skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine if you bought gasoline at the grocery store in two-liter bottles. You'd need to buy 31 bottles to fill the tank on a Ford Fusion. Think about what 31 bottles of soda would look like in a shopping cart. Think about the sheer effort of filling your cart with 31 bottles, pushing it to the parking lot and pouring the contents into your gas tank.

Someone had to build a giant platform in the ocean, drill a hole deep into the ground, pump the oil out of the ground and move it ashore, boil it in a giant distiller to extract the gasoline, pump it into a tanker and drive it to your gas station. All of that stuff is invisible, but you notice the gram of polythene wrapping on a cucumber.

A phone is an incredibly sophisticated device, but it's only a few ounces of stuff. It cost you $700, so it feels like it should involve a huge amount of natural resources to make. It required a lot of human skill and ingenuity, but we didn't need to burn a lot of stuff to make it. When you fill up your tank with $50 of unleaded, you don't think about the huge volume of pure hydrocarbons you're pouring into your car or the immensely energy-intensive processes needed to extract, refine and transport that fuel.

When you get on a plane, you don't think about the fact that almost the entire volume of the wings are filled with fuel that'll be burned in a single journey. When your heating thermostat clicks on, you don't think about the volume of gas rushing through a network of pipes to feed your boiler.
There are bigger problems in the system hidden here. Just because a drug is off patent, does not means anybody can make it. Each potential manufacturer has to still request and receive permission from the FDA to produce the drug.

If you are exactly copying a drug that has already been proven, safe there shouldn't be much safety concerns. So the FDA approval is not supposed to test whether the actual chemical formulation is safe (as this is already proven) but that the process of manufacturing is safe and reliable.

In a rational world, this should be a very quick approval. But in reality it is a very slow approval because congress and the FDA administration intentionally keep the department of the FDA that handles generic approvals understaffed. Thus there are massive backlogs and waiting lists to get a generic drug approved.
Could not disagree more. How ChromeOS works makes it so much more secure and easier to manage.
You could say the same of any expert opinion on any topic. That doesn't mean the wisdom of experts is less trustworthy, merely that humans aren't perfect.
Am I missing something here? Paying cash doesn't prevent the opening of fraudulent lines of credit in your name.

Equifax et al don't particularly care if you pay cash, they have some form of record on you either way.
My struggle to learn React
I use Google Tasks for this and I love it. It's super simple and lightweight and I really hope they don't kill it.
It really depends on how cheap that electrode is. If it's a few pennies, nothing stops you from automatically swapping it every couple of hours.
> gold has some utility as jewelry

Gold's utility as jewelry stems from its high value as a precious metal.

It's circular reasoning though, since we're also saying that it's high value is underpinned by its use as jewelry.
While the concept is good, I'd be extremely concerned of using any third party VPN service, free or paid. You are basically trusting your entire internet usage to a single entity, and I think this is way too risky.

One alternative is setting up a raspberry-pi at home running pi-hole and OpenVPN. While it is still not risk-free, it is still better than one centralized entity taking everyone's traffic. On the other hand, setting that up is still not absolutely straightforward, but it is getting better.
Not accurate. It depends on how many times you play.

That matters here because we're not talking about any single cell or single strand of DNA. We're talking about millions upon gazillion. So "the game" is being played an unimaginable number of times. Clearly that changes the possibility of an outcome.
You do not need an Internet connection. You are way, way behind.
I've always had this odd feeling that traffic is actually a Bernoulli flow, where instead of "pressure" you have congestion.

eg if you have two lanes merging and the system is at capacity, then the "pressure" across the streamline increases and traffic slows down as a result. And when you have very little pressure (or diverging arterial roads) traffic tends to speed up.

Of course there is a secondary problem of "phantom" traffic jams where the system is not really slowing down due to traffic merging or anything, you just have spots where traffic is not flowing at all for no real reason (the optimal solution being that everyone puts their foot on the gas and accelerates together). I suppose the physical analogue might be cavitation or non-laminar/turbulent flow?

