skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(I speak a dialect of English in which "can" doesn't exclusively refer to the physical ability to perform an action. For instance "can I be excused for a moment?" isn't normally interpreted as "does there exist a speaker in this room who is capable of giving me permission to leave for a moment?"; in context, the meaning is that of asking for the permission.)
Uber provides commercial insurance, no? Other than that, I generally feel safer in an Uber ride than in a taxi.
Following Copyright Law Should Be Enough–Even When Payment Processors Say No
> “This is not only an annoying noise, this is a threat to people. For black people, that can really be experienced as a death threat,”

This is so effed up it's beyond words.

> said Kaplan, who is crafting legislation to regulate the scooters and now plans to add a proposal to prohibit loud noises and threats.

Sure that's the right way to approach the problem of black people fearing for their lives every time anyone decides to loudly announce the possible need for involvement of government employees to conform with the laws.
Chatbots, just like Alexa, OK Google, and Siri, are just terrible. Last night, "Alexa, show me new releases." Nothing. "Alexa, show me new movies." Nothing. "Alexa, what's new." "Today's news from NPR....". Damnit. In the time I spent trying to discover the hidden menu of voice control, I could have manually gone through known menus including typing with arrow keys.
Scott's Cheap Flights. No affiliation. I probably don't travel enough to justify paying, and when I can travel I just buy the dates available, but if you have lots of spare time, they do a great job of curating low-cost tickets. I especially like that they mention things like "no bag fee" and "nonstop" — not just some random aggregator, but actually handpicked and digested.

https://scottscheapflights.com/
Problem with that is that "average person" isn't defined by any kind of metrics or anything, it's just whatever the developer imagines it is, which is usually some drooling moron caricature (when they don't want to provide a feature) or themselves (when they've written something that harms others' workflows).
Thanks, was looking for this info in both the article and the HN comments. It's not in the article, had to scroll halfway of the way down the comments to find it.
> For many of these systems, you actually are talking to a human.

Is this practice widespread at all? I've worked at several contact center software companies with many customers and never once heard of this. It's always been automated IVR software controlling this. This sounds to my ears like maybe an outlier of a particularly awful contact center? I'd certainly pause before claiming this is how it works for "many of these systems".
So you're working from a pure TA perspective?

Seems like your strategy is to follow momentum. This could be a good strategy if the market continues to be bullish, but pretty easy to get wiped out if sentiment flips.
The owner or tenant is subject to enforcement and pays the consequences of their guests actions.
True, but having windows at important places is mission critical, so maybe they'll all be well designed as a result.
I think the law is not so clear on that as you seem to think. How long can the scooter sit there? Eventually it could be considered abandoned if they are not coming to pick it up ever.
I am curious to know what happened between 2016 and 2018 that made them outdated?
Calling calm and professional response "his usual fashion" isn't a jab :)
Headspace seeking FDA approval for medical uses of meditation app
It really depends on what sort of organization you're dealing with. My credit union has always been a pleasure to deal with because their phone people are all hired and trained locally. On the other hand they only take calls during business hours which can be a little awkward when I'm in another timezone.
I'd bet the fines can be appropriately large and punitive if that's the case.
Basically, yes; that is, their strategy is not to avoid taking multiple simultaneous efforts at solving the same broad class of problem, even if it is one where in the long term there is unlikely to be a reason to keep multiple solutions, and they also aren't afraid to take stabs at solving problems where they need a solution to exist but don't strategically need to own the solution.

These strategic choices give them the best chances of having a viable solution either for the market as a supplier or for themselves as a user when they need it, but also makes the number of failed efforts they are going to need to kill higher than it would otherwise be. Or, in short, the strategy creates corpses.
Wow, I'm sorry your friend had to go through that. This is the first time I've heard that this job actually exists!

It seems very strange to have a human who can listen but can't speak. I guess these companies think that by removing speech as a possibility, they're able to pay the employee less or something?
The x220 has a lot of issues compared to newer laptops, MacBook or not.

