skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When Disney bought BAMtech (which was part of that announcement), they got just that: a battle-tested, state-of-the-art content delivery platform capable of streaming of millions of simultaneous viewers.

As for customer support, Disney has always been excellent at that. Go into a Disney store or theme park sometime for an example. Heck, they invented the "customer is a guest" service concept (outside the hotel context).
A co-op has no way to raise capital and expand quickly. They have to create the capital themselves by being profitable, or by reaching into their own pockets.
Well, for once I can be proud(ish) of my government.
Deploying More Reliable Apps with Uber Engineering’s XP Background Push
Not every page on the WWW is a blog post, nor even every WWW site a web log to have blog posts on.
I don't disagree that these things are bad. But all things are relative.

Perhaps I just have a bleaker imagination of how bad things COULD be.

I worry that as bad as things are today, we will look back on this era as a comparative golden age of freedom.
I don't blame people for not flocking to an extremely dangerous and grueling job only to be underpaid. There's plenty of other options. I get tired of older generations somehow trying to guilt trip us into continuing in their line of work when in reality those jobs weren't very good to begin with. Work smarter not harder. Maybe they never heard of that.
I use a fork, but I rinse it off and leave it on the edge of the sink to possibly be used later.
When even a left-wing outlet like The Guardian is willing to uncritically echo capital's BS about "labor shortages" when the real cause is a lack of willingness to pay real wages, you know we're in trouble.

Seriously, $18/hr. for the most dangerous job in the country? I'd tell those people to get fucked.
Hmm, interesting. I will admit I missed that (as it was halfway through the FAQ, and I've got to say: passive aggressive). That said, they make it sound like you get charged up front when you back, and will get a refund if it fails to fully fund. This is a pretty significant departure from traditional crowdfund platforms (ks, igg) where you're charged when the campaign ends, only if it succeeds. Adding an extra two months of lockup to your money and "we promise we'll refund" just feels ... sketchy.

I mean: I like what the purism people are doing, don't get me wrong. I'm a fan of their librem stuff, ever since the crowdsupply days. But like: is there a reason they're not doing this on crowdsupply? Again, it just feels like a dark pattern to use these visual cues to suggest kickstarter while not adhering to standard crowdfund policy.
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It's a level-headed article. Parenting, like almost nothing else, turns normal, intelligent, educated people into nutters. A rational, evidence-based conversation about screen time, breastfeeding, pregnancy, birth, education, and diet is increasingly impossible to have, especially with millennial parents.

I just got my four year old an iPhone (with a data plan, because she realized she didn't have wifi in the car). It's great! She can text me emojis and Digital Touch messages, and Facetime me at work whenever she wants. It's fine: https://www.theguardian.com/science/head-quarters/2017/jan/0....
The UK police would handle it with a combination of CS spray and side-handled batons.

https://www.westyorkshire.police.uk/sites/default/files/file... actually provides a worked example, including the paperwork you need to fill out after whacking someone in the head.
Lots of good discussion at this Stack Overflow question (2008): https://stackoverflow.com/q/306313/893 (Python “is” operator behaves unexpectedly with integers)
> cryptos seem to be primarily used either for person-to-person transactions (housing rent, beer money, small loans between friends)

I would be pretty miffed if someone as paying me their share of rent in crypto. No merchant I interact with accepts them, so it would be more than a hassle to convert into USD (fees, rapid valuation changes, etc).
How Redlining’s Effects Lasted for Decades
Four is a bit early to be going to work
The submitter edited that out for space. We've dropped it altogether, which is the most common practice on HN, but we're happy to update it again if someone can suggest a better title.
More specifically, the article indicates that the car that doesn't stop is what the software - after changes to fix the original problem - would do now if it encountered the same situation.
> If you want to fling patent claims at a company that developed and released a great piece of code, removing the code from your business seems like a reasonable price to pay.

If that code were free software? No, that doesn't sound anywhere near reasonable.
Oregon iirc, isn't a particularly cheap state. Even then, you're still making less in absolute terms, which reduces your mobility and long-term ability to move to another state if/when your logging job disappears.

At $18/hr, it's hard to argue that any of those risks are built into the compensation. That is approx. ~37,000/yr for the most dangerous job in the country, apparently.

If one is inclined towards the trades, it's not hard to see why they would pick something other than logging.
'One of my favorite things you can do is plan a “device-free dinner.”'

_A_ device free dinner? Why aren't all of them? These weird little "small gestures" make me feel like people have lost control of their homes.

We have a landline expressly to give out to emergency contacts. And dinner is tech free. Every night.

I think the main problem is tech has made everything _else_ easier, but parenting harder, and parents just aren't prepared to fight the battles / put in the work. A parent who is staring at Instagram when they're at the park shouldn't be surprised that their kids wants screens, too.
Heather Meeker is a lawyer who represents Facebook. I have a background in this (although I am not your lawyer, so please do not take anything in this post as legal advice). The license is a serious issue for a subset of software companies and private developers.