I can't find any academic references on this but it's always made intuitive sense to me.
Noc stands for network operations center
Two high school seniors die when Tesla crashes into wall, bursts into flames
> Investments need to have intrinsic value.

> there’s no value in any particular set of random numbers

What is the "intrinsic value" in e.g. an iPhone? Would that value exist without humans? I would say no, it only has value because people are willing to pay for it. So I'm left wondering what principled distinction you can draw between a particular set of random numbers and a particular arrangement of metal and glass, both of which people want, to determine that one has intrinsic value and one does not.
Since the Pi is ARM, you'd need to get pip to cross-compile any native extensions in the Python libraries (or use a pre-compiled wheel, if available).
How? I mean, why are you offended by this attempt to curb the data that companies can collect on you without your consent?
That sounds backwards to me. Mainland European legal systems are based on civil law, which heavily emphasizes letter rather than spirit. (As opposed to the common law traditions found in most of the Anglosphere.)
Phone centers got outsources to India and other places a while back, and while they spoke the language there was definitely a drop in quality of the resulting service. I dread to think what this will be like.
> Why are you bringing Minecraft revenue for just 2011?

It's not revenue "for just 2011".

It's revenue up to 2011.
Okay, but how is that the key's fault? This has literally nothing to do with the authentication method, it doesn't give you access to any other site or anything. It's just a social engineering attack on the service, and it's pretty much the only one left because everything else has been obsoleted by the use of hardware tokens for auth.
"A great tester is proud to break things."

That might (or might not) be true, but this statement is part of why software sucks. Testing software will certainly involve breaking things. But a lot of software testing is confirming that the damned thing actually does what it says on the tin. It reminds me of a long-discarded interview question: test a blender. Candidates would throw rocks in it, flip it on/off a million times, turn it on upside down, etc. One thing that I'd guess 90% missed: throw some fruit in it and confirm that it will make a smoothie. A software tester's primary goal is not to break software, it is to give a report on the current state of the product: what works, what doesn't.

The other reason software sucks is because we call the team "QA", as if to imply that if it makes it past those folks, we're done. If it were truly "quality assurance", then a test team would have leeway to say, "there are no unit tests, we're not accepting this build". A QA team could tell the dev team that they will run static analysis tools on the code before a build is released. Or whatever, you get the idea. But software development as it is currently practiced does "QC", or quality control. The QC team has little bearing on the quality, they're just there to make sure it's not a steaming pile, and to give the rest of the team a direction in which to point that finger. If QA teams were allowed to do actual QA, maybe software would suck a little less.
No kidding, and now the aliens can say we cooperated in being found, which will lead to some pretty boring dialogue.
Why doesn’t this site do inertial scrolling properly on my iPhone?
> you're free to start manufacturing and selling it...if you want.

This common apologetic ignores the real-world cost of infrastructure, overhead, and accruing a user-base that an existing company has already established.

It excuses irresponsibility and negligence of the public trust. Nobody would say, for instance, "corrupt politician? You're free to stage a revolution, overthrow the existing state, draft a constitution, establish a sovereign power and diplomatic ties with other states if you want"

No, we know how absurd and ridiculous that is, so we have tried to create reasonable mechanisms for dealing with political corruption through the ballot box and removing barriers to entry for legitimate challengers.

But in business, this trope is implying "You're free to abandon your career, study chemical engineering, get financing to start a lab, hire a large staff of experts, buy the machinery, run an advertising campaign, establish the customer base ..."

It changes the frame of reference from abuse and incompetence on important matters to essentially shaming people for not starting multiple successful industrial capitalist enterprises in their leisure time.

