skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One implication for products, if this work pans out, is that the systems which "adapt to you" (learn your voice, your schedule, what your face looks like) won't have to change the weights of their network. I believe this could lead to much better systems because adjusting the weights of an already-deployed network is dangerous - you could make the system perform poorly. It's also simpler for engineers because you can scrap all that logic and just deploy one RL network.
It's not a matter of need, it's a matter of them being able to get them.
those both suppress word splitting too.
Most Microsoft employees are in Redmond, which already has employee taxes at $106.90/yr, or $0.056/hr for part-time work: http://psbm.net/licenses-taxes/redmond.html
Trump prepares to reopen CIA ‘black site’ prisons
It's mentioned quickly in passing, in a kind of "cover our bases" way. The article doesn't once mention Amazon Prime, which is crazy considering it's the obvious success story. But that's because the whole article is framed from a storage point of view, with a few meandering paragraphs tacked on about the future.

Case in point, the Hacker News title was renamed to be "more clear" to "Google is rebranding storage plans as 'Google One'", totally missing the point.
> There is no camera with digital sensor of 6x7 actual size

Well .. true, but mostly because that is a HUGE size for a digital sensor. The only "medium" format digital I'm familiar with is the pentax 645, it is smaller than that old film and yet still 50MP (!). The tech will only improve.

I wouldn't hold your breath for any sensor of the size of the old film you're talking about. There's a certain threshold above which there are diminishing returns. I suppose there are some cinema sensors being made at 70mm but they are very niche and ruinously expensive. My money might be on the 645 size becoming standard, and it's a reasonable one.

> not even real medium format

To be fair there is no "real" medium format. It basically means "bigger than 35mm".
To escape the lunacy of The Seattle City Council? How about Bellevue, Kirkland or Redmond? The industry in Vancouver is also steadily growing.

The council quite openly sees economic growth as the source of all it's problems, which they have mostly created for themselves. As they have no idea how to manage these problems, and as most of their attempts to do so have in fact made them worse, the only thing they can do to further shirk responsibility is to implement more taxes.

It's hard to see why a business today would plan to base itself in Seattle, or expand on operations there. If Amazon hadn't already completed so much of the construction on its latest building there, I can't imagine they'd be committing to finishing it. Which will all in turn make Seattle's problems even worse.
Agreed, I wouldn't want continual moaning, I'd like to hear about the problems they experienced, and have the knowledge that on a different platform/framework that would be better, but you'd give up something.
While true, there was a lot less plastic in the trash then.
Bill Protects Pool Owners from Low Prices
Probably because recruiting is a crapshoot numbers game. Emailing massive numbers of people is easy. They have pre-written templates, so the marginal time spent is minimal. Forwarding resumes along is easy as heck too. But customizing someone's entire resume? That doesn't scale. They would have to... you know... actually value you.
On the downside the site seems organized in such a way to SEO for Amazon link referrals and to drum up visibility of a vanity-published book series written and illustrated by her daughter.

Not that it isn't an accomplishment, but it feels... forced? And not in the way of someone inexperienced with web stuff and proud of their kid.

It has that auto-generated-from-the-previous-contents-of-the-expired-registration domain parking website feel.

Pages go on forever, disorganized navigation, boilerplate explanations duplicated everywhere, very little in the way of charts or tables or summaries, and most of the links about products go to Amazon.
If I knew I'd be moving there. The only thing keeping my friends and I in the bay area are each other and the lack of a clear alternative. If another locations starts to get serious traction I'd expect a phase transition.
"The street finds its own uses for things." -- William Gibson, Burning Chrome, 1982

I'd be curious to know if she worked this "trick" out on her own, or if there's hidden shared knowledge out there where she learned this from her peers?
Tweetdeck isn't third party
> It's funny how many things that seem kind of incredible for a pure bash solution, ...

My go to example of “Bash can do whaaat?!” is the source for xip.io. A custom DNS server written in a handful of lines of Bash!

https://github.com/basecamp/xip-pdns/blob/master/bin/xip-pdn...
As someone who has been working from home for the last 4 years, I couldn't disagree with you more.

More real work,

far fewer distractions,

5 second commute vs. 45-60 minutes each way.

