skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could never read through the passage about the arrival of the daishiki chieftain and his entourage at San Francisco City Hall without getting a side stitch, teary eyes, and a runny nose from laughing out loud.

I disliked "Bonfire of the Vanities" because it was clear to me that Wolfe had fallen into self-plagiarism. It felt to me that the same fate befell Hunter Thompson and Kurt Vonnegut. It didn't take away the pleasure of reading their earlier works, but prompted me to look for different voices.
Living in a that city prides itself on being "slightly less corrupt than Cleveland", I can guarantee you that no corrupt local politician would ever support this. They can't even regulate dogs on restauraunt patios without the state having to come in due to excessive bribery
I really enjoyed this post, the author seems passionate and really happy to have achieved their dream
Am I the only one who sees this and wishes Microsoft was still doing something in the phone space?
Well turning the desert green may have an impact on the global ecosystem of the planet at least as far as local species go.

If that isn’t a problem for you then sure go a head.

Mars would require us to solves many more problems which can be then used to solve problems here on earth sometimes a bigger challenge is required to push for a breakthrough.

But if we go about geoegineering then I rather terraform mars which by all accounts is a dead planet than terraform the less livable places on earth as they are a host to their unique life forms.
i don't get what you are talking about. please explain what the problem is with the victorian idea of progress (with or without scare quotes. And what do you mean by that, including evolution. besides christianity taking over religious thought in roman society, what does original sin have to do with that, just the philosophical impact?
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>Do you think Trump played no part in negotiating peace between the Koreas? No president has been able to accomplish that in 53 years...

That's exactly what I think. I can't begin to fathom why anyone would think that he does. Because of the ridiculous tweets?

The obvious reason for the increased discussions between North and South Korea is that China has been less and less supportive of North Korea - a trend that started long before Trump took office - and Kim Jung Un isn't an idiot. Without China's support, North Korea ceases to exist. The only way for Kim Jung Un to survive with any measure of power is to make nice with the South.

Trump has absolutely nothing to do with it.
Tesla Model S Driver Says Autopilot Was on Before Crash into Firetruck: Police
The complexity of the case is overlooked in the summary. At issue there was the extent to which foster parents are obligated to support the cultural and religous practices of the legal/biological parents who the children are intended to be reunited with. As with all common law in history, at the borders between clearly right and clearly wrong is a fuzzy area that is addressed messily over time, since it's impossible to know the correct answer for every case in advance.

The problem here was an overzealous case worker -- which is a real issue that needs to be addressed, as you say. And it was addressed by the final ruling, sending a message to future case workers -- not an incorrect law about parenting responsibilities. Making a judgment about the merits of an investigation before the investigation means that you need to decide to not investigate anything.

How often do case workers inappropriately cancel a foster-care arrangement, vs how often to foster parents actually harm foster children?
Completely silent and zero time boot are the two features I still miss from my C64. The only thing that came close in the meantime was my Palm III, but it wasn't a desktop computer. To be fair I rarely boot a device (be it mobile or notebook) nowadays, but still..
This is great news for GraphQL adoption. I also really like the landing page design
You'll never be able to trust a candidate who lies.

Blatantly lying to a potential employer will never work out well in the long run. Just don't do it.

Programmers are lucky in that they can take code they've written, and say "see, here's my proof that I can do the job".Other types of jobs (like sales), however, are reputation based, and you damn well better make sure the opinion of the person who is vouching for your candidate is legitimate.
And actually had a net worth in the billions.

Two traits Trump does not share with Escobar.
I partially agree, but at the same time there is a certain level of cargo culting going on in tech hiring, and if you didn't work at the right places or get the right degree from the right school, the deck is stacked against you even if you are fully capable of doing the job.
> president of the US. Must be pretty good at negotiating

My understanding is that Paul Manafort, Donald Jr, etc are the ones who did most of the negotiating with Natalia Veselnitskaya.
> I fully expect the blockchain to revolutionize the delivery of government services the same way Bitcoin will revolutionize grocery shopping, and the same way Etherium will revolutionize legal contracts.

Through what technical mechanism? Or to rephase how does a distributed ledger help you shop for groceries or government services? Because without the distributed ledger, there's no blockchain.

Frankly who is even signing the ledger? If there's only two interested parties, why would third parties agree to literally burn money/electricity signing the ledger to verify?
The idea that some people support policies they openly claim to support falls pretty far short of a conspiracy theory.
> Russia is fading away and fast.

