skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kind of unrelated, but I am extremely disappointed in how much 'giving back to local communities' has been abandoned by modern universities, in favor of their massive administrative payrolls.

What used to be a core tenant of thought, is now a dollar figure. If you live in the state, you get a discount. End of story, obligations fulfilled, full stop.

But it's not a commitment or a central belief. No university will open its facilities to community members. No stage will be available for public performances, no instruments or machines will be made available for inquiring minds, no local organizations will spend more than a few hours on campus for a field trip.

Providing those things would cost money, sure enough. But they used to be part of a university's mission. Some of the older ones still enshrine the ideal in their mottos. That should mean something. It doesn't.
If authors published their Java source code on the Internet, and random casual visitors expected their own existing compiler to run it, you'd see the same competitive forces at work.

Now imagine most of those users don't know what a "compiler" is and are using the one that came with their OS.

Now imagine you are a competing compiler vendor who worked very hard to get some of those same users to install your compiler specifically.

And by the way, users expect the same compiler to compile all the projects and would be shocked and annoyed if they had to use different compilers for different code.
Yeah good point. In general something like that could still work though. Whatever characteristics of a page Google is trying to "fix" with AMP could just be added to the ranking algorithm.
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The major spike in the graph occurs in 2012, so its something approved between 2010-2012.
"The analysis also showed a greater increase in claims in rural areas than in cities. "
It could be some pesticide/herbicide approved in the above time range.
Some pesticide residue could be a sensitizing trigger turning immune system into overdrive.
IIRC almost all porn now comes from one company, Mindgeek.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MindGeek

It reads like the founder started the company in 2010 and sold it to the current owners in 2013.

I've read that the actors/actresses don't make a lot (it's on a per scene basis) and have short careers and the money is mostly in distribution so with one large company any billionaires would probably be from there.
The reality is, everything comes down to luck. We are all ultimately a product of our genes plus our conditioning, neither of which we control. And any decisions we make are a function of those two things, so they are also out of our control.
Yeah, it is so difficult to manage that with a trailer or biporteur/cargo bike (e.g. https://www.hollandbikes.com/5321/velo-biporteur-babboe-city... )

These seem to be quite common in Europe (especially the Netherlands but elsewhere like Germany too). With better cycling infrastructure, there is no reason that they could not catch on in North America.
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Er, if you read those closely you'll realize that it was microsoft's fault and they were trying to blame skylake. No other manufacturer had problems like microsoft with the same chips.
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Really? Because I can't count the number of times that I have attempted to share an open web URL from a Google product or website only to have the AMP URL turn up when I paste.
According to those I asked on the matter, it was to mitigate selling 'bad' work. Which didn't really go away.
https://twitter.com/viticci/status/900418370025246721
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Actually I think the "original" is this: https://www.dezeen.com/2007/01/18/sam-buxton-shows-at-kineti...
We've banned this account for repeatedly violating the site guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There is also a lot of data that has been collected by governments:

http://results.openaddresses.io/

There's a variety of reasons that such data hasn't made it to OSM (resources, licensing issues, disagreement about how it should be integrated, disagreement about whether it should be integrated, etc.)
What would it mean for the Devs, QAs etc of ThoughtWorks?
> Happy to have a technical discussion, but not sure you are really interested.

Criticism of AMP certainly includes technical aspects, but most objections I encounter are ethical rather than technical.

Did Google explicitly consider ethical considerations when creating and launching AMP? If so, what did this process look like, and where could we find out more?

If not, isn't it time we expected ethical review to be part of significant changes in web infrastructure, the same way we would with significant changes in physical infrastructure?
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Tesla has decided to use only radar (+ cameras), so none of their vehicles have/are planned to have lidar at all.
If your home has 250 mill people using it a month, probably.
That article is wrong on a number of facts.

For example, it explicitly mentions 10 degrees C of warming over the next century.

A 10 degrees C scenario is not something that any respectable scientist believes is going to happen.

The IPCC, which is the official authority on climate change, believes that there will be a 2-3 degrees C increase in temperature over the next century.

Thats the facts. Please listen to the scientists. Every single doomsday prediction that this guy is making, can be traced back to this fundamental problem that he is talking about scenarios that the experts and the scientists do NOT believe has even a remote chance of happening.
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Stripped down Apache vs. Nginx
I love AMP, throwing my voice in the ring.
Apparently this lays the ground work for the full proposal of Shapes

Aka typeclasses
Splitting from Netflix would've been genius if the idea were that they'd partner with a competitor to challenge Netflix, namely someone like Hulu or, better yet, Amazon.

