skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm reading about Ray Dalio's life and he nearly went bankrupt before becoming one of the top 100 richest people in the world.

Don't let yourself down by thinking you are failure. You may identify yourself with your project but the skillset you took out of that experience and newfound humility you got from seeing a project fail is something that you can bring to the table at your next gig.
Yeah, software devs will be the rich/elite in 20 years (we'll be the only ones employable).
There are many examples too. The concorde is one that has my current prize for being the most extreme example. One crash, retire them all. There was no reasonable way to operate that aircraft by modern safety standards. But it was certified in what, the 60's. One likely could have certified a barn door strapped to a Concorde engine in those days ;-)
> Amazon isn't really a monopoly.

I would completely agree with what you said about the rights of the private companies if Amazon was a regular market player. But even you qualified above statement. Even though Amazon is not really a monopoly, it is pretty close for small scale book selling. That is, it has such a dominant market share that its decision not to sell a book can be a death sentence for a small book publisher. Thus they should be super careful when culling titles by content -- next time they might pull <insert your favorite hot topic> and there will be no recourse either.
Here's how to turn on a full HDR workflow in Photoshop, including displaying HDR imagery on an HDR monitor:

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/How-to-enable-30-...
This post is completely subjective. It seems obvious that numerous people disagree on your assessment of quality. GoT "not especially good"? HBo doesn't have good comedy? Ever seen an episode of Curb?

You then go on to base your conclusion on your subjective view of the quality of their shows. If anything, I'm inclined to believe the opposite of what you say given how many people would disagree with the basis of your argument.
> And D, for one, can compile as fast as Go, while still having Generics

And Delphi, Eiffel,...
HBO Go was pretty bad when I used it; worse than HBO Now was both before and after. Not sure why it isn't just exactly HBO Now with the added cable provider verification component.
Tesla is already past the Apple point of releasing the iPod. Tesla basically recognized that a range of tech across the tech tree needed for EVs was sufficiently mature that they could produce a systemic leap in EV cars as a system (all while the individual elements of the system were sufficiently mature as to get to a better whole).

Tesla cars are basically the iPhone, while the big automakers are scrambling a bit to make their iPhone clones.
A while back, I realized I've missed lots and lots of important mails during about four months - Gmail had suddenly started flagging completely legit mail as spam, even from people I've had contact with previously.
I tried flagging those mails appropriately, moved them to the inbox, but that didn't help either. Finally, I wrote a complaint feedback message, and a few days later, my spam filter was back to normal.
I assume they put a small fraction of their users in A/B tests for the spam filter and can remove you manually on request.
If that is true, it's completely unacceptable. I should probably migrate soon.
This is one of very few things that once created, inherently doom the world. It is possible for humanity to come back from nuclear war. There is zero possibility of surviving AGI proliferation. Therefore, the option of never developing it in the first place demands consideration. It doesn’t hurt you to just consider it.

Cloud computing will soon make compute-as-service cheaper than anyone ever imagined. It will be much cheaper to use cloud computing than to have your own super computer. It’s only logical to imagine that the huge, high-compute experiments that crack AGI will be performed with cloud computing. Shutting down the internet is very feasible and would significantly increase the cost and difficulty of performing experiments. Large super computers are all owned by large and well known corporate and academic entities and therefore shutting down all supercomputers through regulation is feasible. With these two coarse measures, we would buy ourselves enough time to implement more broad and subtle solutions. Yes, this seems insane but we are confronting certain existential doom. It would be worth it to at least try.
Great summary! This book has been collecting dust on mt shelf for some time, but I am now inspired to give it a read. I love the synthesis you have prepared here, and as a tech lead it was revelatory in many ways and makes me very grateful for the team I get to work with every day.
unless the pressures are equal
Additionally, 26 percent of desktop and 15 percent of mobile users block ads, so those studies already exclude the most ad-averse part of the user base.
It's not dying, for full fledged VR (i.e. not Cardboard/GearVR) the active user base is small but persistently growing.

There's a of low hanging fruit for improvement in the first wave that came out recently. Needing to be tethered with a cable to a $1000 PC is one of the big ones, and that should be addressed by the Quest in a few months.

I don't know how it will compare to mobile phone growth, but I expect VR to grow at a much faster rate once the Quest comes out. It will bring the entry cost to $400 (from ~$1400 for most people, who don't already have gaming PCs), remove one of the biggest nuisances (the cable), and be drastically easier to set up. The software library is still small but better than it was a few years ago.

