skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect its long past the day when a marginal change in consumption will actually affect the world, even a little. The production of meat (and phones) does not change at all for small adjustments in demand - they are far too large an industry with far too large a lead time to respond to much at all.

In fact, using homebrew solutions or alternative sources actually increases my environmental footprint. Now I'm not only wasting the goods that were created in preparation for me (phone, meat etc), I'm consuming more goods from an alternative source that is small and can more readily adjust for demand, which it does, by providing for me. Which has a further non-zero environmental impact.

So in the short turn (year over year) its actually best to consume only the mainstream sources of goods since their marginal cost is about zero. Whether that seems tragic or efficient is up to the reader.
Just wanted to add another geocoding provider to the list https://geocod.io - founded about 4 years ago based on frustrations with Google’s terms and pricing.
Yeah, same in Polish - it's "poduszkowiec" (pillow - "poduszka").
I contributed to an open source project for a bot that plays Go (the game). It's fast and multi-threaded, without random crashes. Kind of the best case scenario.
Good to hear. It’s been awesome to see this pattern go from idea to community best practice.
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Yes, that is the minimum number of required flight hours, but a Certificated Flight Instructor (CFI) must endorse a student pilot to take the practical test or checkride. A CFI’s certificate renews automatically if 80% of the people (and at least five of them) she endorses over a two-year period pass the checkride on the first attempt.

I have heard the U.S. average for number of flight hours logged prior to taking the private checkride is about 70. I know a couple of people who passed the forty hours total time (TT) mark on the flight to go meet the Designated Pilot Examiner (DPE) to take the checkride!
How Google is weaving the fabric of our lives
Can't edit the comment anymore, the correct email is: f.builes@catawiki.nl!
The Wealthy Are Hoarding $10B of Bitcoin in Bunkers
Well that's an oversimplification. Diseases wiped out 90% before they ever saw a soldier. BUT...

'Instead, when the Indians were ready to leave, Trent wrote: "Out of our regard for them, we gave them two Blankets and an Handkerchief out of the Small Pox Hospital. I hope it will have the desired effect."' -- http://www.history.org/foundation/journal/spring04/warfare.c...

More commonly rumored to be used by British against Americans, though.
This is microwave based. Those lines are well known by now and there are known routes within Europe (most notable Frankfurt<->London) and the US (NYC<->Chicago). However, microwave only works over short distances (FRA<->LON has multiple towers to cover the distance). Crossing the atlantic isn't possible. Shortwave could deliver a similar speedup over long distances.

I'm a bit sceptical though. Don't the waves have to bounce several times to get to the target? I'm not sure how much of the ~30% potential speed up vs. fibre you still get.
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Yep, I guess we could change

> Mi aerodeslizador está lleno de anguilas

to

> El mio aerodeslizador está lleno de anguilas

And

> Mon aéroglisseur est plein d'anguilles

to

> L'aéroglisseur a moi est plein d'anguilles

Spanish and French natives feel free to correct me. :)

EDIT: Thanks for the corrections.
> But why would the Vanatu people know what a blender is, but instead of saying blender make up a simple word "mixmaster"?

It's a brand name. Like "hoover" for "vacuum cleaner".

> Why would they know about the story of Jesus Christ and his ascension

Missionaries?

But yes, the story seems dubious. I've read a similar claim that in Tok Pisin (closely related to Bislama),"eclipse" is or was rendered as "kerosin lamp belong Yesus Kraist he bugarup stop finish altagetha".* As the Tok Pisin word for "sun" is simply "san", this seems even less likely.

* Typing from memory, so spelling and grammar are likely inaccurate.
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Interesting... I actually know someone working on a project similar to this (who works at an HFT firm) - if not actually this.

His team was simulating and testing how various weather conditions could affect trade placement times. For instance, does a high-pressure system, a heat wave, a blizzard, etc. impact the trade placement times, if so how does that impact the algorithms.

He works out of Chicago and I've heard of similar things before, so this isn't unknown to people in the area.
Why not 2 H20 -> 2 H2 + O2?
ekke assumed the hovercraft can hold at most 331 eels. You assumed it holds 4 billion eels. Who's right? I don't know but a billion eels sounds far off.
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No, it doesn't.

The problem of universal API is entirely orthogonal to voice communications. Duplex is not a Turnig-complete system, it's just an API behind a voice recognition layer. All the important problems for universal APIs happen after that layer.

Ultimately, what you describe can work perfectly only when everyone is using Duplex, which is equivalent to everyone using Google-defined API. That's not universal, because you have one entity behind it.

