skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Exactly. As they say: if the employees own the company, robots on the assembly line would mean vacations, not layoffs.
How to Make Some Useful Things from Practically Nothing
Surprised by the comments here, I've always found eBay positive, I buy mostly used items, usually 'Buy it now' rather than auctions, and usually from sellers with solid sales histories. I can't remember ever having a problem, and I can't really imagine buying from random classified ads in preference.

It is disappointing though that they're focusing on new items, and not trying to find ways of improving the situation for buying or selling used items. For instance, perhaps you could have projects to figure out what most customers look for in images, and encourage sellers to provide good coverage, or to pick up images not properly focused on the product. Think of how many pictures eBay must have of any particular laptop model, and when buyers browse, what images they pause on, and where they zoom; it really must be an unparalleled dataset. There are a lot of listings, even for expensive items, where the pictures are just insufficient. And even with filtering and categorization, you could more intelligently encourage sellers to answer categorization questions that meet seller desires, that can be picked up through analysis of how people browse or search for listings. If you could say to a seller "not putting in RAM for a laptop cuts your audience by 18%", and gameify the process of improving the listing, I imagine you could make a lot of progress. Or perhaps using known dimensions of objects or their packaging to provide an simplified, streamlined marketplace for shipping options.

Essentially, they probably feel that second hand sales are a niche market, so they can't continue explosive growth without moving into standard retail. It's the downside of the continual fast growth mindset. They could really cultivate their market, and grow the company by growing the market, by incrementally improving the buyer and seller experience for 2nd hand items. Shifting focus away from that has big risks, not just rewards.
I should have emphasized the speed of deployment being a first order concern more. We certainly can (and do) build our code for every change, but not at the speed that we want to be updating.

We use a monorepo for all of the benefits it has, and deploying fast business logic updates this way helps mitigate one of its downsides (particularly when you've maximally parallelized the build). I've found https://danluu.com/monorepo/ to give a quick overview of how chopping up the repo would have separate downsides.

The section about "Sticky Shared Objects" speaks directly to mutable state across code modifications, just with a Haskell-minded focus.
neat! but does anyone know of an equivalent OS project using js or ruby?
Glad to see people are enjoying Pyret! If you don't like the parenthesis in Racket, this is the path for you.
What? Thinking about default theme PowerPoint presentations doesn't get you salivating at the screen?
> Activism is nothing new, the amount of violence certainly is.

No, it's not.

> That's what makes them uniquely scary - violent authoritarianism has a higher body count than any other ideology.

Violent authoritarianism isn't really an ideology, it's more a mechanism that's been deployed in pursuit of radically different ideologies.

> look at the reactionary right and all the BDS stuff they try to push.

BDS usually refers to the mostly left wing “Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions” (against Israel) movement, which has nothing to do with the reactionary right.
You've said shitty and complex code...how about voluminous code, or old code? The main product that I work on has about 2 million lines of C, C++, and Java code in the core of the system, then about 20 plugins ranging in size from a few thousand lines to a few hundred thousand lines.

We basically hire for sections of the codebase. It's pretty common for developers to discover the existence of an area of code that they haven't had to touch before and were unaware of the existence of even years after starting to work here.
Reboot for the AI revolution
Salmon sushi is actually a modern invention; the result of the Norway government having too much fish in the 80s and needing someone to buy it.

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/09/16/440951873/episo...
>> I'm not talking James Damore "I'm just expressing an alternative opinion" low boil misogyny. That kind of thing is unacceptable.

>Why is his cultural questioning of potential causes for gender disparities bad, yet we're supposed to avoid falling into an echo chamber for other issues? If issues can't be questioned, doesn't that itself form an echo chamber?

Because he's wrong, and not even the sources he himself selected say what he says the say?

https://www.wired.com/story/the-pernicious-science-of-james-...

Allowing someone to express these misogynistic wrong opinions using company resources during company time creates a hostile work environment and opens Google up to liability.
Ethically and legally, probably not. Protectionism has been around forever, and any government obviously has a responsibility to its own people to act in their interests.

But economically and in terms of good foreign relations, definitely. Closing the gates in such an overtly hostile way to foreign businesses competing with your home grown ones hurts international trade, and ultimately that can end up badly for everyone over the long term, even if it brings some short term benefit.
“We have to tell our story differently because what people know about us is not really who we are anymore,”

My last sale (of macbook) on Ebay was to somebody clearly trying to scam me. But they were not good at it. I knew they were trying to scam me but I also knew ebay protects the seller as long as you can prove the package went to the address from the payment and the weights and sizes for the package made sense. "Not really who we are anymore"... meaning a trustworthy place to sell junk?
What Happens to Facebook’s Mind Reading Project Now That Its Leader Is Gone?
WeChat, Weibo and QQ users can’t change profiles until the end of October
> It sounds like you have a human problem on your hands, not a technical one. I would think about how to get an updated SPF into their DNS. If the boss said "just make it work" then to me that means to call the clients and hand hold them through figuring out who hosts their DNS records and how to open a support ticket or reset their self-service web portal login password, or whatever else the client needs to do to get those records in there.

