skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked at a different crowdsource delivery than DoorDash or Instacart. When this exact situation came up, I loudly voiced these exact concerns. Management said 'hey, no worries, legal department says it's not illegal!'. They did not understand the difference between "this is illegal" and "this is unethical". They just didn't get it. And most of the developers said "wow, that's awful, but I guess there's nothing we can do".

I quit. I'm still furious about it. Those who didn't walk when they knew it was wrong are good people- just cowards. That's what really makes me angry.

If I publicly discuss it or name names, I'll probably be sued for violating my NDA. They made that very clear. So I'm a coward too. At least I'm not a part of it anymore.

The lesson is never tip with an app- use cash. I guess that most of these companies are playing these games now.
You seem to assume that there are transparency measures that would adequately resolve an information assymetry (which doesn't just exist in possession of information but practical capacity to apply it), and further in making a claim about what the regs are directed at that the regulators agree with you in that belief.

Neither point is obvious.
> Don't pitch building a lawnmower if you just want to trim a tiny grass stem.

I'm a fan of sprint from point A to point B with shovels and and machetes'

Then think about: Where are we. What's here. Was this even worth it? Is this exactly where we need to be?

Then start working on the real path from both ends and the middle. Or not, maybe the footpath is all you need right now.

I just remember.

I hacked together GUI to run a bunch of production tests. And it was a total trashfire. And the guys in the lab ran it for two and a half years like that. With no changes.

Early in my career I saw a hardware engineer get pissed at the software guy taking months to finish the firmware. Wrote it himself in three weeks, and shipped the fucker. The code was _ugly_ and _nasty_. But it was never changed once in production.

Edit: What I mean by this is the dev process needs to be aligned with what you're doing. Sometimes big process is appropriate and sometimes/often not.
W3C changed the DNT Candidate Recommendation to a "Note" now, and says that the working group is closed: https://github.com/w3c/dnt/commit/5d85d6c3d116b5eb29fddc6935... (the page is here: https://www.w3.org/TR/tracking-dnt/)

If the other major browsers follow suit in considering it "expired" and remove it, I'm curious what effect this will have on the requirement in the California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA) for sites to state how they respond to the signal (more info: https://iapp.org/news/a/how-should-i-respond-to-californias-...).

Will sites legally need to continue explaining how they respond to a signal that effectively no longer exists? Most of them already just said "we don't do anything based on this signal", but that will be even weirder.
I'm pretty sure fruits and vegetables (with some exceptions) are more expensive when you factor in calories and nutrients.

https://efficiencyiseverything.com/calorie-per-dollar-list/

https://efficiencyiseverything.com/applying-protein-per-doll...
I'm not convinced that access to capital is the sole, or even primary, reason the US tech industry is much stronger than elsewhere. There are many factors like entrepreneurial culture, low corruption, and established/concentrated support infrastructure that seem a lot more important.
And the media wonder why they have a credibility problem. It's the most basic type of reporting. News events. Not complicated policy issues or complex expert subject. Something occurred on the street and what do they do? They try to pile on the narrative that PG&E is bad. They supposedly caused the Tubbs fire, but according to CalFire[1] apparently (at least at this stage of the investigation) caused by non-PG&E power equipment (no word on Paradise, but that will take a while).

[1]https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/24/cal-fire-private-equipment-n...
Lots of fruits and vegetables don't require peeling! Though they do require washing.
Australia does this too, at least in the ACT. It’s fantastic.
First, it's Lisp not LISP. Using "LISP" immediately flags you as someone with a superficial (if at all there) understanding of the language.

Second, unsubstantiated proclamations like "Overuse of them led to LISP code being hard to read" reinforce the previous point. Could you provide a clear reference where Lisp macros are considered "mistakes of history"? Clear references where overuse of Lisp macros turned out to be a problem?

