skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not sure about not losing money.

Please see https://about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2017/pr17_007....

Summary:

- operation cost reduced

- holiday sales saw growth

- first-class mail saw continued loss

It is known USPS has been losing money for many years now due to the raise of emails and now social media and instant messaging.

This is a strong reason some people proposed to privatize USPS instead.
I came across a book years ago whose thesis was something along the lines that the construction of epic was the beginning of what amounted to a cognitive revolution in humankind; and that before Homer (and presumably as a function of abstraction and mnemonic techniques that underlay the construction and performance of his works, and them similar works) that people weren't yet fully conscious. I lost track of the name of the book, but it was a tantalizing argument even if it seems batshit, on the surface [1].

Anyway, your comment was a beautiful bit of serendipity -- I never would have heard of the Yates book otherwise, which I just ordered. Thanks for taking the time.

[1] I could be absolutely butchering this, but the hypothesis was, if not literally as I've represented it, something similarly incredible in scope and spirit.
https://www.macrumors.com/2016/03/03/older-os-x-installers-b...
I think it's perfectly possible to compete with Facebook business to business (if you have SNAP levels of funding, at least).

You just can't beat them at being Facebook.
I love this section from their support page. Nothing like stability through 2050.

https://www.hwaci.com/sw/sqlite/prosupport.html

> Paid support options and products are provided by Hipp, Wyrick & Company, Inc., (Hwaci), a Georgia corporation with headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina and has been in business since 1992. Hwaci has an international team of employees and associates representing the best available talent. We are a 100% engineering company. There is no sales staff. Our goal is to provide outstanding service and honest advice without spin or sales-talk.

> Hwaci is a small company but it is also closely held and debt-free and has low fixed costs, which means that it is largely immune to buy-outs, take-overs, and market down-turns. Hwaci intends to continue operating in its current form, and at roughly its current size until at least the year 2050. We expect to be here when you need us, even if that need is many years in the future.
> If Waymo's tech is years ahead of the competition ... then I think a lot of the self-driving companies and car manufacturers in the US will be having cold sweats...I see this lead up enabling Waymo to capture significant market share in the US in regions where laws towards autonomous vehicles are friendly

Yes, Waymo may capture 100% of the self-driving tech market for a few years, but I don't see it having a sustainable advantage. As soon as another company develops self-driving technology that meets safety standards it can undercut Waymo and capture a significant market share. In 10 years self driving tech will be a commodity product - any car manufacturer/ride hailing company will be able to choose between a half-dozen offerings.

But car manucturers are still in for long-term pain because their product is also becoming a commodity: nobody cares about the colour or horsepower of the taxi they take to work. Electrification and ride sharing may also significantly reduce the demand for new vehicles.

Ride-hailing companies like Uber are also going to feel their share of pain, but only until they can develop or buy self-driving technology. Until then they can just pay a few billion dollars to subsidize their human drivers.
I was curious what the site looked like, so I opened it.

Okay, I've seen worse desig--WHAT?! Wow, a marquee! Nice.
Unrelated to AWS, but sites like you describe are what we used in "How not to do It" while justifying the (very minor) expense in building the Alaska Elevation Archive. http://elevation.alaska.gov/

The National Map, from the USGS, is another example of "ugh", at least it was when it was tile-by-tile download only.
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>SQLite License. Warranty of title and perpetual right-to-use for the SQLite source code.

<from more info>

Obtaining A License To Use SQLite

Even though SQLite is in the public domain and does not require a license, some users want to obtain a license anyway. Some reasons for obtaining a license include:

Your company desires warranty of title and/or indemnity against claims of copyright infringement.
You are using SQLite in a jurisdiction that does not recognize the public domain.
You are using SQLite in a jurisdiction that does not recognize the right of an author to dedicate their work to the public domain.
You want to hold a tangible legal document as evidence that you have the legal right to use and distribute SQLite.
Your legal department tells you that you have to purchase a license.

