skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
how ironic.
Great piece of natural content marketing and demonstration of product. Keep it up.
India’s new e-commerce law ends retailer exclusivity for new smartphones
What if you're on vacation when something happens, such as a power outage? What about a massive event like an earthquake/flood/wind storm/fire/etc?
> They even have a high-touch sales process where a real person sends you emails and replies when you send them questions. Imagine that at AWS!

The do that too once you are big enough.
> “We welcome a renewed conversation about how best to address this paradigm,” a spokesperson says.

Not that I'm surprised, but what a garbage statement. We've been stealing things, yes, but goodness, what a great opportunity this is for dialogue!
Yes, it's clearly about meth. I just wanted to make clear that the fact that it says not to take it for more than 7 days doesn't mean people won't, and I don't think it's very controversial that people shouldn't be prosecuted for it.

I don't know how likely prosecution is in 2019. There have been a few under much more restrictive state laws making pseudoephedrine prescription-only and criminalizing traveling out of state to obtain it, but that's not the original issue we were discussing.

It's probably pretty unlikely under Federal law, but it took several posts back and forth on HN along with a PACER lookup for us to reach that conclusion explains fairly well why many people are uncomfortable with having their purchases tracked in this manner.
My networking is good enough for my needs: 10GbE copper. Not 100GbE, but 100GbE is hard to actually fully utilize without jumping through major hoops.

My business is mainly deep learning R&D. Current cloud GPU, networking, and storage pricing gives me ulcers given my compute needs and the size of my datasets.

I do run my website in cloud, with redundancy and all that. I also use cloud storage for backup, and for K8S registry. If I was selling e.g. inference services, I'd be running them in cloud too (passing the costs onto the clients). Most of my local workloads could easily be shifted right across to any decent K8S provider.

But the fact is, my lone rack has been humming along with zero unscheduled downtime for 3 years now. I can count several global outages in each of the three major cloud services in this timeframe (most of them during US work hours, BTW), so I'm inarguably better off with the setup I have now than I would be if I moved it all to the cloud. Not to mention it already paid for itself several times over even though I burn through several hundred dollars a month in electricity.
Reality has a liberal bias.
If you're looking for a graph that shows more than a projected minimum/maximum for every day, take a look at Foreca's 15-day forecast page [0]. It shows percentile lines for the forecasted minimum and maximum, which give a much better idea of what to expect. It also forecasts global vs. local precipitation. Unfortunately it is only available in Finnish.

[0] https://www.foreca.fi/Canada/Vancouver/15vrk

Disclaimer: I used to worked for MSN Weather, where we used Foreca's feed as the source for our weather data.
I’m pretty sure the first one is “mixture” because the claim names three groups and only one of those groups is actually present. If I say that there are no yellow, purple, or blue apples, the fact that there are yellow apples shouldn’t just result in a rating of “false.” By pure logic that would be correct, but it won’t convey what it should.
£5 per head here in Sheffield for Saturday showings. London ain't right.
Texas' discovery of 95K noncitizens on voter rolls lauded for election integrity
Just to be more clear, the problem is that if they don't find a perfect match (that ensures a low number of false positives) then they will try a partial match, and if I]that fails a somewhat match, but then the expert will claim that there is still a very low probability of false positives. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_profiling#Issues_with_fore...
Louis C.K. didn't admit to, and wasn't accused of, sexually assaulting anybody.
And I wish gun owners would stop ending conversations about gun control by threatening to put me and mine against the wall when the revolution comes.

Both sides could stand a dose of empathy and common sense. Its true that not all gun owners are dangerous maniacs, but guns are dangerous and a lot of them are used in crimes by irresponsible people. It's also true that not all advocates for gun control are neo-communists who just want to confiscate all guns and put Christians into camps.

Gun policy should just be a public safety issue, but politics and the catch-22 nature of the 2nd Amendment have turned it into an intractable religious war.
> One thing I don't see mentioned in this article is the effect of the unique seasons the Scandinavian countries have

That's why so many folks in those countries have learnt to code and done quite amazing stuff, even as early as the 1980s and 1990s. Not much else to do in the long, cold winters...
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Canada is sort-of not allowed to enter into trade deals without the USAs permission now... so its hard now. I'm worried about Canada being so easy to bully lately. I think the best defence is to get stronger economically, but all our tech talent is going south

(Note: kicked out of NAFTA if WD 'disobey')

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> The comfort of having my own vehicle that is set to my own preference and loaded with my stuff

