skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
or even better - let everyone involved choose.

by everyone I mean the employer (which is also the product/service provider), the employees and the customers.

if none of the employees will be willing to get $x for working at evening/night, then an increase in salary for those hours might solve the issue .

how much to increase will depend upon supply and demand.

if none of the customers want a night delivery then there's no need for that anyway, and the employer won't even bother trying to find a solution.

if only a small amount of customers want a night delivery - then the employer might setup a solution where you need to pay 1.5x of the regular price in order for it to be profitable enough for the employer and the employees.

if most customers want a night delivery - then the employer will need to make large adjustments in order to fulfill its customers' needs, or some other competitor will fill the gap.
so far I've yet to have anything lost by Amazon Logistics, however it is almost comical how they deliver the package.

A person shows up and rings the bell for a solid 10 seconds. I buzz them in, then they practically throw the package from the elevator door saying "Tschussi!" as the door closes.

OK, I get it...no signature. that's fine. but you couldn't look like you were in more of a rush if you tried.

my guess is they're applying drone like KPIs to humans and it doesn't look very humane.
> Once you start paying people, the much larger audience of 'people that want money' starts posting and the good people get drowned out.

Yep. Seen this on a forum called Digitalpoint, back when they had revenue sharing for posts. In theory, that should have made people post higher quality content given the financial reward for doing so. In practice? It inspired thousands of people from third world countries to join and post uninspired gibberish for the chance to get their Adsense ID used in every thread they posted in. A site that already had problems with spammers registering and posting meaningless content for signature backlinks ended up getting flooded by people who saw it as a convenient get rich quick scheme.
I was wrong when I claimed the output would be wrong - see my comments here[0]. The output is correct, but the code is not the Sieve of Eratosthenes. I was misled by the expectation that it would be.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15410300
NS10s aren't quite as bad as their reputation, but they are rather "forward-sounding", a noticeable mid/high peak in response. In turn, this is very handy for picking out distortion and noise in recordings, they tend to beat you over the head if you have too much sibilance going on.

I wouldn't want to use them as my only speakers for listening to music, but I can definitely see how they come in handy as a reference tool. Same reason as why many studios have Avantone ("Horrortone") MixCubes and various other less-than-HiFi loudspeakers in addition to their nice monitors, and why they check their mixes on car stereos, bluetooth speakers and clock radios. They want it to sound good on the gear normal people use, not just high-end studio monitors.
Big fan of https://mailtrap.io
Ericsson says mobile broadband boosts global GDP by 2.8%
Yeah that's nothing compared to the change in result due to some government censorships...
How is this triggered? Via (lack of?) mobile connection or power?
Interestingly, my stock HTC One M7 suffers the same problem, but in regards to Location.

Enabling/disabling Location in the quick settings menu only changes Location settings between Low Accuracy and High Accuracy.

I have to open the phone settings, then go into Location, to then be able to completely turn it off.
Instead of messing with impractical workarounds, why not just fix your wifi ?
The paranoid should be doing that regardless of the algorithm, should they not?
PLEASE STOP SHOUTING AT US !!!
Ah sorry, "phone app" was slightly misleading. It's a special kind of phone app that's saved on the SIM card.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIM_Application_Toolkit
I saw several people who rented e.g. Enterprise vans
for delivery, how is that paying?

At least in my country, companies that use "self employed" drivers have deals with vehicle hire companies so you can hire a vehicle to drive for the company - such as [1] and [2].

The hire is at the driver's risk, so there's lots of ways they can lose money, some outside of their control. For example [2] reports an undercover journalist being charged for a week's van hire but only given three days' worth of work - resulting in an hourly wage well below minimum wage.

[1] https://xuberance.uber-vs.com/london
[2] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-37708996
Well, if you take Uber at its word (which I know is difficult) that it was only being used to render maps on the Watch, it doesn't seem like that big a deal to me.
Age doesn't make the account not a throwaway. Number and frequency of comments, and variety of topic, make it not a throwaway.
Independence Day: Police warn Plateau residents against spreading rumours
Oops I'm a dumbass scaremongerer it seems - indeed I did have 'storage' still checked despite thinking I had everything disabled! Sorry!
Apple technically does show the difference, but it is very very subtle, and most users would never notice unless told so.

Connected state = Blue background color

Disconnected state = Gray background color (Force Touch shows "Not Connected")

Off state = Gray background with gray slash across the icon (Force Touch shows "Off")
That's the second time you've thought I was talking about schema free. Column stores have nothing to do with schema free. Completely orthogonal.

Column-oriented stores normally have just as much schema as row-oriented stores. What they're faster at is scans where the full row tuple is not required to compute the result. Storing the data in columnar format rather than row also means much better compression: similar data is brought closer together.
2017 Nobel Peace Prize to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
We run high-load web services in something-other-than-c with managed memory and checked array access. It is native, 8/9 as fast as C, and it works. We will never have the budget to pay for the additional 1/9th that C would afford us, in terms of security concerns.

