skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't fully disagree, but you have to realize that there are a great number of people and places that are not hooked up to the internet, due to geography, politics, history, or other reasons.

Some of the best restaurants, hotels, and other experiences in the world are not reachable via an online reservation system.

The place I stayed last weekend can only be reserved by phone. Not because the owners luddites, but to keep out the bargain hunting riff-raff. There was a piece on CBS News a few weeks ago about a restaurant in Maine that's so popular you can only make a reservation by mail.

Sure hotels.com and opentable.com may nail the 80% of what's popular to the kinds of people who go to those sorts of places. But this world is so much bigger and more interesting than the internet or even Google can imagine.

For me the killed Duplex app will be when it's able to make a reservation for me in a language I don't speak. But even though its lost the "beta" badge, Google Translate still isn't ready for primetime.[0]

[0] I say this based on the feedback from the professional translators I work with daily. I put Google Translate text in my work as placeholders, and they have to then re-translate the projects correctly before they can be published.
Show HN: Conduit Intro Assist – AI that writes email intros for you
I've recently got caught in a dark pattern by cheap airline in Europe - Wizzair.

They've cancelled one of my flights and "automatically rebooked" into different one. Turns out it wasn't really automatic - scroll down the email and there's bunch of options with buttons "Click here to login". Because I didn't really accept my new automatic flight booking, I had to pay €30 check-in fee at the airport.
I share similar annoyance with these articles, but I assume writers are generally not interested in being business people, which puts them in a weak negotiating position.

It makes me think that one of the groups representing writers should start a nonprofit publisher to provide an alternative. But that would have to be well run, which is it's own risk.
You know they only hold 4-6% of the US total debt, right?

The vast majority is held by US institutions.
Ask HN: AWS trouble for anyone else?
This morning I had reached the milestone of soft-launching my side-project turned startup, but the first user contacted me to say sign-up was broken. I traced the problem down to AWS Cognito (in us-east-2) returning an error during the sign-up process. Great timing! I called up AWS and they said they want to look into a potential outage causing this first (and that Cognito was having issues in another region) before debugging my stuff.

With Slack down, I'm suspecting AWS is the culprit, but it's difficult to find a good "source of truth" in this situation - last time I checked, the AWS status dashboard was all green. So, anyone else having issues? I'm hoping it gets resolved soon so that my mailing list doesn't get routed to a broken app :(
If your criteria allow for this sort of handwaving nonsense, your criteria may be wrong.
In my experience the results are worse with full sentences, just as it was described.
Basically everyone in my office types full sentences to Google, and it drives me crazy.
This might be the longest downtime I've ever seen for Slack.
you don't have to spoof, just leave the WAN device off around the time when your dhcp lease expires. When you come back online, you'll find you have a new lease with likely a new address.
For all the negative comments about the presentation, which I might normally agree with, I liked this format this time. It took a while to load (thank you multi-threading).

I got through it because I treated it like an interactive video with subtitles, which is better than a video. I liked the sound - which, in my iPhone, was muted at the started as my phone was muted, so I didn't even realise there was audio. I liked that I could go forwards and backwards. I liked that I could just read. It fit well on my phone, I don’t know what it looks like on desktop.

Now, getting to the content itself, I found it to be very sad, especially at how the spirit to protest was killed.
You just gave a good argument of why s/he should use Slack. Yeah s/he might be doing it wrong, but so what? One should focus on core business, not system administration.
ATMs in India Could Be Hacked Because Banks Haven't Updated Windows Since 2014
I started on one, more to use as a research platform than to do specific useful things. That said, I have been too busy to really work on it and it doesn't really do anything terribly specific at the moment. But I do have high hopes for it.
This wanted to generate a discussion related to a problem that, I aree with you, in my opinion seems unsolved. Not only truth, but also at higher level, looking at the scientific method and its problems and limitations.
I agree with you 100%- there should be a protocol for handling this situation. I have know idea what that should be, but seems like there needs to be a way to encapsulate the battery with an insulator and prevent any further shorts/fires.
That would be a fault of the system then.
Perhaps overly pedantic, but I would imagine that practically all cars are used to commit traffic violations (speeding, rolling stop at a stop sign) by even very careful drivers.
> Duplex represents a rare early look into an ongoing project from a company notorious for playing it close to the vest.

