skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was going to make a comment about the a380's efficiency, that it had a very low carbon emission per passenger-mile, but....

>>> Throwing the loss-making program a lifeline for a decade, Emirates recently ordered up to 36 more A380s and set out plans on Tuesday to install 56 Premium Economy seats.

Ya. If it is going to live on as a luxury liner, its upper deck wasted on a handfull of seats, it is an environmental nightmare.
You have just found out what Soviet 112th series apartments were.
Small addendum: Big companies are big.

I didn't see the actual email chain (raw wasn't published?), but at Google-size it's conceivable there wasn't company-wide exec awareness of the details.

That's how big organizations operate.
Looks interesting. I applaud them for their work.

However, they look like they are going to be going toe to toe with Google's Wavenet. Their demos seem a generation behind Wavenet.

I wonder what is their value proposition going to be.
Why World War 1 matters more today than World War 2
Ask HN: Which companies have the best engineering culture?
What do you like so much about them?
I honestly refer to this whenever I want to automate a task:

https://xkcd.com/1205/
Sorry, "quod videt", I should just write "see also"
> end-users ... are engaged in this!

Bullshit.
This is the struggle and the reality of the competition. You have CTCI and leecode on top of that. Plus, to stand out with recruiters, you also want to contribute to open source code and/or have side projects. All of this on top of full-time school and a part-time job was extremely overwhelming. Now that I'm working full-time it's much more manageable.

Also, luck is hugely important during the interview process of your interviewer and the questions you get.
> You can't ask a chatbot what its options are.

then it's a really bad one.
That's the kind of amazing emergent use cases that you get by sticking to known, old technologies and not doing anything supposedly clever.
> Depression has nothing to do with how "good" your life is on paper.

Says who? Maybe if we put everything on that paper the scale would visibly tip but it may be the case that if we could perceive those things as they are such that they could be written down it would exclude the problem's sticking power.

By the way we should also confirm it was really depression.
If you want to be cool, write Go. If you want to make money, write PHP.
> Being sad and unhappy is natural...

And is not an accurate description of depression.

If you think depressed people are just sad/unhappy - please read more on this debilitating disorder.
Managing Product Managers
In respect of some of the comments elsewhere saying that the person would probably have been better off just doing the damn job, XKCD has, of course, got there first.

https://xkcd.com/1205/

https://xkcd.com/1319/

I reference these regularly to keep me on track doing things that actually matter, rather than tinkering endlessly to save me having to do things that are less interesting, but would take less time.
And also this for the lulz

https://xkcd.com/1319/
There's lots of tech journalism that has fun pointing out how hilariously bad speech interfaces are.
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Here is at least one data point regarding a suicide that was probably not mentally ill: http://martin-manley.eprci.com - It's a fascinating story and first-hand account.
In this scenario is AirBnB shorthand for all short term rentals or specific to that company? Meaning could I do AirBnB for 90 days and VRBO for 90 days or are they combined?
I was hoping this would be able people no longer judging others or feeling judged about their hair. No such luck.
And how do you get enough substrates, plus how expensive and energy intensive they are?
Emirates needs the A380. Its airport exists as an East-West hub. The modern trend, running long-and-skinny direct routes, cuts Dubai out. (Instead of Paris --> Dubai --> Delhi, one can now just fly Paris --> Delhi.)
Are you implying PHP devs are earning more than Go devs?
It's interesting that Europeans also went live with the Concorde, another 'consortium' product whose technology hype did not match the economics.

To be fair other Airbus models like the A32x line have been phenomenally successful.
it's a statement of opinion- "It seems, to me"

Happy to explore this with you further.
What exactly is the mental illness?
How is it being identified, how is it being measured?

