skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taking this attitude to your design is a great way to tank your performance before you've even started. I have seen too many projects suffer from overzealous architecture that treats the database as a persistence layer. Designs that start out trying to abstract away the persistence layer wind up building a complex caching layer.
> by saying that they aren't touching the wheel or are ignoring messages.

The funniest part of Tesla's statement is the fact that it basically renders "Autopilot" worthless. Or, at best, turns it into nothing more than an Adaptive Cruise Control system with an extremely misleading (and dangerous) name.

Tesla has been all too happy to let people believe that Autopilot is what the name implies. They only make a real effort to correct that misconception when something bad happens. Then they finally say "It's not actually autopilot, you're still supposed to keep your hands on the wheel and your eyes on the road at all times", to which we collectively shrug and say "Well then what the hell is the point of Autopilot? And why did you give it such a misleading name?"
That poor soul will get an unsolicited email from Facebook that will make them sad.
I believe data about you missing from the export would be a violation of the EU law that requires companies to provide this feature.
How about adoption, e.g. Dat+Beaker vs IPFS+existing browser? Arguably, for these use cases, adoption matters more than all of the other items combined.
He launched a car into space tho. He has to be good. He wouldn't have had the money to launch that car into space if he didn't bust unions and defy regulations.
why none of these articles mention non-desarguian geometry?
They have removed the fluency rating, for good reasons.
The biggest problem I had with Duolingo was knowing what to do next. I much prefer a simple "next lesson" button, which both introduces new material and reviews stuff you've covered previously. But with Duolingo there's a set of available lessons you can choose, and you can either work on going down the list and opening up new lessons, or re-doing ones you've already done and leveling up those particular ones. Then there's also a "barbell" which you can press and takes you into some lesson, but I never quite figured out what it did. But I spent quite a while getting a bunch of "crowns" on the first few lessons (essentially, doing them over and over) before realizing I should be doing some forward progress as well.

My wife is a fan of the app and recently paid for premium, but I'm personally a little happier (at least for my use case of Spanish) with Babbel, which I pay for. It has a single way forward, so you never have to choose what to work on next, and that single way will bring back earlier stuff just to refresh your memory for you. It also has little grammar asides, which I found very helpful, and which Duolingo lacks.
> I don't know if my interests shield me from bad subreddits but most of the one I glance at are fine, at worst they're just comatose but never toxic.

Hmmm, then I guess that's because you don't come often on airfrance any more, for it has not been looking nice in the last months.
Its not clickbait - the article says we know about less than 12 Einstein rings. So finding 1 occurence of something we've only seen 12 of seems significant.
Denver Uber passengers will test-drive a new in-app 911 button this summer
That's actually reassuring, I'm glad they looked into this.

My follow-up concern is, what if, under these salty and wet conditions, something causes a short circuit between the powered rails?

e.g., either a defective vehicle-side contact where the anode and cathode allow for the water and salt to close a much smaller gap, or if someone deliberately sticks a piece of metal on there.
Google Cloud Storage and read performance of large files
Many AI doomsday scenarios, e.g. the "paperclip maximizer", all revolve around a common theme: we build a system to do something innocuous and helpful to humanity, but due to its complexity we unwittingly include a reinforcement mechanism that incentivizes it to do something harmful.

It's amusingly ironic how closely those scenarios resemble the clickbait journalism described in this piece. We have a large, opaque system (the news industry) intended to be helpful (by informing us of important events) but which, due to broken reinforcement mechanism (optimizing for clicks), ends up harming us (with alarmist and inaccurate articles).
Wow! I didn't know about that quirk of the Medicare system. That's a pretty horrific incentive to overspend.

My comment was based on the more typical situation, where the physician sends the patient to a pharmacist.
I use the Living Language series in conjunction with college courses when I want to learn a new language. Then try to read online newspapers and comments to get a more well rounded vocabulary. Then I try TV/Movies once I've roughed my way through the language listening stuff I've got.

