skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In fairness, this is the support you get from pretty much all websites. I stopped submitting bug reports entirely, it only leads to frustration.
> doesn't it make sense to offer an "ad-free" plan where they do not track the user and do not show them ads.

They did try it with Google Contributor, but only for a short amount of time to a limited set of users (US only). Now it changed to be for specific websites only which is pretty absurd.

I believe they haven't move toward ad-free plans simply because it would cannibalize their own product. They can sell ad space because they get ad view from all type of consumer. If they can't reach theses consumers, they have nothing to sell, thus will lose theses sales.

I think it's absurd though because it's the future and instead each website will implements it (and some will implements it together) which will cannibalize Google. Patreon is just the beginning.
Maybe? Kind of doubt it, though. Plenty of places don't have a delivery-instruction field and a lot of deliveries (again lookin' at you, Amazon) are barely delivered at all. "Chuck it on the front step and go."
Long answers to simple things is a sign that there's something wrong.

Reminds me of this piece of history (how to set focus on input field in AngularJS): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14833326/how-to-set-focu...
I didn't read the article, so perhaps I'm missing something:

> How much of this money did the employees get for all the overtime they were forced to work?

Did someone somehow compel someone else to work those hours? I imagine most Tesla employees are at the top of their field, and have many jobs to choose from. If someone chose to work like that, there must have been a motivation, it doesn't seem like they would have been forced.
Russia would absolutely invade / interfere with ex-Soviet states if they didn’t have the protection of NATO. See: Ukraine.
If you scroll down this channel's videos you'll find lectures (36-705) that cover Chapter 1-12 in the book All of Statistics by the author of the book https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu8Pv6IJsbQdGzRlZ5OipUg

I like the specific ML material since its usually sliced into a semester worth of material you can finish in reasonable time, most of these courses assume a background such as All of Statistics book and OpenStat is fine too for this.
Having tried every alternative imaginable, component based CSS is the way to go. There's a legacy in web development of viewing CSS as something separate from structure and logic because of what the web used to be; a collection of static pages with style sheets for typography and layout. But as soon as you start building any kind of non-trivial application, this model breaks down. The only way to do it is small, atomic, composable components with fully self contained styles and minimal inheritance.
It's just a rebranding of Google Drive. It's crazy the amount of people here that believe it's a brand new product. Isn't there more user of Google Drive? My account was simply "migrated" to Google One.

They added the client support, that's all.
And even that may be a bad idea if it comes attached with known/unknown liabilities.
With due respect, who is "we" and what are you talking about? The book does not as much as mention a homogeneous coordinate and uses 2-arrays for 2D vectors.
> Lots of companies don't give a f_ck

On the project on which I'm working, no f_cks are given about browser diversity, we're just supporting IE, because we need activX to communicate with a smartcard reader and there's plan to start next year on support both FF and chrome
It really is ridiculous. I spent a significant chunk of of my teenage years in Photoshop 6, 7, and CS1 doing all sorts of things and whenever I open it today I find myself shocked at how sluggish and weighed down it’s become. It’s still a powerful tool, but if I had the choice I would absolutely pay full price for a version of 7 or CS1 tweaked to run on modern OSes over the current subscription that feeds an infinite bloat cycle.
I made a cli example about the special OAuth 2.0 flow for native and mobile apps
Incrementally improving the performance of a Python script
Driverless passengerless cars.
Dunno I thought the comment was funny. Humour has value sometimes.
Its "easier" when you bring your hips real low, isn't it? The downside is you need more balance to not tip over entirely.
I kinda expected this after recently revealed AWS Managed Kafka. AWS can afford to release half baked products because platform inertia and that will easily cannibalize whatever traction SaaS offerings of Elastic, Kafka, Mongo etc has.
That's the minimum I can tip without the spouse trying to sneak more money onto the table when I'm not looking. I'd rather pay 15% up front than 25% through the back door, out of the family's petty cash reserve.

Poor service earns 10%, but only if I intend to ever return to that restaurant. The worst tip I ever left was $0.02, and that number was chosen to distinguish it from someone who just doesn't tip.

I have never even seen service good enough to merit 25%.

I think it's perfectly fine to tip 10% for median service, so long as you tip more for good service and less for bad. Giving "everything is awesome" tips to everyone, all the time, is the tipping equivalent of "everyone gets a trophy" competitive sports. You're not really helping the people you're giving them to, because you're eliminating critical feedback signals.
I had a bit of interest on this when I first read about it, but was a bit skeptical then... I wouldn't touch this at all now with no guarantee that the deposits are insured.
I'm honestly amazed people don't think he's a genius after all he has accomplished.
The direct answer is - not at the research level but yes, in terms of application as the field matures and abstracts over time.