12.5" screen is pretty small for most people. Having a low resolution doesn't help.

Only some models (the ones that came with an i7 processor, I think) have USB 3 ports, and even those models just have one.

It doesn't have an HDMI port. It's thick and heavy. They have 2nd gen core series Intel processors which are way, way less power efficient than the 4th gen or newer processors.

It's also got slow wifi and it has a wifi card whitelist in the bios, so you can't put a better card in it.

Pretty much the only reason to buy one nowadays is if you need something really cheap that runs linux well, which is exactly why I bought one in 2015 when I was a senior in college and also the reason I stopped using it as soon as I could afford something better.
This xkcd is really relevant, being a chart of the time invested vs time saved, not even including the accuracy and learning value: https://xkcd.com/1205/
Not to mention that their projection system will bring some weight and use energy, surly offsetting gains, so that whole sentence should be stricken from the article.
That's the beauty of anticlimaxes ;)
Didn't think about SIM, thanks. Seems unusual to consider a SIM slot as a port for the purpose of this discussion, but it's technically correct.
I don't know what to say about your comparisons.. I find all desktop OSes unusable at the moment and I think that is more embarrassing for Windows and OsX than Linux, since Linux has a lot of other places it can be besides desktop.

As a developer I am going back to pure window managers without the "environment" of gnome or KDE. For non-developers, Tablets seem to be dieing so I guess you are supposed to keep a larger phone at home.
They are "pretty much" not--it's the 10s of millions of non-developer consumers that drive Apple's UI/UX.
Do you use iTerm for opening vim?
Emirates is not exactly known for cutting corners like that
I don't see this as a realistic threat, because it seems like it'd be so easy to abuse that merely swamping the detection system with everything we can find will be so disruptive to politicians themselves that if they're stupid enough to pass it, they'll reverse it just as quickly. E.g a suitable attack would be to claim every tweet, press release and speech from every politician and watch them deal with being censored.
I had the same issue. An Airbnb host cancelled our reservation the day before our booking was supposed to start and Airbnb didn't help us out at all. We ended up paying quite a bit more for a hotel, but after going through that I'm happy to pay more in the future for professionalism and a guaranteed bed.
>Essentially flat for years before

You must be a terrible investor then, the DOW under Obama went from ~7,000 to 18,000, unemployment fell from 10% to 5%, nearly 20 million gained healthcare under the ACA, and the economy gained 11.6 million jobs. Obama's numbers blow Trump's away.
How to Find Your Earliest Users
No 3D printers for the EU.
Did you work there? The promo process, especially at the higher levels, does reward ability-to-explain-and-contextualize over pure technical ability, but my opinion is that senior engineers need more of the former than the latter anyways. Deeply understanding your product and what is necessary to make it better can be more important than the ability to pump out algorithms and models.
Most people here are discussing employee knowledge, not actions. What you described is just showcasing a bad employee, not necessarily one that doesn't know their stuff. To a small extent, the not capitalizing anything hit some peoples peeves I'm sure.
I'm sorry but you didn't actually answer handbanana's question.

Is your schedule dictated in any way by your pair? If your pair likes to take lunch at 11 and you like to take it at 1 is that a Big Deal in the sense that you'll be less productive than another pair? How much is the typical "one person talking/thinking, one person typing" and how much is just two people programming next to each other?
I think quite a few of the hyperbolic comments here haven't seen any of this video and are just reacting to the title.

From what I can gather from watching this so far is, it just sounds like a layer you can optionally choose to use on-top of sockets that manages things like: TLS, multiple networks (4G/3G/Wi-Fi), DNS resolving, proxies, etc for you so you don't need to write it all yourself from scratch every time.

