skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't Amazon already have mobile ads? Maybe this was just amazon-on-adsense but I remember often seeing Amazon items I've recently viewed show up in other apps.
Trains need a lot of infrastructure, meaning maintenance and construction costs (i.e. tracks and stations). Also, as they are slower, wage costs can be higher than planes.
I like the idea of IPFS. I also came from Yahoo and the GeoCities and YahooClubs remained autonomous communities for the most part. Y!'s model was to integrate but not to fully take over the communities but let them reside where they were. That model changed over the years as monetization became a problem.

I've also tried Mastadon but their interface leaves something to be desired. The experience is not there yet.

I do agree on interoperability -- and while Zuckerberg is doing this with Whatsapp and Messenger, we should really take this across most messaging app.

I fear for increasing centralization ONLY because they have the resources and money to do this. This will not change unless we develop a consortium that has the numbers to make it work.
Ask HN: Resources/Steps for Becoming a Consultant?
I recently put in my notice at work with nothing lined up. Do any of you operate full time as a consultant? I'd love to hear about how you got started and what resources, pitfalls, experiences you came across along the way.
As the article mentions, Twitter disclosed a similar mistake a year ago...and GitHub before them. These are just the organizations responsible enough to say something.

Can we take a moment to acknowledge that this is an easy mistake to make? A logger doesn't care if it's a password or not. Strings are strings. As long as the answer is "humans should be more careful" we'll be seeing these kinds of disclosures regularly across the industry.

My best attempt to address this in my teams has been to use different data types for different data classifications. Naked strings must be loaded in one of these data types after input sanitization. That makes it easier to catch accidental inappropriate use. This is useful for managing PII as well.
> But it doesn't seem suited for final asset generation.

Well yes, of course, and neither is Google's Style Transfer ML. These are both just prototyping tools, not a magic wand to make production-quality assets.
Password managers and service specific 2FA solve that problem quite nicely for now (edit: although yes most users aren’t willing to do that).
Why the days seem shorter as we get older
They should crowdsource that work- start operation Turktrek. (Sorry i couldnt resist).
Oh, I don't think that's true. From what I can see and what I've heard from friends that have been through YC, they take a lot of flyers. That's part of the point.
"You won't drink yourself into a coma with beer" - it only takes more time. 1st google result on oktoberfest passed out: https://coed.com/2015/09/16/oktoberfest-best-drunk-photos-oc...
>It was shit and I will never take an Amtrak again.

All Amtrak lines are operated a little differently, AFAIK. As far as the West Coast is concerned, I find both the Pacific Surfliner and the Coastal Starlight to be pleasant and enjoyable (although not very affordable). The Northeast Regional on the East Coast is pretty affordable, runs often, and makes traveling between cities in the Northeast megalopolis without a car pretty trivial, which is nice.

All that's to say that I wouldn't judge Amtrak by its least-used routes.
Languages aren't flavors of ice cream. Considering the technical arguments of one technology over the other is part and parcel of our profession, and online forums are we go to have these discussions. The person who wrote this, or the people who might look to consume it might not know that better alternatives exist that can meet their requirements and offer them additional advantages.
Right now the Internet Archive and BitKeepers feel like Alexandria's library, a kind of single point of failure with a big loss to all of us if something happens.

And we also need to keep running the applications that know how to deal with specific file formats.
> Engineering requires licensing and exams through a governing body.

Offering engineering services to the public requires licensure. Working at places like Boeing, General Motors, Texas Instruments, and Caterpillar does not (for the vast majority of positions); It just requires an accredited engineering degree.

Note that this is independent of the software industry needing more engineering rigor, which it desperately does.
They used to make wired IEM headphones and iirc sold them for half the price of the airpod.
The article gives context.
I agree with you. Tesla is far from perfect, and they make plenty of mistakes, but you can't deny that they basically built a car company from nothing in just a handful of years.

And if you take into consideration that they had to spend lots of time to make up for mistakes made along the way (Musk's infamous "we tried to automate too much" statements), that just makes it that much more impressive that they are where they are today.

Other commenters here are talking about how their famous difficulty in ramping up production or problems with sourcing parts as if it means there's nothing of value for someone to steal. But I just can't see that being true.

