skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook for me is the means to keep contact with a larger group of my friends. From this perspective, one would have to pay me a very significant amount of money to drop the contact to my friends.

On the other side, this is mostly a thing of convenience and habit. The moment there is another, may be even more convenient platform to keep my contacts, I would drop Facebook for free and without heasitation. The value of Facebook for me is purely in my current friend list.
Did they address how many have just quit FB? I did, $0.
Nice! I agree Cortex's operational overhead can be quite high. Good news! We are going to fix that. We've got PRs open to add local storage (based on BoltDB) to remove the dependancy on DynamoDB/Bigtable, and I've almost finished a single binary, non-microservices version of Cortex.

If you want a sneak peak, checkout grafana/loki; its based on Cortex and has all theses features - buts it for logs, not metrics.
I think it's closer to saying that Google will stand behind Centos and Ubuntu images without you needing to sign contracts with Red Hat or Canonical.

I work for Pivotal. We have a contract with Canonical that leads us to base all our work on Ubuntu, including derived base images, analogous to how RHEL is bundled into OpenShift.

If you're buying from us, this news is neutral. If you're buying from Red Hat, this news is neutral. If you're buying from neither, it's good news.
I've not had to sign for an Amazon package - or just about any other online retailer - in years. The only thing I've had to sign for in the recent past is my bitx40 hf radio kit, shipped from hfsignals.com out of India.
I think some explanation is missing here. Why would Amazon pay its drivers to pick up other packages and return them to Amazon? Surely the Amazon incentive program would only apply to packages which that driver picked up at the beginning of their route but was unable to deliver.
Hmm that's a good point. There's a power balance that would otherwise be filled with for example European countries spending more on their militaries. So in that sense we are paying you for keeping the playing field safe for others. Interesting thought. Still doesn't change the fact that military spending is more or less money wasted. So is it better for you waste that money than us, I don't know. Probably.

But say what if US had reduced military spending after the collapse of Soviet Union by let's say half, would the world be much worse than it's today? From statistical perspective while it seems that there's causation between US military superiority and the lack of conflicts compared to prior decades, it might be as well that the world has just become less warlike. Sure it would suck if WW3 happened though. Anyway, it's not a reason not to fix your infrastructure :).
Er, people have been running Linux on Surfaces for years. With decent UX for a while as well, as I understand it.
I was using space at a WeWork like company. This company was leasing office space from a building managed by CBRE. If you have any familiarity with CBRE, then you know that a shared office environment is totally against everything CBRE does. I do not know how long this particular shared office was there, but it recently closed back in October because of friction with CBRE.

I don't think the shared office space concept is a bad one, but landlords/building management companies will fight it for a long time. I'd imagine it to be an easier time for the shared office space companies to buy a building rather than trying to release a leased space.
but in this case it doesn't make sense. I could understand returning the packages HE was supposed to deliver, but picking up another package already sitting on a porch sounds stupid: don't they have a way to check that this package was never his to deliver?
Media companies do not have the best technical leadership or talent, leading to high turnover with junior devs who build with the latest hype to build resumes.
> FTR, with "most certainly" you're committing the same fault your accusing the Go team here.

Fair enough. It's too late to edit.

> I don't understand the difference between this suggested phrasing and talking about clarity. I'd argue you tend to shoot yourself in the foot if and only if you aren't clear about what you're doing.

This is partially true but it's not that simple imo.

In my OP, the ternary version is clearer. But if you allow it, then you also open the door to nested ternaries, and foot shooting.

Allowing single line if statements (as, eg, ruby does) also allows for clearer code, at the expense of consistency.
It seems odd for GitHub to be jumping through GDPR hoops - while at the same time RETROACTIVELY revealing all force-pushes [aka previously hidden and irretrievable by clone] in pull requests.

Of course, that data was compromised the second it was pushed, but, now they're parading the fact that people make mistakes...

