skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could also argue that Apple is "too vertically integrated" and separate them into either a Laptop / Phone company or a Hardware / software company. Or break out music / media / Beats into it's own company too.
So basically big companies will no longer have any reason to work on open source projects anymore if they can't fund them with "unrelated services?" You can head over to github, clone the AOSP tree, and do whatever the heck you want with it. Separately, Google has developed the Play ecosystem, and several of its own apps for Android. If you want you phone to have that stuff, you tell Google and you join the Open Handset Alliance or whatever its called now. If you don't, you start from AOSP (as does Amazon, for example) and don't give Google the time of day. So they give away a massive boost to anyone who wants to make a mobile device, and somehow that's a bad thing?
I moved to Austin in 2008 when I was working at IBM. I was working at the IBM site in Dallas at the time, and my team was moved to Austin. I nearly didn't go. I knew I didn't want to stay at IBM forever and figured it would be harder to get a tech job in Austin since it is a smaller city.

Well I was wrong. I left IBM in 2012 and have had no problems finding jobs since them. In fact I was laid off at the end of last year. I wasn't even really looking as I wanted to take some timeoff, when a recruiter called me for my current position.

Overall I like Austin. It is more expensive that other Texas cities, but not ridiculously so. The winters are a bit warmer than Dallas so I like that, and the summers are about the same. Lots of stuff to do in the cites. Lots of smaller bands play here and you can get into those shows for not much. However we are also big enough to draw some of the larger acts to.

We have a minor league Hockey, Basketball, and Baseball team. Which is nice because the tickets are still affordable. UT College football is a bit of a religion here, if you like football.

A couple of the things I don't like. Our public transportation is terrible. The population is growing faster than the infrastructure can handle. Any new roads that get built or expanded are toll roads, because the state refuses to raise taxes so it doesn't have money to pay for them. Lastly people in this town drink a lot, and I mean a lot. It is pretty much a sport. DUI is a big problem here. Thankfully Uber and Lyft came back after the city ran them off.
Yes, this is just a special case of the fact that when you look at something N light years away, you're seeing the object as it was N years ago. You're always seeing the past, never the present! Most of the time in everyday life it's infinitesimally close to the present, though.
I understand that she feels thankful to Julian Assange, and doesn't want to harm him, but I don't see why she should be allowed to choose not to testify.

"Because I testified in a different trial years ago" isn't terribly convincing.
FTA: "Faster-growing, rapacious societies might peter out before they could touch all the stars."

I don't get this reasoning. The way I see it: every solar system that gets settled is a fresh roll of the dice. Every newly colonized system increases the odds that at least one of these settlements will not self-destruct.

Polynesia is a great analogy. While Easter Island is suffering, Hawaiʻi, Tahiti and hundreds of other islands might still be going strong.
Economists traditionally analyze market concentration in terms of market share, not the mere existence of choice. I will point out that you felt the need to qualify "choice" with "reasonable"--because Comcast competes with DSL and cellular almost everywhere. But that some qualifier applies to search. Even in markets where Comcast is the only cable provider, it usually doesn't have anything close to 90% market share, because DSL and cellular are a "reasonable choice" for quite a lot of people. (About half of households don't subscribe to any streaming video service.) Thus, judging by market share, Google alternatives are apparently even less viable in the search industry than DSL and cellular are in the home broadband industry.
Yes you are correct. We are also working on our turbofan. Way better sfc, quieter and cooler exhaust.
I kind of agree with the article. I think of meritocracy as just another way to promote exploitation of people, hard work, submissive attitudes, acceptance of inequality. Basically every capitalist's dream society.

But it's pretty bizarre that people actually believe that being exploited is just hard work they have to do to get ahead and not being able to meet basic needs to live a normal life is just not working hard enough or not being talented enough to deserve a normal life.

It's morally acceptable to believe in meritocracy only as long as everyone's basic needs are met and they can't be exploited.
Which assumes that we know what "colonised" looks like.

The entire premise is rather bizarre.

"Let's send out probes that make probes that send out more probes until we've covered the galaxy!"

"But... why would anyone do that?"

It seems obvious until you think about it - and then it stops being obvious.

So you cover your galaxy with probes that keep sending probes back and forth. So what? What have you actually achieved?

