skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps a better question would be why did Google decided to experiment with QUIC in Chrome instead of HTTP/2 over TLS over SCTP over UDP in Chrome. And the answer is probably because TLS over SCTP would require more RTTs.
How do you know she was telling the truth? If she criticizes the system too much she'll lose credit and be blacklisted from booking flights etc.
From what I understand, many hourly workers look forward to the rare opportunity of getting paid 1.5x to work overtime. Also, a lot of the workers in these industries are hired as seasonal temps for the holidays. The salaried managers sound like they have it pretty rough, but I'm guessing that this is actually a pretty good job in the hourly category.
I also don't believe in RN and for me Flutter is the last hope of keeping Dart relevant outside the Googleplex.

I don't see any reason to waste my time with Dart. It was a good decision to focus on JavaScript back then, and it is more so in the context of native apps.

Regarding Qt, when I tried it about 4 years ago, I was quite disappointed with their mobile support, because they only had the bare minimum, and integrating the platform APIs meant in the end the effort was bigger than just doing C++ plus native views.

Meanwhile they seem to have switched focus to customers that are actually willing to pay for their tooling, thus hardware manufactures selling medical, IoT and automobile devices, as one can easily see from the upcoming Qt World Summit schedule.

At personal level I have been using the former approach of C++ plus native views, while at work our mobile projects have been either Ionic based or plain mobile web sites.

Still weighting to switch back to Qt or adopt Xamarin for hobby projects, although with Google and Microsoft pulling their weight behind PWAs, I am starting to think that might be the future for all mobile apps that aren't performance critical, given WebAssembly and access to device APIs without additional FFI when authenticated.

How was your mobile Qt experience been?
I agree. We're all dealt different hands in life. The best thing is to strive to be the 'best you can', not 'the best'.

A motto from an old children's organization sums it up: "Do your best." It really is good advice.
That reminds me of yahoo pipes. Cool idea but I don’t think it went anywhere.
Let’s say the workers unionize as the guy they interviewed suggests, what is the result? Basically they will push to change the system so that people don’t have to work as hard, it’s harder to fire people and have a seniority system. It’s quite possible that it would be better for the workers in that case but I do wonder if amazon could bypass a lot of these issues by just saying that people can’t work more than say 4 days a week during the rush season. So they end up hiring more workers to get the job done but people can’t complain that they are being overworked. I mean I’m not a fan of conspiracy theories but I wouldn’t be surprised if Walmart wasn’t silently cheering all the Amazon hate and pro union talk for their fulfillment centers..
And this too:

> I'm quite sick of the average HN commenter's attitude towards Amazon.

Which is a bit insulting, as there is no "average HN commenter." We are all individuals and deserve to be treated as such.
Just pick two things you are good at (and profitable), and add a third skill. Boom, you are now top million or so in the world!
Seems wise but it really is built in our DNA to compete with the other lobsters

edit: this comment probably won't make it to the top
Although stateful connection tracking is still a best practice for IPv6 firewalls and home routers.
Inside a corporate giant’s fight to thwart a massive pollution tab
Linux network maintainers have repeatedly rejected attempts by Eric Dumazet and others to expose delack_min and other parameters to userspace. This is the kernel tyranny to which I refer.

Notably many of the people whose proposals have been shot down by linux netdev are currently working on QUIC.
It's an amazing experience to see the mountain gorillas up close. Here is a portrait I took of one of the silverbacks: https://chrismccann.com/uganda#king

We went through the Uganda side, was quite the adventure and hike to get there but was definitely worth it. Happy to share more tips or the company we used if anyone is interested.
I assume you meant to submit a link? please try again?
From last week, albeit for wind:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/its-now-cheaper-to-build-a-new-...
React-Native is great, the only problem is that Facebook does not do enough to nurture the open source use of it, and this creates lots of extra work for teams using it.

Airbnb's decision to abandon RN is clearly due to engineering blunders and political nonsense internal to Airbnb, which has little to do with RN itself.

But if you look at all of the github issues for RN you will see that many of them are open/unresolved for weeks with hundreds or thousands of +1s only to have someone at Facebook mysteriously close them, leaving a lot of people in the lurch.

