skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When my (now ex-) wife was going to law school, one of the biggest surprises I had was learning how often contracts aren't entirely binding (as long as you have the money to actually go to court with real representation).

It's easy to think "You agreed, it's clear that you agreed, end of story" but that's not the way contract law actually works. If the parties aren't both getting a roughly equal deal and operating with roughly equal levels of good faith, everything changes.

And overall, that's a good thing. "If you don't like it, do something else" isn't much of an option when there's no other "real" option. "Go found your own company that works differently" is a farce for the vast majority of the population.
Yeah... the more I think on this the more I have to admit that I'm on your side of things.
FYI, http://monitor.firefox.com/ does not seem to work. https://monitor.firefox.com/ does work.
I'm surprised that second-tier firms and bootstrapping startups haven't made Sacramento into a mini-Silicon Valley yet.
I think no matter how much you donate to Wikimedia, they still like having the sad puppy dog. Wikimedia has a huge endowment, with the way the stock market did in recent years, it has grown significantly too.

Your money could have more impact elsewhere.
Ask HN: Does anyone actually use Keybase?
Every other HN profile lists a Keybase public key and a proof, but has anyone actually needed to prove their identity on HN? Does anyone use Keybase for encrypted communication?
The Romans sure as heck didn't think it was sinful - they'd throw a pig's bladder on and go to town. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexuality_in_ancient_Rome
Shut up libertarian
The article doesn't mention QML at all. Is it possible to use it with Python?
Foghorn Leghorn has some comments for you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTwnwbG9YLE

And the original Senator Claghorn that Foghorn Leghorn was channeling:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBE92naflJ0
Very interesting, I didn't know that. Makes sense.
This is twofold, subject matter and personality. In the former, I've had to excuse myself from conversations because mentioning something I thought was innocuous (e.g. paintball) is apparently unacceptable conversation via being "non-inclusive". In the latter, I can be a brusque individual. I was never particularly aware of this as a problem back east, other people acted similarly and people generally took each other in good faith. I've definitely had to soften myself and learn to be more perceptive of subtle social signals since I moved out here. (In my "grocery store" example, if someone talked to me back east I'd probably give them a funny look, a very terse answer, and try to end the conversation ASAP) broadly I have to smile a lot more, use lots of hedging/less strong speech, not be direct/give contentious topics a wide berth etc to avoid misunderstandings.

Driving comes in many forms, but some examples are: You'll regularly have people sitting in the middle lane of a highway _stopped_ waiting to merge into a slowly moving merge lane. Back east you'd have likely been rear ended by an 18 wheeler if you tried that. (same for merging onto a highway). Hard-stopping at yellows is something else I've had to be aware of out here.
Na, just let Google continue their non stop promotion campaign for alternative browsers and search engines :-)
It is very expensive relative to other foods, and certain varieties of Persian saffron are extremely expensive.

It is also extremely inefficiently used by most chefs. They often merely crumble it into the recipe. You can use a small amount of saffron to flavor a large quantity of food simply by grinding it into powder and mixing with a small amount boiling hot water. The resulting mixture is very potent.
Technology, Humanity, and the Existential Test
I always found this talk on the subject fascinating:

Predicting a Billboard Music Hit with Shazam Data - Cait O'Riordan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcTPvxo8SXY)
Mozilla has very poor justification as to why. It's not like they have a light-weight cross-platform UI framework to build their applications with, much like their web browser should be.
Why would anyone tell you if they did?
You may benefit from reading https://medium.com/mule-design/on-surveys-5a73dda5e9a0 (she also wrote a book: https://abookapart.com/products/just-enough-research)
Remembering the Remarkable Foresight of Charles Kao
If a union only kept to things like safety and minimum salaries I could understand the argument better, although I still don’t support them. The problem is when they start putting in seniority rules (as if all employees are replaceable cogs), banning people from helping out with different jobs (“only the pipe fitter can replace this particular screw”), and making it extremely difficult to fire people.
Great post. From someone who's done a few of these, I'll make a few observations:

1. Even if your DL model is running on GPUs, you'll run into things that are CPU bound. You'll even run into things that are not multithreaded and are CPU bound. It's valuable to get a CPU that has good single-core performance.

2. For DL applications, NVMe is overkill. Your models are not going to be able to saturate a SATA SSD, and with the money you save, you can get a bigger one, and/or a spinning drive to go with it. You'll quickly find yourself running out of space with a 1TB drive.

3. 64GB of RAM is overkill for a single GPU server. RAM has gone up a lot in price, and you can get by with 32 without issue, especially if you have less than 4 GPUs.