That's just for starters.
US police chief was detained by Customs for 90 minutes
this is intentional, since you can store your regular expression in a variable:

$ a=BCD; b=.C.; [[ $a =~ $b ]]; echo $?; [[ $a =~ "$b" ]]; echo $?

otherwise, interpolating variables in regular expressions as text would require other syntax (more confusing).

also, "cat -" is redundant, use "cat". this behavior is specified by POSIX.
No reason to oversimplify and ignore a lot of important details — they're doing that for you!
https://theintercept.com/2017/09/28/signal-tutorial-second-p...
Is this somewhere a Bloom Filter (or similar probabilistic data structures) could be used to improve performance? From a quick survey of cryptographic hash functions something like BLAKE2 would serve your needs at ~4ops/byte. If you had a wide enough bloom filter you can turn your check, in most cases, into a binary &.

Just a thought. The author here obviously already knows what they're doing and has likely thought of this but I'd be interested in hearing why this ASM-optimized approach was chosen instead.
Google imposes a version of "a new metaphorical scheme" on every website owner and expects them all to adapt to it - it's hardly surprising they also expect human brains to adapt to suit them...

I mean it's not like anyone ever met an arrogant Googler, right?
> I suppose there is a difference between a language with a weakly typed core (where you cannot avoid the risks of weak typing without isolating the core), one with a strongly typed core that doesn't force user code to be strongly typed (where Python sits), and one that forced strong typing (which probably had to be static, as well).

Yeah, fwiw I do think that the distinction being made with javascript vs. python is meaningful, it just isn't really about the language per se, but rather the design of "built-in" functions, which often doen't need to be built in as far as their semantics are concerned.

In my comment to the sibling, reiterate the reference to julia/racket -- you could have a language feature that does dynamic checks at the call site. IIRC, Haskell's GHC has a flag to basically compile down any time errors to exceptions (I don't know that anybody uses it though).
Socioeconomic status linked to brain development
> don't forget those kids in school right now

People seem to have difficulty thinking about, and empathizing with, large numbers of people. The "one death is a tragedy, but ten thousand deaths is a statistic" observation. So it's a challenge to craft descriptions that provide some sense of scale, while retaining an emotional connection. Narrowing scope can help.
Oliver Stone, visiting Iran, calls US a global 'outlaw'
The real medium format is based on actual standard film size. 120 and 220. They are clearly defines and medium format starts from 6x6 as a square shape, and then goes beyond. Its clearly not just "bigger than 35mm", while its what Fuji wants you to believe.

as i mentioned there is a clear market for actual digital medium format using digital backs you can plug on old hasselblad or equivalent twin lenses models. So this is not fiction or something. And sensor size is not about pixels, you get a very different depth of field with medium and large format. thats is why we still use them.
I fired one of my biggest clients because they appointed an HR manager who cared most about things like whether or not the career history timeline perfectly lined up and left nothing unaccounted for - like really cared - would knock someone back after 3 tech interviews if there was a glitch in the resume.

I felt it was because she really had nothing tangible to contribute to the technical assessment process so felt she must do something.

I can tell you this - I'm not wasting my time recruiting for a company that does that sort of thing.

Why I point this out is that many of the things that these people say they want are things that are not really very important when trying to find very scarce technical talent, but such recruiting people are happy to throw away a great developer because some unimportant thing was not present.
Boston has a very active night life scene, as does Austin and SF... not sure why you think these are ghost towns at night
Video: In-Glass Fingerprint Sensor: Testing the Limits
I was recently reading about power factor correction and found out that "synchronous condensers", basically just large synchronous motors with no load, are sometimes used at utility scale for PFC and frequency stabilisation. Eg, here: http://www.think-grid.org/synchronous-condensers-better-grid...

Since it seems like the main source of stability in that system is the inertia in the rotor, would it be fair to describe it as a kind of flywheel? I didn't see anything about connecting an actual wheel to such a system, but it seems like it would be the same thing with more inertia, right?
Never-before-seen footage surfaces of Einstein driving a 'flying car'
unfortunately, zsh is installed on probably about 1% of Linux systems worldwide. maybe it can be installed almost anywhere, but the fact is it isn't, and you might as well use Python or something at that point.
"Working remotely has become very unfashionable in tech after many studies showed that remote employees are very inefficient."

Considering there was a story on the HN front page not even the other day showing exactly the opposite of what you're saying.....
Now I want one of those, with a stylised stab wound blood trickle dripping down from it.

I'll wear it loud and proud at the cafe that's always got Atlassian devs in it round the block from here...
US has been downgraded to a 'flawed democracy'
Today 1985 Police Bombed a Black Neighborhood Why Have So Many Never Heard of It
I waste time on IRC. The old internet didn't exactly leave so much as it retreated to its primordial media.

Fark, SA, and friends are still around. Slashdot is gutted.
Legal slavery was commonplace at the time the events described took place.
I think there's a few confounding factors.