If you feel like you really need to purchase a license for SQLite, Hwaci, the company that employs all the developers of SQLite, will sell you one. All proceeds from the sale of SQLite licenses are used to fund continuing improvement and support of SQLite.

</from more info>

How is it possible that they can sell licenses to the code that was put into the public domain by other contributors?

A contributor must attach the following declaration[1] to contribute. So now their contributions are in public domain. Now in a place where the law doesn't recognize public domain, doesn't the code belong to the original authors? How can an unaffiliated company license it as if they wrote the code?

[1]: "The author or authors of this code dedicate any and all copyright interest in this code to the public domain. We make this dedication for the benefit of the public at large and to the detriment of our heirs and successors. We intend this dedication to be an overt act of relinquishment in perpetuity of all present and future rights to this code under copyright law."
What would the things
of Troy, be to you, Achaeans, without Helen?

Insomnia. Homer. Taut canvas.
Half the catalogue of ships is mine:
that flight of cranes, long stretched-out line,
that once rose, out of Hellas.
To an alien land, like a phalanx of cranes –
Foam of the gods on the heads of kings –
Where do you sail? What would the things
of Troy, be to you, Achaeans, without Helen?
The sea, or Homer – all moves by love’s glow.
Which should I hear? Now Homer is silent,
and the Black Sea thundering its oratory, turbulent,
and, surging, roars against my pillow.
Unfortunately it's illegal to do so because it's trading on non-public information. Sergey suggested it long ago but Eric killed it immediately.

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1789358
18 U.S. Code § 793 – Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information
Ridecell(YC W12) is hiring Software Engineers for Autonomous Driving Team(Auro)

https://ridecell.com/careers.html?gh_jid=888018

About us:

Auro ( www.auro.ai ), is now the Autonomous Driving Division of Ridecell. While Auro shines in autonomous driving technology, Ridecell has a rich experience in operations and management of large fleets of vehicles at scale. We are together pushing for the widespread adoption of autonomous mobility with our self driving shuttles and end to end mobility service platform.
We are looking for passionate autonomous vehicle engineers and roboticists to join us in this exciting journey.

Why us:

You will get first hand experience in the design and development of an L4 autonomous vehicle from Day 1. We are striving to build the best MVP for the autonomous vehicle industry, and we have made our first strides already by deploying our vehicles in the real world.

Product and Technology Videos: https://goo.gl/pnLyBo

Requirements:

C++, ROS, proven experience in autonomous driving software stack related to perception, navigation or localization

Apply at:
https://ridecell.com/careers.html?gh_jid=888018
> Marines United exemplified a part of Facebook that is difficult for it to moderate: secret groups.

Why are secret groups any more difficult than any other kind of group for FB to moderate? FB has access to their own data.
Feds want cash seized in a raid, so they’re suing the cash
I personally couldn’t disagree more.

If you cut me off tomorrow of Facebook and Messeneger I would instantly loose contact to the majority of people I care about (except my wife and parents).

I would end up spending life on my couch watching Netflix instead of engaging in a rich social life I have now thanks to FB events, groups, Messeneger, etc.

And I guarantee you that’s true for a large amount of the user base! Otherwise they wouldn’t retain.

(Fake) news and cat videos are a very hyped topic...but it’s really only a small part of why people actually use FB
That is true, however there are some drugs that have been shown to increase plasticity and stimulate neuronal growth. And there's also the possibility of doping the brain with stem cells.
Then you should be able to answer my question: what is the metric for ROI?
Maybe something intermediate could be done, but I think the tweetstorm format allows for interjections at fixed intervals, which can be helpful.
Lyft and Uber either beats the big tech or big auto to self driving tech... or they are dead. I'm putting my money on the latter.
FBI Rewrites Federal Law in some cases.  Do they have that authority?
> the cost of education has gotten out of control primarily because whenever the government guarantees debt

