skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Knowing your favorite drink is obviously not on par with knowing that you're on thin ice with your HR department, and it is the corporation, not the flight crew, who has been (possibly) invasive. To me, it feels like a bit of a transgression whenever a business goes out of their way to find info about me without just asking.

If you want to know something about me, just ask. I might refuse to answer, or ask why you want to know, but at least you haven't started off by disrespecting me. I'm not sure how so many businesses have become confused about this. Maybe they've calculated that pissing off a substantial number of their customers is a worthwhile trade-off, but it seems like a bad direction to go in even if the short-term numbers look positive. </rambly paranoia>
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From a couple people I know at SpaceX, the political environment there is pretty republican-leaning. I've been told that a lot of people there voted for Trump. So I don't think there will be any sort of protest/work stoppage.
For any critical service, they should have an alternate provider ready at all times so that they could instantly switch to it. Whether it's another external provider or in house, is not really relevant, although having a bare bones in house alternative for the critical parts is a good idea.

What I'm suggesting is that people should use external services for their lower costs, better performance, or extra features, not to 100% depend on any of them.
Have you seen the overhead picture of the area in question? There's a path through the median that she was crossing from. If they didn't want people to cross there, the median should be designed differently.
http://www.ncsl.org/research/transportation/pedestrian-cross...

"Arizona: Vehicles must yield the right-of-way to pedestrians within a crosswalk that are in the same half of the roadway as the vehicle or when a pedestrian is approaching closely enough from the opposite side of the roadway to constitute a danger. Pedestrians may not suddenly leave the curb and enter a crosswalk into the path of a moving vehicle that is so close the vehicle is unable to yield. Pedestrians must yield the right-of-way to vehicles when crossing outside of a marked crosswalk or an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection. Where traffic control devices are in operation, pedestrians may only cross between two adjacent intersections in a marked crosswalk."
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There's probably more than one person on HN
> Unpopular opinion: co/contravariant representations represent exactly the point at which formal typesafety starts hurting instead of helping as an engineering practice.

Type safety? It's a way to maintain soundness. Covariance and contravariance expands the amount of valid programs you can write within a language while maintaining soundness. It's fundamentally important if you want to reason about programs and make claims about the validity of programs.

> your project would have been better served by an environment that just let you do trick with runtime validation

Are you talking about dynamic programming? Trick with runtime validation? Are you talking about Java and C# runtime failures for their object arrays before generics? What do you exactly mean by trick?

> The resulting code is cleaner, simpler, easier to maintain and more straightforward to evolve than the "correct" madness that results from proper functional analysis.

So you'd rather have cleaner, simpler programs that are incorrect? You don't care about soundness? Or are you saying that removing co and contravariance in a language is a valid trade off even if it limits the set of valid programs within a language? It's not exactly clear what you are saying.
All the default methods of transferring photos out of the iOS ecosystem will convert the photos to JPEG transparently. This is only a problem with third-party software or if you manually disable the compatibility option.
The newly introduced prove pass is probably the biggest game changer. And it provides a ground work for new optimizations to be done on top of it.
Hopefully they'll inspire others to follow and we'll see more paid content and less advertising on the rest of the web, too.
Is this comment suggesting it is slower than other languages for those operations? If so, which languages? How much slower? Recommended tests?

Is it possible that mandating vectorised solutions and avoiding I/O were in fact design goals of the author?

Not disputing the comment. Looking for more details.
That works the first time. Then the tree is gone.
I'm aware. I'm asking how image quality to file size compares.
Depends on the UI density/layout. The design language itself is actually very nice.
I hear this critique a lot but I don't often see alternative paradigms/examples offered.

I don't think material design is very pretty either and I'm very interested in alternatives, if only I knew what they were!
good catch - though at least in my defense it looks like it was "little-known and widely ignored"
But they had other prospective employees as well.

The choice wasn't "hire someone or don't hire someone", it was "hire someone that will complicate taxes and cause more expenses, or hire someone else of similar salary and skill that doesn't cause those issues".
And while he was doing that, how many features could he have added that would increase revenue for the company?
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You should go and murder 70 000 people (google
Raymond Thomas ISIS) by yourself. It's pretty obvious they all deserved to die, from your armchair.

I can play stupid word games too, see.
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Appreciate you! Here is one project I used Creative Tim dashboard for https://github.com/qorrect/sisy , screenshots at bottom.
which bank was that?
In re: https://buffalonews.com/2018/05/20/lockport-schools-turn-to-...
I can't find the story, but several years ago, an NBA player bought a bunch of fast food franchises, and there was collective head-scratching about why he'd do that. Matthew Yglesias pointed out that it was brilliant: the value of the franchises was that they were illiquid, so that he had a backstop against overspending or family members asking for money.

