skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a woman and it pisses me off all the more that Theranos was run by a woman because the extremely legitimate criticisms of the company just make it that much harder for legitimate business women.

That's on her for happily defrauding people for years. It's unfortunate that it may help fuel sexism, but that is entirely on the female founder who did this terrible thing.

No one should be expected to pull their punches because it was a woman who endangered lives out of greed instead of a man.

You want "equality" and you do a really terrible thing? You can take it like a man and not hide behind your gender when it's time to pay the piper.
Can you use the terminal for everything? [video]
EPFL Course – Optimization for Machine Learning – CS-439
The important part is that it got rear-ended while waiting to merge --- I suspect a strong factor in this was the fact that the car behind it was expecting it to go and merge, but it suddenly stopped instead.

Even for a human, merging into flowing traffic is tricky and one of the more difficult maneuvers; combine that with a (not obviously?) self-driving car that doesn't behave quite like human drivers expect, and I can see how this could happen.

If I saw a clearly-marked "autonomous test vehicle" I'd probably stay far away from it, but I suspect this one wasn't. Imagine the surprise of the human driver who thought the car in front that he hit was just driven by another idiot...
I would love to find a comparable device from a vendor that prioritises Linux support.

As far as I can tell, none such exist. There are many companies making "detachable"/"type cover" tablet devices, but I can't identify that can match the size, weight, and performance of the Surface series.

I think it might be possible to raise the issue of Linux support to Panos Panay's attention. I have some thoughts how one might go about doing that.

Thankfully, the situation with the Surface Go is very promising. If the same choices are made for the Surface Pro 5/Surface Pro 2018 and Surface Book 3, I think these will be solid devices for software programmers who want to use Linux (or BSD.)

And, as I said, I use my Surface Go on a daily basis for work. It's a fantastic piece of hardware. I really enjoy using it.
UK political party response to losing membership data to Facebook
But the problem is that using BigQuery is not cheap even when it is public.
Hadn't seen that second version before, got to remember that one. It's not often you see a pattern that breaks down after more than 50 steps.
Fun trivia: when windjammers were going out of style, some businessmen still bought them for the low cost.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustaf_Erikson

For a while in 1930's small Åland had the largest sailing fleet in the world.
i was assuming you were concerned with the assembly coming apart when used, but now i see your concern, using the technic material itself is similar to making an airplane out of concrete~yes?
California will also vote in November on whether to stop daylight savings time changes, either by getting rid of daylight savings time or making it permanent:

* [San Francisco Chronicle] California voters will get a say on year-round daylight-saving time: https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/amp/California-voters-will-...

* [Ballotpedia] California Proposition 7, Permanent Daylight Saving Time Measure (2018): https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_7,_Permanent_...
Every company that gets big enough becomes a VC firm, which is natural when you've got a firehose of money and don't want to miss out on the Next Big Thing.
I’m not sure this is entirely true across all services. I’m banned from AdWords (long story, I was slinging açaí berries around 2008 when I was 16...), but my account works for all other google services.
Liquefaction has nothing to do with triboelectricity.

The article has a pretty good description of how liquefaction proceeds: higher pressure -> water present in material reduces contact between solid particles -> material friction reduced -> material behaves like a fluid. If you want more, find a book on basic rheology. I'm certain there are civil engineering textbooks that contain the material.

Further, it does not stand to reason that charged materials would suddenly acquire fluid properties. Solid materials are quite capable of sustaining charge without changing their bulk properties. Prior to significant change, local voltages would exceed the breakdown voltage and the charge would be neutralized.
I mentioned Swift as well, but don’t think they have as good a chance to be an all-fleet fuel.

The Cirrus factory turbos are low compression engines (7.5:1). That gives a greater margin against detonation (at the cost of efficiency). That won’t extend to 8.5:1 compression, big-bore engines near as easily, whether turbo or normally aspirated. (This also means that I doubt it will work in the Tornado Alley turbo-normalized Cirrus.)

I too want to get the lead out of my life, especially since my kids fly in the airplane and are going to have exposure to it incidentally, even as I try to minimize it. It may well end being faster to just make more money and switch to Jet-A than to wait for a viable unleaded fuel to take over the market.
There are two points there: one is the capacity to remember what happened. The other one, however, is the ability to convey this information to engineers. I believe people like Senna are superior not as much on recalling information, but on communicating this information to engineers. A driver with less communication abilities would be far less valuable to the team.
The closing lines: "You do have the time. You just need to make it." are demonstrably false.

One cannot simultaneously conduct Nobel-caliber research, train as a top-tier professional athlete, be deeply involved with running a serious business, and spend a fulfilling/requisite amount of time with family. There is not enough time.

For me, the critical part of dealing with procrastination/perfectionism has been mastering, and executing upon, prioritization.

