skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is YouTube heavily prioritizes new content so if your video goes offline for a day you just lost the majority of the profit from it. Its also ridiculous how YouTube presumes guilt. Your video should stay online while a dispute is handled.
Facebook's value as a company is related to the total value of its users, not its total value to its users.
Yes, and the full set is listed in https://github.com/Microsoft/mu_basecore/blob/0d16728c1b41e2....
My site is focused on shopping and dining out therefore I don’t think the conclusions in those papers apply in my case. The audio interruptions noted in the Pandora test are far more intrusive than in-page display ads. If I used interstitials then I would agree.
The article doesn't state it was better than traffic lights. I think small cells in traffic lights are already reality, even if not widespread, the small cells exist.

The article presents a novel, non-obvious approach in some ealier-stage development.
> 1) The $1000 is misleading because although it's an average, the median is considerably lower, around $100 in that case.

This was my first thought - a dollar is worth wildly different amounts to different people. If I'm struggling to put food on the table and fuel in my car, then a dollar is pretty important. If I'm sitting in my mansion sipping fine wine and contemplating what to do with the afternoon, a thousand dollars may be inconsequential.
I absolutely hate WeWork. Due to the nature of our work we have to meet with people there in various locations, the security on-site is laughable but at the same time they make you jump through all kinds of hoops such as photographing you face-first on entry, easily defeated by blocking the camera.

The facilities are noisy, distracting, totally unusable to discuss anything that is even remotely confidential and there is a reasonably high amount of theft by walk-ins that make off with people's laptops or phones.

The sooner they bugger off the better.
Not only that, industrial robots are chosen for repeatability, not speed. A flexible system necessarily doesn't take the most efficient path, and if it does, you'd just buy a dumb arm.
Well, that is of course correct. I guess I was simply thinking with YouTube and non-technical people screaming on the internet in mind, which is obviously not what techno-polarisation embodies.
> I honestly can’t really tell what value WIMP-centric GUIs have brought to the table besides fashion […]

Literal billions of users.
Allegedly, Mongo is more efficient if you need to ingest billions of records.
If AGI (an artificial human mind with direct access to computational power of classic computers and whole Internet of information) was possible then we would probably already be living in the Travelers TV show.
This was a problem I had with the book. Newport is a tenured professor - he can do what he wants when he wants. I can sort of get deep work time done but it’s not always at the same time or as long as I plan it to be.
Whenever keurig comes up, a lot of people chime in with the “I don’t get why this is a thing”.

It’s not that complicated folks - folks don’t like things that are complicated. Anything that pops in or works at the push of a button is going to be selected for. As your examples with elevators and transportation - yes these allow less calories used, they also give us valuable minutes in our day. Do you not prefer to save time with convenience?

As far as keurigs not being of high quality - I guess the saying is “it’s better than Folgers”.
Gosh, you're right. Clang warns, at least:

t-order.c:10:8: warning: unsequenced modification and access to 'x' [-Wunsequenced]
foo[x++] = x;
Per Wikipedia, it was coined in 1967 to refer to the glue code that existed at the boundary of hardware and software.

Or, in other words, any code which hooks directly to the hardware on one side and exposes abstractions (like an instruction set) that software can code against on the other.

I always assumed "firm" stuck, as in "You'll have a helluva time changing it, because it's the code that has to deal with all the complex electrical engineering stuff."

(E.g. processor errata, patched board mistakes via fuse or EEPROM, side effects of power supply undervolting or clock skew, or pre-initialized system murkiness)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firmware#History
Which Bogner products are you referring to?
Anyone who gets control of the live server can still read a database, even if it encrypts its storage.
Why did you go to a doctor for a cold? That seems to be a problem. You send someone to school for 10 years and they spend their time talking to patients about a runny nose due to a common cold. And for what? To write a prescription?
Compare the economics of loss here, to the economics of not storing the electricity, and so wasting it in other ways. Yes, there is a round-trip loss through the system. No, this is not always in economics, an insurmountable problem.

For instance, "the hump" which was the US air shipment of materiel to China, in order to bomb Japanese forces was obviously a major loss maker in energy terms. Some huge multiplier of fuel spent to send fuel, worse than 5:1. Was it "worth" it? Yes! the war effort demanded the loss be borne.

So with this energy storage. Energy in the form of electricity is fleeting. If you don't convert it to a persisting potential energy form, it isn't there when you want it. Loss in the system is well understood by the engineers, financiers, planners.

Pumped Hydro has losses. Compressed Air has losses. Conversion to Ammonia or Hydrogen has losses. Winching concrete uphill in trains has losses.

Of all of these, thermal storage of energy in molten salt is perhaps the best understood. Its not unusual.

