skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is probably the type of suggection a regulatory "hawk" would make. Essentially, make your next cat-and-mouse move big. "Lets see you get around that one, industry.!"

They see how easy/optimized subscriptions are, and how hard/optimized cancellations are. They see the regulatory cat-and-mouse game. Conclude that "industry" is acting in bad faith, and suggest an FU rule like that.

Industry will respond (correctly) that this kind of a proposal puts a big burden on them, and makes managing subscriptions very hard and expensive.

I think it's a bad idea for the same reason you can't stop hyperinflation by yelling at retailers to stop their "greedy price gouging." Swimming directly into a persistant economic incentives current is hard. "Complying" becomes implementing the minimum standard which is still legal.

A better approach (IMO, I am not a policy maker) would be to (1) recognize the major economic incentives (2) avoid leaving low level decision making (implementation) in the hands of those whose economic incentives are opposed to your goals. (3) if you absolutely must force companies to act against their own interest, be extremely prescriptive. Leave nothing open ended and do as little of this as possible.

In this case, I don't think it's that hard. Regulate payment providers, particularly CCs. They already have a regulator, so no structural changes (or even legislation, possibly) is necessary.

(1) Make subscriptions an explicit type of thing. (2) Enforce a minimum amount of information that the payment provider must receive, in order to honour the subscription. (3) display this information to customers. Monthly paper statements are fine. (4) Enforce a standard whereby consumers can cancel recurring payments by contacting the payment provider.

A credit card service, bank, bitcoin wallet or whatever has no incentive to make cancelations clunky. Simply putting the onus on them is probably sufficient regulation. The better ones will probably give you a nice app/web view with extra user friendly features the regulator never even thought of. For example, they might alert you when "introductory price" periods end or keep track of "minimum durations" to let you know when your contract expires.

A have a similar view on cookie laws & parts of GDPR. Instead of leaving everything up to websites (who have an incentive to make you give up all your rights), regulate the data browsers & ISPs share with a website. They're not as vested in minimizing user rights.
It's using preact, the react.js alternative
Nawaz 10 years jail.

His daughter, who faked the document, 7 years in jail.

Millions in fines.

Apartments in question to be returned to government.
Calling in your bluff, no such people "Aprahulians"
> how is it even possible?

Instead of compiling to machine code, you compile to another language instead. C++ was originally compiled to C, for example.

Why would you think it wasn't possible?
Everything You Wanted to Know About Religion and Politics but Were Afraid to Ask
Attack on Dawn and Geo were first of a kind after 5 years lull.

In last 5 years, Pakistan saw, well, nothing less than an explosion in privately owned press and TV channels.
Inevitable.

Call centers are a $310B industry ripe for disruption.[a]

This looks like a classic case of Christensen-style disruption.[b] The technology will be used at first only for calls that are easy to handle, but over time will be used to replace more and more human beings handling increasingly more difficult calls.

Besides the cost saving, a motivation is probably that people may feel more comfortable talking to something that seems genuinely human instead of something that is evidently robotic ("press 2 for..."). It remains to be seen if this is true.

No matter what, you will still have to jump over lots of made-up hurdles to cancel your subscription.

[a] https://www.quora.com/How-many-call-centers-are-there-in-the...

[b] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_innovation
>"Low-trust" "multicultural" "society" is race-war code language, isn't it?

Says you, they're just words. If you don't agree you can go ahead and disagree. I won't comment about your rhetoric other than to say it's functionally ad-hominem. Calling something a trope is a also a pretty easy way to hand-wave away anything you don't want to think about.

>and spark a whole unproductive discussion about what it is we "trust" or "don't trust" about people

I would say that trust has not improved, I would say that race relations have not improved (probably deteriorated). Even you can probably agree with that?

Mr. Rodgers prescriptions for life are lovely but impractical, and they haven't helped society at all I would say.
Checkout steemit.com.
Do let me know if you have any questions related to service? I'll be glad to answer.
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...
July 25th?

On June 25th the Ten O'Clock news running order was Heathrow, Grenfell, Migrants, Student Suicide, Swansea Lagoon, NHS, Turkey (1m20), Prince William doing something, then finally the World Cup which was 3 minutes at the end of the program (England had played the previous day)

On June 26th I don't think there was any world cup.

The Ten's running order (tweeted daily by https://twitter.com/paulroyall) is an indication of what the BBC thinks was important that day (where Today's running order is what the BBC thinks will be important that day)
Like tathougies said, it's all about water management. You need an input of roughly 594,000 gallons of water for 1 acre of corn with a yield of around 200 bushels (11,200 pounds of corn).
>Cynics will say this is a PR move, but I don't think that's how Musk operates.

You can't be serious...

