skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Related to that, usually I am a little faster finding answers to syntax questions on SO than in the documentation, even when the documentation is good. So I'm glad that people have been asking those basic questions on SO.
This is why I consider my 1990 Volvo a comparatively environmentally friendly car. Very reliable and much cheaper to maintain and repair than a new electronics laden alternative.
"I find learning via projects is the fastest and most useful. I am unsure if I will take courses ever again.
"

I also learn mostly through projects but I think sometimes it's good to take a dedicated class to expand my horizon further than the immediate need or just into a completely new area.
Sales CRM and how it can become the business driver
That's what I do. Anything that I think would cause me problems coming back into Canada gets pushed to the cloud while I'm still out of country, then deleted from my devices. Next, I log out/disconnect from my cloud services and uninstall their apps. Once I've cleared customs, I take a few minutes to reinstall and reconnect everything.

It's a hell of a lot better than dealing with the bullshit that is CBSA.
In New York, public-sector unions are not allowed to strike; instead both parties are forced into binding arbitration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Law

According to an arbitration decision in 2010, it sounds like the MTA strategically withdrew an OPTO clause specifically to get less hammered by labor on other issues during arbitration: https://www.scribd.com/doc/18552062/The-M-T-A-and-T-W-U-Arbi...
Really I think the specific the problem here with DAF's is just misaligned incentives, the DAF values the donors donation but the government is the one that has to pony up the tax rebate. Obviously there is some auditing mechanism here where the valuation can't be too far from reality otherwise the government would come down on it but in practice it seems like that is one of their benefits. I think the more interesting and subtle problem though is that the rebate is awarded at donation time instead of when the money actually gets put to use which lets the DAF accrue fees on government money.

in a highly stylized example:

1. A donor gives the DAF a $10m yacht

* DAF gives a donor $10m donation receipt

* Government gives donor <donor tax rate> * <donation receipt> rebate i.e. .30 * $10m = $3m

2. DAF liquidates yacht into $9m cash and invests it

* the DAF charges .006 management fee on this for 5 years with a 5% return

3. At the end of 5 years the DAF liquidates its investments and puts all of that money to work on a cause.

* ~$11.2m goes to work on a charitable cause

* DAF has collected ~340k in fees

This is more or less the description the DAF in the article but now but we've simplified to assume a conservative consistent return and that the whole donation gets put to work at once at the end of a set term whereas more likely it would be slowly liquidated over time. Now let's assume that instead of the government paying up the tax rebate when the donation is made that it is paid out when the money left the DAF and went to work on a cause.

1. donor gives a DAF $10m yacht

* DAF values it at $9m and gives the donor <donor tax rate> * <donation receipt> rebate i.e. .30 * $9m = $2.7m

2. DAF liquidates yacht into $9m cash, covers their $2.7m rebate outlay and invests $6.3m

* the DAF charges .006 management fee on this for 5 years with averages a 5% return

3. At the end of 5 years the DAF liquidates its investment and puts all of that money to work on a cause.

* ~$7.8m from the DAF goes to work on a charitable cause + a $2.7m from the government to match that original rebate for a total of ~$10.5m

* DAF has collected ~238k in fees

What's the difference here?

1. The government saves $300k on a rebate because the DAF has to liquidated the yacht to come up with the money to pay the rebate so the valuation is based on something the reflects the actual cash

2. The government keeps <rebate amount> ($2.7m in this case) in its bank account for the 5 years while is in the DAF. This means the government can use it for it's own operations over that time period rather than it sitting in the "warehouses of wealth". It also means the DAF can't collect fees on this money because it is not managing it.

I'm not trying to make a statement on if the government should or should not subsidize donations to charity, just point out how that subsidy seems to be leveraged by the introduction of DAFs against its original intent.

sorry for the terrible formatting
Apple now blocks iOS app backups, but you can do something about it
This is interesting... GM bought Cruise for what, $2 billion? And now Honda buys a minuscule stake in Cruise company for the same price GM bought the whole thing for.
How to Use Listen/Notify Commands from Postgres in Elixir?
Interesting experiment. Looks like a lot of fun to use that air cannon to blast things at things.

That aircraft doesn't have any de-icing equipment so it is basically just sheet metal where it hit. I'd be curious to see what would happen if it ran into a wing with than just a thin skin.
I'd rather people used multi-base wifi mesh networks to increase their coverage instead of one long range transmitter.