I'm curious if you've ever used a Lisp development environment with facilities such as interactive macroexpanders or if you're just assuming things based on your (incomplete, suspect) understanding of the domain.
What books changed the way you were doing the business vs. the way you're now?
I was reflecting on what it takes to change and solidify the way to develop a business idea, launch it, market it and grow it. And, I thought it will require a great understanding of;
- Having the ability to see the needs and wants of the real customer
- Find a market and a significant market gap
- Develop a great product and offer world-class service
- Getting started and getting things done
- Practice the revenue and profit mindset right from the start
- Ability to identify and hire the best people and generate entrepreneurial excitement.
- Right strategies to that help your customers grow, improve, or profit.
- The way to outdo the competition and become a dominant company in your industry.
- How to be generous to employees with wages, profit-sharing, and benefits.
and many other aspects to become better at doing business with ease.
LSD and DMT always made me see "infinite skulls" so immediately I was drawn to this HN submission.

IMO, aticles explaining AI art processes are a great medium for introducing non-CompSci folks to AI concepts, like how this piece does regarding GANs - the gallery exhibit even more so.

One of my Comp Sci professors used a very similar technique for the designs he had printed on 4'x4' canvases which hung from the walls in his office.
They don’t ship that stuff one container at a time.
It's not necessary for it to be a general purpose programming language, though. I think it is kind of neat to have a very specific, personal language that fits your mental model. On a larger team, probably not what you want, but there are other languages that are optimized for that.

Basically you're right if the creator wants a widely-adopted general-purpose language. But there's other valid approaches I think.
There's a Frazz comic strip in which a kid asks Frazz, "If you could eat anything you wanted anyway... would you still exercise?"

https://www.gocomics.com/frazz/2015/03/26

The response is "I don't exercise. I like doing stuff that happens to be exercise."

The kid isn't impressed, but this is an important distinction. It's true of almost every exercise that anyone does. After being introduced to mathematical induction, I spent a while repeatedly writing out the proof that the sum of the first n odd numbers is the square of n. I did that because it was fun for me. Most people would think I was completely out of my mind -- if they had to do that, they'd happily pay you to be allowed to stop.

If an endeavor requires two things, A and B, and A comes naturally to you while even a tiny amount of B is pure agony, you're going to complain about the excessive importance of B. You'll see other people complaining about how important A is, and think they're crazy, because there are barely any demands for A at all -- in your mind. You don't perceive the requirement for A because you just have the natural level of A, and it's more than enough.

I'm pretty sure this entirely explains both the literature saying how important networking is, and the literature expressing bafflement at how overrated networking is.
I don't think free trials by themselves are a viable solution for you or the user since you wouldn't profit and the user would only have your product for a limited amount of time. A solution could be they could get your product ad free for a week and after a week passes ads would display on your software so you could profit and in order to remove these ads the user would have to pay a one-time fee to do so. You could also provide a add-on store where other developers could make add-ons for your product and also them and you could take a cut of the profits.
How about this. Even IF it was 9/10 that get hurt and 1/10 that get helped.

Even IF that is true.

What do you get by regulating out of existence?

It stops?

Or it goes underground.

Think marijuana. What happened when legal? What happened when illegal?

I'm not saying don't regulate. I'm saying don't regulate it to death where only 3-4 big companies can operate in the space and then play oligopoly games.

Paying $200 in fees and stuff over 12 months on a $50 loan IS 400%. Just like an overdraft fee of $50 on a $10 charge could be touted in the papers as 500% interest.

Is there stuff to be cleaned up? Absolutely. Did this bill do it? No. It was restrictive.

I actually think this is something better suited for states to decide. And that is what is happening now.
Most of us in more northern locales wouldn’t be too happy if we had to get new furnaces and stoves, but we don’t care too much where our grid electricity comes from since we aren’t personally invested in it.
C natural? (I tried to type U+266E but it didn't save)
My idea, https://ibb.co/nmKymTW - it's a 1.9kB svg but I'm sure it can be reduced to something manageable.
The difference is all values are valid. In C, you can't know that a `char *` is safe to dereference.
Like it says on the website, the language will be open-sourced later in 2019.
Attractive Face or Not? It Depends on Tongue Posture [video]
Okay, user created, and promoted to be on-server and faster by reddit. Automod is a heavy-handed tool that both mods and admins played a role in creating.
Those systems aren't running desktop applications though.
Cooking shouldn't require so much time, at least not needing to collapse. I have a similar commute time. Morning cooking time is 10-20 minutes, evening about the same.
I'm pretty sure it's terrible for you.