Exactly my point
Another example is James Kilgore, a convicted (second degree) murderer/kidnapper/activist who was on the lam and is now a professor at UIUC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kilgore
They could transfer the cache data from one (old) server instance to another (new) one.
I showed my middle school aged son a handful of keyboard shortcuts and now he's regarded as a "hacker" by his peers.

They're not teaching this stuff at all.
I'm more of a fan of Datomic's query language than SQL's. It's much easier to parameterize, you can manipulate it as a data structure rather than a raw string, and you can easily ask questions about what the database knew at a specific time. The "as-of" function lets you get the value of the database at a specific time, and the queries you are already writing anyways are against the current value of the database, so it's easy to compare the two.
Good point, we've come a long way since prohibition times for better and for worse.
EBay has Kijiji, which has decimated Craigslist in the Canadian market.

There's talk about embedding Ebay listings into it... they'll have to tread carefully.
I catch my own fish (other than sushi/sashimi I haven't bought fish in years) and 100% agree with you. You can taste the difference between fresh and frozen in a home freezer, but I think you wouldn't notice with flash freezing in a blind test.

And a lot of fish (kingfish and the rest of the seriola family for one example) are _better_ after a few days anyway, similar to resting beef.
The P/E ratio being low does not imply it is a good value. Indeed, the most reasonable assumption would be that the market does not think highly of its future prospects.
It’s true, I’m almost certainly a drug dealer/pedophile/terrorist, as are all who encrypt so much as a single byte!
That's the case across the EU.
> Weinstein is talented?

Success as a producer probably involves significant skill/talent, of a similar kind that drives success in other organizational/leadership roles.
Yes, you are either tone-deaf or a troll. Or just didn't know what minor vs major keys sound like, I suppose.
Now if they could only catch that Road Runner!
Andrew Glassner published a paper on something extremely similar back in 2015:

"Globs: A Primitive Shape for Graceful Blends Between Circles"

http://jcgt.org/published/0004/03/01/
Well they did bring fibre to the two existing developments in the Canary District. And for a far better price than than Canadians are used to with the big 3. I don't really see a lot of innovation, they were just able to sign a 10 year contract with Beanfield.

The Canary District is far from finished, so perhaps some of that infrastructure will be built out when it is completed.

Also, a lot of the developments they mentioned have yet to be completed (Monde, Waterfront Innovation Centre, Tridel's Aqualina/Aquavista) and aren't even in the "Canary District".

One of these just started occupancy.
the intimacy of family relationships are a different matter altogether
And IIRC the USA's printing presses got their start by doing copyright-violating runs of European popular literature.
I stopped thinking about ebay a long time ago. I would only consider it if it's the last seller of the thing on the planet. And I definitely do not and will not use paypal, willingly, ever.

They've done not much more than strong-arm their user base on both sides in one form or another for years.

Sorry, they're nothing but a ghost of the Internet past to this little clicker.
The Gospel of Supply Side Jesus
I wrote a pretty detailed breakdown of why this doesn’t actually mean what you think it means: https://medium.com/@turingschool/why-i-recommend-flatiron-sc...
I have grown up surrounded by two people with extraordinarily high IQs, and they were normal people. They have more curiosity than normal people, and they have lots of interests that span many, many subjects, but for all intents and purposes they are normal in manner and demeanor.

This fashion for conflating intelligence (of all kinds) and egotism is utterly beyond me.
I think Ebay's value is in its flexibility: you don't need a category to sell an item.

Once a particular item can be sufficiently categorized, it gets its own marketplace, like what's happened with cell phones.

It happens to Craiglist all the time. E.g.

Rooms for rent --> Airbnb.

Craft products --> Etsy.
A lot of people are denying it, but I worked down in the Port Lands (where they plan to develop for Sidewalk Labs). I can confirm. It is a dead-zone.

There are some shops centered around the film industry, deeper in is the Hearn (grandfather worked there in the 50's -- it's a nice building on the outside but requires massive amounts of maintenance to see life in the future. It's still well-used by the film industry.), Pinewood Studios Toronto, there's a garbage/recycling centre, and truck yards, empty lots, overgrowth, and an old fireman's club... and the Keating Channel pub. If you've ever worked the film industry in Toronto, you probably know the place.

When you compare Toronto's waterfront to other cities -- I get it completely. It's nowhere near as done up as say, Seattle or Boston. It's because it has an industrial past.

