skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on the industry. For very large transactions, like if you are paying a home improvement contractor for something, they will often make you eat the fees if you want to pay with a credit card. So you end up having to figure out where your checkbook is (probably collecting dust in a box somewhere).

I give Bitcoin and LN a continuous pass on UX for now. We're in the infrastructure phase -- growing trust and improving reliability matters far more than UX. Before you know it, there will be 20 years of development and battle-testing behind the tech. The UX can come at any point in the future, while a breach of trust would be fatal. It's a question of ruthless prioritization. Thankfully, the open source devs behind these projects are long-term thinkers, not ponzi-scheme enablers.

Lastly, the UX need not come from Bitcoin/LN. They are a protocol, not a product.
Two Duke Benchwarmers and a 3-D Printer Rescued a Top NFL Quarterback Prospect
How is OpenBSD performance these days?
Yeah, I meant zero egress fees from B2. It's a shame that Cloudflare isn't more transparent about their bandwidth limits but my guess is that traffic would still be cheaper than from Amazon. Maybe someone from their team could weigh in ..
It seems you're right. Python lists are arrays -- I didn't know that.

That makes my point even stronger. The article about "Python Arrays" directly claims that Python Arrays don't exist, which is apparently wrong!

The whole point is that I came away from the article believing information that is false.
Does it work with json over http?
That's both easy and hard.

It's not that extroverts are magically better than a neurotypical introvert, but rather that extroverts have had more practice. The irony is that I can see an introvert be quite extroverted during a D&D session, because it's a place they have practiced their social skills.

For neurotypical people, I don't believe in extroverts versus introverts per se, but rather practiced with a social group versus unpracticed.

For most people, authenticity and vulnerability is the way to go. I am a goofball, and I present as such. I've brought juggling balls to standup (and also juggled remotely) and people smile. (I'm not a great juggler.) My coworkers know that I don't watch much TV or movies because I don't like them, so they can do all the spoilers without worrying about me.

When showing your personality, it's about what to hold back rather than presenting something that isn't part of you. (For example, if your personality involves illegal activities, that shouldn't show up at work.) Personality should never be about presenting something you're not. Be you to everyone, just not all of you.

But don't try to be something that is not you.

Fortunately, the rest is just observation and practice.
So in the last 25 years, the medical costs more than doubled in the US and maternal mortality actually went UP?
> And therefore it seems like you think that every employee should expect that their company may switch to weapons systems development, and so therefore no one should object should that happen?

This assertion is so preposterous I'm not going to reply to it.
You have personal issues with weapons systems development. I get it.
But why should anyone stay with a company that isn't to their liking? Is it a sense of nostalgia as to "how things were before"? Is it peer pressure? Companies changes, products change, people come and go. It's the course of life.

>You write: "i would like to bring everything out in the open"
Well, that's not going to happen, so what's your backup plan?

It's already out in the open. No backup plan needed. That's what happens when the likes of MS or Amazon are involved. Again, I'd rather keep it that way.
You want to send it back to Raytheon so that we don't hear about it again. No, thank you.

> Regarding "regarding quitting", since Google and Microsoft are huge corporations, your reply acknowledges that it can be effective for employees to protest without (or before) actually quitting, in order to change policy. Which is what you are seeing here.
Why then are you saying that it isn't effective?

One can quit and then tell the world about what's going on. That would make the prevailing narrative very convincing.
Or one could continue to collect their paycheck while at the same time protest. Making their narrative extremely skewed, even hypocritical.
Regardless of what it was, it is really cool to see someone do a follow up on their experience being an early adopter of a technology in their business.

You see so many "why we're choosing this" and not so many "how it went a few years down the line" posts.
But how would I know the line number of what I wanna jump to without display line number on? I.e I'm on line 100, want to pop down to a function on 202 (a line I haven't visited yet).
Then why restrict it to public universities? Give private universities and pharmaceutical companies funding as well, with the stipulation that research resulting from that funding be public domain. Public universities are not special entities in this (which is the GP's point).
Have you seen TPOT [0]? AutoML library that uses genetic algorithms to write scikit code for you. So fun.

