skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with the complaints. Netflix UI is terrible, but it's the least terrible of any of the streaming services I've tried. Hulu, Hulu+, hbo, and amazon prime aren't nearly as nice, at least for me.

If looking for something to connect to a TV, I recommend a roku. They are the Switzerland of streaming, wife/kid friendly UI, and don't compete. The rest of the streaming world is pretty conflicted. Sony/Microsoft, Apple vs world, Netflix vs world, etc. Not only are there more channels for roku than anything else I've seen, the implementation of the client seems noticeably better. In particular the netflix UI on various other platforms like various smart TVs is pretty terrible.
remember the famous "why would one ever need dropbox?", meanwhile my mom has trouble figuring out importing contacts in her Galaxy S8.
If you're dealing with something intensive then upgrading makes a lot of sense. If you've got large compilation times in your pipeline or if you're doing machine learning and need to throw loads of hardware at a problem I totally get that. I'm sure there are plenty of other situations that justify this too.

But if you're like me where most of that happens off on the build machines there is very little impact in upgrading your hardware.

A 50% improvement on compute workloads probably wouldn't be noticeable on the setup I run. Outside of compiling I don't think I push a single core much above 30%.

I guess it really comes down to what you're doing.
Even if they were fired, another company would pick them up.

The news industry reminds me of the catholic church with the news companies acting like the catholic dioceses. Instead of banishing "bad journalists", the news industry just shifts them from company to company like the catholic church moves around "bad priests" from diocese to diocese. It still amazes me that any "news" company would hire Leopold after his previous gaffs. I guess as long as they keep to the "faith", nothing can't be forgiven and they'll always have a job in the industry.
Well, as a non-vegetarian, I really like the Impossible Burger, and definitely prefer it to any of the mass-market veggie burgers that are out there like GardenBurger® and friends.

I've had from-scratch veggie burgers that I like at least as much, and there are certainly bigger brand names that I still like (Morningstar's black bean patty, IIRC, is one I really enjoyed). But the Impossible Burger isn't just going for "meat texture," it's going for meat flavor, and it's really a kind of different experience/target. So it's more of a "what am I in the mood for" thing than anything else.
So in your opinion Facebook is a benefit to humanity also? Which conflicts with nearly every study of it ever done?
> And no, “unnamed sources” aren’t corroboration.

Yes, they are. Unnamed sources have brought down institutions ranging from the Nixon administration to the Boston archdiocese.
Buzzfeed is fake news.
That doesn’t change BuzzFeed. Facebook has some brilliant and decent people working there too.
That seems interesting. Do you have any links explaining the situation?
Azure Devops is something I want to love.

The UI keeps changing, but doesn't fix underlying bugs that have been around for ages.

Multiple issues where the builds don't actually update in the browser when they go through the steps (f5 only fixes), the builds show out of order in the UI, and many many other wonky things.

Also releases aren't YAML yet. Builds are, and are a good feature.

Azure Devops is almost perfect, and with a bit of TLC would be excellent.
Yeah that's the problem. 2x is too big and 1x is too small on 3200x1800. Luckily there's a workaround to scale text to 1.5x which for most purposes is fine.
This is terrible news for journalists and others affected by this action.

I sincerely hope BuzzFeed News lives on and the rest of the business model of repackaging content found on social media and reddit goes into the dustbin.

They made a business of posting photos/jokes/memes without attribution and burned a lot of bridges. This is saying nothing about the quality of listicles and other content.
As much as I detested the non-news part, I'm sure it was a click draw.

I'm not optimistic of BuzzFeed News continuing without the rest of the garbage on buzzfeed.com.
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They are a serious journalism organisation so you can assume that they did have multiple sources (which they stated they did). And yes unnamed sources are corroboration just as they have been during every major news story that has ever broken.

And pretty sure journalism started to become a tribal force about 20 years ago when Fox News launched. It is the same approach Murdoch took with papers in the UK and here in Australia.
My comment is about ai. It is about how people perceive ai, and sci-fi is a very good demonstration of how incorrect human intuition can be when it comes to ai. This incorrectness is present not only in stories about ai, but policy and opinions regarding the very real and dangerous developments that are taking place. Developments such as the one that this thread regards.

It is therefore only through deep, contemplative and unintuitive ruminations that one can come to understand that AI is going to end human society as we know it, and that the result will be very unpleasant. This is not a guess, it is the truth. People have a huge amount of difficulty seeing this. I thought the example of halo and Cortana would make it easier for people to understand. I could have written it better but why bother? Nobody ever seems to get it.
But only if all the players are rational. :)
What does that mean? You would fire anyone who opens up Finder ever? As opposed to what? Doing everything from the command line? This sounds ridiculous without clarification.
Every time (n = ~20) I've told a new person about a well researched BuzzfeedNews article, I got essentially laughed at.
Oh man, you grossly underestimate what we pay for taxes in CA. You forgot FICA (4.4% effective) and State tax (8.28% effective) for a total tax burden of $114,536. That leaves $185k of cash to spend or save, $89k after rent, $77k after a meager 4% 401k contribution.