There are also adjacent jobs to ML engineer (product management and so on...).
Thanks, Amazon: Northern Virginia home sales rocket 90% in November
Another example of startup hubris. Much like Uber and AirBnB got started (and in many cases, continue to operate) by flouting regulations, Robinhood thinks they're being innovative, when they'll really just hoping they can get big enough that they can buy or bully their way past the rules. At least long enough to get acquired.

It might work, but in this case, the people most likely to get screwed are the customers.
Ask HN: If all events are random or deterministic is there free will
I’m going back and forth with my father in law about whether or not free will exists (beats talking about politics) and I stumbled into an idea and was curious if it made sense.

I’m supposing that all events are the result of a train of consequences (determinism) or are completely random (quantum stuff). Is this correct?

If so wouldn’t this rule out the possibility of “free-will” since your choice will either be completely random and without cause or it’s the result of the history of the universe that put you here now?
You can sell bounds, they can be fairly liquid, and the yields are higher, with a locked in rate for that time. Personally I am a bit concerned about the safety of keeping money at RH as well after their big F up last week.

The real point though was that IMHO aside from your emergency money, you should really have as little in cash as possible. My other callout was that high interest rates didn't appear to steal any significant business from big banks in the past.
How I replicated an $86M project in 57 lines of code (2017)
I’m using timescale with 400gb of data. I don’t use web tools but let me throw out DBeaver if you need a solid database management tool: https://dbeaver.io
The distinction I am going for is people who would donate if and only if their donation makes a difference to project completion. If you can save your 100$ and still get what you want then that’s different than your 100$ being what allows something to happen.

My 100$ is not going to cure cancer so I don’t donate to cancer research. But, if I knew it would make the difference between a cure and no cure, then I would very much donate 100$ to end cancer.
I actually quite like the Yahoo Sports iOS app, it's way better than the bloated, buggy, ad-ridden disaster that the ESPN iOS app is. I used to use Yahoo Finance like some others here also. And their RSS reader was pretty decent before. There's some non-terrible pockets of Yahoo still hanging around.
Is the Future Calm? Users and Calm Tech
What are the "other reasons"?
> If you go too steep, your students will be terrified of the "dead zone" when they are between edges and pointing down the fall line, because they will accelerate and be afraid. That's how you teach people to go top to bottom on one edge, which is not what we want.

100% correct on this one (obviously, you're an instructor). I find the hardest/scariest part of people learning snowboarding OR skiing is the point in the middle of a turn when they have to face downhill and start to pick up speed.
Yes, the add-on seems to work differently. I suspect that analytics.js somehow checks for its presence and stops collecting data if it was found.
Hi all, I'm Jay Kreps, the CEO of Confluent and author of that blog post. I'm happy to answer any questions.
I don't know why we pick on FB for this practice, just because they're better at it than existing marketing data out there that's been accumulating for the past 40 years on people. Companies like Axciom, Experian, etc. have been doing this far longer than FB...
> In the blog post announcing the move, Omvlee cited three reasons for his decision to abandon the Mac App Store in favor of direct sales: ... Apple’s insistence that desktop apps available through the Mac App Store be sandboxed for additional security, a stipulation that was impractical for Sketch.

I'm surprised by that. I'd have thought a user-document-based app like Sketch would be ideal for sandboxing.
just use rendora or rendertron and solve the SEO problem within minutes. No need for native SSR anymore if you just care about SEO
Facebook says new bug allowed apps access to private photos of up to 6.8M users
That's par for the course for the sort of investigation we're talking about, though. It's not a 'fishing expedition', it's just a practice that's narrowly tailored to try and figure out the structure of highly dangerous crime cells and networks, as well as the possible perpetrators involved. There's a bit of a scare about 'metadata' collection lately, but as a tool it does have its narrow uses.
I think it's fairly conservative to estimate the Chinese incarceration rate at twice their official number when you factor in not just the Uyghur internment camps (which account for up to a million people by some estimates, though the true number is probably smaller than that), but also other undeclared internment facilities, political prisoners and a fair number of people who tend to just disappear in corruption purges, etc. You're probably right in saying they haven't reached the U.S. rate quite yet, but they seem to be closing the gap with alarming alacrity.

Note, however, that none of those speculations is in any way meant to excuse the incarceration rate of the U.S., which is an exceptionally outrageous state of affairs. It also goes to show that using incarceration as a tool of social engineering is by no means the sole province of totalitarian systems of governance.
Yes! The most noticeable change has been to Tumblr, which I believe presents the Oath GDPR notice on each subdomain. I have almost completely stopped visiting peoples’ Tumblrs for this reason.