What side are you on GitHub? Privacy? Or not?
It seems they could have handled the doubts of Juan Moreno better. That is an institutional problem that can be improved upon.

Re. Class Relotius: It would be meaningless if der Spiegel were to print "we have an institutional problem, and we will fix it" without identifying what the problem and remedy is. A single bad actor falsifying stories, who is then almost-immediately fired and publically shamed by dem Spiegel, who then start an investigation, whose results will be made public, isn't indicative of any larger organizantional problems. I'm not aware of any way they can stop this happening. They have a team of fact-checkers, but there is only so much they can do. If there is an obvious solution, then criticism of the Spiegel's handling of the situation is warranted. Otherwise not.
Isn't there a risk that in order to, say, stop nonessential air travel, you have to set the tax so high that people can't have spinach anymore?

(Leaving aside the question of how much economic downside there is to stopping, say, nonessential air travel.)
I want to believe. It may sound exactly like tubes. But if it doesn't look like a tube, and hurt when you touch it, it will probably be a market failure.
Because a non-zero number of the drivers are scum?
GDPR requests provide 30 days to respond. It's quite possible they have a manual script they can run to grab your data / delete your account, but it isn't exposed via the web.
> I don't think biological precedent is the only or even most valuable heuristic for deciding where to research intelligence...

Good point, we wouldn't have AlphaZero now if we only relied on biological inspiration. Nature hardly ever performs Monte Carlo Tree Search (though I'm not sure this is entirely true, see slime mold searching for food: https://thumbs.gfycat.com/IdealisticThirdCalf-size_restricte...).
I hope you get lots of high quality inquiries! This is interesting but not at this particular point in my life.
I suspect it’s a lot more limited and sensible than it sounds from this brief description, and this guy was just an idiot who thought he could make a quick $5 returning a random package.
I did a bit of research, and found a bunch of people saying they just leave undelivered packages in their cars because they don't have time (desire?) to drive back to the warehouse 10-15 minutes away.

I also couldn't find anything about anyone getting paid, so either the arrested guy was lying or it's something new they're trying?

But if it's true, I'd say it's less of an incentive, and more of Amazon just compensating people who end up having to do more work.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AmazonFlexDrivers/comments/70m0gy/n...

https://www.reddit.com/r/AmazonFlexDrivers/comments/8f112d/w...
This is not providing anything that wasn't possible before. You could both create your own uefi software and potentially load custom firmware if the device didn't lock it down with signature checks.
Actuarial approaches die on the horns of a dilemma. They can only succeed by stemming the flow of matter and energy from complex well-functioning systems evolved over millennia (so-called 'nature'/'the environment') to crude technological systems. But of course this is not what their designers, ensnared by the 'economic growth' myth, can possibly wish for. So, as with taxation systems, they must be designed to fail, with a welter of loopholes and enforcement weaknesses allowing business-as-usual to essentially proceed.
The whole migration took almost a year, looks like they've had enough testing.
> I'd expect you'd have to run an API that your customers can code against to push data to you.

Thats a good point; Cortex does accept pushes of metrics but its not that simple, and its definitely not easy right now. We're going to be working with the OpenMetrics project to have a better story about push and serverless - I expect we'll have this pretty soon, ie a matter of months.
Ask HN: Has your company successfully used ML to produce value?
If anyone has any experiences of ML moving the dial for an actual business, please share the approach and what it achieved :)
> our results show that the benefits these services provide for their users are large.

Good god, you scientists can't tell the difference between value created ("provided") and value captured??

Put it a different way: how much would you have to pay people for them to miss announcements of important local events, miss photos and personal notes from their closest friends and family… of course, it's going to be a high amount. But those things all existed pre-Facebook. Facebook has just CAPTURED the value.
I don't know if it's 2/3, but there's a decent amount that don't. I teach high school, and they talk all the damn time about their JUULing habits (they have literally no concept of privacy anymore), and several of them say they only do it since it's nicotine free. They're shocked when I tel them that most they're smoking probably do contain nicotine.
Well, Wikipedia was my source [0] and it links http://hplusmagazine.com/2009/04/07/brain-chip/ as its source.