Going off on their own without being part of a larger more diverse set of content could deal a serious blow to Disney. I for one would not ever pay Disney through a Disney-specific service just for streaming Disney content, as much as I like Disney movies.
The last word-clock kickstarter I was interested in was cancelled due to unspecified reasons:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/252714519/clockfour-chr...

I'd like to know more, perhaps it was a supposed IP violation of the qlocktwo guys?
Articles supporting Google's decision were also posted repeatedly, and flagged repeatedly. And articles criticizing the current administration are also frequently flag-killed, so it's not just right-wing coverage that gets removed.
I occassionally come across construction that is marked in an unusual way - at 65 miles an hour when the speed limit is 75. Also, when they are changing freeways and restriping them (leaving the original old faded lanes and before new lines go up) sometimes it's confusing to me and the traffic is flowing at 80 miles an hour, IIRC this was happening on 880 for a while about 10 years back.

If the AI is confused by a roundabout as described I wonder how they handle that or if this is something that only fools me because I am only using visual sensors.
As uiri pointed out, transporting a family by bike is very common in other countries so it's not unrealistic at all. Though with how heavily the US is built around cars, the first wave of people trying it will have to make sure to live in the right places in the right cities.

Also, people who don't live the suburban car life typically don't buy "weekly" groceries.
What are you talking about? The oldest millennials are already 35. And lots of people who predate the millennial generation bike in Seattle.
Amazon is testing car pickup options in Seattle. I think they’re even picking up your car’s license plate to trigger someone bringing out (and loading!) your groceries.

https://www.amazon.com/afx/nc/aboutpickup
The guy is talking about 10 degrees C scenarios, aka scenarios that nobody believes is going to happen.

The IPCC, which is the official authority on climate change, believes that there will be 2-3 degrees C increase in temperature over the next century.

When someone can rationally talk about what will happen in the IPCC predicted scenarios, which is the scientific consensus, then I will listen to them.

If you are some crank, who is talking about 1000 parts per million of C02, and 10 degrees C temp increase by 2100, well then you shouldn't be taken seriously.
It was widely considered a good move to rename "nuclear magnetic resonance" to "magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)" to avoid patient fears. That said, the "nuclear" in that case really was being misinterpreted by the public to refer to fission/fusion, unlike molten salt reactors where the name is being interpreted accurately, at least in a formal sense.
The funniest thing about this whole transaction is that Neville Roy Singham always talked a big game about socialism, Hugo Chavez, central planning, etc.

He's all about the government redistributing wealth. But when it comes to his own wealth, instead of gifting the company to the workers who built it, he has all kinds of excuses for why it needed to be sold to a private equity company.

It doesn't surprise me one bit. What individuals won't do voluntarily themselves, they want the state to force others to do.

Neville isn't offering to give a dividend distributing the sales profit to all his workers. No no no ... he's going to use it himself for his charitable works. Much like Hugo Chavez's succesor in Venezuela, Maduro, takes all the resources of the country on the "behalf of the people" and distributes it himself. I'm sure the prestige and power associated with being the distributor is not a motivating factor at all.
Interesting. Google's data is more thoroughly tested in simulation, but Tesla might discover more interesting miles by sheer number of cars in their fleet.
As long as you don't cut services along with those taxes.
I can see “Amazon Farmers Market” now...
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>"In November 2013, it was reported that Pornhub has over 1 billion visitors per month, and a December 2014 article in Adweek states that Pornhub has 50 million daily visitors."

2017 numbers are probably much higher...

Wow
Being someone who's always worked in open offices (for almost ten years now), I can't even think of what an alternative would be. Single offices per developer, kinda like lawyers? It seems that would take up a chunk of space, and would be pretty much the same as working from home.

Honestly, I think open offices are mostly here to stay. Those who dislike it and want isolation, privacy, and less distractions, can always pick to work at home (I know I do multiple days a week).
> have the spreadsheets to show it

Please, do—if this is the standard practice, it should be prevented.
They own a ton of property in Sunnyvale as well:
http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/07/27/google-grabs-dozens-of...
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Yes. But groceries and anything that expires is not commingled so if you buy from Amazon you get Amazon's inventory
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> Who made you the deciders of what the UX of the web should look like?

It's not like they're forcing you to click on the AMP results. When Chrome started experimenting with SPDY, one could have asked them "who made you the deciders of what the protocol for HTTP transfer should be?". Yet from the lessons learned from SPDY was born HTTP/2.
I built a unit test library for shell scripts that provides a unit test api that functions very similarly to JUnit. The library is only a single file in size; the idea being that you shouldnt need any permissions whatsoever to use the library.