4. The case, power supply, and motherboard, and RAM are all a lot more expensive for a properly configured 4 GPU system. It makes no sense to buy all of this supporting hardware and then only buy one GPU. Buy a smaller PSU, less RAM, a smaller case, and buy two GPUs from the outset.

5. Get a fast internet connection. You'll be downloading big datasets, and it is frustrating to wait half a day while something downloads and you can get started.

6. Don't underestimate the time it will take to get all of this working. Between the physical assembly, getting Linux installed, and the numerous inevitable problems you'll run into, budget several days to a week to be training a model.
Ask HN: To those who spent big bucks on a luxury car: Was it worth it?
We're in the Bay Area (for work) and drive a 12 year old hybrid car. Will be moving out of US in a couple of years.
We're on the fence about spending around $50k on a luxury car that will lose about 30% value by the time we sell.
Want to get a feel of what its like from those who've gone through this. Was it worth it? Regret it? Did you choose to spend it elsewhere and did it turn out to be a good/bad decision?
I mean, nurses are unionized and are high-wage.

At the end of the day, unions are a means to organize labor. Individual workers have very little power against large corporations, especially if they end up conspiring with each other. You could take them to court, but they have more lawyers and more money to spend on them. We see the benefits of non-union representation now, but what happens when tech turns from feast to famine?
Remember that time Mozilla CEO donated to Prop 8?
Especially for industries immune from foreign competition, like Uber drivers. You have to be here to do the job.
Berkeley Quantum
Exactly, if your medical bills can easily exceed the cost of the car, safety should be a bigger concern.
The more specific statements about addicts become, the more cautious I tend to be.

That said, I do at least agree that your quote is rather particular to AA, and not shared by other programs, like SMART.

The reason I hesitate to dismiss the AA view is that it strikes me as quite possible that, for a subset of addicts, any kind of hope of moderation can be disastrous.

The way I see it, a less dichotomous perspective such as that of SMART is a better starting point than the 'once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic' approach of AA. And if SMART doesn't work, AA might very well be the only solution left.
Have there been any new developments in Audio Visualizations in the recent years? To me it seems like MilkDrop/ProjectM is still the state of the art since 2001.
i was not calling "you" xenophobic, i was saying the sentiment of distrust for anything chinese seemed xenophobic to me, barring an explanation (which you provided, thanks. the exchange of ideas is good!). but i will call you a special snowflake
To stress the point, this feature uses a local database, doesn't send any data off of the device, and is turned off by default.
I assume you people are all in the heart of San Francisco or something, but that is still legit insane.

[edit] Also, I don't think you can still call a wedding "upper-middle class" if it's 6 digits. Holy moly. I'm shook
I would say it's either a rebranded page, or someone used a "clickjacker" on a website to get you to automatically like their page when you were browsing.
Will e-readers employ a 600 DPI screen in 2019?
There's also actors and athletes.
I'm reminded of something a certain high-end ops director (responsible for a DevOps push at a Fortune 50) would tell his CxOs... "No matter what business you think you're in, you're in IT now".

I work mostly in big enterprise companies. Whatever business they are in, they are "large software organizations", and they have decades of experience creating and evolving processes to suit the times and available. tech. You don't need to be Google to be an IT company. Any insurance company, any big-box retailer is an IT company. They know how to do this stuff, believe it or not.

footnote: Don't judge big enterprise companies by what they were doing 20, 30 years ago. They were state of the art then, and they're often state of the art now.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai to Meet with Top GOP Lawmakers
Walked in looking for $100 gloves, got $1500 of gear. A lesson in sales
The API still looks messy and unpythonic though, sadly. Look at the basic hello world example. Why do I need to pass QApplication an empty array? Why am I calling a method ending with _ to launch the program? And the fact the label magically attaches to the app through some side effect is also confusing.

Does anyone know if there's any good shim/wrapper around PyQt that has a better API?
The reports are the summary.
Why would anyone want to hide that? Not an expert in security, maybe I don't have the mental model.
Slate columnist Sara Dickerman wrote a critique of pepper as a table spice a few years ago, while acknowledging its historical medicinal qualities, as the OP does:

> Why should this brawny spice be kept on the countertop at all? Why not stash it in the rack with the fennel seed, the mustard seed, and the cinnamon—all the wonderful spices that add life to our food but are by no means all-purpose? I think we’d appreciate pepper's qualities all the more if we used it just for specific dishes, not universally.

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/food/2012/01/salt_and_pep...
Most spices were expensive because distance and perishing. Faster travel and refrigeration fixed that.

Saffron is expensive because takes an insanely large volume of arable land and manual labor to produce. A saffron crocus plant flowers once per year. It produces about four flowers, and each has three tiny threads of saffron. They are harvested by hand.