One is that there's no infrastructure in a lot of these places. When you're in South Ease Asia, there's nowhere to put your rubbish, there's no rubbish bins, and there's no proper waste collection for street stalls, so your chuck your rubbish on the ground.

At least in the larger towns and cities in Vietnam, they have workers that tow around a big rubbish bin on wheels and collect the rubbish off the street, but in smaller villages, they just occasionally pile it up and burn it.

Lack of infrastructure is definitely a problem there.

But on the other hand, a lot of people just don't give a fuck. Maybe it's because the place is so dirty anyway. My friend was draining the petrol tank, and asked if there was anywhere he could dispose of the water contaminated petrol at the hostel or nearby. They just told him to tip it on the street. They were surprised that he wanted to find a better place to tip it where it wasn't just going to run all over the concrete, then into drains and the sea, not to mention the fire risk of dumping a couple of litres of petrol on the concrete.

I guess you get used to your surroundings. It's certainly not an ingrained culture thing that's peculiar to Asia; Singapore and Japan are both very clean, and I remember Kuala Lumpur being reasonably tidy too.
Google’s DeepMind is using neural nets to explore dopamine’s role in learning
Found the Atlassian UX guy... <smirk>
the idiomatic way:

if (( ${#array[@]} )); then
What if the novelty of the internet just wore off for you?

Just like the novelty of flying in the sky in a metal cage propelled by giant jet engines to far away lands has probably worn off.

Everything is magical, but even magic becomes mundane after a while.

Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8LaT5Iiwo4
U.S.-born NASA scientist says border agents made him turn over his phone
I once had some fraudulent charges made on a credit card I own. I was initially tipped off because a limo company sent a confirmation text to let me know they would be picking me up in Texas (I was in California). Interestingly, the text included an order number. I was able to use the order number to access the reservation holders personal info through their website. The personal info included a full name and the flight number of the flight they were taking, pick up address etc.

I was able to find the person, their place of work online based on the pick up location, which was their office.

I then realized that my credit card was also charged for a flight to SF. I used that info to call the airline and cancel the flight and cancel the limo after they had already checked-in. I was proud of myself, thinking that I taught this person a lesson. Now in hindsight, this person probably had no idea and that someone middle man was probably profiting off of the sale.
Isn't that inline with what I was saying?
NPR's article argues that tech today would not let this be swept under the rug like it was in 1985.

"The details are so extreme, so over-the-top," police told firefighters not to put out fires which burned down the neighborhood.' No one was charged, or even disciplined.
I prefer not to use implicit boolean conversions. It's also less readable.
But they have to stay in the bay/Seattle for the talent pool, by their own admission. I think the local government has a lot more power than they think. Which is wrong - the liberal livable areas attract talent, so companies flock to them, or the bottom line is more important so they should do it in a cheaper city? Seems like the former is winning by a mile in the past decade.
Official ‘outraged’ about charges after KC library arrests
Here's a video I made of my garbage, recycling, and composting: http://joshuaspodek.com/leadership-environment-podcast-5

Here are more posts on my evolving practices http://joshuaspodek.com/js_blogseries/avoiding-food-packagin....
That quote (from Amazon representatives) implies that revenue is non-linear to population -- but that expenses should be linear. I don't buy into that view. Especially in a "boom".
Memory transfer between snails challenges view of how brain remembers
Do you need it exactly, to know that it exists? What is the difference between two stars in the sky? Must you know the physical differences exactly to say they are different?
And it points out that bus would have been only a quarter of cost.
Traffic from Snoqualmie isn’t great either, nor are the homes a lot less expensive.

The east side is as expensive as Seattle.
Orwell's '1984' back as bestseller amid focus on 'alternative facts'
That sounds like a really bad idea. Pay the insurance, fine. That's a good idea actually. Instead of paying your insurance company, you pay the company that built the software for insurance. Then the software/insurance company pays for any damages caused by the car. The best software could offer the cheapest insurance.

But put developers in prison for 20 years because the car crashed, that's untenable. You wouldn't have decent standards, you just wouldn't have anything at all. What kind of developer would put themselves in that position? Everyone makes mistakes. All complicated software has bugs. You would only have software made by fools, and marketed by fools, that was much more dangerous.

If someone makes software that reduces accidents from 10% of drivers per year to 0.1%, they still cause 100,000 accidents a year in the USA, maybe a few thousand fatalities. Give them the electric chair right?

If you are going to punish them for the mistakes, will you reward them commensurately for success? For every life they save, can you give them a life?
> The test has to be better than the code it's testing.

Indeed.

