skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If there exist a site that works like facebook or maybe even better, the question is how will it earn without monetizing user's data?

Take all good parts of facebook and remove all the privacy, security, spamming issues, whatever remains is user and its data.

If now, the only step taken by facebook is to earn money by putting ads without tracking its users. Can you imagine how ineffective ads will be and how little revenue facebook will make? Also, if they monetized their services, facebook will have a hard time finding users buying their service!

So the real question is, if there is a social network as advanced as facebook that survive only by targeting random ads without tracking their data, HOW WILL IT SURVIVE?
Ask HN: Examples where diversity helped ship a better product?
There's this narrative everywhere that having a diverse team is good for businesses. Instead of just forcing it on everyone, I think it would be very helpful to collect examples where having people from diverse backgrounds in a team helped ship a better product.

Example: YouTube figured out that many videos were being uploaded upside down from mobile phones because some left handed person in the company ran into it.
DNS RFC dependency graph
CUDA has been available on macOS since 2010:

https://www.nvidia.com/object/mac-driver-archive.html

I currently have an NVIDIA 980 GTX in my 2010 Mac Pro and it works great (no additional drivers needed but NVIDIA also have downloadable drivers).

Coincidentally, macOS added support today for external graphics cards so you could add a set of external cards to any Mac with Thunderbolt 3 ports.

In any case, Swift on macOS has built-in support for Metal-compute (which works on any card) and CoreML which can be integrated with Tensorflow.

https://developer.apple.com/metal/

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coreml
Exactly. This is the old-fashioned approach to campaign targetting that Cambridge Analytica was trying (and failing) to replace: just send a bunch of volunteers to talk to them about who they're voting for and why, then put that in your big database. One of the dirty not-so-secrets about CA is that according to the Trump campaign, they were abandoned completely in favour of that old-fashioned approach because they were worse. Similarly, if you've been paying attention, you might have noticed a few insider stories about how one of the Hillary Clinton campaign's big screw-ups was underestimating the importance of that data compared to modern big data tech and basically throwing a lot of it in the trash. This didn't get nearly as much coverage as the idea that Cambridge Analytica, Trump, and Facebook were conspiring to brainwash the population, probably because it was less juicy a narrative and kind of embarassing to the Clinton campaign and the DNC.
I use Blogtrottr too, and I have a "newsletter signup" form on my blog which just posts the input email address to Blogtrottr's form.
But we enjoy the 1% of the rainforests in what wild red fowl live. After feeding billions of humans, men, women and children, we are still so ungrateful that had not granted this species an international "earth-treasure" park for the protection of the chicken and all other species in the same ecosystem. Bos primigenius are now extinct, and we left for die the last real wild horse in Poland after chasing it toward a hole and breaking their legs.
That’s my thinking as well. This problem arose on the human timeline. It must also be solved on the human timeline. The real requirement is th carbon being out of th it within the human timeline and that the sequester process be continued. Seems like a net boon to the economy that way.

I know I’d love to see homes built out of wood more often, as well.
The dude didn’t have his hands on the steering wheel for over 5seconds? Madness
What are you using to download the entire article and parse it into a suitable format?
If such a site existed, how would you keep improvised tech-savvy teenagers from Bangladesh from joining it?

If you manged to keep teenagers from Bangladesh from such a site, why would anyone go there to overpay for fat, lazy, entitled westerner when they can get cheap, hungry Bangladeshians instead?

Plenty of people make good money freelancing despite lots of competition from cheap providers. They do it by being better at freelancing.

How exactly? Search this site (or google) for "freelancer".

You'll find discussions like:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4585435

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5774303

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9289500
Show HN: Privacytools.io
What 'Ready Player One' Tells Us About Toxic Fandom
And well before that viscalc was a big selling point for Apple ][ 's back in the day.
I don't know the user handles of 90% of my accounts of the past 5 years. I use a different email for every service I use. Most of my profiles use fake names. My phone number has not changed in 5 years, but by a quirk in the system I would have been going through about 4 temporary phone numbers while switching providers.