How can you say that? They have more active nuclear warheads than U. S., plenty to overwhelm any current AB system. Do you count on the AB system getting better so as to eliminate MAD?
Yeah. I’m honestly not sure how well a newbie read from a space of 30 years who knows Lille of eighties NYC would stand up. But, from my perspective as someone who lived briefly in 80s Manhattan, it’s his novel that really captures a time and place.
The post mentions that there's work ongoing to make this available in languages other than English. If you'd like to help contribute a language, there's a discussion thread available with 20 languages under development so far - we'd love to have more folks join us: http://forums.fast.ai/t/language-model-zoo-gorilla/14623
Pardon, I have a weak ability to detect sarcasm before finishing my first coffee. I fully agree that p-value limits are arbitrary, and what one is examining can greatly impact the interpretation of 'significance' or not. As you imply, data can be inflationary , incrementally increasing in volume and decreasing in value.
This works better in an IDE than if you interact with the compiler directly. If you look at the compiler output directly the false positive drown out the actual errors so it is hard to find out what you need to fix. But in an IDE the false positives just become red squiggly lines further down the file, and don't obfuscate the important red squigglys at the top.
The stuff about "purity" seems a bit much to me, but they are probably right that the increase in demand for wine has led to the industrialization of its production and homogenization of the result.
Google blocks standard SMTP ports
When IoT Meets Agriculture: The AGRIOT LAB Technology-Transfer Initiative
The NFL would rather do anything than actually enforce the steroid policy
Separating and then reconstituting the wine is the part I would personally draw the line at. Maybe it's fine. Maybe they're grossly altering the wine in a way that negates e.g. health benefits, and it's not "wine" in the sense that consumers understand it to be.

More generally, I think people are just tired of producers fucking around with their food in various ways.
How does this impact the use of git? I see small teams may use in order to streamline the workflow and without the need of a nightmare git flow.
Just replace them after every series[1], that way while the offense is coming off the field they are getting their helmets swapped out and the defense is going in with fresh helmets, rinse/repeat.

[1] A series being after the offenses/defenses swap out, this could be as little as one play, but rarely more than 15-18 and I would guess on average about 8 or 9.

Edit: grammar
You mean Exchange Arbitrage? There's already a 20 something kid doing this and claims to be making millions in profits.[1]. Asian exchanges typically have slightly higher prices than US and European exchanges. They also react a lot worse to bad news and go lower than in US, European exchanges.

[1] Source: Stefan Qin, Virgil Capital founder on CNBC - https://www.cnbc.com/video/2018/02/27/one-hedge-fund-manager...
Nice, but it won't work with higher end parts like Vega 56. They are just way too hot by design.

There was also some ready solution like this, that used heat dissipation through the walls of the case: https://airtop-pc.com/airtop/natural-airflow-technology/
Yet if you sit in one you hear the blood pumping through your ears so it's reasonable to use human perception as a baseline when that's what they care about.
I've always found this deeply disturbing. By not putting his assets into a blind trust, Donald Trump made it easy for foreign governments to create the appearance of impropriety. This suggests that he may not fully grasp how dangerous it is to give someone the power to blackmail you.

Anyone in public service should understand this, though clearly Trump isn't alone on this one.
Heavily biased question: Does this sort of matching work out for founders?

I'm curious because I would only consider starting a company with someone I knew personally and was quite sure I could work with.

Still, I realize I'm risk-averse in some ways and willing to admit maybe I'm being a bit stodgy here.
I realize that, I just wanted to drive the traffic to the original source rather than to some weirdo who uploaded a copy.
That's moving the goalposts from "lucky", to "talented, connected, and lucky", which is a huge move.

Building a massive business is not something that anyone has the same "lottery ticket" chance to do successfully, even if given the same connections and support Bezos had.
The Road to Killer AI: ML and Blockchain and IOT and Drones == Skynet?
How we're making Newton secure
I considered a fanless PSU when I bought my current set-up, but at least back then I didn't find them cost-effective: for a cheaper price I could buy a higher-rated, at least as efficient model from the same manufacturer, and even though it has a fan, it is equally not making any noise in most use cases because it's not running. (I've never bothered to find out when it turns on; later on I added an external GPU to my case, and when its fans start -- not in desktop use -- you can't hear the PSU fan anyway, although I certainly wouldn't mind it running when the case temperature goes up, which it certainly does in certain use.)

Speaking of silent computing; unfortunately my monitor is "louder" than my PC in desktop use for most brightness levels. Anyway, personally I've given up the goal of doing a solid-state PC; a single fan chosen correctly in a case is virtually silent and makes the cooling design much easier; in my experience most PSUs and GPUs produce similar amounts of noise even without fans (and with bad luck, they can be worse).
It's not like everybody bought the same monitor back then. The hardware was all over the place quality wise. A lot of the hardware back then was really bad unless you were willing to pay literally thousands of dollars for a system too. You could definitely get smearing from too-long VGA cables or shitty controller boards or just hardware getting old and falling out of spec.