From this statement it seems like you either don't work in a city, or live outside of a large metropolitan area. There's little chance you're leaving stuff in your car routinely in a large city and not having it stolen. This isn't meant as an insult, but I think it means you're not in the target demographic for a shared self-driving car service.
CA and L.A. County Settle, Removing 1.5M Inactive Voters from Voter Rolls
Is this field flipping man made? Let’s spend billions of tax dollars in an attempt to stop the field from flipping. Scientists are always correct.
User data has become a currency that has intrinsic value without having to prove itself in any way. Not sure how long this is going to last but I suspect as long as there is this feeling of 'potential' in tracked data, it is always going to sell. On the other hand, the existence of pervasive tracking especially those done unethically, exposes people to a new attack surface that not only malicious (in the traditional sense) actors but govts. are prone to exploiting.
Yes the right wing does have worse-off sourcing in general in comparison to the left wing. But the left wing is what has been holding power, a la the article here, with the partisan Snopes given control over the content of people's feeds.
My main criticism of Snopes is their choices of what perspective of the 'facts' that they will check. The worst example of this is seen here (https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ronald-reagan-alzheimers-d...) in that according to the article itself, it would have been incredibly unlikely for Reagan to have had diagnosable Alzheimer's during his presidency, and yet the rating is not a "No" or a "No" with some qualifications, but an "Unproven".
What remains is an understanding of statistics and probability applied to scientifically studied accuracy rates of the various evidence available. Combining error-prone evidence can give fairly certain results.
Solved

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"After investigation it was determined that there was faulty consumer electronic equipment stuck in transmit mode in the area, which was causing the interference. ... In this case, it was determined that it was a remote car starter. It has since been deactivated and the interference has stopped ..."
That's not an article from Forbes. It's a blog post hosted on the Forbes website. Any Forbes.com/sites/{something} page isn't Forbes content, it's independent content unaffiliated with the Forbes editorial team
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Mobile is driven by consumer sales, not OEM or corporate.
> offers you virtually no help in writing correct parallel and incremental builds.

The key problem there that Make has no idea about the semantics of the shell code that appears in the build recipes. It has no idea how two build recipes interact with each other through side effects on objects that are not listed as targets or prerequisites.

I think ClearCase's clearmake (GNU-compatible) actually intercepts the file system calls (because the build happens on a ClearCase mounted VOB). So it is able to infer the real inputs and outputs of a build recipe at run-time. For instance, it would know that "yacc foogrammar.y" produced a "y.tab.h" even if the rules make no mention of this. So in principle it's possible to know that one rule is consuming "y.tab.h" (opens it for reading), that is produced by another rule (that wrote it), without there being any dependency tied to this data flow.

The interception could be done by injecting shared lib wrappers, I suppose. Our friend LD_PRELOAD and all that.

Of course, if we fix the parallel build with proper dependencies, a fixed incremental build also pops out of that.
I wouldn't underestimate the importance of technology.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust?wprov=...
The following command can be handy for one-off sessions. It won't interfere with your already-running instance of Firefox and uses a random profile in /tmp (which you can still monkey with if needed).

firefox -no-remote -profile $(mktemp -d)
See also:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust?wprov=...
It does, since Mojave.
There already are import taxes on "crap" like electronic components. Browse around digi-key for "tariff pending" or "tariff applied". All its doing is making bills of material more expensive.
Actually no, Linear Haskell works in a fully backwards compatible way with existing libraries. I suggest checking it out.
I think it's a common misconception that "the algorithm" is responsible for this, when what is actually happening is that an advertiser is bidding on the wrong users and effectively buying bad ads.
I think its a good change. There are a fair bit of apps that should have been web pages but the owner wanted something on the app store.
Ever tried Pocket Cast? Carries Fantasy Footballers and has pretty good discoverability and search and great usability. Also offers cloud service, for an upcharge, to let you sync with a web player for your PC as well.
You can be managing the engineers (your definition) or managing the engineering (another definition). You could describe both as an ‘engineering manager.’
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Nobody was being fooled by this headline. The only reason to “fact check” something like this is to punish the satire site.

And Snopes knew exactly what the consequences were on FB based on their “fact checking” work.

So a satire site making fun of how badly the mainstream news spins things got punished for “lying” because Snopes told Facebook they were lying.

If you read the original linked article, it is clear that they had to manually go in and select the articles that they believed were false and people shouldn’t be allowed to see anymore. They could have simply put up their article, without calling down FB’s wrath on the satire site, but they didn’t.
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A robot called me last night, and I'm sort of okay with it
Far less likely events than an SRE pushing a bad config.
Ask HN: Why do we exclude other types of engineers from the “fix hiring” issue?
I've noticed that we talk constantly about how messed up software engineer interviewing is, and there's many services (from hired.com to triplebyte to many others) trying to "fix" it.

My friends who are hardware and mechanical engineers keep asking me how I'm finding so many employers to talk to, and I have nothing for them because there don't seem to be services like this for any type of engineer other than software.