I'm against vaccines, as you presumed, as I've personally seen resulting correlations to increased occurrence of Autism, and [lesser] conditions of peanut allergies and gluten intolerance.
There may be elements in vaccines become unintentional casualty to the body being trained to reject what we are intending for it so classify as foreign, to fight. There's observable overall increases in these conditions from those who've been vaccinated.
We haven't been able to isolate for these yet. I believe we haven't investigated enough. Or perhaps they're not related... but it's my hypothesis.

We don't have ENOUGH information to draw conclusions for MANY things, these observations are merely mine and are thus my opinions.

I recommend everyone does their own research and make their own decisions.
No it doesn't. To use an analogy, renting is more like leasing a car on a several year plan, whereas AirBnB is like renting a car for 3 days.

The rates are very dissimilar, for a number of reasons. Same goes for longer-term rentals vs AirBnB.
ScreenTalk – Limitless Talkback Chrome Extension
Thank you, you just re-enforced my point; I've been using Linux seriously for about a year now, and I didn't know about 'apropos'. Bash never mentioned it whenever I got stuck, and my learning travels on the internet has never referenced it.
Agreed on two stocks and such a large percentage. It's an easy way to lose money, quick. Same indexed fund strategy here. It's not sexy, but it consistently has a positive net.
What about opening the window shades before flights land / take off ?
I thought it was for the firefighters to see inside during an emergency. Or was it not ?
The compiler and standard are both full of contradictory, useless, and counter-productive rules on aliasing. But both gcc and clang now support _may_alias_ and -fno-strict-aliasing without which they would have made the language completely unusable.
Click on My PC. The answer is there on the disk icons.

But then again, why wouldn't the Linux guy search google in the first place?

Or if it is a total newbie, look for the disk icons, the information is there as well.
>We can translate spoken words to text strings pretty reliably. AFAIK, we can do this locally without much processing power, but I may be mistaken.

Cloud services backed by big data sets tend to be better although I admit I haven't tried a local copy of Dragon Naturally Speaking for a long time.

In any case, at least assuming fairly mainstream American/English accents, the voice recognition isn't really the problem any longer. Sophisticated NLP and responses are. We're a long way from virtual assistants that can do anything sophisticated.
I agree with everything you've said, and I feel really badly for how tech's dark patterns, crappy UX, and removal of humanity have treated the elderly.

Even non tech items like opening a bag of chips or box of crackers. I estimate that some packaging must require 40+ lbs to open. And I think of the "how it's made" show and how advanced manufacturing plants are. So they use all this tech to make a box of crackers as cheaply as possible, they have cameras fast enough to find and remove a single dark grain of rice in a torrential stream, but put zero thought into the UX experience and how the user can open the box.

It sounds like the simplest "tech fix" for this phone menu is once their account is found,

if (age > 60 )
sendToPerson ();

Furthermore, you could do "soft" account verification with their number. So if they call from a number that matches an elderly customer, just route it straight to a human, even though numbers can be spoofed it's not going to harm the customer to just assume it's them for that step only and fully verify their acct later.
In other words, paying customers
Note that mobile GUIs have often re-invented the "undiscoverable" interface, where things like swipe or long-press do things but it's not obvious where you can safely do them.
What is up with todays journalism? Long meandering stories where the meat (facts/news) is hidden or completely left out.

Does someone have a TLDR?
> It's interesting that Europeans also went live with the Concorde, another 'consortium' product whose technology hype did not match the economics

The Concorde was ahead of its time. Fun fact: the 747 was designed with its "hump" so it could be turned into a freighter once the Concorde's successors made it obsolete. The assumption was everyone would be flying supersonic by the new millennium. Unlike the A380, the Concorde was assumed to be a vision of the future.
Okay, but your post literally says "please advise in legal terms."
You can move to Berlin or Krakow. If you are a good developer, you'll be handsomely paid.

Also, it's trivial to move there for you since you are a EU citizen.
Just a few days ago, Japanese researchers announced major breakthrough in hair follicle replication and start of pre-clinical trials. [1] Can anyone more knowledgeable about the field dissect how viable this looks?