TL;DR short statements like "buuut the losses" are silly. This is not an absolute deal killer, it's an understood problem.
Why is this a bad way to measure addictiveness?

It would certainly be more objective than the arbitrary Schedule I/II/III system we have now.
> Now X designs projects with two primary goals: to become a standalone Alphabet division or spin out into an independent company.

The difference being that Alphabet retains 100% vs retaining X%? Presumably they're spinning out whenever the capital required would be much more than they want to put in, or the tech seems promising but perhaps not as profitable as they would like?
ctrl-F "chargemaster" gives no results.[1]

This article is BS. I didn't read it, it would be a waste of time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chargemaster
That's not remotely how medicine works, but ignoring that, part of the problem is that consumers don't care about costs. Why would they? Insurance will cover it.
OT, sort of: I am banned (permanently? [2]) from the #zfsonlinux IRC channel because I connected to it via IRCCloud [1]. It's this kind of attitude that worries me about using it.

1: http://irccloud.com

2: https://irc-source.com/channel/freenode/%23zfsonlinux-quaran...
Which sets them up for WeWork subsidiaries to default on any building that's more than X months old and unprofitable. That's a terrible deal for the landlord, if the landlord priced it as a 15 year deal instead of a one year. Absolutely great for WeWork. Terrible for anyone who wants offices, since WeWork will sit on a large chunk of the market.
How can energy be stored as cold? Cold is by definition the absence of energy.
... and now associates your name and address with items of value to be had.
Anti-tampering screws have been around a long time. I remember somewhere in the 90's being surprised to see triangle screws and clockwise-only screws (not sure what their name is) in kids toys. Not all of them did it, but I distinctly remember Siku (a german manufacturer?) and Matchbox doing this.

In Apple's case; I don't think malice is why they do what they do, it's probably a byproduct of a much simpler reason. As posted above, security might be one. If a device is harder to take apart, it's also harder to tamper with. I personally think that this would only hold up to some degree as an attacker with enough resources could get in anyway, but perhaps the required resources are are a high enough level that common attacks are less feasible.

Another thing that is a way bigger issue (in my hacker mindset) is when SMT/SMD became common, just like VLSI. You suddenly can no longer easily see how a circuit works, and repairing a few failed components on a PCB gets much harder for most people. Then again, the cost (in time or paid time) is also no longer reasonably to have someone else do it. Replacing hardware and the benefits that can come with that are often a better deal than a repair.
Definitely feels like it. OSX had its "we're onboard with ZFS" moment which vanished. I am believing this was a licence fubar.
In other words that firmware is not going to have any more legitimate changes made to it.
Amazon and Facebook Reportedly Had a Secret Data-Sharing Agreement
Your theory doesn't seem falsifiable short of actually making an agi whose very definition is notoriously slippery.

You might as well just say the mind resides in the soul.
Ultimately Uber would choose to limit workers in a wait state since an idle driver is not profitable and now a major direct cost.
Office building landlord negotiations are rarely problematic. The issues come from (a) new landlords who don't know what they're doing; (b) new tenants who don't know what they're doing; (c) trying to actually find space that works.

WeWork doesn't give more power to the tenant. WeWork is going to be less flexible on terms for the tenants, because they're doing smaller, shorter-term deals. No space improvement, no reconfiguration, no nothing -- you want the space or not?
The article noted that the accused thief has no prior criminal record. That probably means little to nothing. There's no proof that he's not an amazing career criminal holding down a 9-5 in order to mask his criminal activity. There's also no proof that he's never even jaywalked prior to getting in trouble for the GPS Bait Package.

That said, whether he's a secret career criminal or truly a first time offender his defense doesn't really seem like some sort of elaborate explanation he thought of in case he got caught up by the police. It more seems like a vague excuse or a vague lie... But...

Is it really outside of Amazon's realm to have policies that the average person / worker wouldn't agree with? Is it really outside of the public's knowledge that Amazon employees have at times commented about, posted about, and protest over working conditions or pay or break time or lunch time given or scrutiny over many other seemingly menial things that the average person wouldn't expect such a massive and profitable corporation to have enacted and enforced?

This all may mean nothing. Heck, I'll admit it all means nothing, but I'd love to hear an official comment from Amazon about the policy the accused thief mentioned. I'd also love to hear from Amazon employees who would have knowledge about whether such a policy existed or not. Either from a driver or other employees higher up on the food chain like lawyers, HR, or other corporate level employees who may have had to deal with such things directly if not directly dealt with such matters.
I was under the impression that because I've told UPS that they can leave packages without requiring a signature, I'm liable for packages that disappear. But I'm not sure - I have never had a package stolen, so I don't know what would happen
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Temperature differences are what drive heat engines, i.e. you need a hot and a cold(er) reservoir. A nice demonstration of this is a handheld Stirling engine, which you can power by placing ice at the bottom (since it’s colder than the surrounding environment).
Look I'm all against separating children from parents when there is no certain proof that they are being trafficked. There should be a children + assumed-parent holding area.