Interestingly, most of the posters correctly identify the core concern. If you've invested significant resources into developing React projects, have IP, and Facebook infringes your IP, you're in very hot water.

Most businesses aren't competing with Facebook or patenting business critical innovations in spheres Facebook will be operating in. Using React in all of those cases is a non-issue.

For these people, the license's restrictions seem very minimal, so dumping React in the Open Source bucket seems reasonable.

For others, this restriction is an existential threat. This is why other people have an issue with the license being considered open source.
This is exactly right. The notion of "labor shortages" is a farce. It is rhetoric used to bully politicians into making policy decisions that keep wages/salaries low.

There is no such thing as a labor shortage in a labor market.
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Can't we? (about the vast majority of automobile drivers)
PHP isn't exactly the best alternative to compare node to; it was pretty much designed specifically to live in an Apache request-response cycle. It's not hard for most things to beat it in contexts outside the one it was intended for.
Nothing. Making money is the only reason why I work so I would never consider a job with a smaller paycheck.
It is dangerous? Nuclear subs have cherenkov radiation outside the hull which implies they have it inside the hull as well, but you don't hear about sailors getting radiation poisoning all the time.
I'm sure why this is news, the NYT Bestseller List has always be gamed. Usually the books are decent and true good books linger, but getting there has always been a $$ game
HD598, no amp. Just recently upgraded from my decade old pair of 595s, and the additional bass in the 598s is remarkable. Totally changes the sound stage, and not necessarily for better or worse.

Both models have a special place in my heart now.

Also, bravo on the "daily-driver" pun.
Unless your domain itself is there with it's root records set on their dns... often called "glue" records.

If your registrar shows "DreamHost, LLC" this would be the case.
Not at all. I work anonymously for Bitcoin. Under a few identities, each with its own set of wallets. And I transfer among identities using mixers. I generally mix at least twice, using throwaway intermediary identities. And each identity has its own Whonix instance.
Well, if kids really want anything be sweets, a toy or more screen time they will beg. That's kid's nature ;)

It's the parents job to be firm and establish some limits, making sure they are respected.
The TCL P 607 and (LeEco Super4 to a lesser extent) changed my mind. Roku built in, one remote, arc/cec, can control the volume right from it. I can adjust tv and roku settings all without finding the other remote. I dont get in spots where I have to decide if the setting is a TV setting or a roku setting. I like the fire platform as well, and I could see their element tvs having a similar benefit. I'm still not a fan of samsung that much, lg has grown on me, and AndroidTV (leeco/sony) has some real nice polish to it in places. As long as they keep updating the roku, I am happy.

having used tcl, sony, leeco, lg, vizio, and amazon software somewhat extensively in the last year, I do now prefer the basic apps to just work right from the tv. its one less thing to troubleshoot. i didnt fully come to believe i liked smart tvs more until i started to notice how little bit worse the roku+vizio experience was than the roku/tcl experince. one phone app to control the device vs two. never having a cec problem. random hdcp failures are nonexistant.

I will say, it is telling my favorite smart tvs all run software made by other software companies, and not tv companies (Roku, Google, Amazon, Apple.)
India's supreme court rules privacy as a fundamental right
You haven't spent much time on the west coast if you think the cost of living anywhere out there is low.

If you want low cost of living, you need to move to the midwest or south, or throughout the NE in upstate or western NY.
deleted my comment after the change, cheers
Yes, there are lots of complaints about it handling curves poorly, misreading overpasses as solid objects, etc. etc.
Apparently this FFT was first discovered by Gauss (1805). http://www.cis.rit.edu/class/simg716/Gauss_History_FFT.pdf

As a follow-up, let me recommend Püschel & Moura (2006) “Algebraic Signal Processing Theory”, https://arxiv.org/pdf/cs/0612077.pdf and Püschel’s other papers about similar topics.

Or in a different direction, DJB (2008), “Fast multiplication and its applications”, http://cr.yp.to/lineartime/multapps-20080515.pdf
I see some blues as black, or so I am told. I can't really tell, because it looks black to me. Assuming they are correct, I am objectively wrong. No?
I have a 14 yr old and a 16 yr old step kids. They both live with their phones in their hands.

I took them camping this past weekend. Fishing (caught 4 lake trout!), tubing, camp fire .. it was a blast. Even though their was no cell and no wifi neither of them could bare to put their phone down AND CHECK IT.

They had fun, but the second they weren't stimulated they were asking to take a 40 minute boat ride (45mph!) to 'buy some ice cream' and get a cell signal.

