skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think there's a shortcut. There would have to be a massive change in approach. In my field of expertise, molecular biology, it;'s common to just run experiments over and over until you get a positive result- throwing away thousands of dollars in gels and other things along the way. This isn't even intellectually honest (it's fishing for significance) but it's what nearly everybody does to get publishable results.

As a response, I work at a company that is automating biology, with a goal of making much more reliable clean data for machine learning, but even then, it's very expensive. A decent robot arm costs well over $50K (I could build an equivalent for $1-2K, but at a cost of $100K of my time) and all the other equipment is often in the $100K+ range. Just to automate what you could hire a human to do for $75-100K a year!

So yeah, some scientists are doing it wrong, but even the folks doing it right are still wasteful. I think it's endemic to the enterprise, but we could still do better.
> With energy transition it's obvious

Is it obvious though? I find it's more ideological than an actual well thought out plan: https://quillette.com/2019/02/27/why-renewables-cant-save-th...

Which to me seems to be the case for most scenarios where government adds regulations on the market for the "greater good". In general I favor letting the market decide where things should head.

I'm not against government intervention to help those affected by changes catch up and adapt (even though I often disagree with the policies put in place to achieve this). But I do tend to oppose when the government tries to force the market's direction instead. If people drive the market to want to go cashless, the effort should be in helping everyone do so.
That is an important point, Google is the master of releasing things in half, this was a common practice in Tensorflow since the initial release, they basically removed a lot of things to release it and it became a Frankenstein base of code. Bazel is another example, inside Google it works amazingly, but the open source project is a pain in the ass.
It's named a.out, but that's just a legacy convention. It's still an ELF file.
I have never been to a place in India (except may be some suave modern urban folks who may follow things differently) where we did not have to remove footwear at doorstep
Pre-2017 under the old guidance, taking action to acquire foreign citizenship or recognition of such was considered a disqualifying condition for a security clearance. However, answering that you were willing to renounce your foreign citizenship was considered a mitigating factor. Willing is the key word here--the government wouldn't actually ask you to do this in the course of the security clearance process because renounciation of citizenship is a counter-intelligence signal to foreign states, which could lead to them targeting you for information, which the US government does not want. Further, for many countries (eg UK) renounciation is not valid unless done before certain officials in some specific process, so any forced renunciation of UK citizenship by some other country generally isn't recognized, meaning you can just reapply for another passport. Under the old guidance, you would be required to surrender any foreign passports you held as another mitigating condition.

Post-2017 new guidance proclaimed that confiscated passports should be returned immediately, and this language was added:

> By itself, the fact that a U.S. citizen is also a citizen of another country is not disqualifying without an objective showing of such conflict or attempt at concealment. The same is true for a U.S. citizen’s exercise of any right or privilege of foreign citizenship and any action to acquire or obtain recognition of a foreign citizenship.

So generally speaking, it's not a disqualifying event to hold dual citizenship, so long as the foreign country is not "at conflict" with the US and some other conditions are met.

I'm not an expert, but this is my understanding of the current status.
Not to mention 50 constituent states, each of which has in turn legislative, executive, and judiciary branches.
I've always taken exception to this way of thinking. Assuming for a second that the regulations are _good_, for instance that companies must DELETE (really delete) all data after 90 days, why should I care if a Johnny-come-lately can't compete? The regulation is good for the consumer right?

You may then say that the assumption is big, and the regulations will be of a different (worse) nature. Well, then it's the regulation that is the problem, not the fact that only moneyed entities can afford to implement them.
No, you get a file named a.out by default, but it's not in that format.
Or just quit your job as a surgeon, when you realize that you're making much less then some bullshit-jobber.
A flaw in American street design may be costing lives
>walking home while the sun is still out

While the rest is all true and great, this one isn't true in western Europe for a good chunk of the year. Remember, Europe is at a higher latitude than the US, so the days are really short in the wintertime. Expect it to get dark by 4pm or so.
> Losing IP to what would become a 'public utility' would discourage me from ever trying to develop beyond the 24.9bn mark.

(it wouldn't be a public utility but) I feel like that's kind of the point? Encourage dozens of smaller (if multi-billion counts as "small") businesses to thrive rather than one 25bn+ business. And if you do want to go big, you have to do it in a way that lifts up significantly smaller businesses.
You right of course, but Hearthstone is a card game. If it were an actual card game you would buy packs just like people did thirty years ago. There's not much to do in the way of cosmetics in a game like that.
Some companies just have business models that only work if the quality of life for the world as a whole declines. They focus on extracting value for a few at the expense of the many (many of which don't realize what's happening).