It will be fun times.
Kaelig/readhn: A Simple and Fast Hacker News Top Stories Reader Using Instapaper
Set up a reader a few months ago, it's been nice.

I started on a python-based HTML scraper to summarize, tag, and prioritize news articles but put it on hold to work on other things.
> Right now, it appears Tesla's autopilot is a death-trap.

I agree with all the holes you poked in their stats, but then with the last sentence you just went way off the deep end. What does "death trap" mean to you? To me, it seems likely the Autopilot engaged is about as dangerous as disengaged.
C++ Vectors – std::vector Tutorial for beginners
The OOM killer was a misfeature when it was designed. Why is it still in the kernel? Solaris solved this problem 20 years ago.
Sketch covers only 0.1% of Photoshop's features and it only serves that userbase.
I have hid that submission. I feel like fucking dumb donkey :(. My career aspirational thinking is hold on now as I got some good deal in the current job.
It's probably one of the most nuanced articles on the topic I've read in a while. Could you elaborate why you felt it lacked in substance?
I have a 2015 Tesla model S and I have never seen the behaviour you describe. I use autostart a lot on the ground that it's good to have two of us paying attention.
I am one of those long sleepers. One time my job hours were cut in half and I took only 4-5 hour afternoon work. My productivity was pretty much the same than with 8 hours before.

I wish more employers would be more flexible with time.
Dual pane file manager history
Damn autocorrect. s/autostart/autosteer/
I say for thease sort of application why bother with MAC at all just go with Ryzen or wait for Ryzen2 out this month or go the full Threadripper or Eypc / Rome
Radars do just fine detecting stationary objects, what they can't do is tell whether the stationary object is blocking the road, overhead, or to the side of a curve in the road. As most radar reports of stationary objects fall in the latter two categories, the adaptive cruise control system filters them out of consideration.
Did you ever try? I can't tell you why but me and many other people seem to have a biological clock that is out of sync with our societies expections.

For whatever reason I simply am more energetic and happy if I sleep until noon. Even if that means sleeping 12 hours, instead of 8 or so.
I highly recommend you read it. I found it better than most articles on the matter (even if it wasn't 'substantive' in a dry sort of scientific theories on the matter kind of way)
But it's a solid white line, so you can't cross it anyway. Unless there's a place where the line is dashed earlier on, there's no way you can enter that "lane".
I'd say the report is misleading.

Fatalities are rare events. They chose cars with 100,000 registered vehicles or more. The categories these vehicles belong to experienced around 30 deaths per million cars, so cars that have 100,000 registrations would expect 3 deaths. You could easily get a few models with 0 deaths just as a matter of chance.

I don't think these results necessarily show these cars are inherently safer than other cars in the same category.
There is a npm package to check if the number is even or not, Enough said.
I can understand this happening if the Tesla was following a human driver with “follow-distance set to minimum,” and that driver dodged the barrier, meaning the Tesla had no time to brake and could not move out of the solid-white lines.

According to another comment here the Tesla manual states that if you’re following another car that moves to reveal a stationary object, the autopilot may not be able to stop in time.
I dropped both of those in favour of Gmail (and now Inbox) years ago much to my delight. What am I missing?
Barring the comments about adding more sources of light in a dark room (yep, I agree with this), I still appreciate the MagSafe adapter for my MBP lighting a tiny LED to say charging/full. The new USB-C MBPs we have at work don't have any indication whatsoever that the adapter is working unless the machine is booted and logged in (to pre-empt comments about the chime, what if it's muted, as is often true of workplace laptops?). MagSafe tells me no matter what state the computer is in.

The LEDs don't have to be bright, just dim little indicators that are only really noticeable if you're looking for them. Then you get an instant idea of what the devices are doing.
Or, https://github.com/DmitryUlyanov/deep-image-prior
Linux is actually good now for desktop use. I install it (= Fedora or Antergos w/ GNOME) on everything now and it just works(tm).