The rest of the tips in the article are useful, but that last one, I couldn't abide (and hence have been delayed by ~5 minutes doing the things I want to do today).
I always thought it would be useful to have a global time standard expressed as the longitude where the sun is currently at the meridian.
I deeply disagree and I'd wager anyone who has done any sort of sales or biz dev does too.

Trying to influence a potential client to close a multi-million dollar software contract is anything but close to 'normal' activities. It's very demanding intellectually and emotionally.

I really encourage you to learn more about what sales folks actually do when having dinner with a big prospective client. They aren't just eating.
Coastal regions tend to have more stable temperatures than inland regions in general due to closer proximity to the ocean (large bodies of water tend to be slow to heat up and slow to cool down). The Bay Area is no exception.
I used to feel that way about my jobs. Roll in when I like. Leave when I like.

Invariably for me, this meant I’d start when I woke up (06:00) and work through the evening (past 21:00 was the usual minimum)

My new job has a guarantee about starting no earlier than 08:00 and leaving no later than 19:00.

It’s amazing.
I wonder if it would be more useful if these cars had more lights than normal cars (yellow, green, etc.), so that they could signal their intentions before they act.
Note this is from 2017, and the contract had since been awarded to Cerner. Working at one of their competitors - Epic - myself, I can say I'm disappointed with that decison. I really do think that a Epic offers the best software in the industry, that it would have best-served the public, and that after the whole project is said and done would have been price-competitive with any alternative.
Plastics are inherently unstable over time, and that instability is exacerbated by temperature swings, and exposure to UV light. This is an issue in the art world that’s become a conservation nightmare. https://www.getty.edu/conservation/publications_resources/ne...

I’d be shocked if LEGO were uniquely stable, which means that over time you’re going to see leaching or plasticer and other elements of the plastic. Really the question is how much, over what time period, and how harmful it is to humans.imdont have the answer to that, and I accept that the answer could be anything from “essentially harmless” to “gay frogs” or anything in between.
Looks like it happened here: https://goo.gl/maps/RHiVTRSuDJ62

Pretty short merge lane, more of a surface street than a highway. Probably not atypical for a car to stop to wait for an opening to merge.
Why does it matter what the backend OS is? Why does it need to be Android?
Is there any data out there to suggest that people living near airports that use leaded gasoline have high levels of lead in their blood?
Prisoners have probably done something to deserve it?
The only place i can think of is Norvig's slides on design patterns - http://norvig.com/design-patterns/
...i think the lifesize chiron also has some non technic parts, such as steeltubing chassis ?
In some ways I would like react to be more of a complete framework like you, but I worry they would do it “wrong”. Wrong, of course, is defined as not what I want.

I’m a long-time Java developer but I’ve just started using React. I, for example, would like to have the file layout be much closer to the standard maven layout. It’s what I’m used to and it works extremely well. But I completely understand why other people don’t do it that way. And since you don’t have to 100% follow some official way I’m free to set things up in a method that’s more convenient for me if I need to.

Unlike other libraries I’ve come across in my career I do like that to react community seems to have settled pretty well. Straight react is there, and read access popular enough that it’s very easy to find what you nee unlike other libraries I’ve come across in my career I do like that to react community seems to have settled pretty well. Straight react is there, and redux is popular enough that it’s very easy to find what you want to know.

When it comes to tools you have a very large number of choices, but the existence of create-react-app makes things easy. Even if you don’t use it to setup your project Babel, Webpack, and Jest are pseudo-official tools that most people seem to use. You don’t have to use them, but you also don’t have to evaluate five choices and try and pick one.

Somethings aren’t quite as clear-cut, like flow versus typescript if you want type checking.

But by and large all seems to work very well, it’s FAR better than I was expecting from the JavaScript ecosystem based on past (and admittedly very old) experience.
I was referring to Google vs. the media cartels.
34C3 talk on noise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-kWVb81tCc
I already have to deal with the fact that shops in Australia close at 5pm (local time), not at 10pm like they do in my home country.

This is a weak argument for keeping timezones around imo.
Thanks, "fixing now!"
How do you get a full-time remote job?
Have you tried CBD oil? No THC, but it helps with anxiety.
Indeed. In addition to fire fighting and pilot training, avgas burning aircraft provide critical transport in rural areas and a portion of the crop-dusting fleet is piston-powered.

Many more people are killed by dog bites in America than ground GA fatalities (turbine and piston combined). I’d no sooner make a safety argument to ban dogs than piston airplanes.
Love the Alan Kay quote:

“People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.” — Alan Kay

Didn't help Sun Micro much :-). One could argue they weren't "serious" about the software I suppose.

This article is basically saying that Apple becomes nearly untouchable/catchable when they are building their own chips and devices and software. And yet that particular pattern has failed again and again. Digital Computer Corp was my first experience with it, Sun was my second, there are companies that decided to make Java "engines" which probably qualify as the third.

