skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What people forget is that looking nice is also a function.

Utilitarian design is unsufferable -- like those soviet-era buildings...
Should I choose some other crime to compare it to? Ok, how about the fact that possessing this guy's drug without a prescription would land a white guy in jail faster than Kapoor's going to get there for peddling it to hundreds of thousands of people?

You don't need to get hung up on the crime that I'm juxtaposing it with. Just notice the gulf between some types of justice and others.
(Former Twilio API engineer here - you might like my Go library, which is reasonably feature complete and I have been using in production for some time, https://github.com/kevinburke/twilio-go. In production here: https://github.com/kevinburke/logrole)
Keep in mind, it is not just your weather channel and your little Weather Widget on your iPhone that is at stake here.

They also provide forecasts that your airliner uses to plan safe flights.
> Because of punch cards - a standard punch card has 80 columns (rows vary, but a standard was 10-12 rows), and IBM made this standard on the PC for display to be able to show a punch card data on the screen.

> Likely this comes from dumb serial terminals of the era...so the standard carried over, for backwards compatibility.

Hey, I am from the serial dumb terminal era, which really only goes back to the 1960s! But you're right, that's where the 80 columns came from, and even as the tech got better, all that happened is we got more rows (24 was quite common, then to be exotic 48). I was already using bit mapped displays and mice in the late 70s when the 48 row terminals showed up (I had one in my office in school; I didn't rate a lispm terminal. Had to go to work for that). I wrote a lot of code on Ann Arbor Ambassador 80x48 terminals.

I don't know where the 132 column printer "standard" came from. That's the stuff that printed on the green and white paper (first chain printers -- wow!) then dot matrix and finally daisy wheel. Not sure if there were golf ball printers that weren't typewriters but I was never an IBM user. I never saw a 132 column terminal -- it's possibly you could get a VT100 into that mode, I'm not sure.

Remember, the character generation etc was often hard wired!

I still use my terminals in 80 or 132 character mode. Actually, since they are "soft" I use them in 81 & 133 character mode to avoid spurious wrapping.
> Thanks for the down votes.

This breaks the site guidelines. Please read and follow them: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
The ignorance of this comment is absolutely astounding. (not yours, the parent!)
Governments of communist countries have killed millions, not communism itself. Communism is a political theory designed to try and support the common good and break a cycle of oppression and revolt. Hasn't worked in practice, probably won't, but it's certainly not a hate doctrine like Nazism.

Glorification of the USSR would be more complicated, and could be perceived as endorsing violence.
Congress needs to take some action then. Perhaps replace the head of the organization that believes they are fulfilling their mission correctly.
>>Communism has killed more than Nazi's

Only because the USA decided to enter WW2 and helped defeat Germany. If the Nazis had won you would be looking at greatly elevated body count numbers today. After all Hitler viewed Aryans as the master race and all other races inferior, and the extermination of the Jews was simply the beginning of his grand plan.
i was more talking about the startups she mentioned in the article, such as Bodega.

Also I didn't say this type of critique is a new phenomenon.
And here's mine: https://www.utdallas.edu/~liebowit/keys1.html
It's not just that -- there's an active and a passive pathway for absorption. The active pathway is limited to 1-2 µg per day by the quantity of "intrinsic factor" produced by the stomach even for people with no absorption disorder, but about 1% of oral B-12 can be absorbed through passive diffusion. If you're trying to remediate a deficiency, intramsucular shots or high oral doses are the correct approach.

