skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see truckloads of chickens being hauled to the processing plants quite often and they all have feathers, beaks, legs, wings, etc. All their parts are intact and where they should be.

"Debeaking" is not what it sounds like. Chickens have a small, sharp, tooth like point on the very end of their upper beak, and that's what's removed. It's kind of like pulling an incisor, and not like at all like cutting off their entire beak. And that's mostly only done to laying hens, and not done at all on chickens used for cooking by Tyson. Those chickens are only about six weeks old when they're sent for processing. Their beaks haven't even begun to form that "tooth" yet.

Tyson has some pretty strict and well defined standards for those growers.

It's worth taking the time to learn the truth and facts because otherwise you end up worrying about things that do not, in fact, exist.
> it becomes problematic when "AI" systems are used to make life-changing descisions like setting insurance premiums or declaring persons suspicious to law enforcement.

Hasn't the latter already happened?
I'm without link/source, but I seem to recall reading about there being tests of using a homanoid-looking AI-driven "attendant" at a border somewhere that would judge people based on looks/temperament and try to guess if they were lying about what's in their luggage.
The advice I gave is not exclusive to working through the typical undergraduate books.

I was questioning why the OP wants to self-study an undergrad math curriculum to begin with.

It's probably not to become a pure mathematician. So I suggested, instead of creating a massive goal of getting through a collection of books just for the sake of being a completionist, to have a concrete personal goal. Otherwise, people can throw books "you have to read" at you until the cows come home. Especially since this person is talking about applied math.
Unfortunately no. I’m a solo operator for many reasons, and have decided that being responsible for the work of others just isn’t for me. Any referrals I do make tend to be ones where there’s a clean break, and the referral is local.
I see they changed the title now.
I could not delete my Discord account, for example, even talking with them several times by mail.
If you wanted ride sharing to be treated the same as traditional taxis, you could erase the difference in people's minds by referring to them as the same thing.
As I read this, I ruminated on my travails at getting a standard USB mouse to work on Ubuntu 18.04. I didn’t ask any questions in forums, largely because all of my hours of searches revealed an entitled community responding to other questioners with NIH (It’s a hardware problem, even though your hardware works on other OSs.), instructions that demonstrably don’t work, or just not responding at all. I don’t mean to take anything away from the author’s fine article; it truly is good. But there can be toxic communities. There can be problems that are entirely opaque to the uninitiated. (Who configures mice in 2019?) And there can be problems for which Googling sends you down a maze of dismissive and entitled responses.

Also, if anyone here has gotten an Anker vertical USB mouse to stay awake, scroll smoothly, and click reliably on a clean install of 18.04, I’m all ears. :D
If you base your argument on a sub-section of data then you are only trying to support an opinion.

Is 'reaction time' relevant? Is 'cognitive decline' relevant on an individual basis?

What are the other variables that prove relevant to performance you're ignoring? And what is performance?

The reason I ask if this is your opinion or intuition is because of your simplistic argument. It looks like you're trying to defend an opinion. So I ask.
This is why we need unions.
Why on earth did Microsoft implement in this manner?

Google with ChromeOS is running GNU/Linux in a VM. Means ChromeOS runs two Linux kernels.

They then forwarded XWin/Wayland to the ChromeOS window manager.

This approach makes so much more sense. There is no reason Microsoft could have not implemented in the exact same manner.
With Bountysource (the platform I used), there is. IIRC, they will also post a comment on the issue, listing the current bounty, and optionally also automatically apply appropriate labels to issues, so it's obvious to anyone on the Github issue.

Most of the solutions proposed in this thread for one-off bounties here have already been implemented for years, which is why I am convinced that (with the current level of funding), bounties don't work.
This must be them prepping for that new Internet Explorer-flavored Chrome or whatever.
As bizarre as it sounds it is possible to buy lactose-free whole milk (from cows) that has half the sugar of skim. (It's still more calories per serving.)
Such an informative post; thanks for sharing this!

Also, and somewhat sad and just plain crazy: some functions of NIST are not considered essential!?! It seems to me someone in the gov. is not clearly reporting who and what functions are truly essential to the higher ups in the gov. Then again, maybe they have, but the higher ups ignore them. sigh

Nevertheless, cool post.
They really should have done the obvious quality control test: each of the twins should have done each DNA test several times, at least twice. Most comments seem to assume that the test samples were uncontaminated and that the sequencing was correct. Redundancy will help identify the source of the differences.
I was in that "nothing you can do camp" for almost 30 years. Until I learned that I was a carbohydrate addict and carbohydrates are not necessary to live, I gave up completely.