You are talking about undergraduate tuition and the article is talking about graduate/PhD tuition, which are entirely separate issues here.
The new indicator design sucks, they should just use the old one and change the number to 280. I want to be able to see the exact number of remaining characters I have at a glance, this is not possible with a tiny little circular indicator.
The Jetson TX2 can run GoogLeNet in real-time with the onboard camera, so it's definitely possible on mainstream GPUs too.

https://github.com/dusty-nv/jetson-inference

Inspecting layer activations in real-time is trickier, but presumably possible.
commenters who wrote in an authoritative voice were routinely highly scored, even when insanely wrong

My favorite was the reverse psychology. Any post that began with: "I know I'll be downvoted for this ..." had a much higher than average chance of winding up at +5 Insightful.
In fact, we do this already. The thing you're describing is commonly referred to as intelligence.
Imagine a company like Boeing then, which does have a 35 year shelf-life on their products.
OK, so how is the success of that funnel measured vis-a-vis other promotional channels? And are you able to demonstrate definitively that a visitor from FB concluded a sale? If so, how?
I started the switch to markdown-it a while ago[1]. I just need to find some time to get back to it.

[1]: https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/tree/markdown-it
Twitter could stop development today and they would stay relevant for years to come. Tweets don't get quoted in the news because of some great innovation, but because the basic idea and implementation is solid enough and has Twitter has a massive network effect.

The bigger reason why they want to be seen as improving and innovating is likely to keep shareholders happy. From a profit standpoint the company is a lot less solid, leaving ample reason to play with perception.
You can test more than you'd realize: The generated math, the number of axes and number of visible points, etc. I'm not saying its def. a valuable use of time here, but I've been surprised how investing a little bit in helper methods (like, `getSelectedOption` or `isVisible`, etc) can generate quite useful and expressive unit tests.
None of the four freedoms are available in this context, Minix as part of the Intel ME.

cf.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html
Current microcontrollers often have better protection mechanisms than that. Not necessarily fully capable MMUs, but sufficiently capable ones to allow for protection, as well as kernel/userspace separation.
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Appalling? Now who is being sensationalist? What you are saying is that the school is going to bear the cost rather than the student. Probably. But then, the Ph.D. program just becomes much more expensive for the school to administer. As such, all but the most well-endowed are going to simply stop admitting Ph.D. students. Your simplified, and actually unworkable, accounting trick achieves the same effect of destroying our world-class and unparalleled STEM graduate system.
Alas that was not the case at the time of my posting 2 hours ago.
That's true and it's one of the main reasons I use a Google phone. But it's also true that you don't need an OS-level update to get a lot of the newest features and services on Android. Google has broken out a lot of their services and apps into separate updates so you can get them even if you're not running the latest version of Android.

I don't need an OS update to get the latest Chrome or Gmail or Maps, for example, unlike iOS.
Even the source on the original article you linked to isn't from Facebook. I can't track down a single citation for anyone from Facebook saying "send pictures to yourself and flag them".
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Fewer creative abbreviations will certainly make natural language processing a lot easier.
The Sony RX0 looks like a great small camera with an excellent 4K sensor. This might be a game changer / killer camera for GoPro. I wonder how they would counter that?
Leaving aside other reasons to use it (userspace/kernel separation, better security and isolation, Rust)...

Almost anything is a better choice than FreeRTOS. FreeRTOS has a not-quite-open-source license, a modified version of the GPL with a clause that makes it non-free and GPL-incompatible.

FreeRTOS isn't Free Software. "OpenRTOS", the version you get if you pay for a non-copyleft license, isn't Open Source. What does that say about "SafeRTOS"?
I actually used computers in 1983; I learned to program on an Atari 800xl, and later upgraded to my father's IBM AT (w/ Hercules graphics!) While computers have become extraordinary faster doing actual calculations or manipulating large amounts of data, as long as you had sufficient RAM[1], UIs responsiveness has gained latency (and generally became perceptually worse) on a curve that peaked in the Windows Vista era, when it started to improve again very slowly.