--

That said -- much of the city does have a nice waterfront. The Port Lands area in question is the exception here. The east end was the boardwalk and beaches and even Ontario Place on the west end is getting an overhaul, starting with the new Trillium Park: http://ontarioplace.com/en/park-trail/
You wouldn't use a 2d context, you can use WebGL shaders instead. Besides that, most operations on a 2d context are performed on the GPU.
Only if you're not paid by the hour.
> But it isn't a mobile device

We can argue semantics if you wish, but the truth is the Surface line is being sold as 2 in 1 devices that wants to combine a tablet and a laptop.

> Also the pen isn't for gui interface, but it is for doing creative art.

Same thing on the iPad Pro or a Wacom MobileStudio which have much better stili than the Surface line.

What is your point?
When in doubt, apply the magic of cross-site IP licencing to coax the value-add distribution into whatever shape necessary.
You sure they weren't referring to Lenovo Service Engine or Lenovo Accelerator? Sure, they may not have installed these things on all of their laptops, but they've been caught quite a few times recently and it seems like a bad trend. The UEFI stuff that installs on a vanilla Windows install is super sketchy.
As a seller, I've found I get more money on fixed price listings.

Most users will pay more to buy-it-now rather than deal with auctions.

And I can target a price at the top 10% of the market (easy to do when I'm selling a small number of items, harder when someone is selling 10000)
Not sure the purpose is much different.... it’s quite early stages for them and they’ll want to commercialize however they can.
Watch OS4 removes ability to view iPhone music library
While I found may Apple Watch to be only marginally useful day to day, I loved the ability to view my iPhone's ENTIRE music playlist when I went skiing. I have seen people handle their phone while on a lift... only to fall!!

For some reason (there has to be a money making reason... its Apple afterall) in watch OS4 they decided to remove this ability and one can only view a playlist that is stored IN the Watch itself or later on via Apple Music Streaming.

Of course, I cannot downgrade my watch OS back to OS3.

Anyway, totally frustrated with Apple and outside of looking at alternative, anyone think of any options? I am open to perhaps writing an app to view an entire playlist, but I havent written an Apple Watch App before nor do I know if one can even do this; meaning not sure if the limitation is just for Apples Watch's Music App OR Watch OS4. Anyone want to get together to write the app (if we can)?

Finally, to help vent I found this:
https://www.change.org/p/apple-watch-os-4-iphone-music-source-function

-TJ
Lambdas and Local Functions
I know someone in just such a startup: https://ideal.com/

They've been at it for a few years, they started with a focus on candidates for sales positions. I don't know if it's generalised or not.
> Why not just seize the means of production?

I wonder if anyone has tried that before. I guess I will go read a history book and find out.
Economy is the measure of the movement of money (activity). Growing the economy (increasing the velocity of money) means raiding hordes (by whatever means) and spending it.

This is not to say that our current measurements (notions) of the economy incentive desired behavior. eg GDP vs happiness.
30k medical studies may be invalid due to contaminated cell cultures
I'm so glad it uses Computer Modern, and supports \align environments etc. I know the latter is just MathJax, but Computer Modern is a detail that every other Markdown/LaTeX mix has forgetten, and it shows.
In Israel Ultra-Orthodox Women Emerge as Tech Entrepreneurs
The consumer cycle/production cycle imbalance feels intuitively true. It would be nice if our leadership would have such discussions without descending into fits of hysteria.
We've eaten things to extinction before, so no, don't assume anything.

https://www.britannica.com/list/6-animals-we-ate-into-extinc...
First, I should note that political strategy varies depending on the office. A race for a single seat between a republican and a democrat is very different from a non-partisan city council race that has 5 seats, with two incumbents running leaving 3 open seats.

Second, there's a book recently published that focuses on running for smaller offices and aimed at Millennials. You may find it interesting:

https://www.runforsomething.net/book/
I'm not 100% sure, but they (Standard Chartered) do use a custom compiler. That might explain the difference
Were you just looking for an opportunity to slag Trudeau? Last time I checked he isn't mayor of Toronto -- unless there's just something I don't know about John Tory. Maybe you can root for Doug Ford in the next mayoral round. I mean, we're talking about Toronto, right?
Why we switched from Python to Go
Facebook makes sure everything connects back to the product(you).

They don't want understand that you have a personal(private) life and a business life and a hustle.
Wait... You think someone should be allowed to self-study, take a test, and be a medical doctor?