The goal behind this library is that I wanted to make sure that my shell scripts were actually doing what I wanted them to, and if I made changes to the scripts, that at least something would be watching my back to make sure I didnt royal screw anything up.

Tell me what you think!
Why does it have to be just Disney content? Keep in mind that even that is not just the movies, but also all of the TV content that's run on the Disney Channel.

Disney also owns Marvel, which brings all Marvel content.

Disney also owns Star Wars now, too.

Disney also owns ABC and ESPN.

One of the major complaints with all of these streaming companies is "no sports" -- imagine if Disney leveraged their sports library and technology to bring live streams to their library? How about old classic games? Best Of series?

It seems like Disney is actually in a FANTASTIC position to provide entertainment for every single person in the family.
Is that unexpected?
Yeah—why should apps even be able to see the list of available Wifi networks? Or at the very least, it should require permissions, or maybe they could only see networks from a pre-specified list?
In iOS 11, Safari will strip out Google AMP links for shared stories
> I think it's safer, probably harder to get mad cow disease or salmonella, don't you think?

Not really, you have a good chance to get sick (I'm talking about foodborn disease) no matter what you eat. According to the CDC from 1998 - 2008 the percent of deaths/illnesses is about 46% - 54% between eating plants vs animal products https://www.cdc.gov/foodborneburden/attribution-image.html#f...
"Natural flavoring" is not natural in any real sense of the word. It's like "fat free" labels on unhealthy food.
I would normally agree but if this guy learned CAD, PCB layout, embedded programming and design just for this project, I say he can pull it out. This is very impressive.
Or just get a tall chair & desk, or boost the chair up on a platform. Sit when you want to, stand when you want to, same desk height.
honestly, until i read this article i thought of a climbing equipment manufacturer in wales when i saw DMM
Someone taught me a phrase a couple years ago, 'Amholes'. I gave him a blank look because I didn't know what he was talking about.

Apparently in the SLU neighborhood, Amazon employees have gotten a reputation for taking up the whole damned sidewalk when they go to lunch. And I don't mean fifteen people taking up the sidewalk, not much you can do about that. I mean three or four.

After, I couldn't help but notice.
So you speak Navajo? Hehe just poking fun. "Therapy for the treatment of.." is much more common, yes.
Do they have anything that works in rain/snow?
A bit of an overkill?

According to the developer, this is a Python script. So, rather than running on any desktop OS with minimal resources, it requires Docker, which requires a Linux Kernel. So for the vast majority of desktop users, this will require a Virtual Machine.

To send a fucking tweet.

This is the perfect example of developers doing dumb things, "because devops".
true -- it's not great but it's a start. Just knowing some basics would be a boost.
How do you feel about "addressing"
> "If my own daughter told me she wanted to be an adult film actress, I’d tell her, ‘look, there are risks, but it’s something for you to decide.”

I learned that Stoics don't say, "Stop doing this, it's a sin." Instead they say, "Don't do this because it will make you miserable." They don't say, "Pleasure isn't pleasurable." They say, "Endless pleasure becomes its own form of punishment."
What about a feature in Safari that disable Amp completely? That would be neat, seeing as Google don't seem to offer it as an option...
300 years ago, 80% of the population had to work in agriculture just to keep the country fed and alive. Now, less than 5% work in agriculture and we produce so much food, that supermarkets have to throw more than half of what they buy.

Productivity has been growing in a exponential way since the beginning of the industrial revolution. Automation will allow many of the products we consume today to be produced almost without human intervention.

My point is that we, as a society, will be able to maintain the same standards of living (or increase them) while the workforce shrinks.

The only issue here is how the wealth produced by the automation will be distributed, but I can imagine a future where people is actually employed during less than half of their lives and still live well enough.
> or any kind of processed food which contains "meat"

Not really, you have a good chance to get sick (I'm talking about foodborn disease) no matter what you eat. According to the CDC from 1998 - 2008 the percent of deaths/illnesses is about 46% - 54% between eating plants vs animal products https://www.cdc.gov/foodborneburden/attribution-image.html#f...
It's a bunch of normally inedible ingredients made to taste edible with fake flavoring and MSG. The last thing I need in my diet is even more misdirection in flavor profile telling my body what nutrients I need.
That's really cool.

Any chance it might eventually allow users to specify a single start/end point and a desired distance? That'd be much more useful for people who ride for sport, and even though there seem to be a few websites that generate such looped routes, they don't appear to do it particularly well.
"For instance, before introducing a new procedure they would need to eliminate an old one."