About that last point: for those of us who come from middle class backgrounds, it's easy to think "just be reasonable about what you give people". It's a much harder proposition if your entire family has been struggling your entire life--especially if they made sacrifices for your dream (I think John Wall's mom once let the lights get cut off to pay for something basketball related for him).
The overwhelming majority of vehicles on the road today don't break for pedestrians. Just a few models of cars sold in the past few years have features to automatically engage braking.

https://www.consumerreports.org/car-safety/where-automakers-...
:-). I totally agree. I keep an eye on rainfall totals because that determines how good the harvest with be. Nevermind the fact that I buy all my food from the shop. I don't see cow dung or any farm animal dung as being dirty. We used to use it as binding agent for the mud huts and spread it on the floor, to make the floor. I often terrorise my city slicker friends with cow dung. I can make cars out of wire. When I see wires I often find myself visualisng the cars I could make. We used to milk cows and goats, plough with cows, pull carts with the donkeys, fish with home made hooks and nets. None of this useful when trying to tune my SQL queries.
I'm confused.

You seem to think everyone on HN agrees with each other.
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Who remembers when ~~JPEG2000~~JPEG XR was going to be the next big thing?
> Yes indeed it can, and said water vapor (being a greenhouse gas) can induce more greenhouse gas effects. But this appears to be routinely glossed over, as if it's just a non-issue; not everyone agrees with that assessment, though.

You mean as in the models don't include it? I'm very sure they do, I'd have to search for citation though.

> As to the warmer air thing, lots of people make statements to the effect that warmer air holding more water vapor will lead to much heavier rainfall and such. Which certainly MIGHT be true, but it doesn't HAVE to be true.

That's why we use models to try and figure out what the probable truth is. This part is hard though, and only 'medium confidence' is reached for any influence on the water cycle since 1960 at all. (https://ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/wg1/WG1AR5_TS_FINA...) I wouldn't rely too much on those precipitations change forecasts yet either, but things will change if we keep going like this.

> Funny story: ..

Haha, I can imagine. The storm thing is complex and hard to predict too. Let me cite the IPCC report:

'Confidence remains low for long-term (centennial) changes in tropical cyclone activity, after accounting for past changes in observing capabilities. However, for the years since the 1970s, it is virtually certain that the frequency and intensity of storms in the North Atlantic have increased although the reasons for this increase are debated (see TFE.9). There is low confidence of large-scale trends in storminess over the last century and there is still insufficient evidence to determine whether robust trends exist in small-scale severe weather events such as hail or thunderstorms.' Table 11 here has details on the model runs: https://ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/wg1/WG1AR5_Chapter...
Looks like your oceanographer was right. But I guess your point was the attitude, not the facts. There seems to be a general problem in communication since the beginning.

Concluding, what's your general point?

Do you think that CO2 is not a problem?

Do you want to doubt the specific predictions? (The IPCC reports helps to differentiate between virtually certain and still doubtful points, they're not all the same.)

Do you want to critize the attitude in communication? (I do think these issues need to be communicated and discussed better. Also, at this point it's really in the hands of politicians and society to work with this, not scientists.)

Addendum: There is vivid discussion of the water issue here: https://www.skepticalscience.com/water-vapor-greenhouse-gas....
"HN" is not a single entity and it is made up of los of people with different opinions and values.

If everybody had the same point of view, there would be no ground for a discussion...
As multi-stepped and prolonged as it is to sell to large enterprises, I don’t look forward to tomorrow when yet another question to be answered before any large org signs a contract with a small startup like us is: are you going to sell and shutdown?

This has happened so many times that it can really affect how small companies are preceived as too risky too deal with by larger customers.
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The NTSB preliminary report directly contradicts this article.

https://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/NR20180524.as...

On scene police reports are often unreliable. This is why the NTSB does not speculate before the investigation is completed.
Well it never went to court, so we may never know the details, but the FDA claims it went way beyond that.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/google-settles-over-on...

> An undercover investigator informed Google employees creating the advertising for the products that they were manufactured overseas and did not require customers have a valid prescription, she said. “In each instance, despite this knowledge, Google employees created a full advertising campaign for each of the undercover websites,” Martin-Weis said.
Another angle: Having to get security clearance affects your personal life and opens you to criminal problems you wouldn't otherwise have. I would think people could opt out for this reason if it wasn't a upfront requirement of the job.
True, but keep in mind:

It is a normal part of all herpesviruses to be quiescent. They have the capacity to reactivate from nothing but their genome into a fully functional virus.

