skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Give them sane defaults, so they don't have to be, but get out of the way of the small, but significant and productive, minority who want and need this.
Sure, if it's played out, you have to do something different. It's the logic of publicity: whatever gets people's attention works, until it doesn't.

I think this is an interesting way to approach art, actually: you can walk through a museum admiring artists for how they were able to get away with something different.

Although, in this age of memes, maybe it's more interesting to see what holds lasting attention?
KUKU bro, he [provided a cure] to [people with life-threatening illness] for PROFIT?

Is this Hacker News?
Mapping Consensus: decentralized mapping algorithm strategies
Its like Amazon Glacier for your files.
most of America is significantly below the high-end of Silicon Valley rate.
??? What's the context? That The NY Times has published factually accurate articles about Tesla over the past 7 years?

If Tesla didn't want the negative coverage they could have avoided it all by simply executing their strategy properly instead of fucking up on some of the most basic details over and over again. Even if they had just executed adequately, the media coverage today would be very different.
I think this is a good idea. Quite a bit of drugs we take are already generic. I'm a dialysis patient and 10 out of the 12 drugs I take daily are generic. The remaining 2 will become generic within a year. I think having access ti cheap generics will make a huge difference to everyone.
simplest install/run cycle for something in this space I've had in a long, long time.

it just works
Each time I've seen something about GNU parallel pop up I've been tempted to post, but I've never made an account until now.

I wrote a very different style of command parallelizer that I named lateral. It doesn't require constructing elaborate commandlines that define all of your work at once. You start a server, and separate invocations of 'lateral run' add your commands to a queue to run on the server, including their filedescriptors. It makes for easier parallelization of complex arguments.

Take a look if this sort of thing interests you, as I haven't seen anyone write one like this before. Its primary difference is the ease with which each separate command can output to its own log, and the lack of need to play games with shell quoting and positional arguments.

Check it out: https://github.com/akramer/lateral
This has already started happening judged by the proliferation of unnecessary IoT like kitchen appliances or your washer/dryer.
> perhaps it's possible for them to get enough A shares to outvote the super-vote B shares

Nope. The company has control over how many class A and B shares exist, and currently between Sergey, Larry, and Eric they control over 50% of the voting rights as determined by shares: https://www.morningstar.com/articles/820137/which-stock-shar...

So there's absolutely no way any employees would be able force anything through a vote. They'd need to convince at least one of those three people.
...at solving A* pathfinding.

> The University of Minnesota’s ambitions for its new tech are broader than planning the path for robots, but their new in-memory “wavefront” computing chip is potentially a good match for the job. The chip is a 40 x 40 array that makes use of an unusual type of logic in which values are encoded in how long it takes a signal to pass through its gates. The elements of the array represent the vertices in a graph and the edges that connect them. By programming those elements, the graph can simulate the terrain a robot must traverse, including hills, valleys, and impassible obstacles. A wave of voltage starting at the edges sweeps across the array in a manner of nanoseconds, in the process solving the A* algorithm, which determines the shortest, lowest-energy path through the simulated terrain to a target, explained Luke Everson, a University of Minnesota Ph.D. student in the laboratory of Chris Kim.

> Time-based computing’s advantages include “a very compact area and low-power consumption,” Everson said. Compared with solutions powered by CPUs and GPUs, the array is about 1 million times as energy efficient, making it a good fit for mobile robots. Future work could include a way to make wavefront pathfinding work in three dimensions.
> It baffles me how many people loved Liu Cixin's book.

If this is the first sci-fi book you read, and especially if this happens at an early-ish age, I imagine it may seem impressive.
Epsilon Theory is one of those pieces of writing that remains rewarding across multiple readings. I find myself revisiting their entire catalog often. I'm shocked that every post they have doesn't do well here, the way say Patio11 or SlateStarCodex would.
Same question applies. By point of comparison im rarely paying much under $300/night and often more in Manhattan.
This. I was stuck in Seoul because I missed my train and needed a hotel for the night. Downloaded HT for the first time, it found me a nice boutique hotel for not very much, and I was booked in less than 5 s (didn’t need to enter any payment info since it supported Apple Pay). The quality of the hotel was excellent even though it was rated Basic on HT.
I mean, to put it bluntly, yes.