Everything is more expensive. Insurance is more expensive. Gas is more expensive. Movies, ubers, doctors, groceries, sales tax, you name it.

While that leftover $77k isn't exactly hand-to-mouth poor by any stretch, compare it to some other state -- what is a fairly decent middle-class family wage in the Valley is a truly bonkers amount of money almost anywhere else in the US (or world, probably)
This is being downvoted (as well as your own comment) is because american culture war between red and blue tribes continues unabated, and Buzzfeed, to quote FDR himself, "may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch". And it sucks to lose someone on your side.
My $3,000 hearing aid (which has allowed me to hear better than I ever have before and is worth every dollar) has, for example, 2 microphones, 4 switchable DSP programs to match different sound environments, telecoil (essential in my work), a level of water resistance (sweat and dirt is the primary killer of my hearing aids, worn 18 hours a day), and with an external receiver I can directly receive bluetooth and external microphones.
And rightly so
Is that process and operational knowledge so useful to society that it's worth that big money though? It does not transfer to other, more useful projects so easily. Compare launching LHC with something like launching ITER or solving environmental problems. Much more useful projects, but the LHC process and operational knowledge value there is minimal. It is not clear to me we need to sustain CERN on life support just because they got good at building big particle accelerators. Times change, priorities shift.
Fair points in regards to my response. However, I believe part of your argument is still predicated on endless resources. Agreed, there are vast many (ever-shrinking) resources we can use while the population is growing, however at some point we will reach an equilibrium where there is no more vacant land and the creation of new wealth (barring space exploration, at least for this argument) will cease.

In regards to your watchmaker: a pile of gears might be marginally useful to a few, but a working watch will be valuable to many. Has the watch created wealth? No, because the people who were not buying watches are now not buying something else in order to buy the watch. The creation of the watch did not add the dollar-value of exactly one watch to everyone's wealth, allowing them to spend money on the watch. The wealth was diverted! The creation and selling of the watch certainly did create societal value but it did not create wealth, it merely diverted wealth from some other purchase each watch-buying customer would have made and sent it to the watchmaker.

My point is that the overwhelming majority of transactions are diversions, not creations, of wealth.

To your very original point: "You seem to believe there's a fixed pile of money in the world that every human competes for"

I suppose my argument should be changed to: Perhaps amount of wealth is not currently fixed (as defined by the shrinking number of resources one could use to create wealth), but those who create wealth (and not just merely divert it) are generally already very wealthy and are generally the only ones who have the means to create this wealth due to extremely high barriers to entry.

So, I would say theoretically, you're correct: there is a growing pool of wealth. But practically, any normal, everyday person cannot go around creating new wealth...they can only hope it is diverted to them by someone who already has wealth.
Or any support person for that matter. What baffles me is people who think having a terrible attitude can get them what they want. The support person either has lee-way or not, and if they do, they probably will be less likely to help you if you're an asshole.
I’d disagree here. 75% of Americans will be overweight in a few years. These people aren’t healthy by any means. The trend is not reversing. So a large chunk of these people will get diabetes and other weight related issues.
They're also warning of quickly re-written stories with sensationalistic spin, shady off-shore content farms, algorithmically generated content, and pirated videos.

Funnily enough that's exactly their business model.
I noticed that Amazon prime often only claims season one is included in amazon prime. Last thing I want to do is get hooked on a series that I have to pay for. Classic bait and switch... no thanks.
Someone was asking about glass lenses. They are now mostly a premium product, not many online suppliers.

https://www.2020mag.com/article/a-dawn-for-glass-lenses

https://www.eyeglasses.com/prescription-lenses/glass/

http://www.lensfactory.com/glass-lenses/
It seems like a shallow and obvious one to me

That's really unfortunate.

I could go on quite a bit about how, as a man of color, it gets fatiguing having certain conversations or trying to express certain points of view in these types of socio-political debates lately (to my dismay sometimes right here on HN-a forum that holds itself to a certain standard of debate but seems quite eager to throw it out, convenience permitting), but looking around at a lot of other comments in this very thread that seem to run contrary to whatever personally defined "truths" are out there, it'd probably just get downvoted and flagged as well.

I'll just leave it like this, if it seems "shallow", to you-dang-then probably it's time for some deep personal introspection because like gdy, I think shadowbained's point isn't wrong and I don't fault him for the fatigue that's probably in his soul which results in a delivery style that doesn't fit a mold of pretend decorum. A mold manifested and curated by political-egotists, IMO.
(This last point made as broadly as possible)
Influencers on any social platform rate highly on the disgusting meter as well. Even more so after recently watching the Fyre documentaries.
I can echo what the author of the blog says, save for private build instances, we haven’t had issues with them.
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If the drivers are rational then going at the average speed works best.

