skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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.

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.
Experienced developers don't always make the best managers, but the best managers are almost always experienced developers.
When Google and Facebook control 80% of the advertising market through surveillance duopoly, 20% goes to all the publishers in the world. They are starving. I call it Google's War on Journalism.
> Says every engineer that's never been a manager.

I do own my own company though, and have hired 5 people so far. Its not a lot, but I have managed people in the past as well. Do not assume things about people.
I think there will be an insurance market for these risks as well. We are all carrying around some kind of defects anyways and we get know more and more about the risk factors and how to prevent for breakouts or gain knowledge about working around them, maybe even repair or modify.
In spite of some of those comments I’d like to point out there are a lot of great magazines still running

US:

- The Atlantic

- Harpers

- Wired still does great long form

- Bloomberg Businessweek does as well

- Help me out people...

Canada:

- Maclean’s

- the Walrus

- Taddle Creek

The concepts aren’t failing. They still inspire lengthy discussions and awareness on a wide range of subjects. And they’re available in multiple forms- paper, web, and other digital subscriptions like in house apps or Google or Apple News
If Gimlet media starts putting all of their podcasts only on Spotify they will lose me as a listener.

Otherwise, I’ll be really happy for Gimlet. I’ve listen to Startup since day one.
Electric car, so fuel cost is minimal given low speeds and no scheduled oil changes or other maintenance.
How does an at-home dna testing company get any of your infoemation?
Customers had a choice in many cases. For example, Office is still offered as both a boxed product, and as a subscription service. Every time I see a discussion on one versus the other online, most people prefer the service, because it's cheaper (even long term).
Quickly catching a bus that isn't going where I want to go isn't ideal either.
Unvested RSUs are not part of "total compensation". Total compensation is obtained by tallying up the cash you get from salary, bonus, and sale (or rather, its value at vest) of all the vested stock you get in each year.
> Amazon really has razor thin margins in its retail sector

Not any more, if their advertising business keeps skyrocketing, Amazon will be US's Alibaba.
Exactly, without a server to fetch dependencies from you can still manage your local cache.
Online search is a natural monopoly - being simply "competitive" probably isn't possible, you either win (Google) or you don't (everybody else).
They should team up with Nike, and put these on their self-lacing shoes. A techwear wet dream that I guarantee every software engineer in the Bay Area would buy haha.
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The deprecated recipes etc. problem is not limited to AWS. I’ve trained myself to observe dates on what I’m reading, and digging deeper if it’s more than 2 years old (or 1 year old for moving targets like newer frameworks/services) especially when learning something new.
That does. Thank you!
That's right. Water is most dense at about 4 degrees, and lower in sea water (around 1 C I believe). Below that, and water molecules start forming ephemeral crystal lattices. Since, weirdly, the hexagonal structure of ice lattices takes up more room than in liquid form, this makes the water less dense. Just to be clear, it isn't actually crystallizing at these temperatures, but due to fluctuations, crystal lattices can be briefly formed.
A backdoor into the communications of politicians and that could quickly change in China's favor ;)
I recently realized that there are roughly two kinds of people, namely people who are good at symbolic/abstract ideas and people who are good at real/physical/touchable things, which can be considered orthogonal to the extrovert/introvert categorization. For a software engineering team, I find it tends to be suboptimal to have a physical-thinking oriented manager who dislikes abstract, symbolic notions, even though they are brilliant and would probably a good fit for say electrical or mechanical engineering teams.

My sampling space isn't large enough, but it's interesting to keep an eye on the personalities of the managers in your organization from that perspective.
These were also closer to Java libraries of late 90s in design. Even ATL mostly used templates to optimize (using the curiously recurring template pattern, usually).

Qt was also born in that era, and look at how strikingly similar its standard library is to Java's in many cases, and how unlike STL and Boost.
> ...the faster it happens the more havoc it is likely to cause. If it happens over thousands of years then humans will adapt to a 'non constant' compass direction and find other ways to navigate.

Actually the more pressing matter regards animals that employ magnetoreception (birds, bacteria even!) where a change like this might be particularly devastating. This of course assumes that there is not already some undiscovered non-genetic mechanism to help with adjusting, say socially or physiologically. Human technology could adapt in at most a matter of decades, while genetic adaptation would takes orders of magnitude longer.
Virginia governor's yearbook page shows 2 people in blackface, KKK garb
Who Were the Pinkertons?
That's a complete no-sense. When you buy from a public cloud you buy reliability, availability, security and support.

