skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This Bank CEO Is Learning to Code
Very cool. I've used google finance for years and never knew that. I always assumed all you got wrt after hours stuff was the little "After hours" quote underneath the day's closing price.
These are Uber’s new ‘cultural norms’
Is there an actual bug here? It's much nicer than before in my opinion. It actually remembers whether your Bluetooth radio was On or Off when last in Airplane Mode and that's a new feature of iOS 11 as far as I'm aware. I frequently go in and out of Airplane Mode without dropping Bluetooth. What's the bug?
I think that's just ketone esters. That actually sounds pretty pleasant compared to the descriptions I've heard of earlier ketone esters: http://eatingacademy.com/personal/experience-exogenous-keton...
>> not one that treats you as a pawn.

> And sadly, Firefox is the only browser that does this.

Do you mean to say Firefox treats you as a pawn? How so?(Genuinely interested)
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It does seem like it, but it really only seems like it.

To be sure, the technologies used in the propulsion system of a battery electric vehicle are very different from the technologies of an internal combustion engine drive train; however the electric propulsion system is basically a straight replacement of the ICE drivetrain.

The vehicle still performs the same job, in basically the same way.

A new Core Technology would be self-driving cars, or a completely automated manufacturing plant - both things that Tesla may have in the future
Getting rid of exemptions and deductions is also "simplification" and "reform".

I mean, I agree that the plan is focused on paying for corporate and high end tax cuts, but how do you do tax simplification if special interests are all off limits?
ex H1B here. I left US because of this broken system. There are many bad apples than good ones utilizing the H1B system. Indian bodyshops, one room consultancies all over New Jersey. Even companies like Sprint,Walmart,TR,Garmin,BOFA,Chase,Visa,AMEX, they all game the system and exploit H1B employees because of their situation. There are a lot of fake payroll running firms too which keeps the fake H1B employee's status valid. There are firms which apply for "future greencards" while the beneficiary is not even physically present in the US.

Even many non CS graduates faking their resumes as CS ones and applying for "specialized" positions in IT. I had enough of this and left US and immigrated to Canada for good because I am pretty sure that my future will be affected by these bad apples gaming the system. I do not like Trump personally, but he is right about the H1B immigration system.

If H1B system is a lottery, then why is it called a "skilled visa" ? H1B should be merit based so as to weed out the bad apples and body shops gaming the system.

Probably I should write a book on "How to game the H1B system and get away with it". The book will be an eye opener for this broken skilled visa system and its loopholes.
Looks like you'll need to start moderating this already, as of an hour ago, at least.

The process of setting up a public sandbox for users to play with seems like it should be easy, but abusive/obscene posts by users make a testing sandbox unusable/NSFW very easily.
Is this a monthly cost or yearly?
Even attended. Things I'm perfectly fine with my kid seeing are often prefixed by ads that I cannot handle as an adult, much less kids.
Isn't that the point of a visa? That you're a benefit to society?
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Yes I get the rosy-nostalgia bias but ... these apps run demonstrably faster. That's not nostalgia.
Just briefly reading through the specs, I can't see any reason why someone would want to use this over FreeRTOS unless they have a Rust-based embedded system project. Is there something I'm missing here?
The business closed. And, I'm doing my part...
That was my experience for 1v1 as well and one day it was just too much for me. It is not a game where you sit down and enjoy, it is about getting intense and putting in the hours without instant gratification. Many of those nights ended with horrible defeats compelling me to force-shutdown the computer. It definitely is not a game for everyone (again 1v1)

Also, your name rings a bell about my favorite terran.
Using a Pre-Trained VGG Model to Classify Objects in Photographs
I've been at the same corporation for 13 years now and have encountered this a couple times. I don't know how feasible it is where you work, but what I've done is look for a new position within the company. I really love this company, but there have been times I didn't enjoy the work/team I was on.
It could be as simple as changing to a new project, or sometimes even more extreme. I went from being a lead architect on a project to heading over to the DevOps team for a year and giving that a try. I didn't enjoy it so I've since moved over to our Data Science team where I'm an Analytics Architect. Luckily I've been here long enough and gotten to know enough people that they've come and let me know when they have openings on their team and see if I'm interested.