To produce a pound of saffron requires about 50,000-70,000 flowers and 40 hours of manual labor.
The US push to boost 'quantum computing'
More generally, I don't like to take any observational studies based on cohort data like this to be useful for attributing any sort of causes.

Whenever you've got people self-selecting into treatment populations, you need to be extremely careful about causality. For example, let's say that you've got a positive association between delinquent behavior and divorce, and that it seems to be stronger when the custodial parent stays single than it is when the custodial parent remarries. One story is that an unstable family situation causes delinquent behavior. Another equally plausible one is that difficult-to-rear kids stress their parents out, which causes them to divorce, and makes it harder for them to remarry.

It is possible to at least poke at these kinds of tangles, but you've got to be extremely diligent and careful about it. More careful than I think is possible in the "giant scattershot regression model" genre of observational study.

When I asked, "Is that true?", I meant it as a rhetorical question. I doubt anyone actually knows the answer. There's an idea, which I got from Green & Gerber's textbook on field experimentation, that some questions are just fundamentally unanswerable.
You make a good point with screen writers. Admittedly I don't know much about that industry.

Do you have a good example of engineering unions? The only one I know of is the SPEEA, and I know of it because one of my friends quit a job to escape the union defined hierarchy and the associated culture.
> (as long as you have the money to actually go to court with real representation)

The theoretical ability to contest contract provisions is close to meaningless because the cost of litigation makes it inaccessible for the vast majority of the American people. Arbitration puts justice even further out of reach.
They have around 300 FTEs. It might sound high, but they are the 5th most visited website in the world. Of others in the top 10, I think Reddit is the only other company with under 1,000 employees (at around 250). In comparison, Taobao which is also in the top 10 has over 30,000 employees.

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

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_...
While I agree with your larger point, I think you'd still be scraping by (if that) with only 75 fans
San Antonio, TX

1) Sprawl
- Like most Texas cities homes are moving farther and farther from city center. You can ignore all this and live in the city which I do, but interacting with anyone not apart of the same mindset will take 30-45 mins drive. At least I can live near downtown for < 250k, apt ~800.

- This affect public transportation options. Expect a couple 1/2 hr hub to hub bus stops.

- Good food is limited and spread out

2) Entertainment
- Not a huge music scene

3) It's hot.

4) Airport doesn't have many direct flights
Ok thanks for the followup, it was something I heard but hadn't tried in practice.
There are specific locations where I lose signal extremely consistently. Like the right-turn lane of a road near my office. No bridge, no particularly tall buildings - just a small spot where the radio cuts out every time.
Yeah, when we get steak for dinners, we wind up with 500-600g for a family of four. And that's 2-3 cuts.
GTA 3 was basically late 80s/early 90s mafioso themed, but I think they were talking more about Philly than Nyc.

I too think it would be really cool to map everything directly to how the city is in the real world. Think of all the shady shit happening in Canarsie and Hoboken XD
Why Alibaba is betting big on AI chips and quantum computing
Many of those are actually trikes used for moving small loads around. I don't know that the 200M number is right, but at least in Shanghai and Beijing the 2Cycle gas scooters were banned, and that's not the case in the interior provinces.
When you are part of this Community here at HN, you are no normal user, but, compared to most of the 7 billion other people, member of the tech elite, even when not in SV. As a member of that group, one should be a bit more open to new ideas, way of doing things and exploring where the world might move to. Currently, after years of ignorance, decentralized networks start to become a thing and now is the time to be one of the early explorers of that scene (similar to E-Mail in 1978, PC programming in 1982, net surfing in 1994, App programming in 2008). Sure, the fully surveilled, full commercial networks like Facebook or Twitter still offer a lot of use. But yet we as „tech elitists“ should not ignore the growing subcultural trend to decentralization.
I've wanted to go back to a S40/candybar type device for a while. So far this has been vetoed by my wife who fears that I'll be even more disconnected since I'll then only have access to all messaging on the PC.

Anyone knows if Telegram/Signal etc exists for KaiOS or similar?
Doctors aren’t unionized anywhere I know of. Do you have an example of a doctors’ union?
Will I be able to sleep in my bed during a power outage?
What would need to happen is that all of "my" friends would have to start using another service.
Noteworthy, the oracle JDK license has apparently changed so you can't legally use their distribution for much of anything except for the development of inhouse java applications? So I guess you can't even use it just for its JRE to run, say, eclipse for PHP development, or to host a servlet web server? Anyways looks like the OpenJDK is now on feature parity and is GPL licensed. https://blog.joda.org/2018/08/java-is-still-available-at-zer...
I never saw these "Signposts" before, interesting. Was there ever an opposing view released to this, uh, blogpost? Signpost?