[0] https://github.com/EpistasisLab/tpot
Why is it bad? People (or companies) become aware of products that may solve their needs. Marketing does not mean "shut off your brain and buy our product" - it can simply be to raise awareness. You still need to do your own personal due diligence on any product or service you purchase.
I don't do web programming, but that sounds extremely minor compared to practices taught in a lot of books.
Turns out that life or death has very small demand elasticity.
I would say that "I can/might go to the store" go to the store having different tenses is what we mean when we say "can" and "might" are lexixally T.

Even restricting ourselves to the syntactic features, I have still never seen an arguement for or against English having a syntactic future tense feature that did not come down to UG, or a disagreement about which model is simpler, and neither side is convoluted enough for me to confidently invoke Occam's razor.
so hard to read that text
Why leave yourself? Just let them fire you and get the severance pay.
The main reason though is that these other methods outperform neural nets in tons of different situations. Even just from an accuracy / business success metric point of view, many problems are just better solved with other classes of models, domain-specific feature engineering, etc. It will probably remain so for many decades at least.
> I'd be more annoyed at that page if they didn't explain the situation, but they do.

Actually, they don't. The article claims that arrays don't exist, but you can use lists instead.

Apparently the polar opposite is true: lists don't exist, but you can use arrays instead! (And they're called "lists" for whatever reason).
Introduction to Markov Chains (2018)
The quest for profit has resulted in companies giving us the ability to curate everything we see even when we think we're getting a random selection of the latest news. Every time we go online we remake the world in our own image, only reflecting ourselves. I'm tired of the constant stream of news stories designed to make me feel smugly correct or spark righteous fury. I'm tired of being told I'm right every moment of every day.
Skirmishing between India and Pakistan could escalate
I’ve seen this mentioned before, including a blog post by the fast.ai folks. Any idea where I can get details?
If my tabular data set is small, what kind of embedding can I get out of it? Or is the idea that a larger data set is used for embeddings of categorical data?
A closer analogy might be credit card transactions, it's a protocol that tons of people use on a daily basis but the complexity has been wrapped up into a product offered by a several companies
Policemen, Firemen, and Doctors are at least doing worthwhile work: usually saving lives and protecting the public.

Tech workers are merely making their CEO and some shareholders rich. They should only be working those long hours if it's going to benefit them, and they like the tradeoff.

I'm not implying that it's OK to overwork Doctors / Firemen / Policemen: simply stating that there's real good in the world they do, whereas most tech companies are net loss for humanity, and not worth the work.
As markets get more crowded and people’s attention span shorter it really helps to think more about branding and positioning.

Interesting read: Positioning, the battle for your mind
The Irish Data Protection Commission Annual Report
Paypal is doing this now, in partnership with the SPLC.
W3Fools has updated their stance:

"Today, W3Schools has largely resolved these issues and addressed the majority of the undersigned developers' concerns. For many beginners, W3Schools has structured tutorials and playgrounds that offer a decent learning experience. Do keep in mind: a more complete education will certainly include MDN and other reputable resources."

https://www.w3fools.com/
How does the Fed interest raise helps with more money flowing into the US?

I mean okay, money flows into US "saving accounts", but due to higher interest rate a lot of investments will be put on hold, no?

The Fed raised the target federal funds rate, which is the rate of the interbank overnight repo market, which is basically the "back office" clearing house between the accounts of creditors and debtors. And all of this means that the NY Fed's trading desk does a lot of open market transactions to reach that goal. (It converts cash in banks' reserve accounts into US Treasury bonds, thus forcing banks to increase their reserves - to meet requirements, hence forcing banks to loan reserves from other banks, which pushes up the overnight repo rate.)

