skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the time I'm not in a rush, but I still pick 2-day Prime because it gets delivered to my door by UPS or sometimes FedEx. If I select slower shipping or order from another site it might come USPS or SurePost (handed off to the USPS). Best case with USPS is it ends up in the mail box down the road - worst case I have to drive to town and get it at the post office.

If Amazon would let me pick a slow option that was still UPS/Fedex, I'd do it. Same with other sites, sometimes I won't buy from them if they only ship USPS and I know it won't fit in the box.

For me, Prime is great because it means most thing come to my door at no extra (other than the yearly fee) cost.
Pretty cool. It answered 'how old is the president' correctly, but got confused with 'how old is the vice president' and gave president Bush's age.

Fun to play with!
Even more disturbing to me is that Youtube has started banning UFO research channels like Steve Greer's CSETI. I don't really bother watching these channels and consider the UFO thing a bit of a quasi-religion, but they aren't inciting violence or hate against anybody.

Has Google decided they are now the truth police? Is Google taking it upon themselves to be like the Chinese censorship bureaus except for the whole world? I think this shows that the hate speech censorship is a real slippery slope.
I 100% agree that the warning is displayed. But can't we not make that a bit more user-centric - to say, "You are going to remove all your files from your disk. This is IRREVERSIBLE."

Would that not be a better info/warning message to a user?

And if many IDEs delete files permanently, why can't VSCode start to do what's the right thing - move it to Trash/Recycle Bin.

Many startups (like Slack) didn't copy what all did, they did the right thing.
But I don't want to work for Amazon or Microsoft or at Google's satellite office.
Thanks for pointing this out - we didn't know about this case and it's cool to see Cortex can answer it correctly! For data sources right now, we use Wikipedia for Cortex but we're planning to add additional ones soon to handle more questions (e.g. questions around movies, restaurants, etc.).

There are definitely some questions (e.g. earth age) that we aren't as good at right now, but we're improving those!
So, when you join a new site that supports U2F do you have to retrieve your "extra" key and join it to the site? That seems quite fragile and fraught with danger. :(
"That doesn't seem quite right, because it was still the government that allowed the private sector to take over a duty of the government."

You aren't talking about discussing it, you're already calling it a duty of the government that the government allowed to be taken over. The discussion is fine, just dont start it from a stance already...
The free space path loss from Earth to Alpha Centauri (4.4 ly) is ~345 dB at 100 MHz (FM broadcast). Our broadcast signals, with their relatively non-directional radiation patterns, are well below the thermal noise floor long before they reach anyone who might be listening for them.

UHF television broadcasts fare even worse because they have a much wider bandwidth and an even greater free space path loss.
OK my mistake, I didn't realize they were from the UK. Replace US with UK and my comments still apply.
Thank you for clarifying. Plain text source code is just not a good way to ship code. Browsers have a warm shared copy of a highly tuned VM. However to make use of it sites have to talk to it via plain text source code heavily penalizing startup.

A JS binary AST has the potential to transparently benefits all websites without any effort on their part if it's handled by a web server module, like GZIP, or a build step. This can remove redundant work that's done for billions of page load for all web sites.
Not 100% sure but I believe it is due to the size and type of batteries used by Tesla.
"They have proposed ways of storing cards and address data in the browser..."

Oh hell no! Just what we need, yet another reason for people to attack your browser. Don't we already suggest to never use the "remember your password" button? Now, it's "remember your credit card." No. Please, just no.
Great to hear it. Now only if they made a light weight homepage. Ditch the photo or lazy load it. And there is another problem: the homepage is mostly black. If I hit search it changes to an all white page. That really hurts my eyes.
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This would be more interesting if the goals section of the readme had content...
> seems unlikely all browsers would implement it

It's going through TC39 (the committee that decides how the JavaScript language should evolve) and recently reached stage 1 (proposals advance from stage 0 to stage 4). I believe that if it reaches stage 4, then that means that all browser vendors have agreed to implement it, so it certainly seems to be their goal.
Sure. So why does any other language need to exist?

Technically, this stuff is all covered by any preceding language in the toolbox. We could all just use C...or Perl?

Why bother to learn the JVM languages when C already had it covered?

Simple...because you can do it better.
I mean, the alternative would be that everyone gets to use all spectrum whenever they want, and then it would just go to whoever is willing to put the most power into the signal that day. That's a horrendous situation.
In fact, masking is a felony in Germany and can land you in jail for up to one year.
Early error behavior is proposed to be deferred (i.e. made lazy), not skipped. Additionally, it is one of many things that require frontends to look at every character of the source.