We're also seeing a lot of API and internal refactoring fromi FB rather than focusing on the ecosystem, which indicates that inside FB it is more beneficial to say "I sped up x by 10% in react-native" than it is to improve usability for the many using it as an open source library trying to get something simple to work as expected.
Thank you! It’s been a long road. ;)
Apart from the (ugly) colors, the plot looks like standard R/gnuplot/whatever tool existing since (I grow old, I grow old) the beginning of time...
Your real problem is that you have a known workaround - you'll maybe some time trying to work out the issue 'next weekend or the one after', when you've got a bit of free time :)

If you can find a bit of time - CPUID & HWMonitor are handy tools for just capturing what your CPU and motherboard are currently up to (compare when slow and when fast)
Try a different PDF viewer? It looks fine here in Chrome and Adobe Reader, both on Windows 10.
When robots are advanced enough to have rights, this might be a good idea. What's next? We're spread to thin to take care of our kids so we put them in the Raiselator 3000?
Time-lapse video of a rocket launch seen from space
It seems like an expensive toy, but good entertainment. If the cost can be brought down, it could bring joy to a lot of people's lives when they can't have pets.

(But why call it a caregiver?)
Not at the height of its popularity
Just to be clear, in this case "free market rules" include:

1. Most customers choose to buy from the seller with the lowest price.

2. Employees are free to leave their employment if they find the conditions intolerable.

Which of these rules do you want to change?
Just convert electricity to hydrogen.
There is a repo with simple examples to help get started - https://github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p-examples

People in IRC channels - #libp2p @ freenode (or #ipfs) - should be able to answer most of your other questions

(I work for PL, on go-ipfs and occasionally libp2p)
I worry that if this succeeds and we lose the human connection to the patient there exists a slew of problems as the infirm and those with dementia aren't the best at asking for help beyond the immediate surroundings or questioning the status quo.
I'm thinking wrong pills, general error handling and worst case: malicious compromise.

While its nice to see mild benefits I feel bittersweet about any successes given that I feel a better solution to this problem is more human in nature.
Ah, thanks for the clarification. Python is not a language I use often (but of course is a language seen often).

I actually see what's going on a bit clearer now, as I looked closer and found that the correct way to write what I was originally trying to express is actually:

[(x,y) for x in range(10) if x < 6 for y in range(10) if y > 5]

which could be formatted as:

[
(x,y)
for x in range(10)
if x < 6
for y in range(10)
if y > 5
]

Which is actually much closer to the functional style's flow, and is correctly eliminating iterations earlier in the loop (which is an important consideration).

I was confused because I had seen examples where multiple if clauses where added to the right side, one per loop level (as I showed), and that makes it look like they are operating on the different levels, when in reality they are working on the innermost loop, like you showed.

I'll retract most my complaints then. There's still some question in my mind as to how you would usefully mutate items of the loop and use them in other levels of the loop without recomputing them again, but that might just be my unfamiliarity with the construct.
> Corporations are, but their employees and officers aren’t

Employees and officers of US corporations are not immune to government orders. Particularly, NSLs directed at information held by corporations can be, and often are, addresses to particular officers as orders to that officer, who is often ordered to deliver the requested material in person to the relevant government office.

> For example, the US government could compel Lavabit (the company) to hand over signing keys; but they couldn’t compel the employees/founders of Lavabit to keep working there,

No, but that doesn't protect them individually from government orders to provide information, the authority for which applies to any person, not just corporations (corporations are covered because they are juridical persons.)

> It’s not illegal to choose to dissolve a company in protest of a US government directive.

It actually is illegal to do anything (other than filing a sealed challenge in court to the non-disclosure provision) in protest of an NSL with a non-disclosure provision, since such a protest itself violates the non-disclosure provision.

And, yes, even aside from that, it would probsbly also be illegal to voluntarily surrender access to info you have been ordered to provide to the government rather than providing that info as ordered.
DHH has been cursed by success and he doesn't even realize it. This is a rather tone-deaf and unfortunate article.

From what I get from the article is: You can't be like me, but the best you can do is to better yourself. It's a completely demotivating and dangerous message.

It completely ignores the role that luck played, ignored the factor of social connections, and the struggle it takes to get to where he got to. He waxes on a lot in the article and completely ignores the economics of why he succeed and others didn't.
If you read a child stories with various elements that are clearly not true to life then it shouldn't be a surprise if the child invents similar stories. Parents don't seem to make the connection though and describe their children as having "imaginary friends" etc...
An interesting test — thanks for posting! They really need to mix up the order of correct answers though.

For me (spoiler alert), all of the questions had the exact same correct answers. Given the number of permutations, it seems highly unlikely that the test is randomized and I just happened to get this arrangement.
Pretty good! We're planning to have our first public release next week (for Mac, not Windows yet). You can register to be notified of new releases here: https://feather-apps.com/#cta-5
I believe the study referenced by the article is: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4974898/
OVH Black Friday deals
I think morally there is a relevant distinction between congenital disease, environmental disease over which you had no control (asbestos, smog), and lifestyle choices (I'm going to eat fast food, lots of sugar, smoke cigarettes, and drink booze as often as possible).