Facebook is one of them. Its entire business revolves collecting and selling information about its users. One day, the information released in this way will be recognized as the obviously harmful stuff that it was all along. We're not there yet, though.
Amazon has competition, but what competitor can afford to intentionally lose millions or billions a year in order to dominate a market segment?
Windows 95 also had Hover! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hover%21

A while back they made an online version: http://www.hover.ie/
> Google prioritizing their reviews above Yelp in search results

This is one reason I use Google. I can view all Google review w/out downloading an app. I'd classify Yelp reviews in browser search as nothing more than an ad.
>Google is, well google. I don't have to use their search engine if I don't want to.

When threads like this come up I always wonder how the engineers who worked on Bing must feel. I'd feel pretty disheartened if people had such a low opinion of my product that my competitor was considered a monopoly.
For me: 1989-1998 -- exact same school lunch

1998 - 2009 -- exact same school lunch but different from 1989 - 1998.

1998 - 2016 -- exact same breakfast 7 days a week

2019 - exact same breakfast for last 2-3 months
Somehow donkey.bas always gets overlooked :)
No it's just the file name. If you run `file` on it, it'll tell you it's an ELF image.
The name has stuck for some reason, but actually the output format is ELF.
The scuttlebutt is that FB is basically LifeLog, a DARPA/CIA/NSA type project that morphed into this product but still has the same mission as before.

I'm skeptical, but I guess it makes sense given my observations about how corporations are now doing the heavy lifting for autocracy that the US govt. was historically constrained from engaging in. It's a public/private parternship to create tyranny.

Not what we want.
Doesn't work for most games though. Nearly every "WoW killer" in the last decade has gone free to play because subs couldn't sustain them.
This is false and shows a lack on education to say it .. It is well-documented that the pattern of 'taking oil by force' was so obvious and conflict-enhancing, that the American foreign policy, military policy, and dollar-based oil trading market participants, went to great lengths to create ways to use soft-power in international oil deals.

The poster child of this approach is the Saudi Arabia oil trading partnership of decades, where the increasingly wealthy Saudi state oil company have a control and share of profits that increases over time. Read a few wikipedia articles or this :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prize:_The_Epic_Quest_for_...

It is true however, that Venezuala appears to be headed to breaking this pattern. It is related to the Hugo Chaves / Cuba / SAmerican Marxism fights and there are a lot of hard liners on both sides.
Do it -- it's just a docker run away: https://github.com/sagemathinc/cocalc-docker
The demo video of his jetpack was shot in Monaco, not the US.
> According to Cook, there are certain in-demand skills that students may not learn in college — namely, coding.

Yes, for example studying for one of those degrees, that well... are unrelated to CS.

While i agree that some could replace college with self-study, especially in the age of open-source, can't help but think that some of these high profile managers could say that college is not essential just because employees without college debt and with a non-standard resume could be willing to work for less.
You might be able to divide Amazon into two distinct pieces (retail and cloud services), but I don't know how you'd even start with a company like Google or Facebook. Most of the services offered by those two are only justified by the amount of data they provide for ad targeting. You can't take away those services without ruining their ad-revenue model.
Given that we're barreling towards environmental collapse, lowering Alaska's unemployment rate by a fraction of a percent or encouraging more lower 48 people to move there might not be our highest priority. High arctic industrial operations also contribute to albedo changes from soot settling on the ice. Intact ecosystems have value now and for generations to come. To destroy them because they're not overrun with tourists is incredibly anthropocentric.
Only if you map 0=right and 1=left.

Mapped the other way, 0=left and 1=right, the guesser gets it right ~43%.
Check cashing isn't banking though. I mean why aren't there banks that can be sustainable without overdraft fees? I get the idea of a fee if they cover a charge in which funds aren't available. But can't a debit card simply decline if no funds are available - hence the bank never covers an unfunded charge and thus never charges overdraft fees? Are there not other ways to monetize banking for low cash flow individuals?
Interviews do mostly use the real Skype, not Skype for Business.
Can you explain this any more?
When we see a statement like the one that CyberAgent official made, I can't help but think of the Banality of Evil. We're so focused as a society on economic growth - and surely, these employees have financial targets and objectives they've been given that add to that on a personal level for them - that thinking about the ethical implications of an exploitative business model seems unnecessary, and even foolish. "There's no time for that," one might say, or "that's not under the jurisdiction of my job title."