But when I see Chinese being bussed in to make American babies but hardworking immigrants not being citizens, I am firmly against it
Well, neural nets and similar things laughably worse than AI systems when confronted with "real world" situation.

I wouldn't argue with the point that humans use rigorous logic and overt rules-based behavior much less than they imagine (your summary is very much a summary of the other-NLP model of mind, which I know).

I'd argue that while "refined" logic, systematic logic, might be rare, fairly crude logic, more or less indistinguishable from simply using language, is everywhere and it an incredibly powerful tool that human have. Again, being able to correct object recognition based on things people tell you is an incredibly powerful thing. You don't need a lot of full rationality for this but it gets you a lot. And that's just a small-ish example.
Downvote if you want, but I have real sympathy for these crooks. This leaving of valuables on our front porches is a new thing. If I were shopping at a mall, and left my purchases on the roof of my car, I would not expect them to remain there hours later. Theft is illegal but for centuries we at least made it difficult. We didn't rely on the law as the only deterrent. Leaving valuables on your front porch while you are at work is like walking out into a crosswalk and just assuming that all the cars will stop for you.

Arrest the thieves. Punish them as the law deems necessary. But do not demonize them. These glitter bombs and GPS devices are sad. These are non-violent property crimes. Cops have far more important things to do than protect your right to leave your new iPhone in public view all day.

Pay for proper delivery. Take the time to pick it up at a dropoff location. Have it sent to a neighbor who is home during the day. That's far easier than playing pathetic pranks on pathetic criminals.
Oh, now that makes sense. Thanks.
Wow, just reading this RFC makes my more comfortable compare to reading RFC7540. Possibly because they hided a huge portion of technical details under the keyword QUIC.

I'm not sure I should continue to implement my HTTP/2 server now, as HTTP/3 will overlay almost (as far as I can tell) all the benefit that provided by HTTP/2.

One thing makes me confused though, since:

> The QUIC version being used MUST use TLS version 1.3 or greater as its handshake protocol.

And most TLS 1.3 implementation supports RFC6066, then why:

> .... This may be done using the Server Name Indication (SNI) [RFC6066] extension to TLS <bold>or using some other mechanism</bold>.

? I mean, why include any other mechanism while SNI can do the job?
They probably don't want another service storing and analysing your messages.

The free version is basically useless: "Stay connected for 2 hours while inactive (permanent for first 7 days)" because of this.
I wonder if MS will eventually opensource Windows as they see declining revenue and focus more on the store aspect.

Seems like MS has been seeing alot of benefits to open sourcing their stuff they are beginning to release more and more.
Something that I've used in the past: store the hierarchical data as a breadcrumb-like string in an ordinary column. This means the parsing is just ordinary csv parsing, followed by a relatively trivial extra step to parse the breadcrumb columns. You also retain the ability to describe arbitrary depth hierarchies:

country,value
World/Asia/China, 1409517397
World/Asia/India, 1339180127
World/Asia/Indonesia, 263991379

An added benefit of this approach is that you can have hierarchies in multiple columns. For example:

datetime, source_account, destination_account, amount
2016-07-01, Assets/ProjectFunding, Assets/Capital/Delivery, 134.2
2017-07-01, Assets/ProjectFunding, Assets/Capital/Delivery, 72.2
2016-07-01, Assets/ProjectFunding, Assets/Capital/Other, 5.0
2016-07-01, Assets/ProjectFunding, Expenses/Development, 4.7
2017-07-01, Assets/ProjectFunding, Expenses/Development, 1.6
2017-07-01, Assets/Cash, Expenses/OPEX, 0.96
2018-07-01, Assets/Cash, Expenses/OPEX, 1.62
Because money. This is restaurant expansion 101.

In this specific case a large sophisticated organization may be exploiting an unsophisticated organization, but really this is standard operating procedure for any franchise.
> The cheaper, easier, and faster (time to pickup) things get the more likely I'll take advantage of that more often.

I think this balances out naturally though in (y)our situation -- there's limited space for taxis near the station, so if a lot of people are taking taxis, the benefit of taking a taxi approaches zero unless the benefit is "sit" rather than "save time."

A good example of this is rainy days or typhoons.

