skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are individuals incapable of making decisions on their own? Why shouldn’t the individual have the choice to drive or not drive as well as making decisions about their economic situation?

Nobody is forced to drive. Nobody is forced to work for less than they value their labor. Unionizing Uber means dramatically high prices, which means less demand. There isn’t a magic pot of money just waiting to be distributed. If comes from consumer pockets. If Uber gets more expensive, I’ll drive myself. So that guy that would have made $10, now makes zero because he thinks he deserves $20. So he is actually worse off now. Markets don’t work in a vacuum — there are substitutes and you can’t “fix” a problem without unintended consequences.

Let supply and demand work. Those that think they should earn more can quit and to sell their services to someone willing to pay their desired rates. If nobody will pay that desired rate, then it’s clear that the market doesn’t value that service that much.

Why is supply and demand so hard for people to understand? We oppose industrial monopolies, why would we advocate for labor monopolies via unions?
This isn't a commercial product or framework, it's Microsoft Research. They create many cutting-edge projects and do implement them internally in their own datacenters and services but they don't have the Google-like history of open-source clones based on the papers.

Velocity is the codename for the caching component of AppFabric, and AppFabric has evolved into Service Fabric, which now runs most of Microsoft's vast cloud services and has been recently open-sourced: https://github.com/Microsoft/service-fabric
If rates were 10%, the mortgage would be 10 years instead of 25 and that would change everything.
I was always a bit skeptical that just posting a phone number helps people, although it must have helped some people at least.

But besides that, what is there to do? Is depression even something that can be helped with?
> 1st thing: The people here asking if they are going to deprecate BSD sockets. No way that is going to happen. We are talking about 30yo+ API deeply integrated in the kernel, unix and userspace. OpenGL/CL is a very very different case. It's always been a third party thing an doesnt have the same level of usage. Not even close.

I agree that removing sockets would break large chunks of the ecosystem. On the other hand, after OpenGL's removal, it's not clear to me that Apple cares anymore about anything outside of Cocoa.

> 2. Not everything is a webapp or http. You may absolutely need to use the raw network without any encapsulation. This posibility must simply not die. Its true that most people will not need to use this apis and will use a http webapp.

Of course. Nearly 100% of my code is not webapp/http. Which is why I'm annoyed when I see (or in this case, fear) cross-platform APIs disappear.

> On the API itself. I think it is a really good idea to make a new generic tcp/udp library. [...]

I have no problem with a new, better, API. But I would certainly be more enthusiastic if any effort was presented to make it cross-platform and, hopefully, open-source and/or standardized.
Yes, I am! AMA :)
My most remembered opinion piece by him was 'Raise the gas tax. A lot' Quite the opposite to most conservative energy policies. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/charles-krauthammer-...
Exactly. No one is "compelled" to do anything, the employer can fire everyone–that's their choice.
And the claims in the publication are also likely irrelevant.
> radically different approach that Tesla is taking to manufacture the Model 3.

I thought they gave up and went back to more traditional methods?
The US Again Has the World's Most Powerful Supercomputer
I am surprised to hear that. Would you be willing to share more details with me?
> How do we measure productivity?

Productivity as typically reported is a statistic called "Total Factor Productivity" (TFP).

Here's how it's calculated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_factor_productivity#Calc...

> What units do we use?

TFP is unitless.
Democrats and Republicans alike pushed for it based on the intelligence available at the time [0]. To call him partially responsible for 100,000s of deaths is very unfair and not very classy considering he's dying soon.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationale_for_the_Iraq_War
Chatbots are a feature, not a product. I'm not a customer, but I would say Lemonade seems to have successfully used a chat-style bot as the main feature to onboard new customers. To me, I see context-driven "Google" searches such as WolframAlpha as more valuable than holding a text-style conversation with a bot.
How about you show the tables, indices, and the SQL query (queries) instead of
relying on automagic of an ORM framework? Is it any faster if you create an
appropriate SQL query yourself? How does it look like?
If it is any consolation I've upvoted all you. I think in many ways things are better (I don't even think when I put stuff in my grocery basket, and I buy "expensive" humane stuff) but in many ways things are harder. Programmers are in a social class where certain goods are really expensive in either time or money or both and because housing is so out of reach for some people it just feels impossible to even get a downpayment.

I also really think that two forces have simultaneously make the west worse. First, we try to educate everyone in the same subjects until they're almost adults. It's dumb. The level of skill you can get working with wood or computers from the age of 5 just pales in comparison with what you can pickup at 18. There should be a baseline, absolutely, but there should also be a measurable amount of tailored specialization from a young age. The second thing that is making the west worse is an absolutism on thinking about rights around property. Car-centric cultures are so stupid and inefficient. Everyone builds their own pool. Everyone builds their own gym. Nobody is happy because we're all separated from each other.
Fair enough.

