skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
" and that's really it's purpose."

Not to get off topic but...Or so we were told.

Today, __every__piece of USPS is scanned because of a handful of rogue letters 20+ yrs ago? No one unreasonable would find that reasonable.
I think you're over estimating how much those sorts of individual physical things impact people's choice of long term spouse. Nobody (or at least very few people) is putting off marrying someone they otherwise would marry because they don't have their preferred hair/eye/skin color. I also think you're underestimating how much those physical features are mapped to personality/cultural features. People want to date and marry people who they have a lot in common with. Once people have found someone they're very compatible with on a personality level I think they tend to be less choosy about the physical stuff.

Yes, I was being snarky initially. I was trying to imply that being the opposite sex is enough difference to satisfy most people's minimum requirement.
They’re totally up front about this requirement, too, when making offers. (Source: I turned one down.) You are to move to Long Island, buy a house, buy into the employees-only fund and work there for the rest of your financial career.
There are two classes of implications that come to me easily.

1) There is a possibility that the empowered person did not make the decision(s) that would have resulted in success. Maybe there was no decision chain leading to success. Good luck deciding.

2) The environment that caused failure, could be poorly optimized to minimize failure over a set of empowered persons. Maybe it is optimized and the individuals paths to success couldn't be increased. Good luck determining this, optimization of complex functions is not easy.

The classes are not mutually exclusive. Ignoring the individual's actions (the first class) seems like a poor approach to reducing net failures.

These lines of reasoning always remind me of a quote (from an admittedly cheesy source) that I think holds a useful sentiment.

"There's always someone who'll try to convince you that they know the answer no matter the question. Be wary of those who believe in a neat little world because it's just fucking crazy, you know that it is." --DMB

(I am not accusing the parent of being a person of which to be wary, their comments seem very reasonable).
While I use google reviews more often than other review sites, I know it is a problem. A big chunk of the issues has to do with the whole "local guide" or whatever its called program. People are incentivized to leave reviews anywhere they can because it makes them seem prestigious, so they spam all the restaurants they've not been to or don't care for with negative reviews. This is also a rampant issue for tourist destinations, entertainment locations, local businesses, etc.
Shareholders let out a yelp when they saw the numbers!
Why is noone doing anything about this?

There are no startups in this except for meetups.

Why dont some non-profit organize meetings to find loneliness?

Why there is no volunteering opportunities that focus on making friends first and only second helping the cause?
Just the fact that it was designed for sandboxing hostile code from the beginning.
How can I enable it ?
Because most apps require far more permissions than what is necessary in a browser. Who knows what they are sending over from your phone.

It's akin to having to install a program on your laptop to view a website instead of using the browser.
Why should that be stopped? That should be part of the risk the underwriters take into account when making the loan. Of course, the outcome of that would be that a large number of degree programs would no longer offer any meaningful loans, and then students would hopefully not be graduating with 50-100K in debt for a gender studies degree.

The only way to have institutions underwrite a loan for a degree that has limited economic value is to make the debt nondischargeable.

So, you either have nondischargeable loans for these types of degrees, else you start having the difficult conversation that maybe everyone doesn't actually need to go to college.

Obviously, one of those arguments plays well.
It's by design -- somebody spent a shotload on R&D making an idiot proof machine that still requires an idiot in the loop.

Defense spending is the only politically acceptable "make work" in the USA.
>>I guess I'm just wondering why Facebook cares if someone just wants a non committed hookup partner or not. Why do they want that burden?

Probably PR and brand optics given their recent public mis-steps.
I feel comfortable with the x64 approaches, but am much less familiar with the efficiency of other architectures. The paper also benchmarks ARM (which is relatively faster) and Power 8 (which I don't understand well). I'd be particularly interested in knowing if any other architectures are much faster for division/modulus (which would weaken the paper) or much slower (which would strengthen it).

I'm might be exposing my ignorance, but what's 58 in this context? Is this an ARM Cortex series, or something else?
Wow, I like this, especially since it eliminates the use of batteries. My only concern is whether this will affect our health in the long run, since its new method uses a micro-supercapacitor and combines vapor-coated conductive threads with a polymer film, plus a special sewing technique to create a flexible mesh of aligned electrodes on a textile backing. Do you think this will have adverse effect on us later on in life?
None of this is true. Stop repeating rumors.

Source: I worked there, on the systems in question, and know for a fact that the things you're asserting are not true.
As Robin Hanson has said, school is not about learning [1]. Increasingly it feels that higher education is becoming a cargo cult, a coming-of-age ritual where you jump through certain hoops in order to be awarded a piece of paper which then gives you access to jobs.

[1] http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/08/school-isnt-about-lear...
Because I don't want to install an app on my phone for something I use once a month.