Wat. Google is notorious for announcing dozens of projects only to cancel/downplay them a year, a year and a half later.

Their I/O keynotes are usually replete with "awesome product, will be released some undefined time in the future" (many of those never materialise, or take on new forms).
I wouldn't say it "covers it," more "glosses over it rapidly."

"Perfect is the enemy of good" is a legit problem we should avoid (i.e. not using HTTPS at all because CloudFlare isn't perfect) but the benefits and drawbacks should at least be discussed.

For example I think an insecure back-channel between your personal blog and CloudFlare is likely fine, but your eCommerce business, perhaps not.
Right but they need the increase development to sustain their growth iirc from my news reading.
Yeah. Dijkstra was talking about not building your whole program out of if and goto, and using functions and for/while/etc. Particularly he's talking about Dartmouth BASIC that didn't have anything else.

Like, imagine the spaghetti lovecraftian horror of a non trivial program that's just if and goto. At the time, there was a particularly vocal camp that essentially made the argument that it shouldn't matter since if/goto is equivalent to what exists in the machine code anyway, and you can technically do all the same things.
Companies already go out of their way to place nice with Google (AMP pages). OpenTable really wouldn't have a choice. By being the default, Google has a competitive advantage.

Google doesn't want to be in the restaurant booking system business

Google wants to be in every business where they can gather data to better target advertising.
Sure, everything has zero-sentience. Zero-sentience correctly reflects the lack of a sense of itself. Some structures have other levels of sentience in addition to zero-sentience.
Are the funds not used to develop Linux?
I feel like the authors should have picked either narrated video or text, not both. I couldn't get through this, too painful.
Really excellent hardware but I'm sad its using Windows because its horrible and it angers me when I use it.

If Apple could make a device like this...it would easily be a top seller even with their Apple tax.
I can guarantee that's because the article is light on insight and heavy on emotionality and will almost certainly seek to tug on the heartstrings as it has no real commentary or insight into the situation. It just wants to show you crying babies, women and sad people.
Understanding quantum physics through simple experiments [pdf]
3 Reasons Why Replacing Microsoft Excel Is Worth Money to a Boss
If you try calling a restaurant and say "Hi. I'm trying to book for 4 at 20 tonight for my client. Is it possible? Please say Yes or No", I suspect you'll discover that it's in fact not more efficient than a typical human conversion.
Analytics, Security, and Horizons at DrupalCamp Spain
The overwhelming majority of businesses won't switch their booking system unless they have a truly compelling reason. A large proportion of small businesses still use pen-and-paper to manage their bookings and have no intention of changing.

People would have said the same about payment systems before Strype came along....
WhatsApp had 55 employees not 5.

And additional features are going to add massive complexity and decrease your ability to scale relatively quickly. Sure, with the right engineering you might be able to run a relatively light operation if you have a feature-set well thought out, but as soon as you want to add any other thing-a-mo-bob to the operation it gets much harder.
INFORMATION ABOUT DATA SECURITY INCIDENT BY THIRD-PARTY SUPPLIER
I had similar issues with a home-rolled desktop(nothing ridiculous! intel CPU, amd GPU, adaptec raid card, stack of ram. No old or weird hardware) and eventually just gave up and sold the entire lot. The last straw for me, after many update issues, is when it decided to update on its own in the middle of the night and then refuse to boot due to some date/time mismatch error killing the windows activation so much it wouldn't even start up beyond the error message. I googled it, and it ended up being faster to reinstall than fix since i had an install USB on hand.(it was some huge mess of "mount the boot drive on another system and then...")

