skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is the plight of rational actors to optimize their position. The government should be focused on making sure that those companies are properly paying for public resources that they use. If they are not, the laws should be changed to make sure that they are. However, the more complicated laws and government get, the easier it is to find loopholes. Anyways, my point is that the billionaires are doing just as any of us do--they just have more tools at their disposal because of the scale of large companies and the complication of the world.
Why do you say that? Is there some evidence?
Edit: I see. One of the advisory board is the former director of the NSA.

They also have a political analyst for NBC on their board. So I'm sure they are objective about NBC.

https://www.newsguardtech.com/our-advisory-board/
Nitpick: FoundationDB is sequentially (strongly) consistent, not eventually consistent.
Two in five tech job applicants don't have the right tech chops, survey finds
Reminder, if you're in the US, the FTC says your eye doctor must give you your prescription after your exam. If a doctor refuses to do so, they can face legal action and penalties.

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/2016/05/buying-prescriptio...

That said, I don't think the FTC stipulates what information must appear on the prescription. Many docs leave off your PD (pupillary distance), which is a necessary measurement if you're buying online. Fortunately, there are a variety of easy ways to take this measurement yourself after the exam, although if you're really concerned about precision, you'll want the doctor's measurement.

And by the way, it should go without saying, but I'll say it anyway. Although the quality of eyewear available online can be comparable to what you'd get in store ... please don't think an online eye exam is an acceptable substitute for visiting an ophthalmologist in person and getting a comprehensive eye exam!
New PrestoDB GitHub home
There's even more coming in the same category for urban transportation:

Bell is building their Nexus.

https://www.bellflight.com/company/innovation/nexus
The first startup I was at was acquired by Idera. They started by trying to replace everyone in the dev team with remote contractors. I cashed out and left as soon as possible.
Why does it matter whether or not a tech company is known by people outside the tech scene?
Fascinating! Such a great demonstration of Julia's strength. I wish more academic papers are written in this fashion or include a tutorial-like/reproducible post like this.
What does the $144 Froalo offer that open source alternatives don't? Serious question. The Froalo site is not convincing at all.
Iconic Super Bowl ad 35 years ago sparked Apple's rise to a $1T company
It would also be nice to not need a prescription for contact lenses in the United States.
No need to feel bad, it's a great product! I've been using Azure DevOps for a while now, and it's what I use for anything not OSS (I prefer GitHub for that, and TBH it's what others expect)
> no-one should ever try and create Unity from scratch

Some game developers do write their game engines from scratch. I know of at least one successful example: Jonathan Blow, with Braid (2D engine) and The Witness (3D engine). Note that in both games, a generic engine wouldn't have worked, or at least would have required such an amount of customisation that it's not clear it would have cost less, or looked and felt as good. Sure, don't go rebuild a generic engine from scratch. But a custom one, tailored to a very specific use case? That's not such an obvious no-no.

Another example would be Monocypher¹, my crypto library. Why would I write such a thing when we already have Libsodium? The reason is, I saw that I could do better for my use case: an opinionated, easy to use, portable package. The result is massively simpler than Libsodium. I don't care that I cannot compete with the support and effort of Libsodium team. I made sure I didn't need to.

[1]: https://monocypher.org/
Jins (Japanese company) in SF makes glasses on site in 30 minutes for < $100.

https://www.yelp.com/biz/jins-san-francisco-3

Also, this story seems a few years behind given the rise of Warby Parker to address this very problem. If the person who felt compelled to spend $800 because they actually did not think they had any other option then they are living under a rock and/or being scammed by their optometrist.
Meizu made a smartphone without any ports
Because most app users will demand bank integration so they don't have to enter anything in manually.

There are a few providers out there that have unified APIs like Plaid, Yodlee, and my favorite, MX [1]. These providers become very expensive with growth, and the app creator would lose money very quickly if not for the cost that is alleviated by the user of the app.

It's the only way to compete with the larger apps like Mint without having a boatload of money to spend (like Intuit).