Maybe I'm wrong about that, or maybe none of this is actually as hard as it sounds in practice. But this seems like it might be atleast some what useful.
Good point. There is probably more evidence of sleep's role in learning than problem solving. Reflecting on what I wrote, I think I was thinking about novel problems.
But Boeing is - majorly. Cross-subsidisation essentially.
The quoted article discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17260148.
That's not a terribly uncommon position, not everyone wants to live forever. Arguably it's a healthy attitude to take, since death will come for you eventually whether or not you make peace with that inevitability.
Sure. Which would be what exactly? He can’t have a license revoked since he’s not having one.
I'm not a fan of anarchy. Which is what you're advocating now.

> 2%

The correct rate varies according to the behavior of the economy.

> gangrene

What a strange and shifting conversation.
> If someone was stealing your stuff, who would you call, then?

Homeowners/renters insurance?
You must have had your 401k with a terrible bank then.
In approximate percentages, how much time do engineers spend working alone vs in pairs (counting only time spent on actual coding)?
As I wrote the last time this came up:

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Those who only know Linus from his rants might be surprised that here "his usual fashion" means:

- Acknowledging that the root cause was Github's documentation being misleading.

- Not blaming the contributor for being mislead by Github: "I can see why that documentation would make you think it's the right thing to do."

- Admit that the ease with which the accident happened is a deficiency in Git's UI.

- CC the Git maintainer to discuss improving Git to make it harder to do this by accident. (Which eventually lead to the --allow-unrelated-histories flag being needed to do this kind of merge.)
Did PHP ever change the misfeature that there is no warning when you reference an uninitialized variable?
A while, and then its removed by law enforcement, not the general public. "Theft by Government" is wholly different.
I guess during the time the recording talks, they can listen to another call? So you end up having to hire less people.
Yeah I used to work there. Not sure about the higher levels but the incentives in the L3-L5 range were very messed up.
"Over the past five years" - I feel that in order to formulate "a historical price index per generation" you need to look at inflation over the entire life of the generation. Baby boomers went through the seventies, when inflation was significantly higher than now.
> To support failure recovery, FASTER incorporates a recovery strategy that can bring the system back to a recent consistent state at low cost

I'm at least intrigued, but this part is slightly worrying. "Recent consistent state" is unfortunately not "last good state", which would make it a non-starter for certain use cases.
While the US is far from perfect, it doesn't risk your life or your freedom to speak poorly of the leader of your country as a US citizen. That same cannot be said about a citizen of China. That is the main reason I think it better that the US has the worlds leading military over China.
ORNL Launches Summit Supercomputer
I've already seen the acronym expressed as FAAMG, which is probably more accurate to start with; Netflix has great performance but is nowhere near the market cap of the other companies.
I thought you were supposed to open them to let in light just in case you need to evacuate. Normalize your eyes so people can jump down the slide without delay of adjusting to the outside light and to be able to see inside the cabin without aux lighting.
Why they gotta be using Safari
This is a great example of how you can make up anything by aggregating unrelated statistical measures and then mislead people with a new definition on top of another woozy commonly used definition.
Not my story, but FedEx, back in the day, had to hit Vegas BlackJack at one point to turn 5k to nearly 30k to make payroll and fuel.

http://www.businessinsider.com/fedex-saved-from-bankruptcy-w...
If you are making $90k and living in SF you should be looking at studios or for roommates, not at one bedrooms. A one bedroom in a city like SF is a luxury.
Indeed, for some buying during a recession is the only shot they have at home ownership. Prices are only going up now.
I meant "pay" in the literal sense of paying a fine.
If it was truly abandoned, maybe.
However if the scooter is alerting that its being stolen its probably not abandoned...
We're not talking about sitting somewhere for a week, more like a couple hours, I doubt you'll find anyone who reasonably thinks thats abandoned.
Venezuela officials can now blame rampant capitalism as the source of the country misery.
https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/black-white-blue-americans-a...

> Blacks and whites have very different perceptions of how much police are held accountable for misconduct. In a December 2014 poll, over twice as many whites as blacks said that they were very or somewhat confident that police are held accountable.