Note that I said "UI", not "GUI". Text mode visual UIs - which were fine for some tasks. I knew several people that preferred Lotus 1-2-3[2] over Excel and Quattro Pro specifically because of 1-2-3's low latency.

Every layer of abstraction added overhead. Protected memory was worth a bit of latency. Multiple layers of object oriented vtable calls and unnecessary texture bitblt on every GUI widget added made GUIs sluggish for questionable benefits.

> adware/bloatware/trackers/etc

Those huge sources of latency (and other) problems, but networks always add large amounts of latency. The web, which was designed for documents, not as a platform for interactive GUIs, has and will always have terrible feel slow, unpredictable, and laggy. Some of that is unfixable due to the speed of light and the overhead from any thin-client system that requires regular roundtrips to a server.

[1] everything became painfully slow if you were constantly needing to move pages to/from the swapfile.

[2] Lotus 1-2-3's release in 1983 was so popular the very idea of "IBM PC Clone" was created, with 1-2-3 acting as a popular compatibility test.
Looking at the finger instead of the moon

I like this metaphor.
This happens a lot. Just go to PACER and do a search on certain amounts as respondents to civil cases and you will find the cases. Start with a party search like "$40,000" or such, since the numbers will be the respondent name in the case.
> As for the EU, the 'enemy' status is over a battle for control of Ukraine

Ukraine is a continuation of and part of a much larger struggle. Russia is interfering in European countries' elections and domestic politics; they also annexed, unofficially, part of Georgia; they are pushing countries to abandon or not join the EU; they are working against European countries in other regions, including in the Mideast; they are trying to divide NATO by building an alliance with Turkey ...
You make it sound like Snap is a failure.

It is worth $16b even after the affect of this earnings report.

Facebook might have slowed their growth but they did make a huge company before they were slowed down.
Markdown Here predates both CommonMark and markdown-it by a couple of years. marked.js was the best choice when I created MDH. That being said, I have started work on switching to markdown-it (see comment above).
Maybe they can get the fuck out of Venice
Pact (http://github.com/kadena-io/pact) is a turing-incomplete LISP (no recursion, no lambdas, no unbounded loops ... no macros either ;) ) and built in Haskell. Also has formal verification by directly compiling to SMT-LIB2 (not released yet, but watch a demo! https://youtu.be/l7XuSuEe-Yg?t=22m23s).
iOS 9: Support for the latest gimmick "3D Touch" which required every app to add a bunch of (IMO) useless new undiscoverable affordances as well as long overdue major overhaul of iPad features: multitasking, etc.

3D touch also adds weight, complexity and cost to the screen, for a feature most users completely ignore. I consider it one of Apple's biggest feature misfires.
The actual "interesting" stuff would comes about a minute in where the differences are mostly due to changes in content rather than just being slightly off timing-wise.
Why don't you just link the query results?

http://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=Wayfair+Llc&job=Software+En...

Any while we're at it, why don't we pull the prevailing wage data?

http://www.flcdatacenter.com/OesQuickResults.aspx?area=71654...

Level 1 Software Engineers are paid on average $67k in that area, so by paying them $68k, Wayfair is still paying more than the average wage for U.S. citizens working the same position.

Wayfair is not driving down wages.
that ver few packages nailed most people on python 2 boat.
> I can't think of any examples of them using their holdings to exert influence over the company's they invested in

How would you know? Such things are rarely disclosed; both parties prefer to keep them confidential.

> they must be cognizant of the fact that doing so at this time would make most companies reluctant to accept their investment

Many companies make deals like that all the time. Look at the influence of China in Hollywood:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15641483
2.13.1 and .2 are Mozilla-specific releases, to deal with the change from XUL to WebExtensions in Firefox, while still supporting Thunderbird (and Postbox) and old Firefox (and Palemoon). I'll cut a release soon-ish to fix a couple of bugs:
https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/blob/master/src/comm...
The hardware and OS are fine. The problem is the web platform and its towering stack of abstractions, combined with the occasional problem of focusing on aesthetics over utility.

