skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't part of the problem that the water pressure (if everyone turns these one) is bad which hinders firefighters when they need to tap the water supply to fight fires. They specifically ask people to turn off sprinklers/water hoses/other water use cases before evacuating.
You might have too many casual users like me browsing this forum now.
Oh boy - it's that time again.

Time for a bunch of people with no competition law or economics background to get upset over the term 'monopoly'.
Notable: Btrfs is used for all of ChromeOS and the crostini container is just another volume.

It's incredibly robust, really confusing why RH would be pulling this.
What you're calling "rational" is just more conspiracy theories. But nice try to appear impartial there in the beginning.

Soros started by funding most of the opposition in Poland in the 1980s, making him a key factor in the downfall of the Sowjet Union.

And he has basically not changed since... He's for "Open Societies". Practically, that means supporting opposition parties or groups in any country that lacks freedom of speech. Also journalism, job training for groups traditionally excluded from majority society like kurds or Roma.

I have personally worked with his Foundation, when they gave almost a million to the Debating World Championship. As in: Oxford & Harvard students arguing for/against anything, including extremely conservative positions.

He isn't trying to increase migration. He tries to improve the plight of those who have already fled. That may increase migration in the sense that shooting migrants at the border would decrease it, yes. But that logic is neither intended, nor accepted anywhere else. Unless you believe killing all sick people would be just as effective as vaccinations.
pedantic.
see, this is more interesting. I'm British so while I followed the election itself fairly closely I'd only really heard the mainstream narrative on the Russian bots, that they were there to get Trump elected because Trump was buddies with Putin. The idea of them fomenting chaos on both sides makes a lot more sense.
Apparently the bots can cook burgers better: https://www.forbes.com/sites/christinatroitino/2018/06/21/me...
For now, indeed. Not sure what I'm going to do when they go away, I dislike the new interface so much that I don't think I'll use the site anymore
No, I haven't read any books specifically about the history of workplace safety regulations. I learned bits and pieces second-hand from my father, an engineer who spent the second half of his career doing environmental, health, and safety oversight work at a large manufacturer.
> I have no sympathies for companies that turn down highly qualified intelligent workers by the truckload. There are so many people with MBAs who, for years struggle to get any kind of job at all.

An "MBA" doesn't make you "highly qualified". People (especially those with an MBA) should realize that it's about supply and demand: There's too many MBAs and too few jobs where just an MBA makes you a good candidate.

Companies are never complaining about finding workers, they are complaining about finding workers at the right price. For obvious reasons, they don't phrase it that way though.

> My theory is, a lot of these so called job openings are for jobs that aren't really needed.

At least they're not desperately needed. I assume you have a computer. I also assume you'll replace it at some point. As long as the old one is still working or you have a spare, you could you delay that purchase for months, even years. In the meantime, you can just go window shopping.
Oh...I was thinking of trying out my luck in Berlin...
"The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without." -- Elbert Hubbard
I think you're right on everything but "critical for performance".

Some chips (mostly Intel) have seen pretty big performance drops. But nothing like 50%+.

Cloud could cost 50% more. We will bear it.
What's the deal with sites that require JavaScript to render any content at all?
I use Google Chromium, and I have JavaScript disabled by default. I then whitelist specific trusted sites that require it.

There are a large number of websites that display nothing but a blank, white page when visiting them with JS disabled.

Some of these websites are very popular, large and well-known, while others are smaller startup/personal projects that are posted on HN.

Is there a particular design decision that results in this large number of websites? Or perhaps a common framework that doesn't have a <noscript>-like component?

I'm not expecting the full website to work with JS disabled, but I should at least be able to view the static content. At the very least there should be a warning suggesting that JS should be enabled.

I know that I'm in an extreme minority with this, but it seems like a silly thing for website operators to miss out.
After all that’s happened and what can likely happen in the future, do you really want to associate your brand with something like Facebook?
German firms (like Deutsche Telekom) have a ton of redundant jobs because of their inability to make needed structural changes because of the work councils and labor laws.

This is why firms like Google are hiring in Switzerland and the United Kingdom instead of France and Germany.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Zionism
Ah you know what, I think I am. I guess I was stuck thinking about Monads rather than the lambda calculus. Thank you so much!
Unconstructive comment. Please don't demean their hard work with sarcasm. Small companies are hard enough to build as is.
Apple Recruiting Chip Engineers to Work in Qualcomm’s Backyard
The bible? Uncle Tom's Cabin? Das Kapital? It's not that hard to find books that - by themselves - caused revolutions or major social change.
Or you could go for an even richer system of score voting with integers out of a limited set.