> Whites today are more than twice as likely as blacks to say they are confident that the police in this country are adequately trained to avoid the use of excessive force.

> 37% of blacks, compared to 17% of whites, say police in their community make them feel mostly anxious instead of safe. Only 38% of blacks give their local police good or excellent ratings for controlling crime – the same proportion as said back in 1969 that the police in their neighborhood were doing a good job. Nearly seven in ten whites today give their local police excellent or good ratings.

That said, this bit is kinda fascinating given the above:

> When asked about preferences for police presence in their local area, blacks are 20 percentage points more likely to say they would prefer a larger police presence, indication that many blacks see underpolicing in their communities as a problem. Blacks and whites are equally unwilling to decrease police numbers in order to lower taxes.
there technically is a support line that technically exists, but just forget about it.

That's not my experience; I've complained three times over the years, and I always got my money back.
It starts at about 30 minutes
They give you the option of "Full (strict)" SSL. Or as I call it, "actual SSL".

Snark aside, it at very least dilutes the brand of SSL to give the pretense that they're giving it to you with the default option, and give you the pretense of giving you something extra on top of it with the "full (strict)" option.
Silly Valley, probably.

I was making 90k in the Boston area within the past few years.

On that salary I was able to support two adults, pay back student loans faster than needed, max out my 401k (company match up to $10k or something like that) and build saving at a rate of about $1k/mo, go out to dinner every 3wk or so and have enough to direct meaningful amounts into my hobbies and other discretionary spending.

That said, if you try to live like you're wealthy (shopping at whole foods, $2k+ rent, going out to drink, take uber everywhere, expensive cable, phone and internet, etc, etc) and generally hemorrhage money I can see how one could live little better than paycheck to paycheck on 90k in the Boston area.
How does a plane end up being overweight? And how did the weight get reduced on later models?
The (convolutional) deep learning boom happened.
I've found Alexa to be much, much worse than Google Assistant.
If you can't handle a terminal-only environment, or even see it as less preferable to a desktop (you can install any WM you please in 15 minutes), it seems a bit disingenuous to claim you are "more than prepared for Linux experience".
I've not stopped to ask, I'm assuming that someone's figured out how to remove the proprietary parts so that the scooters can be reused at will. I think metal recycling is also probable.
I've heard that some scooter companies will offer rewards for scooters that were "lost" then returned, so thats probably pretty lucrative.
As always, discussion around AMP is missing anything about users. I've had friends tell me they always click AMP links first because they're so much faster. Why wouldn't users love AMP?

Also as always, discussion is void of alternate solutions.

I find it funny that so many of these threads fall back to, "If publishers would just stop stuffing megabytes of Javascript into their web pages we'd be fine!"

Isn't that what AMP is about? It's an open standard, one Javascript codebase that can be delivered once and cached.

AMP also doesn't "break normal links": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13467736

If you think the future of the web --- even just reading articles --- is plain HTML and CSS, then it's no wonder you see AMP as a bad thing and not a good thing for users.

I'd love to hear alternate solutions. How can we deliver article content to users lightning-fast, and still deliver them the things they want like recommendations, sharing, image carousels, etc?
Boeing as a company is massively subsidized. People often like to play this game where they specifically mention a model number and make the claim that that specific model wasn't, while ignoring that the entire company, infrastructure, and apparatus is.

The US subsidizes Boeing, European countries subsidize Airbus, and Canada subsidizes Bombardier. Playing semantic games doesn't alter that reality.
All of that buck-passing doesn't explain why the info is requested in the first place.
We have to get the governments part of this service (say, if there'll be a service that replaces http, and the governments want to provide digital services to their citizens then they'll have no way around it), so they host the content themselves, then they sue themselves and shut down and we'll be a free society once again.
Sounds like you're duplicating work? "git rebase -i master" does pretty much that: starting from master, cherry picks all the commits (in order by default but because you're doing -i you can reorder them, likewise you can omit or amend) and then changes the ref of the branch you were working on to point at the resulting tip commit.

