skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
keep in mind that in eu usually people are getting prices after import tax, vat tax. AFAIK US prices everywhere are listed before taxes.
The Target by my house implemented global queuing at the registers and honestly, it’s the nicest store to shop at.

Similarly, I’m not sure the global queue adds more than a step or two to routing, since you have to walk to the register either way, and it replaces a complex mental task, picking the optimal queue then monitoring if you should switch, with a simple one, waiting in a line while looking for a wave. In my experience, a global queue is less taxing than having to queue in lines would be.
None, is the answer. There is a none percent chance. And if you're going to get someone to install something, it's not going to be GPG. Without loss of generality this applies as well to lawyers, IT managers, development leads, chief security officers, cryptographers, and some former PGP developers.
Honestly, if it's as tasty and protein-filled as a normal burger, sign me up. I enjoy meat for the taste and because of my nutritional goals, so if it can be nutritionally better and as tasty, there's no contest.
GitLab is an LLC, GitHub is what's owned by MS
Nah, there are hundreds of CAs out there. People could get their SSL certs from any one of them and MITM all your supposedly secure web traffic.

And plenty of ISPs will do exactly that, if you give them half a chance.
I don't know. There are environmental and ethical issues with the current animal agricultural practices so as it becomes easier to be vegetarian more people will switch. I think it's a long way off being truly mainstream but the easier it becomes to switch the more people will. Also meat eaters will still get these sometimes if they are good.
And then from a high rise to a shitty office space where you could regularly see hookers on the elevators and at least while I was there the bank at the bottom was robbed at gun point twice.
First, the people most likely to buy meatless products weren’t part of their existing customer base, so there is no cannibalization.

I'd like to suggest that the term "cannibalization" should be used gently when applied to a meat company.
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I would also like to take a look at your comment in terms of assertions because I'm having a hard time parsing it.

- People who want meatless products aren't buying meat so they're an expansion opportunity. I think that's a fair assessment.

- Meatless products may not be big sellers but they're good PR. I'm not sure about this.

- People are unaware of global trends and are self-centered

AND

- self-centred people see meatless burgers as a sign of global change

THEREFORE

- making a meatless burger is good PR, so much so that not doing it is crazy.

Are you sure that last part makes any sense at all? It feels like an emotional appeal that doesn't really connect.

FWIW, if I were running a meat company I would be comparing the PR value of a meatless burger with the expense of tooling up an entire meat-free production and packing line. I think I'd need real sales to justify that outlay.
Semi-related, but the Beyond Meat burger at Canadian fast-food chain A&W has been a big hit too, it seems. I got one at a mall recently and was amazed that everyone in line at the time was there to try the beyond meat burger. There’s a serious appetite for this stuff so I’m glad to see a big meat company paying attention.
Amazon starts testing its ‘Scout’ delivery robot
Amazon and Chase Won’t Give Me a Straight Answer About What They Do with My Data
I had a workmate mock order some stickers and put in their boss's email, but did not submit. That evening, the boss got an email with the order, and the boss bought them (they were previously informed of the idea), thinking the employee had sent the order over.
I have an eeePC 900a (?) - It came with, IIRC, a 32 GB SSD and 1 GB of ram - I ended up putting 2 GB in it, and a 128 GB SSD; made it much more comfortable (for all that's worth). Still a dog CPU - but for what it is, it ain't too bad. Somewhere, if I am ever brave enough to delve into doing it, I have a camera upgrade for it. I also think I got a GPS upgrade for it too that I need to install (can't remember; there were a couple of pieces the next model up had that I didn't get at the time - and the parts could be bought on ebay not too long ago, so I grabbed 'em).
My point is not about Facebook's algorithm at all. My point is about the reactions to claims about it vs this claim about algorithms

Many commenters here seem to be frustrated by the suggestion that an algorithm could be tuned to create a bias or reproduce the bias of the data powering it. My point is that similar arguments have not largely been levied against the claim that Facebook's algorithm has bias.

Why are these arguments not made in the case of the Facebook algorithm but are being made here? My conclusion is that people are extremely uneasy with the premise that there is a racial bias in modern American society.
Well in only a week they have already corrected the artical to add a year or two so we are catching up fast...
Just making list of industries where market forces have failed to give a way to monopolies, at least in US:

- Cable TV/Internet

- Prescription glasses

- Hearing aids

What else?
Of course it's malicious. But it's so profitable!
GCC Python Plugin 0.17 Released
Modest proposal: do the opposite of everything suggested in this article. After all, if you spend all your time inspecting your dependencies, what was the point of even having them in the first place?