The only way this brings us somewhat closer to universal API is that if you expect it to handle humans as well, it introduces some constraints to the space of possible APIs, which could make it easier for everyone to agree on a common format. Constraints of natural language processing without a human-level AI require your API to be very fuzzy and very lenient. There's nothing stopping one from implementing those same constraints over a text or binary protocol. Nothing except no reason for businesses to do it.
In the U.S., a private pilot may fly at night with no additional training or rating.
They probably should have disclosed the relation (they disclosed that Intel, Cavium, and Qualcomm sent engineering samples to them), but accusing Vlad Krasnov of writing a PR piece for Qualcomm in the form of blog posts describing his work is over the top.
Intel rumored to unveil its discreet GPU at CES 2019
Using my rooftop solar setup as a source of real-world numbers... Depending on time of year, an average clear day gets me between 15kWh and 25kWh generated with 18 "typical solar panels" of 230W each. Call it 1kWh per panel as a pessimistic estimate.

A Tesla Model S is quite heavy on the energy consumption because it's big and powerful. You'd expect around 0.2 kWh / km[1]. So if you're willing to go for a battery electric vehicle, a single rooftop panel could push it about 5km per day.

[1] https://pushevs.com/2016/11/23/electric-cars-range-efficienc...
From what I understand (and I'm no expert in HFT or electric engineering), this kind of sub-second trading is done in very specific corridors: Chicago-NY, NY-London, London-Frankfurt, London-Paris, Paris-Frankfurt. I wonder if the same applies in Asia, with Singapore, HK, Tokyo, Sidney...
You’ve been on VSS until just recently? That seems insane. Wasn’t the last update to VSS shipped in 2005?

Also, why SVN? That seems an antiquated choice at this point.
To be fair, I’ve never used KTM in my apps.

In cases when I need to write several values atomically (e.g. in a program with persistent window positions, after user moved a window I want to write all 4 coordinates of the rectangle), I just keep them in a single value, either string or binary. Even without KTM, registry API already guarantees value writes are atomic.
Good luck doing that at 3AM in the morning, because that's when you have the time to plan your weekend activities.
Because the vast majority of news consumers online are ad-supported non-paying customers.

I'm not going to pay $20/mo each to WaPo, NYTimes and WSJ. But I would pay $20/mo for "entry" level subscriptions to all of them, which I'm pretty sure is more than the Ad revenue that I would otherwise bring in.

$10/mo may not be the best price point, but IMHO having cheaper pay-as-go options would drive in a lot of unrealized revenue.
Prices should be based on the 5Ws and the current models that are now used seem similar to what was in the 2000s at the age of "we didn't know better".

What is being sold? If it's news, is it sold by category? Is the news sold or is it the critical analysis that actually matters? Maybe news should be free, the analysis paid.

When is it sold? Is today's news sold or all the news since the beginning of time? Maybe today is paid but yesterday is free and then paid again?

Where is it sold? USA has a GDP, Hungary has another. Maybe Hungary should be cheaper, tier the country, tier the price.

Why is it sold? Is it to make money or to improve quality? Slapping a price on a product without making the proper changes hurts long term success.

Who is the seller and who is the buyer? Is the seller a B2B company, then buyers should be businesses. Are intended buyers, investors, then target them.

How are you selling? Subscription is tried and tested. Perhaps using micro-payments could also be a solution.

Without applying these questions, the future is segregating services between those who can afford to pay and those who can't but need/want it. It can lead to a virtuous cycle for the wealthy and a vicious cycle for the poor.
Yeah it started in Chicago. At my old shop we had a semi-exclusive for Toronto - Chicago route which is used for ETF market making.

The main issue is that the network has a lot of packet loss due to weather condititions.
I love this kind of arrogant corporate responses "working as intended".

(look Facebook on sharing user's data)

Just because something is "working as intended" does not mean it's ok or correct.

BTW a bunch of Google' authorization is based on 3rd party cookies (e.g. Stackdriver), could anyone explain to me why? It's technically not challenging for Google to implement other ways.
Surprised no one has mention it yet, but Recruit Holdings is the parent company of Indeed.

So the combination of Indeed's set of basically every job listing and Glassdoor's set of reviews seems like a strong synergy to fight against Google and Facebook's move into the space.

Indeed/Recruit has made several big acquisitions in the past year including SimplyHired and Workopolis.

Note: I founded/work at a startup in the same space.
Not a native, but the Spanish version sounds wrong; I've heard em “el mio” used as a noun phrase , but not as a modifier for another noun, so “El mio aerodeslizador” sounds awkward. But maybe it's okay.
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I just imagine the TF2 guy saying this
You jest, but cybernetic implants to remote control cockroaches and flying beetles is a thing, and even normal people can buy the former (RoboRoach Bundle is about US$160), so I wouldn’t be very surprised if someone makes a crab-based delivery cyborg.
That's not always correct. It can be shorter (3 months are common in London) and is often a fixed part of your contract (notice period). If both agree you can shorten it but it's not just invoked at the discretion of your employer.
It's definitely easier to spot the soul sucking companies. They are the ones with the majority of bad reviews spotted with glorious reviews left by management trying to up their average.
How a Special Diet Kept the Knights Templar Fighting Fit
Thanks for your response, it is good to know that these things are being considered.
Design and Evaluation of FPGA-Based Gigabit Ethernet Network Card (2004) [pdf]
Uppload – Open-source JavaScript file uploader
Probably not but that's again a global problem not a Berlin problem. My point was only that Berlin is not specifically harshly affected by these global trends, it's that way (or worse) in pretty much every attractive major city.
I'm not well versed enough in immunology to answer the first question, but if we interpret life limiting factors as causes of death, cancer actually doesn't even break the top 10 causes of death in the world.