I tried Dulingo for a bit but found it mostly annoying as I prefer the structured way I've been taught and learned in the past. Maybe it's just how I enjoy learning though.
Hover over a letter's class to highlight the rendered stroke.

https://yusugomori.com/projects/css-sans/fonts
> Games of the 8- and 16-bit console generations, as well as all arcade games up until that point, were written with CRT monitors in mind and often used 'racing the beam' techniques. This resulted in games with extremely low latency, something you never find in a game of any sort today.

The techniques haven't been lost - if anything there are probably more people who know how to do those things today than there were in the past.

Typical LCD monitors are undeniably worse in many ways than the CRTs they replaced, but again, most customers turned out to prefer the convenience of the LCD on the whole. Nowadays with the rise of 144Hz monitors those rare users who care a lot about gaming latency do have an option.
How to Leverage Geo-partitioning
It doesn't satisfy a number of the person's requirements.
From their web page:

> Boundless Mind makes it easy to hook your users.

That's not that this post's title made me think it was, which was something that make people put away their phones[0].

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jan/27/mobile-ph...
Agree. If you are going to consult then try and productize whatever it is you are getting paid for as a consultant. Even if the back end is still people powered, this layer of abstraction can go a long way in the consulting revenue not being directly tied to your (or anyone) being hands-on directly involved.
An ARM might be overkill (and a bit expensive) for something that can be done with an 8051. A better choice might be something like an Atmel AVR or Microchip PIC(16 or 32 probably). Those are dirt-cheap, and specifically designed for microcontroller applications with features like on-board ADCs, comparators, timers, GPIOs, etc.
Show HN: The 2017 NESdev coding competition
That is another interesting point. There are threads on some forums that are years old. How to replace thing X on your Subaru. Updates about MTG Deck Z. Whereas Reddit aims much more towards "whats happening". That's great but the forum aspect of having a deep conversation on a single topic over many days, weeks, and months can be really important.
This seems to be part of Intel's intent behind their 2015 acquisition of FPGA manufacturer Altera. I am basing this off of the present state of Altera's website: https://www.altera.com
I had been considering buying a Tesla once the Model 3 AWD came out but am going to postpone it and get something else.
I would be surprised if nodejs were anywhere near the real time, safety critical systems here. I'd also not buy a Tesla in that case.
Would you say that generally applies to Product companies doing consulting, or do you see something that's specific to SaaS?

FWIW, I agree with you :-)
I particularly like the audio courses from Language Transfer. They create rules that help you transfer words from English into a destination language.

For example, words ending in ation in English, will end in ación in Spanish. Further, these words are also 'ar' verbs.

Conversation -> Conversación -> Conversar

I've found it quite helpful, especially in conjunction with Duolingo. At some point, I realized what I learned via Language Transfer was applying more as I progressed in Duolingo.

https://www.languagetransfer.org/complete-spanish
Man, your comment comes across as pretty classist. Would you extend the same argument against the use of italics? If not, why? Can you statistically demonstrate a disparity between information density of comments using all caps versus using italics?
> The Verge has obtained screenshots of the new Gmail design, currently being tested inside Google and with trusted partners.

Those "trusted partners" better include trying things out with the elderly, and people who need ARIA. And since by default these people are always forgotten, the fact that the design team isn't boasting about thinking about them has me very, very worried already.

Pak1G summarised this perfectly five years ago in a HN comment on the Gmail redesign back then.

> I look at UI changes in a totally different way now. My [mom] saw me come online on Skype, so she called me. There's an ocean between us currently. She said she called me because she was writing an email to me, but couldn't find the Send button, so didn't know how to send it. Either it made her feel stupid or frustrated, or she felt so sad that she couldn't send an email to me that she had spent some time writing, or whatever, but she started crying. She was crying because she couldn't find the Send button in gmail. She's approaching 60 and isn't as technically adept as some of us, so that is admittedly a factor.

