skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that any flying object creates a massive invisible wake behind it which means that they can't be packed too closely. Birds have evolved special flight patterns to form a flock so that they don't get knocked out by each others' downdrafts. Air-propelled flying cars can never travel as close together as grounded cars, and consequently don't fix traffic much at all. If you were to invent some sort of antigravity device, this might be different, but I'm not going to hold my breath for that!
> it sounds like Vista managed several people out once they had everyone profiled

Vista's Imperious Leader is definitely a believer in Zuckerberg's Law, considering young (and low paid) high scorers to be superior to the experienced.
Wow, does this mean that (in the near future) we'll be able to take that HUGE repository of WinForms apps and port them to the web? Would be exciting...
Because, if you are a knowldege worker, even if you have the same job title you are not doing exactly the same job. There are really two choices here:

- allow people with the same job title (e.g. "Software developer") earn different salaries

- introduce fine grained competence levels (e.g "Software developer, level 23") and require promotion, based on detailed performance review, for every single request for a raise.

I prefer the former, because I don't like bureaucracy, but non-discrimination advocates are pushing towards the latter.
I don’t think I could get our mobility team to fill out an immigration application for only $700. That’s only about 1 day’s work for an employee on the team. I’d imagine most cases take way more than that and probably takes some work time from the employee as well.
Interest targeting on LinkedIn Campaign Manager launched over the next week
As far as I know GNOME can do display scaling, but not fractional display scaling yet.
What practices would that be? Both good and bad is interesting to me.

I recently decided against using jwt bearer tokens due to the concerns expressed in both rfcs and owasp of being to risky when compared to session cookies.

But really I’m wondering if the risk of screwing up csrf protection isn’t more of a concern than token leaks.
I went to the optometrist recently. I needed to buy two pairs of glasses.
I specifically told the sales guy that I didn't have $700 to spend, but I saw
they had decent frames for ~$70-80 and I figured the lens wouldn't be that expensive -
my prescription is not complicated - so I let him talk me into trying out some frames.
We went through the whole process and the price came
out to $670 for the pair. He was willing to give me a deal at $650. He was offended
when I told him I'd buy them online for $75 a pair instead.

(I have simple myopia but I spend all day on the computer and my eyes get tired.
I had the optometrist do the prescription at 20 feet like normal, then again at 2 feet,
specifically for computer use. It comes out slightly weaker than my normal prescription.
They also take a separate PD measurement for the computer glasses and it was a bit different.)
Damn the sophons :<
Sure he did great doesn't change the fact that individual examples like Frederick Douglass don't negate that fact that intergenerational incomes are pretty inelastic in America. It's a statistical problem across all slices of the population.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socioeconomic_mobility_in_the_...
Related: Stochastic Transport in Complex Systems

Ant trails, traffic jams, ...

https://www.elsevier.com/books/stochastic-transport-in-compl...
>> Give the AI a quadcopter to fly around in and a huge database and it's going to go investigate the mislabeled data and figure out that it was misled.

What kind of AI is that? It has the ability to choose its own goals, to figure out when it's made a mistake and explore the world around it to correct its model of it? That's a pretty damn advanced AI.

Edit: Btw, if you think that sort of thing can work and that all you need is an AI, a quadcopter and a huge database- why don't you try it? The rewards would be astronomical, well worth any investment.
> but I think one of the biggest reasons is that it's very hard to institutionalize the sort of knowledge that you get by building something yourself.

I think that's true, but that fact doesn't really lend much support the idea of building another large accelerator now rather than in a few generations time. Maybe this generation has the time to build another big accelerator using its existing experience, but why build one at all if there aren't clear goals for what it will accomplish and the experience will be lost regardless? All you'd be doing is spending money to spread out the re-learning process.
Or just use GnuPG
> the driving airplane. It cannot fly, but it will drive.

When can I invest?
I think the problem is that for a lot of us technology was a way to provide ourselves and our families with a middle class living without doing something exceedingly dangerous like underwater welding or deep sea fishing. The companies that employ technology people are trying to eliminate this line of work and render it as cheap as an entry level checker at Wal-Mart. When that happens, how can anyone earn a living doing anything? It's not like these companies are going to take pity on their workforce and provide raises. Instead management will be trained to treat people as interchangeable and replaceable.
I understand what you are saying, but you may be arguing from a marginal case.

Not every kid who would prefer to play video games is going to grow up to be a professional game developer or programmer.
I am going to post this article from last year which covers a lot of the topics of re-segregation of schools through unique methods.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/magazine/the-resegregatio...

