skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article burys the lede -- from the last paragraph:

Take the overdraft fee, a punishment for desperate or careless customers that netted banks $15 billion in 2016. As many as half of overdraft fees aren’t assessed at an ATM, where customers can see their balance, but at the point of sale—debit card transactions at the counters of shops and restaurants. And the majority of overdraft fees, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau reported in 2014, came on transactions of $24 or under. Not people stretching to make a big purchase, in other words. Just trying to get lunch.

Those fees are a big source of revenue for the banks. Nothing about convenience for the customer.
Basically, how such computing should be done? Preferably with little to none of the data reaching the central server.

Funny how computing got centralized, and now is slowly getting decentralized again. I'm happy to see tech for that developing, but I worry that data ownership will continue to be centralized.
Don't we already have that with https://joinmastodon.org? Just needs more adoption and more people running federated nodes.
https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2011/07/09/a-trip-through-the-...

is a great intro to GPU architecture that I think answers your question indirectly.

It's mainly just command FIFOs, semaphores, and cache flushes. Vulkan's API is a pretty good high level approximation of current architecture.
Equally accurate headline for article content: “Twitter announces plan to make exception in automated anti-troll system to favor prominent Republicans”.
Removing jQuery from GitHub.com frontend
This video has a entertaining overview of the effects sugar has on your body: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_4Q9Iv7_Ao
And there are lots of Americans who DO prefer trains over cars.

Please don't be so broad brush in your statements.

WRT your wife - go to Europe and ride the trains there. Recently I went to Spain. In Spain even the ratty commuter train traveled at 90+ mph.

Ride the TGV or AVE train. Those are quick and comfortable.

If at that point she still feels the way she does fine. But "Americans don't like trains" is a statement that is not correct. On the east coast, Americans use the trains a lot

A much better statement is "Americans don't like an uncomfortable experience"

BTW: http://www.cahighspeedrail.ca.gov/

And in San Francisco Area, Caltrain is electrifying precisely because people love the train so much. Caltrain needs extra capacity and the only way to get that capacity is with electrification. Plenty of Americans seem to like Caltrain. Plenty of Californians are ready to use the HSR project when segments open up.
I think it’s absurd that we look for biodegradeable plastics as a solution when we could simple legislate common containers and reuse them. How much must we sacrifice because brands want to differentiate on the shape of the bottle instead of on what’s inside it and on the label?
A big fan since 2012!

My username is magnetik

Thank you!
The funny thing is I remember BeOS running on x86. Wikipedia says the first release containing that was 1998, which puts it a year or two after the NeXT acquisition. I wonder if these two facts have something to do with each other.
Why has this not existed before?
>I haven't really put any thought into it recently but I think you'd be hard-pressed to find any manufacturer referring to their machines as "laptops" now.

Oh, really? Let's see.

Dell:
https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/sc/laptops

HP:
https://store.hp.com/us/en/cat/laptops

ASUS:
https://www.asus.com/us/Laptops/

Lenovo:
https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/c/LAPTOPS

Toshiba:
http://laptops.toshiba.com/computers-tablets/home/

Acer:
https://us-store.acer.com/laptops

Samsung:
https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/windows-laptops/

I will stop there, because it's obvious that 'the entire industry' did not make a 'huge hard stop and turn on the terminology'. Stop being a fool.
Outlook.com's New Design Is Now Rolling Out to Some Accounts
Ask HN: Do HN Mods censor stories unfavorable to their “investments”?
i.e. recent news about the Ethereum based Augur prediction markets being used to place bets that would incentivize murder and terrorism have been removed from the front page. Similar articles are quickly being removed, normally a mod will comment with a link to another submission that was submitted.
I'm a physicist and I still feel compelled to die on the following hill, re: Fahrenheit---it just maps better to human perception:

30s: Wear a heavy coat

40s: Wear a light coat

50s: Wear a jacket

60s: Wear a hoodie

70s: Wear a t-shirt

80s: Wear shorts
I was really happy to see it got rewritten in JS as well, because Java applets are a pain (or just plain impossible). Sadly, the JS version is also a lot slower, I don't know how that could have gotten prevented
Facebook wasn't exactly a performance king either. Their PHP codebase became a liability, leading them to create the HipHop compiler, HipHopVM, Hack, and other tools specifically for dealing with PHP and MySQL. Internally their first chat client had performance problems as well, leading them to rewrite it. They also no only had performance problems (and battery drain issues!) with their mobile interfaces, but also in controlled experiments intentionally broke pages to test their users' resulting behavior.

So I don't think I would ascribe the valuation difference to beginning engineering chops.
Off the top of my head, for a randomly chosen range of size n, you reject a throw with probability 1/4, right?
I buy that my concerns are colored by living in the US, but I actually cannot think of anyone other than my doctors who I want to know one base pair of my genetic code if it can ever be attached to my name.
What are they possibly going to do with that information to benefit me? Insurance optimizations? Drug marketing? No thanks.