There needs to be more reasonable mechanisms for dealing with abuses of power then requiring such expensive and elaborate responses. Otherwise most abuses go unchallenged.
~ 8 or 9 years ago?
Both. Machine containers on top of a VM.
On Android you can also use taskwarrior in a terminal with termux.
> Eh, you can find it in Brazil, made locally (so no reimporting issues),

The US doesn't permit importing those drugs period (regardless of where they're manufactured).

The topic is generally referred to as "reimporting", and in this case the drug is manufactured by a US company, but it doesn't matter if the drug was manufactured by a Brazilian company; it can't be imported from that manufacturer to the US.
Why don’t you demonstrate some of that alleged understanding to answer the question? Start by producing evidence supporting your belief that there is some significant problem with transaction history modification and move on to why that problem cannot be more efficiently addressed using proven cost-effective techniques.
This is the same Recruit that had the corruption scandal in the 80s/90s.
Non-exploding solid state batteries can't come soon enough. Hopefully we won't end-up "compromising" on "hybrid" solid state batteries (which Samsung is currently targeting for manufacturing in the near future) along the way. We need 100% solid state batteries for EVs.
It is skewed by part-time workers, I suppose, although I don't see why they should be excluded, but it explicitly states that it does not take into account non-workers.
> what? seriously? Do EU citizens have some kind of legal right to Facebook access, now? It's illegal for Facebook to not serve people they can't sell to advertisers?

Facebook doesn't have a right to track people in the EU without gaining their consent to it in a way that complies with EU law.

EU citizens have a legal right to expect that Facebook will comply with European consumer protection laws.

If Facebook doesn't want to properly comply with EU regulations, they're free to totally withdraw from the EU market. Otherwise, it can expect penalties for its willful noncompliance.
If you cannot see anything immoral in Apple, or if you're unable to see anything immoral/fascist beyond murder and WWII then I'm not sure you're ready to discuss this subject.

I suggest you educate yourself on the matter, because judging by your comment, I can clearly see you're ignorant about the subject.

https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-apple.html
This might be useful: https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2018/05/cloud-compose...
No it is a container on top of a VM. Different kernels. Android is just a container sharing a common Linux container with ChromeOS.
I think you’re thinking of the “Dijkstra” TrueType font (available from zillions of places. I remember there being different versions, so it probably is worthwhile to download a few and pick the largest (or, better, to inspect them for their glyphs))
Author has too much time in his hand now, and decided to reimplement scrolling.
True, but there was at least an attempt before at cost containment, as they could directly capture that revenue and increase their profitability. Now there's both no incentive for cost containment measures beyond what's needed to hit their maximum allowed profitability percentage and a direct disincentive to spend more than is needed in this area, since it'd eat into the limited amount administrative overheard allowed by the MLR[1].

[1] http://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2012/02/04/does-obamacare-...
"We require tracking to pay for the costs of providing this free service".

No such thing as a free lunch.
I wish they would add more features. I would love a full featured free TODO app from Google.
Techies: portraits of Silicon Valley diversity
It is better because it is more common
Chrome is a browser.

Chrome OS is, as the name suggests, an OS.
What to Expect at the White House's Big AI Meeting – Axios
If third-party analytics is nixed, the same companies will just switch to a consulting model that lets them set up analytics for app authors in-house, making it first-party.
May I ask which part of Germany you live in and specifically what your opinion about TUM, KIT and RWTH Aachen is then?

I think it is logically not profound to speak for whole Germany.
I doubt they released this without consulting the relevant data agencies in the EU. And TBH there is nothing shocking here, just a confirmation of what everybody knows is already happening.

I 'm also in the EU and this makes perfect sense to me: if you can't accept seeing some ads then you can't use the free service. I highly doubt people are willing to pay $5 cash / quarter to use it, but i would like to see FB giving that option, just to see how miserably it fails.
Agreed. But just the same, given the number of cells, the number of a species, the amount of time...I think you see where this is going.

The occurance of something is also a function of the total universe of occurrences. This doesn't seem to be part of the "close to impossible" numbers being mentioned.