Single long range base stations might be great if you have a house and distance from your neighbors, but it's terrible for people with denser living arrangements.
Hi @turblety, finally I see someone concerned about MINIX and everything that Intel ME can do to invade us, I read most of your comments, and you are pretty aware of the matter, is there a pc/chipset different from Intel and AMD that is free of this backdored tools?? I read on 1 comment from you something about IBM's OpenPOWER? thanks
I'm playing devil's advocate here. Go look up the arguments yourself, and this time open your mind: range is a valid argument to the people making it. Even if realistically it isn't nearly as big a deal as they think, mental peace is more important than you seem to give it credit for.
>- Republicans shut down the US Government four times under the last president. our credit rating was lowered and government debts could not be serviced. the only thing that was immediately resolved was most airlines abilities to ferry senators home for the weekend.

The shutdowns during Obama's term as just as much the Democrats fault as the Republicans. Regardless, the US paid its debt. There have only been two federal defaults, one in 1790 and one in 1933.
Four alleged members of hate group charged in 2017 rally in Charlottesville
I put creating 5 companies...

Zip2, x.com, SpaceX, Boring Company. Elon didn't create Solar City or Tesla. What am I missing?
Roundcube is everything but not a replacement for Gmail.

I have my Gmail account logged in on 3 PC's going back to IMAP and Thunderbird never.
Data Pipeline [xkcd]
An Oral History of Snipehunt Magazine and Kathy Molloy
I could go on for hours. Just try it yourself, it's free.
Agreed. I noticed this too, would be great if the FF devs could implement that very useful feature. It gives an instant overview of the search hit distribution on the page.
It’s the most widely deployed, I think that’s quite fair.

But that’s VERY different from ‘most advanced’.
No they filter out ads.

Then they give everyone the opportunity to use a Patreon-Style support or view Ads, optionally.

Why isn't it ethical to target big Ad-Tech middle men like Google and Facebook and increase efficiency and privacy at the same time?
When hybrids are fertile (2011)
Storybook Loop: Free collab tool for React/Vue/Angular development
Margins – where you can save, annotate and share papers
Such as commuting an hour to work, that may turn out to be two, in Toronto's gridlock, during a cold wave of -45c.

"Most trips" doesn't work, the EV proponents want a ban on all ICE cars. Which would force part of the population to buy a truck and commute with it.
How Atlassian Uses Feature Management to Continuously Deliver
If you don't mind me asking, why did you want to change from bit twiddling to enterprise?
I switch desktops via touchpad on Windows too, maybe you are used to a different gesture?
From Wikipedi:

>Though the nominal data rate is just 37% higher than IEEE 802.11ac, the new amendment is expected to achieve a 4× increase to user throughput due to more efficient spectrum utilization.

>IEEE 802.11ax is due to be publicly released sometime in 2019.[2] Devices were presented at CES 2018 that showed a top speed of 11 Gbit/s.[3]

Sounds good but with limited practical value while broadband speeds stay so limited in home. For businesses this would make a big difference (for example editing HD video over WiFi).
I'm not sure how it works with other password managers but 1password allows you to set certain "vaults" to travel mode.

See: https://support.1password.com/travel-mode/
Wouldn't that mean nobody can call into the US?
WiMax is an LTE alternative designed by an IEEE 802 committee. It is designed for last mile delivery and also meets the requirements to be considered a 4G and 5G protocol.

Although technically superior to LTE, phone companies (outside of Sprint, in the US at least) chose not to deploy it as it was not based on existing protocols (GSM and CDMA), even though that isn't an actual legitimate reason, as "true" LTE requires VoLTE deployment, which phone companies refused to do until forced to; VoLTE-enabled handsets perform a lot better than their pre-VoLTE or VoLTE-disabled siblings purely because of not needing to waste valuable spectrum on 3G connections, allowing that band to be reassigned to a 4G radio on the tower.

On top of the VoLTE debacle, companies invested in the GSM and CDMA monopoly tried to claim WiMax did not perform well at long distances, the same distances that LTE does not work well with today (found frequently in rural areas in the US, or similarly in areas heavily shadowed by hills or tall buildings); however the adoption of 600/700mhz to fill in those gaps (plus the forced adoption of VoLTE to improve spectrum usage) has proven that to be false.

LTE in areas that are partly covered by existing bands, with the gaps filled in by 600/700mhz, have finally caught up to WiMax in real world testing.

Interestingly, Asia has adopted WiMax heavily but may be switching to LTE in the future for 5G deployment, even though WiMax beat LTE-A to the commercial gigabit deployment milestone, due to these continued misconceptions. Africa's few networks that were WiMAX are (or have already) switched to LTE (driving up the cost, and lowering the reliability of their networks).