> Seeing her cry about this made me change the way I think about what some users go through when they experience unexpected UI changes. I remember hearing people say they got confused by Windows 8 tiles, and didn't think it was such a big deal. After seeing my mom cry over a UI change, I think there are better ways to implement UI changes than simply shoving them down people's throat. Sure, if it must be done, it must be done (UI change), but don't shove it down people's throats unexpectedly and with no hand-holding at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6429848
https://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollopanoramas/. In particular, I like https://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollopanoramas/images/pr...

There's also a 360 photo from the 2014 Chinese lunar mission https://www.360cities.net/image/change-3-lunar-panorama-tcam...

Not street view, but google has surface maps for some solar system objects https://www.google.com/maps/space/moon
I’ve found WaniKani to be amazing for SRS for kanji. If you are diligent about it you can go through the jouyou set in 18 months or so.
A large chunk of his argument doesn't hold at all. This:

"At the moment, it's impossible for me to write portable code that I believe would work on lots of different systems, unless I avoid all exotic features."

Is just not remotely true anymore. Modern toolchains entirely obsoleted that. Modern C++ compilers are nothing like what Knuth used in 1993.

If anything it's easier to write portable C++ than it is portable C due to C++'s STL increasingly covering much of the POSIX space these days.
When I saw the title I thought it was going to be the first deployment of the Qualcomm system featured on fullycharged[1] back in November. What they've actually done looks... kinda flakey.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t0E4AcVu6o
I did Duolingo seriously for more than 370 days in a row.

Spanish: I speak french and English so Spanish is relatively easy to complete. After completing the course, I tried having conversations with people (with friends but mostly uber drivers) and I was surprised how many times i learned it all wrong. I had to read a lot or children book to remedy that.

French: As a french speaker, I went through it as a meta course just to see. It was very awkward. The correct answers are always cringe worthy. Some of them even wrong.

Japanese: This is very different from the languages I speak. But after completing the entire suite, I still can't look at a japanese text and read it. I can't form a sentence on my own because it never teaches you how. I can't count to ten because it only gives you numbers randomly. I know a few colors. I know words, but those words make no sense on their own. I also had to follow youtube lessons to make any sense of what I learned.

Duolingo is cool at making it look fun to learn. I don't think you'll learn to speak any languages with it.
There has been a lot of progress in fighting cancer. Survival rates for many types of cancer have increased tremendously. I assume this medication from Cuba is just one of many specific approaches.
If there is node.js component anywhere near the controls of my car, someone needs to be taken out back and taught a lesson.
What's the fallout from Schrems II?
Can you name a commonly known businessman from Ceasar's or Columbus' times?
I think you can be disappointed Obama wasn't able to fix it. But blaming him for something that ultimately involves thousands of politicians and special interest groups is, I feel, unfair.
I'm just annoyed it forces you to learn the writing system.
When a new interface comes on the scene, and assuming that people won't add more hours to their computer time, it can't help but cannibalize time spent on other interfaces. Halfway through that process it's really easy to project that line until it is 100% of all interface usage anywhere.

But here in 2018, we really ought to all have a pretty clear idea of why touch screens are in no danger of displacing mice and keyboards 100%. It's pretty obviously not going to happen, and not particularly mysterious why.

In other news, phone-based gaming is also obviously not going to kill dedicated consoles anytime soon.