TLDR; See if you can find another team/division within your company to work for.
Hands-on play with iPad for kids
It seems crazy to me how may projects depend on Chromium and V8 directly.

Hopefully with Firefox's new improvements some of this will change.
He isn't :)
Since you acknowledge the increases in the EITC are unhelpful to these underprivileged students you are then saying it is acceptable to raise taxes on the underprivileged portion of a largely privileged group because it's statistically hard to tease out the difference. That's...heartless?

Balancing it out in other members of the lower income class doesn't really help, IMO. You are penalizing people who are underprivileged for trying to improve their lot in life and move into a higher class with one of the best means possible: higher educational attainment.

It's obscene.

P.S. your point about taxation of corporations is interesting too: corporates shouldn't be considered people for purposes of taxation but can participate in political activity and speech (political donations) using rights of individuals. Nice deal, if you can get it.
How long do you think they have left?

OR

Do you foresee them surviving beyond 2027?
> for only the depreciation cost on my car

Ignoring fuel!
I read it as a typo, where the author intended to say: FireFox is the only browser that does [not do] this.
Shared virtual memory: when a CPU allocates a region of memory, and then the GPU synchronizes to the same region of memory.

Any reads / writes to that virtual memory address work in both CPU and GPU code. So the CPU can do highly sequential tasks like balancing a binary tree (with all of the pointers involved), while the GPU can do highly parallel tasks like traversing the tree exhaustively. Pointers inside of this shared region remain legitimate, because each address is correctly identified between the CPU and GPU.

See this for example: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/opencl-20-shared-v...

I'm describing "Fine Grained Shared Virtual Memory" btw, in case anyone wants to know what to search for.

In effect, it works because the CPU does an mmap, and then the GPU does an mmap, and then the PCIe drivers work to keep the mmap'd region in sync. With modern acquire / release memory fence semantics + atomics properly defined, its even possible to write "Heterogeneous" code where the CPU and GPU works simultaneously on the same memory space.

In theory. I haven't tested these features out yet, and its quite possible that current implementations are buggy. But the features exist and its totally possible (to attempt) to do this sort of stuff on hardware today.
I wanted to thank you not only for this new page but also for your blog and distill.pub, especially the research debt page!
2.0 is not about a switchover date, it's functionality, or even philosophy. Mid-90s forums would be understood as visionary betas of Web 2.0 under this terminology. I concede that Orange Forum is definitely very early 2.0, possibly even very late 1.0, but it it most definitely not "as 1.0 as you can get". That would be static websites with at most a guest book and/or email form.
I went to school in New York, and my wife did in Massachusetts, both in the 2003-2008 sorta range. I'm not sure if any linear algebra was taught (it was new to her when she took it in college, and much of it that you don't see in games-programming books was new to me too). The highest math classes in the school were AP Calculus A and AP Calculus AB, corresponding to Calculus 1 and Calculus 1+2; they were meant to be taken as seniors if you were one year fast and as juniors if two years fast. Analytic geometry as in coordinate systems and such definitely got taught.

I can't name a curriculum I know for the 2000s or 2010s where the first three semesters (Calc 1, Calc 2, Lin Alg) of university-level math got fit into high school for anyone, let alone for everyone, let alone making it the first four semesters by including multivariable calculus.
Yes, during your PhD there were no tax consequences to the university forgiving your tuition, because it was given special consideration.

This would change that.

Ostensibly valuable students will be able to arrange for the university to bear the burden of the taxes, but it will be a change and it is likely that large institutions will use it to their advantage.
Books are valuable because they give you deeper understanding of a certain subject. If you just want the gist go read the summary.
Snap plunges after huge revenue miss
Of the 98% that is ketone and water how much is water? ;)
>>> Why not build up your own country and affect their living standards in a positive way?

