skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know how TESLA decides . . . .. they bought Grohmann Engineering, a German firm that specializes in automated manufacturing.

https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/8/13561146/tesla-acquisitio...
It's something we do on Lobste.rs. Its guidelines allow a short, purely-factual description just to save people time. On CompSci papers, I always put the abstract in there either whole or trimmed. Some people TL;DR the articles in their comments which happens here, too.

Allowing a super-short summary might be a good practice here, too. Especially for long articles or videos. On videos, maybe link to transcript or slides, too, so people don't have to dig them up. It's another thing I try to do over there.
What's the advantage of having all that in one repository? And what's the advantage of provisioning every container with functionality it will never need?
Have you considered going to a therapist yourself?
L.A. couple is housing homeless people, one small building at a time
Mr. Rogers sings the line "It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood," but many people growing up remember the line as "It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood."

When I grew up it was "in THE neighborhood", not "this". Who else remembers this?
What the hell?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL3xSctTB5c
Nothing is really written in "standard C".
Terrible title, but the technology sounds interesting.

tl;dr - transmission over the wire and at various junctures is more lossy than we thought, they have a process to monitor and adjust it to be less lossy.
but it's a free market! workers are free to not participate in the gig economy.

/s
> This is not the case, ergo their argument is flawed.

Your argument doesn't really make sense.

Nobody is arguing that nuclear is cheaper than dirty coal.

Proponents argue that it's cheap and orders of magnitude more environmentally friendly than burning dirty coal.

China is still very price conscious and are building out nuclear in an effort to reduce pollution - proving that the Chinese do believe nuclear can be done cheaply and safely.
It's a UK thing -- everything has to not work in the most ridiculous way possible.

This also applies to anti-money-laundering stuff: it's better to affect loads of people really badly who are most certainly not money laundering as long as it does not affect the people who are money laundering at scale.

That said, there are people who don't really understand that people on social media paying you for access to your bank account are probably money laundering.

This is in a country where it is perfectly permitted to open several stores of the same chain of gambling establishments in the same street with fixed-odds betting machines and no questions of where the large sums of cash being handed over come from.
The gig enconomy's innovation was offloading risk entirely onto the "employees" who aren't employees, but "independent contractors" with no rights or recourse. This is a wealth consolidation practice yet again. The gig runners make money off the independent contractors because they take all the risk.
>Not in the smartphone-app sense, of course (those didn't exist yet), but in the sense of regular-Joes-making-a-buck-giving-a-ride sense.

These existed nationwide in the United States in the early days of the 20th century, until about WWII. In many cities they were called "jitneys." Some were organized enough to operate as simple, private, anonymous bus companies with fixed (but flexible) routes.

They started disappearing after WWII when most people outside the urban cores got a car, and municipal governments started taking over public transit.

These still exist in some places, but are mostly in ethnic minority communities and spread by word-of-mouth. (I know first-hand because I got hit head-on by one full of schoolchildren in the late 90's.)
AML regulations and scams.

Apparently in the past people with questionable sources of income used to open fake accounts to move money and the banks were happy to do it until the regulators slammed them with fines.

Also, when you have a bank account you can get things like a phone contract with a direct debit payment. Apparently, some people made it a habit to leave the UK without paying their bills after they are done with their seasonal work.

I'm sure some people run much more elaborate scams.
For simple apps that makes sense. But then you have apps that require kernel drivers. Or the app itself is a shared library. Or multiple users on the same system use the app, etc.

>Turns out you don't need a package manager unless you intend to over-engineer application management to the insane level that the open source community has.

You don't necessarily need a package manager, but you can't solve the problem with simple folders either.
1. Anywhere where cruise ships are regular visitors. There are often free meals on the ship, and obviously no overnight stays in hotels.

2. Anywhere popular with young tourists (Amsterdam, Berlin etc). This might be limited to Europe, with a €20 flight (or bus) to the city, a bed in a cheap hostel, a visit to all the free things etc. This isn't new, but Couchsurfing and cheap transport have probably increased it.
Please don't post if you don't have anything to add, or a valid question to ask. If you feel like posting memes Reddit is a better medium for that.
Yeah it's quite funny given the popularity of github how few people know about octopus merges. I only know about them because I built my own git graph GUI. I was about to hard code in two parents and then wondered if there could be more.
Not that it will help you because it's not open source, but Edge probably doesn't use the same implementation as other browsers.
Gosh, an 8 hour video series telling you that you're broken? I can't imagine why he wouldn't want to subject himself to that.
That's awesome congrats!