http://www.who.int/en/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/the-top-1...
The issue here is interfacing with ancient telephone systems.

If the two bots were to slip in some subliminal beeps and boops to recognize each other; then they could change their speech to very quick binary communication.
Im contribootin, but when you think that forces me to abandon all my opinions and cheerfull throw flower petals on every propaganda waggon rollin through town- nope.

Open Source never really cared so much about its contribooters as they cared about open source.
If stallmann would start worrying about its contribooters beeing able to live decent lifes with familys, without having a boss breathing down there neck- maybee then.

But it guess that is just not that sort of freedom thats high on the priortiy list.
Open Source as a lifestyle is currently limited to students and beginners.
The problem today for anarchism is that it isn't one thing. There is no "real system" of anarchism because the folks arguing for it have a pretty diverse set of aims.

Some people who call themselves Anarchists are, indeed, aiming for "collective ownership of [property]". Others are aiming for individualized, self-sufficient control of property (e.g. homesteading).

Everyone sees what they're thinking of when they say "Anarchist", and as long as nobody tries it or fleshes out what they mean by that, everyone gets along because Anarchism is definitely not what we have now.
Bad example? I thought that the bicycle was _the_ most efficient mode of human transportation (provided you don't have an all-meat diet).
While on the surface this is great, I also find it concerning in the way this is going.
First, you can only access this feature (for now) on a Pixelbook. This is not Android where patches are delivered first on Google's own hardware, or is it?
Then Chrome OS runs no 3rd party apps, but it runs Chrome 'Native' code, which is being phased out, where Chrome acted as a VM. I think Google wanted this to happen very much but opened all sort of backdoors into managed deployments of Windows and macOS.
Then ChromeOS started supporting Android apps, although the experience is very much like running an emulator.
Now it can run Linux on a VM. Fair enough, but it can run Linux only if it's Ubuntu. Ubuntu is fine but it's not the only choice for Linux, and with good reason.
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With short, layman's terms explanations of these tools and their respective categories that they fall under, anyone from novice to an experienced engineer can understand the growing software tool landscape. Since it's also a wiki, the same people can contribute and help others understand too.
'Disappearing' Signal Messages Are Stored Indefinitely on Mac Hard Drives
The email was to the entire company, not to a specific product design or marketing team that was working on PayPal Here.
Keep in mind this is for first-time, untested authors. The publishers are spending what, $10k or more on publishing and order fulfillment? Payroll or contract rates for graphic design, editing, reviewing, etc?

Yes the ebook split seems much lower than expected, but the book is also cheaper.

If you have a proven track record of writing books people want to pay $60+ for I'm sure you can negotiate better deals as time goes on, including advances.
I wasn't aware that "paid non-compete" is a thing, thanks for clarifying it. Next time when I see a non-compete in a contract (which is usual for developers), instead of negotiating it out, I'll try to negotiate something like this. What do these agreements usually look like?
Indian e-commerce growth rate looks interesting https://news.alphastreet.com/walmart-buys-flipkart/
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That's some sci-fi bullshit right there.
“You couldn’t pay me to keep it with a bank.”

Because if there's one thing banks are known for, it's running off with client assets suddenly and without warning.

Oh wait, that's cryptocurrency startups...
I was reading the paper published on Project Jaquard and this post was cited as one of the inspirations. Furthermore, it was also said that Project Jaquard fulfils some of the predictions made in the paper.
M. C. Escher (1898-1972). Prints and Drawings
or the Rosetta tech that would dynamically recompile and optimise on OS X for the PPC->Intel transition.
Because idea of running machine2machine communication through Duplex, going binary -> text -> voice -> text -> binary, is just fucking dumb.

It's not proof of negativity in the tech community. If anything, it's a proof that tech community often can't pause and look if a particular idea makes engineering sense.

That's how we ended up with Electron.
Apple cracking down on applications that send location data to third-parties
Also John Carmack is the CTO, not some lowly admin employee or engineer working on a completely underrated product.
How did you get on board as a technical reviewer? That seems really interesting.
There's Twilight but it's not exactly the same.
I think your memory may be faulty or you weren't that well integrated into the local "scene". 5 years ago was 2013, I was already living in Berlin back then and Neuköln was already billed as "the next Kreuzberg". 10 years ago...you may have had a point.