Google has TPU that are off from the estimated power required to simulate a brain by a factor of 3, so technology is reaching the ballpark. Given that brains were evolved, the part that does symbolic thinking is probably "easy to stumble on" in some practical sense.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_performance_by_orders...
That's fair, and this is I suppose more what I meant.

My original statement might have been more accurate had I said "fully eliminate private care and private insurance".

Certainly with medicare for all both of those would be drastically reduced. With the medicaid buy-in they would both be moderately reduced.

I still think private care and private insurance will exist under both models, but like you said, they may be different in terms of what they cover.
Sounds like an opportunity to place some bets and probably win some money. Or maybe they'll back down and widen their intervals -- less than a decade, maybe, but probably longer. Maybe quite a long time too, and maybe after development of some other planet-changing tech.

It's worth thinking about this section of [0] when various AI experts offer predictions:

> Two: History shows that for the general public, and even for scientists not in a key inner circle, and even for scientists in that key circle, it is very often the case that key technological developments still seem decades away, five years before they show up.

> In 1901, two years before helping build the first heavier-than-air flyer, Wilbur Wright told his brother that powered flight was fifty years away.

> In 1939, three years before he personally oversaw the first critical chain reaction in a pile of uranium bricks, Enrico Fermi voiced 90% confidence that it was impossible to use uranium to sustain a fission chain reaction. I believe Fermi also said a year after that, aka two years before the denouement, that if net power from fission was even possible (as he then granted some greater plausibility) then it would be fifty years off; but for this I neglected to keep the citation.

> And of course if you’re not the Wright Brothers or Enrico Fermi, you will be even more surprised. Most of the world learned that atomic weapons were now a thing when they woke up to the headlines about Hiroshima. There were esteemed intellectuals saying four years after the Wright Flyer that heavier-than-air flight was impossible, because knowledge propagated more slowly back then.

[0] https://intelligence.org/2017/10/13/fire-alarm/
I think we're reading too much into the words/actions of a petty criminal. I imagine he's lying and was just stealing packages, or at the very least hadn't thought things through properly.
RedHat(IBM) employee?
This is now in various products now, like a small amp Vox called the MV50 AC (NuTube in preamp section, Class-D power amp). Lots of YouTube demos.

These Korg NuTubes were developed in conjunction with Noritake, the (only?) company that makes vacuum fluorescent displays.
I've started having Amazon packages delivered to Amazon's package lockers. For example, at 7-eleven stores and Safeway stores. I've also had Newegg packages delivered to Walgreen stores. Bit of a hassle to go there for pickup, but better than having expensive things stolen.
> coarse grind

I think you may have just solved my problem. I assume coarse grind takes less time to filter, since its got bigger particles (which don't clog as easily) ??

I'm going to experiment with that when my current batch of coffee is done. Thanks for the tip.
See also: the Nuvistor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuvistor
I would need to be paid to join FB again, and endure the continuous stream of snarky memes and gregarious selfies.
Paying somebody to don't use something free doesn't equal the value of the product.

If you would pay me each month to not listen to music on youtube, while being at work, it would be far more than I would pay to keep using it. It would be a damn shame if I couldn't do that anymore, but I would never pay the same amount to keep using it.

Edit: structure
I'm a high school teacher (and kids have no concept of privacy and talk openly about everything), and I completely agree. Not sure if it's 2/3, but I'd say definitely over 50% don't realize that most probably contain nicotine.
And yet companies like Facebook capture many orders of magnitude MORE value than they create.
I hope railroading this guy assures that none of my amazon packages are ever stolen in this kind of scheme again. I don't feel bad for him whatsoever. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
On a weird side note, used coffee grounds are sometimes used to bleach buffalo skulls white. So the art folks have been collecting k-cups to get the grounds which has greater participation than the old style coffee pots. I guess its convenient on both ends of the product cycle.
The best part is, when this guy votes, it counts as much as your vote and mine.
It depends on the item and whether the seller funds 'free returns'. Some clothing sellers want to be like Zappos and offer that while others opt for lower price. At the end of the day, no shipping is ever 'free', it's always baked into the price somewhere.