From what I have observed, companies and the software they produce can be viewed as exploring a graph where a local maxima is a successful product and a minima a failed product. If you can accept that model, then you can see that different hardware options can enable you to reach different maxima on the same graph, however once you've started building your own hardware you limit the spaces you can reach to only those where your hardware can reach them.

As a result, people who are trying to sell hardware (chip companies), being unconstrained by the local maxima you are pursuing, wander out into the solution space and uncover different and sometimes wildly better maxima that can solve the same problem. The vertical manufacturer then finds their bespoke hardware a drag on their ability to move from their current maxima to the one growing in the market adjacent to them.

If the new comers execute well they either put the vertically integrated old timers out of business or constrain their growth to a limited part of the graph.

I thought Apple had learned that lesson with PowerPC but perhaps they just felt they were doing it wrong and this time it will work. I'm guessing it won't work long term.
It's like a humble-brag form of advertising that you've got a self-driving car program.
And blitzBasic!
I suspect it’s easier to get the offsets right than to change the entire world to UTC. Unless you think the USA is going to voluntarily agree to reform around a French standard.

EDIT: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/ng-interactive/2018...
It’s pretty obvious when you see them - they’re covered in hardware.
This seems obvious...as the author says, face-to-face interaction leads to happier (people) teens (bar sleep). People with friends seem to spend more time face-to-face with other people.

This seems like a no-brainer.
To all the negativity: isn’t the root of the carbon problem that there’s no single big thing that can make a difference? Vehicles need to change one by one. Power plants need to change one by one. Cattle farms need to change one by one. Here we have LEGO doing its part, which is all that one entity can really be expected to do.

Everybody needs to do their part. What is an ocean if not a multitude of drops?
Anecdote from this past Tuesday, for what it's worth: At a Starbucks in Buenos Aires, Rappi was set up at the table next to ours, doing interviews to hire delivery people.

A friend who uses these services more than me said he likes Rappi because you can see in real-time where your delivery is.
You might want to join CoderYouth, a code community for teenagers by teenagers.
https://coderyouth.club
Suddenly being highly distracted by relevant, compelling, irresistible memory cascades at inopportune moments. Remembering every mistake and embarrassement from your entire life, age 4 to 35. There's some evidence that eidetic memory is tied to anxiety disorders and anecdotally I can believe it.
> Thompson sampling is great. It's intuitive and computationally tractable. The literature is full of other strategies, specifically semi-uniform strategies, but I strongly recommend using Thompson sampling if it works for your problem.

Spot on. For more information about the advantages of Thompson sampling over other approaches, see Why is Posterior Sampling Better than Optimism for Reinforcement Learning? [1] by Osband and Van Roy.

[1] http://proceedings.mlr.press/v70/osband17a/osband17a.pdf
Putting aside innocent people in jail, what about the people in for drug crimes, immigration issues, and non-violent offenses? Actually putting that aside, what exactly does someone need to do to “deserve” slavery? What’s the bar? I also don’t see any reformstive power to slavery, and the penal system is supposed to be at least partly about reform.
If it’s really that useful, I’ve probably used it once. So the next time I need it, I find the code where I used it last time.
What makes speech-to-text so difficult?
All your examples are "people who are really serious about hardware" - not software.

A better example is perhaps the British company Acorn, which made computers for a couple of decades but ultimately morphed into the very successful company ARM. (Which originally stood for Acorn RISC Machine.)

Their software was eventually, after the failed Oracle NC project and a number of legal shenanigans, nearly-open-sourced as RISC OS Open, and has a small number of mainly British dedicated followers, but otherwise did not make a huge dent in the universe. https://www.riscosopen.org/
This isn't a developer level design decision. This is executive level.
Narwhal-horse hybrids should be studied for any genetic or structural uniqueness they might express. And their parents should be observed to discover the mechanics of their copulation.
Just to clarify for anyone that hasn't clicked through.

Even if this passes, two conditions must apply first:

1. The US Federal Government has to change the law to allow States to make DST permanent. You can choose to not have DST at all, or you can apply DST on an annual basis, but presently Federal law makes no provisions for making DST permanent.

2. A Bill would have to be drafted and passed through the California legislature with a two-thirds majority after the Federal law changes.

All this does is give the legislature the option, to maybe change to permanent DST, if Federal law ever changes to make it legally possible.

Personally I will still vote for it, I enjoy long Summer evenings with sunsets at 9pm and walks along Ocean Beach, but if you are planning to vote for or against it, just want everyone reading this to know what you are really voting on. By itself, this ballot measure does nothing.
It's not just Texans near the border: "Statewide, 61 percent of Texans oppose building a wall, while 35 percent support it and 4 percent don’t know or declined to answer, according to a poll conducted in April by Texas Lyceum, a nonprofit leadership organization." https://www.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article152402... (Link to study, sample size 1000: https://www.texaslyceum.org/page-18205 )
This is why left wing political parties should make copyright and IP law reform a major part of their platform, and be willing to kick out the corporations and 'donors' in exchange to going back to basics.