If I got a dollar every time I heard this... I have a Linux machine at home, but GNOME still crashes 50% of the time when I switch the screen off/on. If it switches on without crashing, many applications are LoDPI until I restart them.

The machine doesn't always come back properly from sleep. Sometimes there are display artifacts, sometimes I cannot show windows of running applications.

This is all on well-supported hardware (RHEL-certified Dell Precision, an AMD GPU supported by amdgpu, etc.).

Linux has become pretty great, but it's definitely not a 'just works' experience on a lot of hardware and for a lot of uses.
How do you propose we change these things without significant societal support and activism? It's like arguing we shouldn't abolish slavery because of the many writings that expose the extent and cruelty of it, but instead sit down and think about it 'rationally'.
This doesn't seem to work for me. I ran "python person_blocker.py -i images/img1.jpg -l" after installing dependencies and I only get:

/home/d33tah/virtualenv-py3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/h5py/__init__.py:36: FutureWarning: Conversion of the second argument of issubdtype from `float` to `np.floating` is deprecated. In future, it will be treated as `np.float64 == np.dtype(float).type`.

from ._conv import register_converters as _register_converters

Using TensorFlow backend.

2018-03-31 12:53:18.777911: I tensorflow/core/platform/cpu_feature_guard.cc:140] Your CPU supports instructions that this TensorFlow binary was not compiled to use: AVX2 FMA
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/scipy/misc/pilutil.py:480: FutureWarning: Conversion of the second argument of issubdtype from `int` to `np.signedinteger` is deprecated. In future, it will be treated as `np.int64 == np.dtype(int).type`.

if issubdtype(ts, int):

/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/scipy/misc/pilutil.py:483: FutureWarning: Conversion of the second argument of issubdtype from `float` to `np.floating` is deprecated. In future, it will be treated as `np.float64 == np.dtype(float).type`.

elif issubdtype(type(size), float):
I very rarely have problems with the threading in Gmail. It seems to handle re: and fwd: correctly nearly all the time.

Some automated emails get threaded together when I'd prefer them separately (error notifications and other alerts) but it's minor enough that I've never even looked into whether there's a workaround.
Is pumping data really the right use of Lambda?

I read it should be used for data transformatiom and computation and not transportation.
A lot of people don't seem to be aware of it, but you can "tune" Google News by adding or deleting sources. I've tweaked mine quite a bit and it works well as a lazy news source. It's not as finely granulated as my RSS consumption, and it won't replace my RSS reader, but it's better than I at first thought it would be after adjusting the defaults.
it doesn’t. i was asking how do they know in this case
You're almost certainly from an area with a population density much higher than the US.
Can we, though? Honest question. I'm inclined to think we as a species are not really capable of maintaining that kind of distinction, especially when significant imbalances in power are part of the equation.
"High-school sports represent one of the most consistent roadblocks barring change (of school start times)."

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/04/how-sc...
Have you tried Q-Dir? I installed it on my work PC using Chocolatey. I've found a couple instances of Q-Dir superior to a bunch of Windows Explorer windows for most of the things I do on a Windows PC.
In every company Ive worked so far (small to middle sized software places in switzerland ) it was the most normal things that parents, especially with young kids, can get plenty of freedom with their time within reason.

I was really surprised to see this is not the standard in the software world (where you can do your job just as well in overshifts to compensate for lost hours)
Human Dx is looking for our next software engineer
Build the open medical intelligence system for all.

https://www.humandx.org/team?gh_jid=4008127002
They're marked 'optional' on your diagram. Optional things can be excluded.
This type being ... something like PCA? It's up to the user how much to actually reduce the dimensionality.