I think there's another limitation in how much the liver can capture and process per day, and I don't know what that limit is, but it's higher. In any event, once it is processed (and after excess is eliminated), it is highly conserved in your body -- a few micrograms can last years, IIRC.
I lived in NYC when Crazy Eddie was big. Never realized he ran such a scam. Thanks for the post. LOL
Doesn't answer your question directly, but I would assume that an example is the new iPhone X face unlock sensor, since PrimeSense was acquired by Apple.
The account you're responding to is over 3 months old, which, while not as old as some, doesn't appear to have been created purely for this conversation. There are quite a few members on HN whose accounts appear to have originally been created as a throwaway that have gone on to use it as their main account. Let's err on the side of giving them the benefit of the doubt.
Both are correct. Funding is not the issue, but the Trump order did exacerbate the issue, as well as the lack of nominating key positions in NOAA and NWS.
Please take another look, my library configures the default timeout to be 31 seconds (one second wider than the API timeout), and lets you pass in a context.Context for each API call. https://github.com/kevinburke/twilio-go
Which sane company does that why hire engineers to do a technicians job?
Price has jumped a bit from your presentation.
Nice concern-trolling.
Well, it is the labor union representing the workers stating it. It's clear in the article and from the context.

Omitting that from the title doesn't really detract from message. I get what you're saying, but it's not propaganda, and the NWS isn't even saying they aren't understaffed (with the quote you offered as proof that they disagreed).

They are saying they aren't putting their staff in dangerous situations, which is clearly being disputed by the staff and their union. They aren't saying being understaffed is fine.
The article does not mention Trump once.

This is all pre-Trump

> An independent report from the Government Accountability Office showed staff vacancies increased 57 percent from 2014 to 2016. The overall vacancy rate reached 11 percent or 455 positions at the end of 2016 up from just 5 percent (211 positions) at the end of 2010, the report said.
The growth area seems to be academic administration. As I pointed out previously, Stanford is building a new "campus" in Redwood City.[1] It's all administrators. 2700 of them. More administrators than Stanford has faculty.
"School of Medicine administration; Stanford Libraries and University Archives; the major administrative units of Business Affairs; Land, Buildings and Real Estate; University Human Resources; Residential & Dining Enterprises; and the Office of Development" will move there. This is in addition to all the administrators and staff back on the main campus.

Don't become a doctor - become a Medical Administrator! It pays better.

[1] https://redwoodcity.stanford.edu/
If you go to the USAJOBS site and search for National Weather Service, you get about 270 results. If you then limit that to jobs that are open to the public, you get just under a hundred jobs. So, I think both sides are telling A truth.

The NWS says there are around 270 open positions. That is demonstrably true.

The union is saying there are about 700 open positions. They might think there are vacancies for which requisitions have not yet been made.

Perhaps, therein lies the discrepancy. And it speaks to the rest of the odd financing and accounting discussed in the article.
Ahah, the old eastern asian vague social structure narrative. You'd be surprised how closely knitted Chinese companies are with SV, and how they replicated the SV in every possible way, even the interview process.

So I will say guanxi is not an noticeable factor here. If you look back, how many SV startups are funded by people with a lot of resources, under the name of, networking? Does that count as your definition of social currency? In fact, guanxi, or 关系, in Chinese means connections. Sounds familiar, isn't it?

The reason China has a huge startup scene is not that hard to understand if you are willing to come out of your idealogical/cultural bubble:

1. Presence of GFW. It bars the competition from outside of China.

2. Cheap local talents. They work twice the hours, but possible rewarded with 1/2 or 1/3 of what their SV counterparts are earning. The Chinese system allows such exploitation, while not anywhere else in the world.

3. Vast market. There are 1B cellphone users in China, that alone could sustain several 100B companies.
Don't conflate these. Glorification of the USSR is pretty bad, and is ignoring or endorsing a history of violence and oppression, similar to Nazi supporters. Advocating Communism is emphatically not the same thing, and has absolutely nothing to do with "the extermination of ethnic and religious groups."
What doesn't feel wild about it? 29,000 acres seem like a big enough place to get lost in and feel wild. For example, I've camped in the Presidential-Dry River Wilderness (also 29,000 acres) in the WMNF, and I have to say, even camping a half mile inside the area I felt like I could have been hundreds of miles from the nearest person. Being up over 4000 feet probably helps too...