Well, bad news: it's not under the jurisdiction of anyone's job title. And not considering it brings us to... well, where we are today.
Or a Switch. My five year old loves Mario U on mine. I also built him a raspberry pi console with NES, SNES, SG, and PS1.
>a gallon or so of black coffee

Is this hyperbole or do you actually drink a gallon of coffee every day?
Only natural humans have "race", and thus only discrimination or bias between natural humans can be considered racism. "Persons" (in the legal sense) do not have "race".
Berlin wall? Imagine my distress at having tuned in to the modern world during the Watergate fiasco. My father had to explain to me that it was the name of a hotel and not some sort of earthworks.
If you click on their "Sources" link it shows a lot of links but then has this note: "This list is intended as a guide to sources of further information. The inclusion of an item in this list does not necessarily mean that its content was used as the basis for any specific Wolfram|Alpha result."

Basically trying to obfuscate where they are really getting the info.

Been thinking more on this...I think I have an idea how to do it: Wikidata has the USDA ID for a lot (but not all) of items. From there we can get the rest.
That time a customer reported an error in the map used by Flight Simulator
That's not the issue s/he brought up though.
SEEKING WORK.

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I'm a experienced frontend/backend developer, my last work was developing a full-fledged web analytics SaaS(imagine what would happen if Keen.io and Mixpanel had a baby), using Node.js, Redis and RethinkDB. I love to materialize avant-garde ideas using the best in tech. Let's talk? thelinuxlich@gmail.com
This is also the first idea I've seen that tries to deal with the free speech problem on the internet. A lot of platforms today apply varying amounts of censorship (like youtube's copyright takedown mess), but there isn't really anything we can do because it's a privately owned platform and they can do whatever they want. But when they control such a large amount of mindshare, we end up putting the idea of free speech at risk.

Perhaps the platform utility designation will let us enforce a kind of "content neutrality" instead.
I switched CoCalc from using appear.in to Jitsi a few months ago (when appear.in removed similar functionality), and Jitsi has been really amazing. There were some issues with Jitsi involving using too much CPU, but they've been fixed.
Good for them, I never really liked wearing shoes.
MezzFS – Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform
There's precedent to this in the USA. The US Government once passed regulations that caused one of the largest companies in America to break up into three smaller companies. Today those, three companies are entirely independent, employ over 400,000 people combined, and have a combined net work of over $400B.

Those companies are Boeing Aircraft (153k employees, $244B market value), United Technologies (202k employees, $148B market value), and United Airlines (88k employees, $33B market value).[0]

What most people perceive as a threat to the market is when one company takes over an entire single market. And that is a problem, no doubt. But in the case of Boeing, the problem was that one company had such an advantage vertically- lose money on planes in order to make money on shipping, or vice versa, as needed. It meant it could win in whichever market it wanted to and slowly come to dominate all of those markets. The synergies of doing it all internally meant it could win at everything.

If one uses that situation as a precedent, one can start to see the parallels in many of the FAANG companies today.

[0] "The Air Mail Act of 1934 prohibited airlines and manufacturers from being under the same corporate umbrella, so the company split into three smaller companies – Boeing Airplane Company, United Airlines, and United Aircraft Corporation, the precursor to United Technologies." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing
Here it refers to the binary executable file format not the default file name gcc uses after compilation.

a.out is a very old format superseded by ELF.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.out
Talk Brand Journalism to Me
Just tried from my Chromebook

"Device not supported"
I agree with many of the assertions as to what has happened (essentially, big heaps of data analyzed by black boxes without much understanding), but disagree with the reasons why. It is much simpler, but harder to correct, than that.

Data scientists are required in numbers far greater than the total number of statisticians available. Non-statisticians are doing the analysis because there is more data that "needs" analyzing than there are statisticians to do it. So, of course, their understanding of how to avoid doing it wrong, is limited.

Proper statistical analysis is hard, and takes time. Getting a proper statistical background is hard, and takes time. We have firehoses of data coming in, and there is no patience for taking time for either one.
What an odd time period to pick, since this is peak Suburbia-McMansion sprawl.
The tech giants are too big, but there are geopolitical consequences for breaking them up. Countries like Russia and China can target smaller companies much easier than the Goliaths.
German SeekingAlpha is growing 10%+ week-over-week
This is the exact issue. The DOJ's Antitrust Criminal Enforcement Division breaks up the companies by making an argument that's then directly contradicted by the DOJ's Merger Enforcement Division's (very outdated) policy on approving mergers. From the Merger Enforcement Guidelines[1] (last updated in 1997):

> By definition, non-horizontal mergers involve firms that do not operate in the same market. It necessarily follows that such mergers produce no immediate change in the level of concentration in any relevant market as defined in Section 2 of these Guidelines.

