skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, we can agree to disagree, but I think there are many reasonable arguments against this deal that have nothing to do with the RWDSU and everything to do with a lack of transparency and special treatment for a large powerful corporation.

Wouldn't it be better to have a competitive process with multiple bidders to redevelop LIC? Let's see what the market clearing price would be. I'd bet it would not involve subsidies.
A Survey on Applications of Game Theory in Blockchain
(1) is a great option to have on this type of ballot because it'll signal that NYers really do want Amazon to do business here. If most people voted to "do nothing", that'd be a strong signal that they just don't care about Amazon.
Completely standard in the US... I am surprised that's legal that they're not charging you for that (since it likely means they're not paying the restaurant that money)
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Yeah I couldn't agree more.
Consider your skills. A volunteer opportunity around your skills is a great force multiplier. Bing a Big Brother is great, but if you are really good at sales or tech or overseeing outsourcing companies or whatever -- you may be good enough to spend ~5hrs a month and contribute to an organization as much as a full time person might.

I volunteer at a number of helper places (e.g., DataKind) and you'll find organizations really seeking you out -- for advice. I was asked to be a board advisor on vendor selection. Basically, look over what type of skills/org they should hire for a task. How to ask for the right things. I'm sure you can do the same, use your core skill as a force multiplier.

I'm an advisor to a nature non profit. I love nature. I love that I dont have to "do" coding (I get enough of that during the day). But I can help them by finding coders, interviewing people, etc. Small helps that impact them a lot.
The actual title is link bait. On HN, people don't want to have to read through the whole article to reach a conclusion. In this case, it's perfectly valid to include the main point of the article - Bitcoin failed.

Do I sense another ulterior motive for you to force the title to change? I've definitely seen this behavior on Reddit.
What really made me sick was living in an apartment building and seeing the piles of Amazon boxes in the basement/recycling area. General consumption is a problem far worse that CO2 emissions. Our e-waste is destroying water supplies in the African nations it's all shipped to, where kids dig through old products for any salvageable metals and components. Resist the urge to buy useless stuff.
Thanks for the feedback on the density of GitLab’s UI. Agree that there is a balance to strike between providing enough information and maintaining scannability and ease of use. If you have specific feedback, please feel free to share it here or in a GitLab issue. We value feedback from the rest of the community.
Would be interesting if users were allowed to customize the ui depending on their needs actually, even if that was client side. — the more I think about this the more certain I am that there must already be a chrome extension that does that.
First, the MTA has plenty of money. They need to stop wasting it.

Second, the $500MM was coming from the state. It would not, and will never, see the coffers of the MTA.

Third, if $500MM is such a big deal then the $2.5B in non-special incentives are a much bigger deal, and are getting completely lost in the misinformation that the entire $3B was a special deal for Amazon and that they would have got $0 without the dog-and-pony show.
I suspect that an optimization problem I will have to face in a bit of time might be a good fit for Prolog. What would be the best resources for a quick, relatively high level overview/introduction, then a more involved guide for learning it?

This question has been asked elsewhere, but is there a way to pass data back and forth with other languages, and let them control the execution flow? A C interface would seem like a good IR to target.

My apologies if I used the wrong terminology, I am not intimate with the more academic nomenclature.
Wasn't the GDP number a bit of BS due to so much of it being inventory?
You gutted most of the features out of sight that I use as a developer, at least based on that screenshot. I am not a fan of hiding things behind countless links, so, I'm a no on this one.
> And Google makes a lot of money.

They make money by not spending it when they can get the same outcome for free[1]. Also, Search and Adwords make money, YouTube is getting by[2] (relatively). Why should other divisions subsidize a loss-making YouTube? Some channels don't make enough money relative to number of comments to be financially viable (no matter how cheap the moderators are) - Google has simply outsourced this decision to individual channel owners.

1. Google user's do a lot of things for free already, e.g. Map POIs

2. My guess - they don't breakout YT's income/expenses in fincancial reports https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-sec-wants-to-know-why-...
Maybe eventually news outlets will have enough information about you that they will figure out how to serve you better.