If life itself was the result of a roll of the cosmic dice then anything down stream sounds reasonable.
Somewhat ironically, as a (UK) Leave voter I rather like it.
I'd be more understanding of your comment if Facebook was only just making a profit. However we both know it's raking in the cash.
Extract Transform Load.

Getting data from one place to another - usually the end place being a structured database (or it ought to be).

If you have been in the industry over 10 years you probably used Perl or Python scripts.
I doubt it would happen for a number of reasons, but who is a) known for making amazingly powerful and power-sipping ARM chips, and b) rumored to be working on more powerful server/desktop class ARM chips for new products? Apple!

OTOH, Apple's chip design team probably doesn't have much (if anything) to gain from buying out qualcomm's team.
I guess the idea is that if one were "off the grid" enough not to have a phone, one's details wouldn't be in their DB in the first place. That would make one's identity harder to steal, which would cause the thieves to move on to the next victim.
Let's do this little thought experiment: If some wealthy people stored their keys on a ship and that ship sunk to the bottom of the Atlantic, would anyone go diving there to retrieve those keys in say 50 years? What if it was gold on the ship?
Law, Dignity and the Elusive Promise of a Third Way
Efficiency can be a good proxy for cost. If this was 20,000 times as efficient solar cells would still win, but cost might make the difference. Without that you would need square miles of this per car which is just not going to happen.
What do you consider legal under GDPR? A lot of people think it's some kind of "revenge gun", but for what exactly? I wonder what people expected that would happen.
I use taskwarrior, and it makes my life better.

Two things I wish I could configure it to do (stating here in case someone already knows how):

1) A view that surfaces only the next task for each project, with a little annotation like:

Write chapter 1 (First Novel)
Make grocery list (Juliet's Party)
Collate transactions (Month-end reconciliation)

Without that culled list, a comprehensive task-list is overwhelming.

2) Integration with a calendar (Google Calendar, etc.), where adding events to the calendar automatically adds them to Taskwarrior.

Thank you, Taskwarrior team! ( I was about to ask for a donate link, but I finally found one. Thanks :)! )
I didn’t knew FollowUpThen, it seems very handy.
Degree matters, it often makes all the difference; as such, we have different adjectives to describe those different degrees.

In my hypothetical, while technically true that both are "saving", it is more descriptive to use "hoarding" for the latter case, both in an objective sense to describe the degree and in a subjective sense to describe how that degree of storage should be evaluated.

Their goal is to save obscene amounts of wealth that will never ever be used, could never ever be used by a single person in a natural lifetime, "I've saved so much WAOW!" Who cares. Wealth is gained on the shoulders of giants, all the people and technology that came before us. Maybe it should be harder, much harder for people to save levels of money that most everyone would describe as hoarding.

The wealthy saving/hoarding so much money, having so much power relative to the masses is leading to super great outcomes?
iOS 11.4 will lock down the iPhone's Lightning port if it isn't used
The L is entirely computerized already. The two people working on each train are there to press a "keep the union happy" button every 30 seconds.
Wow, I hadn't heard about the is-odd/is-even/is-number thing. That's hilarious and awful.

Reminds me of: https://github.com/jezen/is-thirteen
What features does it forgo to be 'simpler'?
"The excitement is that, Donald Trump doesnt have control over Bitcoin. China doesnt have control over bitcoin. No government does. People with computers have control over it. There are 21,000,000 Bitcoin ever ever ever. No amount of awful government can change that."