What are the ingredients? How much do you get? $5 per meal is not cheap.
This is why there's such a price gap between hue bulbs and everything else.
Unless Bloomberg changed their headline, that is the fault of the submitter and not the media. The original headline is fine.
I guess it depends on how the critique is delivered. I would unironically love it if an expert level in [repo language] would come along and critique my open source code.

If they were an arrogant shit-head then I'd probably just block them, regardless of the technical merit of what they wrote.
They can't. Having someone in the grandstands with a mobile phone used to be the norm, but a drone provides more information with less latency. As in financial trading, there's a huge financial advantage to knowing more than your rivals or knowing it faster. The time it takes to say "two and five have fallen" might be the difference between profit and loss on a race.
> I think that we'll start to see improvements in this area as people move away from "screw-in bulb" as the form factor and towards using external power converters delivering power to to LED fixtures that are just LED's and their heatsink + mounts.

These already exist. Nearly every architectural grade fixture has a separate 24VDC driver, the LEDs, and a heatsink. Here's a cutsheet for a Lithonia recessed can as an example:

https://lithonia.acuitybrands.com/products/detail/748533/Lit...

These run for $175-200 a piece. They list 70% lumen maintenance at 50,000 hours. That's 20 years at 12 hours a day for 220 days a year. Some architectural cans are a bit cheaper, some are a bit more.

Cheap LED 2x4s go for $80, pricey ones for $200.
I'm very excited about it. I've been working on this and Volt full time for a year.
Human psychology, common social hierarchies, and management culture works against your ideal: ultra-rare is the manager who will humbly claim they do not know what their direct reports are doing in sufficient detail to adequetly convey requirements to an engineer.

I suspect a swing back towards in-house software development might become more attractive to decision makers, as big companies' boards of directors cotton onto the "Software Eats the World" trend, then panic-build before they're eaten by a competitor who got there first. AWS is just the beginning of what I suspect will turn out to be a marathon we're entering that even our great-grandchildren will run.
I have electric heating and in the winter there is no energy benefit at all from LED bulbs. I want my incandescents back. They really feel comfortable in a way I can't explain.
Abolish Billionaires
DNT and any other technical solution that isn't on by default is a waste of time. The time for letting the ad-tech industry come up with PR non-solutions that don't change anything is over.

Congress needs to pass GDPR into law.
Go to the front page,

https://arxiv.org/

and click the topic you want, for instance "High Energy Physics - Theory":

https://arxiv.org/archive/hep-th
Good catch!

It should be instant. But when I was making this gif, there was some kind of a bug, and I some how made it work only after it reaches the edge.

I was not able to reproduce this :)

I'll make a better gif once the new website is up.
> if push comes to shove, having more experienced supervision on the bridge during a challenging transit is more important than getting in some more training that day.

Think of any bureaucracy. The training or lack is documented. Paperwork must be done, and the activities backing that paperwork must be done, because that's what gets measured, since the measurers can't be on board to watch.

Sloppy procedures you might get away with, but lack of paperwork gets noticed immediately 100% of the time. And we all want to get promoted, officers especially in the military's "up or out" system.

I read another article, probably here, about this same incident. One of the officers on duty in the CIC was doing her paperwork, in addition/instead of her function at the time. I'm certain this is the norm, because the bureaucracy will be served, and it always expands, never contracts.

I would go so far to say that paperwork will increase even more, directly because of these specific incidents, "to make sure it never happens again."