The Merger Enforcement Division's assumption may have been true in 1997 but it's difficult to argue that simply because Google and Amazon don't operate in the "same market" as their primary businesses that their combination would "produce no immediate change in the level of concentration" of the market for both online advertising and computing services. Yet, under these guidelines, if a Google + Amazon merger were proposed it wouldn't present any immediate issue for the Antitrust Division to oppose it.

[1]https://www.justice.gov/atr/non-horizontal-merger-guidelines
Yes you're right, those are first party games and then are here to sell hardware.
They could reimplement it using the kernel's general binfmt support. It's really just getting rid of some legacy code.
oil is money in the ground, so leaving it there is like leaving cash under your bed.

it's even worth it to burn some off just to make sure you get any at all[0]

[0]https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2014/05/1405...
The fact that merit is often difficult to evaluate doesn't mean that it's not important, crucial even.
That could just be a translation or terminology issue. I've seen folks substitute "intercooler" for radiator, transmission cooler, oil cooler, etc.

My guess here is oil cooler.
Zowe. open source for z/OS, really? – Mainframe Debate
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What did it meant? I'm just curious, was it the issue of dynamic library format, or need to change ld.so, or what?
This article reads like a cruel joke. In a country with some of the longest working hours in the world, where people working themselves to death is a serious issue, where the birth rate is crashing, it's calling for even more work? A horrible perversion of feminism, that makes as much sense as calling for more women to be made homeless to bring them to parity with men.

Anything is justified to "stimulate the economy" I guess.
>If I ran a company that had a platform as described, and we were approaching the 25bn mark, I'd find ways to make sure we never crossed that line.

I feel like shareholders wouldn't be very happy with this
Yeah, salaries are terrible in Paris. I work here, most places offer between 45k and 60k a year which after all the taxes accounts for 2618 and 3354. But most people get 2618 per month. A 30m2 apartment is 1200 euros minimum. So devs here live a very modest life.
How does antitrust work?
Cities+In+Flames+(Wrath)+by+Xaphan
Cash levels the playing field. You don't have to ask a 3rd party "pretty please, let me make this purchase, Visa" (credit) in order to use it. You don't have to pay monthly fees to a bank for a checking account (debit) to use it. You don't need an app and smartphone to use cash. Cash is better for your privacy, it minimizes the paper trail about what you buy where, which is really nobody's business but your own.

I've done a 180 on this one. Used to use a credit card for everything, now using cash more and more whenever possible. Credit is convenient, often provides valuable benefits (miles, cash back) and gives you a nice convenient summary of your monthly spending, but in exchange you're inserting an un-wanted 3rd party into every transaction who skims off value for themselves and then turns around and sells your private data all over the place. This trade-off is making less and less sense to me.
Is any big company willing to pull from FB ad platform on grounds of privacy/ethics? I doubt even Apple, so called Epitome of Privacy can afford that.

Is there any organization where you can pledge to stay out of FB? I'll consider buying my products from Members of such organization.
What Happens to All Those Beads After Mardi Gras?
> You should have the ability to write 20-30 pages well structured text to show that you can think, organize your thinking and communicate your thinking to others in your field. Many people graduate without this ability, but at least they have had some practice and can write 5 pages better than when they started the college.

Almost all engineering programs I've seen, practically don't have any English requirements. I never needed to write a paper like that.
College degree means for me that someone was willing to waste his own precious time for stuff never really needed, sometimes right away obsolete and usually totally disconnected from reality. Also it means, that one usually doesn't really understand nor remember anything from school (because there is no need for this knowledge in practice). I'm talking about CS and folks thinking that if they're able to install 300 cracked games they're automagicaly CS gods (these tends to end-up as java programmers). I've met too many people like that. So yes, one doesn't normally need CS degree (and i'm probably biased, too). Probably don't event need degree in electronics to make stuff or do some research. But definitely need it for things such as physics or law
The choice isn’t between drilling oil in Alaska and everyone transitioning to alternative energy. It’s between drilling oil in Alaska and buying it from regimes that murder dissidents and sometimes deny basic rights to women.