All it takes is one political leader and party with the guts to tell the likes of the MPAA/RIAA/Disney/whatever to stick it and change the laws. What can they do if they don't like it? Go to China where IP laws are basically not enforced at all?

And I'm pretty sure most of the population would be on their side if they did that.
Most materials used in everyday are also not thermodynamically stable. The only ones I can think of off the top of my head are stone (assuming your rain isn’t acidic), table salt, and baking soda.

Most useful materials are kinetically stable (e.g plastic, wood, paper) but will break down over a long enough timeframe.

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Interesting. Honey is super expensive though.

FYI bourgeois is the adjective (or single member of the social caste), bourgeoisie is the pronoun for the social caste.
Lawrence Expressway is terrible. I frequently see cars stopped at these "merge lanes".
At the same time, I look back on how much time I wasted by constantly moving the goalpost for any given project, or even about what projects I should spend my time on. And a ton of this was due to me worrying about how to make money, and which projects would make the most money, and all kinds of useless questions like that.

But historically, the projects of mine that got the most positive feedback and have the most users, are ones I did purely because I wanted to, because I saw a need and knew how to fill it and knew it would be an interesting and satisfying challenge.

So the other night I decided to go back to that. I've got a super cool new app that will make Mjolnir/Hydra/Phoenix/AppGrid look like stone age tools, that I plan to dedicate serious time to. I've also started re-typesetting a very fascinating public domain book printed in 1885, which I found on archive.org, and got Tesseract to do most of the work for me last night in about an hour flat.

So yeah, I can get a lot of really cool stuff done in a very short amount of time, as long as I stop worrying so much about how things will be provided for me and trust in Divine Providence to take care of that. That's how all those other cool projects were made anyway, so I have even more evidence against my worrying and overthinking it.
Does a logistic fit work better?
By that same logic, there's no point in voting in elections, or paying your taxes, or even commenting on HN (since the number of HN users that aren't you is at least several orders of magnitude more than you).
It's not though, because if it weren't being used for Lego/plastic products in general we wouldn't just burn it it'd just be left in the ground (or potentially make other oil products slightly cheaper depending on the volume of plastic we're talking about). We burn about all the oil we want for the price right now so anything not used in plastic would just not be extracted.
Moving from this state, to a state where typical human interactions seem rapid, is like a context shift. Difficult to do without a change in location/scenery.
The fact that autonomous vehicles sometimes crash doesn't mean we should simply ban them. But you should be explicit about how you're mitigating risk, and how your product or service improves overall outcomes

How would such "explicit risk mitigation" look like? Passing legislation that indemnifies the manufacturers?
Bit of a nitpick, but they’re not getting their energy from those sources, they’re offsetting their use with those sources. I want to be clear that they helped build actual wind farms and didn’t just buy carbon credit “indulgences” so full credit to them, but it’s still a difference I feel needs to be pointed out.
That hardware doesn’t signal to other drivers.
Couldn't the research they are doing help other industries using plastics to become more environmentally friendly? Even if their numbers aren't that impressive in the grand scheme of things, the total usage of ABS is surely a lot higher than Lego bricks.

Innovation in what they are good at (plastic bricks, not shipping) seems like a responsible thing to do, even if it is also good PR.
There was a post on here (HN) a while ago about an entire company account getting suspended because Google had linked an employee of that company to his personal google account which was being used to re-sign Android apps for redistribution.

It’s an extreme example, but if that account is true, google definitely have automated tooling to link distinct accounts.

I can’t actually imagine any reason why they wouldn’t. It feels like something they’d need at their scale.
I encounter cars blocking sidewalks all the time. Cars haven't been banned yet.
One should be criticized, because it's propaganda for being a coward.

I'm going there and saying that this is exactly the logic that nazi apologists use to blame SS reprisals against civilians on resistance fighters.
When autonomous vehicles register problematic situations, they do tend to be unusually cautious, right? But so do some people, so hey. And when you get rear ended, you're rarely at fault. Because the other driver was obviously following too closely.
You are offering to do the experiment? The physics is pretty straight forward, particles which share the same charge will repel each other, this will hold them apart and allow them to 'slide past' each other just as diamagnetic material float along a magnetic field.
I've used Rappi here in Mexico and it's probably one of the worst delivery services I've used. Just seems like they overextended themselves by going in multiple directions without being quite efficient at them. Their website also often shows promotions that suddenly disappear when you try to click on the specific restaurant and you then have to plead your case to the customer support representative. Overall not a very good experience. Their delivery people often make mistakes with items too.