I can answer that in a personal way. Because I don't care.

The modern world is capitalist, especially with software. If your work is worth X dollars, why would you work for X/10 dollars? Because of nationalism?
I'm incredibly lucky to be working with a number of people who have an amazing intersection of design skills and scientific knowledge.

Ludwig is fantastic and put an incredible amount of work into polishing this article. And my co-editor Shan (who used to do data vis at the New York Times) seems like he has super powers half the time. We also get lots of outstanding advice from Ian Johnson and Arvind Satyanarayan.
According to OFLC, the entry-level prevailing wage for developers in the Bellevue area (where these developers work) is $39k. Paying $55k for a level 1 or 2 isn't unreasonable because it's more than the average pay of citizens in the area working the same job.

http://www.flcdatacenter.com/OesQuickResults.aspx?area=53000...
And if they're not, LaTeX is great.
The description says it: "multiple concurrent, mutually distrustful applications"

Although there is some support for setting up MPUs, generally FreeRTOS applications have full access to all the memory.
If the graph on their website is to be believed, then it (ketone esters) should be a lot more potent than ketone salts. I have tried KetoCana and I didn't notice any cognitive difference, or much of a difference in ketones as measured by my Ketonix (although that measures breath acetone, not blood BHB, and probably not super accurately).
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I used to order new T’s from Threadless every other month back in 2010, but since then I have developed a different style, or maybe I just adopted the mainstream, which has more simple and plain colors and maybe nicer materials.
You know very well that community doesn't hear nuance, all they hear is that Fiber=fast and this is why people question the Preact developers with stuff like "will you implement Fiber". I know that FUD wasn't the goal, but FUD is the result of overhyping a rewrite and giving it a codename.
>at work

Is youre IT group policy doing this?
> So much whitespace in the demo.

This. If you want old school, go with 10px Verdana, and pad sparingly. I want information, not negative space dammit! With pine, my email editor in 1995, I could read 40 subject lines on a 640x480 screen. With Gmail (in compact mode) on an MBP retina, I get 36. Progress, indeed. Designers 1, Users 0.
You have a very narrow definition of "browser." Try xombrero, vimb, Luakit, uzbl or good old w3m.
The Apprehension Engine: An Instrument Designed to Play the Music of Nightmares
Ask HN: How do you partition your private and public digital lives?
It seems like it's not ill-defined, it's like all categorization schemes. It's suitable for some purposes and not others. The level system is important to the experience of the passenger, and to a number of design elements of the car, and, I would guess, to regulation. It's just not a total order on the capabilities or impressiveness of a self driving car project.
Firefox is not slower, it's just that most websites are optimised and tested only or mainly under Chrome.

We are slowly getting back to the way things were with IE, but I hope that Mozilla won't give up and switch to blink or webkit like everybody else.
There's no way to anti-subscribe is there, like to avoid this appearing in suggested videos or whatever?
The buildings of our fathers
Django has a very extensive documentation along with tutorials, hints and examples. It's been the only resource I've needed besides a couple of blog posts.
If you use Montserrat from Google Fonts your site is probably broken now
We're glad you enjoyed it! :D

> do you think it would be possible to train a DNN to learn to visualize the "most important" neuron activations / interactions of another DNN?

That sounds like a really hard problem. I'm not entirely sure what it would mean even, but it would not surprise me at all if there was some refinement that could turn into an interesting research direction! :)
Re: pawn

What about Safari? (May not be an option based on OS though)
"Facebook will also now know you visited a store based on a new feature that matches GPS, beacons, WiFi, radio signals, and cell towers with brick-and-mortar coordinates." [1] Basically harvesting data from your phone's sensors, where their app is installed.