Giving up is the only option after trying and failing diets and exercise programs your whole life. I started dieting when I was ~6 years old.
To you and me, that’s sarcasm. But there are regions of the world, and even entire nations, where that is not only popular thought, but public policy.

Given the international nature of HN, I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the bewildered comments in this thread come from people who grew up in that kind of culture.
We were also in an ice age back then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age
I know hte product exists, but airbnb hosts dont have them.
yay legalism!

did engineers exist before there was a title and a professional society?
I got a question to all of the Americans here. Why do you all care so much where you come from? Why are these services so popular? I honestly am not interested in my origins. Perhaps because I'm from Europe?
To be honest, I'd really rather see this for Quake 1, which imho had better overall gameplay.
FB may not like it, but I just see that as the free market correcting the inadequate price of FB ads.

The marginal cost of a FB ad is about 0. If the price charged differs too much from that, resourceful companies will move in to fix that situation!

Anyway, people can (and do) post stupid stuff that litters other people feed. If companies move in and arbitrage, giving money to people and reducing the cost of FB ads for companies, I see that as brilliant!

Besides the difference of intent, it is in practice no different than this weird family member we all have who's spreading questionable content. At least they'll get something out of it!
As a woman, I really think there’s more to the story then she’s telling us. I’ve seen this same story that she’s been blasting to several websites, and I honestly can’t picture this. I’ve sat at the bar alone eating, drinking, or just staring at my phone, many times in many big cities traveling. I’ve never gotten so much as a cross-word from anyone. So I call BS on this. There’s more going on here that we’re not being told.
Yes but the internet was not doomed as we now see.
I could have been but it was not at the point in time (presents form vs conditional form).

I have no issues with warning people what can happen.
I don't know directly anyone who is in that situation. I know about it only indirectly, through the news, blog posts and such, but it's affecting me all the same.

I think "MeToo" goes beyond simply exposing particular situations. It is also attempting to explain those cases of abuse by the gender of the perpetrator, as if it was the ultimate cause. Maybe the particular individual is an asshole, but not the whole category. Maybe that guy that "mansplains" things is condescending with everyone. I think that too quick generalization and broad accusation creates resentment and diminishes the potential of support from both sides.

I wish things were written like "many persons have been called out" instead of "many men have been called out", because the latter implies that only men can be, and also even if logically false it is easy to go from A => B to B => A in the eyes of opinion.
I’ve positioned myself as a CRO consultant who does UX work. My projects span from e-commerce to landing pages and apps. I never mention “web design” anywhere and will turn down a 5k project pretty quickly if there is poor fit. I think opportunities exist for those who position to offer solutions to business problems. You must be able to say “no” many times to give one yes to find the right client - this means having lots of leads which can be tough.
The justification I've often heard has nothing to do with morality or vengeance. It's simply that animals that have killed humans tend to do it again because they now associate humans with prey. I don't know how accurate this is but it's definitely the rationale used for killing such animals.
> at some point the democrats will have to concede that the only way to stop the damage is to give in.

Which would be the point where your 'they care more' hypothesis would become true.

So are they just wanting to hurt him politically right now?
It is buzzfeed after all. They are just living up to their reputation.
Of course; how many small businesses want to tinker with Squarespace or Wix for hours? They are easier than Wordpress but far from turnkey.

Learn those platforms down cold and you will be able to build a site on them way faster than almost any small business owner. And interacting with you will be way faster for them. Combine those deltas and that’s your business.

Or, if you want to do more custom work, target bigger businesses, like midsize. Or look into PR firms, which are constantly setting up new sites for campaigns, coalitions, candidates, etc.
Yeah and eventually forget about the old logo after it's been replaced everywhere. But for now it takes me a few extra seconds to find the App on my phone.

Do you know what causes them to change their logo? Any articles?
Could be an allusion to the fact that the driver was a licensed taxi driver.
Microsoft Xunil?
I don’t know about Bloomberg specifically, but typically authors don’t write the headlines in media.
Did you expect to have most of the information in the world available on demand? Anywhere? And be able to communicate with anybody anywhere? I guess it's hard predicting the future http://www.paulgraham.com/ecw.html
While I feel sympathy for the writer, there are few items of note before applying this beyond Singapore:

- Believe all drivers for hire in the US are required to have mandatory liability insurance; that would address at least part of the financial consequences of the accident.

- Don't the market leading US ride-share apps track driver performance and post ratings?

- Driver ride ratings are likely a poor predictor of severe events; you probably need something more along the lines of hard breaking incidents per mile (used to predict issues for trucks and service vehicles). IOT can get you this.

