skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regulation bodies, existing payment infrastructure, perception of privacy concerns are some of primary hindrances for a super app to not exist in west.
It's often much faster to just print or dump some data to screen just to see where your assumptions have gone wrong. There's a point at which some bugs become more complex, or just aren't easily figured out from this method, but it's surprisingly quick and powerful when used in conjunction with a language in which doing so is quick and easy. Doing it in a project that requires a few minutes or more just to build can quickly change this equation, but this is my go-to initial method for debugging problems.

Then again, it's generally pretty easy for me since I develop with liberal use of debug messages and dumping of data structures at multiple locations depending on the value of the DEBUG environment variable. In production I just run without a DEBUG environment prefix and nobody is bothered by the verboseness, but if there's a problem, step one is generally just doing a test run with DEBUG=3 or something prefixing the command. It's a bit different for web-based scripts like in PHP, but not much so (just make it a param), as long as STDERR goes to a log file.
Well, Wolfenstein 3D and even Catacomb 3D were both before Doom as well.
5,000-hp electric dragster has 8 world records in its sights (2017)
http://darthcrimson.org/digital-japanese-literature-aozora-b...

https://github.com/aozorabunko/aozorabunko

~1.7 GB, as served as a zip file by Github.
The main issues are that arbitration is generally secret, and class actions are prohibited.

Those two facts tend to naturally exacerbate the natural advantages the company has due to the fact that they are well organized and able to amortize their work over multiple cases but individual opponents become less able to be similarly organized.
> Collective bargaining is practically a profanity in the US

While this is not true for all Europe, excessive "collective" (quotes intended) bargaining in my country has ensured indeed a sort of equality... an equality where everyone is put at the bottom with regards to wages. That's because everything is decided at national level (there are contracts for workers, teachers, engineers...) with close to zero local flexibility. New professions are kind of shoehorned into previous contract types (heck, I'm a researcher, and my contract applies to the "retail industry").

Major national unions (which have mostly retirees in their ranks) prefer it like this because they can have political power. That's why they are vehemently opposing any kind of local negotiation between employees and local unions, because that would strip them off their power.

tl;dr: Implementations differ, some might even yield worse results than before.
US undermining 'last chance' climate talks, experts charge
my workplace uses both Cognos and Tableau. compared to cognos, tableau is a dream to use. There's some non overlapping functionality in cognos, but where tableau can be used it is greatly preferred. Coming from that "traditional" enterprise BI, tableau feels anything but stagnant. Spotfire seems like the closest competitor, but its barrier for entry went up sharply after acquisition. Power BI has a ways to go (but I think given the tech stack behind MS is the biggest threat to tableau as it matures long term)
Or Google would just grow dev centers elsewhere. No need for H1Bs in that case.
Well because of $bad_decisions up until I was 35 and purposeful financial commitments I’ve made for the past 10 years, it’s going to be a stretch for us to have $2 million. But, I’m okay with that. If we can retire with a paid for house, about a million and whatever social security is then, we should be okay.

Worse case, what would We do retired that we couldn’t do with me contracting/consulting part time? My hobbies are technology and fitness. I’ve been developing for 20 years and never disliked my careeer. I have disliked my job but there is mobility in the technology industry if you keep your skills up.
Luckily most other emerging integrations (payer - provider for eligibility checks and coverage decisions, provider - provider for real time medical record transfers, etc) are decentralized by design with a number of large aggregators. While it's possible for basically any company to get access to these networks for a nominal fee and thus facilitate a transient DDOS by flooding the network, it would be relatively easy to drop this traffic and boot them.

Also doesn't McKesson have their own interface for electronic prescriptions or am I incorrect?
am i missing something ? php-fpm can keep the process running as long as you want (pm.max_requests=0)
Google AI Berlin becomes official
This is a vocal minority pushing for this. The majority may not be for unionization.
What is the evidence for a plateau? The corporate temperaments are irrelevant to the actual progress of the field. If anything , ai systems have not even started being deployed , and the field is even missing a proper theoretical framework. this should indicate that it's still very early stage
Some kind of primal scream would have worked for me!
seems to me that employers are working to make sure that doesn't happen. Pay is very, very good. Most of us make multiples of median household income in our respective areas. Plus have better working conditions.
Trudeau’s Diversity: “No kafir can touch me” says returned “Canadian” jihadi
I agree - Steganography applied to the textures. I haven't seen steganography used that way before but if its done right you don't see it at all.
Totally. The situation is absolutely ridiculous.

It was all fun when Netflix, Hulu & HBO were the only names in town. Now that they're constantly removing good movies, and adding cookie-cutter "original content", I'm actually considering cancelling my subscriptions. Trying to keep up without subscribing to everyone starts to feel more like buying individual movies, and half of the things I want to watch is geo-locked anyway. Meanwhile, random shady free streaming services are becoming more usable, especially for caching up with shows older than 5 years. All it takes is updating uBlock and killing an occasional cryptominer.