The incentives are pathologically perverse.
> Apps like Abercrombie & Fitch, Hotels.com and Singapore Airlines also use Glassbox, a customer experience analytics firm, one of a handful of companies that allows developers to embed “session replay” technology into their apps.

> These session replays let app developers record the screen and play them back to see how its users interacted with the app to figure out if something didn’t work or if there was an error. Every tap, button push and keyboard entry is recorded — effectively screenshotted — and sent back to the app developers.
Under what law does NYPD think this falls?

Clearly this is protected speech.

I most certainly as an individual have a right to tell you about a DWI checkpoint and company has the right to facilitate that legally protected speech.
I called around a bit and it sounds to me like Duvall basically built half its allocated growth housing for 20 years in about a year and a half and spent a ton of money on roads along the way, and now wants the PSRC to double both growth targets and funding for roads.

Building lots of housing seems pretty reasonable to me, but I'm not sure I can blame Redmond or Seattle for not writing blank checks on this kind of thing.
Bad LED bulbs, like bad headphones, or TVs that emit high pitched whine, brought to you by undiscerning people with broken senses who nevertheless insist you're crazy.
thats one of the most awesome aspects of them, they are self-packaged. Most of the benefits of plastic, with none of the downsides. The only additional downside it might have that plastic doesn't is it decays and smells bad if youdon't throw it away (but thats ok because its ok to throw it away!)
Right, the only syntax for variable declaration is a := val, so you are forced to initialize variables.
Accuracy vs. Efficiency: Achieving Both Through FPGA Aware Neural Arch Search
I'm not sure if anyone remembers or knows outside the USA Northeast, but

https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Pages/PL...

Gas company accidentally over pressurized the service line, and destroyed just about everyone's equipment in the area. IIRC they only recently got everyone back online, and it's cold up here in the Northeast.
Originally it was compiled to C, now there's also an option to generate machine code directly which improved compilation time by a factor of 10.
Australia is part of ANZUS, which means if China attacked Australia, the US would be obligated to intervene

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANZUS
My brother had a carrier deployment in the Pacific end a week or so after the Fitzgerald collision. We asked him and his girlfriend (also a sailor) about it and they genuinely had no idea what we were talking about.

It was a revelatory moment for me. I can understand how the Navy wouldn't be excited to disseminate that kind of demoralizing news internally (though I still assumed they would one way or another). But sailors on his ship have sporadic internet access – I was really surprised that word didn't just get around.
I don't see talk of deserving things in your link, or of reasons for success. Someone could be both completely "deserving" of having received the income and "guilty" of "hoarding" it at the same time.

"The acquisition of that much wealth has bad consequences. A moral society needs guardrails against it."

"Moral society" isn't explored in that article, but "has bad consequences" is pretty far away from "isn't deserved." You can make a lot of policy-based arguments against extreme concentration - whether in a monopolistic company, a huge government, or in a billionaire - is a bad thing, overall, from various angles. And lots of people are making those different arguments. The "people are just lucky" argument is one, but I'm not seeing that one dominate my magazine and newspaper RSS feeds at the expense of any others.
Correct, the language will be open sourced this year.
What the Romans Used for Toilet Paper
Something like this?

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/0a/57/48/0a57488bad46342b73d911135...
Ask HN: What other tech forums like HackerNews do you use?
Dried grains and legumes already exist, and provide the majority of calories that humans consume.
"Record the screen" could be more precise. I assumed the article was saying apps were literally recording a video of the screen, complete with alert popups etc (like the Screen Recorder app).

I realize there isn't functionally much difference within an app. But unless I'm reading it incorrectly, it's not recording the screen it's just the UI of the app. That's not nothing, but I always assumed (sadly?) that a lot of apps have been doing that for years to hone their UX dark arts.
I think you're getting tangled up in the wrong facet of the argument. You're litigating whether payday loan firms are distortive. The payday lenders can be perfectly fair dealers in the market, but that doesn't dispose of the policy debate about whether what they're selling should be allowed in the first place.