If someone wrote a tech article suggesting that companies should require removal of a line of code for every new line introduced, do you think that article would make it to front page of HN?
Setup reminder for payments? What's the problem?
Using fucking docker to run a python script that tweets about poor network performance is the epitome of technical irony.

Although, on the upside we've finally found something that can be referenced for X in the statement "well at least Electron apps aren't as bad as $X"
Interesting subject, too bad the writing is immature.
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If you have an "echo" primitive/function, and "out of the box unicode support", then respecting the host OS codepage/output encoding by default is the sane thing to do (as indicated in the bug linked by the sibling comment ("just use the win32 api").

It's not that nim can't output wide characters from a utf8 source, it's just that it's not obvious how to do it in a standard way - one might thing that utf8 unicode "hello world" should "just work" on windows, and it doesn't.

It doesn't really make much sense to only do the right thing on systems that happen to have a utf8 locale (it's not that windows doesn't handle wide strings, it just doesn't have a utf8 locale by default).

It's not my impression that the nim community doesn't want to be cross-platform and beginner friendly - it's just that they're going through a phase of modernizing the win(32) sub-system.

Correct text handling isn't "just use utf8", as fun as that would be - correct handling is figuring out "what encoding is the source text", "what encoding is the destination file/device" and "how do I put the source into the destination".

I'd expect a latin1, a utf16 and a utf8 string to all be output correctly with "echo" - on all supported platforms. It's kind of why you would want to use a higher level language with "batteries included" in the first place.
I've added instructions for pure python if you want it. I used docker because I've never used docker.
That's roughly 580 visitors per second.

Wow indeed.
What do you think a fair wage would be? From personal experience it's a bit more than minimum wage after all expenses which feels fair because the alternatives for unskilled labor are so much worse (retail, McDonald's, etc.)
JEB applied for a patent for that in 2002? Seriously?
Aren't those examples in which it'd be fine for it to be confused? That confusion shouldn't lead to any dangerous situations, just a different speed than other cars.

It would also be interesting to know whether Waymo factors in other cars' behavior. If everyone is going 80 while the speed limit is 65, will it factor that in and go 80 or keep with the speed limit?
They bought their minority stake in BAMTech (the streaming spinoff of MLBAM) earlier this year. There’s no way they’re going to mess this up from a tech standpoint either.
Its one hundred and ten percent overkill, like I've said, you can just run the python if you want and I used docker because I've never used docker and wanted too
I have tried D, loved the language but I feel the ecosystem and environment issues need to be addressed asap. Here are a few inputs
(1) setting up env different operating systems eg GNU/linux variants. Compilers ldc, etc are not really easy to setup on all systems.

(2) Memory usage during compile can get out of control resulting in mid-build crashes if sufficient memory is not available.

(3) Setting up of a simple http server should be made simple. (ideally the way Go allows to convert any regular Go program to a http server)
This is from five years ago in Palo Alto so it's doable in America.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/swoo/8148861498

Some of my other acquaintances use a bike trailer or a trail a bike instead of a cargo bike for their kids. It helps that most of Palo Alto is close to flat.
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Dude just said he can't go into details, and you question the method he didn't explain?
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> But those people would also be spending their money on other pleasures otherwise

That's a pretty tall claim to make. Do you have any sources to back it up? Especially because if these people were putting money into savings instead with proper education it could make a significant path to getting out of poverty.
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Its not a quote, but a well known, long running cabinet special for 42u (aka a dedicated full rack) and 15 amps of power: https://he.net/special.pdf

Other datacenters can go cheaper if you need less rackspace and power, bandwidth is cheap!
There isn't shame in driving yourself to work. Where do you get this from?
It's often closer to 60%, but still, it's better than just sending them away for recycling if you know what you're doing.
> sharing a clip of the text so the people I'm sharing with including myself have the proper link and some context to get them to read further.

How do you achieve this with a non-AMP website? It sounds great.
The problem with that approach is that outside execs often have their own ideas about what the 'real business' is, founders' wishes be damned.
In Eastern Europe the joke is like: "Last Person Leaving COUNTRY — Can unscrew and keep the light bulbs"
The only angle I saw for an antitrust concern was in delivery where Amazon is already dominant (but not focused on groceries) and Instacart is a serious player who has long partnered with Whole Foods - anytime #1 takes out a significant competitor in a space the FTC could be needed. But there are several more competitors in grocery deliveries including all the legacy companies - Safeway, Kroger, Albertson's, and even Walmart. Basically, this wasn't going to hurt consumers.
Hopefully someone smart enough to explain my point to the New York Times. Their journalists are a little... dense.