skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My problem with this is as follows:

HBO has led the way in making some of the highest quality television of the last 20 years. Competition has gotten stiffer, but I still view HBO as the premier place for TV (Sopranos, The Wire, Sex and the City, Curb, Veep, Leftovers, True Detective, Deadwood... and of course GoT, the list goes on and on). I would argue many of our favorite broadcast/cable shows would simply not exist if HBO hadn't gone there first.

They've had some duds, and certainly have a lot of small-audience niche TV, but for the most part it's a premium quality that I'm willing to pay for.

I'm reading through the lines a bit and here is what I see in the article:

"More content, faster, cheaper."

This isn't about an outdated streaming strategy, HBO Go/Now are fine.

If they race to compete with Netflix (dropping price, increasing output), who is quite literally shitting out content every day, the overall quality of HBO will decline greatly. Netflix started with premiere TV (House of Cards) but has evolved into a massive mess of content, rarely of which any really captures my attention anymore.

Unfortunately, as the money machine needs to be fed, I 100% see HBO slowly turning into a content factory, and quality is going to fall off.

I hope in 3-5 years to come back to this comment and laugh at how wrong I was, but I feel pretty certain about an upcoming quality drop from what was once the bellwether of high quality entertainment.
Wow, 7 years is something. For me it was 1.5 years full-time - 2 years as a whole - but that was sufficient to be really low. (And 30 at the time) Still, finding a job was a piece of cake. Despite sub-zero self-esteem, it was very easy to get on interviews which would either result in an offer or at least a "probably there is a way".

Most important is to update your CV properly and have someone else proof-read it I guess...
Very nice, it got everything right in Chrome. But a little confused in Brave (said I had Reddit account). But very cool app.
Put a link to the exe somewhere (e.g. the start-up folder in the start menu).

Than edit the target to add the argument:

C:\Users\[your_username]\AppData\Local\Programs\signal-desktop\Signal.exe --start-in-tray
It's described as a crackpot/fringe theory because it's an unsupported just-so story, and worse, it's not actually consistent with the data that inspired it. You're right that it's not hard to show motive for such a practice, but that skips past every other consideration, like motive, opportunity, or evidence.

A few things that this theory falls utterly short on:

- Reliefs that were never exported or even found by colonists are often defaced.

- Pharaonic texts specifically reference the practice of defacement and treat it as an act distinct from general vandalism or theft.

- Works show other systematic damage unrelated to racial issues (from the article, statues receiving offerings had their right hands removed, and those providing them had their left hands removed).

- Single reliefs show noses removed on some figures but not others, even when the preserved noses look substantially non-European (e.g. the article's last photo).

- Defacements aren't random, or tied to ethnicity; instead, politically inconvenient rulers like Hatshepsut are overwhelmingly erased while others (even close family members) are not.

- Where text accompanies figures, the names of the defaced figures are also defaced. Which requires knowledge of Ancient Egyptian, a motive to target specific historical figures, and a concern with matters unrelated to appearance.

- Weathering on in situ works commonly suggests noses were removed much closer to their creation than to the 1800s. (This is less clear for works brought to Europe, but that opens the question of simple fragility.)

All of that is above and beyond questions of evidence for the practice, or historical context that Egyptian statues with black features were actually convenient for some racist theories like Samuel Weston's. There's basically no racist practice colonists wouldn't have been willing to engage in, certainly. But advancing specific claims that are inconsistent with huge amounts of evidence is rightly considered a fringe belief.
I don’t understand the conundrum, markets give people what they want. You could start a legit Italian coffee business and if not enough people are willing to pay then you’ll go out of business.
You purchase an investment, but not an annuity - say, some stocks. You make an over-optimistic assumption about how fast that investment is going to grow, because that lets you put less money in this year to fund it. But when the investment doesn't grow as fast as you forecast, you have an underfunded liability.
If AT&T wants to drag anything out of the dark ages, I wish they would take a look at the DVRs they give to their customers. They are so slow and their user interface is atrocious.