I contend that the text format for JS is no way easy to implement or extend, though I can only offer my personal experience as an engine hacker.
I'm not American. It's not so much about the US as about the country where they do business which I assumed was the US.
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This whole comment chain started because the quote missed the core part of first sentence.

"The core difference between humans and animals is that humans can reason; we possess cogitative powers." (I have emphasized the point that was missed.)

A core difference between humans and animals is the cogitative powers of humans. Animals simply do not show the same cogitative powers. Animals do have cognition. I don't question that at all. I'm saying, in regards to cogitation (introspection), animals pale to humans.
because it takes balls to stick up for freedom these days and let's be honest, most people just don't have the balls these days. fear is winning.
Going back a quarter century or so, the biggest complaints against Walmart have commonly been thus:

- Extremely aggressive about interrupting unionization attempts.

- Relatively low pay, particularly for the bottom 1/2 of employees.

- They squeeze suppliers to restrain prices to the benefit of consumers. This essentially adds another aggrieved voice in the crowd.

- Then there's a very broad, vague, low value argument about the soul of communities being destroyed by their presence. This premise was particularly common ~15 years ago. It has turned out to be almost entirely bunk, so it's an argument rarely used against them today. Today, the focus is overwhelmingly on pay, specifically that their low wages force tax payers to subsidize said wages.

Most of these arguments collapse upon rational inspection. For example, they universally pay better than mom & pop local stores and employ far more people in small & mid size towns / communities. Then the argument gets flipped: it then gets said that they intentionally pay higher than local competitors, and advocate in favor of higher minimum wage laws, to crush local competition (ie damned if they do, damned if they don't).

The same people that dislike Walmart, you'll find, will frequently lodge 'for the common good' arguments economically. Walmart acts for the good of the many, as they squeeze supplier margins to hold prices down. Somehow saving 200 million people money is turned against them as a negative.

Their low pay is an interesting issue unto itself. Their margins are hyper low, at 2.5% net income margins; their sales have been flat and profits have been falling for years. If they pay each employee just another $4,000 to $5,000 per year, they'd go bankrupt (particularly as they begin the long hard war with Amazon). They're often contrasted with Costco, which pays meaningfully higher wages; however Costco manages that by employing far fewer people per dollar of sales. To match Costco on that, Walmart would have to fire at least half a million people, most of whom have few skills to do any other higher paying jobs.

One of the most fascinating aspects of the low pay / tax payer subsidy issue, is who the tax payers are that are doing the subsidizing: mostly the rich. The top 1/3 in America pay almost all the income taxes that go toward subsidizing Walmart's bottom 1/2 of employees who earn low wages. This almost never gets discussed when the topic comes up, in fact it's aggressively dodged. The people doing the arguing, are overwhelmingly in favor of the rich subsidizing the poor, but for some reason it's not ok when it comes to this (ie they're actually arguing it's bad that the rich tax payers subsidize Walmart's poorest employees, it's comical). This is just a baseless attack on Walmart, because of what they are. The only alternative to having the top 1/3 subsidize Walmart's poorest employees, is to have those employees lose their jobs and then the subsidy goes to 100% instead of being partial as it is today.
And if you're one of those people that really hate taxes, live in Vancouver, WA and buy everything in Portland.
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If early error is deferred then it's no longer early... that's all I meant by skipped. It still is a semantic change that's unrelated to a binary AST.
Many/most companies pay something like this for relocation. I never thought of it as a bonus, rather a way for an employer to offset the expense and misery of moving. If a company didn't help pay for relocation, I wouldn't want to work for that company. It's not a bonus, it's an expectation.
Too bad Trump is still running free over there.
Do you have a link? I'd be interested in reading how they proposed to do so.
Honestly, the answer will really vary depending on who you talk to. That said, if you have worked hard and built a network in the area, those things are actually true. Even around 2001/2002 as well as 2008/2009 there were always jobs around if you knew where to go look. Similarly, if one has established a reputation for themselves (one doesn't need to be a public figure though), it makes it easier to get something off the ground.
I stopped flying too, though I didn't even consider it a health issue. For me it was a combination of high-minded idealistic principles (about liberty/fascism, consumerism and so forth) and just basic kneejerk hedonism (i.e. noticing "this process produces displeasure and unhappiness"). So I cut it out of my life. No big whup. I'm sure they miss my little $1,000/year even less than your $170,000[1] but I'm better off for it.

[1] ...which BTW they probably don't miss either, since it was probably replaced by 170 other willing consumers with $1,000 each, who haven't yet learned how unnecessary & shitty air travel is, or haven't yet acted on it.
The vast majority of Americans do not have choice in ISP. Where I am, I have a choice between Cox and... well, Cox.
I turn off all devices an hour or so before bed every day. Realized it takes about that long to calm down and focus; staring at a screen usually means having my attention pulled in various directions every few seconds. I usually sleep better as a result too, and it gives me time to properly wind down my day (read a book, stretch, meditate, etc).