And if you can structure a restaurant review site for mobile, you have no business building anything.
You're right, I should have explained better. If you take a look at many of the other satellites announced that don't get the same hype as SpaceX, you'll notice that they're comparable capacity, or have lower advertised capacity with other tradeoffs. SES mPOWER, viasat-3, and Jupiter 3 to name a few. The companies that stick to GEO satellites maintain that LEO satellites waste a lot of capacity over water, and there's nothing you can do about that. Not only water, but underserved areas that can't afford satellite technology are also included in this. Depending on the numbers you look at, this could mean the effective capacity of the satellite is ~10% of what is advertised.

The other issue with LEO is that if you want to double your satellite capacity, you need to launch twice as many than you currently have in the sky, instead of just one or two more large ones. This presents logistical problems, and technical as well to some extent.

When people typically refer to GEO satellites, they're unfairly making the assumption that the old crop of GEO satellites are where technology is today; namely fixed, low-capacity satellites. This is not the case. With the HTS (High-throughput satellites) and XTS (Extreme throughput satellites) that have movable capacity, not only do you have a comparable amount of usable capacity to LEO, but you can also move it as business needs change. The latency issue will never change, but if you see my other comments, I'm skeptical they'll be able to achieve the latency everyone is quoting.
These are bold claims with nothing to support them. Given the claimed secrecy, I don't see how you could possibly know all that, unless you are (or have been) working for Rentech, or one of the others. Is that the case?
I’ve been thinking about picking one up after reading 6 or 7 rave reviews. It would be my first iPad. I’ve used them plenty, and owned Macs and iPhones for years. This article/review was the one I have been looking for— The only one to confirm my reservations about this new iPad “Pro”

Indeed the hardware looks unbelievable, but its still running iOS. All these quirks with photo importing, and inability to use the same app side by side seem like deal breakers. OSX lets you invent ways to work on the fly, and has virtually no limitations between apps. iOS seems so un-pro, designed only to let you do what each app is individually capable of, with a modicum of communication between different apps. I know I would hit a wall and be downloading tons of junky apps to accomplish little things that would be a breeze on OSX.

The iPad Pro seems to occupy this tiny sliver of space between “things I can do just fine on my iPhone” and “things I must do on my Mac”. I’m not sure it’s worth it, and I certainly don’t think this suits my idea of “Pro” anything.

My favorite bit:

> "How would the simplicity of iOS be subverted by allowing this new thing to happen?"

I do think this is the issue. Apple has done well to differentiate iOS and make it something a great deal simpler. Now can they enable more Pro features without losing that simplicity, potentially encroaching or converging on OSX?
Small, locally run places don't deal with Yelp's extortionate practices if they don't have to. If they've already got a regular clientele, they can tell Yelp where to go.

IMO, the best ways to find restaurants are Google reviews or OpenTable/Bookenda/Resy/etc...
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Because mobile apps make our mobile phones data collection devices. When accessing a service from the browser you have a lot more control on what information it receives about you.

I am not saying most users think like that, providing anecdotal feedback here.
> So if someone reaches for your fork at lunch today and then accuses you of assault, that might be OK technically too?

Lets be clear with this analogy that the fork isn't mine but in fact the person taking it back in this situation. It was provided to me to use. It was the white house's mic given to him to ask his questions. If its their property can't they take it back when they so chose?

The reason I say it might be technically is because some define assault as unwanted contact or battery (https://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-charges/assault-and-ba...). Like I said I don't really want to go down that rabbit hole of an argument. If it is or isn't doesn't matter to me I just don't think it was appropriate.
Send me your address and I'll tell you. ;)

The article mentions that you really need to register every person at your address to avoid being monitored by an unknown. Even so, there is no clear indication whether USPS even verifies that a registered name receives mail at a given address.
I'm not understanding the relevance here, could you explain?
Which IDE are you guys using?
This. I don't install apps as they're usually trojans trying to steal all your info. They might offer functionality but they're usually sneakily stealing your other data.
Let's put aside the "Facebook is evil and therefore everything they do is evil" tangents for a minute since if you're in that boat then its hard to have a useful discussion about this specific feature. And I want to talk about the details of Dating.

Facebook is exactly the right company to pull this off in a way that actually changes the 'industry'. I really want this to be successful and as good as I hope it can be.

* Dating apps live and die by their userbase so we're already doing pretty good there.

* Using the social graph for matches is brilliant since its actually how people IRL do it and you have a built in endorsement system with mutual friends. Having what amounts to an audit trail of "I know this guy, he's cool" gives me a lot more confidence that I'm not getting into trouble.

* More than any other dating platform they have the tools to combat bots and fakes at scale.

* Strongly connecting dating with IRL identity is basically mandatory for safety.

