skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Melting of the northern permafrost could release a large amount of mercury (estimated around 800 gigagrams). (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16330219)

There is also worry of a positive feedback loop that could cause global warming to spiral out of control. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis)
Yes!
I stopped after an S6 Edge and the software was shit even then. Ironically I met some Samsung people in London during that time and they casually said "We're good at hardware, we suck at software and support" in a meeting.

Thas was from people working on printers/scanners, but I feel that this very much defines their mobile business as well.
The first generation of android one's phones (the ones that released in India and Indonesia, powered by mediatek mt6582) have this. They even sometimes have the monthly security update early (for example, the November update is rolled out in late October).

Sadly, the newer generation does not have that. Google given up the update to the vendor, which in turn do what they do best, not updating the goddamn phone.
I truly admire the guts it must have taken to walk away from such a derailment, and not only keep going, but thriving. That’s one view of what exceptional looks like, to me.
"The product always needs to be good. But targeted ads such as on Google allow entire categories of businesses to exist."

With regard to niches, my experience has been the opposite.

If your niche is small enough, you can't properly bid on adwords for rare keywords because they are flagged as "low quality" and you are forced to either abandon those keywords or pay 10x for them to show.

This, of course, defies the entire raison d'etre of adwords - the whole purpose of which is (presumably) to bid on a keyword that targets that one rare person that searched for that.

But it can't be done - if only 5 or 10 people search for a phrase or keyword every day, it cannot be bid on properly.
If you're referring to SPflashTool, it certainly has a very different appearance but keep in mind that it was originally a factory tool, so the programmers didn't spend much time making it "pretty" --- there's source code floating around that you can inspect and compile yourself if you're that worried.
I don't mean the full OED. Personally I have a Pocket Oxford and a Concise Oxford. Both are space constrained. The Pocket Oxford in particular has around 60,000 words so leaving out the most common 5-10K would make a noticeable difference. Since it's the complex words that get left out in small dictionaries, as you decrease dictionary size, the size saving that you'd get from removing common words proportionally increases. But you might be right that it wouldn't make enough of a difference, since small dictionaries can also fit less words in total. It might never be enough to matter much.
Uber and lyft aren't "ride sharing" they are taxi service. And we had rules and regulations to limit tazi services, and congestion was one of the reasons. But everyone complained that these rules are based and antiquated.
> but more so because they are cognitively lazy.

Do you have any data, studies, or real references as to why this is, or do you simply call them lazy to feel better about yourself?

You've clearly outlined a trend-are we really to believe that the poor are simply more cognitively lazy than every other population? That is why they are poor? Quite the claim.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16462374

The article body is (almost) exactly the same.
Just to be not rude but most people hate these surveys (correct me If I am wrong at least I do).

A better way to go about collecting same information.

1. First, do your own little research. StackOverflow and other tech forums might be a good place to start.

2. Then have a discussion about specific points.
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: A Growing Trend
A lot of the recent successes in ML haven't been based on new breakthroughs in theory. For instance deep neural networks have been studied for decades now. Same with the reinforcement learning algorithms behind advances like AlphaGo. So I don't think skipping ahead five years will necessarily help you.

That said, there was a lot of AI work with hand-crafted features and expert systems that has no basically been rendered obsolete by deep learning. But advances generally don't emerge out of a vacuum, and it helps to have some background knowledge of previous work to have a good idea of what has and hasn't worked in the past.
Honestly, they should treat those as two different formats - like SVG and WSVG or something. Dumb file vs vector-graphics web-application platform.
> US lawmakers have expressed frustration when investments such as welfare programs don’t pull people out of poverty.

Most US welfare spending is explicitly excluded from measures of poverty; if you're measuring "the values of X excluding Y", increasing Y isn't going to move the needle.

"The U.S. Census Bureau determines poverty status by comparing pre-tax cash income against a threshold..."

American anti-poverty measures overwhelmingly take the form of tax credits (eg, the EITC program), food stamps (SNAP), housing vouchers (section 8 vouchers), and health care (eg, Medicaid). All four are excluded when looking at pre-tax cash incomes. For good or ill, we don't give the poor cash.

I know that's not really the point of the article, but it was a bit jarring.
Light rail usage has grown by leaps and bounds [0].

The reason you are seeing a per capita transit ridership decline is because Seattle is the fastest growing city in the country [1] so it's understandable why public transit rates are declining despite the huge investments.

[0]: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/sou...

[1]: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/data/seattle-once-...
Simply isn't true-if that were the case companies that make millions would never go bankrupt-yet they do. Why? According to you, they'd spend a great deal of time weighing pros and cons...