And: "A new Facebook API, called the Offline Conversions API, works with a number of in-store sales systems from companies like Square and IBM to match their customer data with Facebook’s advertising data." [2]

(More science-fictiony: they could broadcast a local audio signal that fingerprints a particular location. Hmm, startup idea.)

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/14/facebook-knows/
The study doesn't count workers moving to higher-paying jobs in general as a reduction in employment.

However:

1) The study excludes multi-site businesses because their payroll data is harder to interpret (they report all payroll as being aggregated in their headquarters).

2. Multi-site businesses are counted as large businesses for the purpose of the Seattle law, and large businesses saw their minimum wage increase faster than small businesses.

3. Some workers will have migrated from small businesses to large businesses to pursue higher minimum wages that weren't yet mandated for small businesses.

4. Some of those small businesses losing workers will just...sit there and not raise wages to compete or hire more workers to replace their losses.

5. Some of those large businesses will actually be multi-site businesses, excluded from the study.

So put it together, and there will be some workers who leave small businesses who have chosen not to raise wages, and join multi-site businesses which are paying higher wages, who will be missed by the study. At the same time, some workers will have moved the other way, which will have balanced things out somewhat, but it's plausible to think that more workers were "lost" than "gained" due to flows between multi-site and single-site businesses.

Now, the study did try to control for this factor by surveying multi-site businesses, but critics have pointed out that these efforts may be flawed, and may not have fully captured the actual flows, in which case the study may slightly overstated the negative impact on hours worked.

There's a lot of interesting debate about the findings here if you'd like to see some competing viewpoints: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-06-26/seattle-s...
Smart Contracts: Privacy vs. Confidentiality
Elon Musk Recently Put Tesla Customers’ Lives at Risk
Or the whole operation would move countries.
I think there should be some scaling wrt. to COL (From what I know 80k takes you a long way in some states). But, apart from that I totally agree.

If someone is living on sub 60k in the US, their job is certainly not one that requires an H1B.
Amazon is shutting down its Fresh grocery delivery service in parts of 9+ states
Indeed. He did so in 2012, not recently.
I think "Marketing Team" is a pretty generous term. This is one of those dudes using inkscape/the gimp and they got someone on UpWork to cad up a shoe from a sketch. Maybe did it themselves, but don't know how to go get some free substance materials to render that with a fabric and rubber look that would light properly.

There is nothing about this that says professional design or marketing folks are involved. No one seems to even know what a color wheel is or basic rules of text readability. How many fonts did they download? Shit looks like a 90's rave flier.

I'm all for DIY, whacky hardware projects (have a couple myself), and MythBustin'. But I think after they finished prototype number six everyone went over to Cody's house all drunk and went Old Man Ham on it. Jesus christ guys, get on Shutterstock and buy some templates.

EDIT: I totally just realized that this project is the engineer equivalent of a neighborhood dad garage band. Rock on brothers. Rock on.
It's a different set of parts, but it's the same sort of business. They're still manufacturing cars in much the same ways existing cars are manufactured and selling cars in much the same way existing cars are sold and people are using cars in much the same ways as existing cars are used.

The factory has a different set of machines and builds a different power train, but the fundamentals of the business are not any different.
I think Google providing/licensing the software and tech to other manufacturers is risky and leaves open the possibility for a new provider to slide in and undercut with each car provider. Google should leverage their early position and corner the market where they'll be a sole player and dominate for the longterm.
Yes, I prefer that too. But do I prefer it by tens of thousands of dollars? Maybe not.
Those goals interfere with each other.
This was advertising spend to blanket the state, across different broadcast mediums (radio, tv, etc.) It wasn't "highly targeted" to just a small demographic.
I read the book in second grade and the following paragraph has made a great impression on me and still does