I haven't yet experienced a web-based application that I actually enjoyed using. The closest anything ever gets is to make me wish it was a native application so I didn't have to deal with all the web nonsense in order to use it.
No, but for a few minutes it hit 1000rpm
And this, the 'lowest common denominator' counter-argument, is the oldest counter-argument to the oldest argument.

If your argument that making the oldest argument means that it holds no water, then this logic should apply to the oldest counter-argument, too.
I completely agree with you, and there's nothing wrong with a successful cottage/lifestyle business. But it takes a certain maturity to see it that way, and they might have caught the startup bug and thought they could turn custom t-shirts into a billion dollar business... who knows?
Didn't really think of this before, but yes - this is very useful and it would be a shame to lose this feature.
It's hard to imagine your #1 could happen. The compression wave in a nuke has to be just right to achieve critical mass. It's not an easy thing to pull off deliberately under the best of circumstances

#2 is sort of half true. You wouldn't get nuclear material over a large area because it's so heavy. You could get a big plume from Chernobyl, but that was because there was a nuclear reaction going on, and it wasn't uranium that got boosted into the sky by the fire.

Still an expensive mess, but a pretty localized mess.
I agree that traffic will be "worse" in some sense, in that there will be more of it. But maybe not "worse" in the important sense of how annoying it is, since we won't be consciously piloting a machine through it.

Instead we could be sleeping, playing video games, working on laptops, etc.

I think that vehicle design will shift a lot once we start optimizing for these new use-cases, and this might make a big difference to how tolerable road journeys are.

This is all very hard to predict though...
Mouse Guard is basically the rangers from the Lord of the Rings in mouse form, with cats and owls as monsters.
If you ever have a chance, I strongly recommend David Hackett Fischer's _Historians' Fallacies_:

https://www.amazon.com/Historians-Fallacies-Toward-Historica...

What historians have had to figure out, and sometimes learn the hard way -- these are lessons that over the centuries we have found deep-rooted needs to listen to . . . it's not just about writing history -- it's about thinking . . .
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That's because the concept of a typed lambda function doesn't really exist in Java; in Java 8 lambdas are syntactic sugar for SAM-type object creation. (There are other interface warts too: @DslMarker and parameterized receivers, as you mention; treatment of void vs. Unit; different default collection types; destructuring data types, and the need to clutter your code with 'new' if you use them a lot; etc.)

It's similar to any interop problem: if you want your library to be accessible from lots of languages, its interface better be the lowest common denominator of the features they support.

There's nothing stopping you, though, from defining your interfaces in Java and then implementing those interfaces in Kotlin. The Kotlin interop code even will do a good job letting you use Kotlin's syntactic sugar for this, eg. you can pass Kotlin lambdas to functions that expect a SAM-type, or use 'with()' to treat a conventional builder pattern as a DSL.
An entire AirBnB? You're just an opinion-having meatball, there to get adverts screamed into your face 24/7 while you have opinions and allocate your UBI.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BzOVUGrIIAAH8c9.jpg:large

There won't be everything as a service, because you won't have anything. There's no need for you to do anything in this fiat-advertising-bubble-money future world. Expect maybe a stream of soylent and a ventilated cage, unless you have pro-tier skills in extracting money from Stanford Prison Experiment 'customers'.
Not really. The amount of samples that check for debuggers is surprisingly high, and thus makes such red flag unusable. It'd just spam false positives.
>> Sure, but currently deep learning is more like experimental physics. You try stuff and see what works and empirically improve your understanding.

The way I understand experimental physics, its purpose is either (a) to make observations on which new theories can be built or (b) to experimentally verify, or falsify, existing theories.

I don't think it's quite like throwing stuff at a wall and looking to see what sticks.
There's hope we move from Linux some day, into something with access controls between parts of the OS.

But Linux will be in C forever.
I prefer units of power of a burning Library of Congress.