WKRP In Cincinnati" is the archetype for this problem.
> "They don’t engage in the predatory behavior of yore, such as selling goods below the cost of production to steal market share and cripple competitors."

Doesn't Amazon do exactly that?
Yep. Use of AVX2 and so forth a pretty standard thing to do to get decent performance for video/image encoding and decoding.

Worth noting: Skylake with Integrate Graphics includes an x265 encoder and decoder. If that can't be adapted to HEIF, that's a huge win for the format.
Ahhhh. That makes a lot more sense. Thank you.
> Buying video on demand online right now makes no financial sense whatsoever.

That's only if you place little or no value on convenience. I don't spend much money on video, so the occasional $10 or $20 purchase is bearable.

I don't want a physical copy and I certainly don't want to go to Fry's. For me, iTunes / Google Play / Amazon Video all make more sense.

I've actually thought about cancelling cable and buying everything on demand because I think I would save some money. We're paying more than $1000 / year for TV. That would pay for a lot of TV at $2-$3 per episode. We've never made the jump though because of live sports and the stupid blackout rules.
Jessica Livingston on What’s Different about “Unicorns”
Jeeze, I wish Netflix would stream in DVD quality for me. Their DRM hates my setup for whatever reason, so I'm stuck at a 1 or 2 mbps stream.
Glad you liked it
Yeah of course. I'm just trying to salvage the idea (door-to-door in a car, high speed). Seems like a train for cars would be the solution. Not that it would be particularly efficient, but not as terrible as 200mph cars.
That is true. Personally the thing I miss the most is simple text insert. Writing with mouse is horrendous, but the ease of use beats functionality for me.
I agree, this is the crux of the argument. Broadband ISPs have been guilty of this for some time. Mobile players are generally getting a little more leeway by capping total transfer per month and not talking about rates as much. And T-mobile's "Binge On" product has been mostly hailed as pro-consumer, even though it does shape video down to SD bitrates and is a direct violation of the "paid prioritization" tenet of net neutrality as described in FCC's directive.
Areweyet – MozillaWiki
It is :-)
Dependent or even refinement type systems are where a great deal of research into proof carrying code is done (for refinement types, since systems are restricted to decidability, the proofs are automatic but more limited).
Just because it hasn't in the past, doesn't mean it won't in the future.
The fact that the problems addressed by the Democratic health care bill are orthogonal to some other problem you care deeply about is not, logically, evidence that the Republicans and Democrats are "indistinguishable" when it comes to health care. The status quo ante of the ACA was a system in which millions of people were locked out of insurance by fiat due to pre-existing condition bans. For those people, all providers were "out-of-network".
well basically wasn't that one of his better political sentences?
Saying something like "x does not paying internet taxes", could've come from every political person, since this sentence is extremly clever and not incorrect at all.
amazon did in fact not pay internet taxes. (because they don't exists) Isn't that speech which every politican uses?
GitKraken is my favorite UI, and they publish a number of videos to try to break down how features might be best used, supports Git Flow natively, etc.
Pik's documentation doesn't even have "patent free" as a goal.
Yes, we should expect blue collar workers to be our Uber drivers or our postmate deliverers or Etsy sellers. The new jobs created in this economy pale in comparison to what they were doing before.
Pretty sure APNG is supported now in all browsers except Edge and IE. So not quite there yet, but we're getting close.
Not just the last mile but the peering agreements that your last-mile ISP has with either a backbone provider and/or other networks.