Sad.
Probably because it's about a small unknown (non-existent?) publisher and a book that barely exists. Yes, big publishing houses definitely game the system so their marquee authors get on the list, but this is a sort of low-level hack.
I'm old enough to remember a time when shit jobs paid really well because, well, they were shit jobs. Let's take the bottom of the barrel: bailing hay in the August heat of the Midwest. Dead simple job: take heavy bail of hay, put it on truck. Alternatively, take bail from truck, put in barn. Anyone with two working synapses could do it. And it paid the equivalent to $16/hour in 2017 dollars. Great job for a high school kid who had no real skills. Hardest job I've ever had by a long shot.

Longshoreman? Hard, dangerous work, but pays really well. Logging? Who the hell wants to be a logger? Anyone that has few skills but wants a decent living.

But it seems that over the years these shit jobs have started to have the shit pay to go with it. I'm sure there are multiple factors involved, starting with a downturn of union membership, but something or things has changed. And now industries wonder why they can't find anyone. Well, actually, I truly doubt they are wondering, as they ought to know better than I do what the reason is. But "they" would like to continue to live in the fantasy land where people stand in line for a minimum wage job that is likely to get them killed or seriously injured.
The idea of using runners seems iffy. Too many people to trust. As you say, "Other people are likely going to be your weak link."
My cousin has a no tv policy in his home. The parents do watch tv but not in the presence of their 3 year old boy. They'd rather take the kid to play with other kids or swimming.

This won't last, sure. But by the time the kid grows up to start making demands, he'll hopefully already be more invested in his current activities and find solace in swimming.

I really don't want kids around me growing up to become unsocialized video game geniuses.
> You can do cross-platform Desktop app in Electron (Slack, VSCode, Atom etc. are written with this).

I don't think that Electron is an argument for JavaScript.
As I indicated in another comment, the visual that the voice (together with other tweaks in some of Siri's responses) suggests to me is a perky twenty-something.

I actually tend to generally prefer some of the female British accents in several current TTS systems. (Amy is probably my favorite Polly voice.) Perhaps as an American, the robotic-ness doesn't seem quite as obvious or grating.
Modern phone chipsets don't boot without the modem for the same reason modern x86 chips cannot boot without their proprietary backdoor coprocessors.

If you could disable them, you could (possibly) trust your computer.
Indeed, it's probably best not to measure the utility of this tech based on preemptive predictions of how an emotional public will react or the reactions of outrage-driven media with terribly short attention spans.

The actual performance of these machines will be the ultimate test. If it does consistently improve safety then I don't really see much barriers existing here, the current unknowns and semantics surrounding it will be worked out in markets and in courts over an extended period of time and will ultimately be (primarily) driven by rationality in the long run.
All my DH sites are up.
I don't like the higher pitch/sharp tone from iOS 11. I like a warmer and deeper tone in iOS 10. I feel like having a more mature/experience assistant.
It's a reference to Idiocracy.
It's a dangerous job, it doesn't earn much, most people have better options and then there's the decline in societal appreciation of manliness, so I understand no one wants this job. No perks at all, not even bragging rights.

Perhaps it even is safer to join the military nowadays?
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I think this is a good product offering, and it's nice to see them compete with AWS on another front, as well as Digital Oceans' offering.

However, I wonder if these abstractions are detrimental to developers understanding the underlying technology? I'm not a supremely experienced developer but it takes very little effort to understand, for example, ufw and iptables on Linux distros.

Personally, though I'm (mostly) front end, I spend the majority of my time on the command line. My main editor is vim, I write bash scripts to do what I need instead of manually performing tasks, I often just use `cat` to write files instead of opening my editor, etc.

I found that managing things from the command line such as firewalls, daemons, and other tasks like managing databases, gave me deeper comprehension of what's going on. Are abstractions like this becoming crutches for tomorrows' developers?
One thing that I've wondered about with Uber is if they're so horrible to their drivers, why don't those drivers switch to Lyft? Does Uber really have that many more passengers? Or is the almost constant barrage of negative stories about Uber part of some attack campaign and the majority of them are overblown? Maybe there is a Boy Who Cried Wolf factor to the negative Uber press?
Here's my thoughts about that from a sibling thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15090278

TL;DR: Writing JavaScript for the browser won't really help you write good JavaScript for the server.
except that not all of California is large cities. The automatic minimum wage increases will occur even in parts of the state with cost of living very similar to rural Oregon.
I have read about Alan Kay, but never looked into Project Xandau. This sounds like something pretty interesting to check out and I will most definitely do so. To the parent reply, thanks for the clear, concise writeup, enlightening, it is appreciated.
I was conflating multiple issues with a single statement - a.) it seems unfair that they are paid by item by anybody so the performers have to become producers to make a more sustainable living
b.) it seems like having almost monopoly status as a large producer (there are many studios from that wikipedia article but a lot of them are owned by Mindgeek, not sure what the diff is between them all) gives Mindgeek too much control over rates/contracts
c.) the way Mindgeek pirates everyone via the youtube model on some of its sites squeezes out those who try to produce their own content outside of Mindgeek (those whom are not benefiting from Mindgeek's ad revenue/customer data).
Can you do a parallel counting sort in O(n/p) time?
I guess I should have used quotes.
>What are you measuring? The current autopilot already appears to be materially safer, in certain circumstances, than human drivers [1].