I can't see Tesla having absolutely nothing of value in their logistics processes at all. And if there is even one worthwhile thing, something they are doing right that others are hesitant to try, or can't do for other reasons, that's something that is very valuable to Tesla as a company.
If this were a universal thing, I could see it helping, but unfortunately I'd be surprised if only people who opt in having this feature makes a significant dent in the issue.
It has always been the case that the search terms do not necessarily appear on the resultant pages, this is actually the cornerstone of their algorithm. They use the text in the links and nearby text to apply to the site it is linking to. This was from day 1. It was why you would get good results for categorical searches like "search engine", "shopping site", "best auction site", etc. It didn't say those terms on the sites that showed up high in the list, but that's how everyone described them.
If the computer needs to pull over and check itself into a motel and nap for a few hours, I'm not going to object. But right now the computer "takes a break" by simply disengaging in the middle of the road. Presumably when this happens, the computer isn't even confident in it's ability to safely park the car on the shoulder, as a human driver would attempt in the event of an emergency (blown tire) or undrivable conditions (which for a human might be an intense blizzard or torrential downpour.)
It has artefacts. If you look at some near similar defined geometrys, they stay unmoving for split seconds. Siscos upper head collapses in on himself, when he moves..
why would you still want to switch to them at this point?
60 million people out of 350mm in the USA possessing and acting on non-progressive ideologies that are suppressive, racist, regressive and generally incompatible with life in 2019? Yes I do believe that, and a lot of people would agree with me.
I recently tried to rewatch Babylon 5 but the resolution was terrible and it looked bad on my TV so I gave up pretty quickly. I hope someone does the same treatment to Babylon 5 episodes!
It's not if a post gets upvotes later, but rather if a moderator or a small number of story reviewers notice that it was a good post that didn't get attention. We've been doing it for quite a while now https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380. The long term plan is still to open this up to all users, not just a few, but we still haven't figured out a good way to do that.
Probably dumb question: if debt and deficits don’t matter and a country can just print money - how does that explain cases where countries have defaulted and other countries and their own citizens lose confidence in the currency?

I also don’t understand how the jobs guarantee is supposed to work. Presumably if we had work to be done we would have open positions for it. Now we have to magic up jobs, which means diluting jobs other people currently do and the income the currently derive from it, or make pointless “dig and fill” hole jobs. Won’t all this just make everything a hell of a lot less efficient? And won’t it worsen potential economic recovery? You’re depriving potential new industries or business from labour because that labour is working for the government. You’re also preventing government departments (or wherever those jobs go) from improving their own services. To pick a historical example, instead of moving to computerizing records taking away jobs it would now be necessary to continue to do things on a typewriter because you need to keep the jobs. This in turn removes money flowing from the government to computer industry, which helps to drive up and develop whole new businesses and industry that drive the economy. That is, is there not a risk that the way the jobs guarantee is described as helping during the downturns could actually hinder recovery and development of new industry? OTOH why I like UBI is it still leaves all those incentives to do new things in place.
Define required. Required by whom? Not by the FAA, at least. So they are extra. So operators decide whether they buy them or not. They didn't, and this is the result.
This comment has no real content. What's the difference between these sort of cranky "no substance" comments and YouTube's usual offerings?
It builds a directory of files which contains a .bat to launch the bundle.
Wow! That's a bigger difference than I expected.
Or in the alternative, the airline that purchased the jet opted to not pay for key safety features...
> And that’s just a first cut; it could be made much nicer.

This is exactly the problem with S-expressions. No-one is willing to define what "good enough" looks like and create a fixed, reusable standard for how you represent these things. Instead everyone hand-rolls their own, subtly incompatible variant.
When I first read fear I thought you meant of the terrible infrastructure of trains in the US :)
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I'm no expert on this, but I think that wording suggests that the government's goal is to tax, but it seems to me that a government really wants to spend.

My understanding of MMT is that it removes the direct relationship between the ideas of spending and taxation, instead tying them both to inflation. Spending increases inflation by adding currency into circulation, and taxation decreases inflation by removing it from circulation. Although I'm not sure how that fits into a one-liner :)
The chart in the Bloomberg article is pretty great. Delong is left-leaning by the way, meaning not just conservatives see this as nutty.

Left leaning Paul Krugman sees MMT as nutty

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/25/opinion/running-on-mmt-wo...

Even further left, Doug Henwood is down on MMT

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/02/modern-monetary-theory-is...

It's not just conservatives who are down on this. Left and center-left economists see MMT as wishful thinking.
> That is an absurd barrier.

It may be absurd for someone who has always lived in a location with access to the education, job opportunities and other services which allow them to live the life they want. It's not quite that absurd for the millions of people who have migrated to other countries rather than stagnating in a place they didn't choose to be born in. It's not that absurd to those who live in countries so vast that moving to another city may involve the sorts of distances that people from smaller countries can't cover without crossing a border. And it's not at all absurd for disabled people who do this because their country doesn't allow for independence.

Nevertheless, my original comment was more addressing people who move to another city/state, or away from a rural area, to gain access to services which otherwise would remain unavailable to them. That happens all the time.
Much of the Apache foundation projects come to mind when thinking about the GP's assertion, though certainly it doesn't hold for all projects: many are fairly novel and exploratory.
I so wish that your username had been "Pluto" when you asked that question. Snarkiness put aside, I searched around online to see if maybe I was missing something. It looks like it was simply a misuse of the word. I would have suggested using "celestial body" or even "world" in place of "planet". Perhaps he was using it in the colloquial sense (in the same way a tomato is a "vegetable").
Be cool if I can use their API to register domains for myself or on behalf of my clients.
It loves process, and it loves sticking to it. It's full of, ironically, idealistic technocrats.