I’d make an exception for science if and only if it’s full deanonymized and controlled by a nonprofit third party entity.
Google proxies and caches all external assets in emails through their own servers to hide your IP address, but they only do this on-read instead of on-delivery, which enables read receipt tracking.
> even if they were allowed to price health insurance based on genetic risk factors it wouldn't necessarily allow them to earn higher profits.

Cue adverse selection. They might not be allowed to collect genetic data, but nothing stops patients from doing their own sequencing, and shop for healthcare plans depending on their predispositions, thus drastically affecting healthcare profitability.

This is not a pervasive problem yet because the tests are pretty crappy and very few people bother, but on the long run, I bet your "level playing field" hypothesis will be debated.
As you note, there have been different norms in different institutions, and if you're a used to working for for-profit entities, I'm sure the norms you're used to seem, well, normal.

But sure, there's no harm in thought experiments. And we have a lot of different behaviors over time to look at from a range of institutions. You might start asking what changes when incentives are restructured to encourage short-term profit over discovery, and how that might change teaching and research universities.

For starters, an easy one: if revenue production becomes the primary measure of the value of a field, how does historical research pay its way while avoiding capture by particular interests?

Also, if you want to _really_ be daring, ask questions about what might happen if employees weren't forced by default into work-for-hire arrangements. What if corps were a bit more like academia?
I think we need to be careful assuming that having a 4 lbs poop is a good thing just because we used to do it. The Inuit's diet was nearly entirely from animal protein and fats, totally bereft of fiber. People can adapt to a lot of misery, and I wonder if the need to eat that much fiber was due to other concerns (for instance, not having access to higher energy concentrated food stuffs). Either way we can't say that just because someone once did it it's healthy, or a well adapted behaviour.
> “People will have to go out and (eat) lunch with the rest of us,” Aaron Peskin, a San Francisco supervisor who co-sponsored the proposal, told The San Francisco Examiner.

I get what they're trying to do but this is silly. Good intentions tend to make terrible government policy.

> However, the proposed ban would not affect the 51 employee cafeterias already in San Francisco, only future office buildings, “so it’s not goring anybody’s ox,” Peskin told the Examiner.

Ha! So one more perk that only existing, large, entrenched players can offer. A level playing field indeed.

> The nearby city of Mountain View recently barred a new Facebook office from offering free- or reduced-cost meals at its cafeteria, reported the Chronicle.

Does this include ordering a pizza to a war room or is it specific to a separate structure for day to day dining?
Organisms obtained by mutagenesis are GMOs and are subject to the GMO Directive [pdf]
Doubtful, that would be account wide, not scoped to your browser. An add-on (or just a bookmark) is your best bet.

Oh! You could change user agents.
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Thats an interesting read I was not aware this was done at this scale. But still hard to remove military from equation.
NBB RESTful API Design Guide
I fear those ideals are beyond what we’re capable of at this point in the societal evolutionary cycle.

When the carrot fails, you fall back to the stick. Twitter didn’t use the stick first; it waited until the interactions on their platform turned into a shit show first.
Claiming That Space Is Not a Commons Is a Bad Strategy
There probably are a lot of people who aren't aggressively shitty but just inconsiderate of the feelings and disadvantages that other people have. I imagine it would work for that group.
Each of the stories listed are suspicious. They feel like the crop circle hoax to me -- something they planned well to get attention.

Are there any provable cases?
Beats me, but I don't have access to all the account behavior data Twitter does, nor do I know what metrics they use to determine whether to shadowban an account. It certainly doesn't seem to be based on political affiliation since many Republican political accounts haven't been shadowbanned.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_customer_is_always_right

Like the bit says, even when the phrase was becoming popularized, people saw the inherent flaw in it.

The customer is right, within reason.

You are complaining about a cashless business, one that won't accept the minted currency of the nation.

Which could be a fair complaint.

But if we are to hold to the maxim that the customer is always right, then if I insist on paying in bits of string, then I'm right. If I insist that the value of what I'm taking is far less than you think, then I'm right. At some point, you have to admit that there is a line.

And businesses don't want to insert middlemen, they're dealing with them just like we are. But they're getting to the point where the cost of dealing with those middlemen are less than or equal to dealing with hard cash.
Citation? SXM2 didn't look that different, and adding that many ports to the new instruction cache they added would be absolutely crazy.
I did 2 summers in Bluffton and spent a lot of time in HHI when I was in college around 2000. I definitely did not get the vibe you did from HHI.

If you visit, your first impression is that it is very pretty and quiet. When you're there for a more extended period, everything feels very...sterile. Everything looks the same. You can't find anything.