The fact is you can't always weigh pros and cons and always get a positive outcome. There are many poor people that will always be poor-but entire industries have spent decades making decisions weighing pros and cons and completely collapsed because of things outside of their control. Why can this principle not apply to a portion of the poor?
Good luck getting support when your Pixel 2 XL has issues. Google replaced my Nexus 6P with a faulty refurbished device under warranty, and then cold-shouldered me when the refurbished device bricked itself a few weeks later due to an issue that Google Support knew about when they sent me the replacement. I have a friend who had the exact same experience with his own Google device.

Personally, I would rather rip out my own entrails than buy another Google hardware device and expose myself to their garbage customer service.
What’s the relative cost of in-patient vs. out-patient care?
Can driverless taxi and quadcopter technology have a risky love child already and let us hurtle towards a future where roads are rare, landing pads are ubiquitous, and the swarm of rush hour commuters blots out the sun?

C'mon Elon, get on it!
Why can’t women get pregnant without the menstrual cycle? (2016)
That’s exactly what I mean. They find no need for modules when you have classical inheritance.
This is the worst thing I have read in weeks. The author lacks any understanding of the technology and appears to live in a "Google Bubble". tl;dr, don't waste your time.

He's probably trolling.
Few, study and get news jobs, maybe, maybe. There are always more jobs and opportunity for growth (even in a bad economy).

The companies will evolve or die as they always have if their customer base disappears.
This is excellent advice and very encouraging!
And at least you have a stable mailing address. Most poor folks don't have one. (Heck, many wealthier younger folks don't have one.)
Assuming people are always getting better yet always producing. Things are and always will be short of the ideal.
Apple just announced discontinuing support for the original AppleTV that they first sold in 2007 so yeah Apple is pretty good with support most of the time.

You can still download older versions of apps from the App Store for iOS back to 4. I recently reset an old first gen iPad and was able to use older versions of Netflix, Hulu, Crackle, Spotify, Plex and the entire iWork suits.
Not to refute you completely. Maybe it because there are not many companies that can be created with small populations as Canada and Australia? Which results in less companies.

US benefit far more from big large single market with high purchasing power than anything else. IMHO.

Let me know if I am missing something here.
That’s great because it would be in CS.
Mondragon is run as a normal corporation, mostly. It's just named differently.
That’s excellent, thank you.
At the expense of a moving part, having the option to close down the aperture will probably improve image quality in daylight. With a fixed aperture, increased low light sensitivity usually brings lower resolution (so called "fast" lenses generally have improved optical characteristics with their aperture stopped down).

That is unless these dinky sensors are diffraction limited at f/1.5, which I doubt.
Forgive me, but I recall, with some decades of practice, a major point in FORTH is that one constructs a vocabulary and syntax specifically for solving the problem at hand. Compiler primitives are just as first class as regular word (aka function) definitions, including how to compile itself as well as what to do when executed (DOES> keyword, which can itself be redefined). FORTH may have a clunky and primitive reputation, but it seems to me it qualifies as a programmable programming language.
You could call it corporate welfare. Or you could consider the 3 to 4% profit margins these companies have and assume that they might not sustain that number of employees at a higher wage.
> every man has to match your idea of a man.

On the contrary, those like the author who argue that some kinds of masculinity are "toxic" are the ones attempting to impose such restraints upon men.
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Like "don't hire jerks." Don't work for people writing those posts as they are obviously jerks themselves.
you listed a bunch of advantages of wealth that I dont think anyone would dispute. and you talk about taking that away. how is this supposed to help people who are already impoverished? it seems like you want there to be more people in poverty, not fewer.

> http://www.templetons.com/brad/billg.html

riddled with fallacies and calculated to produce envy. totally irrelevant to our discussion.
Of all the things you would want to make a "me too" product out of, the iPhone X sure isn't one I would pick. It's sad that AR emojis and face recognition made the key new features list. Those two sounded like a gimmick when they were announced, and after actually using the iPhone X I can't say my opinion has changed.

The sooner Samsung either steps up their software game or quits it altogether, the better off their users will be.
> toxic masculinity

Until you define this seemingly insidious term, there cannot be a substantive conversation about it.
Just curious how much the software cost?
Libertarianism is not about not helping others. Not even remotely. Libertarianism means you can help others as much as you want to.
> Through the 19th century, most Americans were treated in their homes. Hospitals were a last resort, places only the very poor or those with no family went. And they went mainly to die.

Sort-of related: Why would anyone ever think putting "memorial" in a hospital name was a good idea? "A place to go to die" is the first thing that has always popped into mind when I see that.
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In reality what happens, is those jobs go away (jobs like retail) and they are replaced with slightly higher paying jobs (like Amazon warehouse worker) except at a rate of about 1 new job for every 10 previous jobs.
The parent's comment point was that it may logically be assumed that you'd be doing such an action once every 1 year vs once every 3 years, for example.