Also keep in mind there's huge numbers of people who haven't ever tried VR yet. The Quest is likely to get in front of a much larger number of potential customers since it's so easy for a friend or relative etc to bring it over compared to the current non-portable systems.
I don't hate the outcome, I just wish this was being done the "right way." The author and publisher should be held liable for the content and be made to pay for the damages they've caused. We have a court system for determining when someone is peddling lies and harming people. Is it too much to ask that we lean on our agreed upon institutions instead of making corporations elevate themselves to a less transparent, less democratic, worse version of our courts?

Is it too much to ask a company that provides a platform for commerce to just be a platform for commerce?
I'd also pay a premium for training
"I have creating a PNG Image file where I am printing out the image's with different colors and Image Types. Now I am sure I am drawing properly, but what I'm seeing is that the image is not differently jpeg (ie FF or Chrome) and Safari (for Firefox) is different from the one in Firefox. "

As a bit of a connoisseur of babblebots over the decades, one of the interesting things about this generation is that it is producing text that has a very interesting effect in my mind. There is a part of the parsing process where the above text went down smooth; yup, that's what Stack Overflow questions from early developers tend to look like. That part of my brain issues no objection. But the next layer up screams bloody murder about how nonsensical that is. And it's not just "that's a bad question but I still see the order under it", but nonsense.

It's a combination I've not experienced before. Previous generation babblebots could often produce a lot of fun text, but every processing level above raw word processing has always been able to tell it's computer garbage, even when it blundered onto a particularly entertaining piece of garbage. We've actually successfully moved up a level here.

As I'm describing subjective experience, YMMV.
That won't always help. Look at Bay Area. Best value and economic return would be investment banks and tech companies. And then people would start complaining of even more gentrification. The metric governments should be aiming for is making cities MORE affordable than e.g. suburbs. Cities can offer a higher quality of life (in the sense of easy access to food and transportation) due to higher productivity and scale. Home ownership should be priority and subsized (apartments aren't that expensive to build at scale if you are willing to go prefab and pull in workers from Mexico.) Also, aesthetics complaints need to be disregarded. Most cities would end up looking like Seattle and New York anyways, complaining about tall buildings is just short sighted. Trying to have both economic benefits of a dense population and a "pretty" (i.e. rustic-looking small town hippie style architecture) is just not feasible on a large scale. Sure you can have a few pockets here and there but making it the central tenet of your urban planning will just cause more homelessness. You can't both have your cake and eat it too.
Closed-source client apps? Bye, have a great time!
Added the book to my list to be read, loved the summary! Thanks for sharing.
Did you look into acquihire? Did you have investors and if so did you tap them for soft landing assistance? 4 people working on highly technical database stuff sounds like a team that could get acquihired. Which is a lot better way to fail than hard landing.
> Much needs to happen infrastructure-wise

In what way?

Plenty of utilities have stated that ubiquitous home-charging won't require major modifications to the grid. As residential demand creeps up, some spending and changes will have to be made, but nothing major.

En-route charging infrastructure is getting built up rapidly without public support. Commercial EV demand alone could drive the formation of a very nice charging infrastructure.
An action by Amazon is not centralized to anything. They’re a private company and not a monopoly. They can choose to sell or not sell anything they please. Centralized censorship would be the government or an unavoidable private monopoly decreeing that this book shall be unavailable.
In analytics there are ways to discuss activity like: visits per month, pages per session, time on site, conversion rate, etc.

It's possible for any of those activity metrics to go down 10% without losing any active users.
Amazon used to do a bunch of POs from super high to super low volume - which meant a lot of sloppy purchasing (typically buying too much and having excess).

Basically their strategy is now 80-20, do the big ticket items direct and let the wholesalers fight for scraps. This makes a lot more sense to be honest than them trying to run every single little thing that competes against one-another.
For comparison, a 400 kg tow rating you get on a Fiat 500 with the 0.9 L three-cylinder petrol engine...
Nasa Television (ISS Expedition 59-60/Soyuz MS-12 Launch Coverage)
Cool, almost similar to https://www.AdAuth.com
(sardonic) True, but did you want those users if they aren't even willing to spend money?
It may be curation - but let’s not forget Amazon started with the premise that they could serve the long tail. Bezos used to talk about how terrible it was that a physical book store would have such limited selection.

They doubled down on this strategy with their on demand printing service - bypassing traditional publishing gate keepers.

When someone dispenses with long-standing policy it is noteworthy.
Exponentially easier than polling 1% nationally.
We shouldn’t censor them because that has side effects when any sort of mechanism is introduced.

However two laws should be made:

1. Not vaccinating your kids should be classified as a child protection offence (unless there is medical basis from a panel, not one quack). Kids are confiscated, vaccinated and put into state care after one warning.

2. Promoting non NHS / FDA etc approved medical advice should be a criminal offence and ends up with the publisher, author, owners being chucked in jail.