Ebola is a negative-stranded RNA virus, and it is unlikely to find naked RNA in any body site. Rather, it is a mix of infectious virions and noninfectioius virus-like particles. The NEJM study you site was a qRTPCR only study. There was no attempt to actually culture the virus from the semen. Previous studies have tried culturing, and it difficult to culture semen-derived virus at the qRTPCR titers identified here.
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there are no permanent solutions don't let perfect become the enemy of the good.
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The original company could have argued that the value received for its assets was less than its liabilities. It’s perfectly legal, but way overused in tech (where assets are overwhelmingly in the form of IP without an easily established market value).

This type of uncertainty does lead to a situation where potential customers are wary of using a startup service — I can’t build a business off your service if I don’t have confidence your company will want me as a customer in 3 years.

Ultimately I think we’re witnessing the final consolidation of the software industry. I expect the cloud/software industry of the next 30 years to start to look much like telecom over the last 30 years.

Probably worse for consumers short term, but ultimately the plumbing isn’t all that interesting and it will hopefully enable the next round of innovation.
I'm guessing his point is

"Taking a stand against war is great, right up till the enemy jackboots are stepping on your face"
Is it? I don't think it would be. In fact, extortion and coercion are fairly easy because there are no rules (this I can attest to from both sides of the equation). The easiest weakness to exploit is always going to be the humans involved, especially in a legitimate business. The only true way to protect data like this is to have it not exist in the first place. Once the data is created - forget it, you might as well assume if Big Bro really wants it, they're going to get it -- because they will, if they don't already have it. It's not a case of if, but when.
Perhaps "protocol" is meant as a standard specification (like ActivityPub) and "API" as a specific implementation for a company/service?
I lived a couple miles from Disneyland for 10 years and I'm sure I went to Disneyland 500 times during that period.

There are people who are obsessive like any other hobby. There are people who seem to be trying to relive their childhood or one they never had, over paper over some damage.

But for me, it was sort of a relaxation thing. Working a high-stress tech job, there was an implicit understanding amonghts my friends and I. You leave your troubles outside the park, and have fun.
Here in The Netherlands we pay ~€90~€120 premium to insurers. The €90 package only gives you access to select hospitals per region for non-emergency care, and you aren’t covered for ‘extras’ like physiotherapy. The €120 package is pretty much the ‘all-in’ package.

On top of that you have a ~€380 deductible. Everything except medicine costs goes from this deductible first. If you really trust your health (or have the money to cover it) you can raise the deductible to ~€800, which will drop your monthly premium by ~€20.

GP visits are free and act as a sort of filter for access to the ‘real’ healthcare system. Anything minor (prescriptions for various minor diseases, mole removal, etc) goes through him and if he thinks something warrants further research you get blood work done or see a specialist, waiting times usually 1 week, 2 weeks tops.

All in all its a really nice ‘hybrid’ sort of system. It isn’t 100% socialized like some countries around us, but the end result is that we have the best healthcare system in Europe (and thus probably the world) :)
The advantage of having 1b users.
The problem with discourse in 2018 is outrage motivates people to comment more than anything. “What gets rewarded gets done” so the place becomes an outrage factory, then online discourse self selects for outrage, then cycle.
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You could say that an API implements a protocol, but a protocol is much more general. For instance IRC is a well known and widely implemented protocol. Facebook messenger implements a protocol for client server commination, but there are few or none implementations if either side and the main implementation can change the protocol arbitrarily and without notice.
I used to be a CompuServe forum manager 25 years ago and got started with dialup BBS using Qmodem at 2400bps. Sent mail via FidoNet and loved it. Got my first internet access when IBM offered accounts to the general public. Our small office of 15 had a Class C service provided by PSINet for $1100/month. Even though I'm still active building sites and managing networks it seems... boring. The old stuff took a bit of fiddling to optimize but now it is all so homogenized it seems... boring and I notice myself avoiding online stuff.
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When did inset quotes of the article itself begin to be placed after the text quoted? I feel like this is a change from what I expect: that inset quotes are optional, interesting asides that add value to the article. Not word-for-word copy-pastes of what I just read.