I'm strongly convinced torrenting will experience a resurgence of interest now.
Trump administration resists global climate efforts at home and overseas
The apathy hypothesis?
> I've had strange eye problems that my doctor hasn't been able to explain, and I feel like my cognition is declining

Ageing? And basically what you describe. I wouldn't worry about it :)
While I can't speak to what traditional methods are for this type of analysis, I do have some tangentially related experience. I used to work in supply chain at a massive consumer goods company, and was part of the user rollout for software that touched on some of the topics mentioned above.

The "AI" software basically just applied common sense and basic regression modeling to the situation. Originally, SAP (used for resource planning) took input data at face value - i.e. if a carrier said they have X capacity along Y route with a 7 day lead time, that was statically entered into SAP and all dependencies on that information took it as gospel[1]. The secret sauce of the new system was that it looked at actual data in the system to calculate those variables. It'd pull raw transaction data out of SAP for stuff like when a pickup was requested/scheduled, when a pickup actually occurred, when a delivery was anticipated, when it was actually marked as delivered, etc. Run some basic SQL and regression analysis over that, then override the static values in the system so they were more realistic.

Not super sophisticated, but had a pretty substantial impact at scale. Unfortunately in the US specifically, that impact was negative, due to certain cultural traits that impacted user adoption[2]. But in most other regions globally, it was integrated into the planning process much more successfully and drastically improved forecasting accuracy.

[1] This was how it was configured where I was at, at least. I'm not familiar enough with SAP as a whole to know if this was a peculiarity of that specific SAP instance or if it was a limitation of SAP itself.

[2] I came onto the team right after initial rollout, at which point every region globally was showing positive returns from the rollout. Except the US, which had actually shown negative returns (not just neutral). My role was to basically "redo" the US rollout, and almost all of the issues were based off of cultural differences in how work is approached.
I've heard this concept brought up before, but are there real world examples where this has been effective?

It seems to me like any minority form of employee representation on a board (e.g. requiring 1 seat) would just be paying lip service to employees since the majority of the board would still make decisions based on what drives future profits.
Thousands of different platforms with some sort of federated subscription service.
Did you follow a guide to set this up?

I'm not an expert in cloud envs, but I have set up a run machines in GCP and consider myself capable. I had a really hard time finding a guide for setting up NC in a GCP VM and following the instructions. When I ultimately wound my way through them to the point of testing something, I hit a brick wall regarding some kind of auth, if I recall.
You don’t need to be in the majority to effect change. You just need leverage.

Bernie Sanders used publicity and shame to force Amazon to pay fulfillment center workers a higher minimum wage, and he’s only one person (albeit a person with a platform).

So find the leverage. Everyone has pain points.
I'd say two, maybe three. Beyond that, one wishes for a meta-platform integrating this all together.

(The same applies to IMs and groupchats. Personally, I can't reliably follow more than 3-4 channels, e-mail included.)
Did you hear that? The sound of the stacked Rust standard library of crates collapsing? Oh the mixinity! Until C++ 20 when concepts come about no static typing solution exists for the issue as C++ templates are duck [template-instantiation time] typed.
That's splinter camo. Camouflage is used in general to disrupt outlines, but dazzle camouflage specifically used black and white to accomplish that goal.

http://camopedia.org/index.php?title=Splinter
I think browser support is only one point (though it's a big one), but pattern how the clients consume a third party service remain unclear to me if gRPC brings in the right return.
I'll make it clearer for you;
"In spite of" NOT THE SAME AS "Because of"

My comment is clearly saying "IN SPITE OF". I think most people who are reading with intellectual honesty would recognize that.

The people who would interpret it as "BECAUSE OF" before this clarification might have a certain oppositional viewpoint.

And the only people who would interpret it as "BECAUSE OF" after this clarification don't actually care about having a debate, but would rather call me a liar because it feels better than engaging.

I literally cannot dumb it down any more than this.
I am impressed that these employees are able to talk about this stuff and not get managed out of the company :-).

Unionization itself though has had mixed effects in the US. From workers having their conditions and lives improved to city governments driven to bankruptcy. So it isn't all good or all bad.