This is in addition to Shiseido/Replicel in Japan also doing clinical studies [2].

[1] http://www.organ-technol.co.jp/uploads/2018/06/98a3d5caabf1c...

[2] http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/replicels-cell-ther...
So, resource fork 2.0?
You're being downvoted because Hacker News really isn't the place to tell rambling, vaguely related anecdotes just for fun. Try Reddit for that. Otherwise, welcome!
I used to have this view; a more precise miliatary has fewer civilian casualties, and shortens wars, limiting overall destruction.

However, my mind was changed by the idea that if killing people is easy, and there is little risk to the operators of the equipment, it will be done all the more. Countries will go to war much less overall, if there are higher stakes. I like there being high stakes.
What about them should be trusted? The latest version of their OS is literally spy and adware, they've been using UWP and their store to try and lock developers into their walled systems, they have an exceedingly poor history of managing things they purchase, they haven't stopped trying to dominate computing with their products. And let's not forget the secureboot bullshit.

Just because they hire developers that have worked on open source projects, are seemingly more friendly towards open source by opening some of their code and saying everything will be fine really kind of means nothing. They haven't stopped Microsofting the fuck out of everything. I don't understand how it's gotten better at all. Windows 10 is more invasive and controlling than any shit that ever happened on any older version of windows.
So will BSD sockets follow OpenGL's path to deprecation?
More cushy jobs maintaining Java Monoliths, with better benefits and easier on the brain cause projects move so slow and are so inefficiently managed.
> The same process is almost certain to occur with React—it’s a good bet there will be a standardised equivalent to the virtual DOM at some point.

That makes no sense...
I'm not sure it's true that most people who kill themselves suffer from clinical depression (diagnosed or undiagnosed).
A colleague of mine worked on the automated call center systems in the early 80s. The fastest way to get to a human is to cuss it out. This has worked for almost every system I’ve worked with so far (not sure if they’re using the same underlying software or if this behavior has been ported over). I only opt for this trick when I have no idea where to go given the menu read out to me because I like to think that support menu systems are designed to make it easier to navigate an organization’s own bureaucracy primarily, not necessarily to help me with my issues.
This is an OS/2 vs. DOS argument. Doesn't matter if they have superior technology if nobody uses it.
Korean has some unusual consonants that are difficult to hear by non-Korean speakers but have an interesting representation in Hangul (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul)

The non-aspirated consonant ㅈ at the beginning of a syllable is pronounced more or less like an English 'j'. But in Korean there's a "tense" version of many of these consonants that are pronounced with more emphases. These are represented by writing the non-aspirated consonant twice. So ㅈ becomes ㅉ which transliterates to "jj".

The aspirated forms are also slightly different -- for ㅈ the aspirated form is ㅊ and pronounced more or less like the English "ch".

Korean consonants take on different pronunciations at the end of syllables and can modify in the middle or words and that's more complicated.

The nice part is that this means that you really only have to learn about 8 "core" consonants and then how they modify for each case and position. Korean vowels also have a similarly compact, easy to learn system that's different from the consonants -- there's only 5 "core" ones. It means you only have to really memorize about 11 symbols and their modified and combined forms to read and write. It takes about a week for the average non Korean speaking adult to be able to become basically literate in Korean Hangul!

Here's a list of the consonants that follow this rule (in the initial syllabic position) if you're interested:

Non-aspirated, stressed, aspirated

ㄱ - g - ㄲ - gg - ㅋ - k

ㄷ - d - ㄸ - dd - ㅌ - t

ㅂ - b - ㅃ - bb - ㅍ - p

ㅅ - s - ㅆ - ss - NA

ㄹ - r/l - NA - NA

ㅁ - m - NA - NA

ㅇ - 'nothing' - NA - ㅎ - h

ㅈ - j - ㅉ - jj - ㅊ - ch
That's a neat application for this. Don't use it as a live data store, but as a (much) better way to embed and access static assets and default data, maybe even embed the default schema for a new installation where it copies the data to a normal writable file on first run.