The service layer is just an add-on. Part of their premium. Even if you go full open source you still need infrastructure to run it and that's exactly what companies don't want to do and won't do anymore, and the reason why AWS and Azure are massively successful.
I get the feeling the FSF may have a thing or two to say about this. If it was possible to simply rescind the license from GPL code, there would have been several court cases that would have been muuuuuch shorter.

Simply put, once the GPL license is applied, authors can only relicense future versions. Anyone can fork old versions and start their own development branch under a different name. The GPL also does not provide restrictions allowing authors to terminate the license for individuals while still maintaining the code as available as GPL.
If you genetically modify animals to have a stronger immune system there's going to be a natural pressure for stronger bacteria.

Just like giving animals antibiotics to spur their growth is riskier than not.
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Its not blackmail. All you have to do is to get people to think there's no difference and that everyone is bad (just like "all politicians are bad" and "all cable companies are bad"). Then you don't have to have good service at all.
I wonder if it's legal to leave the state to deliver your baby for the sole purpose of dodging the collection.
If Facebook was only willing to devote $100,000 to it, it seems like they basically spent the minimum amount possible so that they could claim they were doing something. The expense doesn't remotely match up to the scale of the problem.
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I think the winnings should have gone to the victim of the credit card theft.
That's the gross margins for ALL of Amazon's business, so the fat profits of cloud are included. Their margin on physical goods must be lower.
The problem is that it's not any other field. It's people with guns, by design more powerful than anything else anybody else has.

And, as Mao said, "all political power comes from a barrel of a gun". Which is why civilian control of the military is so important to preserve, and why the signs that the tail is wagging the dog (worship of all things military in US) is so disturbing.

With regards to family legacy of service, it was common for officers, but not quite so much for the enlisted ranks.
If the "public dns" are arbitrarily-nested subdomains, and the "ips" are IPv6 addresses, I don't see what the problem is. We've got essentially-unbounded amounts of both of those.
Yes, v65 as packaged by Fedora finally works!
How to solve sudoku in assembly
I’m not sure it was a joke. I had to deal with Oracle 9i years ago and I still have the emotional scars of being buggered hard for some licenses for it. The only way we could circumvent a lot of cost, allowing us to keep humans on budget, was reusing an older oracle upgraded license but this was only licensed to work on a SPARCstation LX and the tool was Java and took 11 minutes to start and no one complained because they were so depressed and demotivated from the job that it hurt to do so.

I quit and slithered off to work with SQL Server 2000 and I’m sure my soul slipped back in one night.
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Ask HN: Master Degree in Telecommunication or AI?
After completing the Bachelor program, which is already focused on telecommunication, there is the chance to further specialize in that area in the subsequent master program. On the other hand, there is a master degree that heavily focuses on artificial intelligence.

On the one side, if you wanna work in the telecom industry, one would suggest to specialize in that in the master program. On the other hand, AI is the Game changer that will heavily influence all the other IT fields, including telecommunication.

Choosing one, would still leave the option to self teach oneself the other though. That would depend on which field has better open source to learn from. Like I know Google has a great open source program for AI with TensorFlow.
The other benefit with having multiple projectors/lasers at different angles are that you can use different wavelengths: one that causes polymerisation, one that inhibits it.
I asked for a source on a falsifiable assertion.

Do you routinely ask people to go and collect data for casual observations? I don't know why this one has people so up in arms when they happen all the time here at HN.
He's living the dream! Working on stuff he enjoys, living off his investment returns.
Azure's ILBs are still just bizarre to me. It's the first load balancer I've ever worked with where sometimes a member of the pool can't reach the load balancer. At the packet level given their implementation, this makes sense but tell me how many times you've ever had to write a stats endpoint where the stats nodes had to do workarounds to send their own stats?

Source: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/load-balancer/load-ba...
Here are a bunch of left-leaning opinion-checks from Snopes.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/gimmegrants-train-photo/

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ford-tariff-layoffs/

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/antifa-nazi-flags/

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https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/was-law-separate-families-...

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/tommy-robinson-arrest/

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false... when self driving cars will become popular, nobody will own a car and you will just walk out to catch onE. It will saves tons of resourses
Do you think it’s a major fraction?

I doubt it, but that’s just speculation without anything to back it up.