The quote is intentionally taken out of context, but I’ve been treating this as a logical tautology for at least 10 years, and it has served me well.
It does however avoid screwing with the timeline order, and I find the column layout very convenient in most cases.
U.S. senator wants government to set airline seat-size rules
The initial length + unique character test allows us to negative match in a way that is effectively identical to a bloom filter.

If the initial negative match test indicates no match, then we can be certain there is not a match. Otherwise, we might have a match, and need to compare the candidate strings in more detail.

I can't imagine how hashing would help in either the fast-path negative match case, or the prefix match case. Hashing is sort of at odds with prefix matching, in my opinion.
Shame on Amazon for hiring so many people in the Seattle area with good paying jobs.

How dare people blame the poor and beleaguered city government for not solving the city’s mental health problem. Record tax revenues? It’s still not enough.

Seriously though, isn’t this the deal? Business brings in good paying jobs and pays taxes, city lays down the infrastructure to support commerce. With record tax revenues the city government isn’t holding up their end of the bargain.
I write about it a lot in my blog. Here's a collection of posts to start: http://joshuaspodek.com/js_blogseries/avoiding-food-packagin....
90% agree (homes don't look to cheap on the east side). I was recently team matching with google for the seattle area and my girlfriend and I were more interested in the kirkland office over fremont/soon to be SLU because of this.
According to WolframAlpha that 75 kWh over 5 minutes equals 900 kW or about the power developed by the most powerful road going car - Bugatti Veyron Super Sport.
Solr 7.3.1 released
Yes, obviously people still have personal sites, and obviously there are more raw personal sites. But for the average internet user and thus the modal exposure to the internet, it's become substantially more one-way, outside of the aforementioned centralized channels.
Utah gov. signs .05 DUI limit, strictest in US
My employer monitors tap in, tap out and break times too. It started with a "good intention" from the HR and middle management started exploiting it in no time.

Background:

There was a lot of new about a year or two ago how the Japanese government was starting to take initiatives to reduce the overtime culture here in Japan. We always had to tap in our security cards to enter the building and perhaps the timings were always recorded for security concerns. But, the HR announced that in an effort to reduce overtime culture, these times will be automatically entered in the attendance system and your boss would be notified if you worked for 8 hours or more. "Ideally" the boss should then reprimand you and overtime, we would become overtime-free culture to work in.

What really happened:

While there were emails being sent for every employee working more than 8 hours, the manager would just approve it. There was no practical use of the new system and nothing improved. Rather, my managers started getting access to all this data they never had direct access to before. Colleagues were being sent emails if their break times exceeded 5 minutes more than the stipulated 1 hour. Same for coming in at 9:04 instead of 9:00.
When a colleague back lashed, upper management threatened him by telling him they could also dig up his PC on/off/sleeptimes etc to give him significant paycuts.

The work culture was never worse.
Quite the opposite:
https://hbr.org/2017/11/a-study-of-1100-employees-found-that...
https://www.inc.com/farmers-insurance/do-these-3-things-to-f...
It's not redundant. Slavey was legal at the time, but these people in particular were illegally enslaved.
Show HN: Eve – Minimal Jekyll Template for Building Personal Portfolio Websites
Amnesty blames Trump, others in global rollback of rights
Meanwhile real estate prices have gone up 2-300% in the same timeframe, and they are building light rail to deal with the gridlock.
I grew up in a suburb of Detroit, and formed a slightly different view. What I remember is that even when there were mass layoffs, and a "for sale" sign in front of every other house on my street, there were senior auto workers putting in 60 hour weeks and collecting overtime, as was their right under the union rules.

Meanwhile, in some European countries (maybe Germany?) the unions were responding to the recession by cutting back on hours for everybody, to maintain broader employment. I remember thinking about 4 day work weeks.

The impression I formed was that the American unions were serving their narrow purpose of protecting members, especially senior members, but failing to serve as a "labor movement" with broader social goals, while taking credit for social gains of the past. It created a situation where many members of the working class believed that they were competing with the unions.
UPPING Your CREDIT
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The TSA should be cracking down on this not hassling innocent passengers at the airport
Jimmy Carter: US more like ‘oligarchy’ than ‘democracy’
They do see some use in games, where you have control over all the menu items. Long strings can break pie menu layout pretty badly, especially if you bring up the menu near the edge of the screen.
Yes, but that's an online protocol. The problem here is data at rest...
Going to Vancouver with its far higher taxes to protest a $20m tax on a $xxxbillion company seems like a poor idea to me. Local government need not grovel to those that take advantage of its amenities to attract talent.
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