The latter covers bullshit like homeopathy and Chinese herbal medicine as well.

There’s no place for any of this in 2019. We should actively shame anyone partaking in this.
Thanks! Not a data engineer, but I used to work at a data engineering company, and can attest to the complexity and rawness of the industry. Your setup looks solid!

As a frontend engineer having seen under the hood of data pipelines at scale, I wanted to reverse engineer the parts of it that I care about (product analytics via event logging), and package it up for my little side projects.

It's awesome that this is inspiring to people. If people get anything from what I wrote, it'd be this: While large companies all roll their own data pipelines, it's _not that difficult_ for a startup / smaller co / individual to do product analytics on a level that makes sense for them, without just automatically reaching for GA or whatever.
Waiting may mean you face a patent stockade.
They are only batched if they are all updates or all reads, but not if there's an interpolation of both.

Even if the browser optimizes it with an optimum update strategy, it doesn't matter if a developer who doesn't know better forces thrashing to occur. Virtual DOM libs help structure code in such a way that idiomatic code falls into the pit of success.
Free with donation/extra for features.

I don't know why people even consider ads for games.

If a game/application has the "have ads" under the install button, i don't even install it to check it out. Because I know that even if i am not seeing ads, the framework is underneath the game, collecting data just the same.
weight and

size and

the fact most people don't know how to put one on properly or use one and

there's usually not enough time to prepare in an emergency and

it would be utter chaos inside the plane if everyone tried to put on their parachute and escape the plane.
Great link, thanks for sharing. That Alan Ginsberg poem is heavy duty. It reminds me a lot of this quote from Revelation (which I read as an epic proto sci fi):

> The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed.
Toyota's Takaoka #2 Line: The Most Flexible Line in the World
This is interesting. I currently use Sync.com which works great on my Mac but unfortunately doesn't have a Linux client.
'Brain orgasms'? The ASMR relaxation trend seducing the internet
No need for a neural network, you can just use Math.random (or your respective language's RNG).

Sidenote, would this technically count as a neural network with only one weight (which is randomly initialized)?
This is not censorship, books are still legal to buy in the US. It is one (biggest) merchant refusing to sell these books. They are putting people's safety ahead of their profit margins too. Perhaps they fear lawsuits arising from selling these book. But it is their choice, and right choice.
This only provides a new means of defecating in or on e-scooters?
Nope. Most software development jobs, along with many other "creative" jobs, will be automated as well.
Then it will become "the government should make laws to stop private businesses from doing that," like it always does. People who defend censorship with the private business argument are often arguing in bad faith, because they don't really support the rights of private businesses, they're just using that angle to convince those that do.
Why don't you use an adblocker or pay for YouTube premium to support your content creators.
Cosmos Network launches network to create an ‘internet of blockchains’
Wow how interesting. Seems to drive out of a mindset of despair and blind hope. This seems like a pretty appropriate category for Modern Monetary Theory as well.
>web game

Possible the 10% were using adblockers, and so didn't notice the change.
What's the other 1%?
FWIW I moved to FastMail from Gmail about three years ago and one of my main worries then was that I’d be inundated with spam when I didn’t have google’s filter to keep things clean. Since then I think I’ve only had one spam message come through to my inbox, and one or two that were incorrectly classified as spam. My worries were unfounded, as it turns out.

(No affiliation with fastmail, just a customer.)
> If you don't notice it to any degree, it's not doing its job

That's a subjective statement. The giant billboards of pepsi with a celebrity doesn't register as an Ad as much as a recognition of someone of interest with a subliminal associative positive reinforcement of a brand. Nobody cares about what Matthew McConaughey thinks about cars, but everyone knows he's associated with a specific brand. Ewan McGregor, in contrast, is quite the motorcycle aficionado (https://moneyinc.com/five-celebrities-love-motorcycles/).
I would say:

Private, yes, until it has been shown to harm the public good to do so.

Government, no, until it has been shown to harm the public good to not do so.
Not just run of the mill private institutions either, a company that has a monopoly on the distribution of books.

This Atlantic article has their market share of all book sales at 65% in 2014. I wonder if that number has risen since then.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/amazon-...
It is also very common that the first few people commenting on a thread have a very different profile than the people that come later.
It's often said that less than 10% of users click ads. If there would be way to identify those users with reasonably low false positive rate, you could annoy only small fraction of users and keep more of them (if you want to have them).
Sorry, I misread OP. People treat "should do" and "should be able to do" frequently as the same thing in these cases (Twitter and "free speech" is another such case).
How is it we have such precise satellite location data on these crashes - but MH370 can just disappear.
Who does that server serve?
It's correct that they changed the rules to exclude him and most people don't like that in principal. But it's also true that he was not a serious candidate because he said he wanted one bill passed and then he'd resign the presidency, and that one bill wouldn't make it through congress anyway.
I doubt that would have gotten past their unions (for either the engineers or the engineering technicians).
Also for these ? https://joincoup.com/en
And what about headrests in uber, taxis, &c ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_risk
Not really. Order it from a local bookshop, direct from publisher or author.