Yet, everyday, I have to field questions about why our low-level, network-facing system code is not written in C... old prejudices die hard.
CRW Flags (A Catalog of Flags)
> This list probably soon will include Pakistan, ...

Anyone with even a passing knowledge of Pak-China relations would really be laughing their ass of at this. I won't even bother to correct you there.

> At which point it'll be China vs the world. And, historically, China has started such conflicts,

Aha, spoken like someone desperate to convince others that the big bad Chinaman is really out to get them.

China has issues with its immediate neighbours. And I'm not here to make any claims pro or anti China on those. In many ways, its a consequence of having a large country, surrounded by others - all of whom have a history where they can point to themselves being victimised by the others (while each side conveniently forgets when they were the ones doing the victimisation)

> Oh and lest I forget, if you want human rights ...

What? If I want human rights I should listen to the side which murders civilians across the globe, via drones and trigger-happy killers sitting in a cubicle with a joystick?

Or the one which kidnaps civilians around the world, throws them into various torture centers, and when done, usually dumps them in an offshore gulag in Cuba?

Oops, thats all from the same side.

Seriously, that old argument of "listen to the West, we know whats best for your human rights" really doesn't swallow easily outside of, well, the West.

> You should be very apprehensive about China

Sure. As apprehensive as we should be about, err, you lot.

Fair enough?
How to you end up making only 30000/year with a PhD in a subject where graduates make 150k? Even post-doc positions tend to pay more than that. Everybody I know that has a STEM PhD and went into industry earns a lot more than I do.
Despite the criticism and glossing over in this article, I believe that ordered dithering gives the most aesthetically pleasing result myself.
What makes this better than Apple's Mail? Not familiar at all, just asking.
A few rules for survival as a remote worker
Sure, but the issue in this subthread is whether he lied in saying that he hadn't "used" it since January.
If you're talking about the VPN, you have to explicitly turn it on, and the first time you do so Android asks you for permission to let it "monitor network traffic" (actual quote from the dialog).
Arbitrary-palette positional dithering algorithm
Turns out I lost all digital data of my thesis :-(

I scanned a picture from the dead-tree version: https://imgur.com/vQLIQ1F

Top image is the cylinder shape without optimisation, bottom is the optimised shape.

Obviously, the contour distortion is massively exaggerated (ISTR a factor of 1000), otherwise it wouldn't have been visible; we're talking micron scale here.
i'd thought Bol would've been the biggest competitor, no?
It's a high-dimensional correlation machine. In other words, it's an attempt to learn "how to recognize patterns" by learning how to represent each one as orthogonally as possible to each other one. This happens at each layer, and how many layers you need depends on how "mixed up" the transformed space is with respect to the appropriate labels following each linear transformation. Once they are suitably linearly separable following the feedforward pass through the network, you need one more layer to identify how the pattern maps to the output space.

Another way to think of it is that each layer learns a maximally efficient compression scheme for translating the data at the input layer to that at the output layer. Each layer learns a high-dimensional representation of the output that uses minimum bits for maximum information reconstruction capacity. There was a great talk given recently by Naftali Tishby where he explains this in great detail.[1]

Having the math is great to know how it works on a granular level. I've found that also explaining it in such holistic terms serves a great purpose by fitting "linear algebra + calculus" into an understanding of NNs that is greater than the sum of their parts.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLqJHjXihK8
Yes, but data on the order of TBs is usually stored on platters (as opposed to SSD).

In that case, a fast data access library will not buy you much, because the disk will be slow anyway.

(By the way it is common that an in-memory database is combined with on-disk storage for large blobs; those blobs are just flat files, and the OS already offers the fastest way to access them without any library)
http://www.aauthespian.news/2017/10/independence-day-police-...
Except you're going about it the wrong way. We've eaten simple unrefined foods for as long as society has existed. For example, what only existed recently has been highly refined seed oils like corn, rapeseed, and canola.

It is up to them to prove that they are safe for human consumption, something that they have been unable to do. However, to continue the example, those types of oils are high in PUFAs (and specifically, high in Omega 6), and this has been linked to basically every modern first world disease, including diabetes and cancer.

The same applies to grains: cereals such as wheat hybridize in ways that are unusual. There is probably a level of certain chemicals (such as, but not limited to, prolamins, agglutinin, and amylase trypsin inhibitors) that are safe for human consumption, but the hybridization of these grasses for modern commercial production have greatly increased the amount of these chemicals in a given food product.

Just like the oils, these hybrids are a recent invention and no science was done before they were pushed into commercial production to prove if they are safe. Unfortunately, more and more scientific papers are coming out that they are not safe and cannot be made safe.