You might not be disgusted, that is your right. It is their right to be disgusted.

If you're looking for an argument why one should be disgusted, one cannot be forthcoming. I cannot give you a very persuasive argument why you should be sympathetic to the personal circumstances that the homeless find themselves in. That sort of sympathy is kinda just its own purpose or its own end; if you lack it then there is very little I can tell you that would definitively convince you of its merit. Like I can BS with fallacies all the day long about how this sort of empathy was important to our species in premodern times and continues to be important in modern times, but the fallacy will remain that simply because that disposition exists in a collective historical interest, that does not mean it is in your particular individual interest.
A Planet Money episode about AirBnB in New Orleans.

TL;DR - good in the beginning when it was residents renting out rooms. Eventually developers and companies bought up vast amounts of housing in iconic neighborhoods, priced out residents, and "destroyed the soul of the neighborhood". New Orleans now doesn't allow AirBnB unless you are physically in the house with the renter.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/02/28/698763891/epis...
Some people are far too patient to be great programmers.

They are content with the daily drudge of slow, manual tasks, whereas a truly good programmer would become frustrated and desire to improve things.

http://threevirtues.com
> supposing you're using 110volts your desktop computer must be a big gaming rig if it's consuming 350 to 550watts ;)

Yup. :-D

Not a BIG rig, but certainly respectable. i9-9900k [0], GeForce GTX 1070 [1], 32 gig of DDR4, 1 TB NVMe, 1 TB SSD, 2 TB HD.

[0] Yes, I know I don't need an i9 for gaming. I don't even need an i7. But I wanted future proofing and bragging rights.

[1] "An i9, but only a GTX 1070?" you might ask. I got the 1070 for free by winning a contest sponsored by MSI. At the time I had an i7-3770k. When I upgraded to the i9 in December, I didn't feel it was worth spending hundreds of dollars for an RTX 2080 (or even 2070) as the performance difference wasn't enough. I'll probably get something from the next gen RTX (3080? 2180? Whatever they call it).
The problem is that sales tax varies wildly according to your local jurisdiction, and prices, particularly for chains, are not set at that level.
I'm glad there's always LaTeX.

For any serious writing, Microsoft Word is one of the worst pieces of tools out there. It starts showing its ugly side when start using anything remotely advanced.
What about the LDS influence. I'd be worried about moving here to start a family.
The key has no value if anyone can sign the binaries in the name of the developper. Then the binaries might as well not be signed.
I don't think Airbnb (Netflix) marketplace necessarily covers for some of the benefits a set of clients look for in Hotels (BlockBuster). However, going along with your analogy, I think this move is 2 fold: data driven & marketplace synergy. I believe Airbnb is interested in the data it can get from a model business such as HotelTonight and to be able to cross-connect it to their own. I think their end-goal is to have Airbnb become a one stop shop for not only current users of AirBnB, but also hotel users.

I believe a good portion of large hotels are aware that at some point they will need to tap into the Airbnb market and if that marketplace (Airbnb) manages to create an environment where both sides can live or directly compete with each other, everyone (winners mostly) will be happy with the outcome.

The real tricky part is that synergy can be difficult to have and different players (hotel customers, airbnb customer, hotels, airbnb renters) may have different degrees of resistances to Airbnb plan.

I think their main focus will be to create a B2B environment that will make big ticket customers (e.g. IBM) want to use their system to get either a rented place or a hotel room for their consultants and business travelers. Lots of money to be made in this area.
I'm not sure if this is what the OP meant but floating point addition is not necessarily associative and this can surprise people when the same code can produce different results where evaluation order is not guaranteed. If you require parentheses to determine evaluation order it might reduce surprises.
This was posted here 9 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17079369
What's amazing at Airbnb is their ability to make places look so much nicer in the pictures than what they look like in reality.