So any concrete data would be interesting.
Thanks to Yao Ming, killing sharks for their fins is down 50%.he’s just started
GitXiv has been very unprofessionally maintained. Their RSS feed often has junk posts like by a child. They were once good, but that time is long gone. I still subscribe to its feed, but there isn't much to find in it.
What a wonderful article. I like the part where you don't need to rely on too much data to be good at something. Same goes for science in general. You dont need a million of experiments to do something great, you need ingenuity.
A backdoor into the communications of politicians and that could quickly change in USA's favor as well. Canada does roughly 80% of its trade with the states last I checked, so having US be privy to our private communications is far more damaging.
I always read introductions. There seems to be this popular idea in America that any text is comprehensible without prerequisite knowledge or proper framing. This is also coupled with the idea that introductions will somehow “spoil” a work—the notion that all a story is good for are its spectacles and surprises (a pretty shallow appreciation of narratives, especially considering nearly all of said surprises have been done to death). I never quite understood this myself. I don’t know where anyone gets this idea that they’ll just understand a work without any additional rigging to help them—it’s similar to a belief that one can and should climb a mountain without equipment. I would not be surprised if adherents of this philosophy also don’t look up definitions for words they don’t know but probably just breeze over them. It’s laziness! There’s a lot that goes into crafting a quality interpretation of a text, this includes a great deal of theoretical exploration, and historical tidbits that aren’t covered in the text itself. And no, reading an introduction does not somehow make your experience of the work “impure” nor are you bound to blindly accepting everything an introduction claims is important as such—in fact you may find through your reading that what the introductory text emphasized seemed in fact wholly irrelevant to the work (in which case you might consider it a poor introduction).

Obviously if you’re reading strictly with the intention of passing time/being entertained and not with the intention of understanding or comprehending what you’re reading and experiencing through the text, I can see why you might skip the intro.
> course, given the 3,619,661 compiler extensions in GHC, whats another that would enable this sort of lifetime/reference tracking (and endless chasing of type errors that all Haskellers are used to anyway) functionality to be pushed into the type system?

Rust-style ownership semantics exert strong design pressure on libraries, including the standard library. Rust's ecosystem has evolved under that pressure; Haskell's has not. I have no doubt at all that Haskell could be extended with affine types (never go in against a Haskeller when a conference paper is on the line!), but once you'd done that, you wouldn't be able to use any existing libraries.

Which, given the state of the Haskell ecosystem, might be a bit of a relief.
Haha! Much love to my home of Norway’s «forbrukerråd», i.e. consumers counsil.
Operating margin is not Gross Profit/Total Revenue, its Operating Profit/Total Revenue. You were not surprised by the number 37% you got?
Busses don't stop.

Busses don't park (except for overnight).

Great, SV Unicorns — you've successfully invented an electric bus with seating for four.

/s
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Ebola outbreak still going strong
I looked through the bug report and couldn't find the specification you're referencing. Do you have a link to it by any chance?
Does anyone know if the DEA actually has the right or authority to remove you from the train?

Do they have the right to bring a dog into your compartment without a warrant? For that matter, do they have the right to enter your compartment without a warrant?
"Before becoming CEO, he was Executive Vice President of Microsoft's cloud and enterprise group, responsible for building and running the company's computing platforms, developer tools and cloud computing services"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satya_Nadella
There's a tradeoff here. Bezos is of course a world class executive and founder, but he's underselling the advantage of big margins which is risk.

In a downturn, a slight decrease in margins across the board will push a company on the razor's edge from profitability to unprofitability. Margin means margin for error - when the company isn't doing well and investors are scattering to safety and liquidity is nowhere to be found a higher margin gives your company a buffer when you have to cut.

Of course when revenues are growing like crazy and the economy is gangbusters it sounds great to cut margins for absolute growth but that's a booming economy. Things are very different in a downturn.
Those people really appreciate the cash tips too.
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Please be careful to not take on too much. It's not the job of this service to compile and test code.
When you’ve got Kubernetes on top, it literally makes zero difference who the underlying cloud provider is.

And thank god Kubernetes exists. Not about to waste my time relearning the API of every new cloud offering a company wants me to try.
Poor anecdata:

I get a couple of channels from Buffalo area here in Toronto. One news station I think, though I forget which one. We mostly keep it to the local CityNews or CBC.

There’s also a handful of standard def mixed content channels. Bad sitcoms and the like.
Another scenario is to have the car drop you off at a mass transit hub, then return home. When you get on the bus/train/whatever to return home, the car will meet you there. This may involve cars cruising around near the hub, though.
Haven't watched this interview, but this video of his is very good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmfjM-SGlGs
> and the service was guaranteed to reimburse you fully for damages

That will be of zero comfort the moment you get inside your car, and find out a drunk has puked into the foot well, or somebody was incontinent in the back seat.

...and those are the nice scenarios - I could think of plenty of others that wouldn't be pleasant at all for the owner.

At that point, your only recourse would be to send your car off to be detailed/repaired/whatever, while you went to hail a ride service (and hope you don't get another car with the same issue).

Heck - can you imagine getting into your car, only to find that it was inhabited by a chain smoker for the entire day?
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