Perhaps technology workers have reached critical mass at this point.
Fell off the back of a truck, obviously ;).
A friend and I were so desperate to play over serial that, lacking the proper serial cable, we "shimmed" the PCs with books to get the serial ports at the same height, put them back-to-back, and made a "cable" out of gender changers and null modems that we had sitting around.
The Yi action cameras seem to get good reviews, and Sony action cameras have some of the best image stabilization around. DJI has recently gotten into the small cam battle with the Osmo Pocket as well (I hesitate to say action cam because I don't believe it is waterproof or shock proof)
Sorry, who are you?
The most likely place HE got the content for his Plex server Is fRom legAlly archived dvds. ThE process for this is not so BAd, You should try it.
Yeah, based on what I've seen/ heard, pairing should last no more than half the day. It's just too demanding to maintain all day long, like a cognitive sprint.
Don’t worry they are doing this. There will be suits with budgets whose hold over power is entirely dependent on the need for that expenditure to be expanded.
Boost signals also handles multiple (or zero) callbacks associated with a single signal. I'm not sure but I believe it also allows calling the slot at a later point from a message pump – certainly Qt's signals and slots do.

A more direct analogue of the type discussed in the article is std::function, which is simply a type that can contain any one callable (function pointer or function object, including lambda functions) or can be empty (like a null function pointer), and can be called in an immediate synchronous way.
Productive Engineering–Finance Partnership
Id Software succeeded despite Romero, just look at Daikatana/Ion Storm.
php script life time is usually about 1 ms. dont you think attatching a debugger to that is a bit overkill !?
(Out of nine bait-and-sting operations planned)
> US hundreds of billions that could have been invested elsewhere.

We destabilized Iraq as an excuse to spend all that money on war. It was a fantastic stimulus package for northeast Virginia.
The cuts are voluntary, and people are getting 1 years salary out of it. I suggest a lot of people are more than happy to take it in a good job market.

That people are making the choice - and many don't seem to mind doing it, makes this quite a different thing than a regular layoff.

Apparently churn has been high, and people leaving their jobs voluntarily is in some ways a good sign for the economy. They certainly don't do that when times are bad.
> Journalism already has a mechanism for this.

The most famous technique that is completely ignored by mainstream journalism. Name three popular news platforms that still apply it. I've seen one - I don't even remember which one, but it pops up on HN every now and then; it's characteristic for having a bullet-point TL;DR at the top.
I remember blowing my allowance on Django (iirc), a doom multiplayer modem client. Tunneled ipxspx over 9600bps
How do you implement this without a) government mandate a la Germany or b) some form of employee collective (unions) to balance the power the company wields?

Alternative is it’s a mascot/figurehead appointed or “voted in”.
I haven't used the same phone for 7 years. The value add is that its automatic and remotely archived. I've already been burned by lost / wiped / bricked devices without recovering all the photos / video / data on it before it became inoperable. I still have an iphone 3gs with my last photos with my late grandmother on it that I've tried to frankenstein back to life long enough over a usb connection to just grab the photos with no success.

I've tried a lot of automatic backup solutions like syncthing but have had myriad performance or inconsistency problems over the years.

Its tied to my Google account rather than the physical device, and its not data I need to manually somehow keep consistent across devices because Google does it for me.
and to be fair its a really redundant format. I mean I personally would prefer the current undesirable situation rather than doing XML-based coding all day.
There are lots of ways to make money easier and faster. I guess this is for people who are genuinely interested in the subject.
I think the immediate reason why a lot of the older movies are not coming back is partly due to a rights management thing (films are usually negotiated for terms of n months/years, and renewing the contracts is a cost), but also they impact the size of CDN working set. The "long tail" where 90% of traffic is accessing only 10% of the files kept on origin makes for an inefficient proposition for an SVOD service. This is even more of a pressure when you are both the VOD service AND the CDN. I suspect Netflix spends a lot of man hours finding which titles perform in consistent viewership and prioritise those for the reasons above - besides, how many times can a person watch Breakfast at Tiffany's per month?
Well, because ML is fun.
It certainly does have advertising - it's comment is written for the print version, and readers can still read two articles a month (with advertising) without subscribing.

It has the ill researched bigotry from the likes of Janice Turner whipping up populist hatred of sexual minorities, and a series of impossibly bad technology reporting echoing the lobby lines of the current government based on nothing more than a vendetta against online companies for business reasons.
No, but now that I've seen it I'll be trying it out :)
We hired a bunch of GoPro hardware engineers at castAR. They were all good engineers.
> ...it'd be good to see that silly prejudice eroded.

This is too dismissive. The fact is that unions are politically engaged. Being concerned about lobbying and political advocacy isn't silly.

If you were an employee for/against software patents, how would you feel if the union actively campaigned and donated in the opposite direction? Even worse, what if the union tended to support candidates on the opposite side of issues you cared more about, like public schools, gay rights, or abortion?
The scoop: virtualization and containerization ignore a lot of mechanisms that makes an OS a Unix. We're reusing parts of Unix because it's what we've got, ignoring much of them, because they don't fit.
I run Lineage on my phones, I always have the option to purge Google entirely and not let them track me. The choice is between spying vs money, its between spying or not being spied on.