What I don't understand is how you think your are insulated with bitcoin. If Trump does something so catastrophically stupid that USD is worthless, what will be the effects on the worldwide economy? How will bitcoin insulate you from something like the 07 recession, it won't make finding a job easier. At least the gold peppers can claim there is some value left in gold in a hypothetical nuclear post apocalypse, BTC instantly becomes worthless without widespread internet access. Without network access, what value is in a blockchain?
Do you consent to this cavity search? (Required to board plane)
/a.ɾʰam r̩ʰ.eɪ.l̩n sɛ.le.ɛɲ i.hir.kɾɪ.ke.ɛ.ɾi nːɛ.a dɾi.hen.in.xuɪ.ɛn/

This is put together using the pronunciation guide present on rihan.org, which does not list IPA. So take this as a very rough attempt.
So we’re back to using a federated model with most people using trusted third parties and hoping there are enough laws and regulatory oversight to prevent them from abusing that trust? This sounds oddly familiar…
You could already use Docker containers with Crouton. Just had to use rkt.

Yes docker is working with this new funtionality. You use on a machine container. Which runs on a VM.
You could partner with a developer and create some themes and sell them in theme marketplaces. That's one way designers can make scalable recurring revenue. Most of the customer support will be on the developer's side to solve bugs and installation problems.
Patrick Collison Interview
Plants Don’t Convert CO2 into O2
> My whole point is that any revenue from Glassdoor is meaningless and irrelevant.

That's the same tired old logic that brought the world the Myspace and Yahoo deal.
How did you determine "knowingly, and with clear consent"?

I guess I'd agree that if someone wrote a 5 page paper describing all the ways that Facebook harvests their data and what might be done with it afterwards then they should be allowed to do what they want? But I suspect most people would be like "uhhh, I think they, um, know what pages I liked? And maybe they use that for ads?"
This seems like a great resource for understanding how machine learning algorithms actually work. Anyone reading the book to help them build more accurate models, might also be interested in supplementing it with more research into the importance of feature engineering before training machine learning models.

While feature engineering hasn't been a rigorously studied within the academic literature, this book does have a section on feature generation, which gives some practical tips once your data is in feature matrix form.

For those interested in even more, I work on a python library for automated feature engineering called, Featuretools (https://github.com/featuretools/featuretools/). It can help when your raw data is still too granular for modeling or comprised of multiple tables. We have several demos you can run yourself to apply it to real datasets here: https://www.featuretools.com/demos.
The motivation behind a task manager (and things like GTD) is that your brain has much more important things to worry about than what you have to do. If you get to the point where you really trust the system you use, you can get to the point where you're not stressed about remembering upcoming things. Instead, you just consult your system and see what's up.

I started using Things (https://culturedcode.com/things/) because it's so flighty on what it offers in terms of scheduling. You can set tasks to be done today, and deadlines separately. You can't set certain due times or hours -- and you can basically turn off all nagging. It's become projects and tasks that I both need and want to do, but it frees me from dealing with them in my head.

So, it's liberating when done right. It can be done wrong, though. Tasks that aren't actionable make these systems rough, because they set deadlines on immeasurable amounts of work, which creates stress. The trick is to make sure tasks are actionable, and that you aren't remembering them yourself.
I was thinking this might actually be a useful feature for me - if Google suggests an autocompleted phrase I was about to use, I could think of a better, more interesting alternative.
It was articulated so well in the dark forest that I have trouble seeing it any other way now.
She could be the first woman ever to run the CIA
> There is also a problem with python that it does not do thread-based concurrency, but only process-based ditto, where the processes need to communicate in a less robust way with each other, e.g. via HTTP.

this is half true, and importantly, in a workflow tool, the part where python is perfectly capable of being multithreaded while waiting on IO (which releases the GIL) should be quite sufficient.

there are problems with python like its memory usage and with airflow specifically like its at times flaky scheduler (maybe that's fixed in newer versions), but multithreading shouldn't be one in this particular context.
Better approach, I'm, is use Crouton. Just have to use rkt to launch the containers. Now not necessary to even use developer.
Of course.

You probably expected something like this might happen when you decided to use CoreOS...

I wish there was a Debian (or better, Devuan) based system that could just work well, but it can’t happen without big money... I doubt Tectonic would have survived without this acquisition.