The pixel analogy is bad, but to use it anyway -- you get to choose how many pixels you keep. You could keep literally all of them.
The most important thing is to allocate enough time to help them - 20 hours a week for 2-3 months followed by 10 hours/week for the next 1-2 years is usually enough.
On my first drive into Bucharest a guy drove on the wrong side of the divided highway to take a left into the lot of a building supplies company right in front of my car. Scared the crap out of me.

https://www.google.com/maps/@44.436552,25.9597006,18z
also why do people like to use the term nation state when it involves hacking. just to sound fancier? according to wiki nation state has a precise meaning and it’s not equivalent to the term country
Funny - reverse engineer C++ calls by using google instead.
Or the one in China with the street sweeper:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc0yYJ8-Dyo

Or the one with the fire truck:
https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/23/16923800/tesla-firetruck-...
Arctic sea ice maximum at second lowest in the satellite record
Yeah, and automatic emergency braking is a clear-cut enough win for safety that there's been talk of making it mandatory on all new cars in a few years' time. Tesla seem to have adopted a deliberate strategy of conflating the safety benefits of an uncontroversial feature many cars have with the much more questionable safety of their autopilot mode in order to promote the latter. The big example Elon Musk was pushing of Autopilot preventing an accident and likely saving someone's life was the result of automatic emergency braking in conditions very far from those autopilot mode could be used in (heavy rain in an urban area at night, if I remember correctly).
> The team now are forecasting a window centred around 23:25 UTC on 1 April (01:25 CEST 2 April), and running from the afternoon of 1 April to the early morning on 2 April. This remains highly variable.

Potential ground tracks here: http://www.satflare.com/track.asp?q=37820#TOP
Ah, you are probably right.

Is there by chance another one with location history or am I imagining things?
Suffice to say, this makes me very hesitant to connect a USB-C phone (which I don't have, thankfully) to a laptop USB-C charger, because even though they /should/ negotiate the correct voltage, the idea of a bug in the implementation causing the charger to fry my phone, perhaps even setting it on fire in the process, isn't worth the risk.

As others note, the poor implementations wind up causing us to use only the adapters shipped with the device in the first place, which is actually a worse situation than with standard USB - right now, I know that I can plug a device into any USB charger and get 5 volts. Amperage may vary considerably, but unless the adapter is a real lemon (and yes, I know those exist), it's not going to kill my phone or burn my house down if I don't get the planetary alignment of adapter, cable and device right.
> The driver had received several visual and one audible hands-on warning earlier in the drive and the driver’s hands were not detected on the wheel for six seconds prior to the collision.

This would be hilarious if it wasn't so tragic. So did Tesla's autopilot!
Training on an Apple device (read: overpriced device) is idiotic, nobody does that.
Orkut is older than Reader, and was killed off just a year later. I don't think Google ever really bet on it, it was just a 20% time project that grew organically.
Yeah autopilot is similar in airplanes to what autopilot is on Teslas. Not sure what else you could call it without it also being confusing. Autopilot is a tool to stay in your lane and prevent common scenarios like keeping speed, avoiding obstacles and keeping distance, though there are still possible edge cases like this one appeared to be that can be more dangerous than not using it as the systems are not fully autonomous.

Even with airplanes, if something gets in the way, autopilot won't always save you and can only alert you when the situation gets bad i.e. oncoming airplane or obstacle, altitude, speed etc. We fly in planes with autopilot and we are safer for it, but pilots/drivers still need to be alert and operating the plane. Teslas aren't fully autonomous and probably can't truly be until everything is connected and more cars on the road are autonomous for expected behavior. I trust autopilot in planes but still want a pilot. Most likely autopilot will be more useful in large buses, trucks, shipping, boats, airliners than individuals as you will still need a driver most of the time. Even the Uber crash could have possibly been avoided with a more alert driver.