In other, other news, see also why touch screens need not fear being entirely replaced by voice-based computer usage. In much the same way that touch screens didn't, can't, and won't completely replace other higher-bandwidth ways of interacting with computers, voice has those same problems w.r.t. touchscreens even more so. You can get a nice boost on the bandwidth in the computer input direction, but you get annihilated on the bandwidth coming back out compared to a screen. There is no other computer IO mechanism that so thoroughly lacks bandwidth back to the human as a voice interface, short of a plain flashing light on a physical console. (Which, actually, if the human knows Morse code or something, could damn near keep up with the voice interface on the bandwidth front. That's how bad voice interfaces are on the output bandwidth.)
Further edit to the edit:

Ran across an article with better images of the redesigned GUI. First glance, it looks good. Compact display of information, balanced interface controls, better coloring scheme. That all said, proof will be in the pudding~

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/04/gmail-com-redesign-l...
is this supposed to be the new reddit?

it's the same ol' reddit for me.
What's your name / anywhere I can read more from you? Your HN comments seem pretty interesting. Feel free to send me an email arikrockefeller@gmail.com
This is a good point. Especially for minority languages like Irish, they can end up being completely dominated in mass-media by a specific group. Duolingo and TG4 (main Irish-language tv channel) mostly speak Gaeilge Cúige Connacht (the western dialect) meaning the northern and southern pronunciation and style are neglected.
next remove the guts and feathers; add salt, pepper, flour, egg whites; dip in hot oil; enjoy
Something similar happened over 50 years earlier:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/when-...

EMACS used to have a command called M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead, which generated a conversation between Eliza (M-x doctor) and Zippy the Pinhead.
Facebook ARPU for US users in Q4 2017 was $26 (highest ever). $9 more sounds like an old stats or average for couple of years.
I've personally witnessed background checks used to catch people who flat-out lied in the hiring process.

You're absolutely right. Those people had already been punished by the courts for their misdeeds against society. They were not going to suffer further at our hands.

When they chose to lie to us during the hiring process, however, they committed a new misdeed that some might say justified additional reaction.
Google Is Shutting Down Its URL Shortener. Here're 5 Alternative Shorteners
This is what the article states. They think the 20K km of highways would be more than enough and based on distance from smaller populated areas as little as 5K km.
The age comment manages to be both a non sequitor and an ad hominem so lets ignore that.

The issue at play here is far larger than a car having a crash. The issue I was referring to is the actions of Tesla as they respond to the crash. That is cultural and it affects both the process of creating and releasing products as well as the process of responding to their failure. If your product can kill people, and lets be clear - cars can easily kill people SDV or not - you need to act like professionals when something happens. Playing the blame game, in public, and violating the expectations of a body like the NTSB shouldn't garner trust, no matter who is right at a technical level.

EDIT: fixed my abysmal grammar.
Apps add extra features and/or provide better usability.

I personally love using Sync for Reddit. It provides a nice and fluid experience.
The novel bit here, for me, is how the 'C' 'G' and 'J' use 'knockouts' to remove 'ink', kinda like using a CSG (constructive solid geometry) subtraction.

Very clever.
More missing:

- Likes on everything I liked on FB and external

- Shares via Share Buttons on external websites

- Websites I visited and where I was tracked because of Social Media buttons

- Time spent on FB

- Status updates I changed or dismissed

- Mouse hovering behavior to train the feed

- Data like my phone number that wasn’t put there by me but correlated through my friends address books

- Metadata through WhatsApp acquisition

- ...
I coincidentally requested mine this morning. Haven't got a response yet.
There is a term for that "variable font". One type face come to mind, currently being developed, which should come out in september by famous Font Bureau. [1]

[1]: https://www.typenetwork.com/brochure/opentype-variable-fonts...
Why would a popular science article mention a very technical term that does not provide any additional insight?
I think it's because we don't understand systems as well as we should. This article (http://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/article207841309.ht...) is a decent intro to what modeling shows about engagement and polarization. The paper it refers to (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.06009.pdf) goes way deeper.
Program 1:

exit

Program 2:

while 1: pass

The first one stops. The second one does not. It's possible - trivial - to analyze them, but that doesn't tell you anything about whether all programs can be analyzed.
I wrote a blog post about this once, from the perspective of a freelance writer: https://www.sonyaellenmann.com/2016/12/find-clients-freelanc...