I've never considered that wilderness areas were even being expanded on such a scale, let alone that it would be an issue. I will have to think about it now...I feel like if I could triple the amount of area that would be let to go wild, but lose mountain biking access in the process, that I'd be willing to accept the gain in wilderness with a loss in biking. I've done very little biking on any federal land to begin with. Most has either been on private land or town-organized easements.

To be fair, anywhere I've mountain-biked is nowhere close to being as remote as places out West. Maybe there is enough wilderness area in the West, but not enough here in the Northeast. That may be my perspective.
I think the key to your answer is in the parent's text: "This showed dedication and interest as well as some measure of intelligence."

My reasoning is that if someone is very good in his line of work, some of that work starts to spill out to the public, either by research, teaching, articles, blog posts, etc.. If a person is not a pure introvert, working all by himself, and is quite good, invariably someone will notice it..
It is a perfectly acceptable interview question. You were being a jerk (sorry) on that github issue, possibly because of your own issues/opinions. The fact that you call the issue here similar to your experience shows your inability to think about things objectively.
Don't count the "and" and you hit the target of 4 (if you accept that ML is one word).
I wonder how long it will be before someone develops a program that defends people from such content automatically?

I know there's been some research in the area, but I don't see much in the way of practical programs or screen filters:

https://phys.org/news/2009-07-software-tool-web-seizure-caus...
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Is there a model for this? I'm asking because cross pollination can happen through other means. High density of conferences, strength of networks among other means.

This argument is reminiscent of reformations and the political landscape of Europe way back when.
Ahh yeah I was looking through the SMART stats but wasn't sure which item denoted this, is it perhaps: "Minimum Spares Remaining - The Minimum Spares Remaining attribute indicates the number of remaining spare blocks as a percentage of the total number of spare blocks available."?

(Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.)

edit: No that can't be it. Maybe this data isn't available, hmm...
You don't need the axiom of choice for the countable case, which is all that's required for computer science.
Kudos to Graphcool for open sourcing this! Can't wait to try it out in production myself. The graph.cool FAAS is amazing by its own means, but having the complete control over it (if needed) is beautiful!
Thats funny.... Also who posts stuff from cnn? Get lost.
I personally believe much of this will become passe within five years or so.

I have seen a few demos of real-time path tracing software running on GPUs. I know GPUs are fast, but I wonder if there is a way to do the same math on an ASICs or FPGA that could be even faster? The main issue with existing things seems to be being able to do enough iterations to get a clear picture.

Anyway I believe a lot of the tricks related to triangle meshes and lighting approximations will be thrown out and replaced with procedural generation and real time path tracing.
It is effectively a system of reinforcement learning agents working in a command hierarchy to solve problems that single reinforcement learning agents fail to.

It's (somewhat)obvious that this is an idea worth trying. But that doesn't mean actually getting it to work is easy.
I wonder if TWC uses NWS data in its forecasting.
Meh, it doesn't have the geographic limits that you get on the coast. The only geographical feature hemming in the city is the lake. You have essentially unlimited space to expand in all other directions. It would be hard to get skyrocketing rents outside of the immediate downtown area.

But mostly Chicago just sucks. Its all the shitty parts of the midwest without any of the good ones. What you really want is Indianapolis, Columbus, Minneapolis, Louisville, etc...
> But you are right, at the end the quantities prevailed, it was a war of economies

My point was the German generals knew this well beforehand. Everyone knew they couldn't beat the Russians in a straight up one-on-one war over a long timespan. They only had a short time window to run them over with their tank/aircraft tactics. And that failed because the Nazi's largely underplayed the quality of Russian tanks/technology.

It doesn't matter if you have 10 German tanks vs 1 Russian tank if those ten tanks can't penetrate the armour of the Russian one. This is a critical difference. Especially when the Nazi's were already strapped for fuel and armaments. Which is why a small number of KV-1s would grind the invasion to a halt until reinforcements could arrive.