It's still a million miles from the old days when book shops, even the largest could only carry a tiny fraction of what was available. Even then there were fringe shops that sold plenty of conspiracy and alternative views that main publishers, wholesalers and retailers wouldn't touch.
My conscious choice NOT to pay premium. Content creators already get $$ for views.
It's misleading because you do not need to be a wholesaler to use FBA, and in fact the majority of FBA users have never been wholesalers and never will be. This is one of the reasons why this article is so misleading, because it gives off a fundamentally incorrect reading of what happened and what is happening at the company.

It is not "bullying" for a company to just stop buying your brand's products. Vendors almost universally receive less per unit when they sell to Amazon as wholesalers than when they sell as retailers. The article makes it seem like all FBA users are wholesalers when the reality is nearly opposite: most FBA users are retailers, called "Sellers" in Amazon parlance. Some fraction are wholesalers who sell directly to Amazon, but it is not nearly even 20-30% of the marketplace volume.

The whole thing about FBA vs. FBM as it relates to vendors is another misleading red herring int the article which confuses more than it illuminates. There was nothing in the recent mass halt of POs to many vendors about encouraging vendors to go FBM. FBM just means you yourself ship the orders to customers versus you ship the products to Amazon warehouses for Amazon to ship orders to customers as they come in.

Sellers can do either FBM or FBA as it suits them and their business model. In Amazon's communication to vendors impacted by the cancellation it just said "go give being a seller a try." There was zero in that about "you should try merchant fulfillment" and it's not even relevant.

The worst part about this article is that there were non-specialist articles that correctly interpreted the event and correctly described what was going on, like this one from the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2019/mar/08/amazon-abrup...

>Pushing suppliers onto the marketplace -- rather than selling products itself -- lets Amazon offload the risk and cost of purchasing, storing and shipping the merchandise. Instead, the company can charge suppliers for these services and take a commission on each transaction, which is much more profitable. The strategy is part of a larger effort to reduce overhead by getting more suppliers to use an automated self-service system that requires no input from Amazon managers.

^-- That quote right there is 100% accurate. It is a full and correct description of Who/What/Where/When/Why of the event along with some useful context. The article in the OP gets most of those Ws incorrect.

You can certainly point out that this kind of erratic behavior on Amazon's part is not that pleasant for vendors, but you would have a hard time finding a vendor of any scale to Amazon who would not say that they are erratic, unfair, and unprofessional as it relates to business dealings with vendors which is probably one of the reasons why they are paring back the program. There are some vendors who love their rep at Amazon and have had great experiences, but that wouldn't be the majority. This sudden pivot was a rude surprise for many vendors, but dealing with Amazon directly as a wholesaler is generally a series of rude surprises anyway.
Pretty interesting headline considering a lot of talk lately about breaking up Big Tech.
Final question didn’t end in a question mark - perfect!

“I want to do something like this

$ _ -1 = object();”

We all do....

Now I see that the virtual question is different every time. Great work. It read better than most SO questions.
> Each of these scandals is a mortal danger to Boeing. One of them might someday finally put it out of business.

I don't think this is true, and I think that their cost/benefit analysis clearly agrees with me. Military and other large contractors go out of business when they run out of friends. For them to run out of friends, they would either have to have people fear for their jobs if they choose Boeing, or a competitor who offers more for friendship.

There will never be enough pressure from the public to not pick Boeing that people would be risking their jobs by choosing them. In addition, the US government is willing to sweeten any friendships they need sweetened. Boeing is a company of the size that taxpayers actively shill for them overseas, and that business for them is included in treaties and foreign aid.

I can't even imagine a situation bad enough that Boeing would even need to change its name.
OTOH: It seems big companies often have more flexibility in what your skillset is. Yes the interview process is cookie-cutter algorithms, but the application process is "we want smart people no matter which language/framework you've used before". Like I know people who got jobs with Microsoft with little programming experience (but other engineering degrees), whereas my mid-sized company we only hire people with the exact skillset we use because we can't afford to have them not productive right away.
I don't have any content-based spam filtering (but I do use the spamhaus sbl-xbl list).

It doesn't take very long to manually delete spam from the inbox. And if your spam filter is putting legitimate emails in your spam folder, you need to manually filter them anyway.
I heard you like paths, so I put some paths in your path:

https://stackroboflow.com/#!/question/973