If you assume massively superhuman intelligence, what are the odds there are more interesting goals for a civilisation to aim for?
my understanding of (modern) art is that it's an avenue to explore/uncover cutting-edge and uncomfortable ideas, which is why it's often described as being "edgy". it can be seen as empathetic insofar as it makes us confront our own emotions toward others in relation to those others.

and the "goodness" of art is about consensus around the level of interestingness of the ideas behind it (ideally; of course, social considerations make that murky).

so it's not art if there is no interesting ideas behind it, or if people find it banal. if i hold up my starbucks coffee cup and say it represents hegemony and should be considered high art, well, no one will really care.
Ask HN: Are there actually any good PaaS solutions for Kubernetes?
This isn't really a "doom" article, the gist of it is that VC investment is down and some of China's unicorns have failed.
I can't be random. I can only be arbitrary.
I feel like it's an extension of the "Love is evil" rant that Slavoj Zizek put together [1]. The structure is similar, the conclusions are the same.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJPhA9TGRls
Oh, but don't forget that one congregation of dust particles that flew by us really fast, which _might_ (who am I kidding - we all know it's 100%!) have been an alien probe.

Oumuamua is what it's been called.
Those are daily numbers, the parent said “at any given time”, so both of your numbers seem to match.
I believe the last time anyone outside of Austin heard anything about transportation in Austin -- public or otherwise -- it was that they had banned Uber for some reason. What's the latest on that?
I mean... it's not great. But it's only a few hundred dollars worth of carbon offsets, which is considerably less than the existing tax on the jet fuel.
Telco, Walmart, any company that would rather have a big brand with name association on the hot seat instead of them.
I think there's more appetite now because the housing crisis in CA has really reached a tipping point (IMO). There's plenty of inflow into cities like Vegas from CA. Housing prices have rebounded but still relatively speaking cheap.
I'd expect an airline is one of the safest place you could sit regardless of which section you're in.
Lobbying is tracked and google spent over 33% more than Comcast - in your own words - bribing members of Congress.

Probably because they saw what happened when Microsoft tried to ignore Washington, DC. altogether. Can you blame Google for realizing that they couldn't just turn their backs on the game?
To add to your counter-examples, Apple is spending $1 billion to build a gigantic campus in NW Austin. Also, PayPal and eBay have been here since at least 2008 and various PayPal pivotal technical teams were evenly or majorly present in Austin. Google is buying more property here for additional technical teams and Amazon has a fairly large technical presence (e.g. PrimeNow) in N. Austin. Edit: $1 billion, not $5 .
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OFC that is the measure. If they have lobbied for things that actually make our life better or make it worse. Lobbing is inevitable and Desirable too.
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what about Fury 3?!
> Without it, we probably couldn't even have phones that look anything like the ingots we tickle—the whole notion of touchscreen typing, where our podgy physical fingers are expected to land with precision on tiny virtual keys, is viable only when we have some serious software to tidy up after us.

This is a nice dramatic sounding intro, but it is really exaggerated. Along the lines of "Nobody can survive without social media in the modern world". Of course you can live without it. Stop trying to inflate a minor inconvenience that you can get used to to "impossible".

I never had autocorrect and I recently found the option to switch of the "suggestions" in the top bar of my phone keyboard. It is heaven. Sure, I have to spend some time fixing my typos, but it's way faster than to fix a completely wrong suggested word that I accidentally touched.
> It’s probably “we now have two idle supersonic jets”.

It's likely not. This kind of thing takes a lot of planning and coordination.
A large part is the fact that memory access is comparatively slow. Getting the data to the core is the challenge. Most processing is so fast that the operation you want to perform is latency-limited by IO issues. Some have suggested offloading compilation to other machines; this works, but efficiency depends on having large enough compilation jobs that this results in net benefit. Similar arguments apply to data analysis - moving the data is too expensive, so you move the code to the data instead.
Hart's paper attempts to cover the idea of "sociological" phenomena like this.

I think from an evolutionary biology standpoint, it seems dubious that such a thing could evolve -- even considering a software solution, software that more rapidly propagates will be more common then software that does not.

They might not want to talk to us, but members of that species that actively convert planets into computational substrates would be the more common variants just because on these kinds of timescales they would not have competition.
No, the free version only allows 40 mins group calls.

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College and University databases.
Related:

http://www.levarburtonpodcast.com/

Episode 5, "What it means when a man falls from the sky" by Lesley Nneka Arimah

Perhaps there are just too many variables.
Performance Analysis of VPN Gateways (2018) [pdf]
Unless her intent is to not testify. In that case, her demand that the proceesings be open would just be a bluff that she can make because she knows it won't happen. She still gets held in contempt for not testifying, but can claim some moral highground by shifting fault to the court.