Edit: Upon realizing that you'd save the $50 every time you go / every 30 minutes spent regardless of how often, me (and presumably the parent) are wrong, and I'm going to bed. :)
1. Companies distributing Google Play Services has to sign an agreement not to ship (or even build) a non-Google Android-derived phone.

So, while Samsung may ship Tizen and Windows Phone, they may not build phones for Amazon (which caused Amazon a lot of problems back in the day - where will you find a company making portable electronics that will make them a white-label product and not making android phones).

2. MicroG depends on Google's servers, so Google can pull the carpet out of them at any time. And where will you get those millions of apps if Google doesn't let you access the App store? Look at the difficulty Amazon has at getting apps into its store, and it's a larger company willing to pay devs to switch apps to Amazon store. And all the hacks that people use will be closed by Google once they get popular.

Now sure, you can use MicroG as a porting library (so if I have a closed source app relying on firebase I can trivially switch to relying on MicroG and Mozilla's back end - kind of like wine), but you'll still have to recreate all of Google's apps anyways (there's no way Google will publish their apps on an Android fork) and also those apps written by those who don't care to port (unlike wine - where I can use the OEM CD or EXE from the OEM website, there's no official way to get apks out of Play Store)
Comment: I assume that my next car will have Alexa

Question: How is Amazon Auto different from just sticking your phone onto your dash?
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The long term brand plan must be set by the CEO and in the example provided by the parent, the CEO only cares about keeping investors happy in the short term, alas no spend without immediately identifiable ROI.
I used to think that way too. But Vue is really great for pages that have forms. It literally makes your life 10x easier.
The hardest argument that I hate about the article in question. I will never stop living like tomorrow I could lose everything. I will forever keep some cash stashed a way. I will always keep canned chili in the cupboard. Every thunderstorm or inclement weather event I fill the bathtub up. Some may say "oh that's good that you do that" but to my wife it's border line paranoia.
Get specific
Both this article and the ACLU report it's based upon are ridiculously misleading. You don't get arrested for owing a debt. You get a bench warrant issued for not showing up to court when you've been ordered to do so.

Debt collectors sue to get a court judgement against people who won't otherwise pay, so they can use the power of the state to garnish wages, levy bank accounts, etc. It's no surprise that they win in court. The debts are usually valid. It doesn't help debtors' cases when they don't show up. Then they get a default judgement.

Even with a judgement against you, you still won't get arrested for not paying. But if you don't, the creditor can then request a debtor's examination to which the court requires you to show up. At the examination, you'll be asked about your assets and income, so the creditor knows how to collect by force.

What happens if you don't show up to a debtor's examination? The creditor can ask the judge for a bench warrant against you. What happens next depends on the state and county. Sometimes the sheriff knocks on your door and gives you a piece of paper telling you to come to court, or else. Sometimes they do nothing until you get pulled over for some other reason and the warrant comes up.

In any case, what's happening to some people is that they're being sued over debts they owe, not showing up to court to defend themselves, getting default judgements against them, still not paying, getting summoned to court for a debtor's examination, not showing up for that, and then getting a bench warrant issued.

If you don't show up for jury duty, the judge can issue a bench warrant. They probably won't, but they can. If you get subpoenaed and don't show up, bench warrant.

All this is to say that far from the courts criminalizing debt or being manipulated by debt collectors, they are simply acting in their capacity to enforce civil judgements. You know, the seventh amendment? Suits at common law?
They're not selling the product itself, but the cute Japaneseyness of it. And that's good, if they managed to target their ads to the right people. I really loved the ad, and I think I'm in the right segment: I love cute anime, and I want to live in Japan someday!

The blog post wasn't totally clear on this point, but it sounds like the problem was that YouTube's ad tools weren't good enough to get them the fine-grained targeting they needed. They'd put in "anime" as a keyword and then their ad would be shown on totally unrelated videos. There is plenty of anime on YouTube -- if they could attach their ad to that, and nothing else, I think it would have done well.
As income inequality increases, relative percentage comparisons like this become more infuriating than comforting.

The more money you have, the dumber you can be with it and still be guaranteed survival. At a certain level of poverty, you have to operate at peak financial efficiency to live a mean lifespan.

50,000$ properly spent could change the course of human history. It could supply the nearby treatment center for children with behavioral/emotional problems for years!

I could buy a few mig welders, some angle grinders, associated PPE, several hundred pounds of scrap metal, and still have enough left over to pay two unemployed people in rural Missouri to make tiny metal sculptures for model towns for 6-12 months.