Beriatric surgery should be 100% covered. But if you refuse such surgery and eat yourself into a 400 pound oblivion, then I don't think anyone should have to contribute to managing the ensuing completely predictable problems - insurance is about protecting against unknowns. We know exactly what happens if you drink too much, if you eat too much, if you pickle your organs by eating too much sugar, with 100% certainty.

It is not moral to take resources from responsible people in order to coddle the emotional state of people who want to do what they want because they want to. There's no way to argue it is. Even as an advocate of universal health care I'm hyper aware of the folly that follows which is if I'm paying for you, then I get to have a say in what you consume and your relative activity level, or else you get cut off or sanctioned in some way. The individualism in the U.S., as cowboy mentality as it is, very much expects individual to put in a fair amount of effort in first, in order to get help from others. It's not a ask and you shall receive society, never has been, probably never will be.
It was from a famous photographer and it was cheap. Sounds like a good deal to me.
Yes, actually it already is cheaper to build new solar or wind than run existing plants, at least in some situations.

As you say intermittency and time of day is the issue. Although I think we should just reflect lower costs in time of day tariffs. I suspect there are a lot of use-cases where people would happily shift demand to save money. For instance if you could just put your clothes in a washer dryer, and leave it to handle the cheapest time. Or air conditioning which creates ice earlier in the day then uses the cache later. Provide the tariffs, open the market opportunity, and see what technologies emerge.
kudos! moderation is a lot of work that you typically only notice when it isn't happening. thanks a lot!
Does anyone know of an English translation? My German is not that good and the font too old to be able to effortlessly read that.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18516509
>I don't think that anyone would actually think that I worked on this for 3 years.

Your title literally says it took you 3 years.

Tragic how clickbait has become so normalized.
An insurance company is incentivized to NOT provide service, so no, it doesn't make sense to be profit-driven.
Upcoming models include Zora the Explorer and Zora, Warrior Princess.

Flippant answer aside, what this shows us is that confused, desperately lonely people will grasp at even the most unsatisfying interactions. I don't think it points to a useful direction in robotics or emotional care. (The article was fairly clear on that at the outset, but seemed to ignore its own warning as it progressed.)
I read your comment the same way: lazy whataboutism to handwave human rights abuses because “we’re just as bad”. You literally said “it’s just another way to skin the cat”, and implied that we should figure our stuff out before criticism of China here.

Fortunately, people with influence don’t share your view, or our lack of perfection would keep us from ever calling out authoritarian regimes for their abuses, no matter how horrific.

Gassing millions of people? Eh, we killed some people in targeted drone strikes, who are we to judge?

Ridiculous.
Will you be more specific on the moral aspect here? Because from the article, it seems like the individuals working in the warehouse are compensated at a rate they agreed to (not being cheated of wages), are safe (no unsafe work practices are revealed here), and are given clear guidelines about their work tasks and standards (not being fired for discriminatory reasons).

I don’t want to put words in anyone’s mouth, so I will not make any flippant summaries of your post. I just want to know what Amazon would have to do to become moral: how long should the breaks be? How should they modify their performance policies? Etc.
what if it's just to scare them ? hey, stop f-ing around, we're tracking you
Who determines what above normal means, and who is preventing people to game the system? And who is funding the dispatch team?

Alot of people are dying right now, and the funding situation for aid is depressingly bad. An app isnt going to solve these issues, funding and geopolitics are a much bigger factor
Candyjapan

He has a blog about it.
The language is part of the reason its so confusing. Why is called a commit? Makes no sense and is confusing. The commands should be obvious by looking at it. Why does someone make a pull request? It seems backwards as people push to a repository.

And then there is all the flags. Why in 2018 are we not writing full words?

Linus is a genius, but he makes things that works for him and without much consideration for others. This is just human nature I think.
Don't forget that this time of year is now ruined for this manager. But not enough to stop them from shopping on Amazon during Black Friday and contributing to those human costs.

"I boycott Prime Day, but I do shop on Amazon during Black Friday. I feel bad about it, but at the same time, I don’t think me not shopping will get Amazon to change its practices."
The robot itself is actually NAO from Aldebaran (now Softbank Robotics): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nao_(robot)

Zora appears to be the platform/service provider that runs on Softbank's robots.
Life without wild things
Or let's actually read about QUIC before quickly commenting on it.

QUIC uses two mechanism to make sure you cannot do such attacks:

* it requires a proof of IP ownership (exactly like TCP sequence numbers) to setup a connection ID (pretty much, you're able to receive the server's response to finalize the connection) [1]

* it requires the client's first message (client hello) to be padded to at least the size of the server's response. Which implies that an attacker would require as much bandwidth as is spent by the server performing the attack, making the attack as practical as the attack without QUIC. [2]

[1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-quic-transport-16#sec...