* Facebook has huge potential to make dating safer by knowing when you're together detecting suspicious activity. Integrating their crisis response system would be a game changer.

* Dating apps necessarily collect a lot of user information, there isn't much way around it, and for all their faults Facebook has way more experience than anyone else in protecting it.

* Good on them for removing picture messages, I can't say I'm ever happy to receive unsolicited dick pics.
If I recall, Nintendo was using community-sourced ROMs for their classic consoles too. I see no legal concerns, given that all of the platform was theirs to begin with.

But we'd truly reach full circle if Sony contributed back any bug fixes to the open source project while working on this!
Isn't the point of running these serverless components on data-centers closer to the edge to reduce latency in emerging IoT applications?

My question is why would I want to run an unmodified application on this? Because of existing business logic in the form of shared libraries that I'd like to leverage, unmodified?
Even more so since test data can't be from the same time range: i.e. for time series you need to split train/test by date, not randomly, otherwise your model just memorizes the series.
I actually wrote some ad blocking rules to remove all of these Reddit annoyances. I've been meaning to submit them to one of the mobile-focused Adblock lists. Here are the elements that you need to hide. I like 1 BlockerX for this:

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I like dark mode, mainly as an eye-saver when reading at night. Of course, most websites are blinding white, including this one.

However, in the daytime I would definitely prefer to use light mode, with a brighter screen. So over the course of a day I might have 80% of my usage in light mode and 20% in dark mode.
The majority of hobby UAVs that supports FPV are going to be (illegally) flown beyond LOS at some point, because the rules are almost impossible to enforce, and most operators don’t care. (It’s why I gave up the hobby when toy multi rotors hit the shelves.)

But that isn’t what this article is about - this is the first commercial use waiver for a UAS over the 55lb weight limit.
I am still using my Mini from 2012, and it runs the latest OS, Mojave.
Are Unicode characters a problem for the tools you use?

For example, some languages will let you use λ instead of lambda. Or when trying to define the logistic function, I sometimes find myself writing

σ(x) = 1.0 / (1.0 * exp(-x))

Or the Julia language has ≈, which tests if two floating point numbers are approximately equal. Visually, this is a reasonable symbol, it's not like one of the weird functional programming spaceship operators. But I have no idea what a screen reader would read.

Sometimes this sort of thing lets code correspond almost exactly to the notation in papers. It is a minor aesthetic improvement, but if it breaks screen readers and other tools I'd rather just write out "sigma" or "lambda".
This is where I stopped short because it felt too cynical right off the hip. But maybe Facebook deserves the cynicism.
You will get excited by some new technology, but eventually burn yourself out on programming, from doing it all day, to the point of never getting to use that new exciting technology for anything personal.

It is very hard to break this cycle, but not impossible.
My intuition has always been that the smaller your portfolio, the better deal it is for you to use Robinhood. So it certainly has its place for an underserved class of investors.
Captivating Photographs of Storm Clouds by Camille Seaman Show Nature’s Power
This may be an unpopular opinion, but is Yelp really being slimy by pushing users to download their app? Seems to me it's more that they are being too cheap/lazy to properly maintain both a mobile app and a mobile site. Certainly not behavior that benefits their users, but I feel slimy implies that they are doing something dishonest.
Firstly I will admit that the article was a bit much for me to process as a non-biologist, and that it didn't register that that was the entire point of the article until you said so :-)

But to be a little defensive, yeah, I know shared environmental factors aren't really "heritable", I'm just saying that it honestly hadn't occurred to me before reading this article that they would be confused for heritable genetic factors, even though it does kind of seem obvious once it's pointed out.
Investment markets operate on relative gain, not absolute gain. E.g.: if you invest in a stock and it gains $5, this would be a great return for a $1 stock but a poor one for a $1000 stock, so the absolute gain doesn't mean anything on its own. A 5% return always means that you've gained 5% on your investment.
> Simultaneously, they don’t use a virtual machine or a container, which means you are actually running closer to the metal than any other form of cloud computing I’m aware of

I recognize this is just a little marketing (which is fine), but I'm not sure what this is supposed to mean any more.. containers have identical efficiency to running on a raw VM, and VMs only trap to emulation in very few circumstances (e.g. IO) any time in the past decade. Running pure compute load in a container, guest VM or host VM should have almost identical performance.
How does that design actually manifest itself? I don't know very much about this - what technical details about JavaScript make this easier? And then why doesn't Node support this kind of sandboxing, but V8 does, if it's so much easier to support sandboxing than other languages?
LOL, No.