[1] https://data.mx.com/products/api
Seems to have generated some confusion in their Slack channels as the original FaceBook repos still are in place: https://github.com/prestodb
Launching Gitgrep.com – Hosted search for all your Git repos
70% of tech startups (or even more) fail on themselves and not just because they took VC money. It's just a risky asset class and people should understand that. And the most of them would be impossible to properly launch without significant initial investments as most of the time the idea is to reach near zero marginal costs and scale by investing a lot in your tech/community.
Behold, a smartphone devoid of buttons and ports
If I recall there is an ATM in Alexanderplatz station that accepts foreign debit cards (used a Canadian card) and also a currency exchange business. You should always bring some local currency with you if you travel internationally. Your bank will likely get you a better exchange rate than the money changers at your destination.
Howto: Traefik with Docker and Let's Encrypt
While I generally agree with that - more ram is better. I was doing android os builds a few years ago for a wearable project and using the -j make arg reduced build time significantly.
For real. Compilers are lightning-fast compared to running even a subset of most test suites.
I've also, anecdotally, started seeing more Azure Pipelines badges on open source projects, too.
No, that was the preamble.
You understand where adults come from, right?
I'm not here to agree or disagree with the general premise of the article but "How am I supposed to move if I am penned in by a border wall?" makes 0 sense.

Is the author aware that airplanes exist? Or land ports of entry?
Hookworm, on the other hand isn't. Hookworm is attributable to a government (and its people) failing its people -- not disparate from Flint's water crisis. Basic sewage (septic in most cases) maintenance not being performed.

Unfortunately, the primary solution, condemning the buildings on these lands, could be seen as forcing people off of their land and hurting generational wealth growth -- even though for the underwater mortgage amounts and considering the land should be condemned -- and competing mortgages/rents to cities with sewer systems would be less...
Neither of those sentences is relevant to, or contradicts, what I said.
How long does it take to ship a pair?
Design Patterns for Managing Up
As I said, there are lots of other knees. For example, a slightly increased L1, L2 or L3 cache size can have a similar effect.
fwiw I completely understand! I have also regretted what seems to be an instinct or habit to go for that same perspective. I’m not sure I can explain in a way that makes sense.
Here's the original mention of that AI in a teamliquid forum thread started in 2011: https://www.teamliquid.net/forum/starcraft-2/210057-automato...

As far as I can tell, the AI must be cheating, at the very least to obtain map vision beyond what is available in a match. In order for the zerg AI to observe each tank's turret rotation and predict which zergling it's about to fire on, zerglings have a sight radius of 8, smaller than the tank's 11. In a fair match, the zerglings would be fired on before getting a chance to see the tanks. Even as the group of zerglings gets close enough to see the first tanks, other tanks start firing from beyond the zerglings' vision, so I'm not convinced this AI could pull this off in an actual match.
‘Doomba’ turns your Roomba’s cleaning maps into Doom levels
Could be better, could have been worse.
My laptop at home is a Dell Latitude E6450 (I think that's the one); it's the last one where they had a real keyboard and not that stupid island shit, and it also has a trackpoint and a normal trackpad with actual buttons. After that generation, they finally jumped on the stupid mushy island key bandwagon, so I don't know how to upgrade from this machine. I had one of the newer Latitudes at my last job and it was nearly unusable because of that shitty keyboard. Honestly, WTF is wrong with everyone these days?

Luckily, this laptop can play x265 1080p video just fine and has 16GB of memory, but 4k is a no-go.
5 Reasons to Use Swift
Thanks so much for this
Fyre_isDead, Those who got scam can turn a bad thing into a good thing
Note that most accelerated implementations of BLAS are not written in Fortran, but use e.g. SIMD instructions directly.

See also: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1303182/how-does-blas-ge...
You want to know what's outrageously expensive, yet equally important for basic ability to function in the workplace and other situations? Hearing aids. Hearing aids are glasses for your ears. But compared to them, glasses are unbelievably dirt cheap, and basically fully covered by a lot of decent company insurance plans. Hearing aids? Not the case.

Imagine if glasses cost $2-3000 per lens. PER LENS. And your company insurance offered to cover some of it, but limited you to ONE PAIR IN YOUR LIFETIME. That's the policy of my Fortune 50 employer believe it or not.
More in depth article: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/may/10/the-invisible-p...
Found this reply to the wikileaks twitter post*

"So let's educate people that the green tick means fake news and red means trustworthy"

This is what we're dealing with folks - people who push conspiracy theories to the detriment of society. It makes sense coming from the wikileaks crowd but it's infecting the entire culture.

See also those that oppose/reject the Polio vaccine.

*https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1084876278065446913
This makes a lot of sense and definitely applies to more than just OxyContin. I am currently experiencing this with Vyvanse. Luckily, it's way easier to reverse compared to opioids, but still pretty damn hard.
In US we do payroll. For other countries the employees are legally contractors, though still with equity and not treated any differently from anyone else on the team
The top 3 richest counties in America are actually surrounding Washington D.C. Money is extracted from everywhere else in the country via taxes and paid to people in that area.
Our Scala teams disagree.