I think more importantly, the driver already had a legally issued cab license... if he wasn't driving for a ride-share company, he would have been driving a regular cab. The risk management failure was at the state level not the company.
I've often thought Searle's Chinese box argument was vapid, and have been unsure why so many seem to hold it in high regard. This article was helpful in this regard; Searle seems to think that he can presume that are a set of rules that allow for translation; without knowing those rules (i.e., the "program"), the argument becomes uninteresting.
The Linux kernel most certainly does not define GNU/Linux.

I'd just like to interject for a moment.
What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
Thanks! We've updated the link from https://www.zdnet.com/article/wifi-firmware-bug-affects-lapt....
Brains, Minds, and Machines (Tomaso Poggio) – MIT AI Podcast
There is a deliberate attempt to conflate the two, since they are essentially the same service, and many people want them regulated the same.

There is a correspondingly deliberate attempt to ensure that the two remain separate in peoples minds, to ensure that Grab, and the other "* sharing" apps, don't get the same regulations applied to them as the industries that they are trying to disrupt.

But make no mistake, the services that Grab/Uber/Lyft/other "ride sharing apps" provides is for 99.99% of consumers a direct, possibly cheaper, replacement for a cab service.
What a strange article. It had plenty of emotional language that led me to believe there was some build up to a story about the driver being horribly unqualified to drive, but in the end the driver already had a taxi license.

What was the point? That we should use taxi's without apps instead? Why? Because sometimes wrecks happen and this time it happened in a ride-share?

There were some anecdotes about a driver driving for 12 hours and another driver claiming they hadn't been behind the wheel in years, but how reliable is that data I wonder?

I was hoping to learn something other than the authors bias.
It's a logo, the affect on my life is minimal.
>But you don't have to be an expert to conduct a web search.

And if you don't know how to conduct a web search, you shouldn't be building a web site.

>... placing just a little blame on the people who don't engage in even the bare minimum of research

And GoDaddy's uncritical customers tend to be the kind of people who are easily influenced instead of permanently repelled by the kind of commercials GoDaddy is infamous for running.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri47wy0scmk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0cu7kRcQcs
This is why we need mandatory jail sentences for white collar crimes. Until we do something similar to that, the companies will simply continue to base these decisions on a calculation.
I don't know about "crack babies" specifically, but FAS is no joke. It's not exactly unheard of for drugs used in pregnancy to have very severe effects on the developing baby.
For what it's worth, the Spyder IDE for python imitates many features of MATLAB and I don't find myself missing much. The data viewer in particular is great.
Do those stop switches prevent crashing the mill into a fixture? If so, how?

Do you manually monitor the entire job cycle?
I sort of want a pair of these.
Facebook docs reveal a predatory policy for refunding kids’ accidental purchases
Does that mean that the converters implement the protocol themselves? I expected them to be roughly FTDI USB UART chips, tied to the MIDI baudrate.
If he’s maintaining sores then maybe that’s already done.
> ...over 200k last year building, fixing and maintaining..., working from home in a region with a relatively low cost of living...

THIS! My goal is to move away from my full-time day job and concentrate fully on my current side hustle...and arriving at or close to where you are now - both income and low expenses/cost-of-living, etc. Even if i'm a little under the 200k, that's squarely within my goal. I applaud you on having reached this, and wish you continued success!!!!
In Singapore, Grab drivers need a commercial license. The driver in this case had a taxi license. I'd argue that "cab" is not a misnomer here.
Pinboard is back for 2019
I stumbled onto this post[1] from Maciej on the mostly-quiet pinboard-dev group:

"...I've moved back to Pinboard work now after a two-year detour into US politics, which I hope will lead to a much less frustrating experience for my customers. It will take a little time to work through the backlog, but that is what I am doing now and into the forseeable future. My apologies to everyone who has had a hard time getting support from me since autumn 2016."

So, fingers crossed that our favorite bookmarking service will get some attention after a 2-year hiatus.

[1] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/pinboard-dev/1AHU0crTL3M/pr_7dTPvCwAJ
Or just much stronger labor laws with harsher penalties that make it not worth discriminating. In terms of being realistic about what might happen I think stronger laws would be easier to achieve than getting programmers to unionize.
I guess the underlying question here is will designers be able to add any value to the marketing requirements of firms over and above what is readily available and templatized... be it SMEs or large corporates, doesn't matter.