It's a nice looking site too.
This: "The American revolutionists had gone through a lot. The history of western Europe was one where your lives were in the hands of emotional kings who could reward you one day and behead you the next without rhyme or reason. They were under the excessive, unchecked power of Britain, exhibited time and again through taxation without representation. They saw how much control the Bank of England had over the commonwealth. It was a time of rampant monopolies, major powers that had consolidated all control, and where conflict was an affront to power."

this ignores the fact that Britain has also "baked conflict into the system", and that Britain shares an idealogical framework with Europe, that America inherited, but SE Asia did not.
It seems to me nearly all white collar office/desk jobs could be remote as they basically involve sitting at a desk with a computer and phone. I believe more than half of all jobs in the US are considered white collar.

You are cheating! Not all white collar workers can work remotely. Everything healthcare, legal, teachers, everybody with a public-facing work, computer technicians, sales... Actually, could anybody make the reverse list? Better than dismiss the discussion with another downvote.
> Uber started as a way to fill the downtime that professional drivers had between clients and jobs. They said, "Hey, there is a workforce with 50% of it's hours idle. I bet we can turn the into cash."

Yeah, black cars with chauffeur licenses only. I remember thinking "a cab to the airport would be cheaper, but I'll pay a bit more to pamper myself -- I've never been in a black car!" just before I ordered my first ever Uber in 2012.

UberX, with "normal people" picking you up in their personal cars, wasn't until April 2013.
RTree2D: 2D immutable R-tree with STR (Sort-Tile-Recursive) packing
I'm not a graphics programmer, but everything I've read about OpenGL tells me moving to Metal isn't some embrace/extend maneuver but more likely due to the fact OpenGL is steaming ancient garbage. Kind of like the types who once complained that MacOS wasn't built on X Window (chortle)

BSD sockets isn't a bastion of extensible interface design, it basically amounts to one giant ioctl() in every operating system. Darwin has weird escape hatches built into it (AF_SYSTEM) much like Linux netlink, and protocol parameter documentation is strewn across 5+ man pages each documenting a different set of magic value combinations for non-portably controlling some part of the stack. TCP_USER_TIMEOUT? That's one of many, many Linux socket options, but it's part of our precious so-portable socket interface we must maintain forever!

OS X chooses to bury its system call interface too, it's always been considered a private detail of the C library. I see no reason why socket() and friends couldn't similarly be forgotten. If some clean 21st century redesign of an ancient API has knock-on effects for the structure of code in open source projects across the ecosystem, that's probably a good thing in the long run. Progress never happens by hugging the past, especially when that past is ugly and filled with horrors

Try not to look at this as "hey, MacOS is breaking precious UNIX", but more as "hey look, why can't Bonjour+multipath TCP be a one liner on Linux too?"
I'm from New York City and I've had the pleasure of being in 3 different psychiatric wards from adolescent to adult.

If you have never been in a psych ward and never met crazy people, you will now be surrounded by crazy people and you will also be considered a crazy person.

While crazy might be offensive, the people in these wards need serious help and most of them are people you do not want to be around. And you definitely do not want to be locked for days with them either. If you have never experienced this, it will be traumatizing especially if you come from a sheltered environment. If you're suicidal, you were a threat only to yourself. Some of these people in the ward are there because they can be threats to others. That means you will probably see someone be knocked down by nurses and tranquilized. You will hear people yelling, singing, talking to themselves, doing destabilizing things. You will literally be in a horror movie.

You will lose most of your clothes and your belongings. Your first day you will probably be in a hospital gown. You won't be allowed to have shoelaces or even pens or pencils until they determine you're not a risk.

You have to listen to everything an authority tells you to do and comply. You need to eat even if the food is bad when it's meal time. You need to make sure you do everything right so you can leave as soon as possible. Don't want to do some bullshit music, meditation, or arts therapy? Not cooperating. Not socializing. Negative marks. You need to take the medication they give you, even if you don't want to.

If you had the great misfortune to be admitted to the hospital on a weekend, you might be screwed until business hours so they can get the medical records they need or when the regular doctors are back.

Want to make a phone call or use the computer? Last one I was at you were limited to less than 15 minutes, there were only 2 phones, and they were always being used.

Can't sleep at night because you're sharing a room with someone else or just anxiety ridden because you're in an uncomfortable psych ward? Negative marks or ask the nurse for benadryl.

I was grateful to be in a safe place and get the help I needed but every psych ward I've been to has not been a pleasant place because I was stuck there for almost a week without much freedom surrounded by crazy people. That's why most people never ever want to go back to a psych ward even if they're suicidal. It can be that bad.

I knew how to follow the rules and get out as fast as possible but some people don't or can't. They're not good at following the rules. Some of the people I met in these wards had been there for 2 weeks, 4, or even longer. It was really sad and even more depressing. Children whose families abandoned them. Adults who didn't have anywhere to go.
Any modalities in particular you found beneficial from The Body Keeps the Score?
For the purposes of constructive discussion I don't mind qualifying "agony" with "enduring", so to limit scope to those with chronic, untreatable depression. But the original statement is an honest representation of my thoughts.