I just use my(pre-current design/mk1 retina) macbook pro with the same monitor at my desk now
It should be relatively easy to ditch an online identity. Start with changing your email (no mail forwarding either), then set up new accounts for the services you care about.

I changed my identity on HN and reddit all the time -- just create a new account. Of course these services could probably connect new with old just by IP address, but I don't care about that. What I'm actually doing is gaurding against something coming back to bite me in the ass years later (an unpopular opinion, lapse in judgement, etc).

Cahnging legal stuff, that depends on your country.
One time I visited the Green Bank Radio Telescope site in W.Va and was told a story about how the operators once spent a day tracking down the source of radio interference which was causing noise in their data. After triangulating the signal, it was discovered that the source was a frayed and damaged electric blanket several miles away. The blanket had been used exclusively by an elderly resident's dog and had been unwittingly transmitting enough radio signals to mess up their work over at the telescopes.
I actually found this to be worth the time. I haven't paid much attention to the situation down there, and seeing it was enlightening.

Onto the content...

I wonder, can someone tell me why there are so many obese people in these video clips, if food is so hard to come by?

Why does there seem to be so many people sitting around? Surely with so much manpower available, there are way to make them productive on a large scale?
It's by far the best because everyone is on it though -- that shouldn't be understated.
Darpa Unveils $100M EDA Project
The Linux Foundation does do some pretty useful work. For instance, iirc, they facilitate much of the work on Let's Encrypt.
You are comparing apples to oranges.

Self hosting a service will of course mitigate all of the issues you listed. The control shifts from a company like Facebook into the hands of the server owner.
Plastic garbage patch: Medical tests 'inspired me to investigate'
This is so useful. Happy user of the broader Conduit product as well - it's amazing to see what this team is building.
> You can, actually, especially if you aren't the president of that country, and I'm fairly confident none of us are.

Following your logic: It would have been OK for morally bankrupt administrators of Nazi concentration camps to criticize what administrators of Gulag were doing.

> Whataboutism

Another word/concept used by the west to preempt/fight criticism of its crimes from the east. It is perfidious, but after one learns about it, it is transpicuous.

> China was the topic that Simulacra was writing about.

Simulacra was writing about China in the context of "human rights issues" (exact these word used). OP even asks "do these tariffs have any chance of improving China's behavior". ("behavior" being human rights behavior).

To close this thing off (I simply don't care for the USA or the west as a whole to criticize them at length from the perspective of wishing them get better)... I find it interesting that neither you nor anyone else who has responded to my comment has said anything about the core of it: The hegemon USA commits heinous crimes by itself and indirectly through its allies; until it stops doing it and does something to at least a bit mitigate the effects of the disastrous imperial politics it leads for hundreds of years it has no moral authority to criticize anyone who commits much less heinous crimes.

This evasion of the core issue is the reason why the west and its allies (Turkey, Saudi Arabia) are so hated and despised as it shows your unwillingness to be a good "citizen" of this Planet. You want to conquer, to subjugate, to enslave everyone.

It is no wonder why people in the rest of the world speak of three cities of evil: Vatican, London and Fashington. For they are responsible for millions upon millions of liters of human blood spilled, for millions maimed and abused human beings, for millions of slaves. (other western empires are not far behind: Germany, Austria, France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Netherlands, Italy)
This is what socialism does. This is the outcome. They just pin it all on Maduro like there has ever been any other socialist "utopia" that didn't also turn out like this. Cue the chorus of: But they had good intentions, this isn't real socialism... and on and on. At least the place hasn't gone all kmer rouge on it's people yet, hopefully it never does.
I don't understand the angst, are you saying they should not accept any donation for those companies?
There's Google Chat if you use G Suite like us. https://chat.google.com/welcome