To touch on your point specifically, I am sorry you had such a poor experience. You are right when you say that social programs need to exist so that children are not hungry at school. Education is supposed to be the great equalizer and yet America has provided education almost only for the rich and has consistently attacked the poor. But I also feel bad for the kid who had to steal from you every day just so that he wasn't hungry at school. Education and wealth are a combined, intractable problem in a capitalist country, but there are hundreds of places making the problem worse.
And my point is that we already have examples of plenty of policies from similar countries. Maybe we should look at what those places have done and see where we could adopt policies. In a way, the experiments you want to run already exist. The problem is much more about bias and ideology rather than data and experiments. We are talking about the only advanced country in the world where the controlling party denies climate change (a field with plenty of experiments and data).

You mentioned that a higher tax rate might lower entrepreneurship and I provided data that shows it has already trended down while we’ve been moving the top marginal tax rate lower. I never claimed it was causal. It shows that the thing you are worried about happening if we implement a specific policy already happened after we implemented the exact opposite policy. In that context, maybe we should review other assumptions or worries related to tax rates.
What's wrong with being a know-it-all?
Said extension is basically this:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/password-alert/noo...
Asking questions about things that could be easily Googled.
Has anyone had any chat-based experience that anything more than a complete waste of time recently? (Amazon being the usual, consistent exception.)

I contact support when something is broken. There is a critical bug, or there is something down, or there is a physical defect. Every single time, it's just me getting jerked around, often times for an hour or more.

Just in the last week: an hour with Google Support with them insisting that I factory reset my phone for a hardware failure (hours of work to re-setup), or my ISP insisting that the "limits are set in the lines" and that a technician would have to come out to inspect their own modem so that they can determine why I'm being throttled to 10% of my paid speed, rather than 90% which is what I'm apparently entitled to. I hate that I have to get pushy/mean and insist that, Google, either send me a replacement or start processing a refund. I have no idea what to do with my ISP, they seem incompetent at every layer that I have any way to contact and they have a non-compete negotiated with their competition so I have no other options; their technician based had nothing to suggest and agreed with my conclusions.

I have also never had a chat experience where I didn't feel like I had to very carefully word my sentences to make myself understood, or where I wasn't waiting an exorbinant amount of time for the other side to read/reply. I can't fathom how peek-ahead would help any of these custom service experiences.
Doppler time-of-flight imaging
I what world is making medium large project in Jacasript less complex then in typescript? Where are the companies with 100% test coverage?
That's a good question. This was through the eyes of a 13 year old.

On the general side: I'd say the German approach for kids (2-12) is "super strict on the basics, then have at it." So you are very strict that they must stand behind the yellow line, don't interrupt grown ups, behave yourself at the table, etc, but once you have the core down there are few restrictions (this changes as you grow up...I like to joke that Ordnung is the German state religion). So he was used to unsafe playgrounds, coming home late from just exploring the U-bahn with his friends (all ignoring texts from parents) etc. He compared that to American kids who seemed to always being told not to do things without having a set of basics to make their own decisions. He had one Palo Alto classmate who was grounded if he wasn't home 15 minutes after school let out!

An example: in grade six he and his friends found a bottle of vodka in the schoolyard (urban school). As any 12 year olds would, they took one of their gym sneakers, filled it with vodka, and set it on fire. The maths teacher passed by and said "boys, school starts in a few minutes; don't be late" and kept going. He told me he'd be expelled from his US school if he had matches or a lighter. In Germany that didn't even rate a letter home from the school.

He also complained that grownups were always involved. Schools have police officers in them, scouts have parents involved, etc. Kids don't get to run things and screw them up like they do in Germany. I went to a Christmas service in a church where the kids wrote and put on a Christmas play -- apparently Noah brought the animals, 2x2, to see the newborn. I am not christian but I'm pretty sure that isn't doctrine -- but everyone seemed to like it.

He found the US school routine quite rigid with little time for exploration of the material but instead memorization. If anything the US seemed more like the asian schooling my mother went through, or perhaps the prewar Prussian system. I know the US kindergarteners are told to learn the alphabet while the German one was mainly focused on getting along and learning, by the end of the year, to keep your clothes on all day. They left the alhpabet (in two languages!) to the first grade.

HTH
With rising sea levels in the future i suggest we rather look into personal submarines and underwater buildings.
To add to what @neuralRiot, the mistake in your thinking is that you're imagining AI as your assistant. But it won't necessarily be your assistant, since you don't actually own it and especially if you're not paying money, you're not the customer.

To give an example, imagine if Google Maps took you on an alternative route, not because you'd arrive faster, but because on that route there are ads you need to watch, or because GMaps wants to free the road for some high profile travelers and you're just getting in the way.

Waze is already serving commercials while you're driving. And given the weird routes it has taken me on, I now have no idea if Waze's algorithm chooses certain routes because it would be faster, or because it wants me to watch ads, or because it wants to take me off the main road to clear it for others.

Companies are already doing evil shit with real consequences. Facebook for example did experiments on manipulating people's feelings. Target figured out a girl is pregnant before her father. Plenty of other examples. It's just that people aren't paying attention.
The glasses industry is so structurally bundled and unsound that a disruptor like Warby Parker was able to come in and build a billion dollar business in a matter of years.