ETA: At the same time, it's important to recognize that suicides inflict dramatically more pain on those left behind than other causes of death.
Tesla S didn't really change since then, why do you expect a huge manufacturing plant to change drastically? It's not like you just throw all robots and conveyor belts in a bin like an iPhone. Car industry is on significantly longer cycles.
Enough to annoy you, apparently, which is a good thing. That means there's an effect.
Uhhh what? Not sure I follow, this article seems to equate knowing performance on a many-to-many scale with secret observation of somebody one a one-to-many broadcast system.
Twitter is the weird thing it is because it began with an SMS interface (hence 140 characters). It took off originally because you didn't need a smart phone or a data plan or a PC to use it.
Taxation of Carried Interest
The ministry has been privatized.
Wow, this says the data sharing was after 2015. This directly contradicts Zuckerberg’s congressional testimony does it not?

5 days ago the magazine The Baffler made the argument that Zuckerberg, at his core, is a nice guy. It’s just that he isn’t that intelligent.

As the American Studies professor being interviewed says in the article:

>“And he continues to use words like “community,” a word he does not understand in the least. This is what I mean when I say he’s uneducated. Because he keeps using terms like community, which are complex, fraught concepts, and he doesn’t stop to think what that means. He doesn’t stop to think about the dynamics of a community, the effects of a community, the limitations of a community, and even the very definition of a community. You know, if someone’s going to use community as the core goal of a multi-billion-dollar company, maybe a couple of days of reading would help.”

https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-zuckerberg-follies-denison
It could also be referencing authentication and authorization controls on fields - I think GraphQL makes it too easy for developers to expose private fields without realizing it. Just last week I found a financial institution exposing bank account numbers and routing numbers (not mine) through their GraphQL endpoint - they still haven't fixed it.
should have written more, was in a hurry. Even though the url sounds inflammatory, it is actually a really helpful resource on how to do dbaccess correctly.
> Citations needed.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/cover-story-how-...

https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/05/opinions/limiting-israel-espi...

> I know some intelligence people. This isn't what they tell me.

I don't believe you know any intelligence people. And even if you did, I doubt they'd tell you anything. People who write "I know some intelligence people" on a web forum, usually don't know anyone.

> That Canada spies on the USA more than Russia is the biggest bullshit I've ever heard.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/03/03/canada-turfed...

> The Russians are in a ton of the US infrastructure and the CIA is freaking out about it to the point where they consider cyber to be a bigger existential threat than a nuclear armed DPRK.

You might want to stop watching CNN/Foxnews/media. But of course russia is spying on us. But who do you think would have an easier time spying on us? The russians/chinese or our allies?

Just think. And you'll realize how much more sense it makes that allies should spy on each other more than enemies. But maybe you could ask your "intelligence people".
Microsoft Basic on C64 was cool
MMM.... free to starve as well..
The Days of the Airline Strike May Be Over
I can absolutely see that view. Knowing there's nothing but miles of air between me and solid ground is disconcerting, to say the least, but I don't think I would be able to divorce myself from that thought in a windowless plane - I've flown too many times to not inherently be aware of the altitude, whether I can see it or not.
The Fremont bridge in Portland had a sign with a # for suicide hotline, and it was the wrong number I believe for over a decade. Only when a road crew maintenance guy had to take it down for repairs did somebody check. It wasn't even in the news, I just happen to talk to one of the workers who told me.
> After that you're 'legally' crazy (whatever the fuck that means)!

In Australia, what it means is that you are involuntarily held in a psych ward, you have no right to leave and you don’t get a say in your own treatment. That includes no choice in your medication.
Look at the history of Boeing [1]. It's all government contracts, with the technologies and designs developed for them being re-used in their commercial offerings.

Without cost-plus contracting paying for cutting-edge R&D, they would have been about as capable of building airplanes as I am, in my garage. Their entire business is built on millions of hours of engineering experience in building planes for the military, applied to the commercial sector.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing#1930s_and_1940s
I don't see any reason why Facebook should be held responsible for advising racists on how to successfully save face and do damage control while not in any way changing their attitude. I also see no reason why Facebook should be giving advice to people being unfaithful and using their platform to facilitate it.

To be perfectly clear, I had an illicit affair in my youth and I am often quite sympathetic to the person cheating. I'm a woman, so I sometimes get women dumping on me about their cheating husband. They inevitably expect me to automatically side with them and agree that everything wrong in the marriage is his fault and to generally hate on men by default. Those conversations don't go like those women expect.