This will ensure that maximum time possible is spent implementing new features. Everyone on your team can pitch in to accelerate this goal. Even non-technical outsiders can give valuable feedback. At the same time, this ensures minimum time spent fiddling about in a desperate attempt to secure the system and slowing everyone else down. Besides, unless you're already a fortune 500 company, no one on your team knows how to do security at all. (And even then the number of experts on your team is probably still dangerously close to zero.)

The software you ship will obviously be less secure than if you had focused any time at all on security. However, the utility of your software will skyrocket compared to what it would have been if you had sat around worrying about security. So much that your userbase is essentially forced to use your software because nothing else exists that even has a fraction of its feature set.

Sooner or later the insecurity will catch up with you. But this is the best part-- your software has so many features it is now a dependency of nearly everything else that exists. There is no chess move left except to sit down and somehow actually secure it so that arbitrarily tall stacks of even less secure software can keep being build atop it without collapsing like a house of cards.

And it's at this point that the four or five people in the world who actually understand security step in and sandbox your software. Hey, now it's more secure than a system built by a cult of devs tirelessly inspecting every little dependency before they ship anything. Problem solved.
> its non-GMO, soy-free, gluten-free pedigree may give it a leg up on its competitors

It's still not organic however, which makes it significantly less appealing for me. Since Beyond and Impossible don't seem to be organic either, they all have the same "pedigree", FWIW.

The packaging ratio for Beyond has always bothered me too. I believe it's recyclable, but it seems like a lot of plastic and cardboard relative to the amount of food.

I'm still enthusiastic about the overall concept though.
Granted. But it will at least raise the bar for building an exploit package from "knows how to code" to "knows how to code, knows something about exploits, and knows how to avoid detection by an automated scanner."
His point is that “zip” is an old data packaging format first, encrypted bundle second, many aeons ago the decryption was purely based - think “authenticated” PDFs that were plain text, but the application was meant to ask for a password before displaying the content.

Essentially, if you take an arbitrary “zip” implementation that offers password protection there are reasonably good odds that it isn’t using the “modern” aes based mechanism.

A predictable IV is only really useful if you can induce a target to repeatedly encrypt content using the same secret key, then an attacker can use known source content for some outputs to break the encryption for the unknown cases.

But again this requires a service that isn’t likely to really exist.
> I absolutely will take on more burden to help those who are less fortunate.

Looks like you want to make your own, free will decision about what to do with your money. That's what private charities are for — that way, we both get to decide for ourselves, exercise our choice and you get to feel morally superior (and get the deserved praise), and someone else gets to use their money in other way.

When, however, state takes this money from you without giving you any choice over it, using it's monopoly on violence to force you into doing that, that's no longer your moral decision. That's just inevitability.
Are you open to sharing more of your experience? I wonder if you were also homeschooled? Did you have siblings? How has it been as an adult (if you are now) in regard to how you grew up?
Well designed.. I'm not so sure, once you're used to something you're 'blind' to its defaults..
Big: signed/unsigned automatic conversion?
Minor: conflating unsigned and modulo arithmetic (why not allowing signed modulo int?)? Huge: no way to pass an array but just a pointer?
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Hard agree. IMO the best tech talent in the US is in finance, telecom and oil, none of which are Valley based. Most of what comes out of the Valley these days is mountebanks with software written by overambitious undereducated kids.

Older companies like Google, Oracle and so on still contain pockets of tech excellence, but you can't buy those guys with your startup idea.
I think the most useful way to think about this is that unequal outcomes almost always lead us to unequal opportunity upstream.

If, for example, you made admission to elite colleges(which is a whole other can of worms) ignore ethnic backgrounds, you'd get a result where far fewer applicants of certain ethnicities would be accepted. In an arbitrary sense, this could represent "equal opportunity" if you believed that these people materialized from the ether the day they submit their application. But if you take into account their lives leading up to submitting their application, "equal opportunity" requires counteracting powerful structural factors that make it harder for people of some backgrounds to get into college.

The reason Harvard admission of Asian students is cited to such a tiresome degree is that it's a rare case where there isn't a clear upstream justification. That's why there's a big lawsuit and Harvard is getting tons of awful press about it. But it also lines up with the fundamental problem we're trying to fix with affirmative action. Harvard and its admissions systems were invented by white people, and they have proven to relentlessly favor white people, who then have easier lives and more money they can use to pay SAT tutors to help the next generation of white kids get into Harvard. It's not surprising that Harvard would warp the affirmative action system away from its original purpose, to correct for historical oppression, in order to... help white people get into Harvard. The fact that Harvard is discriminating against Asians is not a reason to implement a fake-fair system that has the end result of discriminating against all other non-white people.