So the guy that had the honest to god IBM PS/2 that cost $10k thinks all of these artifacts are anachronisms, while the guy with the bargain basement hand-me-down Packard Bell thinks it looks perfect.
They weren't vulnerable to Meltdown, only Spectre. The author expands on what happened to his particular PC in the comments.
Ancient Rome’s Collapse Is Written into Arctic Ice
Those people would almost certainly been targeted by manned jets. The US still sends out tons of manned combat missions (as many as 20 sorties a day from a single carrier according to this article: https://news.usni.org/2018/03/19/u-s-evolving-middle-east-op...)
Just to put the Kin in context, they appeared to only have sold about 500 units [1] total. That's far below the typical absolute volume of users abandoned in most end-of-life scenarios. Microsoft's commitment to support is much longer than most similar tech lifecycles.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-only-sold-503-kin-p...
In the modern era, people bemoan that officials are extra protective of quarterbacks relative to previous generations due to and specifically for Tom Brady. Common refrain, right?

But the thing is: they still watch. Yeah, there'd be calls of it being "soft" or "these guys couldn't play with the greats from yesteryear" or the like as there are now, but they'd still watch. The second biggest sport in the US that I can think of (could very well be wrong) is the NBA and it isn't really known for violence being beneficial to the players/game (after the 90s, a lot of what would fly before stopped). Yeah, there are flops or drawing flags by intentionally getting into a play, but it seems the preferred method to force fouls at the end of the game isn't to blindside your opponent but to draw the ref's attention and hold/grab the opposing player.

I was a bit bummed with the "boycott" over the knee taking as I had actually stopped watching around the same time due to all of the CTE research that came out around the same time. Hated the feeling that somehow me not watching due to that was going to get tallied in with people who are anti-protest. I do think if they could solve this problem (CTE), I'd be game to watch again, but I honestly think it isn't solvable.
The journalists and editors have their own agenda. They used to manipulate the public so easily. Today news is democratized. Everyone publishes news, google, FB, twitter are just platforms. They don't discriminate against anyone.
Interesting - moving from one fund of theirs to another. I'm sure they'll have to do a lot of careful work on pricing the transfer.
What does X% was found and flagged before anyone reported it mean? If they removed the content before anyone reported it, how do they know it was an actual violation? Does everything get passed through a human reviewer? Otherwise, are they doing something like “number of things flagged by system” / (“number of things flagged by system” + “number of things flagged by humans, not flagged by system”)? I’d like to assume they’re not doing something so egregious, in which they could trumpet 100% accurate classification by simply classifying all content as violations. More likely they have some statistical confidence from human validations of the false positive/false negative rate of their model, but without that breakdown the data they’re providing does not address concerns about Facebook’s systems being biased towards censorship and false positives. Anecdotally supported by a couple recent public incidents, and in conjunction with the lock-down of API functionality signals a turning point towards a new era of cautiousness and conservatism for Facebook...
I imagine these actions are the logical conclusion of someone who can pass an interview but doesn't have the credentials to get their foot in the door interview.

The tech industry has a similar problem in over relying on the school you've graduated from to filter out candidates.
Maybe the author should evaluate _why_ they got catfished.

Recruiting processes are so convoluted and hard to break through, that someone who apparently otherwise would have been a great candidate, had to lie to get an interview. Was a good candidate really only one that had worked at the managers previous employer?

How many great candidates are companies missing out on because of arbitrary filters?
Cobol, Fortran 77, ANSI C and stuff like that lasted a long time -- but they didn't have batteries-included standard libraries, and there was no expectation that they would be maintained against things such as security threats. That just wasn't part of the design of a programming language at the time.

(Can a classic programming language specification have a security hole? Absolutely. Consider the case of gets() from C.)
True, I do tend to see all "crypto" as Bitcoin. Probably because the only use case for me was riding the speculative wave before it started to fall and stagnate
I am not a vet but I escaped being a terrorist attack victim in Israel when I fortunately stepped into a store just a moment before the attack.

I do know many Israelis and almost all of them are required to serve in the military. One person I know shot a terrorist who targeted a bus with a machine gun.

I know many Israelis work for firms such as Google and I wonder how many of them feel that we shouldn't be developing technology to defend American troops.

Unlike in Israel, much of military service in the US can be a class issue -- many go into the military to pay for a college education. It might truly be ironic and sad if Israelis were more interested in saving American military lives than Americans are.