edit: apparently there is a kind of discussion section at the bottom
Question for anyone who knows: is there a reason .DS_Store files cannot instead be stored as xattrs on the directory inode they’re “for”?
Still using tkinter here which is python's default GUI, what's the license for PyQt5? For me learning Qt in general is another big investment of limited time, so far I have been using tkinter with python and it works well.
The company chooses the arbitrator.
The arbitrator is therefore incentivized to find in the company's favor. If they find in favor of the "plaintiff" (I would imagine that's not what they're called in arbitration) too often, then the company can simply find a more friendly arbitrator.
> They sent me long email listing reasons why I shouldn't get a second monitor

I had no idea Google was so cheap. Gourmet breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day? No problem. A couple hundred bucks for a second monitor? Uh... it's not about the money, we're, uh, concerned about the environment.
It isn't for a lack of trying. Attempts to go too cheap have ended in failure typically - people don't want to move to the middle of nowhere for a one company job when they have a nice well of employment already. The network effect is very real in a that critical mass of workforce talent can provide concrete advantages. That said moving to the fringe of the network seems to be a good move to get the best of both worlds if possible - Palo Alto was once the cheap option.

It probably is inflated due to ego - Juicero certainly didn't need significant talent (or have it for that matter) but if you are developing something that needs complexity like say self driving cars or their parts it could pay off.
What is the benefit of this over Pi-hole? https://pi-hole.net/
Would Uber drivers be better off today if Uber had never existed?
for all you geniuses downvoting my tldr commment: by far the 2 most popular suggested alternatives from the thread were fastmail and protonmail. fastmail costs money. for us elite hacker types its no biggy but does your mom pay for email? its not a fair competitor when 99% of people think email should just be free. protonmail is free but limits how many emails you can send and caps you at 500MB. also sign up and then try signing up for facebook. better get your ID ready...

edit: to be clear i'm not knocking either option. im just supporting my original point -- that google's recent actions do not threaten its email dominance
Because VSCode is a good enough program that fits their needs and the alternative that they were using was Visual Studio? How does that say anything about native frameworks?
With the same appreciation, I maintain this website: https://www.jollycode.org/
(not the parent)

We've seen an even wider cost disparity on colo and dedicated servers vs AWS. More than 5x. It's easy for us to estimate because databases and web servers need to be on all the time, and those dominate costs.
Unions are a very broad umbrella term, like corporations, to describe a type of organized labor. Corporations, unions, and their practices all exit on a spectrum of good and bad.
No argument here (though I have no real solution to that problem. Denying everyone lawyers doesn't help, it just slightly shifts who suffers).

My point was that on this and related topics the "It's a contract, suck it up" type responses are based on a flawed basis, not that the result is actually just or fair.
These Central Valley residents have a longer commute than almost anyone in US
Sweden has de facto minimums specified per industry, so not really comparable.
> I get pushback for not being cis straight every day

What you mean by pushback? Demands for you to be removed from a project because you are not cis? Organized boycotts of the projects you participate in because you're a member? Could you give an example of the pushback like that?

> Being a minority component of society is no fun, huh? Believe me, I know.

I believe you. But if you believe that gives you justification to do to the other people the injustices that have been done to you - you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. Your suffering is real, but it's no excuse to create more suffering for others.

> I actually did that once.

You should not be proud about it.

> the top post here is about a group of conservatives adopting the very strategy you're decrying

Nobody actually adopted this strategy yet, but even if anybody did, they are talking about CoC in their project, dealing with the code they personally implemented, not throwing people out for off-project disagreement.
I work at a Top25 US company by revenue.

In no way am I responsible for our migration going well. But I do feel if a company this size can do it, then others failing to do so says more about their architecture teams than the endeavor's futility.
No, I thought it was a repo containing code extracted unofficially from something Volkswagen did.
I haven't been to this meetup in a couple years, but WetWare Wednesday is a good consistent one to meet up with local developers (on Oahu):

https://www.facebook.com/wetwarewednesday

Event details are usually posted here [1], along with any other tech related events going on in the islands.

[1] - http://www.techhui.com
I like having pepper in a shaker on the table because it improves every food I add it to. But it hasn’t occurred to me that might just be a weird bias.

Instead of hiding pepper away on the spice rack, why not bring more spices to the table? Get 5 or 6 more salt shakers, fill them with additional spices, put them on the dining table, and try them with different foods. Could be a fun way to learn more about flavors when cooking at home.
I worked in email marketing where at its core, we were just doing string replacement from database lookups. Now, we did those string replacements over 300 million times a day. As my boss said "Everything at scale is hard".
That's an explanation for the observed phenomenon, not him getting it backwards.
Good point. I feel this fact is rarely touched on in discussions of inheritance but we’re seeing more and more the role that such changes play.