One unintended positive effect of GDPR, much like “turn off your adblocker or no content!” modals, has been to deter me from reading pages that, by and large, would have been a needless timesuck anyhow.
Making CLI interactions fun in any python script
That seems like an odd tangent rather than a rebuttal, but it would still be interesting to see such data.
"“The statute that we administer says that we protect money with a brokerage firm that is used for the purchase of securities,” he added. “On Robinhood’s help page, it says that you don’t need to invest to use Robinhood checking and savings, that statement is wrong. If you deposit money for any other purpose, it is not protected.”" -- If they are using the deposit to then behind the scenes purchase a security directly, why wouldn't that be protected??
What We Got Wrong: Lessons from the Birth of Microservices
Wouldn't the 70kb would be most likely already cached too? Which make it even more lightweight than this minimal script.
Here are the best books we read in 2018. Happy reading!
https://delanceyplace.com/view-archives.php?p=3739
By "electric car", you mean "self-driving car", right? (The original article switches the terms, too.)
private sector doesnt do basic research and has a short view of things because of the drive towards profitability.

gov't-funded R&D is why we have nice things. everyone strategically forgets that silicon valley exists because of bottomless cold war spending, so silicon valley's obsession with the superiority of the private sector is ever ironic
i used Plasti Dip spray. Multiple layers. Not sure it will work with dead branches.

http://forums.alpinesnowboarder.com/topic/44584-shredding-ja...
There's a major difference between the "no one owns anything" concept from earlier civilizations and "a few people own everything" concept from feudal/imperial times. In one the things are held in a sort of "public trust" like a park or our highway system. In the other, the many are exploited into working to death so that the few property "owners" can derive (often excessive) "income" from "their" property.

The renting economy you describe brings us closer to the latter and that concept of ownership only works for the wealthy, who ironically end up not having to do any of the actual work.
It is not clearly phrased and titled as a review. It looks like an article on history.

And it is indeed not a review: a review gives you pros and cons and so on with a neutral outlook and without fluff.

The article is quite sneaky and in that it's advertising.
As a skier who only took a beginning level instructor and then learned by myself for multiple seasons - take as many instructor hours as you can, even if can already ride down black slopes. Seriously, last year I took an advanced instructor and it was a revelation. Take instructor even when you think you don't need him and don't listen to your friends joking about it.
This headline is incorrect for how little is actually measured in this study. It's like staying that rammed earth houses are bad for the environment because they use more dirt that otherwise might be growing plants - so everyone should build with lumber instead.

They invented a new metric called "Carbon Opportunity Cost" and only looked at one thing: some types of organic farming require more land area which might be otherwise left for forest.

There are so many things that go into farming and a true evaluation of "climate" impact. Synthetic chemical production, environmental contamination, soil depletion, shipping, chemical runoff, farming equipment production and emissions, etc...

Even the researcher understands this: "The type of food is often much more important. For example, eating organic beans or organic chicken is much better for the climate than to eat conventionally produced beef"
Yes, it got Usenet access at one point.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
Yes, i had a similar perspective, ive also posted a lot of open source and i thought if you are still inclined to be following me with your draw dropped in awe, then youd need to be getting yourself a life. Surely im not that important. But actually, my data and activity genrates enough money amongst those who sell security to the government, that it would contribute a significant part to my weekly wage. If only we knew how much our data was really worth.
Irrespective of if it is protected or not, surely there is some other catch? Normally impossibly high interest rates are time-limited or balance-limited. I think somebody mentioned this is a variable rate so presumably this is a marketing ploy and they'll put it down to 1.5% in 6 months.
On the other side of things, if I wanted to support only Windows, I would need to use Windows as a development machine, which would be a substantial loss to productivity for me.

I don't feel like Windows in its current state is a platform that I would recommend to anyone who uses computers as a professional.

So when I get to which platforms I support, if it's something personal for me, I only support Linux. If it's something that I plan to sell, I support Windows because that's where the money is, and Linux because, well, I've got this build sitting here, so I might as well throw it out as an experimental build (see Spotify, Unity, Reaper, etc...). Even if I'm developing a game that will rely on Windows specific APIs, I prefer to put those parts in last and do the majority of development on Linux.

The exception to that is if I know I'm going to be doing a lot of support. I feel like handling support for Linux users is worse than handling support for Windows users, and will often cost me more time and money in the long run.

So when I think about much bigger environments like Adobe, I'm sure they have Linux builds internally, because I just don't believe that their entire development staff would be content to use Windows. I would be willing to bet pretty heavily that there's a subset of Adobe engineers who have internal builds of Photoshop compiling on Linux.

But compiling Photoshop for Linux is not the only challenge to actually releasing it on Linux. Linux fragmentation means you never know when something is going to go terribly wrong because somebody swapped out a random part of the host OS. It means another testing environment, and another set of internal documents about production deployments.