I do mostly Go, and yeah, there it doesn't matter as much, but you should see some of the build times on these services. There isn't even a big scary monolith left in our architecture (besides a frontend in node).

Oh, and let me not forget minikube.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey: The Rolling Stone Interview – Rolling Stone
Boeing Autonomous Passenger Air Vehicle Completes First Flight
It's the lens price that kills me - how do they afford that part of it?
I’m a product manager on Azure Pipelines. Can you tell me more about what’s missing in the docs and language support to make it better. Email works as well jepling at microsoft dot com.
Yeah the cases have some striking similarity. There's generally two sources of error - bias, and noise. When you combine many measurements, only bias accumulates. Noisy errors in one state poll or one mortgage-based cash flow will be offset by noisy errors in another.

If you get surprised by a change from a low-bias regime to a high-bias one, your old assumptions will lead you to be overconfident in your model. For 538, this just meant publishing numbers that were way too confident. But in the financial context, overconfident modeling means you think you can use more leverage than you actually can.
it's only bad if you have symptoms, but a lot of people feel agitated/irritable even with a cup.

I get the opposite kind of symptom where my principal problem is I can't stop at one cup! have stabilized around 5-6 which is OK for my tolerance level... back when I drank a single cup daily between 7 and 8 am if you'd told me "15 years from now you're going to have frequent anxiety that you could stop if only you could keep yourself from the (free, delicious) coffee at work" I may have reconsidered though.
I've never used Papers, but have had colleagues that swear by it. However, it is not open source, so you still run the risk of the developers selling out just like Mendeley.
Under Android it's usually only one more press to "share" the media to something and that something can be a little helper app that talks to a Chromecast alternative (e.g. Kodi). So it is a worse user experience, but it's not totally dead.
Oracle allegedly underpaid $400M in wages to underrepresented employees
Pipes are a nice compromise perhaps. x |> foo(). You get the clear left-to-right flow and easy autocomplete.
It's an interesting line of inquiry to think about how many of these evaluation heuristics, which are all described as things a person can do manually, could instead be built into the package manager itself to do for you automatically.

The package manager could run the package's test suite, for instance, and warn you if the tests don't all pass, or make you jump through extra hoops to install a package that doesn't have any test coverage at all. The package manager could read the source code and tell you how idiomatically it was written. The package manager could try compiling from source with warnings on and let you know if any are thrown, and compare the compiled artifacts with the ones that ship with the package to ensure that they're identical. The package manager could check the project's commit history and warn you if you're installing a package that's no longer actively maintained. The package manager could check whether the package has a history of entries in the National Vulnerability Database. The package manager could learn what licenses you will and won't accept, and automatically filter out packages that don't fit your policies. And so on.

In other words, the problem right now is that package managers are undiscriminating. To them a package is a package is a package; the universe of packages is a flat plane where all packages are treated equally. But in reality all packages aren't equal. Some packages are good and others are bad, and it would be a great help to the user if the package manager could encourage discovery and reuse of the former while discouraging discovery and reuse of the latter. By taking away a little friction in some places and adding some in others, the package manager could make it easy to install good packages and hard to install bad ones.
Don't forget the tinfoil in your bunker.
No, it's locked down.
Neuropsychology of Motivation for Group Aggression and Mythology [pdf]
Show HN: HelloCecil – Video Interviews Made Simple
It's not just that, though. Fox uses one domain, foxnews.com, for all their stuff. So NewsGuard is putting the same happy checkmark above good articles (biased topic choice or not) and absolute nonsense from their TV shows which they repost online.
That doesn't help the situation much, even if it were true. If a phisher creates a fake Google domain, how many users will go, "Aha! I was about to login using my Google credentials, but then I remembered Google only asks users to login to *.google.com domains, so I know this is an attempted phish!"
5% yearly growth would be a doubling every 14 years, not every 10.
It makes no sense to copy the transportation systems of a 38m person city, when you're Boise, San Diego, Pittsburgh, Miami, etc. Other major cities like Dallas do not have the density to copy Tokyo such that it makes sense as a model and would be efficient.

The only thing the US should copy Japan on is long distance high-speed rail. The rest can be taken care of by electric buses + a lot of dedicated bus lanes, modest light rail investment and NY fixing its subway. The US doesn't actually need a radical makeover. A large expansion of dedicated bus lanes would fix 3/4 of the problem in nearly all US cities and would be very cost effective. Autonomous electric buses can provide a high volume solution that matches with the modest population size of most US cities.