Or Atlassian's Stride is really great too: https://www.stride.com/

If your org happens to be part of the Microsoft Office 365 ecosystem, there's Microsoft Teams. All of the products support bots, gifys, and emojis. I personally think Google Chat and Stride are much faster than slack too. I haven't tried Microsoft Teams yet.
The biggest step back happened after we started describing the "human-computer interaction". I don't want an interaction. I'm talking to a machine, not a person. This isn't a two-way conversation. If I wanted to see transitions between slides and text fed to me piecemeal, I'd watch a TV report on the issue. This article is like watching that TV report but also having to click an arrow every ten seconds to prove I'm still paying attention. I got through maybe six slides before giving up.
That’s a valid approach for everyday life... I do the same as well for the most part. But I have looked at the raw science data for climate change and understood why it’s so pressing (I love coral reefs, and keep a reef tank, and they are having serious problems).

If you ever get into a position to make policy though, definitely read the data. It’ll light a fire under you like no other.
The presentation in question answers this quite clearly. The changes in code produced by optimization can produce subtle changes in behavior. Having debugged opt only production issues (C++) I am well aware that you cannot simply "select what you're comfortable with".
Hey I am working at MILA lab, and very interested in seeing how we can optimize or automate the pollineation process, would you be interested in getting in touch? Message me on Facebook to Mamal Amini if you are.
Likely a history.pushState vs history.replaceState bug (they want the latter)
Putting the car in a large, fire-proof steel container (specialty engineering, they exist) for a few weeks (so you are at least somewhat sure it won't start catching fire RFN). Then dismantling the battery by hand, inspecting each cell individually.

You can't really put anything around it (like a nitrogen atmosphere) that prevents fires, because the oxygen is already in there in the cathode. And so is the energy to ignite it.
Very nice!

I've been having similar thoughts for a while (and also have done some non-public research along similar lines).

For those who are mystified or confused by the OP's title, the idea is to train DNNs to learn to map continuous objects to discrete embeddings, i.e., to map such objects to a list of learned entities drawn from a learned vocabulary, with each entity representing a different "feature" or "category."

Perhaps a better term to describe what the DNN is doing is unembedding dense/continuous embeddings. Once the DNN is trained, we feed object embeddings (e.g., objects embedded in a grid of pixels) and the DNN outputs a list of features/categories that describe the object.

Obviously, those discrete DNN-learned features/categories necessarily will have less representational capacity than continuous (floating point) ones, but they enable all sorts of interesting applications that are otherwise impractical or not feasible. The author barely hints at some of these possible uses.

Highly recommended reading if deep representation learning is of interest to you!
I've extensively written code like this, though I don't seem to see others do it very often.
I suppose if you really hate gotos, then a "do { } while(0);" with a "break;" in the middle of it is equivalent.

There's just too much cleanup, such that avoiding gotos means you're either nested 200 columns into the screen or have half your function filled with partially-duplicated cleanup code.
Despite the mountain of code it is hopefully simple by design:

- about 40 NPM dependencies in total when all modules are added so it installs very quickly and node_modules is manageable

- about 150 lines of CSS

- one Redis database, with optional encryption at rest

- no client-side javascript (but needs a couple bits for Stripe stuff, and the groundwork is in place for it to feel like an SPA eventually)

- no build process, just node main.js so it starts very quickly

- no templating language to learn, just ECMAScript string literals `like ${this + that}` in vanilla HTML files (https://github.com/userappstore/dashboard/blob/master/src/ww...)

- DOM-like construction of HTML in NodeJS (https://github.com/userappstore/dashboard/blob/master/src/ww...)

- continually sweeping the software and modules to apply more consistent code formatting and tests

- careful not to include text and formatting in code in preparation for localization

- careful not to abstract to the point you require broad familiarity with the project to understand any page or nodejs

If you want to have a look check this out:

1) This is the basic dashboard software, this part by itself is intended to be all you need to create a web or mobile app with user registrations.

http://github.com/userappstore/dashboard

2) This is what the application emits when you start it up, after combining the dashboard, any modules you use, and any code you added to a single sitemap:

https://github.com/userappstore/dashboard/blob/master/sitema...