Actually the study explicitly doesn't show that.

First of all, in the study, it purely measures accident rate before and after installation, so miles driven by humans are in both buckets. Second of all the study is actually comparing Tesla before and after the installation of Auotsteer and prior to the installation of Autosteer, Traffic Aware Cruise Control was already present. According to the actual report:

The Tesla Autopilot system is a Level 1 automated system when operated with TACC enabled and a Level 2 system when Autosteer is also activated.

So what this report is actually showing is that Level 2 enabled car is safer than a Level 1 enabled car. Extrapolating that to actual miles driven with level 2 versus level 1 is beyond the scope of the study and comparing level 1 or level 2 to human drivers is certainly beyond the scope of the study.
Well I would not call that a "typical" home network ;)

MT's 10 Gbe-capable routers range from $500 [1] or $750 [2] for a single 10 Gbe (with 8 or 12 1 Gbe ports) to $1100 for two 10 Gbes [3]. Depending how much work you can actually push into a dumb switch I can see how costs add up.

[1] https://mikrotik.com/product/CCR1009-7G-1C-1SplusPC

[2] https://mikrotik.com/product/CCR1016-12S-1Splus

[3] https://mikrotik.com/product/CCR1036-8G-2Splus
The opening lines of the BSD license:
> Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

So do I have the permission of "redistribution and use" in the BSD license or don't I?

If yes, the patent license was unnecessary, as I've got a license to copy and use the software from the BSD license.

If no, then it isn't the BSD license anymore.

I believe facebook's lawyers intended the latter, the no answer.

So no one can redistribute React under BSD, as they cannot proof the permissions of the BSD license. Therefor React is not BSD licensed.
they are updating these tvs with apps because it wasnt received well. you get a popup that says "give us your address for a new remote" and they are sending a remote with more buttons so you can interact with the interface.
> it isn't world changing yet, might be or might not be eventually but no need to exaggerate.

Agreed. But think of it as my expectations of what Bitcoin would become being rather lower than where it is already. I'm absolutely amazed at how far it has come.
Medeco is a good mechanical deadbolt. It is pick & bump resistant. We designed Otto to be super secure under both physical & cyber assault. Otto has no cylinder and can't be picked or bumped or physically defeated in a non-destructive way. Otto has a steel plate behind the exterior dial.

Check our our FAQ on our security or read Sam (the CEO's) post at https://medium.com/@sam_96607/introducing-otto-225fd8ba02f0
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Can you give examples of some of the sites you sold? I'm having a hard time believing something that is a successful established passive income stream sells for that range. Seems more like it would be more selling site templates and infographics without a real customer base.

And if there's no real customer base then it is hardly passive since you need to build the business.
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My wife is a pediatric OT and she no longer sees children 6 and under whose parents give them an electronic device. She's on the front lines and says those kids are just... rough. Anecdotal, yes, but it's just not worth her time / money.
Concurrency question:

Is their a good rule of thumb for this? In a web app, how much concurrency should one pursue? If a lot, one user can potentially hog all the machine's cores while computing a view function. If a little/zero, then the server is computing view functions slower than it could if it used more then one core or thread per page view.
Kind of what I was wondering when I read the article: why does the operator need to sit in the cab? OTOH, it could be that "we just got these new machines to be usable with a human operator. We're working on it, give us time and we'll get to remote operation in the next few iterations."
Amazon to Cut Prices at Whole Foods After Acquisition Closes
Amazon says Whole Foods deal will close Monday, with discounts to begin then
I'm surprised the article doesn't mention any sort of social stigma against the work (beyond the low pay and danger). Logging is cutting down trees and in a world where we're raised now to conserve our forests I'm not surprised that logging as an occupation is not on the forefront of people's minds.

Even if it's done in an environmentally sound way, I'd assume that there's a stigma that would be hard to get past.
So they will be selling at a loss to send competitors out of business?
I think OP meant to say just like kids beg for chocolates which they crave for, they also beg for Screen time (which seems to be a bad addiction for someone who's a kid) that also shows how much screen time as an addiction or interest has penetration through that age group.
the report on the Therac-25. a good warning that bugs can have very real consequences.

http://sunnyday.mit.edu/papers/therac.pdf
The case of strings is also pretty interesting: http://guilload.com/python-string-interning/