How does this effect the US Treasury bond auction rate? (In theory banks [and other primary dealers that participate in the auction] just use loans (excess reserve) to buy bonds, so if excess reserve is less, then fewer banks are able/willing to buy bonds, so yes, that pushes up rates, but the target-FFR increase only affected US banks, and US T-bills are bought by a lot of foreign entities.)
I might be reading your comment incorrectly but why is this bad? There are a lot of ideas in the bible that are not relevant or helpful at all, the self actualization themes are at least useful.
For those interested in what can happen, I'd recommend watching Psycho-Pass [0], which revolves entirely around a civilization with citizen score. Good stuff happens (nobody locks their homes anymore), but potential criminals are taken out with no form of judgement whatsoever (à la Minority Report).

Edit: and also, shorter and not any less scary, that one episode of Black Mirror [1]

[0] https://myanimelist.net/anime/13601/psycho-pass

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosedive_(Black_Mirror)
If your electrical wiring is not super old and you are OK with transfer speeds between 100MBPS and 1GBPS consider powerline ethernet adaptors instead of running Ethernet cable depending on the difficulty of your runs. I have 100 MBPS internet service and I can saturate it using a powerline adaptor. I've also been able to cover my entire house with a single Unifi wifi access point plugged into a powerline adaptor by locating the access point in the center of my house on the first floor.
https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-powerline-networking-...
Amazon will happily ship you a disk : https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/disk/details/
Americans Are Literally Flushing Canada’s Forests Down the Toilet
I think OP would like a phone sold with Lineage. That's what I'd like as well: officially supported, on warranty, with guaranteed updates.
There’s nothing wrong with increased costs per se. If people are willing to pay it, let them! The problem is when there are substantial externalities not reflected in the price, as is the case with electricity sourced from fossil fuel.
That’s kind of rude to people who didn’t earn it.

I spent hours on the phone talking to these people when they realized my closed loan was still affecting my ability to get a car and they went up and down trying to get someone to fix it.

Maybe they were just typing in numbers into a computer and hitting transfer but they’re still people doing a job.

I wouldn’t feel to good taking someone’s information, going over the process with them then having them call back in a week to tell me never mind we have to do it all over again.
Bitcoin has a lot of problems which are individually fatal to the whole enterprise. It would be a terrible idea even if it were so intuitive a goldfish could use it.
Whoever is governing has always had the opportunity to influence others, because whatever media of the time reports in some way about what is happening at the governing levels of society.

This is not a 2019 problem.
I would assume your email address is mistakenly flagged by anti-spam system, and proceed accordingly.
These conversations inevitably turn towards population control. Here's the thing: we started this process of global warming when we had a lot less people on the planet, and it would continue even if we cut the population in half. If the science is correct – and I personally think it is – we have something like a decade to get onto a different trajectory. While reaching sustainable population levels in the long term is in vital, population control is not going to address the crisis in the next ten years. Even if we cut the population in half. And, how on earth would you even do that without throwing the world into turmoil?

There's no escaping the fact that the developed world emits more carbon per capita than the rest of the world. To me, it's obvious: the developed world needs to become drastically more efficient with carbon, and it needs to do it yesterday. We need to lead the way, and we need to pay for it. It makes no sense to put this on the backs of the developing world – who are already suffering the consequences of our emissions.

If I had to put it on a bumper sticker, it would be: "It's Agriculture, stupid." Conventional agriculture damages topsoil, and destroys forests, which are two of the most effective carbon sinks we have. When you combine that with the amount of petrochemicals involved in conventional farming, along with fuel burned freighting food halfway across the world on a daily basis (how are those out-of-season cherries?), we're just beginning to come to terms with just how big of a contributor our food system is to global warming.