I feel Linux is currently hands down the best engineering environment out there. But engineers don't handle support calls. So I would hazard that a lot more software is out there that could already run on Linux, but just hasn't been released.
> you get straight jump instructions with enough case statement branches, and it is very fast

That's what pretty much any half-decent compiler does nowadays. It'd be much more surprising if it didn't.
But essentially we are both arguing that an overly sensitive alarm is a bad thing

You might be. I'm not. I never once said it's a bad thing, or described it as overly sensitive, to be fair. Just that I could see how certain communities might look at the technology and what it enables and have good reason to be incredulous about how certain neighborhood actors will use it.

That's about a nuanced as I can possibly get on the topic without trying to argue in favor or against these devices in full, or taking any absolute position.
When I saw the original announcement I thought to myself, that's a high interest rate, but it sounds to good to be true; I probably ought to stay away as I'd rather play things safe with my money.
> So you're saying that the reason shops have moved to agile is because executives have changed their psychology and are now far more comfortable with relinquishing control than in the past?

I am explicitly not saying that. In fact, the very next sentence from the one you quote is agreeing that the variation in psychology has not changed.

If you finish reading that paragraph, you'll see I'm saying what changed is consumer expectation given the rise of the Internet. People were ok with new versions every 18 months when they had to come in the mail and be manually installed. But the web got people used to frequent improvements and fast responsiveness. This caused pressure on executives to shift at least to mini-waterfall.

That change in expectations has differing impact based on the industry, and how much executives are isolated from that. Large companies with captive customers can more easily get away with longer waterfall processes, especially when the product is for an internal audience that can't switch tools. Startups and consumer-focused products tend to feel the pressure more, and so stick with much shorter cycles, some of them even doing what I'd consider true Agile.

So in sum, I'm saying some shops became Agile and many more just went to mini-waterfall with Scrum labels, the variation being partly due to the existing psychological and cultural variation, but mainly due to the extent to which customers and/or users demanded more responsiveness.
I'll need to try that next time. I've had some really hard spills, and the sound/feeling of teeth clacking together as my head (always in a helmet) hit the ground was definitely the most disconcerting aspect of the fall.
I grew up in Hrubieszow (one of the eastern-most towns in Poland) in the late 90s and early naughties before emigrating. The photos are very much in line with the scenes I have observed growing up. It's such a contrast to compare my current environment to the one portrayed in the photos (and still lived by some of my extended family members).

If these parts stay unchanged, we will soon see places like (in Poland and elsewhere) as an oasis from the super-advanced reality most of the population lives within.

Going off other comments here and stories from my parents, the commercials and ads back then were thought to present a more modern, futuristic, "better" life that people worked hard to obtain.
Soon, the commercials will present a simpler, older life that we dream of escaping to just for a moment. Interesting thought.
“Had they called us...”

ffs - they didn’t even do the most basic due diligence on this?

This is not just an indicator that this particular product might be in trouble, this is another order of magnitude kind of incompetence that makes me wonder why anyone would trust this company at all.

Wouldn’t you have to feel like the probability they end up with a major security issue, funding issue, executive behavior issue, etc., are all magnified by this knowledge?

I mean really, this is a staggering thing to read. I don’t think there could be hyperbole in this, it’s just incredible hubris-based incompetence.
Normally brokerage accounts fall under the SIPC and bank accounts under the FDIC.

Robinhood thinks their checking account should fall under the SIPC...so is their bank account not a bank account? What am I missing?
It’s so flagrantly non-compliant that I am unsure what they stand to gain by having added it. Might as well divest from Europe entirely at that rate.
They're not enforcing the storage limit for <5 person accounts, either. My wife and I have GSuite+storage for $10/mo each and I've got about 4TB in my Drive right now.
Raw Sounds (wind) from Insight's Seismometer on Mars (VIDEO)
>Private company: Not censorship.

It is censorship. They do it of their own volition, without the government forcing their hand, and it's well within their right to do it. But it is, by definition, censorship.

What it isn't - however - is a violation of a very specific legal rule regarding free speech that often has the misfortune of being conflated with the entirety of free speech as a principle.

>And, yeah, it's tough to specifically define what's "toxic" and/or "offensive."

Yup, and it's doubly hard because the people that want the censorship don't want to admit there are no objective standards and it's all a question of preference.
Also organic meat is really expensive
Sounds interesting. An interesting difference between RTX and the previous techniques is that ray tracing is needed for modern film rendering. It just doesn't make sense that movies are still rendered with CPUs and not a more parallel architecture, so it feels for me that games are just a secondary for NVIDIA for the current version of the card.
I find that the people with the most vitriol reserved for css-in-js concepts tend to be those who have exclusively developed front ends for the web and never on any other platform. I wonder if others have made the same observation. Perhaps they should expand their minds.