Your personal network is the most important thing, in my experience.
thanks for sharing this, it's good to know what's out there, hope you have found a vocation :)
I don't want to repeat myself[0] too much, but: Of course, and to the extent that I want answers to those specific questions I'm happy to ask.

Asking individual questions, though, doesn't encourage a different mindset in the way that I hope my meta-comment will.

Also, I take a bit of issue with calling this "complaining". If you think I could have been even more constructive, please point out how. But I'm not just posting a lamentation, here.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16823827
I heard someone say that smart contracts don't eliminate the need for a trusted party, they just make that trusted party a program, since most people don't fully understand what these contracts are saying. At least when you get a lawyer to write-up a contract the lawyer is usually familiar with the law, and how similar contracts are interpreted by the court system.
New ride-hailing laws in Egypt
None here - you mistranscribed :)

Rafale and Rafaele are two different beasts - one is the name of a plane made by Dassault industries, the other is an Israeli defence company..

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Advanced_Defense_System...
Lol. Kissinger. Right.
He was maintaining that all Facebook does is sell innocent ads. Then was asked if Facebook gets a cut of 3rd party business or if they get paid based on outcomes. He said no, but his example revealed that in fact they do sell outcomes, which is what makes them so compelling to companies who bid. It's in Facebook's financial interest to gain as much power of its users as possible in order to achieve higher success rates for its customers.

This something the vast majority of users don't understand. The Facebook experience is engineered to make you do things in a much more sophisticated way than any other advertising business to date. They can recursively manipulate your emotions to drive up their outcome compensation.
Well, even more wealthy.
Reddit asked for a Political discussion bot
Hmm... I could've sworn I've seen that exact photo several times before. But NASA does seem to claim it's new. Or at least the nasa.gov page was edited recently...
I think you're overestimating the amount that people hate paypal ethics. For instance, I don't know what you mean by ignoring banking regulations and laundering money quasi-legally? I read his biography written by Ashlee Vance and I don't think this was covered.
Host the documents yourself?
I have noticed this with quite many video players. Downscaling from 4k to fullscreen on my not-so-4k monitor seems to provide better details than the native 1080. On YouTube for example. Do you know if this is in effect for YouTube videos?
On the home page it says, it is "relied upon in production by large businesses". Which large business rely upon it?
Once you have the basics down, I like anki or memrise better for picking up vocab. You can do decks based on JLPT levels or do Core 2k/6k. Here's the memrise course series I am using (6000 words broken up into chunks of 500, frequency optimized):

https://www.memrise.com/course/1091685/sgjl-05-core-2k6k-voc... (first of 500 of 6000)

https://www.memrise.com/course/1125407/sgjl-07-core-2k6k-voc... (next 500 words)

https://www.memrise.com/course/1125874/sgjl-10-core-2k6k-voc...

https://www.memrise.com/course/1125879/sgjl-12-core-2k6k-voc...

The "SGJL" series also does grammar but it was easier to just reread tae kim every so often: https://community.memrise.com/t/course-forum-suggested-guide...
Is there any reason for using Firefox on iOS as opposed to Safari? I'm guessing sync'ing history and stuff with the desktop version; but apart form that?
True but how do you prove it and how do you claim an honest full download?

Because one thing is clear: the data they have on me in my archive is by far not enough to train the feed in the way it is shown to me. How do I know? Because my download archive doesn’t have that much info on me and there must be more.
the mechanism has to do with chromatin and quantum entanglement in the bands that connect the rods (cones?) in their retinas. don't think the bodymod crew is going to catch up to this any time soon... AR will get there first for sure.
Facebook Grilling Shows Real Need For Decentralized Social Networks
https://cryptocomes.com/facebook-grilling-shows-real-need-fo...
I really love the way that this article is written. It's super condensed and informative (with plenty of links) in a way that made me immediately subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for sharing
> If you’re like most people in America, you use a text editor nearly every day.

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