You can do this with some professions, but I'd like to think my medical doctor has had actual experience with living people and cadavers.
Cutting out all the condescension, the core argument appears to be that this is a bad idea, because of the uncertainty involved. While this isn’t a bad argument, I don’t find it fully convincing. Are there any other concerns?
This is loose at best. Right up there with “creates full voluminous hair, whitens teeth and strengthens enamel, and corn syrup is the same as sugar”
Forgive my simplistic question, but... if SES creates issues with deliverability/spam flags, is Pinpoint an option for MailWizz, Sendy etc? It looks like it's more appropriate for non-transactional email.
>>> the pretense that the URL should somehow be readable is increasingly difficult to defend

I think I have a defense for this. I consistently long press links on mobile to see the url before deciding whether to load the page or not. Just to see if I can be bothered.
FWIW, the block size of Bitcoin Cash is 8MB not 2MB:
https://www.bitcoincash.org/
"As a first step, the blocksize limit has been made adjustable, with an increased default of 8MB. Research is underway to allow massive future increases."
Shameless plug for my own minor version of the Beatles' "Blackbird" — my own guitar playing mashed up with the original Paul McCartney vocal (which I extracted from the Beatles recording by abusing the stereo spectrum).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAb9V08zcBE
I used Microsoft OS from MS-Dos v3.3 right up until they launched Vista. I have to go back every now and again for work, and it is still horrible for me. The current work machine I have requires a reboot sometimes 3 times a day for updates. Surely this can not be the norm?

Anyway, I agree with you. I have a pro at work, but recently got a plain macbook, and it is awesome. Great for even iPhone dev work.
IIS has support through a powershell script
Yes, I'm ranting but: I used to use ebay a great deal. Now I don't. They are richly earning their irrelevance.

Another recent misstep on eBay's part has been to prohibit links to offsite information in listings. So if you're selling anything that requires an informed buyer -- from electronic parts and equipment to the aforementioned jet skis -- your ability to communicate that information has just been removed, or at least made artificially awkward.

It's as if eBay can't decide what kind of company they want to be. A back-alley venue for scams and junk? A storefront for cut-rate Chinese clones of popular gadgets? A place where the latest luxury goods from Guccci and Sorny are always on display? Or a legitimate online marketplace that encourages honest transactions between informed buyers and sellers?
> will be permanently successful

Surely you don't mean actually permanent. So what time scale do you think they will last?
There's been a pattern of less and less violence in America - until recently that is. Anything that threatens to disrupt the pattern is cause for concern, and the authoritarian leftists seem locked in a mutual radicalization with the alt-right, it's not clear what could moderate the situation beyond more effective liberal governance.
So the C Series doesn't actually compete with Boeing (because they don't currently make any aircraft aimed at the same market) and yet Boeing are trying to rub salt in the wound here.

That doesn't seem like a smart move when these events threaten thousands of Bombardier and supply chain jobs in Canada and Northern Ireland and when you're also hoping for billions in business selling military aircraft to both the Canadian and the British governments in the near future.
Moving to the United States of America, I mean. Toronto is in Ontario, which is in Canada. The Mayor of Toronto largely fine, the Premier of Ontario is questionable, the Prime Minister of Canada is concerning.

You sure have made a lot of assumptions about me: I'd advise you to keep them to yourself, Rob.
Open Future is using Mixed Reality to upgrade offline marketing
Y do you care what the DB knew at a specific time?
fwiw Amazon owns and invests in warehouse automation robots.
Because people funding these companies are out for themselves, not the greater good. They don't care if some new device or app is going to change the world. They only care if it will make them rich. That's the problem. There isn't enough philanthropic venture capitalists.
You don't think good old fashioned bugs are a problem?
Risks of day-to-day activities are known, their distribution effectively fixed and the magnitude of the risk also understood. The probability of ladder falls tripling year-to-year is of order 10^-14. I understand that driving my car could potential result in my death. There is some variability in the risk depending on how careful I am, time of day, whether I am sober etc, and of course risk out of my hands from other road users. I can have a good understanding of the risk and factor that in whether to carry out a daily activity.

War and Terrorism is completely different. When they occur is unknown, whether the event is small or cataclysmic unknown, the secondary effects they have in a wide complex system unknown.

You can take the original argument even further to understand why it is silly. Atomic bombs have only been used against people twice, therefore the chance of you dying in a car crash are multi-million times higher than dying from an atomic bomb. Should there not be an intense focus on de-proliferation, de-escalation of conflicts because of this? The consequences of an nuclear attack are so great, we spend huge amount of resources to reduce the likelihood.

Terrorism is similar. It is not only the poor victims of the attack who suffer. Our societies function on a fairly fine balance, much of which is predicated on the ability of our governance to keep us safe. Rapidly increasing frequency of attacks and their effectiveness drive us closer to instability and can severely damage our economies.

You dying in a car crash is going to hurt your friends and loved ones. You being blown up along with 50 passengers on the underground, the fifth explosion that week can have dramatic and scary results for us all.
I think most blog platforms have that...
The disappointing part of the US medical system is it doesn’t do much for you unless you’re really seriously ill or about to die. If you’re about to die, it’s the best in the world. If you just eg have a shoulder pain or something — you will have great difficulty finding a competent doctor to deal with it. People discover this by their mid to late 30s, around the time they begin to have their first real health problems.