I also exercise quite a bit as well, but don't really consider that to unplugging -- it feels more like plugging myself into fitness + outdoors, which feels like another form of work tbh.
I may be mistaken, but I believe Adobe had to ship an Actionscript 2 runtime forever because they completely replaced it when they introduced AS3. They needed to keep the flash player backwards compatible, so the player had to have both runtimes. While it worked, it was a kludge.
These signs are curiously applicable to fans of Agile, particularly Scrum.
Thanks for checking it out! There are definitely question domains that need work and some overfitting problems but we wanted to get this out to HN community early and see what they thought.
Most of the time in CMake, you want expansion, so:

my_function("${MY_VAR}")

Avoid the quotes if your variable contains spaces or other separators, and it's your intention for the separate pieces to go into the function or macro independently.

The other case is builtin macros that expect to be passed the name of a variable that they themselves are manipulating. For example the list and string operations. See: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.0/command/list.html
Chrome already has an option to remember your credit card. I love it. It means I can be in line for a show, see that the venue has another one coming up, pull up the purchase page on my phone, and have tickets in second. Or my partner can buy tickets to the theater on the way to the theater, seamlessly. Etc. TLDR It's super convenient, and if my credit card details get stolen or whatever, that's Chase's problem, not mine.
Definitely. Performance at scale is tough to get right here.
That post claims left-wing terrorists are responsible for less violence.

A quick look at the Global Terrorism Database for 2016 (the most recent year available) calls that into question:

https://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/search/Results.aspx?page=1&cas...

According to that, either Muslim or left-wing (anti-white or anti-police) extremists were responsible for all the fatalities in 2016, save one attack for which the motive is unknown.
> Let's see what we can achieve by reworking C syntax ..

Without a shred of specification, only code: I predict, absolutely not a damn thing.

If code is your specification, then every time you type "git commit" you're changing the specification.

On the plus side, your code always implements the specification 100%, at all times.

The public and private stuff is irksome. Make one of them default. Have a way to declare that all names in a region of a file are public or private so that programmers don't have to repeat themselves.

private: // default: can be omitted

void helper_function_a(foo *f) { ... }

void helper_function_b(foo *f) { ... }

public:

int api_function(...) { ... }
I think this would make a good basis for "The Orville: The Motion Picture".

V'ger is found in the middle of space utterly lost.
Starting a company is always unbelievably difficult, but the Bay Area's density makes things a little easier.

I used to live in an apartment on 55 9th St, San Francisco. The guy in the apartment across the hall also started a company at the same time as me. He introduced me to other founder friends in the apartment building.

The lobby has a coffee shop where I've made other founder, angel, and VC friends.

And I haven't even started enumerating all my other startup-y friends I made outside of my own apartment lobby.

I got very lucky, and your own mileage may vary, but if you're looking for helpful startup-y people, the Bay Area is still the world capital.
$10k is usually the signing bonus I get for just changing companies. Is this in addition to the signing bonus?
CMD + Q.

Try it sometime. It's an effective shortcut.
Early benchmarks seem to support the claim that we can save a lot on JS parsing costs.

We are currently working on a more advanced prototype on which we will be able to accurately measure the performance impact, so we should have more hard data soon.
You say this like it's somehow a bad thing? Amazon has built an extremely efficient distribution network comprised of all major shipping companies and a vast array of third party sellers. The price you're seeing is the result of billions of dollars of investment paying off.
If you're using DC/OS you can also run docker containers that leverage GPUs. We worked with Nvidia to mimic the same functionality provided by nvidia-docker. Here's a talk I gave at this years Nvidia GTC conference explaining how it works:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7vZqCY-AJrpMEYyVmZkVGlyOEE...

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1q6brajoQkFZVtSocMPGg...
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When raising a seed or pre-seed, is it better to aim for a few large checks, or lots of small checks (50-100k)?
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It's only censorship if you believe other entities are not also allowed freedom of speech and association.
Yeah, this article is great news. I have a relative with a severe reaction similar to yours - I swear it's off to the hospital if he looks at something that was processed in the same state as food with peanuts. It's heartbreaking, and his parents break out into a cold sweat whenever he's far from emergency medical care, like on a long flight.
None of those people are currently serving in any capacity in Congress and almost all of them are dead. I don't deny that the KKK was big in the US and had political power in 1926.