After staying in a crack house in Barcelona, a dirty dark hole in Manhattan, a "private" villa in France where the owner was screwing an endless stream of boyfriends behind the flimsy kitchen door at 10AM, a thermite infested apartment in Sicily with horrid beds, I still feel like a total asshole when leaving a negative review. I'm not sure why I keep going back to it.
GitHub project intended to protest against the police in Japan
Yes, that is what I meant. It puts my mind back to the best take-out Chinese (food, not person) I ever had. While the take-out itself might have been a run-off-the-mill nasi goreng [1] it was the setting which made it memorable. I was on my first long solo cycling trip (where 'long' means about three weeks), about 16 years old and intent on finding a well-hidden spot to pitch my tent for the night [2]. I cycled past that take-away, thought 'why not' and got the food only to continue on my way for a bit. I finally chose a spot next to the river, started the cooker to boil some water for tea and had the nasi while watching the ships go by on the river. It was getting dark, the ships were lit up like Christmas trees, ships and river flowed by and I felt for probably the first time what it really meant to be free, healthy and self-reliant.

[1] I'm Dutch, nasi goreng (which you could translate to "fried rice with yesterday's leftovers", at least that is how I always make it) is a Dutch-but-really-Indonesian staple food

[2] ...which is illegal in the Netherlands, you can only camp in designated camping spots. While this might be the letter of the law it did not keep a local police officer who cycled by (in another place and time) while I was cooking something next to my tent in a totally illegal spot from wishing me a good dinner and continuing on his way.
The distinction between quotas and "outcome based goals" is kind of hazy. To be clear, recruiters aren't required to hit certain targets. Leadership does tell recruiters that they're aiming for a a certain targets but as far as I know recruiters don't receive any penalty if they fall below that target.
I struggled with this a lot in my first few years as a digital nomad, having mail delivered to my parents house, bills often lost, etc... Then someone told me about virtual mailboxes. https://www.postnet.com/virtual-mail/ . You pay 15 bucks a month and they can act like your home address, accepting all your mail. For an additional fee, they can either scan the mail, or forward it physically to wherever you might be at the moment.

To the outside world it looks like your permanent address. I use mine to buy health insurance through Obamacare and also have registered my car to this address.
There are two types of spaces, discrete and continuous. These are in a dual relationship.

Duality is the isomorphism between these two. For example, for humans, it's easier to reason about discrete spaces. However a lot of things simply cannot be done that way.

Think of anything that is tangential (pun intended) to Lie theory. In the context of Lie theory, you have the discrete group and the continuous algebra (the group's tangent space). You go between these two using the exponent (group -> algebra) and logarithm to go back (algebra -> group).

It's the difference between an integral and a Rieman sum. It's the fundamental idea that underlies sampling (say audio sampling or even statistical sampling). You capture some invariants and then you interpolate between these invariants to recreate some smooth curve (or distribution).

The nice thing about the smooth space is that optimization is easy. In the exponential space, addition is multiplication and some expensive things are cheap (computationally speaking).
How to improve gender equality in research
Yup. They're the standard in Minnesota/Wisconsin as far as I can tell. I always get a little upset when I encounter a pre-pay gas station in other parts of the country. It's offensive.
>If you’re a white male, you could easily have been hired simply because of your skin color and gender and not your abilities.

This may have been the case decade(s) ago, but I think the climate is very different now. With the prevalence of social "justice" hiring policies, I'd be much more confident I was hired because of ability, rather than to fill a quota, as a white male than any other race/sex combination.

Sadly, affirmative action creates "mismatch" that often worsens the problem it is trying to solve. Minorities are highly recruited to fill quotas, even if less capable. This (1) puts them in over their head setting them up to fail and (2) creates a perception that the minorities are inherently less qualified (rather than the truth, that they are being over-selected for).