I mostly use Apple News for reading news and after a few months of marking stories as good or bad, it's getting better and better at showing me stuff I actually want to see.
I am trying to learn German and gender is infuriating there. Why? Because you can't simply scan an existing sentence and color-code the words based upon simple heuristics to guess the gender.

The first thing you learn is that three genders are indicated in the nominative case using der (masculine) / die (feminine) / das (neuter).

So you see "der" in a sentence and that thing must be masculine, right? Nope, because "der" is feminine in the dative case.

The gender system in German wouldn't be such garbage if the articles weren't overloaded. Imagine if in your type system "float" could mean two different types, and you needed more information to figure out which type it is (like, for example, memorizing the type of the object its referring to). It breaks the idea of locality.
I don't trust this company after watching Adam Ruins Everything.
No, the majority opinion in this case was based on Colorado's active animus towards the bake shop's religious beliefs during their proceedings, during which they compared his beliefs to defending slavery or the Holocaust.

It's entirely possible a more neutral proceeding would've been upheld. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2018/06/0...

> There is no majority that would have found for the baker absent the discriminatory comments by the commission; in fact, Kennedy strongly hints he might have gone the other way had the commissioners maintained their neutrality. By the same token, there were only two justices who would side against someone discriminating against gay customers no matter the specifics of the case.
> But, it's not monoculture. At all.

Then this part from the article didn't happen.

>The lack of diversity doesn’t stop at work — it permeates every aspect of life. Everyone wears Patagonia and North Face, everyone has AirPods hanging from their ears, and everyone goes to Lake Tahoe on weekends. And everyone talks about the same things: startups, blockchain, machine learning, and startups with blockchain and machine learning.
As a counterpoint, it is easy to spend more than $90 on a "dumb" lamp and bulb, depending on your style preferences and where you shop. There will always be a market for higher-end products.

Another way to look at this is Casper's business model. Casper mattresses are cheaper than equivalents sold at the likes of Mattress Firm (AFAIK), although not as inexpensive as IKEA. When you look at it this way, Casper's accessories (sheets, night stands, lamps) can be a way for them to sell complimentary products, at the same time they sell you a mattress, at a higher margin.
Just because one went up when the other went doesn't mean that there's a causal relationship.

If we assume it is causal and the trend continues, you can expect belts to start tightening. I don't know if you've ever worked at a company that wasn't turning a profit (and isn't living on the borrowed time of VC money), but I have, and it sucks. Hiring freezes, wage freezes, wage reductions, staffing reductions. All kinds of fun.
I would not write it at all. Instead, I would write only the test cases, thereby documenting the requirements. I would then evolve the software using modern machine learning techniques which are capable of program synthesis: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.02353 The underlying implementation can keep changing but the requirements and tests don't change so much.
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> Those "armies of volunteers" aren't exactly interested in the region either.

I don't doubt your experience.

The talk is about disaster response, so it only describes maps in regions where a response is taking place.

Elsewhere, the rest of the time, I'm under the impression there is no serious mapping taking place, neither by Google or OSM.

What I found surprising from the talk I linked was instances where there was a hardly usable Google Map to use for the area (just big expanses on the map and the occasional large feature), and the fact that at times up to 1000 volunteers would work together mapping a region at short notice, down to street and building level, by analysing satellite images, and coordinating with responders on the ground.

In the opinion of those disaster responders, those volunteer created maps were much more useful than the Google ones.
> This is good advice for how to make money. But bear in mind that, if you try to build a personality for your company, you are choosing something for your customers that you would never choose for yourself.

Unfortunately, treating people like gullible children is a winning strategy. I can't think of any large company that treats their customers with decency and respect.
I really appreciate that. The fact that simple spellcheck catchable errors made it into the final piece is upsetting.

I need to give my editor (aka my wife) more time with the final before pushing live.
It's from Raymond Chen's "The Old New Thing" blog in a new design, hardly recognizable. It's a pity they changed the layout.

The trick is pure magic, never thought about it that way.
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Noun classes are advantageous. Gender happens to be a useful way to categorize nouns because mostly we like to talk about other people. Gender (and animacy -- "it" versus "s/he") split things up efficiently for many conversations, where, say, paper versus non-paper wouldn't.
There is a famous apple Newton commercial that talks about all the things it can do and will do.