The one place WiMax survived in the US was fixed broadband links (as this is what WiMax was originally designed for, until it merged with Korea's WiBro spec more than a decade ago), but that seems to be finally being replaced in favor with LTE-A's fixed profiles.

WiMax will probably beat LTE to working gigabit deployments, although you'll need to live in Asia for this to be relevant to you.

WiMax is not related to WiFi; although the actual underlying technology of all standards are rapidly converging, they are designed for different purposes.
Hate to be that guy, but it seems crazy that a design-related site would do such horrible things to scrolling on iPhone to the extent that I switched to reader view!
Choosing not to do business with a company is NOT censorship. The only way you could believe it to be so is if you believe that the Daily Stormer has a right to speech, but no one else does.
No, it is the children who are wrong...
Because jew and because holocaust and because 7 gorillion
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Ask HN: Would YC be accepting similar companies in subsequent batches?
Hey all, We've just submitted our YC application for Winter 2019. However, we know that a similar company is already in 2018 batch. Just curious if YC be accepting such kind of companies or avoid them in the name of "conflict of interest"!
All I know is that this makes me feel safer, because as we know New Zealand is the number one target and nexus of international terrorism. With this move, I suspect peace will break out in the Middle East within days, weeks at most.
A Prius gets around 55 mpg, which with gas at 3.25/gal and electricity at 0.11/kWh means a Chevy Bolt, for example, costs just a little over half what the electric does, per mile. The electric also has a significantly higher capital cost and depreciation rate. I wouldn't be at all surprised if over, say, five years, the Prius has a cheaper TCO.
I'm not familiar with this flow for using buildpacks, myself.

Here's how I would do it:

rm Dockerfile
cf push

aaand I'm done.

Someone using Heroku might do it wildly differently. It's super complicated:

git rm Dockerfile
git commit -m "Switch to Cloud Native Buildpacks"
git push
Will a Tesla (or any car) really prevent you from running your car into something if you try to?

I think what the comment was about would be trying to park your car and as soon as your bumper is 6 inches from theres, stopping you completely. If you push down on the accelerator, nothing would happen. Inertia aside, it would be impossible to hit another car.
Bare-metal in this context means that you have physical hardware and you're responsible for making sure the system can boot and do the stuff you want, as opposed to what you'd have with a service like Amazon's EC2, where you're given a set of apps to configure and execute a virtual machine image. The distinction is made because the former scenario requires extra work for initial configuration (in terms of OS installation and physical networking and such) and you have the burden of setting up automation to handle scenarios where your OS installation is hosed, and much more.
Wow, what a great tool!
>majewsky
- Charge times, charging with higher voltage decreases the battery capacity.
- Some cities may require major grid upgrades, peaks consumption may rise significantly
- A lot of power still comes from coal which doesn't solve much as emissions go.

Overall it all revolves, around energy density, inability to store electricity efficiently, charge times and battery degradation (lots of them are not produced in very renewable manner)
Ah, that makes total sense. Makes you wonder how they avoided this situation with RISC-V (they say via identification of prior art), but graphics does seem to be worse patent-wise (though ARM is notoriously litigious).
> Can a machine automatically press the buttons?

No.

What's hard about this, if a person presses a button that can cause 1 and only one call. You also can't have a machine listen to see if someone picks up then hand off to a person because a human was not listing at the start of the call.
concern ok -- hand-wringing.. not so much.. obstruction and FUD .. you get the idea .. offhand seems like it is a crucial time to get data
In fact they should criminalize the use of windows blinds too!
Lifting the Cloak of Secrecy from NYPD Surveillance Technology
Which is why governments that believe that the negative externalities of fossil fuels are worse than those disadvantages use legislation to tip the scales in the other direction.
How do Kubernetes Deployments work? An adversarial perspective
Make it illegal to be a carrier of those calls, then let the telephone networks figure out how best to block them.
> Isn't this already fulfilled by nature documentaries?

Yes, a David Attenborough or Jacques Cousteau can make the natural world come alive. But an interactive digital platform will enable very different forms of storytelling.

> seeing and hearing what a tiger hears through your digital display is not the same

Of course not, just as being a Masai tribesman for a day or even living with them for three years as a peace corps volunteer is not the same as herding cows in Kenya. While stories never transport you into the real world, we all love the idea of platform 9-3/4. They serve different cognitive functions.

>I would wager that digitally experiencing nature from our comfortable cities does not raise that same connection to nature that one gets from actually being out there and experiencing it with _all_ of their senses.