Within 15-20 years the US is going to reach zero population growth (and the growth rate will be close to zero for much of that time). Shortly thereafter the US population will begin falling permanently. It doesn't need to explode its budgets building unnecessary transportation systems based on copying one of the world's most dense cities for absolutely no good reason.
Inspect URLs for Google Search Console Accounts You Don’t Have Access To
Inclusive ML guide – AutoML
No doubt discussion will turn to online optics (as it always does). The problem with online optics is the same as clothing: trying things on is important, and adjustments can only be done in person.

Last time we purchased Zenni Optical glasses we had issues, but none of which are Zenni's fault but rather inherent problems with buying glasses online.

The first issue was that the frames simply didn't look right/fit right/fall right even after using their photo preview to "try them on."

The second issue is that you're on your own for adjustments. What you'd typically do is at delivery have someone use a heat-gun and tugging to adjust how they sit. I had a heat gun, but was unable to adjust them to satisfaction.

Ultimately glasses and prescription sunglasses for $120 is very cheap, but there's issues with the whole concept, so we wound up just going to Costco instead. The Zenni ones sit in a draw as "backups," that is in spite of them doing everything they said they would do (i.e. prescription was spot on, frames were as-advertised, etc).
Tesla Shares Drop on Reducing Model S, X Production Hours
I love it too. Sadly, not to long ago he considered changing it because it makes their materials a hard sell to enterprises.
I have had good luck with Zenni, but I know others who have not. For example, a friend of mine unknowingly picked a coating that seemed to make his lenses appear slightly yellow. It was borderline visible so he kept the glasses but later regretted it. Another friend used his cotton T-shirts to wipe his lenses free of dust, and quickly filled them with scratches. I personally EDC lens cleaning cloths now because I nearly had the same issue.

There are also so many options in checkout now (as of a week ago) that if you don't know what you're doing you can easily overspend or buy an add-on that alters the look of your glasses when they are seen as lenses and frames together.

Aside from that though, they are amazingly convenient.
> In any case, "web bloat" is relative to the target users and target devices.

What about, relative to how many resources should be required for whatever tasks the software needs to perform?

Just because I have a lot of ram doesn't mean I want Slack to use it all. I'd rather give that space to the OS for file caching and such.
Most of the time you can adjust this with a heat gun. I've seen the guy in target optical do it at his desk.
We have different definitions of "old". I'm running Windows 10 on an i3 right now for work, compared to your supposedly old i5 with the same RAM.
Alice in BitcoinLand: Serverless Website Stored in Single Bitcoin SV Transaction
We do this as well. It definitely helps build social rapport and trust across the company.
Yes, detectors have also produced new results in [particle] physics, like with neutrinos, cosmic ray showers, and - if you count them - gravity waves.
I doubt it's possible watch Youtube in a browser on Linux on a 10 year old system. That's the only factor that forced me to upgrade my old PC: I just couldn't watch the damn youtube videos. Everything else worked perfectly fine. Windows 7 32bit upgraded to Windows 10, latest Ubuntu Linux with Gnome desktop. And thanks to an SSD it cold booted quickly enough as well.
This outlook is just as baseless as the opposite view that all startups have to be in SV.
Between 2-4 weeks.
If they contain only facts, there is no narrative.

The only narrative is the selection of what facts to report. Without that you get lost in the deluge and get equally uninformed.
Walk into any eyeglasses store and what do you see? Tons of designer labels on everything, labels that were clearly just sold to some third party outfit to slap on their frames.

As someone who generally avoids high fashion it drives me crazy to see all of those expensive and useless logos on everything along with $400 price tags. I'm glad to see all of these online outfits so ready to undercut them.
Did my vision exam last week at Costco. The Costco optometrist is independent from the eye glass department, which is owned by Costco and you need a member ID to buy from. The prescription had PD on there.

When I used to do target or lens crafter... I had to ask.
> The highest US tax bracket in 2019 is 37% for income over $500,00

+ 13% state income tax = 50% (california)

Add in 15% medicare and social security on earned income.

Then add in in 10% sales taxes.
As you mention, measuring PD yourself (with a friend) isn't hard. There's articles and videos online about it.

I've seen that left off a couple times, and I just ask one of the people up front to just measure it for me and tell me what it is. I usually buy my main glasses from them anyway, and just say I'll get sunglasses or computer glasses online (which is when I use Zenni), so that helps, but even without mentioning that, I haven't gotten any pushback when I've asked for it.
How about just stop recommending child porn.

https://www.technowize.com/investigation-reveals-microsofts-...
Investigation Reveals Microsoft Bing Recommends Child Pornography
This is one of the things I enjoy about using Linux a lot, drivers are never removed from the upstream Linux kernel, so you can use your hardware until it literally breaks.