You can convert ordinal ranks to scores directly meaning the set exactly same as number of candidates. By that, each median score represents median ordering in a ranked ballot. You may lose certain properties that are relevant in case of direct ties but nobody really cares about that in big constituencies.

Heck, you can also keep counts of each score in case the dominant is needed for a tie breaker.

Approval voting is a score system with a binary score.

Rules are simple: in case of rank scores, candidate with lowest median rank wins, if there is a tie candidate with higher count of low scores wins. This converts IRV or other ranked system to Bucklin vote.

In case of approval scores, replace lowest with highest.
Electric cars are only marginally simpler than traditional cars. The body, interior, suspension, and infotainment system are all the same. Only the drive train changes. Building efficient battery packs, electric motors, and transmissions still requires a lot of precision machining and assembly work.
The scrum meeting sample with the loud keyboard felt all to real. Look forward to trying it out next time I'm working at a coffee shop.
However, trying to live without the moderating influence that Walmart has on the ravages of inequality is a worse problem than trying to figure out how to get infrastructure paid for.

The poor living without infrastructure actually keeps them poor (can't commute to work, say). The poor not being to buy at Wallmart leaves them with Amazon and with a corner store that might rip them off a bit but has some relation to their lives.

Edit: I mean, I live on a limited income and have plenty of friends as close to absolute poverty as it gets. None depend on Walmart in particular though some depend on Target, an equivalent. You can live even more cheaply buying from thrift stores than Walmart. Moreover, most people who can go to the giant big box stores have working cars which put them on a tier slightly above the very poorest.

Sure, broadly, the last thirty years of declining wages for the working class have been softened by the flood of cheap manufactured goods. But that's overall - Walmart is not the only conduit of this flood, though it's helped. And Walmart + other big box stores also benefit from economies of scale and dodging taxes for infrastructure. Of course, it's reasonable to say Walmart isn't a pure evil but touting it as a net good seems equally misguided. The despair of "Walmart-ized" small town American is well documented.

For example, It sounds impossible that lots of people today subsist out in the middle nowhere, where the bus services barely exist, without their cars. But this is what happens today and the cuts in infrastructure, no buses and etc, hurt this group a lot.
Three-phase power is common for service in the US for commercial, industrial, and rural areas. But it is not typical in urban or suburban residential areas.

And yes, nearly every home is served by 220 V phase-to-phase with a center tap. Am I understanding right that UK houses are only fed by single phase at 230 V with neutral?

Is the reason we have pole mounted transformers in the US really because of voltage drop though? It seems to me the reason would be they are inherently smaller due to the lower voltages, higher frequency, and only converting one phase from the distribution side. The UK has lower frequency, higher voltage, and apparently has three output phases which seems like it would require a larger transformer.
Your entire line of reasoning is based on the assumption that risk of fire is unavoidable and such we don't want to exert pressure on them to reduce that risk any further than regulation requires.

I disagree.

Government should regulate the minimum required to make society function. If citizens decide they don't want to rebuild their burned down homes every once in while, then this might include some minium safety requirements utilities have to satisfy or be criminals. This has little to do with pricing risk.

Beyond that, we want to find the best cost/benefit trade-offs. And finding those best trade-offs is what we use competing private companies for in the first place. That's the reason the gov hands the privilege to run the local utility to whatever company makes the best offer running it. Only in return do we allow them to keep additional profits competitors couldn't match. Ideally, this should include all externalities, like this preventive measures vs insurance cost trade-off.

I understand the price has to payed by citizens anyway. Either directly to the utility, or by tax funded subsidy, if they want to cap prices. Either is fine. But if we use profit generating companies to optimize cost, then it just makes no sense to not have them optimize on a significant chunk of cost society will suffer.
I had been wondering when a product like this would come along. Being able to remove background noise from calls sounds pretty great, but it's not a problem I run into too often - most people on my calls are in a meeting room or a quiet place.

But, if it can really fill in missing or distorted chunks then for me that's a killer feature. I'm going to give it a try on my morning check-in call, which is coming up.

I'd love to see a product like this be able to adapt to the voices of individual speakers, and fill in gaps or distortion in their natural voices. I presume that would be more difficult, though, because you'd need a model of each speaker at the output device, so both parties would need to be running Krisp, and you'd somehow have to share the model between them - which if you already have network issues causing dropouts and distoration might not be feasible. Unless it was a side-channel thing, where for regular calls with the same people the voice model for is updated after each call, ready for the next one.