One thing I've noticed is that the more I spend on Amazon (quite a lot lately), the less often Amazon tries to charge me for returns (lately that's been never). I suspect they have some kind of algo that estimates a customer's value over time vs the cost of keeping that customer happy with free returns.
I write developer docs (internal).
So force hospitals and doctors to align on insurance acceptance, seems pretty simple.
Elixir's primary database wrapper, Ecto [0], lets you dynamically build queries at runtime, and also isn't an ORM. Here's two examples directly from the docs:

# Query all rows in the "users" table, filtering for users whose age is > 18, and selecting their name
"users"
|> where([u], u.age > 18)
|> select([u], u.name)

# Build a dynamic query fragment based on some parameters
dynamic = false

dynamic =
if params["is_public"] do
dynamic([p], p.is_public or ^dynamic)
else
dynamic
end

dynamic =
if params["allow_reviewers"] do
dynamic([p, a], a.reviewer == true or ^dynamic)
else
dynamic
end

from "posts", where: ^dynamic

Across all the different means of interacting with a database I have experience with (from full-fledged ORMs like ActiveRecord, to sprocs in ASP.NET), I've found that it offers the best compromise between providing an ergonomic abstraction over the database, and not hiding all of the nitty-gritty details you need to worry about in order to write performant queries or use database-specific features like triggers or window functions.

My main point, though, is that you don't need to reach for NoSQL if all you need is a way to compose queries without string interpolation.

[0] https://github.com/elixir-ecto/ecto
Maybe it was intended for the case when someone orders a bunch of stuff from Amazon, but then goes on vacation before it's delivered. Then when a driver notices that yesterday's delivery hasn't been collected yet, it might be for the best to take it back and try again a few days later.
Seems easy to solve by forcing doctors to accept the insurance plans that their hospital does.
Cassandra doesn't have graph support, it's just a sorted, distributed, nested key/value system.

Datastax builds a graph layer on top, or you can use something like JanusGraph, but it's never as good as using a real graph database with natively designed storage system.
Is that why Ford decide to stop making sedans? Only trucks can go off-road. ;-)
>> If nobody uses Facebook, it has no value.

I wish that were true, but if everyone stopped using Facebook they could still build shadow profiles for everyone, as they do for people that do not have accounts, and they could just sell this data out.
I kinda think this'd be useful the other way around; after coming up with a primary melody/theme/motif, I'd want to feed it into some sort of AI that automatically handles generating variations on that melody/theme/motif.

I don't do as much composition as I'd like to anymore (mostly due to a lack of time and due to writer's block), but a lot of my writer's block doesn't come from the initial blank slate (I have no problem doodling about on an instrument or with my voice or on FLStudio/LMMS/Rosegarden/etc.) but rather from fleshing out ideas into full songs (I'm especially terrible at endings).
even that is not fair, given the tobacco metaphor
TBH community distros were pretty long lived (and let's be honest, those were the only ones that mattered). At least SHR was actively maintained to around 2012, with last generated image being from April 2013, and I seem to remember QtMoko being maintained even tad longer. IMO that wasn't bad for a device released in 2008, especially for today's standards.
Drop-in replacements for various common tubes used in audio applications (e.g. the 12AX7) would be an enormous market success. I wonder if there are any plans to make a higher wattage part that uses pentode design.
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"We do not assist Facebook in its data collection regime through use of Facebook social Like buttons or by offering Facebook logins."

There is a facebook like button in their blog in the side bar. What am I missing?
That's probably true.