Hearing aids are similar as mentioned on the thread.

Wondering what other industries have these structurally integrated industries where a disruptor could deliver a tremendous amount of value with insider Knowledge or reintegrating a supply chain. I believe an original Warby team member worked in the eyewear industry.

I have a feeling things like Car Dealerships are next. You fundamentally have to be able to drive massive value to consumers by making a one time purchase expneisve good cheaper with an innovative business model.
The way I read it:

A guy who made money by selling user data lobbied to pass a law that lets him get access to even more data to sell.

If you make money off something, you want more of that "something" :)
Python doesn't have the typing support or even availability of many types. Calling Julia from Python in some cases would require something like cython or require even using the C api ahem.
PEAR PHP Compromised – Possible Backdoor Going Back 6 Months
ThinkPad X1 Extreme (15.6") is light and powerful for its size. (Small bezels)
I was worried that I'd have buyer's remorse reading this article, but I don't.
It supports up to 64GB RAM, 2x Thunderbolt (with PD), 2x USB A 3.1.
Fast charging.
Bluetooth 5.
4K touch w/ wacom pen support.
Infrared camera.
Folds flat.
Mouse nub.
Sweet, sweet ThinkPad keys.
Look for discounts through your work.

I should add:

DDR4 RAM
and
TWO (2) m.2 NVMe/PCIe slots!
I think you'll find that religious wars are more vicious than empire building.
Credit to @vascorsd@mastodon.social for the original post: https://mastodon.social/@vascorsd/101468022014069460
> It’s not too hard for a physics student who already writes R code to learn web development from a MOOC in order to get an entry position at a startup.

As someone who did this, it was very hard to do and took a great deal of both hard work and luck. I’m surprised that it’s dismissed in a single sentence.
new CAP theorem? PUR? RUP?
Wow, this is really good. I hadn't thought of some of these things and he exposes some points that should have been obvious to me. For example: You aren't guaranteed to be able to maximize two functions at the same time.
iMessage decryption keys on servers controlled by the Chinese government went ahead just fine.

Values are useful, but not as useful as an attractive stock-price.
I don't know of many people in the tech community "rushing to Google's defense" over the phoning-home features in ChromeOS. School administrators have always wanted devices that track what students do on them, and ChromeOS gives them exactly that - similarly for organizations which rely on Google's enterprise services. But aside from these cases, who actually uses Chromebooks? Especially in the "tech community"?
I have a friend who used to load up shopping carts with cases of beer and then slowly roll out of Walmart back when he was underage. They're not legally allowed to stop him and corporate policy is to avoid chasing down thefts. Do with this information what you will.
It is only used by a tiny minority of people even in the US.
Which is why we need regulation forcing you to do it
Agree. To me the greatest application will be intranet apps and mobile web apps.
Dubai's growth has been and continues to be mind-bogglingly fast. San Francisco and Vancouver saw their population grew by about 20% each since 2000. Dubai grew by over 150%. Current growth rates are about 5% year-on-year.

You can plan all you want, but it's hard for planning to keep up with Dubai.
Secrets Restaurants Don’t Want You to Know
> In fact, if you're using ZIP archives in your application, don't use ZIP's AES at all; encrypt yourself with a modern mode. ZIP AES isn't meaningfully authenticated.

It sounds like you are conflating the zip file format with the 7z file format (both of which can be created by 7zip, the program). The plaintext attack discussed in the tweets was for zip files created by 7zip, while most of the blog post was about 7z files. (Edit: are you suggesting that there is the same security issue in both? Because that was unclear from both your comment and the blog post, given that neither explicitly says so but, presumably, 7z format and zip format are quite different).

I think a lot of techies (I really mean "me") would already suspect that zip format could be problematic, even with AES encryption. But the same techies (me again) would reasonably expect 7z with AES to be safe so long as you have a sufficiently strong password, since it was created a lot later than zip with encryption designed in from the start. I still don't really understand if the issue in the blog post is really a problem for me (sharing files through one channel while sending passwords through another channel).
Sure, there's wide open tracts in North Dakota if that's your thing.
The link says:

> This relies on the theory that startups goal is to grow a 100 times or die — so small continuous extractions by the executives are ruled out.

I interpret it as following: if the regular company earns $1 million/year, then an executive stealing $500k/year by making deals with friends will make investor's return much smaller. But in a startup, it does not matter -- if the it fails, it would simply fail slightly earlier. And if it succeeds, then it would earn $100 million/year, and $500k/year that executive steals will be a small, insignificant change.