When our contract is up, we are going to try YouTube TV and Hulu to see if either of those is better.
This is like a marketer suggesting an engineer roll his own security.

If its a fun side project, do it! If you actually want it to work, don't do it. If you want to /really/ use it (checking more than sessions), don't do it.
I prefer HBO’s content and streaming app so much more than Netflix/Hulu, I always start there if I am wondering what to watch.
>I haven't seen any indication that the colleges involved were aware this was happening in a way they overlooked.

No doubt the colleges involved are aware when someone is admitted whose credentials don’t measure up. That’s not something the colleges can bury there head in the sand about. We are talking about billion dollar institutions with entire admissions departments that pride themselves on a standard of student...you can’t just say in some instances rouge actors took bribes to allow students in school and no one knew anything about it.
Hassle? It’s incredibly straightforward. Maybe 2 steps to login to an account on iOS that already exists on desktop (preferences add devise, scan QR code).
Am I going to be able to give them money in exchange for watching Game of Thrones? Or do they still expect me to mix and match a cable TV package, a "partnered" home entertainment box, and some other nonsense?
You can disable conversations and view all individual messages in the chronological order without any grouping.

But it will not solve other UX issues, like the fact that gmail UI encourages top-posting, even if the sender replied inside the body of the original e-mail. (it skillfully hides the option to reply inline inside the quoted body, even in this case)

It also makes a complete mess when you write responses inside the quoted text, if you're not extremely careful and aware of this fact.

For example these are identical messages:

As gmail user sent it: https://megous.com/dl/tmp/gmail-garbage2.png

As I received it (text e-mail message gmail actually generated): https://megous.com/dl/tmp/gmail-garbage4.png

Now someone tell me this is not a complete garbage!

Honestly, conversing with gmail users is my least favorite thing, as long as they use the web client. Gmail webmail is not a serious e-mail client. It does not even implement threading.
Hours are same. First one is 9 to 6 eventually monthly wage. Other is hourly based with a time monitor so you know effort will be very very high.

Yes it will be paid in cash.
Funny that you mention that. One of my company’s initiatives is building social networking software to run on local networks and mesh networks. I also want to see a future where cellphone signals, energy generation and so on don’t go through “last mile” gatekeepers but those are just one of many commodity choices to connect to “the grid” / “the cloud” / “the mesh” whatever it is called.

I think that is super important given what’s going on:

https://qbix.com/blog/2019/03/08/how-qbix-platform-can-chang...

We have started to work on captive portals so your device can surf from wifi to wifi just like a cellphone does with towers, and check in wherever you visit without you doing anything (with your prior permission, of course)

https://qbix.com/blog/2017/12/18/power-to-the-people/

IPFS is great, as is BitTorrent. I have met a lot of the people running these projects, like Tom Berners-Lee and the guys from Solid (back then), David Irvine and the guys from MaidSAFE, and Petar Maymounkov from NYU who invented Kademlia DHT.

I think there are several things that are needed:

NAT hole punching
End to end encryption
Kademlia or other DHT
Small group consensus
Merkle DAG with validators

All these can be incrementally added to an existing, web-based solution. The problem with BlockStack and MaidSAFE is that they require you to download a new browser that only works on the desktop. Instead of trying to build on the existing Web.

For me it’s not even so much about privacy as being permissionless. No gatekeepers.

Whether it’s your cellphone company or your cable internet ISP or the Google Maps API or Amazon Web Services, they require you to pay them for their closed-source infrastructure and data.

The infrastructure should be a mesh and the data should be open source. The challenge is simply in the software to coordinate the mesh participants, and for the data it’s software to enable the right rules to maximize the chances of data being correct.

There is tons, tons to do and frankly most VCs and investors don’t get it. The payoff is huge for humanity as a whole, and can unleash even more innovation than the Web did after it disrupted AOL etc. But they don’t capture even 10% of the whole value. It’s free to the world.