I've taken the logical and scientific choice to stop consuming these foods. During this time, although my caloric intake has not varied enough to explain the results, I lost around 130 pounds in a year: the only change I made was removing foods that are on the list.
So, is this a US only feature?

Is excess data usage severely penalized financially in other countries?
Nobody is taxing you in Steem. Governments create money so you have the means to pay your tax bill. And by doing that they get you to create and give up real goods and services for the common good.

A money system that works to enable transactions is one where hoarding it doesn't really get you anything. In fact it should cost you to hold a rainy day fund - as any insurance should.

Cryptocurrencies try and pretend they are electronic gold bars. But they are not.

They are ideas with a label on it. Some smart salesman has convinced people that there are only so many ideas with a Bitcoin label and that finite supply will make the price go up. So then people start hoarding them, and transactions for real things start to go down because nobody can get hold of the currency.

So then somebody creates the same idea with a different label, which also has a finite supply...

Classic fallacy of composition. Finite within the scope of the label, but not between labels.

The world's fiat currencies are relative finite between labels - because there are only so many governments - but have a fully dynamic supply within the label. That focusses the currency on transactions, not hoards.
The article mentions ordered dithering but fails to list void-and-cluster and similar variants thereof. Those parralelize really well (unlike error diffusion), don't result in obvious patterns (unlike normal ordered dithering) and can be run on gpus. It's quite useful to dither high bit depth videos to 8bit in realtime. Dithering HDR content has the benefit of not introducing banding on SDR displays.
> “The issue is that the tech companies have million-dollar kitchens and budgets, they’re taking all the great talent and offering benefits and 9-to-5 hours. Meanwhile, the restaurant business is a grind, and the cost of doing business is insane in the Bay Area. Independent operators are getting pushed out. I cook accessible food, and you have to charge accessible prices for that.”

Wow, I wasn't expecting the restaurant business being affected by tech companies running their own canteens.
Yes. Had a great time too, very peaceful.
We might as well be working in the same company.
On the other hand, there are some seriously impressive bluetooth speakers out there now.

I just picked up an Audio Pro Addon T3 on sale the other day. It's obviously no match for my room corrected studio monitor setup with dual 12" subs in regards to sub bass, detail and overall SPL, but I'm absolutely astounded at how much sound (and bass!) they've managed to cram into a speaker that's smaller than a sixpack and plays for ~30 hours on battery.

They're probably doing a ton of DSP and probably some missing fundamental bass trickery, but it does sound really convincing.

I wouldn't buy any bluetooth speaker much smaller than this one, though. You can only cheat physics so far.
I'd say the permission is valid (seems to be direct fb access or something similar), but should be allowed only in very specific cases
Ordered dithering has also a very important feature : it's stable wrt. animations. If you try moving a single pixel in an animation using floyd steinberg, the error spread can be huge and has visible effects on the whole image. OD, however, has a limited scope and is much more resistant to animation.

See this image : http://bisqwit.iki.fi/jutut/kuvat/ordered_dither/jittest_flo...

now see the whole article at http://bisqwit.iki.fi/story/howto/dither/jy/ , it's really good.
I've recently started producing music after a lifetime of playing guitar.

As I've been building out my home studio, I've been constantly surprised by how old most popular studio equipment is.

For instance, one of the most popular microphones - Shure SM58 - was originally launched in 1966 and has remained unchanged since. It is still the industry standard, especially for touring

The pro audio industry is strange in that it doesn't seem to embrace change. You could pick up a producer from the 1980s and drop him into a modern studio, and he'd still end up using a lot of the same equipment
Previous discussion which was marked as a dupe.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15402905
In that case they should have used "don't be really evil".
Interesting question, but I'd think we can deduce it by asking: Do we really matter to an object that we have determined is about 15 billion years old by what we can measure?

There are trillions of ants on this Earth. Does a single ant in any particular colony really matter to a 90 year old human being? Probably not.

Now here's another interesting way to look at it which does give value and purpose to every mass in existence in the universe: the universe is a coding platform.

It is capable of writing its own code, which in turn, creates objects that contain elements which can create beings that are self-aware, thus it may be that the universe uses its own artificial intelligence to create us, and therefore we might just be artificially intelligent, only to the extent that our minds allow us, and while the imagination seems capable of everything, our capabilities are limited by the resources we have available.

In the grand scheme of things, when writing code, does a single line of code actually matter? It only matters when it is given a purpose to perform a function that helps the rest of the application. Upon completion of the entire application, that one line likely matters. Before then, it matters to the extent that it is getting called and making things happen.

Are human beings simply a line of code necessary for the development to further the universe? Or in the grand scheme of things, are we really necessary for the universe to operate, or does it go on without us? We have had the advantage of becoming one of the most numerous species on the planet, numbers in the billions, though many insects number in the trillions.