3) This is the test output for the dashboard

https://github.com/userappstore/dashboard/blob/master/tests....

Then the modules extend it:

http://github.com/userappstore/organizations

http://github.com/userappstore/stripe-subscriptions

http://github.com/userappstore/stripe-connect

http://github.com/userappstore/maxmind-geoip

My end goal is for this software to reach a very stable and mature place, concentrating on a very small set of responsibilities and doing them very well.
Can you help me find sources for this? Having a tough time.
Jealous? I unfortunately have about 50-60 flights in a couple of years. And that is too much. The airport and air travel experience is really not very good. Add to it the emissions. I personally would prefer less flights and more effective work. Where are the great AR conference facilities?
If EV companies were confident in their engineering, one could design a system with entirely electric braking.

No brake pads required. Simply dump the energy into the battery (or a big heater for the excess when the battery is full or too cold to charge)

Obviously, you can't have a failure in the electrical or control system or you can't brake anymore, so that part will have to be designed with much more redundancy than it is in todays vehicles.
Yeah, your "early 2000s comment" really stuck out to me. I'm surprised they lasted through 98.

I remember thinking domain names were for people who "really knew what they were doing" and then was pissed I didn't register one before NetSol started charging (IIRC there was a big outcry because Kraft foods registered like 137 domains right before they started charging).
Introducing GiveCrypto.org
Tensorflow.js: model training and predicting at the edge
I've had more issues with high sierra than any release since lion, but still less than i've had with windows 10(and i even own a surface pro!). I really hate having to choose between two bad options, but it's more a borderline unacceptable option with 10 and a begrudgingly workable one with HS.

I'm completely with you, and i don't understand how it seems to have peaked in reliability somewhere around 10.9-10.11 and just slid downhill since. 10.9-10 was probably the most reliable release since 10.6. I would pay significant extra money for some kind of ESR/enterprise release that was that stable just to get stuff done.
You're right, it's not from amp.js, it's from https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/blob/master/spec/amp-b...

From that: AMP HTML documents must contain the following boilerplate in their head tag.

> That's not how "AMP cache" hosting works.

With prefetching my understanding (from what's been written publically) is that content will be allowed to be hosted on your own domain. Ie, your domain in the address bar. Are you saying otherwise?

> There's nothing to indicate that Google do no internal tracking of their own.

OK so you just disagree on where the burden of proof lies.

> The intent of my comment was to point out that being aware of this issue involves a relatively low level of knowledge/investigation/interest.

You think it causes an 8 second delay. It doesn't. The page loads unbrowsercached in less than a second. The low level of knowledge/investigation/interest still seems to be above your own.
And then imagine them shutting it down, and costing vendors billions to replace it.
They should not grant membership to companies that have a demonstrated history of being hostile to FLOSS. But hey, who would say no to more money, amirite?
The tech and applications have existed for a while now, but adoption hasn't been comparable to large, centralized rivals.

I'd argue activityPub isn't the future, until it root causes the reason for anemic adoption.

Also, the best use case might not be in transferring an existing centralized app onto activity pub
Google Home and Chromecast DOWN
That's true, but there's so much open source around and so many critical projects are developed on a shoestring or by time-pressed volunteers. We learned the consequences that hard way with OpenSSL (and at least partially mitigated them since).

An excessive donation could pay for some needed but more workmanlike development, like better open source drivers (or hardware reverse-engineering to create them).
Wouldn't the shutdown be the thesis of the memo?
The father claims that he set his son's car to have a speed limiter. However we have no reason to believe that the son didn't try to remove the limiter. Given the son's previous behavior, there is every reason to believe that the son would have noticed the limiter and tried to turn it off.
Yes, Slack is down