So we’re chronically underfunded but we have already put together so much. And now we are making money the old fashioned way: earning it from users and clients hahaha. The Basecamp guys would be proud.
While we're bashing Boeing, let us not forget how they tried to swindle taxpayers into buying their tankers... a scandal which led to their CFO going to prison.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/2003/10/06/t...
They claim that they don't use your emails on gsuite the same way as they use it on gmail proper, but I find it very difficult to trust them on that.
I was clicking through a couple funny ones but as soon as I got one[1] that fell into this uncanny valley I immediately forgot this was generated and tried to understand it, getting super confused.

[1] https://stackroboflow.com/#!/question/13535
22/7 is an approximation for pi. I prefer to use 355/113, which has an error of about 2.7x10^-7. The reason these are good approximations is that they’re convergents for the continued fraction for pi. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continued_fraction
A valid return address is not the only way to respond. There could be a link to a support page in the mail, a telephone number or even a mailto: link.
I'm living through this right now. I get a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach whenever I think about dropping it. Do not recommend.
Can't imagine anyone that's tried intercooler.js would actually downvote. It's really nice and, in my opinion, totally addresses the author's concerns.
If you poke at a real brain, it’s almost fractally complex.

Single ion channels can have surprisingly complicated behaviors that depend on their current state and past history. Individual neurons contain tons of these channels, and can do a lot of powerful computation on their own. Of course, there are 86 billion neurons and combinatorically more connections between them. That’s just the neurons too; God only knows what the glia cells, which outnumber them 10:1, are doing but they’re a lot less passive than many have thought.

On top of this, there’s a whole separate but overlaid network of neuromodulators (hormones, nitric oxide, etc). Electric fields produced by some neurons may even influence the activity of others.

None of this is static, either. Things change on timescales ranging from milliseconds to years, and in response to all sorts of external stimuli.

The brain is bonkers.
It’s something I’m interested in!

Unfortunately I’ve come to the conclusion that upvotes on Stackoverflow aren’t correlated with question content (or I’m not skilled enough to be able to differentiate between “good” and “bad” questions). Check out the linked write up for more detailed info.
> It's better to be rational about creating the right incentives to prevent socially damaging behavior rather than stoking moral indignation disconnected from any semblance of benefit to society.

I hope you apply the same rubric to shoplifting, drug posession, and the dozens of other non-violent crimes that get people put in jail regularly. Otherwise this is just a justification for keeping power unaccountable.
The current HBO Go app has a really good interface, much better than Netflix and sooo much better than Hulu's jumbled mess (on the AppleTV). I can find the shows I want to watch easily, the current shows are easy to find on the main page, the categories are clean and easy to sort through. Just the fact that you scroll down and not some infinite row like in Netflix works so much better on the TV.
We understand lots about how the brain behaves, we understand next to nil about how it behaves that way.

we can't describe how vision, eg, is processed at a molecular or even cellular level, ergo we know nothing.
I had the exact same problem setting up my Dad and My sisters new ipads at Christmas.
Actually, I'd have different concerns about ads that I didn't consciously notice.
How automating APK generation with CircleCI made me a better developer
Agreed. On the upside, you need one technical friend that can set it up for many friends to use. For EFnet and several other networks, you need to get permission from NetOps/NetAdmins or an individual server operator if you don't need the fail-over resilience.
Sure, but the primitives are pretty boring, anyway. Few people try to invent those.

Many more try to invent new constructions on top of the primitives. That's where things go wrong, in practice.

(I fully trust in OWS here, but "don't invent crypto" is an unsuitable argument in a Signal-vs-Telegram discussion)
Yes, but even so, they can cause a lot of damage with their claws and teeth. But they just aren't known for being aggressive towards humans, the way some dogs are.
What's it for then?
In that case it was a really old aircraft that stalled in the way that MCAS is designed to prevent.