Refer to the literal meaning of standard and template, they originally are meant to perform the same duties they have been assigned in the same manner. On the contrast, any business who aims to succeed has to continuously innovate..(do not confuse it with discovery), keep thinking differently, keep changing strategies, keep upgrading themselves to be at par with this rapidly changing environment and cut throat competition. And this is where creative minds chip in.

Gone are those days when businesses use to write paragraphs after paragraphs to explain their products and USPs. Today, just one right and well though word is enough to put your point forth that directly hit the mind of consumers.

Design is deep. Mere creating graphics is not design. Decoding, understanding and relating to the subconscious message behind a thought or a communication being sent and being able to represent it in its most impactful form is true designing.

The day a designer starts empathizing with this, he will not find himself in doubt and out of work a single day.

I am a co-founder at http://draftss.com and we are catering to all kinds of businesses from SMBs, Freelancers, Agencies and even budding founders who require design and development. What differentiates is the approach and brand placement.
it will need a battery I guess. Which is yet another thing you need to charge.

It can charge the battery by generating electricity off the forces exerted by the wearer's movement.

Why can't the shoe adapt to the swelling of your feet?

If the software did control the amount of pressure the laces transfer to the foot instead of the length of the laces the shoe would adapt to feet of any size.

Just add a few more sensors and write more software.
I definitely expected to be able to talk to a computer like in star trek and have it synthesize me an answer, yes.

I didn't anticipate it would be delivered using a markup language via a centralized solution, nor that it would be cluttered up with ads and irrelevant marketing bilge or press releases in nonsense like modern online magazines.
The big difference is that rugby players actively protect their head as part of their play, whereas american football players have a perceived notion that the helmet is providing all of the support. I wouldn't be surprised if there are studies out there that show that Rugby players have less issues.
According to that article, the last little ice age dates to 1850, so that's a bit too far back, no?
Buzzfeed news actually has a pretty solid pulitzer-winning team behind it, this story definitely isn't one of their best.
It should probably be noted also that this doesn't even seem to be using textures updated with normal & specular maps. This is probably why all the surfaces appear a bit plasticky.
Finally. This approach means that GNU/Linux will still work when Google updates ChromeOS to Fuchsia.

They are using Virt-GPU. Google is supporting Virt-IO with Fuchsia.

Google created an equivalent to QEMU and KVM on Fuchsia which is called Machina.
Either cold email them, or try to get an intro through your network (= how you would contact any business for anything). Then you pitch them your skillset and your daily/hourly rate, and they'll decide to place you on their freelance/consulting roster or not.

There is a small split for how you would freelancing vs. consulting via agencies in my experience.

For consulting, you will usually only be brought on if you have a special skill set that the agency themselves can't fill out, and often only if their client specially requests those services. So consulting work via agencies is much rarer in my experience.

For freelancing, as long as the agency is doing well there is almost always something to do, and ~20% of their tech teams consist of freelancers, so it's not really "surplus work" but more their part of their normal mode of operation.

Of course, all of this are just anecdotal data, and may vary widely from region to region.
Even though this driver had a license, many drivers in other countries where Uber operates do not. Part of why classic Uber is not in Germany is because you need an extra license to be allowed to drive passengers around for money, this includes deep knowledge of the area you are working in and a bunch of other tests and checks.

I think it makes sense that not just anyone is allowed to do this, even though i see a lot of cab drivers driving pretty recklessly, but in general they at least seem very experienced and the cars are usually very modern and safe.
I was looking for some type of uber vs traditional cab comparison and couldn't find any justification for the headline. The quote on your last point is:

> I asked him how he’d passed Grab’s driver-screening process. He said there was no issue, because he already had a taxi driver’s license.

Well, that's pretty much the end of the story then. At least, the story that I thought it was based on the headline. Driving is dangerous. The fact that an accident occurred in a car hired via app vs traditional street side hailing or telephone call doesn't seem very relevant.
That's not exactly wrong, but it's not very sexy either. If you mean to replace the term AI with something more accurate, it needs to be a term its proponents can actually get behind.
Ask HN: Do you know of a software engineering performance coach in the Bay?
JetBrains business is all about understanding programming languages - Java in particular. And Kotlin is very, very close to Java.
I don't see that as a major problem. In fact most life-changing decisions are already based on probability. Insurance companies already do risk analysis and whether the algorithm uses ML or basic statistics, there is a threshold level of confidence used.

I'd also argue it's how our brains work. Many times as we come to a decision we are going off of confidence, not true correctness. I'm the case of declaring suspicious person's, well by definition they are suspects based on confidence, not by truth. Even in court we determine verdicts based on human probabilistic confidence that comes from the evidence.