Musk's #1 trait, for better or worse, is promotion. Or do you really think he's the guy doing the engineering on all this stuff?
Food transportation is a solved problem. There is zero evidence that this would make food cheaper or more accessible.
> which goes against that idea.

Then remove 'for' as it iterates and checks for a condition at the same time

Remove list comprehensions, as they do multiple things in one single statement

Remove map/filter/zip as they iterate and apply a function

Remove the '+=' operator (though x = x + 1 still do more than one thing at the same time)
You can't regrow your finger, and having working fingers would've been useful for survival for nearly 100% of your ancestors (the ones that had digits, that is).

There are lizards who lose their tails painlessly as a way to escape predators. If they felt pain in that situation, they might die, so it would've been selected out over time.
https://www.dawn.com/news/1344685

> In a separate email, de Groot, the font designer himself, said that while in theory it would have been possible to create a document using Calibri in 2006, the font would have to be obtained from a beta operating system, "from the hands of computer nerds".

> "Why would anyone use a completely unknown font for an official document in 2006?" he went on to question.

> "If the person using Calibri was such a font lover that he or she had to use the new Calibri, then he or she should be able to prove that other documents were printed with Calibri in 2006, and these prints should be in the hands of other people as well," he wrote.

> De Groot said in his opinion the document signed by Maryam Nawaz was "produced much later, when Calibri was the default font in MS Word".

So apparently yes it would be possible but highly unlikely.
>> Some folks found the Duplex demo was scary as hell and worried about the ethical concerns of AI basically faking people out by pretending to be human.

This is interesting. Putting aside the Automation/Job Replacement fears -- if the bot is so good its indistinguishable from regular call center employees (which a majority of the time aren't that great to begin with) it could be a big leap for customer satisfaction.

There's nothing more frustrating than calling into a call center to resolve an issue and waste time due to worker incompetence, language barriers, or lack of empathy.
Many of these are not as much alternatives to the old Macbooks Pro as they are "ultrabooks" focused on imitating the Macbook and Macbook Air.

They make the same mistakes of reducing keyboard travel, eliminating RJ45 ports that don't fit in the chassis, reducing port counts to make the device more wedge-shaped, and reducing battery volume.

I would like to see the Dell Precision, HP Elitebook, and Lenovo P-series included in the lineup. I feel that these mobile workstations are more akin to the old Macbook Pros and better for professional use than an Ultrabook.

Sadly, they seem to be making the same mistakesand regressions that Apple has made in chasing the center of the market. However, if you extend your search space to devices made in the last 4-5 years instead of the bleeding edge, you may drop a few generations off the processor but that just doesn't matter anymore.
This attitude I see all the time on HN absolutely irks me (e.g. the whole 'A graph of programming languages connected through compilers' thread). Too often people post something fun and cool they built and readers complain about some random feature they think would make it better. It's not like OPs goal was to solve every little problem with graphing terms in HN Job threads. There should really be a rule against this sort of critique.

Its one thing to make a feature suggestion to be helpful to the author and a completely different thing to provide armchair critique like this.

The tool they wrote is to do the job they wanted to do. If you want something else, build it. If it doesn't satisfy your needs or you're too lazy to fork it, move on.

With that said, the data (text and HTML) is literally in the assets dir of the repository which should make it easier for you to build your version of the tool. Did you bother looking?
Hastanede Katliam (1981) izle Türkçe Altyazılı 1080p +18
Oh bollocks. Look at his twitter account, it's EXACTLY how he operates. He's a thin skinned narcissist, not dissimilar to Trump or Jordan Peterson. You'd think at his level of success he'd be above replying to everything bad written about him, but he's so fucking sensitive that he just jumps in there like a child.

I used to be a huge fan - this IS the Tesla and SpaceX guy, but man, follow him on Twitter long enough and you just want him to fuck off.
I work at a hospital in Toronto, Canada.
Code2Pix – Deep Learning Compiler for Graphical User Interfaces
How much should you raise or take loan after basic investments? – SlickAccount
I saw exactly that at the first shop I contracted at decades ago. They treated their engineers like dirt. During the interview they were told that travel would be a couple weeks a year. Then some were literally handed airplane tickets when they arrived their first day of work and left on (remote) site for months. To compound things, they would return expense reports unpaid if everything was not filled out exactly correctly.

One day a co-contractor commented at the lack of energy among the employees. He observed that none had any get-up-and-go. I thought about a moment and replied that anyone with get-up-and-go had got-up-and-gone.
Why is that not relevant , its pretty clear that Submarines cant swim since they don't have a will of there own, they are only propelled to where the people inside them, who can think ,want them to go.
But to be honest it is in the interest of the other countries who want the EU to stay to make this really really hard on the UK. And the UK has almost no leverage (or has none to be precise).