Many binaries are signed, and just having data appended to them arbitrarily would break signatures. But if it's only used for static data anyways that wouldn't be a problem.
For long term:
I put $500/week into a total international stock fund (VTIAX.)
I put another $500/week into a growth index fund (VIGAX.)

For short term, I have about 30 stocks I play around with... I'm up about 20% so far this year.
It was solved a long time ago - just start taking 1mg of Propecia once a day as soon as you start to see the start of hair loss. Propecia will allow you to keep the hair you already have, well into your seventies - just ask Trump. There are even generics so it won't cost that much.
They remind me a lot of the user experience of text adventures that weren't very thoroughly playtested.

Except that with text adventures I was willing to overlook an obtuse parser if I was enjoying the game. I never call my bank just for the fun of it.
I don't speak for the parent (and I don't think the assertion is correct), but I will say that PHP jobs outside the valley are plentiful. A large percentage of those are legacy maintenance or development on unpleasant platforms such as WordPress or Magento, but there is still a lot of challenging and enjoyable work being done using PHP, and the improvements to the language over the last few years have made many of the old arguments against the language obsolete.
I think one could make a plausible argument for an expansionist reading of press freedom that would cover this case.
I worked at an ISP years ago and they had a chatbot which prevented a lot of support calls, therefore saved a lot of money.

And there was no AI, ML or anything, just basic database fulltext searches and tree-based questions and answers.
Further, Windows will pop up a notification that your disk space is running low, and this opens another window with suggestions for different types of files (temporary update files, temporary internet files, recycle bin, installed programs) that can be removed to release space.
I'm partly lazy, partly uninterested, and the rest completely uninformed about what I ought to do — most people I know either don't have any money to spare, or work for the public sector where the salary is lower but the eventual pension very good.

So the result is I have far too much money as cash in the bank.
If it's a one time task then there is no need for a script, but if you have to do it again and again then it's very much worth it to write a script.
A thousand dollars a week?!
yes. its implemented:

--allow-unrelated-histories

By default, git merge command refuses to merge histories
that do not share a common ancestor. This option can be
used to override this safety when merging histories of
two projects that started their lives independently. As
that is a very rare occasion, no configuration variable
to enable this by default exists and will not be added.
What I don't get, as an outsider, is how these chat clients don't seem to change over time in any kind of progressive direction.

It seems that products like AIM, ICQ, Facebook Messenger, Skype, cuseeme, etc. go through this lifecycle of (a) reaching MVP status, (b) stagnation, (c) deterioration and (d) people jumping ship to some other product at stage (a).

The new product seems better than the deteriorated old product but doesn't seem better than I remember the old product being back when it was at stage(a). Why?
It’s a real head-scratcher. But this strand of research might be at the root of a solution.
It does have some nasty side effects though..
After Aol bought time warner and the dotcom crash happened, time warner basically cut the team down to the bone. There were a handful of people working on it when I was at aol. Their big monetization play was selling enterprise AIM to a few brokerages on wall street.

AIM could have been facebook, it could have been slack, or skype. The management was just incredibly short sighted and couldn't figure out how to make money from it.
Gene Roddenberry was asked by a reporter about casting Patrick Stewart in Star Trek: TNG. "Surely by the 24th century, they would have found a cure for male pattern baldness." And Gene Roddenberry responded "No, by the 24th century, no one will care."
Most dev jobs are still normal 8-5 jobs though... And pretty much none of my coworkers has an active github with breathtaking projects. I think we are in a bubble on those online communities here (online / startup / SV).
In most cases, depression isn't an illness, it's a result of life circumstances and the way you think. Think of it like obesity - it's a mismatch between ancient genes and the modern environment. The genes are fine, the environment we've created is what's fucked.