The above is my goofballs, no thought business plan for 50k. I'm not even trying and the ROI on that hairbrained stupid plan is better than atleast 10 different decisions I've seen made over 50k.

I'm not even being creative or thoughtful. For someone like me to see someone be told "We don't need this." and them respond "eh fuck it, it's just 50k" is...

It's astounding. It's mind altering. It's the name brand bread vs. human lives metaphor in your face and on fire.

So yeah there is a difference.
In a society with perfect information [0], I agree.

However, people don't have perfect information so how would you coordinate millions of drivers about their different driving paths and their various costs? Not everyone has smartphones running GPS all the time.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_information
3 to 5x on a cold audience. 5-10x on retargeting campaigns and upsell/cross sells. It really depends on the client though.
Credit to a particular male God who made humans invent himself and then took credit for everything that ever existed?
That's pretty cool. This demo is convincing me to look at using them in my own projects
I completely understand the parent comment and I don't think it's a misunderstanding. The idea is that a rich person doesn't care to think through that situation using all their reasoning capabilities, as they're more focused on the long-term; they spend their time thinking about how to get that promotion to prepare for their children's college funds, or something of that sort.

An example: I was raised by a single mother in poverty, where she would try to scrape by and live on welfare without working, year after year after year. She would only think about tomorrow's expenses, and she'd do a great job budgeting to make sure we had enough food to eat and so forth. As a child, I would show her job listings, explain the value of utilizing her assets as well as she could (she had her inheritance invested terribly), and all that. She would never be able to understand it, as she couldn't think that far ahead with all her mental capacity being devoted to making the best decision to save $50, as mentioned in the other comment.

In conclusion, optimizing those tiny financial decisions often leads you to neglect the ones further out. That's the issue the parent comment was highlighting.

Also, traditional economics isn't a fool if you account for the limited economic reasoning capability, and consider that reasoning capability as a scarce resource to be allocated.
I wish there was a SVG-lite / SVGL standard that is a subset of SVG.
As I said, "sacrificing essential Security to purchase a little Convenience."

And I bet you it's not 10x easier at all! Not even 2x. Write a small piece of code illustrating this convenience, and I will show you a similar piece of code that is just as easy to write/maintain and retains the proper separation of concerns. Seriously, I'm happy to be proven wrong on the 10x easier front.
hi,
I created dind-machine, a simple wrapper for docker-machine, since I love docker-machine's simplicity but also experienced some drawbacks. It's a pain sharing your docker-machine setup with others! The configuration files works only on a specific machine due to the usage of absolute paths. So just sharing the docker-machine folder ~/.docker does not do the trick. You still need to adapt your configuration to the new environment. dind-machine simply moves docker-machine into docker and uses a docker volume for persistence. So you get both: absolute paths inside the container (/root/.docker) and any path you wish on the host. Another nice property of this solution: you do not need install docker-machine locally, you just pull the nukapi/dind-machine docker image.
What do you think about this?
I understand your view on critical thinking, and I am intentionally trying to foster that by encouraging other stakeholders to speak up. Namely, us Poors!

In this case, what speech is privileged over the rest? I read the article, her post, your post, and so on. I will continue to do so.

If your issue is with tone, great! Tone is an important discussion to have!
Not only interesting, a concerning trend for tech professionals in the Valley who have become accustomed to being able to walk into any job they want and make a fortune doing it.

Employers only worry about placing arbitrary requirements on jobs when they are receiving more applications for jobs than they can handle. The requirements become a fast way to cull the numbers to more manageable levels for personal review. That they are now seeing more applications than they can handle highlights that competition is starting to heat up, and with more competition comes more difficulty in finding work and lower prices as people start to undercut each other to secure a position.

The stereotypical college dropout lifestyle goes part and parcel with the get rich quick view of the Valley. Even five years ago nobody would have ever suggested a tech job in the Valley requires a degree. It wasn't that many years ago that we used to joke that tech employers in the Valley preferred people without a degree. According to the article, that is no longer the case. When one starts to fade, so does the other. But it is all bound to happen eventually. After all, the cure for high prices is high prices.
Yes if you have the orginal. However, the scans usually adjust the contrast so much that saved image is not grayscale or colour. Its either black or white.
It is most of the time not an education issue. Showing up can be hard: skip work and be fired or show up in court? Abandon your kids to make your court date? Nearly all eviction hearings do not have a defendant present, and it's not because nobody understands. It's because the people who prey on the weak and destitute know they can't afford to take a day off to show up, and because the poor (often rightly) believe the legal system will never help them in any way so showing up is a waste of time.
Maybe the main crux is the definition of wealth. Flipping burgers and being college educated would be fine if one could still live a life that's measurably a fulfilling life.