So in the other cases you list, I wonder if it might not be self-balancing there as well -- as the roads get congested, the benefit of popping a drill into a car to send to a friend or whatever will approach zero as the costs rise due to congested roads.
Yes that too. But I figure we should start with the ex-felons and work out way out.
My own experience with AMZL (Amazon Logistics) was so bad that I got Amazon to add a delivery preference to my account so they don't use AMZL unless it's the only option
You also have to cover uncompensated care, which is a significant chunk of change at any hospital in a major metro area. Besides, nobody actually pays the charges. Insurance companies don't, CMS doesn't, and even the uninsured can typically negotiate a bill down with a quick phone call. That's why the charges are all made up bullshit. It doesn't matter so why bother?

Most hospitals in the US are non-profits. You can go look at their financial statements yourself. They're not exactly raking in the dough. Running a hospital is enormously expensive, and if somebody comes in needing $1 million worth of care, then you're required by law to give it even if they can't pay.

That money has to come from somewhere. That's why Ibuprofen is $60.
Body-camera maker Axon now lets employees bet their salaries on company growth
Well stated point. I disagree with you but will certainly not downvote you.
Revenue != Profit. There are costs associated with making money off of the IP. You'd stop when those costs and the cost of renewing are greater than the revenue taken in.
Cheap and pointless.
A Chat or Chess client with react and redux would be a nice learning exercise
“Opting out” is meaningless and doesn't stop data collection
Strong agree. My current company was in one for a few months before we got our own space, and it was one of the most miserable office experiences I've ever encountered. Almost everything about it sucked-

* Their network was grossly misconfigured and directed traffic to the least used access point, regardless of the distance. It was a regular morning ritual for people in my office to toggle their wifi on and off repeatedly until they got a usable connection.

* Network security is also a joke- they have a simple WPA2 shared password that never changes, can easily be brute forced, and is the same at all locations. They do have a proper WPA2 Enterprise setup for their employees, which means the issue isn't their equipment and that they understand the difference between the two.

* They basically have no rules about noise. Their contract refers to the local "communities" rules, but when I asked for them I was told they didn't have any. So when there was bad behavior (which there was plenty of) there was no recourse.

* It was the noisiest office space I've ever worked in. The glass dividers between rooms and open ventilation systems meant there was no insulation from noise at all- and tenants didn't seem to care about letting their entire floor know their business.

* There were only two or three phone rooms per floor, and it was always a fight to get them. People would try and reserve them by leaving their stuff in them before a call, which just amounted to all sorts of drama. Since there weren't enough to go around people would just talk in their offices adding to the noise.

* Allowing dogs is great, but there need to be some rules. One of our neighbors just let his dog walk around the whole floor, so we had to be super careful about what we left in the trash in our unit. He would also leave his dog locked up in his unit while he was getting lunch, and the dog would bark the whole time. People would also have their dogs race from one side of the building to the other. Since none of this was against the rules there was nothing to do about it other than move out.
Sure, but I can't even reconnect with another client with my normal Freenode account now.
> China no longer deserves its "developing economy" exemption

Which exemption? The Paris Accord had China reducing their emissions by 45% on 2005 levels. The US agreed to 25%. That's the two biggest polluters on Earth.

Last year China met their target early. This year the US pulled out and wasn't on track to meet the reduction by late next decade.

Who is really getting the exemption here?
No, but that was just an example. What about 0.01%?

I don't know much about Amazon's shipment model, but either this guy is telling the truth and there's a system in place, or he's lying. Either way wouldn't surprise me.
That auto dialog referred to the “offline_access” scope. At the time, most app access tokens would expire unless they specifically requested that the user give permission to access at any time.

It did not expand the permissions of what could be accessed.

That scope was retired in 2012 https://developers.facebook.com/docs/roadmap/completed-chang...
> bloated web frameworks

A bloated web framework makes your code simpler because there are many things that you don't need to reimplement by yourself.

The problem is when developers use a framework without understanding it well and:

1) Reimplement in the code features that are already present in the framework.
2) Fight against the framework because their business needs conflict with the conventions choosen by the framework.
3) Fight against the framework because they don't agree in the way the framework solved a particular problem and want to solve it their way.

In both cases, the origin of the issues is not the framework itself.

> The most trivial way to implement a website for high traffic is simple static content generator

Agree. But in any case, those kinds of sites are not hard to catch neither.
I fail to understand how an empty DIV can break a state-of-the-art video acceleration. Why not add another check to remove such empty HTML tags before hand.

Also, what can explain Edge failing to load Azure dashboard - was that a Google bug too? Ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zMbfvEHlTU
Yes, with a small gap between it is harder to install proper cooling systems and also natural air movement it very limited for cooling purpose too.
The FIRST thing I see when I visit this site (on mobile) is a popup telling me this...

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I know they have to do that, and it was already there... but doesn't that feel like a slap in the face?
> I always love the "but we have to maintain momentum" argument. A car also has momentum. In fact, it has quantitatively more momentum.

But it's easier (in the sense of human effort expended) for a car than a bike to regain its lost momentum, right?