There are cases of depression that result from health issues, but these definitely aren't the majority. This is just a hypothesis society has put forth to avoid taking a long hard look at itself.
For the record, people absolutely complain about tutorials in video games. The best tutorials aren't tutorials at all. Instead, the game gradually teaches you how to play without explicitly teaching you how to play.

Obviously, that task is extremely difficult so a lot of games instead opt for the tutorial.
So make getting to an agent at least as difficult as figuring out the web interface?
Protip: use piles
New Yorker isn't typical journalism in that they focus more on long-form think pieces.

Getting a TLDR of a New Yorker piece kind of defeats the purpose.
> very stupid person who has no idea what's doing but has a booklet in possession

When Siri first hit the Iphone and I was trying to figure out if it was useful for me (no), I named my phone Searle[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room#Chinese_room_thou...
You are so right from a business standpoint. But what about personal development? This is one of the ways developers are born. Sure the first one or ten attempts to automate something might be a net loss to the business, but eventually that junior employee has leveled up their programming skills and developed an estimating sense of when to automate and when to suck it up. It's easy to sit at our place of knowledge and tut at the beginers but we were all beginers once.
Show HN: Java Networking Library (Soon to have end-end encryption)
- JSON:
. Added JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR flag. (Andrea)

A blessed day, prior to this, json_decode would simply return null on error.
Collection of best practices for building high-end iOS applications
Trump Tariffs Are Just a Blip in the March of Free Trade
Propecia caused some pretty serious hormonal changes in my friend which persisted after stopping. Its apparently a known problem but still not labeled correctly. You can find many support groups across the internet with sufferers.
I've noticed that companies without IVR lines have switched from hold music to recordings that repeatedly list all the things you can handle online instead.

It's annoying when my issue isn't on the list, since I'll have to hear it 50 times. And it's incredibly aggravating when my issue is on the list, but the website doesn't actually work right. But it's not hard to understand why it happens.
That's true - I'm working on porting bindings for Dart.

... Because I hate Python, haha. Anyways, for the most part, I have to suck it up and just use Python.
Perhaps 100 windows at 10 kg per unit, so roughly one metric ton. The metal required to fill the holes will be quite light. LCD screens are light as well, but less so when you account for the long wires to drive them, plus other infrastructure. Still, you ought to be able to carry a few extra passengers by removing the windows.
LWN publishes regulator "kernel development statistics" which counts commits on a per-company basis and Oracle shows up consistently. Membership in the Linux Foundation seems entirely justified.
More and more men have embraced baldness, especially with beards being the facial focal point at the moment. If it can prove to be more than a fashion trend, perhaps going bald won't be seen as an "issue" as much as just another style of appearance.
Because it demonstrates a trade-off made for short term that causes long term suffering in others, especially loved ones. Dying does too, but if we make a reasonable effort to not die, then we are making a responsible effort to not hurt those who depend on us - if just due to having know us. It's promoting a generally bad fix, so should be looked down upon. Euthanasia is more benign I think.
Thank you for providing an example. It's not a "bunch" but still. Could you explain why did you use word "regrettably", is it a bad thing these projects exists?
In some men, propecia/finasteride caused erectile dysfunction. So I will never take this drug.
The bigger question which is still unaddressed is: with the growth in passenger traffic, will there be a return to hub and spoke, or can long and skinny win?

Even if the a380 is dead, food for thought: In 5-10 years we may have a 300 person 1 hr transport from sydney to New York by way of the BFR. That is hub and spoke
And then when you get to the representative, he proceeds to ask you the exact same questions.
ThoughtWorks is pretty cool for a lot of reasons.
DEX could be a good idea. However, I've tried something without success. In waves, for example, you can sell btc for USD tokens with good profit, but you can not extract them. When exchanging with other ctyptos there is no high volume, then I've found bid / ask prices with high spread.
I'm asking about salary ranges specifically.
Using an Ethereum Oracle