So while I absolutely hate to see it happen because I've got lots of friends in the UK, this is either going to hurt badly (hard Brexit), or the UK will simply lose any ability to shape the future of the EU while accepting most of its rules. Don't see any middle ground as the middle ground would massively hurt all other EU countries so its not going to happen.
You know what I've never had in my entire career?

Company: The market is competitive and your market rate has increased, so here's a raise (of more than 2-3%)

Every single time I've got a raise I've had to either fight for it or move, and then companies are wondering why so many people move...
Serious question: how long into the future do you think it would be before society meets the criteria you are expecting? Even if it seems bang obvious to you, it would be an irreconcilable and inconceivable shock to deep-seated cultural beliefs for billions of people, and we are a very political / status-driven type of animal that has deeply ingrained reflex to use any kind of physical characteristics as differentiators for tribes, wars, social classes, etc.

Even if we granted your presumption, it still seems like something that could not possibly be pragmatic or tractable even in hundreds of years, unless there was essentially a global propaganda campaign lasting for generations, orchestrated in unison by wildly different governments and cultural institutions.

Again, I’m not making any normative claim about your viewpoint. I’m only questioning the “still waiting” part .. because surely any even optimistic estimate about when the human species would have a radically different concept of gender or identity would be hundreds and hundreds of years from now, if ever.
What is the max turnaround time for questions from a client?
> There are Java compilers directly to native code though

Dude, if there was some kind of wiki documenting HN lore, there would have to be a page on you drilling this fact into our skulls for years on end! :)

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=java%20native%20pjmlp&sort=byP...
Ask HN: CSS for developers
Hello, I am an experienced (full stack) developer however I always struggle when it comes to playing with CSS. When there's a CSS guy (designer) available everything is smooth, however if I need to do even simple things with CSS I struggle for much time and resort to trial and error and probably hacky solutions.

Most of my projects just use the stock Bootstrap without any changes; if something (even something small) needs to change then my nightmare begins :( Also, in various projects I need to work with non-CSS designers (i.e people that create the site in photoshop or something similar) and then I need to replicate that design (from a bunch of images) to CSS; this is a huge PITA for me and usually I just avoid such projects.

Now, I believe I am familiar with the basics of CSS (selectors, box model, display, positioning, floats, responsive etc) however I can't undestand the whole picture.

What I would like to be able to do is replicate as faithfully as possible (I mean replicate with CSS) an existing site starting from scratch, i.e just with an empty index.html and my own css (let's forget bootstrap for now) plus maybe a basic reset-stylesheet. Is there a book I should read for learning this? Is there some on-line course/tutorial? Something else that you recommend? Maybe a framework? This mainly has to do with laying out things, having proper classes to reuse styles and being responsive, I don't care that much about colors, shadows, borders, fonts, etc since they can easily be copied over.

Thanks !
if they promote the kinds of people who don't like to look for new jobs they might or might not end up with good people at the top.
Electricity energy may be, but you'd still need to pay for the network, ancillary services, etc...
I'm an undergrad at University of Waterloo and the co-op program here gives each student 5 work terms, 4 months each, spread out over a 5 year degree plan. I don't know much about co-op at other universities but I would imagine that this is a contributor to the phenomenon you're seeing.

What do you think about that?
Oh so Mr. Rodgers winked into existence in 1968? I suspect that instead that he was born much earlier than that, and he lived and grew up in a very different USA than the one you live in now, and even a different USA from the one in which he began broadcasting in 1968.
Also I couldn't see a phone number on the site makes it a no go for me
We work in IST time zone. Ideally, on a working day, we will keep it to the minimum. That is the reason we have kept a project coordinator for all our plans.
I'm not a big fan of this. If he wants to help, he knows who to ask, I'm sure they'd take his calls. If he wants to act like a big man on twitter... well he's doing a good job- and that's not really very impressive.
Four Android apps you should be checking out in July
And if they decline, and the kids die, then he can say "At least I offered help"
'...or lack of empathy.'

There is a telecom co in the UK that directs out of hours calls to India. I don't know who's training these people but they do the exact reverse - showering you in empathy to the point where it seems like they are making fun of you?
> suggesting that everything in a contract is always valid

I didn't suggest anything like that. Rather, things in contracts are valid by default.