One thing to note is that this flight is very similar to the previous Ethiopian crash.
Good point. This claim seems to be very original.
> These are your words. These are your thoughts.

He said those words. Word by word. Word. By Word.
WRT Netflix, their stated strategy was that their access to data was going to allow them to create superior content as demonstrated (at least for a time) by House of Cards.But it became evident pretty quickly that 1.) The beast needs to be fed with quantity as well as quality (as you say) and 2.) Quality TV/film isn't just an algorithmic exercise.
Joe Rogan Is the Walter Cronkite of Our Era
The question is whether or not Starbucks is like a moderately high-end car or a luxury handbag, where the whiff of anything not 100% assembled by hand makes consumers flee.

Starbucks really muddled the waters during their rapid expansion about which customer they‘re targeting, and at some point they will be forced to pick.
Southwest is probably called out specifically here because they're somewhat unique in the airline world in that their entire fleet is 737s.

This allows them to save on maintenance costs since there's so much commonality among their fleet, but puts them in more peril when something affects the entire class of craft.
> Or you know, get a government regulator to regulate airplane manufactures like normal countries.

You're assuming that the FAA does not regulate Boeing properly. Do you have any basis for this? The safety record of modern air travel is a huge success story for how public regulations and private innovation can work for the benefit of all.
And many stores' customer-facing inventory systems are not reliable, or only updated every 24 hours. If there is only 1-2 of an item in stock, there's a decent chance it's actually sold out.
I doubt a human could learn to become even remotely competitive with only self-play within a human lifetime. Go has improved via a distributed effort, so we should try to estimate the number of go games played by humanity (as an upper bound).
Offhand, I would guess that “normal” is the most overloaded word in mathematics. We should probably use it less.
Maybe neo4j ?
The only reason why the Internet Research Agency and similar propaganda machines are staffed with people and not a well designed AI is that people are far cheaper and more flexible in what they can do. Training and retraining an AI takes time and a large dataset which takes time to build, and time is money.
> furry community it is the de-facto communication platform.

Interesting fact, haha.
You can recover 2FA if you're already signed in on any other device though. You just have to enter your password on the device you are signed in on.
I can't say I've ever heard of a cat attacking a person without some kind of reason. Cats, even the most ill-mannered ones, just aren't known to be aggressive towards humans the way dogs are. The only times I've heard of cats attacking people is when they've been tormented, such as by children.
> I take your point, but nobody is suggesting referendums without end.

Of course not, just until people vote remain!
https://thiscatdoesnotexist.com

Oh my god, some of these look terrifying, pure nightmare fuel.
And then I order from said website. Why would I go to the store when I'm already on the web?
Rewriting the backend to stop feeding to the NSA?

Darpa>Lifelog termination date: Feb 4, 2004.

FB founding date: Feb 4, 2004.
>Did Boeing executives go to jail for this disgusting cover up?

Did you read this one imgur blog and assume that what is stated is an accurate representation of reality?
I imagine there will be taxes and fees coming along to make the cost of ownership quite different from what you think.
No orchestration is needed. Managers only need to look with disdain to anyone that brings the issue.

Networks and social media extend the reach of these kinds of disdain, and take these mechanisms beyond the walls of the office and organization. In the present day climate, where accusations causing outrage tend more easily to become viral, one need not be someone's manager or even have a close relationship to exercise such power of disdain. The incentive structures in social media can act as a very efficient transmission substrate for these mechanisms.

One doesn't have to look far, to see how social media amplified groupthink has short circuited professional judgement -- even in highly visible and public circumstances. In particular, forums, email lists, and social media groups of journalists can be seen to be having such effects.

So, to get a cover up you only need to do nothing.

With just a modicum of digging, this can be seen quite clearly in 2019, in the mainstream media, which is declining but still trusted by the public.