But I'll remain at least a bit worried, if you don't mind :)
No, it was this: https://livre.fnac.com/a3423616/Robert-Pince-Histoire-de-la-...
I saw someone on fiverr offering to install Java on Ububtu Linux starting at 100$. That sounds about right. For the most part these sort of race to the bottom gigs would only work if your cost of living were really low relative to the $ amount. I did Amazon Turk work mainly out of curiosity/boredom, at one point I transcribed a conference call for some UK non-profit. I think it paid like 3-4$ and took me a few hours. I couldn't imagine actually living on that but I'm sure Amazon made some profit.
You are correct. There's a forged doubler that goes around the window opening to reinforce it. The DeHaviland Comet lost several airplanes due to cracks starting from the windows; Boeing was having none of that.
Yes, that's much better. We have something similar here, called Beat, which I like much more. It's just taxis, but you can see and leave reviews, you get an estimated price, you can pay by card, etc.
I'm confused by #4, it seems that those are costs associated with _not_ being overweight
The difference is that China has been stealing in order to copy, while the China itself has nothing that the US want to copy.

This has been true since the birth of the US. But the future may be different. China is advancing very fast through copying, and years from now we might stop thinking of them as a copycat.
That's odd. After having to deal with MacOS for a while, I really appreciated Linux.
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> sue the owner yourself

That's awful. In the US we have misdemeanor noise violations that carry a fine (or jail time if you refuse to pay).

Neighbors will call the police if your party is too rowdy. They'll show up looking for underage drinkers. Usually if you are nice to the cops and promise to be quiet (and everyone they see is 21+) they'll just warn you and not write a ticket.
Everyone complains about the keyboard, but I really like it. It doesn't take much pressure for key activation and the travel is really low. I use a mechanical keyboard plugged in a lot of the time, but I can type for an extended duration on the MBP keyboard and like it a lot. However, I like the mechanical keyboard because of the audible click where I don't have to bottom out the keys. I have mild RSI and I find it very helpful to type with a light touch.

I haven't personally had any reliability issues with the keyboard. The keyboard doesn't impair my speed or the usability in the slightest. I think I can type a bit more quickly and easily on it.
That sounds pretty cool.
Working as intended :) . Try the right-hand side menu...
Very sad, sometimes the inner demons win.
I didn't know him but I loved his exploration of different cultures thru food. I will miss him and his work. I hope he's finally at peace.
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Ensure they are getting adequate folate, noting that normal blood levels may not indicate functional sufficiency [1][2]:

"Folate deficiencies may lead to an increased risk of depression and poorer antidepressant treatment outcomes..."

"...deficiencies may be caused by improper absorption and utilization, often due to genetic polymorphisms."

"Supplementation with the active form of folate, (methylfolate), which is more readily absorbed, may be effective in the prevention and treatment of both depression and dementia."

"...(methylfolate) indicated efficacy as adjunctive therapy or monotherapy in reducing depressive symptoms in patients with normal and low folate levels..."

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19909688

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17900207
Given several NLP algorithms are able to achieve >90% accuracy and many more achieve >80% accuracy, how do you come to the conclusion that "all ideas in NLP are garbage".
Playing devil's advocate but wouldn't the effects have been causing problems in the past as well. The "man up" attitude has been going on for much longer than a single generation. Also do you know of any stats or papers looking at possible connections? Genuinely curious.
Microsoft is on the board of the Linux Foundation and a Platinum sponsor. Nothing the Linux Foundation says about Microsoft can be truly objective.

I find this article distasteful and lacking integrity.
Thanks for the replies!
>Nope, you can smooth that out by moving power east to west. 1000 miles is ~two time zones and has minimal transmission costs.

That is probably a bit more complex and a bit harder than you are implying. Attempts to interconnect the main grids are large projects that take many years to do. The Tres Amigas SuperStation is an attempt to unite the Eastern Interconnection, Western Interconnection) and the Texas Interconnection). First announced in 2008. It will carry 5 GW of power which seems like a lot until you consider that the US uses about 4,000 terawatt hours per year,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tres_Amigas_SuperStation

>...It's really more about corruption than anything else. PG&E still charges vastly increased rates in California despite huge drops in wind and solar prices.

PG&E gets maybe 10% of their power from solar, Much of that power they have to pay the RETAIL rate for since rooftop solar is heavily subsidized - of course it is going to have to increase what it charges other people.
Congress is less than 50 votes from passing a motion to save net neutrality
> I don’t know by what other metrics they would be deemed as “failures”

Usability? Sure, someone keeps paying for them, but they're not the people who get stuck interacting with them...
Well, Apple has demonstrated more than once that they are willing to U-Turn and entirely drop core technologies. By opposition, Linuxen and Microsoft try very hard to avoid breaking applications.