Though I'm not sure I love the idea of a model of my voice being constructed and transmitted around. But I think it would be really cool :)
Ideally, you'd want those links to expire after one use or after a few minutes, and you'd have some means of preventing replay-attacks. (a temporary token stored on the client that gets sent to the server during the email dispatch) Assuming every channel is encrypted, an unexpired link isn't as easily compromised as a password.
There is a huge additional set of decisions that are not made under duress, but are made in an information vacuum. Two recent examples from my own health history:

My optometrist wants me to try a new kind of contact lens. She cannot (or will not) tell me what they will cost. She can't tell me what they would cost me personally because she just doesn't know - all they can do is send a bill to my insurance company and find out how much they pass on to me. Which is essentially asking me to write a blank check. Nor can she tell me the sticker price on these contacts so that I can at least know the upper bound, because she simply does not have (easy?) access to that information - the billing department does. Probably I'll stick with the same brand I've been using for years, because at least there I can safely assume they'll cost about the same now as they did last year.

Similar story for my doctor offering me a flu shot while I was getting a checkup. She couldn't tell me the price, she didn't know the price, she couldn't get access to the price, etc. I usually go to the pharmacy, where they bill $30 and insurance covers it all. So I figured, "How bad can it be? And it'll save me some time," and let her give me the flu shot. Big mistake - the doctor's office billed $300, insurance (quite reasonably, TBH) only agreed to cover a portion of it, and I got stuck with a $200 bill.

There's two problems there. One is the lack of price transparency. The other, though, is the prevailing attitude - in both cases, the doctor's opinion, which I think is most everyone else's opinion, too, was, "Who cares what it costs? If the insurance covers it, it's basically free to you." Which just ain't true, especially for routine care stuff like this. The insurance company isn't getting their funds from some magical fountain of money. From a "see the forest not the trees" perspective, they will have to pass every cent of these costs (and more) on to me.

Both of these problems are solvable.
I wouldn't say slavery is free. You still have to pay someone to beat the slaves.
Jekyll and many of the site generators are good examples. After coming from larger CMSes like Teamsite and Vermeer , the get you down to the content.
Magic Leap Is Offering Individual Developers Up to $500K for Their AR Projects
Moving from updating state via state diffs (Draft) to discrete operations (Slate) is a huge architectural advantage, among other things.
You're telling me AirTable makes more money than Zapier? wow
I didn't mean to imply that it ran counter to that idea, just that it's an unimplemented feature.
People need simple answers.
But I want to mute people who make phonecalls in the train ...
QE2 is about as likely to start writing lurid romance novels as she is to write anything approaching that.

I didn't mean to suggest it would ever happen (Cut to Nigel Farage weeping)
Since when is Politifact a credible source on HN?
>So you'd say that "there is an actual master password and the biometric authentication is being combined with a physical token as a shortcut/proxy" then? Because that's what it is.

I'd say that the fingerprint is the single factor to unlock your phone and access all of your data. Sp I'm not sure I understand your point about a physical token. That the phone is a physical token that you need in order to unlock the phone?

I guess that's true, but it's a weird way of describing it versus just calling the fingerprint a single factor used to unlock the physical device.

That feels like saying "My house has two factor authentication, one factor is they key and the other is the house." The house isn't a second factor, it's the thing you're getting access to.
I do a lot of antenna design. There are far too many variables for optimization, and also size/geometry constraints. That's not to say you wouldn't start with a base design and use an optimizer (which could be genetic). There was a company commercializing this exact algorithm several year ago. I don't think it went anywhere.
First app in a long time that I've downloaded within 5 seconds of hearing the pitch. Seriously looks too good to be true.
Is that possibly because of retirees from the mainland moving to Hawaii?
seems a bit of a stretch in correlation ...

what does it mean if Angela Merkel wears green underwear on tuesday?
I wonder if Canonical is seeing any increase in traffic/business interest after IBM acquired Red Hat, and if this increase in LTS lifespan was planned prior to that or if it is an intentionally timed incentive to attract people away from RHEL at a time when they might already be inclined to be exploring other options.
How Operation Libero tackled toxic right-wing politics in Switzerland
There's buffering, Nagle delay, etc.
Nothing went wrong. They dodged a bullet. Tax breaks to "create" jobs, public financing of professional sports stadiums, hosting the olympics. None of these are good investments of public funds. They aren't even mediocre investments. They're bad for everyone but corporate beneficiaries and the politician who gets to pretend he or she did something useful for five minutes.
> Cloud could cost 50% more. We will bear it.

Likely far less impact than this, as much of the cloud isn't CPU-bound, right?
Healthy food is extremely cheap on the big island. It's literally growing on trees everywhere and the locals make fun of those who overpay for it.
Beware the AGPL on some components, though. You may want not to make a business whose business model revolves around adding features to sr.ht.
I think that is a safe conclusion.