Here's my list of what we should be doing:

1) Carbon tax

2) Eating less meat, and less out-of-season produce

3) Repairing soil and forests through conservation and more sustainable farming

4) Letting people work remotely to cut down on car and air travel

5) Massive public and private investment in infrastructure

6) Universal access to family planning
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Can't wait until Trump reads this and thinks this is a great idea to bring to the states.
How much do you expect wages to rise in a month?
Bisq sort of solves that problem.
The point is that it is multi-lateral circular shipping as a result of incentives - following them doesn't speak well to their character but it is a systemic problem.
So, Verizon bought LastPass? I'm not sure I can interpret the PR marketing copy here correctly.
This comment is not relevant to the content of the letter, but why on earth am I reading this letter in a low-res PNG?
Opportunity knocks only once.
> Strange you trust a middleman more than an a actual first-party tier-1 bank (your Revolut UK account is a Lloyds account).

No it isn't, the money is just held in a Lloyds or Barclays account. Revolut are not a fully-regulated bank, they're an Electronic Money Institution. The same as TransferWise. If you trust Revolut, you're also trusting a middleman.
AFAIK that suid binary was used to enable starting the X server without a display manager. It still actually ran as non-root.
Europe is the next big cloud customer since they're always behind US for tech adoption.
It also makes it harder to keep, say, 2000 untaxed pigs, plus the 1000 pigs you pay tax for. Then sell the untaxed as one of the 1000 official pigs, but each official pig gets sold 3 times, each to 3 slaughter houses. If everything is publicly recorded, such as on a blockchain, you can't get away with that as easily.
I'm not a pilot.

But with the fact that "somehow" they got airborne, I give them the benefit of doubt re: landing.
"isoltae machine" until investigation completes - Sentinel removed spell checker (malware?) or maybe it's just accenture being accenturer? =D
This kind of exemplifies the classic startup tension between playing by the rules and ignoring the rules for the sake of moving fast, breaking things, and capturing market share. Paul Carr on Uber: "
Laws don't exist merely to frustrate the business ambitions of coastal hipsters: They also exist to protect the more vulnerable members of society." https://pando.com/2012/10/24/travis-shrugged/
Wow he really comes across as someone who doesn't know how to lead.
Deeds deemed good by the CCP.
I find these two sentiments very strange in conjunction (complete abstinence from Windows, and the call to get away from your computer.) Did you mean for the second to be the opposite of the first?
It reminds me that I once worked for a manager who sets deadlines on Mondays instead of Fridays, so you still had the weekend to finish it.

As with any such managers, the deadlines are set by their own optimistic guesswork, not by the people actually doing the job (and knowing how to do the job).

Did I mention I workED for that manager?
Great show in general, but it might not be a good start for someone who is not familiar with anime.
Subaru Recalls Cars as Some Perfumes Cause Malfunctions
Nasa Is Building a Space Station in a Weird Orbit
Hollywood and Hulu accounting revealed in arbitration over profits of show Bones
'Need' is a relative term. If you ask me what I need, I'll say I need a house to live in, air to breathe, water to drink and food to eat.
If you ask Mark Zuckerberg what he needs, he'll say "All that can be counted".

Mark Zuckerberg has much more money than you or me. So when it comes to valuing things on the open market, his opinion of what 'Need' means matters a lot more.
Teardown: Casper’s Clever Little Nightlight
You could

* run HDMI cables from a rack in the utility room so you can feed content all over the house

* Run audio optical likewise

* Ethernet to access points at strategic points (each end of the house perhaps, or one on every floor as needed)

* Wire digital cameras over doors so you can record/monitor access when you're not at home. Include necessary IR illumination for night viewing

* Steam clean all carpets

* Inventory smoke alarms and update

* Get a home appliance whole-house warranty if the house is more than 3 years old.
My capital one card does that too.
> Most of the issues with "international banking" are infact just issues with North American banks.

This. Whenever someone says that Cryptocurrencies solve money transfer problems, I look where they are based and 99% of the cases it is the US. In Europe, transferring money is the same internationally as it is nationally. Type in the IBAN and the name of the recipient and they get it the same day, or latest the next day. I made seven figure international payments that went through in 24 hours.