One area that may cause more crashes in the interim is trusting the software too much, autopilot that does work six sigma 99.999999% of the time may lead to a possible issue of driver comfort with the technology that may still have edge cases that can endanger them. This issue was a factor in the Tesla crash and the Uber crash

I think a huge overlooked part of the failure here was the previous accidents at this part of the road and the lack of repair. We have a serious infrastructure issue with disrepair, non automated/untracked driving of humans probably ends up badly in these areas but goes unnoticed or is suppressed as road design can be a big factor, this automated crash highlighted an issue here at this offramp/fork that probably would go unnoticed and cause more issues. If nothing else, automated driving will have the data to fix these bad areas of our infrastructure and double down on safety and protections.
I came back to this thread just to see what the most down-voted comment was. You said absolutely nothing wrong. I agree with you 100%.
I live at 60 degrees Northern latitude, and I sleep a lot more in the winter. And it's really difficult in the summer too, because it never gets dark and you need to go to bed to get up in the morning.

For some reason it's not difficult for me to sleep past sunrise, but very hard to go to bed before sunset or wake before sunrise. And some people are the opposite.
Cobalt and coltan declared strategic minerals by the DRC
Blueprint of a distributed social network on IPFS, and its problems
> He said the e-commerce giant has operated its retail segment at a loss for decades, subsidizing the retail portion of its business with profits from other areas, such as web services.

Amazon made losses for a long, long time. At that time AWS was not significant. Amazon's expansion was financed by investors.

> "That's because Amazon sells below cost and continues to do that," said Simon, who serves on the board of directors for Darden Restaurants. "It's destroying jobs, and it's destroying value in the sector," he said on "Closing Bell" on Thursday.

Right, Amazon is selling at scale at loss. That would be a recipe to go bankrupt real fast. Not true.

> "Unlike others, they pay little or no taxes to state & local governments, use our Postal System as their Delivery Boy (causing tremendous loss to the U.S.), and are putting many thousands of retailers out of business!" Trump wrote on Twitter.

Incremental revenue to the postal service will only improve their bottom line. Effects on other retailers is result of a more competitive business model.

The sales tax argument is moot, Amazon has changed a lot here in the US (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_tax ) and in Europe.

Abuse of market power is a concern indeed. Big players can bulldoze markets e.g. Walmart squeezing suppliers. Amazon's power is a concern here but Amazon's power vs. their suppliers in a lot of places is be still way smaller than Walmart's. For some items (and I suspect higher paying items) Amazon may have taken over the leadership position.

Amazon is causing problems for cities, this is truly a big concern. But listening to someone who brings false and outdated arguments is not wise.
Well I found the comment of tesla, odd as well.
but it is also odd that the driver still kept driving the same road WITH autopilot activated, besides he KNEW it was broken.

It's a strange accident, especially because of the strangeness of tesla and the whole background story (broken safety barrier).
I'm looking forward to the outcome of the whole story.

At the end I guess more than one party could've been a bad actor. Tesla, The guy itself and even that the road had no kind of warning (safety barrier not replaced or some kind of other warning sinces that it will be replaced soonish)
I went to Blogtrottr https://blogtrottr.com/ when Reader shut down. I have been very happy with it and it means one less place to go look, my feeds just come to my inbox.
Actually with the recent increased censorship and bans on reddit I left completely and switched RSS feeds read in a native client reader on my desktop (+voat, trying to make it better by being a good person and ignoring the rest). It helps that I never stopped cultivating them over the years though.
https://www.apple.com/imac-pro/specs/ — released just a few months ago.

The AMD Vega 64 has got to push a few hundred watts.

Microsoft has the Surface Book 2 with GTX 1060 and they must be looking at that as competition for the high end MacBook Pro.
You could also subscribe to superfeedr alerts - that is a paid service though.
The truth behind the mysterious holes in Hong Kong's high-rises
> The Tesla statement is the equivalent of "works in my laptop" at a bigger scale.

Erhem: https://i.imgur.com/sY3Eeln.png
Pardon my ignorance: How did Solaris solve this?
That's a pretty bad scheduler then because normally it would have moved that task to the tail of the 'ready' list for that particular priority level rather than to the front because it yielded voluntarily.
Redemption of a Lost Prodigy
webmentions and microsub, please.
Disqus is just another silo, it has nothing to do with RSS and federation.