I'm not sure on if and how well these things can be mitigated in the hypervisor, but given that current mitigations don't seem to work in all cases, I'm not hopeful for the x86 speculative execution.
Cast iron BBQ grills? Where does one buy a grill made from cast iron? How do you stop it from immediately rusting out once you get it?
I've been part of moving several hundred people away from WhatsApp so it's definitely doable. (My family was the worst. They're possibly more stubborn than me.)
Some background - https://www.forbes.com/sites/melikkaylan/2018/03/01/why-popu...
"If you are a junior developer, we highly recommend that you talk to your lead developer or to the security guy. It's OK to make mistakes. Recognizing a mistake is the best way to show how much you care."

This is such a good piece of advice and really describes the proper ethos for understanding what causes leaks.
The now defunct CHIP computer costed 9$ and had on-board storage, so there you have a cap.
It would be much more difficult to displace Facebook than MySpace — it never reached 100 million unique users per month, but Facebook is over 2 billion.
Because that would be unnecessary. This is only worth it when there are "unusual radiation patterns" (from the wiki article)
Wifipicning
This is a bit of a silly semantic game.

There's "smart" in the sense of "general mental ability" (ie, skill in cognitive tasks), which is usually what the word is used colloquially to mean, and then there's "smart" in the sense of "making the optimal choices for long term happiness and success", which, being correlated with the first definition is often conflated.

Now, sometimes these definitions come apart, ie, people who are "smart" in the first sense fail to be "smart" in the second sense. That doesn't mean the first definition is inherently meaningless. In fact, g factor ("IQ"), the psychometric concept that maps most closely to that first definition is extremely well studied, and well established as coherent and measurable.

Why these two attributes come apart in some people is an interesting question, because they're usually so correlated, and that's what the article is in a sense about.
Interesting to see this antenna here. I heard the creator speak at a local IEEE event a few years ago. Quite remarkable. Nobody would intuit an antenna design like that. Great demonstration of the power of GA.

Antenna optimization software has changed antenna design completely. Before wide-spread computer simulation, there was an awful lot of antenna range cut-and-try. Antennas are much better now. Learning to drive the modeling software is still a huge amount of work, but the results are well worth it.

An example from the world of amateur radio: the only popular HF tri-band beam to survive from the pre-simulation days is the KT-34 and big brother KT-34XA, originally from KLM. I was talking to Mike Stahl about it (The M in KLM, also one of the M's in M-squared) and he said he spent months going up and down towers at an antenna range. Pretty much all other hand-tuned competitors from that era have fallen by the wayside, the new simulation-verified designs being much better.

Mike is a great hands-on antenna designer -- when the Stanford dish was new he designed several feed horns for it.
> This is economics 101 - supply and demand. What everyone learns in their first course in economics. But most economists are paid to espouse a political perspective, so most choose to ignore it.

While I agree that employers should raise wages, I disagree that things are that simple or that economists are generally being paid to lie to people about it.

It's a question of how much the supply of the thing we are talking about will go up when people are willing to pay more for it. If you choose the example of housing in San Francisco, it is clear that it takes more than just people being willing to pay more for something in order for the supply to increase.
Thanks for your suggestions! TensorSpace is an in developing framework, and I acknowledge that it has some shortcomings, as you mentioned that for a big network, it will be too long in TensorSpace to visualize, and I am trying to figure out a solution to optimize it, for example, add "layer group" concept in TensorSpace in the future, which may make the long network shorter.

Honestly speaking, there are many mature tools for developers to use in model training, and everyone has own "optimum scheme". For me, TensorSpace is not designed to be a "silver bullet" to replace previous solutions or tools, I hope it can help engineers understand existing models and find areas where they can be applied.

Personally, I am interested in data visualization, and I found that neural network visualization is really a cool area. My original intention to make TensorSpace is to share this "beautiful scenery" with hackers!
In countries where the consumer pays for their treatment they generally do get the prices up front, as in a restaurant. That's also how things used to work in the rest of the world before the rise of health insurance and national health services.
I'm sure he's aware of this article despite not reading it on his computer :)
I'm probably not the best to speak on the topic as I don't use TDD (nor have I), but I think the idea is good if maybe a bit unorthodox: leveraging tests to define examples of inputs/outputs and setting "guards" to make sure the result of your code is as you expected via the tests.

I'm not keen on the "cult" of it, but if expectations of what the output should look like are available from the onset, it would appear to be of some benefit, at least.
Functional vs. Imperative Patterns in JavaScript
Yeah nothing to do with dog whistles of Globalists usually referring to wealthy men of "Jewish" faith in control of the world.

Also I don't think 2020 will be anything but a massive rebuttal to Trump and Republicans...

https://www.nbcnews.com/card/almost-six-10-americans-believe...
Soros is the equivalent to the Koch brothers. The older I get the more I realize the Left and the Right are the same damn people.