So, while Apple is not going anywhere, whichever technologies you're using to build your iOS apps might.
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ha, i suppose you could look at it that way. I was simply trying to work out what presumably off the shelf tech they used.

When I say 'competitor' I more meant 'equivalent' - it's a broad and unremarkable field and the 'competition' as such, actually fairly magnanimous.
Amazon are the best people at this as they have the technical ability, vision, and willingness to invest in long term projects.

AWS was not great in its first 5 years. Its capabilities 5 years ago were pretty good but nothing compared to today.

Google is bad at long term development, especially with Ruth Porat at CFO. Microsoft is mixed - for every Xbox and Hololens there's a Courier.

One thing missed in chatbots is that X dot AI is a chat bot that works pretty well. There are others that are similarly domain limited where the current interaction model is an email thread or a text conversation. These tend to be doing well.
Not sure about the patentibility of those patents (they are still all in the application phase, and I have not read them), but to my understanding patents a) have to be tested before court and b) often fall back to less generic claims in practice (claim no. N, with N > 1), if not being completely invalidated. Now, I expect Google to have good patent lawyers, but time will show the value of those patents.
After the CJEU declared the DRD invalid in 2014, the UK enacted the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act (DRIPA).[0] The CJEU annulled that in 2016, and the UK proposed amendments.[1] However, in January 2018, the court ruled those amendments insufficient.[2] I'm not aware of further developments, and I expect that I'd have seen anything relevant on Wilders, but please do share if I've missed something.

0) http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/27/contents/enacted

1) https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/30/police-to...

2) https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...ruled-unlawful-appeal-...
I do hope that this will inspire other OS / devs to make similar open apis
As a point of interest, there has been some cool work done recently regarding accelerating high precision dense system solvers using tensor cores + iterative refinement. See http://on-demand.gputechconf.com/gtc/2018/presentation/s8478...
Money is relative, $500 a month is nothing. It will take a year of savings to pay the deposit if he ever has to move out, or to cover the rent if he ever gets unemployed.
But that's not all it purported to be - sort of like a more intelligent IVR for customer support. Instead chatbots were promised to replace or supplement many online interactions, most notably shopping. But I guess people still go to Amazon in their browser or app, instead of trying to interact with a robot (Facebook Messenger? Whatsapp? Slack?)
"chained down" -> "securely anchored"
An Amtrak strike only affects the Northern Corridor, an SNCF strike affects practically all of Western Europe.
The electorate prefers to be distracted by Buzz Aldrin's facial ticks, Pence's water bottle, and a fake Meliana blow up doll instead of having a serious discussion about the consequences of policy today, let alone 20 years from now.

(Just three recent examples of the nonsense of the day. Yesterday or tomorrow, different nonsense, but always nonsense over serious discussion.)
out of all 'on demand' companies Fiverr should keep its mouth shut. The quality of work there is pure garbage
Correctness is huge. The other day a colleague and I were figuring out some things about scheduled work days over the next few years. After I had futzed about in a spreadsheet for five minutes, he said "this is ridiculous!" and started furiously paging through a paper calendar. We had our results nearly simultaneously, but he was off by over a month. After that we just used the spreadsheet.
are certain that the fine could be levied against the owner instead of the actual perpetrator?
When I started browserless.io, I was having a heck of a time getting Chrome running properly in Docker. After about 1 month of hit-n-miss `docker build`'s (which was taking ~15 minutes each time due to the amount of deps and lack of layer caching therein), I decided to sort popular open-source libs by comments and reactions. To my surprise I wasn't the only one experiencing this issue!

This actually turned out to help in two ways: I knew _exactly_ what to build, and where to find first users. After that I point I really haven't had to market or even cold-call anyone since (thanks to SEO and GitHub) most folks find the solution when there in the midst of the problem.

If you're looking to build something, and are tech-savy, I think it's an interesting thing to go to popular OS projects and do some research. It'll open your eyes as to what others are needing and (sometimes willing) to pay for.
"Consent or pay" sounds so hilariously wrongheaded on its face. I'm imagining someone using that approach in literally any other aspect of their lives and seeing how well it flies.
Which at that point, not only would UPS Management would have a legitimate grievance, so would Amazon and everyone shipping holiday items. That strike would be over in minutes.
> Are there penalties written into contracts to address failures like this?

Of course not. Which is why this crap keeps happening.
"Don't poison the guests" would be analogous to "don't do [a specific evil thing]." "Don't be evil" is more analogus to "don't get sloppy with hygiene." The second message is a good one for a restaurant to give its workers.
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> helping anyone but business owners

So you’re saying customers use those services for literally no reason.
Claustrophobia of the feet; that's why I wear sandals.
Read again. That’s not the risk they’re referring to.
I checked this paper briefly, and couldn't find any "classical parsing algorithms" there. Maybe you could point me on what do you mean?..