And she very well may never testify. She need only wait out the grand jury; and since she had expirience in prisin before making this choice, it seems entirely possible that she will out wait them.
I have another question to add to this list (part of your question #2 actually): how is dating in Europe for an American?
I think it's already starting to become a thing; I was impressed with the presentation these guys did at a local meetup: https://www.lucedaphotonics.com/en
The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
The Grand Jury is supposed to see and hear the witness first-hand, in order to evaluate her and her credibility.

That's actually an important due process issue in favor of the accused.
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Ever tried vibrams?
I predict that in this thread it will be easy to distinguish between users who read the article vs those who read the headline. If the translations are accurate he also commends the group of female officers for their work.
Story I was told from someone who worked on the early-2000's "Tablet PC":

Microsoft's team originally produced a new touch-first interface that wasn't entirely different from the eventual iPad. They took it to various corporate customers, and the response was unanimous: it needs to run Real Windows or it has no future. Facepalm. So they went back to Redmond and changed it to be Windows on a touchscreen. It met all stated customer requirements, technically, but of course it was clumsy and people didn't really see the benefit over a laptop, and it never took off.

Sounded to me like the classic "faster horse". It's not so much that they needed to make everything a PC, and more that they were such experts at enterprise sales that they didn't have confidence in their own new ideas.
Canada. I've never heard of anyone but myself experiencing this issue though.
What's an alternative model for telecommunications operation to what's in place today? We broke up Ma Bell, and now we're thinking about breaking up her descendants.

Even if Comcast et al. get broken up, we'll probably just end up with poor customer service from the resultant components until they merge.
Hospital bills in the US are a scam, they give huge discounts to insurance companies, expecting to make a profit on any remaining amount, then insurance companies charge patients only a part of that while covering the rest.
But a civilization doesn't have to 'aim for' that. If you can create the first probe, it does the rest. The right question is, what are the chances that nobody in any civilization ever, thought to create that first probe?

If we can think of it (and here we are, thinking of it) then why wouldn't any other civilization contain a member that thinks of it? Because humans are the greatest smartest species in the galaxy? Now that would be a far-fetched idea.
Ludwig train and test deep learning models without the need to write code
There are some homeless drug addicts in our neighborhood and I would not be surprised at needles at night or early morning in some nooks or gutters here or there, but the only place I have seen needles in the middle of the day on the sidewalk is near Civic Center.

Still, even if there were regularly needles lying around, the chances of stepping on a needle are vanishingly small. (Have you ever stepped on a needle while wearing shoes? People going barefoot are paying a lot closer attention to the ground.) The chances of picking up something from that are much smaller still. Needles pass diseases when people re-use them to inject stuff into their blood, not when they accidentally step on one.

If worried about disease, there is probably a (still very tiny but) significantly higher risk of stepping on disease-carrying poop while having a cut on the foot.
To live in a one bedroom apartment near downtown Austin I was looking at around $1,800-$2,000. I thought that was about what I would pay in Seattle. Is there a way to quantify this with a published statistic?
Jobs had a steady job at Atari before he left to start Apple. I seem to remember he offered the first version of the Apple I (or maybe II?) to HP while he was there, but they turned him down.
I ran across two quotes by Warren that caught my attention:

> "unwind tech mergers that illegally undermine competition"

> "I want a government that makes sure everybody — even the biggest and most powerful companies in America — plays by the rules"

The word "illegally" in the first quote really set off my alarm bells. What have large companies like Amazon, Google, FB, etc. done that is considered illegal in this regard?

The "by the rules" in the second quote is confusing too. What does that mean? Which rules are being broken?

The way I see it: Isn't it the goal of entrepreneurs to be as successful as possible? Let's say I found a way to grow a business to that of the size of some of the bigger ones (which would be awesome). To grow a business that big, consumers obviously like what I'm selling/producing. I get the impression that Warren is saying she doesn't like big businesses because they snuff out the little ones. And maybe that's true, but why is that a concern of the government? There's nothing stopping a smaller company (or even an individual) from coming up with a really good idea and trying that idea out in something like his garage, and then reshaping the next generation... kinda like Amazon did in comparison to Sears. Or Microsoft did with IBM.

I'm sure there's going to be plenty of disagreements on my stance, but I guess I'm just not seeing this problem in the same light as Warren.
> Ultimately I'm just not satisfied with any estimate of CO2 emitted by flying in general.
> Has anyone here seen a decent model of CO2 output caused by flying?

The CO2 impact of flying, and of flying first-class, is understood incredibly well and quite simple to follow for first-order effects.