As soon as they had to wait for the supply lines and infantry to catch up then the Blitzkrieg tactics are no longer effective and Nazi Germany is now facing Russia on their terms.

It's amazing how this is seemingly such a controversial topic when plenty of well researched literature will back me up here...
Peer review: the end of an error?
Rechargeable batteries of most designs are pretty heat sensitive. Too hot or too cold and the maximum range of the electric vehicle suffers. The drop off can be as high as 30% or so too, especially if you live somewhere with regular seasonal extreme temperatures.

This is why as well as cooling systems, some EVs even heat the battery in the cold.

The same thing affects Lithium Ion batteries in phones, cameras, laptops etc too.
Techmeme Summary: Nancy Scola / Politico: Study: interviews with tech staffers show how Facebook, Twitter, and Google helped Trump team as part of ad services; Clinton team declined embeds

Link to the peer-reviewed paper (as per article) from the article: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10584609.2017.13...

>> Quotes from the article:

While the paper does not detail the specific tasks Facebook carried out for Trump, it describes the sort of work the company did generally for 2016 candidates, including coordinating so-called dark posts that would appear only to selected users and identifying the kinds of photos that perform best on Facebook-owned Instagram. Twitter, meanwhile, would help candidates analyze the performances of their tweet-based fundraising pushes to recommend what moves the campaigns should make next. Google kept tabs on candidates' travels to recommend geographically targeted advertisements.

One unnamed tech company staffer is quoted in the study as saying, “Clinton viewed us as vendors rather than consultants.”

>> End of quotes
and they're motivated by money/views/prestige instead of destabilization to fulfill geopolitical goals.

Exactly the point.

Look, there's this thing in western jurisprudence called "mens rea". It's what differentiates, say, first degree murder from manslaughter.

In this case, RT and Sputnik are clearly motivated by the desire to manipulate the US election. As you've already conceded, those other outlets are not. As a result, these represent different acts, and therefore it is not unreasonable for them to warrant different responses.
Dan here (also Paperspace team). Totally agree that transfer costs are a significant pain point which is why we do not charge for it. We can peer with other providers (eg with AWS we can leverage Direct Connect directly from our datacenters) but most of our customers don't implement this unless they're moving major traffic.
A case is being made regarding relative punishments. I find this is an entirely appropriate time and location to bring this argument, given that the main criteria for comments is that they are substantive and contribute. I think this one contributes by starting an interesting side conversation, which are in my opinion one of the best parts of HN.

If you don't want to take part, just click the [-] to collapse the thread and ignore it. If you take issue with the actual content of the comment, a bit more information on why you think it has nothing to do with a case where a high placed executive might face relatively minor punishment for, as the GP puts it, getting "thousands addicted to your drug, take their money, ruin their families for years and eventually take their lives." might help clarify that stance.
You're ignoring the economic choices not taken.

The investor capitalized the builder, and the builder constructed the housing, and the lender capitalized the landlord, and the landlord bought the building, all because they knew that people need to have a place to exist, and that the spot they picked was a likely spot.

If renting were somehow not allowed, none of them would have any use for that spot. There would not be that same building there, but there is the possibility that there would be a 12 bed + 1 outhouse shanty/bunkhouse there instead, which would also be better than sleeping in your car, but only just barely. And the cost of your kip would be much less.

There is also the possibility that instead of just one 3200 sq.ft. house with grass-covered yard, there would be a low-rise tenement-style condo-plex with 8 units at 1600 sq.ft. each, with limited covered parking and no lawn. With enough of those on the same street, there might also be a bus stop nearby, and competition among local utilities.