Also why do you think it is state of art? Is it in top results in any recent benchmarks (e.g. http://universaldependencies.org/conll17/results.html)?
The slurs against cops, both here and in the original article, seem unwarranted and unfair. There may indeed be numerous such examples, but without an account of the (almost certainly far more) numerous examples of improved outcomes, not much can be said.

As for killing the individual, it's going to happen, especially in cases where the individual is showing a gun or knife. A cop has to win every single gun or knife fight they're ever pressed into, often with no advance warning whatsoever. And they also have a duty to protect innocent bystanders in such a situation. Hard choices have to be made fast. Some will be mistakes. And even good calls will be trashed after the fact.

Calling the cops is always a judgement call. But let the truth and your priors be your guide, not wild, biased anecdata.
On my machine iTunes is 200MB, so about 30 cents worth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

Whataboutism (also known as whataboutery) is a variant of the tu quoque logical fallacy that attempts to discredit an opponent's position by charging them with hypocrisy without directly refuting or disproving their argument, which is particularly associated with Soviet and Russian propaganda.
The apple ][ didn't have the hardware to read the sync hole (much less a sensor to detect where the head was, hence the clatter on reset as the head bangs into the endstop). That was part of the magic, each sector had a sync field and then a few bytes and a track/sector number.

That is of course why its not just a simple case of locating where the burned hole was relative to the sync hole because the "physical" location of a sector offset on the disk would normally vary from disk to disk (or for that matter from track to track) or format to reformat.
Great write-up. One aspect of GraphQL that I've found difficult is communicating errors to consumers in a developer-friendly way. What is the best way for GraphQL server to communicate to the client the equivalent of HTTP status codes 500, 404, etc?

The approach I recently implemented was to add a "type" or "code" property with standardized values to error objects in the GraphQL response (similar to error codes in Stripes REST API [0]). The client can then check those "errors" objects for specific codes and behave accordingly.

[0] https://stripe.com/docs/error-codes
That link doesn't seem to show me any research, just a pop-science book for sale?
He was absolutely responsible. He worked diligently to push America into a wholly unnecessary and absolutely evil war that destroyed a million human beings. He was a proud member of the conservative operation to deceive the whole world to justify the war. He repeatedly lied, over and over, before, during and after the war to enable the greatest crime of the 21st century.

But -- oh, I forgot, he's American. He's a white guy. He's part of the elite. He gets to wash away his mistakes. We all know that the only people in America who are accountable for their mistakes are the poor minorities. So now we have to be kind to a man who engendered enormous suffering. Anything else is "rude." All is forgiven. Everybody makes mistakes.
Uber has partnered with several rental companies specifically to rent out cars for ride sharing. https://www.uber.com/drive/vehicle-solutions/
That is correct. The existence of some windows enable passengers/personnel to check for engine or wing damage (fire, birds, flap issues etc). The idea I am guessing is to use video.

The 50% lighter just doesn't work any way you spin it. I think this is another example of the journalist not really digging and verifying statements in a subject their knowledge is lacking/non-existent. (Similar to, "wine/chocolate/smoking/x cures cancer new study shows".)

You can't just remove all the fuselage reinforcements even if you remove the windows... Still, observe as mentioned in calculations [0], even the ~1% gain is significant as it accumulates over time.

[0] https://aerospace-europe.eu/media/books/CEAS2015_211.pdf
That's something we don't have any data on.
Speaking generally, I think one's intuition continues to be under-valued.

If you are a reasonably aware and informed person with regard to the matter at hand (and additionally, shouldn't your own well-being be a principal "matter at hand"?), it is yourself cluing in, ahead of constructing a fully-conscious analysis and argument.

The times my intuition has really -- in the gut -- pushed me, it's been right. Often, later -- days, week, or longer -- I find myself placing that gut feeling into context and events in a way that totally makes sense.

Some might argue I'm just rationalizing it. Seemed much too immediate -- and then crystal-clear, in hindsight.
What I noticed about this - I'm not thrilled right now about using node to write console helper scripts, but the CLI lib they're using here does have a pretty nice interface. I do like Python generally for doing scripting type things, but there doesn't seem to be any mindshare for any cli helper libs for it other than click, which IMO has a really clumsy, awkward interface. Ruby is generally my favorite go-to now, and it has a bunch of cli helper libs with a variety of types of interfaces, at least some of which have what I consider to be a really slick interface.

If I was better at Python, I might try my hand at writing a better Python cli lib myself. I'm surprised nobody else has yet.
While anecdotal and definitely not a high percentage, but I have met quite a few Uber drivers that just like to stay active and meet people. They tend to be the most interesting to chat with. They don't seem to be doing it for the money, more so just to be out and about. Im sure the supplemental income is helpful but it didn't seem like that was the primary reason.

Edit: Aditionally usually those have been the best drivers
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