It's also this odd place in South Carolina where if you order tea it's unsweet and if you ask for sweet tea they'll either look at you strangely, give you sugar packets (not the same thing) or say they don't serve it. During the summer, all you see is Ohio license plates.

When I thought I was going to end up working there after college I was going to live in Beaufort just to avoid living there. Grew up in Florence.
> We don’t want employees biking or driving into their office, staying there all day long and going home. This is about getting people out of their office, interacting with the community and adding to the vibrancy of the community

Cool, but why is this a decision of SF government?

> However, the proposed ban would not affect the 51 employee cafeterias already in San Francisco, only future office buildings

Making it harder for new companies to compete with the benefits offered by existing companies.
Even the people that opted out of sharing their DNA for research purposes?
How does one go about building a custom mechanical keyboard? Are there any good resources to get started? I've long fantasized about building a standard-layout keyboard with a couple of extra unobtrusive shift/modifier keys.
Facebook sees mixed Q2 earnings with slowest-ever growth, stock tanks
New Evidence USCIS Policies Increased Denials Of H-1B Visas
Version pinning is technical debt and a fool's errand. New versions will always come out and your new development is confined to what once worked. You need to keep testing with current versions to see what will break when you upgrade and fix it as soon as possible so as to minimize the odds of a big breaking change.

It may keep your environment stable for some time, but that stability is an illusion because the whole world moves on. You may be able to still keep your Python 2.2 applications running on Centos 3 forever, but you shouldn't want to do it.
Visa has a vested interest in that though.

The thing we're dealing with here isn't Visa, it's the businesses themselves. They've reached a point where dealing with Visa is cheaper than dealing with cash.
by objectively underpaid you mean that you can easily get a better paid job but are/were staying because you liked the boss so much?

i think usually restaurant/bar/cafe personel paid quite a bit better than canteen personel because restaurant workers have to be representative, which excludes about two thirds of the population. canteen workers can be just about anyone. which means they will hire whoever is cheapest.

i want to tell you to get out of this line of work. i know it is not my place. i can imagine you even like the work. still, it is not right that somebody with mathematical inclinations should suffer the fate of a canteen worker. maybe accept a junior tech position at a cheap outsourcer like the place i work for (well we are transitioning away from that model but there are lots of others who will accept just about anyone). pay likely wont be better but you will feel better about where your life is going and you might get to work in a low cost of living place. even more, you would get very valuable experience.
> It baffles me that people say 'give it to charity instead'. You might as well say 'give it to anyone who can fill in IRS Form 1023', because that's all you're guaranteed to get from a charity.

This is not 'all' that charity means and you're willfully ignoring all the other answers that are explaining it to you.
In Denmark and Sweden it is simple: you are likely to have your phone with you, and thats enough. MobilePay and Swish respectively are wildly popular solutions.
Honestly, it sounds like an answer you give to avoid disclosing the real reason: relationships and cultural compatibility.
Some character properties need to be immutable and can't be set correctly until the committee has an actual character to analyze.
I’m not sure how much more circumspect I could have been.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/ would be a good start
It's an AI chip for mobile devices out on missions. Skynet... err... I mean Google.. set it to read-only when out on these missions.

Inference only, no ML training. Only the Cloud has löööörning capabilities.

I bet you can just unscrew the head and flip a dip-switch, and it'll start combining insults in no time.
That's all fine and good right up until the next >=10km diameter asteroid has a collision with the Earth, in which case all those humans with cancer will be in the same state as all the humans without cancer. Given that it's been about 65 million years since the last one of these and they tend to happen about every 50 million years or so, you could argue that we are due...
OpenAI and DOTA2: 180 Years of Learning per Day
Defense and aviation are probably the two biggest industries that make use of it. Aviation software may use it even when not doing government work (where it used to be mandated) if they see value in the tools and capabilities.
No, it may be philosophically, but in practice it's not. It may have been some time ago. Now, the huge majority uses 1. Gmail with the corresponding webapps 2. MS exchange protocol.

The only thing really fundamental to email is SMTP.
I love mechanical keyboards, and as a tinkerer the concept of making a custom one really appeals to me.

That said, the fact that the main page loads up dozens of multi-megabyte "thumbnail" icons is absolutely baffling.
From your postal code "A#A#A#", it becomes "###00" at the pump. Near the border, most pumps will have this as a sign on them. But I was recently in Florida and that worked fine for paying at the pump.
> What entitles companies to hire cheap labor anyway?

What entitles you to decide what labor companies hire?
Minecraft is an amazing learning tool even for adults! I used Minecraft as a "build along" tool for fully understanding logic gates while reading "Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software" (which I highly recommend - great book!). I used a mod called "red power" to make laying out the circuits much easier (the color coded, bundled cables alone were worth using it). Perhaps I will have to fire up Minecraft and take Electrical Age for a spin - it looks REALLY cool!
Most likely this is an AI/ML bases system that is doing Natural Language Processing to determine if an account is exhibiting "bad behavior"

That means first they identified many badly behaving accounts, trained their ML model to auto-detect other accounts behaving badly, and then banned them.