(I am not personally convinced this is true, but this is how I interpreted that article)
Understanding the basics of queueing theory means that you will be eternally frustrated in most US grocery store checkout lines. And you may be kicked out for screaming "Basically zero-cost queue synchronization and heavily variable server time means a global queue is better!"
The differences should be the different GPU (Quadro vs GTX) and that you can order the Precision 5530 with an intel wifi chip and Xeon CPUs. The actual build quality for both should be very similar considering its the same chassis.
That would be weird, good thing you are not required to get examined in order to buy glasses. I don't know why you think you are required.
We don't know IF Facebook is under sampling conservative publications. It depends on the goal of the algorithm. If the goal is accuracy, as a group recent conservative publications have a sorted history when it comes to truth and accuracy. Conservative news outlets also have a weird bias against science and like to push conspiracy theories with no basis behind them. Naturally if your algorithm is focused on how accurate the news is as a condition for landing in someone's news feed, conservative publications would be at a disadvantage compared to other news sources. It could also be that fringe conservatism is not popular with the majority of society.
I have the XPS13 running at 3200x1800 in macOS - it's absolutely gorgeous.
Bad personal hygiene.

Toxic attitude, especially if they try to infect me with it.

Too loud/talkative. If I'm in a cube farm next to you, and you're loud enough to interrupt my concentration, and it happens all the time, I'm not going to be able to be very productive.

On the other hand, too little communication is also a problem. If I need information from a coworker, they need to be forthcoming with that information, in a reasonably timely fashion, in a reasonably clear way.
Yep, there are a lot of ways you can do it. The point is, what are the chances my accountant is going to have GnuPG already installed on their laptop versus MS Word?
Stream-Ripper FLVTO.biz Firmly Defeats the RIAA in U.S. Federal Court
You need to sign in to a Google account to configure one, though. I think that's OPs hangup.
Note on contacts: because you're physically inserting a medical device into your eye, part of your annual exam is making sure that you are not causing any (potentially permanent) damage do your eye. While hopefully you are not abusing your contacts, even in normal use, sometimes the eyes can be harmed, which can cause major problems down the road for you. In my opinion, the expiration is probably a good thing if you're proponent of trying to protect people's eye health.
Riding that far isn't a problem. But I grew up in a similar neighborhood and at that time our neighborhood was full of kids. There were so many kids on my street that there wasn't really any reason to go to the next street, much less a mile away.
Are they also the reason why optometrists insist that it's an inborn effect, despite all the research pointing towards an environmental cause?
Just curious, Which support tier you are using from GCP?

For an early stage startup/Indie developer, GCP support model is not appeasing.
$100 Per user for development role is unacceptable. (at least to us, the stage where we are now)
Apple has perfected the art of non-functioning buttons in iOS. Happens all the time in Apple Maps on my iPhone.
Best laptop keyboard I ever used was on a Compaq SLT/386 I owned. Keyboard could be detached from the laptop (ok, today it would be considered a "luggable", but back then, it was a nice machine), and it had a coiled cord that plugged into the computer underneath where the keyboard sat.

You could unplug it from the computer (it was a mini-din PS/2 style plug). The keyboard itself wasn't mechanical (not a buckling spring or similar system), but it did have full-travel keys and a nice feel for typing on.

I got mine used and had to build a custom battery pack from old cell phone batteries, which made me have to remove 2 meg of RAM (to fit the larger custom battery pack), leaving me with 6 meg instead of 8. I had Caldera OpenDOS installed on it:

http://www.deltasoft.com/opendos.htm

http://esca.atomki.hu/paradise/dos/opendos-en.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DR-DOS

...with Monkey Linux installed on top of that (Monkey is a distro that used DOS for the underlying file system - you could even share data easily):

http://projectdevolve.tripod.com/ (downloads don't work)

http://www.ipt.ntnu.no/~knutb/linux486/download/monkey/monke...

I'm honestly not sure where or if you can still get a copy of that distro - I should look into it; maybe I should host my copy somewhere...
Amazon debuts its adorable delivery robot called Scout
I think you may well be wrong. Safari supports wasm. Here is an example for everyone who is reading this from an iOS device. https://suy.io/geopattern/

Sooo, unity webgl may not work on iOS but that doesn’t mean wasm itself doesn’t work.
Okta's position in this article is missing the bootstrapping problem.

Yes, you don't want people rolling their own crypto libraries. But if nothing has been rolled yet for your environment by anyone? You need a standardized open protocol that you have at least a chance of rolling correct crypto against.

Closing that protocol up in a nice shiny (but exclusively-owned-and-maintained) box does you no good if the box can't be bent to fit your use case.
Detection and tracking of moving objects hidden from view [pdf]
The argument you are constructing is that we should invest more money in classroom computers not less in developers.
I think customer support people who have foreign names get their names changed to more local sounding names while doing support because it makes customers feel better.
I grew up with no kids my age around (farming countryside in europe).

I often wonder how much of my solitary/introverted personality is the result of my environment.