I sympathize with the plight of those unknowingly being spied upon - I've had enlightening conversations with family members when I show them this very feature they weren't aware of on their Android devices - but it often feels like the demonization of Google treats it like nobody ever volunteers in. Because I definitely wouldn't pay for it, but its a nice service to have.
> The plebian assembly, where all votes are equal

No, the voting was by tribe, with the vast majority of voters crammed into the 4 urban tribes and the wealthy were enrolled in 31 much smaller rural tribes.

> and senators and equites aren't allowed.

Sure they were, as long as they were not patrician. By the first century BC, the vast majority of senators were plebeian.

> This is like saying that US senators are with equal state representation, some senators representing hundreds of thousands and others representing tens of millions, therefore the US is an oligarchy.

The US indeed has oligarchic tendencies already. Now imagine if the constitution guaranteed that citizens with $1M+ in property had 50+% of the vote, and that your "state" was not determined primarily by residence, but anybody without substantial property was automatically registered in California, Texas, or New York...
I think “operating indefinitely” is a bit of an exaggeration. Proxy wars do eventually come to a conclusion, and the results can be dramatic. To your point, France backed the American War of Independence against the British, and once the American side won, the course of history was completely changed by the founding the United States. And the American insurgency in Afghanistan partly led to the collapse of the USSR, which also dramatically changed the global strategic chessboard. The level of proxy warfare in the world has clearly increased in the past few years, and the question is how will it end.
I keep thinking why on earth the Hollywood system doesn’t realise the shear tonnes of cash there is out there for the following; DRM free downloads of HD movies for $2, 4K for $3-4. No-one would bother pirating and I’d probably spend a fortune over the next few years to legally have copies of this stuff. My bet is that most people would pay and do it legally because it’s far simpler this way.
> Recommendation 6: Reduce Use of Social Security Numbers as Personal Identifiers
The executive branch should work with the private sector to reduce reliance on Social Security numbers.

I'm disappointed this is recommendation 6, but at least it is in there. I'm also disappointed that they suggest the executive fix this problem instead of legislating a solution. Hopefully they take some action on their own recommendation!
Moving the goalposts doesn't help your argument. Local news is very much "news." Like politics, all news is local. It may not be local to you, but you're not the only person in the world.

The reason it's called "journalism" is because newspapers started as daily journals of what ships were coming into port, and what cargo was expected.

Boring, mundane, everyday, very local news.
The article does a pretty good job of explaining why Chinese business models can be more sophisticated at a macro level:

>Largely because many people could not afford a computer, China skipped the PC and the credit card; smartphones were the way many people were exposed to the Internet for the first time. So today, products aren’t just mobile first, many are mobile only. Mobile payments have penetrated the country and China has become a seamless digital society.

Payment friction doesn't seem to be as hard in China as it is in the West. Beyond gambling-esque micro transactions, transactional payments don't really exist - and attempts to do so have largely failed. For example many of the ideas tried in the Podcasting section failed in the west. I comes down to

1. Our payments infrastructure really works against small transactional payments. Paying .30+2.9% on a $3 means 10% of your revenue goes to payment processing

2. There isn't a very widely penetrated payments platform that is low friction - meaning users would rather turn away than pull out a credit card. Not to mention credit card processing isn't perceived as completely safe - there's an added risk for every new site I give my credit card too that they might overcharge me or get hacked and dump my data.

China doesn't seem to have these problems, and when your customers are more willing to pay because they feel more comfortable paying for things online, you as a company can experiment with more business models. IMO, Western companies are forced to think about advertising or SaaS in order to streamline the payment process. In each section of the article, alot of the "diversification" comes down to micropayments.

I find it interesting, in the Video section, the article compares to iQiyi to YouTube, instead of Twitch, which is less reliant on Ads, but more on paid subscriptions which include emojis, game tied purchases and special messages.
> What is going on?

The copyright owners of movies with know stars from the 1960s have their own platforms and aren't licensing the movies to Netflix.

Hence, why Netflix has for years been making a huge original-contenr push; once it proved out streaming as a business model with other people's content, getting (or keeping) such content became more difficult.
I've been online since Google was a new up and coming company. There is a world of difference between the civic mindedness of Google back then and Google now. Google has gone from something genuinely idealistic, to something scary and totalitarian. If you aren't of the same "tribe" as the typical Googler, then basically, you're a subject.

Granted, the amount of UI they are carrying along with them is much larger, but the attitude of Google with regards to existing users has gone from really cool to downright disdainful. If you aren't a 20-something or barely 30-something techie, they think you should just go along and acknowledge their intellectual superiority. What you want either agrees with what they want, or is misguided.
Sliding Right into Information Theory
> From workers having their conditions and lives improved

Like the 40-hour work week: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-hour_day