Has this changed? I feel like the approach taken in this article is becoming more common and I kind of hate it. But I also wonder if it's just my mind playing tricks on me. If it is a change, is it due to digital publishing constraints or does it serve some purpose or audience that I can't envision?
And then you get yet another level of abstraction. It's about like developers who want to wrap all of their data access in a repository pattern just in case they want to change databases.

Two things about that -- hardly anyone ever changes infrastructure just to save a little money and their code has to be so generic that they can't take advantage of all of the features of the platform.

The chances are far greater that your company will go out of business way before Amazon stops offering AWS. Theory is great that Terraform allows you to seamlessly move infrastructure between cloud providers, but the amount of risk and regression testing it takes to do so would make it a non starter for most companies.
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On the off chance you're not already acquainted, you might really like Go. There are no classes, thus struct types are the bread and butter. "Methods" are lightweight syntactic sugar combining structs and functions; structs effectively double as classes, but the scope and complexity they offer are perhaps easier to juggle compared to the typical object-oriented language.

The inheritance mechanism, implemented via interfaces, is interesting because it stresses conformance to behavior rather than explicit relationships between types. If your Circle struct type walks and talks like a Shape, then it is implicitly usable as a Shape. It's functionally identical to explicitly defined inheritance between types in other languages, but there's something about the _feel_ of developing with Go's interfaces. You begin to think more about the simple behaviors that each type should exhibit, rather than drawing hard lines in the sand about the hierarchy of relationships. Circles and Squares don't extend a base Shape type. Rather, a Circle can calculate its surface area. A Square can do the same. Conveniently, it just so happens that any type that can calculate its area is promoted to being usable anywhere a Shape is expected.
Agreeing with this and referencing Peter Thiel, which I do a lot. In Zero to One, Thiel argues that the pure, ideal free markets that politicians and economists dream of drive profits to zero. Think about the math - it's obvious. You see this in high competition markets for effectively identical products, like groceries or gas stations. Razor-thin margins. The only way to profit is via some sort of localized monopoly, which is what "unique value proposition" of any sort actually means. This isn't a defense of old-school robber baron monopolies (which break the math in the other direction), but it's to Thiel's broader ideas about how to build a high profit company.

The need for labor unions is a product of the free market, and a way to build a unique value proposition. With employees that are totally fungible, totally replaceable parts, the marginal value of labor itself is driven to zero. Wages become a race to the bottom, and working becomes unprofitable. But by saying "Only members of the union can work here", the union sharply decreases the available labor pool, thus creating a unique value proposition.

In other words, it's a market response to a market problem.

The people who call for "free markets" and rail against unions basically don't understand what it is they're asking for. They're in love with an ideal, not thinking about how profit actually works in the real world, as a function of economics. It's straight-up ignorance reinforced by puritan idealism.
I don't want this. I want a 100 inch OLED screen, so I can finally ditch my projector, and watch films with the lights on.
> There's certainly a case to be made that a strong US military is in the world's best interest.

The USA was formed on a basic distrust of the government, including checks & balances, and non-federal armament in the 2nd amendment. It is not allowed to be a single, trusted federal power, but rather one whose powers are defined by limited and explicit allowance, with default powers resting on the distributed states and people.

The notion that the USA should stand in a singular trusted and empowered situation over the rest of the world neither fits with fundamental American concepts, nor notions of robustness in general. Strength of militaries should be distributed among independent allies, not focused on any single point of failure or corruption.

The military strength of the USA certainly benefits the USA. But a singular point of above-and-beyond military strength is not a model of benefiting the world.
Can anything interesting be used on iOS?
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I've had an air conditioner stolen off my building while I had employees working there can't imagine what metal scrap value of that machine would be.
Can anyone suggest a good embedded language with static or at least optional typing ? I feel this is a gap in the market for embedded languages.
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> Europeans celebrate the gutenburg press when the chinese and koreans had it hundreds of years before.

Actually, Gutenberg did build the first printing press. The Chinese developed both printing and movable type much earlier, but they did not go on to develop a full press for printing.

This is one of the issues: there is a lot of cultural value in being able to make the "first" claim stick, but it is often very difficult to define what constitutes "first." Stephenson's Rocket was not the first locomotive, but it was clearly so superior to every other extant model that every subsequent locomotive relied heavily on its innovation. The B&O Railroad is one of the strongest contenders for "first railroad in the US" title, yet the early railroad is nothing like the modern one, particularly in track construction.
shouldn't that apply to companies too?
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Ah! Beat me by 1 minute :D

I saw this first on Lawfare: https://www.lawfareblog.com/document-supreme-court-rules-car...