We owe it to our fellow Americans in the military to develop our great American technology to help protect them. Perhaps those that disagree should spend some time with combat troops overseas, but of course that isn't possible.
There are always peltier units, but horribly inefficient...
Hear hear.

I run a few small web sites, and in the past few years have gotten zero calls from devops types calling about a problem, and dozens, if not hundreds, of telemarketing calls, to a number that is only listed on my whois data.
The Slow Death of Internet Explorer and the Future of Progressive Enhancement
Sexism: A New Desire for Refugee Porn
Wine from concentrate. Blergh. Give me that not quite fully fermented homemade wine from wild grapes any day.
My computer is completely silent. (It's an iPad.)
Your agreement of the observation contains orders of magnitude fewer bits of information than the original object, or even the original image. If you look at an image and agree that you see "a cat" and someone next to you agrees that they see "a cat", you've compressed megabytes of data down into what is somewhere around 20-30 bits, tops. (I'm being generous with the bit count. "a cat" is realistically probably low teens, tops.)

This isn't a criticism of your point per se, because it is just the way things are. But it's relevant in this case, because we can see this sort of enhancement as something like taking "a cat" (the low light, low-information image), and presenting something to us that looks like an high-information image. Although it is not spanning anywhere that many bits in the process; this is a much more gentle enhancement.

But it is in some sense a quantitative difference rather than a qualitative one. There's a whole lot of interpolation and compression an re-expansions of the compressed data going on all over the place in the visual space. This algorithm doesn't strike me as a significant change in that space versus what brains are already doing. But it is something to keep an eye out on, as computer vision continues to improve in its ability to plausibly fill in data. I can see a world coming where you can feed an algorithm a 2x2 24-bit color picture and it'll "enhance" it into some perfectly plausible picture. And if you change one of the pixel inputs by one, some completely different plausible picture.
>People will buy another company's socks and screwdrivers, because they are all pretty much the same

This sounds like someone who has never experienced the difference between a pack of the cheapest socks Walmart has to offer and some nice hiking socks from REI.

Or someone who has never experienced the difference between whatever screwdriver Harbor Freight sells, and a nice ratcheting, magnetic screw driver with swappable bits and a built in light.
Just wait a little longer before making a judgment. Some noise from coils and capacitors might start to emerge during heavy load.
Tesla is absolutely not the only game in town, they're just the coolest. They're the market leader in the US, but they aren't shipping substantial numbers of vehicles in Europe or China, which are much bigger EV markets. The Chevrolet Bolt and 2018 Nissan Leaf are serious competitors to the Model 3.
I'm glad someone made this comment. It blows me away when people think their set of values is the only "right" way to think and anyone else who has a different set of values is obviously damaged or doing it unwillingly.
Love that! Would really like to have one for me too. You don't by chance want to offer hosting those as a service, do you? :)
As I have been growing up and reading about space exploration the narrative had been same: the Earth is special because it has water which allows it to have life. Today it seems like the latest technologies allows us to discover that water in some form is everywhere we look. I believe that it will be the same with life. Today the only known form of life is on Earth and I can’t wait to read about all the discoveries of different forms of life on other planets...
Yup. Brooklyn has become a genuine hub and destination for engineering talent interested in working on blockchain stuff.

I'm pretty sure the whole blockchain thing as a category is a bubble at best and mostly scams at worst, but that still doesn't stop this general trend from likely having positive consequences for the area longterm.
If this tunnel is working using the "skateboard" concept then you'll need a certain number of those on hand, plus some kind of turn-around system to get people on and off of them. Unless you had a massive staging and unloading area, 12 vehicles per minute is completely impossible.

I think your low-end estimate is much more reasonable.

I also think if people are manually driving cars it's only a matter of months until there's a spectacular crash in the tunnel because some idiot thought they could drive up the wall at speed or something.
Lots, actually: https://geizhals.eu/?cat=gehps&xf=363_passiv+(l%FCfterlos)%7...
> it's just an unprincipled dumping ground

This is not the case, and I don't appreciate you disparaging others' hard work like this.

The reference is accurate, but not complete. Anything inaccurate is a bug, and if they're found, we fix them like any other.
Amazon threatens to move jobs out of Seattle over new tax
SF DA & Code for America partner to automatically clear marijuana convictions
I hope the author knows that you don't need a backdoor reference check to confirm past employment.
That said, sexual harassment in the workplace is an "our vision of society" type of problem.

Please elaborate.
The owner’s word weighs a ton
Hand washing does not get dishes as clean. 70+C Water is useful in this context as it kills off bacteria which can help cut down on disease transmission.