But in real life people would cut you off making you slam the breaks and making the problem worse.
Wasn't Pulitzer the creator of yellow journalism?

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

Frankly, the pulizter, oscar or any of these prizes are meaningless to me since it is apparent that they are part advertisements and part agenda pushing and any objective measure of achievement. But everyone is entitled to their own opinion.
I have a place right next to the factory road outlet for about 3 years and have been counting output.

Since then I've also worked at an office park nearby where Tesla booked up the empty park next to us to use for holding staging. That's where they're starting to put the vehicles now.
> Considering how private most Americans treat salary information

That's what #talkpay tried to break. And to show I am not just talking, I tweeted mine years ago at https://twitter.com/chx/status/594598659150389248
I would pay $3 for renting a single movie, but not for a show episode because that would build up too fast. 10 episodes per season and that’s already $30 for one show.
While it sounds like an awesome project, it's the kind of thing I would have liked to have seen years ago. Nowadays I use Plex, and really don't bother with using a chromecast since my TV supports plex directly.
InfluxDB creator here, happy to answer questions and add more commentary here!
Actually, you need to be able to try them on to ensure that you get your OC (optical center) correct.

This isn't a problem for people with relatively low prescriptions, but the stronger your prescription, the more important it is to get this right.

Some online stores will try to get it from a photo, but your OC actually changes by how/where you wear your glasses along the bridge of your nose, and that in turn changes with the frame you wear.

So if you've got a low prescription, why not just go to the local pharmacy? They sell prescriptions as strong as +/- 3.5 over the counter for $15.
> legally enforced

No, keep the Government out of this.
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There is a famous US company that has been making frames and lenses for decades. They are still around, offering classic models in a variety of custom sizes. They will insert any lens you need, even glass. Think of them as a time machine. They have their own lab.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browline_glasses

> Browline glasses were invented in 1947 by Jack Rohrbach, then vice-president of Shuron Ltd., an eyeglass company. The first browlines – sold under the "Ronsir" model name – were made out of interchangeable bridges, eyewires, and "brows," allowing wearers to completely customize the size, fit, and color of their glasses. At the time, most frame manufacturers offered a limited number of colors and sizes, making browlines a unique means of customizing one's personal appearance. The style quickly caught on in popularity amongst eyeglass wearers, resulting in numerous other companies releasing their own browline frames.

http://shuron.com

Today, few frame manufacturers offer the same style in multiple sizes. Virtually none allow you to mix and match temple length, frame width, bridge, etc.
Put it all toward life extension and physicists can spend hundreds of years deeply researching these problems instead of having to start from scratch every generation only to get only 20-40 years of useful working life per individual.
In this specific case the person didn't know she was underpaid. Once she found out she pointed it out and got more money. She wasn't dependent on sponsorship.
As far as I remember most apps (most prominent exception being YouTube) don't support that version of Chromecast anymore.
How are you getting data from DynamoDB to S3 so Athena can read it?
There are other non-Luxottica options in the US. Warby Parker, Bailey Nelson, and Ollie Quinn to name a few. Almost everyone sells Essilor frames though but not quite everyone is owned by the eyewear conglomerate. At least with Bailey you can get some quality frames for a decent price.
You can criticize BuzzFeed News, but you should at least look at BuzzFeed News' actual homepage, and not their sister site, when doing so:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/
I downvoted it because attacking unnamed sources makes no sense as it is the foundation of modern day journalism. Not everyone is willing to go on the record.

It has nothing to do with tribalism or left/right politics. And everything to do with defending journalism in all its forms.
It's actually quite mainstream in some places in the world -- not only places that have been that way for a long time like large parts of India, but a large fraction of college students in Germany are vegetarian or vegan.
Stick to firefox, for this simple reaseon.
I've never heard of a publisher imposing a restriction that certain repositories only host papers from a certain field. (Presumably by refusing to publish papers posted to such a repository?) Can you please link to an example?
Alternatively you could watch them and learn some new tricks.
Addressing the debate this thread seems to have spawned, a practical attack on predictable CBC IVs is described here:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3008139/why-is-using-a-n...

Therefore in a strict sense, this is "broken". However, the "I zipped a file and it to someone" scenario is not one in which the above attack is practical.
Anyone who ever filed for green card will confirm that an immigration attorney charges a few thousands for the green card process, not more. The cost to a large company, who has one on retainer anyway for H1-B, is obviously less. Something tells me that foreign employees were underpaid much more than the cost of the green card.