Unfortunately the number of my customers who would sign off on just "two nines" is approximately zero...
>His ability to get work will be greatly diminished because he thought he could game some poorly structured Amazon system.

His ability to get work will be greatly diminished because he is a thief.
Noted - do you think 4 would be useful because of the content, or just to get me further interested in using CS for problems I’m interested in?
The 'Ne' of Nespresso is of course for Nestlé who are one of the most-loathed companies on Earth on account of their amoral activities.
Why is this dirty? If you don't pay for fire protection, not even through taxes, why does anyone owe you incredibly hard & extremely dangerous labor saving your house? Firefighting is not a safe profession.

(I certainly prefer publicly funded fire service)
> This sucks. His ability to get work will be greatly diminished because he thought he could game some poorly structured Amazon system.

Poor him. All he did was abuse the trust that was placed in him by his employer. And now it will be harder for him to get a new employer to place trust in him. How unfair.
> The best course of action for Go on this front, would be to expose operator overloading of numeric operators, combined with a community expectation that this isn't to be used for anything but numeric operations.

I don't think this solves the issues. For example, I have yet to think of a way to overload `+` in a consistent and performant manner. E.g. think of `a += b` vs. `a = a + b`. Either you make them separate operators (in which case there's no guarantee they do the same thing - see for example Python, where they commonly differ) or you are overallocating in the common case.
FB has negative value compared to talking to people face-to-face in real life… but even while it continues to destroy value by undermining our relationships, various communities have been captured there due to network effects, and then you have to use FB if you want to connect to that community.
Being known as the police department that screwed up some kids Christmas is not a good thing particularly in a town of around 49K. Plus, most small town cops are not bad people (frankly like most people in this world aren't the bad sort).
I like it. Conventional batteries are inefficient for grid level stationary energy storage. Battery packs should stick to their strengths in areas where portability is more important. With the aspect of not having to be moved, molten-salt storage is cheaper and more cost-effective with pretty much zero downsides.

Congratulations to the team that figured out how to build the corrosion resistant materials they're using for storing molten salt. This has been a defining bottleneck for decades now and is a huge accomplishment.
For "why not SCTP" please see prior discussions [0]

0. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22quic%22%20%22sctp%22&type=a...
Sounds like an instance of Perverse Incentives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive
Suiteness (YC S16) needs a travel-loving PR specialist
It's funny how bloodthirsty people are when it comes to someone being ultra-punished stealing a consumer product,

but I bet when people talk about wage theft and capitalist malfeasance this guy turns into a corporate lawyer.
Also worth noting this was fixed in September.
I'd guess that power consumption characteristics of those two i.MX8 variants are different enough to explain that choice.
Ilya Stuskever of OpenAI says 5 years:

https://medium.com/intuitionmachine/near-term-agi-should-be-...
see Stallman’s take on modern computers and phones; virtually impossible to distance yourself from proprietary firmware and BIOS
Companies like Rural/Metro, traditionally ambulance/EMS companies, have expanded into private fire, in those places (one notable city is Grants Pass, OR).
"Intel Inboard 386" and "Above Board Six Pack Plus"
It would seem that Amazon would just pay them to return to the warehouse with merchandise, rather than paying them for each package they don't deliver.
frequently couldn't reasonably be expected to refuse service even if they did believe it was overpriced

I wonder if private urgent care businesses could offer free rides from emergency rooms to other facilities? There might well be laws against this. However, the existence of such services might give people a degree of choice they don't currently have.

A few years back, I was in the position of seeking emergency room/urgent care services for my girlfriend at the time in North San Jose. It was not a pleasant experience, to the point where we just decided to simply give up. On the other hand, I did the same for my girlfriend at the time in Houston, and found the whole experience to be relatively smooth.
"A conventional road would have been too wide to fit on top of existing railway embankments and across the under-bridges along parts of the route."

So a normal road wasn't possible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridgeshire_Guided_Busway