First, to calculate the emissions associated with the sector as a whole, you don't need any modeling. If you know how much of what fuel the sector as a whole consumes, you can determine co2 emissions directly from that fact. That's how those broader statistics are determined.

Second, losing one passenger impacts the fuel economy per person in a very negative way. Consider an Airbus A321, which is one of the more efficient commercial airplanes. Wikipedia states that its max takeoff weight is 93,000kg. Suppose it's configured to seat 220 people. That means 422kg of weight being transported per person. A typical airline seat weighs 11kg and an average adult is over 70kg. If you assume an average of 50kg per person for luggage, each person's marginal contribution to the weight being transported is 131kg. The rest is coming from moving the plane itself. So, if you replace two small seats with one big one, that one seat now goes from having a share of 422kg to (422 * 2 - 131) = 713kg. That's an increase of 69%.

Edit: I realized I'm looking at max capacity for total weight but not max weights per passenger, which means my guess of the plane weight is overstated. But I also didn't account for the fact that first class also requires more flight attendants on the flight. These two things counter each other. The net increase is likely something other than 69%, but that's not too far off.

Yes, there are other market impacts from using first class, but there's no basis for thinking those are anywhere close to the impact described above. (E.g., you can do the calculations for offsetting 50kg of cargo from another plane.)

What's a little less certain is the impact of radiative forcing. CO2 emissions are a dangerously _understated_ way to think about climate impacts of flying. CO2e (co2 equivalent) is more relevant. When you release water vapor, NOx, etc. into the atmosphere at higher elevations, there are all sorts of other impacts that occur at different timescales. The IPCC recommends multiplying by a factor of 2.7x to account for that. Other studies are a bit lower, maybe 1.9x, but there's general agreement that it's very bad. The specifics still need to be understood a bit better.

People have incredible wishful thinking when it comes to flying because it's so convenient. It is impossible to act responsibly towards the environment and engage in air travel with any form of technology that exists today or that we know of. It's hard to imagine many things more hypocritical than first-class passengers who also claim environmental concern.
It's worth remembering that up until 20 years ago, the unusual sexual activities in San Francisco was the main thing that San Francisco was known for. It was, for a long time, the epicenter of LGBQ activism, and especially AIDS activism. During the years from 1956 (when Allen Ginsberg published The Howl) to the start of the Internet boom in the 1990s, San Francisco made national headlines mostly because of the types of sex that was happening there.

San Francisco's national reputation had changed dramatically over the last 20 years, and especially over the last 10 years.

(I'm not implying that any of this is good or bad, I'm just stating a bit of history.)
What do you mean? Al Gore made an entire movie about climate change and Leo Di Caprio talked about climate change in his Oscar acceptance speech. GP is right about that.
I didn't believe you so I hit google. Several links later, including https://law.justia.com/constitution/us/amendment-05/08-power..., I am now convinced that you're right.

Thanks! I learned something today!

I also learned that immunity, when properly granted, protects you from both federal and state law. That has to be abusable...
Not the OP but I wonder if they meant that the small retirement towns (presumably Buda, San Marcos, Kyle, etc.) are now mostly single family commuters and thus much more expensive and crowded than before.
> I thought tailgating was pretty much a western thing

I've driven across country a few times and most of my genuine fear moments on the road came in Texas. In LA you get the sense that some asshole is late for a meeting or took too many uppers that morning. On Texas interstates it feels more like you're in a remake of Duel
I don't know, I've lived in Austin my whole life and I've always loved it. But I've also never lived anywhere else for any kind of comparison. But the traffic I've experienced visiting other cities really makes the traffic here seem not so bad, especially now that the Mopac construction has wound down.

But yes, it's frickin' hot. But I'm a homebody anyways :)
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They have this in Portland, OR, as well: https://cuddleuptome.com/
So what’s your plan to reduce oil consumption to the point of applying broad economic sanctions against every autocratic oil regime including Russia and Saudi Arabia, and how soon can you implement that? I guarantee you can implement it a lot faster if you replace that oil production from those regimes with added oil production from democratic oil-producing countries like the US and Canada.
NYC area traffic is bad but you have walkability, the subway, commuter rail systems, express bus lanes, etc. In my one visit to Austin it seemed like rush hour consisted of everyone cramming on to a couple highways and sitting. Are there good ways to avoid that?
According to Wikipedia :

DPT (also DTP and DTwP) is a class of combination vaccines against three infectious diseases in humans: diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), and tetanus.

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The usual course of childhood immunization in the USA is five doses between 2 months and 15 years. For adults, Td boosters are recommended every 10 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DPT_vaccine