How do you even enforce that? If I get a job somewhere else, there's no reason for me to disclose where I'm going.
I think their point is that predicting that "the stock will go up by 1$" or "the stock will go down by 1$" is worse than "the stock will go up by 0.05%" and "the stock will go down by 0.05%" because of this little paradox:

50$ increase from 50$ is 100% increase
50$ decrease from 100$ is 50% decrease

e.g., if the model finds 50$ increase/decreases, that actually corresponds to very different wealth changes
Ask HN: How important is whiteboard collaboration in your work?
They were dischargeable in bankruptcy until 10-15 years ago.

I don't believe declaring bankruptcy on graduation day was ever a standard practice, nor do I see why reversing the discharge exception would change that.

By and large, people intend to repay debts they incur, and they don't want to deal with the 7 to 10 years (not sure of exact duration) of bad credit that results from bankruptcy if they can avoid it.

Having difficulty buying or leasing a home or car without paying the total cost up front, inability to get those jobs where a credit check is involved, etc... that will never be standard practice by choice.
They don't. They're all qualified for machine learning or data scientist roles in any area of tech. That's a huge field.

Most of them are also qualified for general software engineering roles; some of the people with more theoretical backgrounds might not be.
World’s First Robotic News Anchor
That didn’t require a commercial use waiver, as they weren’t selling a product or service. The article (if you care to read it) even calls out other non-commercial use examples.
Well as for trains you can still run them using wires, almost the entire European railway network is electrified
Apps simply often have alot less value to offer. And with a higher price attached. See permissions, tracking, notifications, worse UX sometimes, ad-blocker missing/ad-land.

Some are more affected of the issues, some less.

> Seems like a key problem for mobile OS vendors to solve.

No.
These large corporations need to knock off the bullshit and make their websites well developed and designed in-browser apps. Something so simple could save Yelp and many others. There is no need to have a native app unless you require certain hardware features that are unavailable on the browser to meet your apps purpose.
An Impressive Use of the Mapbox API by WaPo: How Democrats Flipped the House
Yes, that's what they're saying. It's not true.
it's pr speak for "there will be no dick pics"
Wow, $YELP has almost $1b in revenues, $800m in cash and trading at a $2.5b market cap.

Yelp took far too long to go big into self-service advertising.
Thank you! Nice to see a few early supporters on here :)
> Last I checked it was supposed to be about 32Tbps with all satellites operational.

It will be ~80Tbps after the first three phases (the LEO constellation), ~240Tbps after VLEO.

I agree with you that they probably cannot offer enough bandwidth to compete with residential internet in densely habited areas.(1) The system is really interesting in less densely inhabited places, and for backhaul. The complete system has more transcontinental bandwith between almost any two (distant enough) places than all submarine cables between them put together. This alone will likely pay for the whole system, with plenty to spare.

(1) With a few exceptions. After the full constellation is up, New Zealand will have ~30 times more downlink capacity than the entire bandwidth use of the country as of right now, and will also have tens of times more connecting capacity with North America and Australia than it currently has. But that requires a country of only 6 million in the starlink sweet spot that gets all of the bandwidth of all visible satellites to the east of it.
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The up/downlink is the bottleneck if you want to provide backbone-like connectivity over satellites, and that's still done via radio.

Those speeds may be great for individual endusers, but if you're a datacenter which needs a lot of bandwidth then starlink would be limited by the shared radio bandwidth to the sats, which could be quite crowded in an urban environment, while fiber wouldn't be. That's why I only see them as competing on latency, not on bandwidth.
If AWS ever implements IPv6, that's totally possible. The standard IPv6 distribution model calls for end users to be given a /64.
> Websites are far faster than they've ever been in the past, even with the bloat of frameworks and fonts. Most sites load in < 5s these days. That was not the case 15 years ago.

I had a cable modem 15 years ago. Pages loaded faster, even though I had 1/10th the bandwidth that I do now.
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A Few Open Questions About Dockless Scooters
Whatever software was used to create a proper video from the GIF seems to have done some kind of framerate doubling by inserting interpolated frames. It alternates between a clear frame and one with odd motion blur throughout. Also, I reckon the weird frame duplication is an interaction between the software used to create the GIF and the software used to turn it into an edited video later. More specifically:

- The GIF has a non-standard framerate of 14.56 FPS. This means that it's probably playing about 3% slower than the original video, which isn't perceptible and isn't particularly important by itself.

- The video has a more standard framerate of 29.9 FPS. The software seems to mostly handle this by doubling the framerate with interpolated frames, as described above. However, this doesn't quite fix the problem - roughly every 40 frames it'll be a frame short.

- Sure enough, there's another frame duplication about 40 frames after the first.
I've been wandering from job to job looking for these folks to learn from and have failed so far.

Nobody seems to be able to think even two steps ahead, often fail to think one step ahead sufficiently to answer "why" questions about their current task.
I think the user was referring to the AI bit. This "AI news anchor" is a glorified TTS.
And neither will Tesla sit idly by something the legacy automakers seem to assume