What you're arguing here could seemingly be repurposed to argue, for instance, that companies should be able to sell stock to the public without SEC-mandated disclosures and legal process, couldn't it?

I can concede that payday lenders aren't "bad people" and still believe that payday lending should be sharply curtailed, and yet still not be a moralizer, I think.
Like, by picking numbers that are neither an arithmetic progression nor a geometric progression.
They’re both countably infinite.
My wife and I try to do this every few years. This year we started by marathoning the Hobbit trilogy. While I like the Hobbit movies, it was the first time I had watched them back to back with the LOTR movies and I was blown away by how much more simple (in a good way) and less frenetic the LOTR movies were than the Hobbit. I actually noticed a physical reaction to the last Hobbit movie. We watched it in one sitting right before bed and I felt so mentally overdriven I couldn’t fall asleep for several hours after getting in bed.
Because we don't vote for military commanders, and military commanders contribute little to nothing to political alliances outside the military, so there is no incentive for talking heads or Congress to notice it.

There's also a lot more of them than Secretaries of State and First Daughters, and the people that Congress and talking heads manipulate, us, couldn't sustain our interest past the second or third incident.
I'm against macros. I've done a lot of research on this topic.

One of the main goals is simplicity and maintainability. I want people to be able to jump into any code base (including stdlib and compiler) and understand what's going on. Macros don't help with that.

I went through like 10 names and ALL of them were taken. There are a lot of programming languages out there :)
If pressing enter a lot is such a trivial way of activating a bug, why wasn't it already found by Apple?

I would hope that Apple employs dozens of people at $100K or more a year to find bugs in macOS. Why wouldn't they pay comparable amounts to incentivize others to find bugs?

Failure to do so is a significant indication of their priorities.
A literal real life year worth. Not kidding.

I remember when I was a noob in Eve. There was a caper involving some billions of ISK in the official magazine, and I was in low-sec and saw one of the characters from the article. We hid out in the station in fear. After awhile, one of us asked one of them, if we ran for it, if they'd try and kill us, and they were like, nah, you're good.

Later in corp chat, we were telling about our run in with characters so infamous, people wrote articles about them printed on actual paper!
Thanks for your quick response.

I am interested in Hardware Architecture in Computer Science. So I clicked on that. This is the URL I get - https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AR/recent

After that, did you modify the URL manually to include "archive/cs.AR" or did you click somewhere else on the website?

Merci beaucoup.
> There are a lot more arithmetic progressions than geometric ones.

I'm pretty sure that's not true. An arithmetic progression is
x[n] = x[n-1] + k
and a geometric progression is
x[n] = x[n-1] * k
Insurers Blacklisting Entire Industries Over MeToo Liability
It took them over 2 hours to shut off the line. I don’t know what a reasonable response time is here, but it seems like taking 2 hours to locate a shut off valve during an emergency is bad... further what happens when the next earthquake strikes? Do we just accept that PG&E will just let the entire city burn?
Or just buy kale, chop and wash it yourself, add some garlic too, and stir fry the lot, under 2 minutes end-to-end.
Funny how as I clicked on the "100% free and open source software" button my brain subconsciously branch-predicted the layout of a GitHub page. The payoff was worth the stall.
John Ioannidis, the guy behind "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False" has recently gone after nutrition research. Turns out that nutritional studies are basically devoid of value. After decades of nutrition research we know almost nothing about how to eat healthy.
The safari UA is fixed - there was a post or document at some point saying that it had basically become a tracking tool, so beyond the compatibility requirements it is no longer changing.

Similarly queryable font and plugin apis are fixed.

But DNT is simply a tracking metric - and was opposed by everyone with non-ad revenue (specifically it was offered up by the ad industry to avoid regulation).
Making Cities More Livable with Electric Vehicles
Look I think we all know which is more likely to work in practice. It's sad that Do Not Track never took off, but let's not pretend to be surprised.
https://outline.com/ZaJnG3