Destroy the Earth. Did we ever truly matter? The universe would still go on. Thus, I think we are only important for ourselves, not the universe. And the hundreds of thousands of species that existed before us, and the hundreds of thousands of species that will likely exist long after the last human being on this planet dies off, can attest to the fact that maybe the universe is simply an artificial platform to experience itself, unbound, uncaring, indifferent to the very things that happen within its vast space.
[Help] Automating CSS Regression Testing
Have you ever been asked to switch down into Assembler mid-function in C to solve timing issues in the hardware? I have... but that was 20 years ago!
Unless you are integrating many pixels (how many and with what weights depends on the future processing, intended output, and viewing conditions for the image) I would not expect using a fancy color difference formula for comparing individual pixels to give a particularly useful result. Indeed, the whole point of dithering (especially with high resolution output) is that we can adjust the average light coming from a several-pixel-wide blob by brightening or darkening individual pixels, and thereby make finer distinctions in light level, since the individual pixels are not really noticed. I’m also pretty skeptical about the space-filling curve thing. Those both sound like placebo features to me.
Multi-Terabyte SSDs are very common. An i3.16xlarge instance on AWS, for example, has 15TB of SSD storage.
As long as the wifi radio is enabled, yes.
May be I didn't pay it enough time, but this seems to be just pipe-based video processing. I thought that the main feature in awk was to work with meaning in the text itself - so I expected some machine-learning magic to find all dogs and replace them with cats, for example.
Atom got faster lately with respect to the first releases.

Yes, that's true – but it's still so, so much slower than Sublime that it's absolutely not worth it – for me, at least! Whatever tools work for you :)
>There might be reasons to use AWS, but please don’t use it because you think it’s going to save you a money that you would otherwise waste on devops. If you use AWS, your contractors will still end up doing a great deal of devops.

This last bit alone shows the author doesn't really know what/how DevOps works.
On Linux, you can try this encrypted Git without installing Keybase or using the Keybase GUI. You need the following Go binaries from keybase*.deb: keybase, git-remote-keybase and kbfsfuse.

Start kbfsfuse (specify a directory as a mount point); put get-remote-keybase to your $PATH; run keybase git create myrepo; you can stop kbfsfuse now; then this works (after substituting $KEYBASEUSER):

git clone keybase://private/$KEYBASEUSER/myrepo
A 6.0 Magnitude Earthquake Just Hits Japan
On the Matrix side we’re reading through the paper and seeing if/how it applies to Olm.
It is indeed using a mobile user agent.

I have plans to rework this, and let the user switch between the two modes.

Right now, it's possible to deactivate it in the settings of the Pro app.
> This is where the blockchain shines. You're not going to be able to sue a Dapp, or order it to be taken down

Why not? If someone makes an app, which has to happen for a service to get users, that’s an endpoint which can be sued. The point where actual money is converted is similarly exposed, and attempts at obfuscation run into existing money laundering laws. Finally, a blockchain protocol which cannot comply with legal requirements can be banned entirely — and since they require public access, non-trivial data volumes, and regular updates blockchains are less resistant to filtering attempts.
Natural causes just means ruling out of external causes and accidental death.
... marked as a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15397008
Well, I did say experimenting, didn't I?

I found the thing which inspired my space filling curve exploration: https://www.compuphase.com/riemer.htm

The Butteraugli score between the standard lena and the Riemersma dither is about 0.5 better than the standard Floyd-Steinberg one.

Approaches like this come closer to back-propagation of errors, the lack of which is where some of the artifacts of unidirectional dither come from. In practice, any decent (full bleed) error diffusion dither works perfectly fine going between 16 and 8 bit planes, but why shouldn't I try some things out which (as you are quick to point out) may have very little value.

Heck, even gamma correction isn't strictly necessary when you're going from 16 to 8 bit sRGB.
Which figures are you using to consider their statement absurd? I suppose the 'most' countries part is only true if you restrict it to the usually considered rich countries or 'developed' countries, but that seems like a reasonable restriction to make given the context.

I did a quick calculation based on probably obsolete numbers, but I got a homicide rate of around 4.8 per 100000 of which 2.7 are with guns, leaving 2.1 without which is still higher than most European countries. (check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention... )
As much as 2.6% of your DNA is from Neanderthals
I still find them useful, but they're just another navigation tool as opposed to the main navigational commands a newcomer might use them as. There are frequently situations where I can easily move next to the character I want to operate on and adjust the position with h or l.
ReactOS Repository migrated to GitHub
Edit: That is not to say having access to a full desktop system from any device isn't desirable, but I do prefer my files to remain available on local storage.
According to OpenSecrets[0] (MPAA PAC), it’s $100k - $200k, or about $1k - $5k per politician. That’s actually a lot less than I expected

[0]: https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00139519