I don't think you need to explicitly check out a new branch and then cherry pick.
People in Venezuela are also eating dogs, cats, and pigeons.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/05/18/venezue...

Basically desperate people do desperate things to survive.
It reminds me in the early days of "smart phones" people would say where is the Linux phone OS we keep hearing about. They just didn't understand that Android was Linux based.

The Voice Assistance is a vocal chatbot. People were thinking it was going to be text.

No one missed anything except the actual product everyone was talking about. I feel like this happens all the time. We get caught into one strict interpenetration and miss the HUGE thing staring at our face, or ears in this instance.
>First, we use a 50 : 50 Zipf workload, and plot throughput vs.RocksDB in Fig. 10. As expected, Faster slows down with limited memory because of increased random reads from SSD, but quickly reaches in-memory performance levels once the entire dataset fits in memory.

I dont mean to offend the authors in anyways. But can someone from facebook rocksDb team reproduce their results on rocksDB ? I am curious as to , why throughput remains constant, even though memory is increased from 5 -> 40GB.
Insane performance on the most recent techempower benchmarks (usual proviso of all bencharks are meaningless etc etc.) they've caught Go with fasthttp already on one of them.
Am favorating this since this topic is V V important for me!
Good luck, I'm happy to help! Competition is good for consumers, but bad for business owners.

I think a good rule of thumb is, "if customers aren't banging down the door trying to buy our product, we either need to risk more resources for a chance at growth, or raise our margins and pray we survive"
Thank you for the link.

Is it possible this is a negotiation ploy? Introduce something outrageous, so people will focus on that, then 'give in' on that proposal just before the vote, it will be seen as a victory when the main bill - without the proposal - is passed, despite the bill itself being heavily flawed in its own right.
The Hacker News Generation (Afraid of Hard Work)
With the huge numbers of companies that tried giving employees autonomy and responsibility over their own domain then collapsed, what else are we supposed to do? Oh wait, no one has ever tried that? Not even since we transitioned from rote repetitive manufacturing tasks to mental work? Wow. How stupid are we?
I fully agree with you. I also dismissed Google Glass and other hypes. I feel smart about that.

On the other hand, if someone would have pitched Facebook to me, I would have also dismissed it. I keep that mind to stay humble.

For any trend/hype there will always be people dismissing and praising it. Thus, if it is successful or not, there will be people who say "I told you so" afterwards.

It does not matter what a comment on HN says. You personally have to decide, if you want to speculate/invest in some hype or not. You have to decide which new technology you learn and which ones you ignore. In hindsight, it would have been great to learn machine learning five years ago.
>Where do you live, and what on earth are you spending your money on?

Bay area

~$5,000 net monthly

$2500 Rent/PGE

$1000 Car/Insurance/Gas/Parking/Phone/Internet

$500 Food/Clothing

$500 IRA

That leaves ~$500 monthly discretionary income, which I usually try to save as much as possible but inevitably gets eaten up by all the stupid little things in life that cost too much nowadays. I can't even imagine supporting a family on this income and it is far higher than most people will ever see.
We can certainly argue the technical merits of how they created their 'generation-weighted price index', but differential impacts of inflation seems plausible on the face of it.

If you are looking for work in a big city, and big city real estate prices are growing much faster than nationwide, that is a real effect.
Jason seems like the most stable of available implementations, still actively maintained and well documented: https://github.com/jason-lang/jason
#3? What's wrong with daily builds? Or do you mean it doesn't go far enough in that builds should be continuous, done with every code checkin?
One side is going to come with pitchforks, increase racial tension, or vote in an extreme populist while the other is just not gonna come around. Also I am Canadian, it has been stated it is a human right here.
Income tax rates are not the problem, stagnating wages are the problem.
Doe the EU parliament have recall provisions for ministers? Put every sponsor and yes voting MEP up for recall.