Too broad a brush in my view. For example, there are things that you can do digitally that you can't do in person. However deep you go into a forest, you will never see it with a tiger's eyes because your bodies are different and your brain is different. Forget tigers and forests, you experience your home differently from a dog or cat that you have as a pet. Seeing your home through their eyes - however crudely - will be an act of interspecies empathy that you will never get through other means. It's possible some creatures are so different that their world will be incomprehensible to us even if we stream their senses 24/7. We won't know until we try. It remains an empirical question as to how much of that gap is bridgeable.

> to the point that they want to change their behaviours to protect it

I don't think we are at a point in human history when changing individual behaviors will save the planet, either from climate change or from ecological collapse. We need large scale political action with laws that have teeth and means of enforcing them at a planetary scale. The problem I am trying to solve here (or rather, claim as one needing solving) is a different one: how to transport ourselves into the bodies of other creatures? It's the animal equivalent of reading Dostoevsky to understand Russia - a problem very different from pouring billions into strengthening your computer systems because Russians are hacking your elections.
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==Mission==

Take 'Bedroom deep learning' to the next level. Every participant comes out of the door with a portfolio project that has social impact, ideally at scale.

At DLR, we believe (in spite of the hype) deep learning is actually underappreciated. It has more potential to generate an impact than most other technologies. Big companies (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Netflix, Waymo, Uber, Apple, etc.) are ‘killing it’ using deep learning in their products. You hear you need lots of data and computation to build anything remotely useful. This is just not true. You don’t need to be a corporation to have ridiculous amounts of effect with deep learning!

The more we talk to companies interviewing today, the more apparent it is: A portfolio project is decisive when making hiring judgments. Jeremy Howard recommends it. Andrew Ng recommends it. Why? It’s far better at discriminating talent than any other proxy (CVs don’t work; pedigree doesn’t work; puzzles don’t work).

You can read more about our method here: https://deeplearningretreat.com/method-and-manifesto/ See also the kind of projects we build: a combination of cheap hardware and deep learning that produces serious social impact.

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Other instructors tell us that they learn a lot by teaching here. You can join anyone else's session anytime.

We are customer funded.

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I agree with you. And I think it's good that Amazon is given credit for doing this. But I also question whether the incentive that pushed Amazon to do this has as much to do with magnanimity as it does with generating goodwill and preventing tougher legislation. Bernie Sanders and his group have been calling on Amazon to improve worker conditions and pay, and while they have praised Amazon for doing so, I think they would be naïve to think there's not more to expect or demand of Amazon in this realm. That is in effect "rewarding" them for good behavior, but there should also be some negative incentives in place (IMHO) to further encourage more of this good behavior
Maybe the strategy is to service Sneetches with both Star-On and Star-Off machines.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sneetches_and_Other_Storie...
I might add vscode to this. You probably don't want it running solely as a terminal, but I've become used to it while developing and it's pretty nice on both Windows and Macos.
I almost bought into Imperfect Produce, too, what a bad taste in my mouth that would have left. Thanks for the good read.
There are power lines to most places already. The utility replaces/upgrades them on a schedule (IIRC the expected lifespan for overhead lines last for 17 years, underground for 15). Which is to say the infrastructure is mostly there, and just needs updates that would happen anyway.
We're looking at a collision between a big kerosene-tank and a fist-sized Li-Po battery.
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This older article suggests that while all of such things are possible, they attract higher level of interest from the IRS

https://www.journalofaccountancy.com/issues/2011/nov/2010360...

"From 2003 through 2007 approximately 3,000 tax returns per year contained a charitable deduction for donation of a qualified conservation contribution. During this time and since, the IRS has continued to scrutinize deductions for contributions of conservation easements, often challenging them on issues including the quality of the appraiser and/or appraisal, the appraisal technique employed, failure to comply with substantiation requirements or protection of the conservation purpose. Tax practitioners need to be aware of the rules and procedures to successfully support these transactions and their tax treatment. They must be able to select a qualified appraiser and assess an appraisal for compliance with procedural and substantiation requirements. Then they must be able to structure and document these transactions appropriately and correctly calculate the deduction."
As usual, nothing is ever that simple.

This is a direct assault on Walmart by getting the government to raise wages, which are not viable for retail heavy jobs that cannot be automated or streamlined like warehouses.

It's good PR in the face of their recent news, and will definitely help people in the short-term, but it's also a very shrewd business move and may lead to externalities that cause more damage in the long-term.
It would be great if Israel was wiped off the map. No more conflict, no more need for america to give billions in aid, not as many jews subverting nations. Win, win, win.

If only we could remove all the jews from america, put them in israel then wipe it off the earth, that would be a real solution to the problem.