This is not a technical problem that Cryptocurrencies are somehow uniquely placed to solve. Technically, a money transfer could take miliseconds - updating a couple of database rows. National payments in Europe at least are actually pretty much instant since they are now fully automated. International payments can take up to a day due to an actual human checking the correctness (and perhaps doing due diligence for money laundering).
So that $28 billion in tax revenue they talk about. How does that jive with all of the statements that Amazon paid $0 in tax through savvy use of the laws?

Ignorance? Wishful thinking? Marketing? I'm honestly not trying to be political, just wondering where they're getting that from.
I agree on that one, I'm rusty at ada, bad pun, but someone should profile and fix it. The n body one is half the speed of rust and it is hand tweaked using simd instructions. I wouldn't mind at all goin back to Ada. Most of the people that switched to c++ did so in order to have a larger hiring pool or to seem more modern. Some of them are switching to safety critical Java now for the same reasons. I suspect safety critical python is on the horizon. If airliners have to start worrying about python 2/3 headaches I'll know it is time to retire.
What Is a Living Style Guide?
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A more comprehensive list https://www.openbsd.org/innovations.html
> Commits often touch files for completely arbitrary reasons, so the last commit tells you almost nothing

That is mostly true if you are casually browsing a repository you are interested in. It is definitely not true if you are a contributor/owner of the repository.
Beyond that, the author has completely missed that the electoral college protects us from things like the five most populous counties in America selecting our President for us and limits the effects of massive voter fraud. cough Illinois cough
The vast majority of health care is not life or death.
> Gnome created a hard dependency on systemd and thus can't be used any longer on openbsd.

This isn't true, OpenBSD has GNOME 3.30.2 in ports. It maintains patches to keep it working for users, who can install it with the meta package: pkg_add gnome

6.4 has 3.28.2 in packages: https://www.openbsd.org/64.html

Antoine Jacoutot is the maintainer.
The codebase at my job is usually complex - Python, Ruby and Go, along with JavaScript/Typescript and a little bit of Java and R. I used to be in the "all programming languages are basically the same" camp but jumping back and forth between technologies has given me more appreciation for the details. Some knowledge I've wished I had at my fingertips: semantics of Go channels including all the edge cases, the scoping semantics of Ruby blocks, anything in the JavaScript standard library, the ecosystem of Java build tool and helper libraries. Having to stop and look up things lowers my development velocity compared to a specialist. In the other hand, as a generalist I can trace a request across component boundaries and go as deep as needed into a system to diagnose issues. So I think it depends on what kind of projects you are working on. A "serial generalist" that goes from one tech to the next is always going to be behind the curve, but that isn't really what I would think of as a full stack developer, either.
The main point is that I listed 3 requirements/wants. Your example of Vue.js or Aurelia sacrifices the requirement for server-rendering.
> Server Side Rendering is a new feature of the Aurelia framework, intended for use by early adopters.
https://aurelia.io/docs/ssr/introduction#how-it-works
"Revolut is the only bank I know of that does free fx conversions, it's a huge feature and money saver for people that have bank accounts in different countries"

I am interested in what you mean by "free" - I think you mean that they charge no fee for the currency conversion but what about the conversion rate ? Are you suggesting they give you the current, spot rate with no basis points charged at all ?
Why are you restricting this to Europe?
Amazon pays $0 corporate income tax. They pay huge amounts of other taxes.
That figure comes from the taxes paid by the people they employ
> Do a root cause analysis, find out what is wrong, fix THAT wrong thing. Don't ask Alice to threaten Bob!

I'm cynical enough to assume that the KPI targets, deadlines etc. in this case are deliberately set beyond reasonable expectation to use as leverage when coercing people to work for free. Management in that case is not incompetent, just scum.