It's theoretically possible that there are some other cases somewhere that show large inequality of outcome but have no unfairness upstream. But I'd rather have the task of discovering and fixing those rare cases than the present system, in which being born with a certain background gives you radical advantages or disadvantages on the basis of, basically, ancestral violence.
Searching from Melbourne, Australia.

Screenshot here:

https://imagebin.ca/v/4UYChGqqIEQy

(The ad is geolocating correctly, but the first actual search result is "Melbourne Brevard County Florida")
+1. I'm from Mexico, where houses tend to be smaller and more tightly packed. There's essentially no yards or large patios, so not only do you live closer to other kids, but you're kinda forced to play in the shared street space, since you don't have that much open private space.
I don't have recruitment data so its quite possible those companies recruit far more heavily from those schools, but even from my own anecdotal experience at a top 30 (yes 3-0) state school in CS I was still getting recruited and interviewed by Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. And that was as a Physics major with only a CS minor in my Junior year. I doubt getting interviews with those companies is the issue, they are ALWAYS looking for more talent wherever they can get it.
Maybe you're on Macs. Those have glossy screens with a "secret recipe" coating to avoid glare. Consider then half glossy/matte.
That ain't old. My TRS-80 Model 100 - that's old.

My Altair - older still.

I have a chunk of core memory with 3mm torroids and bakelite framing; that's almost positively ancient in computer terms...
Sounds like there is room in this market for competition
Off Topic: another example of egregious capitalization!

Is "Canadian meat giant Maple Leaf debuts new plant-based burger" easier on the eyes? Or should proper nouns be wrapped in quotes when part of a headline?
This mirrors my experience - I grew up in Britain, Germany and Hong Kong, before my parents moved to Chicago when I was 11, in 1994.

There were rules on my pre-American childhood. Strict rules - but as you say, there was freedom - I thought nothing of cycling off into the mountains alone in the winter, of getting on a train and going to the city to meet friends, of building a treehouse in the woods complete with punji traps.

Cue America. I spent most of the year I was at school there being suspended for such misdeeds as walking the few miles home instead of waiting for a broken down school bus, climbing trees, and sword fighting with sticks; being a kid, in short. Hell, they even suspended me for reading under the desk, because I usually finished the period assignment in the first 5-10 minutes.

The breaking point was when I cycled from our ‘burb to downtown Chicago to meet a friend for a movie. My parents knew where I was, it was the weekend.

Another parent from the same school spotted me cycling around downtown. Called the police. I got home that evening to find half a dozen cops sat there at the house, threatening my parents with me being put into care, them being imprisoned, and all the rest. Apparently I was in mortal danger by... being on a bicycle without an adult?

After that, they didn’t want me going anywhere without them or another adult. I ended up just not going anywhere.

I went back to school in the UK.

Also, the education was years behind that which I had had previously - I mean, they only had two subjects - “soclish”
and “sciath”. “Bored” didn’t even begin to cover it.
Can anyone recommend an excellent resource on how IPTABLES work? One with diagrams and real world examples?
You're exactly right. Investment into STEM education would be a very slow, inefficient way for FANG et al to reduce worker pay compared to collusion (which they were busted for in 2014) or more aggressively focusing on hiring overseas instead of the US.

It's true there are plenty of other self-interested reasons for these companies to fund CS education: PR, getting new devs trained on their toolchain (my college CS classes were in the Gates Building, and friendly Microsoft evangelists brought pizza and free copies of visual studio to my freshman intro CS class), and growing the tech industry overall when they control and monetize the underlying platforms.

But then, there is also the much more mundane explanation that these charitable contributions are a drop in the bucket compared to these companies' overall budgets, that they are run by human beings who see themselves as doing good and who are predisposed to think CS is a great path to a good future.
I didn't mean to imply that vacuum tubes stopped having uses or stopped improving. My main point is that they stopped being the primary source of electronics and digital processing innovation and progress.

Even if by chance neural/deep-nets stop being the primary source of AI innovation, I'm sure people will find and make improvements in them regardless.
Hackers Baselessly Blame Women and ‘SJWs’ for the End of DerbyCon S
What exactly is coil whine? Mine makes a light chatter sound when scrolling or animation happens onscreen. Is that the same?
The Web is made of edge cases
...what? No. I'm asking about the equality of opportunity vs. outcome. Parent said he's for equality of opportunity rather than which accessible parking is most definitely not. I'm suggesting we need more nuance than just categorizing one as desirable and one as undesirable.
Think of it like this. If you wanted to support all individual poor people in America equally, you'll end up helping a disproportionate number of black people, because black people are disproportionately poor. So it's actually reasonable to say "black people need a disproportionate amount of help" if you're trying to help poverty in an unbiased way.
I am not paranoid about kidnappers and child molesters, but I am paranoid about other grownups who are paranoid about kidnappers and child molesters. I fully expect if I let my kids have the freedom previous generations had I would soon be visited by police and CPS because other paranoid do-gooders would report my kids as being in danger.
AFAICT, this actually isn't running SQL against data in DynamoDB. Rather, it syncs the the data in DynamoDB with their [Rockset's] own proprietary database, and runs SQL against that data.