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”

This effect is very real and very powerful. This is why we as a society should be wary of the political exclusiveness of entire professions, entire industries, and of academia. If you're surrounded only by people of like minds, you're far less likely to have your idea checked by people highly motivated to find your faults. It's only diversity of opinions which guards against groupthink.
It sounds like you feel like a failure because your company came to an unsuccessful end, but to me you are a a success.

In fact you're an unusual success, for starting and then running a business for several years. That is quite rare! That sounds like six years of success to me.

I hope you can find a way to put that understandable feeling aside because you have learned many valuable skills and I assume have a perspective on development that extends far beyond what most developers have (what makes code really worthwhile in the field, what customers care about, markets, etc). In fact because the business didn't make it in the end I'm sure you spent quite a bit of time looking at what wasn't working.

I don't know what your business was or where you're located (some countries are quite negative towards businesses that didn't succeed) but it sounds like you have a lot of good skills and experience and I am sure there are many people who value that. If you're located in the US, such experience will be especially welcomed in SV, SF, NY, and even Boston.
If the data resides on the same node as the GPGPU and you only do queries on it (as you would with a remote Jupyter or something like it) with little data being moved across the network, there is no reason its memory should be directly visible to the local CPU and little benefit if it is.

The only thing is that your OS will have to do some cluster management to make sure data will be close to the programs using it.
It’s a lot more fun than The “Call/Schedule a taxi and pray” lottery.
You can subscribe to HBO NOW for $15 a month.
You don't track the scrollbar itself, just scroll depth by quartile

https://www.simoahava.com/analytics/scroll-depth-trigger-goo...
My recommendation is to go to Amazon. They run internally like a large collection of tech startups and are constantly looking for people with entrepreneurial experience to lead these small teams. And the pay is exceptional.
I suppose it means the system keeps the PI safe.
https://stackroboflow.com/#!/question/16993
Thanks Steve

Without too much sarcasm I have received support requests that were far too close to this.

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Laughing way to hard, but is it having a stroke?
https://stackroboflow.com/#!/question/14791
New Social Network Allows You to Upload Your Own Music:O
If you live in a country where they offer HBO Now, you should be able to do it today. You'll still need a box of some type to consume the content, but it looks like they're covering all of the major players[0].

[0]: https://www.hbo.com/order/hbo-now-devices
Do you feel what is described in the article happens often?
My lab recently stole three pizzas

Working in 'a lab' i.e. laboratory I'm so used to that meaning of the word it took me a few seconds to understand this sentence :P
I like HBO just as it is and can't fathom why anyone would claim it is in the dark ages.

"Decisions are made slowly and by consensus; longtime employees guard the network’s lucrative, award-winning status quo." -- this is said like it is a bad thing. There is nothing wrong with not being "disruptive" and being slow and steady to stay excellent.

Many businesses and consumers would be better off if there were less pressure to be #1.
Samsung is working on ‘full-screen’ devices with selfie cameras under display
So if I'm already looking at the webpage, why bother driving to the store to get it when I can just click "buy" and be done with it? The only reason I'd bother with driving there in person is if I really really really need it fast.

And as the other responder said, those inventory counts might not be accurate; if there's only one in stock, and someone just bought it 10 minutes ago, is the webpage really updated that fast?
The Muse (YC W12) Is Hiring a Platform Engineer
...because chicken coops are badly designed.
Purely Functional GTK+, Part 2: TodoMVC
Choosing a Space Pen: AG7 vs. CH4
You're thinking like an academic in a glass tower and not a real human.

You wouldn't buy the property unless you had plans to develop it into something. Unless you're the kind of fool who buys 128gb RAM and only uses 4gb of it.

The price of an item should reflect it's use and probable ROI.
Having theories and arguments that are convenient and self serving is not a crime. It's called public relations

It's not just PR. It's default behavior for Homo sapiens.
I can't say what happened when the Turks arrived, but that region was already known for iconoclasm while it was still under Christian leadership.

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