One of many articles on this topic: https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-sad-...
800M Email Addresses Leaked Online by Email Verification Service
Yes it's highly unsatisfactory that frameworks are implementing "threads" (i.e., fibers) now, while the OS already provides native threads.

Perhaps it would not have been so bad if they just kept the interface the same ...
I heavily prefer cashless stores. For me it's all about the convenience. Also I am better able to track my purchases and spending habits. Additionally, I like eat in a clean environment if I can. I don't want to eat where it stinks to the high heavens or is dirty. It is a preference. There is nothing stopping homeless people from going cashless by simply buying a AMX card at walgreens with cash already on it.
Plotnine: A Grammar of Graphics for Python
>"they come in here and get a drink and use that to stay all day."

Not wanting this behavior is absolutely reasonable, but what I'd find suspicious and don't understand is why cashless would be the method. I know of plenty of places that have policies along the lines of "during regular hours 15 minutes per drink, 40 with drink & food" or whatever is appropriate to the location. It's private property though a public business, and they can set non-discriminatory customer neutral policies for free use, particularly around interfering with other customers. It also doesn't seem like it'd be at all a class thing, I know lots of cafes around here have had issues sometimes with someone coming in and getting a single coffee then pulling out their high end notebook and using a table as a free internet accessible office for an hour or two. They are not even slightly poor, they've got credit cards and smartphones, they're just rude.

But the result was just that businesses instituted policies and simply ask such people to leave if it seems to be deterring other customers, and that also seems like the obvious general solution. I'm honestly curious about why in Palo Alto that wouldn't be true too, is there some local law/ordinance that prohibits asking a customer to leave or the like? If there is no such thing it does seem more likely they were just lying, and the real truth was that they want customers who meet some specific level of dress code and also don't want to be honest about it (for legal reasons or just plain PR or both).

There are plenty of real reasons for a business to want to take the hit to go cashless (managing significant amounts of physical cash is a genuine expense, and in some places raises the attractiveness for robbery too). This really doesn't seem like one of them though.
Hmmm. I’m over a fairly high-latency, low-bandwidth mobile connection and it loads pretty quick (more like 3 seconds than 14). You make a valid point if it does in fact take 14 seconds to load, because that’s ridiculously slow.
Is there a Rust port for GNU parallel? It's written in Perl and having to install dependencies for Perl is not as simple as download a binary :)
So how much did they weight the utility of eating red meat in order to conclude that severely restricting it would be worth the .074% decrease in death risk? Because that doesn't seem like a significant risk.

https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/health-professional/cancer-...
Hopefully without a "Global Interpreter Lock".
Yes, in most of Europe at least.

We've three ways of paying I know of:

1. Fill at the pump, go inside (or sometimes to an outside payment booth) and pay with cash or card. Almost all manned stations offer this way of paying.

2. Start a transaction at the pump with a card. A large enough amount to fill a large car is reserved on the card.
After filling up, the real (lower) amount is confirmed and written off. (deferred sale). This is used at most unmanned stations. Also manned stations sometimes offer to pay at the pump this way, next to option 1.

3. You pay an amount up-front, at the pump with cash or card. Tricky part is you have to guess how much fuel you'll need, because there will be no refund if you use less.
I've only encountered these pre-paid-only ones at some unmanned stations on the east coast of Italy.
1: Money fixes this, the others have more money than you can imagine.

2: Tesla self driving is statistically shit, the only two players that count are Cruise and Waymo, and only one of those makes cars. Either way, we're really far off from most people caring outside of HN

3: Electrify America in the US, and a bunch of public stations in Europe. It's a fancy plug, I don't get why people act like they're unobtanium. You can throw one in a Target parking lot and boom, extra customers for an hour or so. I bet they'd even pay for the installation.