Fifteen years later they reshot the same commercial and simply changed the name to “ipad” - fantastic proof of foresight.
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I love AWS.

Some things that I think can still happen on AWS, if not already happening:

VPC Images!

Basically a VPC launch button that has a series of terraform/*form rules that deploy a SaaS-in-a-box:

Meaning, VPC images of infra to support a business case.

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etc...
That's "not supported" in my book. How should English or Chinese developer know to split this? What about translating to other languages with different splits?

There's no system to handle this, so each special case must be embedded in the software itself, instead of properly doing it in internationalization package.

So - in effect - nobody even tries.
Unlike the old web hosting platfors, Cloud computing is becoming a big monopoly. Which is really bad for everyone.

We are in early stages and the monopoly will get worse.
> Outside of technology workers are still looked at as replaceable and expendable

I know HN users tend to have 'high horse' syndrome, but this is incredibly naiive. There are plenty of skilled jobs where workers are not easily replaced/expended. Physicians, RNs, higher education teachers/professors, many jobs related to architecture design, construction, etc.

> I’m not sure what is going to break the ceiling in this climate.

There's been recent success in the old school technique of 'striking'.
I suspected bolt invests in them, but I don't see them here: https://bolt.io/portfolio ...
Very nice project.

My only remark is that the GL suffix might be mistaken by a tiny OpenGL subset.
> I have zero expertise and no real design credentials.

> If these rules don’t click for you, then you probably have a long way to go in your UX journey.

You seem to establish yourself as knowing very little, but then belittle people that might know more than you if they disagree with your rules that you've just made up.

> Wiki and Insights are features I have never used on github and may never use. They should be hidden by default.

Just because you have never used them doesn't mean nobody has used them, and I read the next line about "intelligently" showing them (since when has a boolean comparison been considered intelligence?) if they've been used before; but then how do those features get discovered?

I only want to sound as rude as you were to the person whose work you've criticised for pageviews, so I'll leave it at: stick to DevOps.

> There is always a flexible solution which caters to both experts and novices simultaneously.

That's wrong, regardless of how bold you make the word always.
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This looks really cool! If it becomes possible to integrate with SmartThings, I might even be interested in buying one.
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>Does anyone believe we have gained more with this "democratisation" of publishing than we are losing to conspiracy theories, hoaxes, and populism?

I do. At least now we have grass-roots conspiracy theories, hoaxes, and populism. In the past, we had top-down conspiracy theories, hoaxes, and populism.

...Top-down conspiracy theories like "Communist Hollywood infiltration".

...Top-down hoaxes like the Gulf of Tonkin.

...Top-down populism, aka, industrial-grade astroturfing.

I'll take clowns on youtube over that any day!
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This was fascinating. Would love to see the underlying repo on github to study the workflow process. Thanks in advance.
Are you missing a 'not' ?
> Structure is really just a decision-acceleration process

This is exactly holacracy, teal, and other so-called "flat" leadership models are so inefficient. The power structure is there whether it's visible or not. Ignore at your own peril.
> As a senior-devops engineer, I have zero expertise and no real design credentials. Yet I think I can still do better.

> Far be it from me to tell everyone else how to do their job, but here are some principles that seem intuitive to me, and maybe designers might consider them too.

> If these rules don’t click for you, then you probably have a long way to go in your UX journey.

I guess I have a long way to go on my UX journey.
IDK, where I am, "dimmable" bedside lights are not very common, and I'd like one. And also I have often considered getting a "wake up light" for winter mornings. If it can do that one weekdays only, that would be even better.

If both of those wants can be met in one, in a good-looking low-hassle product, then I'd pay for it.
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I understand your frustration, but please stop effectively spamming HN with these requests.
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I own both. Neither one has the information really in your line of sight (nor does any other car, unless they have HUDs). You have to move your eyes in a different direction, but it’s about the same effort. It takes a minute to get used to looking diagonally instead of down, and then it’s business as usual.
Anyone have any others they would recommend? I’ve set my bedroom lights to automatically turn on at sunrise, realizing how much I hate the sound of an alarm clock, but the light is just instantly way too bright. Would prefer something that gradually increases in brightness over fifteen minutes.