For the employee the situation looks more like this: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/09/08/visa/
This is the first time I seriously read the paper and the code. Does this mean for ODE net, we are sharing weights for f? (even though we evaluate f at different y and t points)?

If that is the case, seems you can implement a full static version of ODE net with tf.While.
If the most prestigious award in journalism doesn't count for anything, you could always read up on how they formed their investigative arm (which includes links to some pretty solid journalism): https://www.poynter.org/tech-tools/2016/how-buzzfeed-built-a...

Or you can just go "nuh uh". ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> not quite middle America.

What's wrong with middle America?
Trump is most definitely not a big boy, and has spent his last 40-50 years in the public eye showing again and again and again that he most definitely cannot take it. If ever anyone were the poster child for the correlation between narcissism and thin skin, it's him. You don't have to take my word for it, it's not like it hasn't been there on full display for all to see for decades. If you've read anything that presents him as any sort of strong, effective, decisive, or even coherent leader, then that's the yellow journalism you're so worried about, and you should be very very worried about it indeed.
It's being downvoted (along with your comment) because not only is it explicitly against HN guidelines but it's also heavily mischaracterizing journalism and how it's performed. Criticize Buzzfeed all you want, but protecting sources from political retribution is a core foundation of proper journalism and many unnamed sources have taken down large groups and institutions.
> A ganglion is likely not due to keyboard use or similar stress, but simply a small tear in the sheath.

The small tear in the sheath is, effectively, the ganglion. (A ganglion cyst, for others reading this, is a tear in a tendon through which joint fluid exits, when it should not. The fluid is in a pouch, so it doesn't go anywhere, but the pouch being pushed through the tear by the fluid causes a bulge wherever this is on your body.) To say that's the cause is like saying the cause of a laceration is that the skin is broken. It's true, but it's not particularly enlightening. The question is what causes that tear to arise in the first place, and trauma and repeated strain are theories (though it seems medical science does not actually know the root cause of ganglions). So, it could be coincidence, but I was already having general wrist pain and numbness, and managing my keyboard use better solved both.

> FWIW my mum (a GP) used to just whack them with a book.

My research brought me across this home "remedy" very quickly. Modern medical science does not recommend this. (Mostly due to the risk of causing other injury to the area.)
The progress is well defined. Both academic and industrial deep learning groups aggressively define challenge tasks in vision, NLP, relational learning and more, then document progress on them. There is even an unprecedented release of code and datasets to let others replicate and extend work.

Detractions like your "so much nonsense out there" pick straw man goalposts - whether it's AGI (whatever that really means) or "the craziest thing I heard from IBM marketing". The fact that some people are talking about crazy milestones doesn't mean that there aren't real ones being met.
Because freedom is slavery. And we thought that 1984 was fiction, but in fact it's accurate prophecy.
See these multiple independent MIT research results (which happen to be mentioned in an Atlantic article linked to by another commenter):

http://people.csail.mit.edu/klbouman/cornercameras.html
http://web.media.mit.edu/~raskar/trillionfps/
http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_cvpr_2018/papers/Barada...
http://people.csail.mit.edu/torralba/research/accidentalcame...
It's not, it's a nationwide thing enforced by the FTC. WA and some other states have stricter laws which include pupillary distance.

https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/com...
This thread isn't about businesses in general, it's about tech businesses. Most of those businesses are in commodity markets like restaurants, hair salons, auto body shops, professional services, and other local businesses. There are geographic barriers to entry for one company taking over the whole market in those industries (not that that necessarily stops them - witness McDonalds and Wal-Mart). There are no such barriers to entry on the Internet. The Internet is new, which means that a number of niches sprung up in the last few years. Most people I know who've capitalized on them make a good living for about 5 years and then find that customers dry up as the industry matures, the next technology platform arrives, and the industry leaders eat up all the rest.
Without the data, I have a hard time believing this. Especially since I had to explain the concept.

Even if that were the case, you're still left with a small set of conclusions about race and its correlation to FICO score.
1) Non-white people are worse at maintaining credit scores because of something inherent to the condition of non-whiteness. This conclusion quickly points in the direction of racist psuedo-science.
2) Social and economic forces do not act equally on people of different skin colors. This is easily proven true by the example discussed by AOC and ta'nehisi coates of people of color being explicitly excluded from provisions the New Deal, an issue that has compounded the inequality between people of different racial backgrounds. This is directly applicable to FICO scores as white people are more often able to access generational wealth to pay of debts and avoid low credit scores whereas people of color are not.

Sooo, in the case of FICO, even if the score doesn't contain subtle proxies for race which I doubt, it is still predicated preserving a system that contains intense racial bias.
Many busy supermarkets in SF default to a single line. Trader Joe’s on Market, and Whole Foods on 4th do this. I’ve also seen it at Whole Foods in Manhattan, with reader boards to tell you which check out to go to. Works great!