Also, The Southern Poverty Law Center estimates that there are 190 active KKK groups with between 5,000 and 8,000 Klan members in the U.S. That's a far cry from Austria and Germany.
A collection of deep learning nvidia-docker images to get you started: https://hub.docker.com/r/deepaiorg/

Floydhub also curates most frameworks as nvidia-docker images: https://hub.docker.com/r/floydhub/
There was more info on the monster group and monstrous moonshine in this linked article: https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-chase-moonshin...
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What the hell is wrong with people?! Is it that hard to not harass your fellow humans? Think for yourself, what do I want with my short life. And decide if that is making other peoples life worse.
There's a fire-hose of Californians directed at CO. In a decade or two they will have recreated the place they left.
In my experience, just do the following:

Be generally likable
Write decent to good code
Connect on a regular basis with current and former co-workers
Be aggressive about finding new opportunities (usually through people you've worked with)

I agree with most of the points the author makes here, but I don't think you need to stay 2 years at a particular job - 1 is usually sufficient to avoid the negative resume effects and still get some decent projects under your belt.
The conflation between 'strong' and 'static', and 'weak' and 'dynamic', is probably terminal at this point, but maybe I can do something to, at least, explain the position of the people who don't conflate those terms:

Strong typing is about creating, expressing, and enforcing a contract which determines which operations are valid on which values. Not variables, values. Having the semantics of the value in the compiler or the runtime ensures that errors are handled predictably, with explicit detection and possible reporting.

Weak typing is a lack of those semantics. In the most extreme case, you have languages such as B, where the only type is the machine word, which isn't a type at all because it doesn't imply anything about semantics: You can do anything to a machine word, so nothing can possibly be invalid, so there's nothing to enforce or detect or report. Similar "size specifications", such as int, or long, or float, are only loosely describable as types for the same reason: They specify how many bits a value has, not what's valid to do to it.

So a language such as Python is strongly typed because it can detect violations of the contract inherent in the types it knows about at runtime. C is less strongly typed, because, first, it focuses on its "size specification" types, and, second, you can subvert even that type system totally with nary a peep. Languages such as Ada, which inherited the "size specification" types from Algol, are only strongly typed to the extent you can augment their type system with types which are actually semantic, as opposed to size-based.
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Is it possible that the slowness is caused by disk speed of loading a large file from disk?

I've observed the same thing but it seemed to be IO related, not CPU or GPU related.
The issues I've had (in the UK, indeed) has not been with the delivery time itself (which is often stated, correctly, as "next day" or "2-3 days") but with the time to process my order, some times taking several days. Most severely, two months, as they had neglected to account for the time it takes to customs process a container from China. But the items did arrive one week (plus two months) after the order was placed.

But yes, a lot of small vendors do ship very quickly. They do still generally require me to create an account and unsubscribe from their newsletter, regardless of unticking the box during signup.
Its 2017. After python 3.6, I hope the debate btw python2 vs 3 is put to an end.
Yup, which is why I'd ride an E70/75/90 as far as they'll let me! I'm not particularly tall so I can be fine with 30" of pitch, but I appreciate having more than that. And my shoulders appreciate the extra width.
Whether or not something is really hate speech is beside the point of my argument. The big tech companies could decide to block speech that disparages Bugs Bunny and the point would still hold. Without ISP-level neutrality, competition doesn't provide a check on the existing "big tech" companies foisting their moralism users who disagree with it.
It's not a hypothetical, it's arithmetic. The only hypothetical parts are the number of job seekers and the number of hires, but change them to whatever you like, as long as the proportion of women hired is different than it is in the applicant pool the effect still persists.
>No one is saying they can't discuss their beliefs...

A lot of people are saying that.

Here's where it gets interesting. If you leased an apartment, could your landlord evict you for for hosting dinners in support of the KKK? That's more similar to what happened with the hosting and service provider denials.
It's not because the model is broken / wrong. That it no-longer holds any information.

Example: witches didn't float, yet you can probably assign some properties that would cause people to label them as such.
You can option-click the notifications menu to enable DND for the rest of the day.
They often stop there because they're speed capped by law.

20mph in the US. Slightly lower in most of the EU.

I have a pedal assist wheel, and it will bring me to 20 fairly quickly on flat ground, but all assist cuts out there and the rest is up to me. Usually I hover around 25, but it depends on how I'm feeling that day. You're not really going to pass me at 25 though... Even if you do think it's a problem, it just means we need better bike lanes and bike planning. Speeds vary all the time.

That said... I bike to work pretty much all the time now because of the electric bike.

The end result is dramatically and unquestionably good.

The article can be summed up by their own quote:

>And yet, for all our shared sense that something was wrong

>with electric bikes, we agreed that, by any rational

>measure, they are a force for good.

This nostalgia fluff piece is fluff. It's basically attempting to explain a soft form of gatekeeping around people who do or don't qualify as cyclists.