"One day the farmer thought, 'I could increase those rabbits: make them part of my farm--their meat, their skins. Why should I bother to keep rabbits in hutches? They'll do very well where they are.' He began to shoot all elil--lendri, homba, stoat, owl. He put out food for the rabbits, but not too near the warren. For his purpose they had to become accustomed to going about in the fields and the wood. And then he snared them--not too many: as many as he wanted and not as many as would frighten them all away or destroy the warren. They grew big and strong and healthy, for he saw to it that they had all of the best, particularly in winter, and nothing to fear--except the running knot in the hedge gap and the wood path. So they lived as he wanted them to live and all the time there were a few who disappeared. The rabbits became strange in many ways, different from other rabbits. They knew well enough what was happening. But even to themselves they pretended that all was well, for the food was good, they were protected, they had nothing to fear but the one fear; and that struck here and there, never enough at a time to drive them away. They forgot the ways of wild rabbits. They forgot El-ahrairah, for what use had they for tricks and cunning, living in the enemy's warren and paying his price? "
I don't know how you reach that conclusion. The rise of standardized testing and "no child left behind" means that school's energies are focused on making sure every student passes the tests. Schools that don't measure up get their funding cut.
Maybe the amount of usage per user is increasing (a metric that isn't really reflected by just counting DAU)?
What we’ve learned from four years of using Firebase
This is trolling. Don't do this here, and please comment civilly and substantively instead.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
TripAdvisor stock loses $1B
What's nonsensical about it? Slashdot was very avant-garde, so fits well for a term coined in 1999. I agree that AJAX represented somewhat of a technological watershed, but wikis and blogs (which came of age pre-AJAX) represented a social watershed, a much better anchor for the democracy that PG seems to consider only from a technical perspective.
> natives of US were pillaged by the European immigrants

Is that an argument for or against immigration by people with different cultural values?
Show HN: Learn how to GitHub by contributing code in a fun simulation project
The one thing that worries me is that Youtube is very popular for kids and children and they tend to replay the same videos that have characters like superheros or pokemon, many times I've seen parents give kids their Ipad, etc. and then let them open up youtube. Its also why children toy review videos are one of the most viewed on Youtube based on socialblade.com because kids have a lot of time and tend to rewatch favourite videos.
They have to receive the picture, then send it to a number of other users. So it's probably mostly bandwidth charges.

They use Google, right? When was the last time Google (or any of the cloud providers) lowered their bandwidth charges?

That small fluctuation is probably just minor variations in usage.
I'm usually quite bullish on Snap. They seem to be doing some things right. From the outside, they seem overstaffed so it's good to see them reducing headcount. The fact that they're rebuilding the android app completely sounds like a bad idea that will be a bit of a timesink.
Why? Don't most companies separate out their stock based compensation expenses?
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Judge Brinkema's courtroom is very interesting to observe. She seems to choose her favored party in many cases very early. Her conduct in the courtroom is absurd, she permits nonsense and shenanigans from her favored party while persecuting and harassing the one she chose as an adversary.

If you aren't in town to visit personally, transcripts from her court are frequently submitted as exhibits in appeals, so you can read them on pacer.
That is great advice, and to take it a step further I'd say not to focus on getting an interview but rather a conversation.

If people you haven't met are referring you, you are already doing something right.
Are these companies working on a Waze for self driving cars.

Shouldn't these companies, the DMV and other parties involved agree on a standard for inter-car communications?

Why should we wait for Lidar to tell my car about a crash 3 turns away, if a shared broadcast/receive system can do it faster?
This doesn't make any sense. You shouldn't need to send Facebook explicit photos of yourself. All they should need is personally identifiable information - your face, tattoos, moles, etc. Women should be able to use bikini shots and men should be able to use swim trunk shots. From that they can scan photos and find your likeness in nude shots.

Nothing good can come from this approach Facebook is taking.
Work on SQLite4 has concluded
I think it is a bit of a moral gray area. Should one use data from unethical human experiments that were already conducted, and the perpetrators punished (e.g. Nazi doctors)?
And then the airplane crashes. (Or so I'm told.)
Disney Ends Ban on Los Angeles Times Amid Fierce Backlash
More to come with headless Chrome a thing.