4: Sure, I'll give you this one

I love America and American cars, and I want a great new American car company. Tesla is acting like a Silicon Valley parody, and needs to get their shit together. If they can, they can use their brand advantage - they're the new, true Cadillac - and mindshare to kick serious ass.
I'd add a very important thing - with your primal problem you are trying to e.g. minimize a function and you proceed the way that all your intermediate solutions are feasible. With dual approach you flip the direction, i.e. maximization in this case, but you start in completely infeasible solutions and hope to end up in the very first feasible solution that should be your optimum.

Now how does that relate to automatic differentiation I am not sure either.
Companies make products affordable by lowering the unit cost of the product (generally through increased efficiencies, economies of scale, substituted inputs, etc), not by cutting non-COGS operating expenses.

Reducing unit costs affects every unit sold equally, so it scales with sales growth. The benefits of cutting opex expenses is inversely correlated to sales growth.
What are some practical applications for Pipe to Me? (should be in README.md)
That does not necessarily follow.

E.g., if a company has a racist recruiting policy for hiring good candidates, the company still has a racist recruiting policy for hiring good candidates.

I.e., it's morally wrong, because it's racist, but will still provide candidates that are good enough to keep the company afloat, or even prospering.
Does this work with static site generators?

For the API requests per month pricing tiers, roughly how many API calls get made each time a site build is triggered for a site with say 100 blog posts?
Debugging Stellar and Bitcoin code bases integration build issue
You're saying it's impossible to believe in helping the homeless while also believing there exist restaurants they shouldn't be in in their current state?

Because that feels like a false dichotomy.

Do you also think that if someone has the right to view pornography, they have the right to do it everywhere?

Do you think that if violent child molester deserves a right to a job, that should include the right to working at a day care center? And if someone thinks that's not a job they should get, they must lack empathy?

Those feel like unwarranted inferences, intended more for emotional appeal than constructive engagement.
Jlib: Build container images for your Java applications
Great to see a playful response to your president.

But you can only see the Apple logo in his display name and bio on an Apple product because they used a special symbol. The rest of us have to put up with a Unicode unknown character box. The arrogance of it.

Firefox on Android: https://imgur.com/a/yEdfHB4
You can refuse payment. But in doing so, you dissolve the debt.
I mostly agree but I still enjoyed the story, at least until book 2, the ending of book 3 was horrendous. For the "soul" I gave it the benefit of the doubt, maybe Chinese writing different from western writing or something get lost in translation. For the characters I don't know if it's them or me dealing with Chinese names, I get lost playing games like shogun total war because of this.
Agreed, the pacing was great, and he really landed the ending, which is something of a rare feat in sci-fi. The only thing I didn't particularly enjoy was the flashbacks to the protagonist's past on Earth, which seemed a bit trite and repetitive.
Airbnb traditionall had three, now four "Home types": Entire place, Private room (Have your own room and share some common spaces), Hotel room, Shared room. The entire place will (almost always) come with your own bathroom and kitchen and living room etc. It's an entire place, after all.

A private room typically means you get your own bedroom but there are others living in the same home, maybe the owner, maybe other guests. Living room, kitchen are shared. The question is whether you also get a bathroom for your own use or not. This is displayed even in the listing (4 guests · 1 bedroom · 1 bed · 1 shared bath vs 2 guests · 1 bedroom · 1 bed · 1 private bath) but you are unable to filter on it. They understand this detail is important enough to put it in the listing but you still can't filter on it.

And the reason this matters, well, that should be pretty evident: multiple strangers can be in a kitchen or a living at the same time but not in a bathroom. A shared bathroom is a botttleneck in the morning and an overall pain in the neck to be honest. And in some places the private room-private bath combo is by far the best value.
Maybe to clarify better, it's the bunches of ancillary products and services I'm talking about. Core items like AWS and Google Cloud are of course by definition going to require an inherent scalability to be meaningful.
Or, ya know...the entire state of Oregon.