But I can't imagine using Facebook for such covert activities and if you have such a scenario on your hands, there are going to be very serious consequences for being outed. That goes well beyond PR gaff and is far outside the scope of what Facebook should be expected to try to manage on your behalf.

There are very serious matters that I think Facebook should take more responsibility for, such as their role in fueling longstanding feuds in some countries. They should take measures to stop being a means to pour gasoline on those fires.

But your specific concerns are not anything I feel Facebook needs to take responsibility for.

I will add that even in the scenarios you posit, the gold standard is to hide the post and hope they didn't see it. If they did, PR measures will not help you.
They really aren't. At least you can rely on 99% of humans to try to act according to self-preservation instinct MOST of the time.

I see a Tesla, and I try to get away from them as soon as possible.
I rarely use the git cli. Magit does almost everything and makes it much more enjoyable.
Probably because you need real (strong) AI.
"Many will argue that the service providers are being tricked into the arrangement through hidden costs. However, a large sector of drivers actually rent their cars, which pretty much removes all hidden costs and proves to me that these gigs are a viable alternative to employment."

I'm going to highly disagree with you, there. I had a friend who tried renting the car from one of those companies. Nothing could be further from the truth than what you posted. It was basically the old "company store".
If you enjoyed this review, Adam Curtis' "All watched over by machines of loving grace" documentary series[1] is an absolutely beautiful watch.

[1] - https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/all-watched-over-by-machines...
Am I the only one who misread "Expansion" as "Explosion" when skimming the headlines?
Nasty nonsense. Flies in the face of both evidence and reason.
We can start from a common set of objective facts, but because we all have our own values, we can get to a broad range of different conclusions from them.

A good opinion writer is not, as you assert, lying and tricking people. A good opinion writer is developing from our shared factual foundation through one possible set of values - and hopefully "showing their work" so we know what those assumptions are.

Thus, as DBM says, we can learn alot even from someone who reaches a conclusion different from the one driven by our own personal values. At the very least, we should learn that those we disagree with aren't evil monsters, but maybe trying to get to a vision similar to our own but in different ways.

I don't even want to read the opinion pieces that you seem to hold up as exemplary. I'm tired of the hatefulness and spite. It really is possible to communicate an opinion that's based entirely on agreed facts, to come to a different conclusion than someone else, and to do so without lying and tricking. That is what we should be striving for.

And I maintain that, e.g., Scott Alexander at SlateStarCodex.com is a sterling example of this. If you disagree, I'd love to hear why.
My experience mirrors yours in many ways, including the tools, modalities, and techniques you mention. I appreciate what you've shared here and how you've articulated this.
This is a good point. I was probably a little hyperbolic in my post. The existence of Uber has done a tremendous amount good in breaking up entrenced taxi industries, bringing service to some seriously under-served areas.
No one was going around thinking, "I wish I could drive people around for extra money."

I'm pretty sure more than zero people have wanted part-time work with more flexible schedules than were commonly available. (See patio11: https://twitter.com/patio11/status/993186705850052610)
Perhaps the assistants could have more initiative then.

Ex: "Hi (...), since you always turn off the heater when you leave, would you like me to schedule to always do it for you?"
Is's a common convention in newspaper obituaries and articles to not mention cause of death as suicide, except in newsworthy situations.

Covering suicides in general were somewhat taboo unless they involved someone noteworthy:

https://www.poynter.org/news/reporting-suicide
How about an actual social safety net though?
UberX actually didn't start with normal unlicensed, uninsured drivers. UberX started as a "green" initiative. When UberX first started drivers still had to have a passenger carrier permit (TCP sticker) and commercial driving insurance. They just also had to have a Prius instead of a black car, and the cost was a little bit less. I think it was $10 or $12 minimum instead of $15. It wasn't until Lyft started by allowing any random person to drive at a much lower cost that Uber pivoted and turned UberX into what it is today.

It never even occurred to Uber that it would be possible to let random, uninsured people drivers others around for peanuts, or that people would be so desperate for cash that they'd even be willing to do that. It was purely a function of the financial collapse that made it possible.
"Two decades ago, The Truman Show seemed preposterous. "We would laugh about how unrealistic some of it seemed," ... "We couldn’t quite believe that someone would want to tape themselves, so that people could tune in and watch what was considered at the time to be mundane, and see that as entertainment."

40 years before The Truman Show, Philip K Dick wrote Time Out of Joint[1], which is much grimmer but explores similar themes and is also about a man who is unknowingly living in an artificially constructed suburban reality under the eye of the world. The former was clearly inspired by the latter, and anyone who enjoyed the one should check out the other.

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/Time-Out-Joint-Philip-Dick/dp/0547572...