It's effectively the same but technically quite different.
Me too. I have around 10 pairs, so I never find myself in a room/place without them. I like Dr. Dean Edell’s for their combination of style/comfort/build quality/light weight. $9.99/pair
This is not how the banking system works.

Banks, just like all institutions have to account for their money, hence the reason they employ accountants.

Those accountants all use the same accounting rules, rules that were in fact invented many centuries earlier by the monk, Luca Pacioli.

Those rules form the basis of double entry book keeping, which boils done to a very simple rule that for every credit there must be an equal debit.

What you are describing does not follow that rule because you are saying one credit can result in many other many other credits.

What you describe reads more like a pyramid scheme than a banking system.
Yeah, the opposite is true in many Silicon Valley offices - the male's toilet has a line after lunch.
That's pretty much it. Then it would be a matter of maximizing the "having fun" scoring rubric and then back to piano lessons and remedial math!
My local cinema concession stand moved from a single queue to one queue per register. The variance increased noticeably every time I have visited since and all the staff I have spoken to hated the change and said they were regularly getting complaints about it. When I asked why they changed I was told one of the managers did it because it made the lines shorter and they concluded that meant the wait must also be shorter.
Right, a merge tool that understands Python semantics at some level should be able to detect when a block's indentation has changed, and adjust the indentation of any changes to that block correspondingly.
QubesOS developers use X1 Carbon.
London has actually much more people than LA.
8.8M instead than less than 4M.
And apart from the much better public transport, the roads are not all broken, like the ones that I’ve experienced in LA.
Pluses and minuses of the 9570 (XPS 15, bought Dec 2018) - some of the following apply to XPS 13 too (use common sense).

Pluses:
- Linux works well (needs some tweaks, but they are easily findable)
- Fast laptop CPU (i9-8950HK) and 32GB (for VMs)
- 4k screen has great readability (need some tweaks)
- USB-A 3 on both sides
- I've had two firmware updates through Ubuntu (great Linux support by HP).
- I haven't had any problems with the drivers (for the hardware I use - I haven't yet tried video and I don't use the fingerprint sensor)

Minuses:
- No DisplayPort
- Glossy (all the touch-screen models are glossy, the non-touch models are matte)
- Killer WiFi (works, but I've read it is unreliable. Hopefully can replace if I have to)
- No hard PgDn/PgUp/Home/End keys (very very annoying)
- Linux is not "officially" supported (Windows tax) although I think the Linux support is good for a laptop.
- No Ethernet port (I prefer a hard wire)
- Screen colours are too orange
AI and machine learning can improve agriculture and feed the world:
Given that that the desires and wishes I referred to are, even by the standards of a truly cynical person, ultimately altruistic I’m going to disagree with your characterization of what I said as boiling down to “self centered.” I would rather say, blinded by hope or a desperate desire to see environmental catastrophe averted, which has a very different character from what people tend to mean by self-centered.

Then what we have more closely resembles the following:

People looking for hope around every corner, unaware of just how desirable meat is in much of the (rapidly) developing world, might look at a move like this and conclude that this is a sign of a sea-change. Given that I was responding to someone who saw this in the same terms as the move from film to digital photography perhaps you can see what I meant.

As to expenses, this company is buying the meatless producers outright, no retooling required.
Off the Map: The Problem with FEMA's Flood Maps for the East Coast
> work from desks and where I don't seem to have this problem.

Depends where you work and if you have control over the lighting. I used to have a horrible time with overhead fluorescent tubes, glare and flickering. To the point where I'd have to climb up and disable them. Thankfully they've gone out of style.
They are if you don't have an oracle afaik
He has a point, though.
GridDB v4.1 Officially Released
Well now this was an unexpected early UI API for Web Assembly.
I'm not sure I understand how that hurt actually takes place. These companies are essentially acting as charities, donating a portion of their profits to reduce the cost of a tech education. Some people who might not have been able to pursue education in tech are now able to. Do those people not benefit? Do the companies not benefit? Then how is society harmed? Would society really be better off if these companies remitted that money to shareholders as dividends, as is their right?

It seems to me that the complaint begins and ends with the assumption that if something is good for a big corporation then it must be bad for society at large, and vice versa.