Why is that? Judging from my friends' experiences, finding a job and finding qualified talent is just as difficult, and the interviews just as questionable.
Simply put, different markets. Students are now using Google Docs, and Sheets works well enough to plan out your holidays.

For someone that spits reports or jangle number all days, G-suite is a poorly thought-out joke.

A simple exemple: it's impossible to make custom styles in Docs. You can just redefine existing styles. And you can only apply one of these styles per paragraph (you can however, manually bold or change the font of some span within the paragraph... but not apply a premade style on a span of text smaller than a paragraph).

Even if the basic issues are fixed, Office is a powerhouse of features for power users, who'll keep paying good money for it, because it's well worth it.
> And how has that worked out for 440 companies that used to be in the F500 that no longer are there?

Most of them were raped by their corporate officers.
Article from a year ago about this:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/danvergano/serial-kille...

Edit: nevermind, this is a different company
If you eliminate dual share classes then those dudes will remain unaccountable by never going public.
Mozilla is sticking with Gecko for now, and they do not need my faith to continue.

Brave is growing, has grown every month, not at over 5.5M MAU. I am not sure how to interpret "Brave doesn't seem to be catching on" as other than false. Firefox in 1H2004 was in a similar trendline. People then still said "IE for evar!"
Hmm good point.

If one was to take on Fandango would you have to take over their contract with the movie theaters or could I be a competitor to Fandango?
Question: would policing in the US be easier without the 4th amendment? Would it matter if the answer was yes?
> The one way I can think it would get more expensive is that the pool of drivers with insurance would get smaller. That would naturally drive the rates and such up.

Why would it increase the rates?

Rates are mostly driven by statistical analysis taking risk of accidents and cost of repairs into consideration. It is not a product particularly fit for a volume discount. If anything, fewer drivers on the road should mean fewer accidents, if the area/volume of roads stays the same (because of the drop in density, which means a drop in probability to be in the same spot as another driver at a given time).

> The best analogy would be insurance for historical or classic vehicles; if you've ever looked into it, not only do they require certain things normal car insurance doesn't (for instance, they will typically only insure you if your car is kept in an enclosed garage), but because the pool of drivers is much smaller, it is more expensive to get.

I don't think it's due to the pool of drivers being smaller. I think it's because the incident cost is much higher than high volume cars, because both parts and labor are more expensive for low volume productions (custom/exotic). Source: my exotic car.
Fair enough, thanks for the correction.

Still, if the assertions are true, it raises concerns.
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Businesses are judged by the income they produce because the reason businesses exist is to generate income. If people want to run a charity they would presumably register as a charity. There are interesting edge cases, but the No 1 company on the NASDAQ by market cap is not one of them.

"It's not how they run their business" is an interesting observation, but businesses ultimately don't get to choose the yardstick they are measured by. In the long term, that is income.
The answer is that Make only rebuilds what is necessary. Duplicating this logic in Python is nontrivial.
> do not forget most of our universities have become extreme left

I'd posit that people on the left typically value education more than people on the right and are therefore more likely to attend universities.

> and the papers they write reflect this. It is not an accident the way money has corrupted research.

I read this as "research is coming up with conclusions that don't fit my world view/opinions/beliefs and I don't like it."
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When you have been through a difficult divorce, then declining to get the law involved in any future romantic affairs will make perfect sense.
Snopes manually reported the article to FB as fake news that shouldn’t be spread. That’s clear from the original article announcing the breakup. It wasn’t a machine problem. It was a decision to punish this site and Snopes made that decision, not FB. FB just let their algorithms run and trusted Snopes to do their job without prejudice—a trust that was obviously misplaced.
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Not the parent, but I prefer Groovy over other JVM languages because:

- supports both dynamic and static typing - it works just as well for bash level scripting as it does for full application development. For example, you can use it exactly like an interpreted language (no compilation needed).

- seamless Java integration. I know many JVM languages say that, but Groovy actually makes it one of its core features. It has a lower impedance mismatch than any other JVM language I've tried (and I try them all).

- partly because of the dynamic typing, it is able to support the most concise, powerful options in its syntax of any of the JVM languages. So you get more done with fewer, simpler lines of code

- because of the static typing and low impedance mismatch with Java, it can achieve very high performance. I was not able to get Scala to perform as well, for example, because of type conversions needed to invoke underlying Java library calls (unless you abandon idiomatic Scala).
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Hmm... no.

Google Maps alternates between light and dark based on ambient light. That's the optional behavior I want for all apps. I use the Android feature to invert all colors at times.
Gimlet has only done two rounds of raising haven't they? What kind of valuation do you think they would be chasing?
I prefer syntax highlighting on a white background, thank you very much.
> This is, by the way, the dirty secret of the machine learning movement: almost everything produced by ML could have been produced, more cheaply, using a very dumb heuristic you coded up by hand

lol, too true