But by defining that plot as one place for one family to live, the landlord and his financiers has ensured that no matter how big it is, it is too expensive for the renter to easily buy it. If the landlord did not exist, that plot would have to be divided into as many places as is necessary to bring the price down to what those who will be occupying those places can afford to pay each other to stay out of someone else's spot.
Had never heard of that, just popped in there. Definitely seems like it falls into the same group as some of these banned subs. A lot of just generic gun related content, but then a fair number of posts about killing political adversaries. Didn't have to scroll down very far to find a post about having a large magazine so as to be able to kill many racists.

Not good, should get banned under new policy IMO.
White collar crime can do far much more societal damage than a single murderer can. I don't see any reason they both can't share prison.
Who is gonna pay to host the open distributed platform? Surely not the users
Your description made think of the slime mold map of the Tokyo transportation system [1] albeit with a different set of inputs.

As with any organic, self propelled, system.. it matures and growth turns to maintenance, and eventually decay. Is the general argument here that SV has become a victim of it's massive organic growth, has it eaten up one of it's resources (housing, healthy diversity, etc) to the point where another city/system can now flourish??

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwKuFREOgmo
No, you are not. First, there is an accepted meaning for destabilization. Wikipedia has a pretty good definition and it certainly doesn't match your changing the status quo.

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

Secondly, your whataboutism is an effort to change the subject away from the topic, a private company concluding that it didn't want RT+Sputnik's advertising money. It then ventures into not very good equivocation (Judith Miller was not the Times; indeed, she was forced to resign by the Times).

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

Given this, I accept no burden of proof. It is what it is.
So what should exactly should those of us without the capital to buy or build our own houses do? Hit the road?
Right, but you didn't just say the author wasn't a person of color or homeless; you also, and more importantly, said the author doesn't serve their interest and is just using them. And for that claim, whether the signatories includes people of the mentioned group(s) is relevant, because clearly they felt it was serving their interests.
The math makes it clear why giving everyone absolute freedom to choose whether to immunize or not doesn't work very well.

If everyone else is immunized to the point where there is significant herd immunity, but immunization has a low but non-zero cost (e.g. feeling crappy for a few days), then the rational selfish action is to be a free rider and not immunize.

However, if everyone did that, then herd immunity can collapse down to a level where there is no herd immunity; people rationally choose to immunize only to protect themselves. However, given that immunizations aren't perfect shields, in that scenario, even immunized individuals will be at risk to infections spreading through the population.
Nah, we can just let the computers spew out numbers and trust that they're good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQuVOQwRvQ8
It is not about "displacing the US". It is about a monopoly being over. Which means, there will be big tech companies from SV, but also from China, India, Indonesia, Korea, Europe etc. etc. And it is already true. Chinese companies raised $56bn last year.

The world is also significantly different from 80s. China's GDP in 1980 was $200 bn. Now it is $11 trillion
Don't confuse yourself. It's not the millions of people El Cheeto would kill in a nuclear strike on DPRK that are threatening the US, it is effectively one trump-like individual in charge of DPRK that is threatening the US.
Easy to say when your livelihood isn't on the line.
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How do you ingest data with Wallaroo? I see a mention of "...say TCP" and in the github word count there is mention of a (data)source framed-message-protocol but nothing that describes it in the (https://github.com/WallarooLabs/wallaroo/blob/0.2.0/book/cor...) link.

Dropping Python into the mix for a high throughput processing pipeline seems counterproductive. Why isn't there a tutorial in a more strict language like Go or C++, since someone pursuing this kind of high-throughput framework that can't benefit from wider parallelism, will 100% want that performance guarantee?
I spent awhile as a weather forecaster in the USAF. I got a strong impression the weather squadron's purpose had nothing to do with predicting weather, and everything to do with providing an additional scapegoat when things go wrong.
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I would blame management/top more, than sales. Sales can work only with products they were given. AFAIK Twitter was pretty aggressively hiring 2-3 years ago sales reps across the globe and they were stealing top employees from FB and co.

I would assume that it is the lack of products/top commitment that causes poor sales.
“We believe this level is adequate to achieve National Weather Service core functions,”