[2]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-quic-tls-16#section-9...
The terrible websites are just an inevitable consequence of their terrible product strategies. They make too many models, with extremely narrow differences from one model to another, and with all these products’ names just being long, easily confused alphanumeric strings. You can’t easily find the one model that’s best for you in all the noise of all the models that aren’t.

These companies desperately need someone to do to their product lines what Steve Jobs did to Apple’s back in the ‘90s — take a fire axe to them and chop away all the deadwood.
Skeumorphism: "Steve pushed very hard to have everything–the felt-cloth table, the game chips–look like they would in real life,” says another former Apple designer. https://www.fastcompany.com/1670760/will-apples-tacky-softwa...

(of a big phone) "you can't get your hand around it...no one's going to buy that." -- Steve Jobs

http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/16/jobs-no-ones-going-to-buy...

Maybe it's better to have strong opinions, even if some are wrong, than to just throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks.

Or maybe Jobs got really lucky that some of his taste resonated really well.

Hard to tease out the effects of survivorship bias.
I think you can buy panels as extras for existing cars, they provide a couple of miles a day under the best circumstances. If it was 10 miles under best circumstances and a couple if left anywhere outside, I could see them becoming mainstream.
Why is gizmodo such a terrible website?
The other game changer was speed. Altavista and other early search engines were incredibly slow.
Usually, after I build everything out, I debate whether I want to publish my work or not. I find that to be very hard. What motivates me is at least sending it out to my friends and getting validation that this is good and I should share it. So that pushes me to do the extra mile for polish.
Ah, the latest in a trend of anti-struggle glamour. These articles full of pithy aphorisms are no better than their counterparts on the other end of the spectrum.
If the “Zora” robot looks familiar, it’s because it is a rebadged SoftBank (was Aldebaran) Nao[1] which have been around for a long time (I stopped working in robotics in 2012 and they had been around for a while then)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nao_(robot)
The Wealthiest People in the World of Each Zodiac Sign – Astroligion.com
Still, Amazon is probably treating their workers better than the average Chinese electronics factory or Indian textile company.
Yeah, I think this is perfectly acceptable. If you don’t, don’t work for Amazon. Easy. I worked 12 hour days with a horrible boss as a fresh grad and only made $65k a year with a CS degree. This cat made $80k with a high school qualification, yet he still complains about a job he knowingly accepted.

I’m very interested to learn about Amazon tech, but instead I see an article just about everyday about how Amazon is some horrible sweatshop.
This one is the opposite. The developers would be happy to build nothing but housing, but the government wants offices and retail too. The developers built as much housing as they were allowed to without doing the rest (my house was one of them) and then basically bailed out.
Thise multijunction cells are very exotic in their materials and manufacture. Carbon nanotubes sound easier in principle.
This sounds like it would be happening in places that wouldn't necessarily have smart phones, or possibly not even have cell coverage. Not to completely dismiss your app idea, but it doesn't sound like it would be feasible in a lot of the places where this sort of thing is happening.
I think there's a real reason here which the article doesn't mention: the more confused you are about what you're purchasing, the more likely you are to pay more and get less.

If the site can guide you to last year's model without you realizing, then they profit. If it isn't easy to discover there's a similar laptop for the same price but a faster processor, then they profit.

A lot of consumers will give up trying to understand, and simply pick a more (overly) expensive one because it'll "have to" be good if it's that expensive.

This effectively allows manufacturers to achieve price discrimination: those who don't have time to research for hours will pay more, those who really don't have money will take the time and figure out the best deal in the end. (It's the same way grocery store coupons allow those who really need to save costs pay less, as long as they'll go to the effort of clipping.)

So why doesn't Apple do this?

Because Apple is by-definition high end. They're not going after bargain hunters, so they can afford a simple, cleaner site where everything is clear and comparable. They don't need to do price discrimination as much. (Obviously they still do though, it's just by charging way more for upgrades, like maximum-sized-storage iPhones and MacBooks.)
The alignment feature (halfway down the readme) would make a great poor-man face-motion-capture!
Oh wow. Thank you. I've been wondering all week why the CNC machines at my work store their data and info on battery powered SRAM after getting a warning that i'll lose everything if I don't change said battery in a couple weeks.

I always assumed everything was written to disk and loaded into memory on startup but apparently not. Everything critical to the machine running is stored on this SRAM.

It actually makes a lot of sense now why the manufacturers did it this way. I was really confused why in this day and age I have to change an SRAM battery stashed somewhere deep in the computer inside the control panel.
What are you working on? I'm interested in Rust projects, especially web ones.
No the code we write is mostly closed-source, but it is based on this open-source project: https://github.com/google/flutter-desktop-embedding