This isn't even a matter of onerous arbitration clauses (for disputes between the business and the consumer) being burried in fine print that no one reads. (Those have been regulated in some jurisdictions, but are mostly legal.) For credit cards, the arbitration is between the consumer and a 3rd party to the consumer's contract (the merchant), and literally is part of the value provided. People would use credit cards less if the service was discontinued.
Ok it's a no go for me then. I tried dozens of these services and no SLA on response time always made it not work. Good luck though!
My company boosted a teams pay by 31% the rest of the teams are getting fucked over.
Monster Legends Hack Online Generator – The #1 Hack
It's a new landing page. Putting the phone number in a few minutes. :-)
Whataboutism. Corrupt politicians have ruined Pakistan and all of them should rot in prison regardless of their political affiliations. This also includes the corrupt Army generals and officers who have sucked Pakistan dry for years.
The funny thing about call centers is that customers hate them, even when you are good at providing the service. Well regarded, customer focused companies like American Express offer best in class service -- but something like 60% of customers still don't want to talk to them and prefer email or web.

I think Google has an opportunity to do something interesting here, where you basically offer a voice API for humans to interact with. If they can scale it from conversational interactions down to "shortcut" command interfaces and drop the stupid dance that you do when initially calling, that would be an amazing thing.
Its really good that he can and wants to help, I can almost picture him shouting "Thunderbirds are go!"
Thanks for the heads up on the movie. I didn't know it was out in theaters yet.

I grew up in the 90s watching PBS all the time. PBS was pure magic at that time with Ghostwriter, Carmen San Deigo, Sesame Street. Mr. Rogers was my favorite program overall. I always stopped to watch him. He just made you feel calm and collected.

I just recently watched an episode on YouTube and I ended up getting teary-eyed watching it. His simple little show was so impactful. So many great memories and morals I have learned from this show. So good.

I'm afraid to go to the movie. I feel I will be sobbing uncontrollably at the end.
He says he spends the majority of his time on engineering, actually.
His most recent tweet (not cited in the original article):

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1015138953693880320

> SpaceX & Boring Co engineers headed to Thailand tomorrow to see if we can be helpful to govt. There are probably many complexities that are hard to appreciate without being there in person.
This x 1000. The chicken, beef and pork you eat is probably treated worse than the mice in the labs.

If you at all care about Animal welfare then spend sometime researching into Animal farming. It gets dark pretty fast.

Most people don’t know how their chicken gets to the shelves.
It's owned by Toshiba, I believe.
Try our service once. If you find our response time not proper, I'll return the entire trial money.
Major decisions are communicated by CEOs, Presidents, etc on twitter first, welcome to the 21st century.
Is Google Home using the Duplex technology though? Google must be very aware of the work that still needs to be done in order to make it usable to customer service, but eventually they'll get to a point where the quality of an automated call is at least sufficient for most user cases, we can suppose that most companies will always have human operators as backup anyway.
Well, yes and no. Basically LWRs are good enough for the time being. When/if there's a major expansion of nuclear power, we'll need breeders and reprocessing, but right now there's no pressing need.

Right now what nuclear power needs (from the technical POV) is to reduce the time and cost of construction. Which, most likely, won't happen by introducing new and unproven reactors and fuels.
> For example the errands bank account authentication mechanism is to withdraw some money from your account, and then ask you how much they took. I honestly could not believe it.

That is crazy! I remember Paypal doing the opposite in the UK, they made 2 or 3 tiny deposits and asked how much they were.
Discussion from about a year ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14751358
Computer Chronicles Host Stewart Cheifet Remembers CES
Quick question: Have you tried to formally learn CSS?

I think you can get by with layouts on 80% knowledge from just tweaking things but to really be able to go start to finish on a frontend layout, I would suggest investing the hours to know things like what the difference is between a fixed, absolute and relative positioned element or the difference between padding and margin.

There are plenty of youtube series and the like, they just require the investment of time.
Three YouTube vloggers die in Canada waterfall plunge
These are all merely syntactic sugar that replicate functionality available in Python that would otherwise be done in a more awkward way. This PEP is doing the same thing.
> * They removed the cloudsearch syntax from the search API.

Didn't know that. That sucks. Is the massive dataset of reddit posts still on BigTable?
I've read a few times vertical farms use LED that only emit very specific wavelengths. The solar panel on the roof would capture energy on spectrum unused by plants, making the sun light => electric energy => LED light thingy not as bad as it seems intuitively. Is that possible?

Though i'd guess semi transparent solar panels above fields capturing light plants wouldn't use could be even more efficient, if it will ever exist.
I didn't really understand geopolitical theater until I spent some time considering USA, China, and Pakistan.
Tensorflow in Idris
I really wish there was more oversight into Animals being used for testing.

Dogs are probably the most humane treated animals on the planet. I wish other animals got the similar treatment as well.

Would love to read some of those debates. Don’t get me wrong. I am in support for using mice for medical reasons.
On the other hand, EU based businesses replacing those US based ones, wouldn't be all that bad for the EU.