But also remember that then and now we're only talking about very specific areas of Neuköln which are super hip, it's actually a huge district and most of it is still "not cool". The bits close to Tempelhofer Feld and Kreuzberg have been gentrifying for many years.
The ‘spore drive’ and other Star Trek pseudoscience
There is gold in what you just wrote. These groups had a need to connect socially, anonymously, and in a way that is urgent and temporary.
Would you even acknowledge? The data is worthless after one round-trip, so you wouldn't send it twice. The receiver just needs to make sure that they read information correctly and can deal with losses.
> Hasn’t happened yet... will it? Can it?

Nope. XML (or Json, etc.) are just "human-readable" presentation of data. It does not provides any semantic whatsoever.

So you need some semantic on top of these data. And a general-purpose, universal API is yet to be invented (hint: it is probably not feasible)
How do they make money off of this?
It seemed to me Google Duplex only works on the receiving side on the phone call. Not sure how much more complex initiating a call is.
Let’s say you can make €45k in Berlin. Let’s say you can make €90k in the US.

“Free” education costs roughly €45k per year. In the US, 2-3 weeks of vacation is normal (for tech jobs,) so let’s say in Germany, you get an additional week. Let’s now say that US workers work an extra 200 hours per year.

So “free” education plus an additional week off plus 200 annual hours of less work. Costing €45k per year.

In a work week, let’s say in Germany it’s 38 hours. So that week of extra vacation, plus the 200 extra annual hours, we have 238 extra hours of work. Not counting “free” university that means that extra time off costs you €189 per hour. Let’s say that a typical US state university costs €60k for 4 years. That represents about 315 hours of work (at the €189 per hour rate.) Which means that in just 2 years or less, the salary differential would pay for your university education. After that expense, then, for the rest of your career, you are essentially paying €189 per hour of extra time you get as a bonus for working in Germany.

Taxes are excluded from this calculation, but while they are higher in Germany, you get more “stuff,” so it balances out on the tax side reasonably well. However, something that is relevant is that the cost of consumer goods is higher in Germany, so your disposable income is going to be less than the US.

I am not saying Germany is “bad” — a great place to live, but in pure economic terms, you are definitely worse off by comparison to a similar job in the US.
That presumably includes the transportation and electricity (probably not transportation to the point of sale after manufacture, but that emits even less CO2 according to the article). Remember, we're talking about small, light, high-value goods; transportation isn't going to be a big problem here, compared to say 1kg of beef.
IIRC lifetime ratings on aircraft are most heavily based on the number of pressure cycles the airframe receives, i.e. the number of flights it does, not the length of time it spends in the air or its age. So being able to do twice as many flights in the same time just shortens the lifetime of the aircraft.
Because then you can’t plug in the device and have it sync automatically. It’s a security/convenience trade off.

By the way they don’t use the same pins as USB of course because they have their own connectors. And disabling access to the audio dongle while the device is locked wouldn’t make sense.
No, you just become tied to Google. You can't reimplement Duplex yourself without reimplementing both their API and their voice recognition verbatim, and the best way to do that is to simply use their product.
Is 3D printing a humanitarian technology?
That's the beauty and power of the Android ecosystem. You aren't forced to buy an expensive "flagship" phone which makes it (and smartphones) accessible to many more people. While we all wish manufacturers would support their low end devices for years, it just doesn't make economic sense.

That being said, there are plenty of mid-range and even high-end Android devices that are left out to rot. Samsung and Google are the "winners" here.
Why should your controllers be thin? (Addendum)
Long-time "sniper in mahwah" follower here. The author is without the slightest doubt an elite tech reporter with in-depth understanding of RF tech. He always provides an overwhelming body of evidence to back his writing.
Yes it’s definitely being used in production. We’re starting to collect production use cases and will provide some on our website soon. Here’s an example website with growing traffic using MariaDB + Dynimizer with Wordpress, and they found Dynimizer very helpful: https://www.cgmagonline.com

In terms of innacurate reads or corrupted writes, that would be a bug if it ever happens. That would not be part of normal operation and would not be expected. That said, all software including MySQL, gcc, and Linux are full of bugs and Dynimizer is not immune to that of course. However it has been stress tested thoroughly with MySQL, MariaDB, and Percona Server up to MySQL 5.7, MariaDB 10.2.
The Facebook Web site still works fine.
It may well be signals going over the stream... or significant movements only.
and France to Quebec..
I didn't knew Recruit is the parent company of Indeed, it makes more sense now. I see your start up is Zippia. It looks to me that it's a good looking indeed :) and seems you are doing well, Congrats on that.

I did a small start up in this space sometime back and super interested in everything recruiting, would you mind if I reach out with few questions?