Of course, these ML models are famously hard to decipher.

The implication?

Twitter could choose to mention the criteria they used to select the original set of accounts they used to train their model (most likely it was accounts that had been manually banned in the past, these would have been bans which went unnoticed by the media) but they can't say "our model auto-bans accounts which do X, Y, and Z" because the logic used by the ML models is too obscure for any person to understand.
My old manager used this question in interviews and said he only once got what he considered the 'right' answer , and I know what he was looking for. He'd ask 'suppose you had unlimited resources and unlimited budget to figure out if a number was part of fibonacci sequence.'

Most people would hear fibonacci and get into some recursive programming technique - that was not the right answer. The right answer was since you had unlimited resources, etc, was just to store all the fibonacci numbers in a hash table or what not and perform a lookup to see if it existed. Answer was much simpler than what it appeared on its surface, though I'm not sure why you'd want to do it that way.

Not sure what that question really establishes about a programmer, to me it seems like the hypothetical invites the answer "I'd hire the best firm available to do it for me", but that doesn't seem correct either. Anyways, when those questions come up it seems like they want an algorithm, but in the case I cited, it was a trick. Not sure of any other examples to draw on though - curious if anyone has other examples.
You have to keep in mind we're teetering on the edge of an exponential explosion in knowledge. What's been done in decades with all of our rovers and probes on Mars could have been accomplished in a matter of days by a single human on the planet. That's not an exaggeration. For instance we're coming up on Curiosity 6th year on Mars in a couple of weeks. It's traveled, in this entire time, a bit less than 13.3 miles. There's an ongoing odometer available here [1]. And it's had some major instrumentation errors (such as with its drill) that a human could have trivially repaired on site.

Only question is how long is it going to take us to get those feet on the planet. From there? I'd expect major discoveries will be a matter of months.

[1] - http://curiosityrover.com/tracking/drivelog.html
I have explored it and came to the conclusion that it cannot be correct. In the absence of government intervention, companies are free to basically form their own government. They would control labour and resources, hence power, and so create the rules. This is exactly equivalent to large companies lobbying government in their favour, except you cut out the middle man.

Look at the City of London (not to be confused with city London that surrounds it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_london#Elections ) for example. In the square mile, businesses put forward representatives and vote on them, who become aldermen. This is the kind of arrangement you encourage without government intervention. Now you might think "the City of London is pretty successful" - and you'd be right it is a lovely tourist spot, but it is also a hive of massive, global corporations with rents that are totally unaffordable for the majority of people working in the area and office space that is prohibitively expensive for anyone looking to start-up in the area. Trust me, nobody is pulling themselves up by their bootstraps in the City - it's all about climbing greasy poles.
> Mill is a verb?

In English, you can verb anything.
Yes - when I was at BigTechCo, we had training to basically not write legally sensitive things in emails, and to schedule in person meetings with the right people. This habit has stuck with me.
One of the toughest things I struggled with while transitioning from a larval junior developer to a senior tech lead to a project manager was the fact that (at least in the context of a for-profit business) not all bugs need to be fixed, even the ones you personally think are really really bad. The goal is to make money, not necessarily by producing the most perfect software. The quality bar needs to be high, but there is always a point beyond which the returns for fixing a bug are outweighed by the costs of fixing it: the direct engineering cost, the opportunity cost of not working on a feature, the cost of missing a deadline and not releasing in time for Christmas, the cost associated with the extra risk you’re taking by making a late change, etc. Good places judge all these costs, and the best ones have formal processes for judging lots of bugs at scale and constantly re-evaluate whether a bug should be fixed at this point in the project or not. Sometimes the clear right answer is “no.”
The point of Euros and Dollars is so a nation or group of nations has democratic power over their own monetary policy. Bitcoin originally presented the idea of a never changing monetary policy but as forks have come and gone and power is beginning to concentrate in career miners that no longer seems to be the case.
It's a lake in the sense that mud is a lake. According to the research paper, it's composed of water ice with 10% to 20% admixed dust and seasonally covered by a very thin layer of CO2 ice that does not exceed 1m in thickness.
A lot of people tend to focus on the macronutrient factors of weight gain/loss (carbs, protein, fat). To some degree, I think those have an effect. As do the total number of calories consumed/burned. But it seems evident, at least anecdotally, that there are many other environmental factors that signal to our bodies how much fat to store vs burn, and much food to crave. I spend a lot of time with long term travelers and an interesting thing I've noticed is that many men lose weight when they travel long term, while many women gain weight when they travel. I don't really think that can be explained by how many carbs they eat. At least, if that's part of it, it's a very small part.