I used to believe that, but the problem is, there's a lot of evidence that the EU is a more classic style of bureaucracy - it sticks to rules when they work in the favour of what the bureaucracy wants, and tears them up the moment the rules would work against them.

There are lots of examples of this in action. The eurozone bailouts. The reclassification of low Irish taxes as a "state subsidy". The ECJ ruling that Article 50 can be unilaterally revoked, even though it says clearly in the treaty that revoking it requires unanimity amongst members. The way Selmayr was elevated to GS of the Commission. The way the Commission changes its mind about whether countries have "equivalent" financial regulations even when no regulations have changed, because they want to impose trade sanctions on those countries as part of unrelated negotiations. There are many more like this.

What's amazing is how flagrant and open it is. The people who ultimately wield the power in the EU simply void the rules publicly and noisily, because they know nothing will happen to them at all. It's very much not a technocratic body, it's entirely and completely political in nature.
“You suck as a CEO but would make a legendary VC“. This is a judgment someone made based on the short period of time. No one is perfect and we all are learning from our experiences, failures and sharpening our skills along the way. You would definitely become an awesome CEO, key is not to give up and build your own business or continue to build your business/startup (if you have already started).
Out of 2000 users, there was not one that had a look at username/password? Impressive. Also developers during dev. Seriously, this is not justifiable, it's pure laziness if we want to be positive.
Unfortunately, that's probably the "last best chance" for a not-awful watching experience. At some point after the show wrapped, they lost all of their 3d models, so they will never be able to re-render a single ship.

EDIT: I didn't mention fan models as a possible approach because this is WB/PETN we're talking about here. They aren't Paramount-dumb, but they seemed take that as a challenge, at least vis à vis B5.
>But given the shitshow that is Tesla's logistics , that's extremely unlikely, as Tesla's logistics processes simply aren't valuable IP. Tesla has displayed a chronic inability to manage their own supply chain, especially during the period the employees were at Tesla.

Hypothetically, what if their supply chain issues are caused by dogmatically following a flawed and proprietary supply chain algorithm?

If their rival did indeed steal and use the algo, does it matter if it's flawed, for the purposes of a suit?

(Ex: maybe they decided it's easier to prove use of the flawed algo than some of the crown jewels for whatever reason)
You can still find the comments here:

http://web.archive.org/web/20190301040236/https://blogs.msdn...
The premise is that 20th century historians rewrote history to fit their political-economic theories, not that innovation is not real.

>None of these points is accurate. Duke was not the first to use the cigarette machine; in fact, all of the major producers used it by 1887. Nor did he have the best royalty deal for the most efficient machine; that was held by the Lone Jack Tobacco Company. Duke was not the first U.S. entrepreneur to make a success with cigarettes or to find a foreign market for them; Lewis Ginter of Richmond, Virginia, achieved as much before Duke even began making cigarettes. Duke did not force his competitors to merge into the ATC, and he was not its first president. The five major producers formed the corporation in order to gain clout in negotiations for the foreign rights to the best cigarette machine, and Ginter was the first president. No one checked the story against primary sources. Even a look at New York Times articles from the 1880s would have revealed telling inconsistencies and errors.
I can see the ad campaign two years from now: Swimmer taps watch to play then dives into a backstroke with airpods visible.

Then you try it at your local pool and the airpods immediately fall out the minute you hit the water, and are kicked by a 6 year old into the pool filter.
After Devin Nunes sues a parody cow, it surpasses him on Twitter
How is the touchpad in comparison to Mac?
It has a pretty nice format, but I've run into it's limitations more than once. Array indexing is not possible in the config or library, and nested-environmental variable substitution is not possible (e.g. $ACCESS_KEY_{$ENV_NAME})
Adlib and 3Dfx are two good examples how first to market doesn't mean success.
I'm talking generally across the world, and not just referenda.

> the original remain/leave referendum that happened a few years after joining

That wasn't constitutional change. Nor was it binding.

This referendum was also non-binding, it's right there in the act of parliament that authorized it.

Of course once Parliament agreed to invoke article 50 the referendum became irrelevant. Parliament - specifically the Tories, Labour, DUP, UUP and UKIP mps who decided to take us out of the EU with no deal, not the referendum.

320 MPs can change the UK constitution (although there are some protections with the House of Lords), which is the anomaly globally.
I'm very, very wary of any corporations that "work in the interest of the workers". What that usually translates into (at least here) is the government subsidizing said corporations with public money. Case in point, a pair of shipyards are making the news because they (yet again) need a bailout in order to continue to function. "Think of the workers", "local business" and such are being thrown around.

I just hope that this time the EU won't let the government waste taxpayer money.
I'm not sure if you need all of the parts in place to see if / how it works. The fed could start offsetting deficits to the tune of $100B to the treasury and see how the USD, bond markets react. If inflation goes up, it could in theory, be offset with a tax scheme inline with MMT. I'm not saying this would be terribly smooth, but I do think it is possible to test parts MMT in relative isolation.
Interesting. In William Gibson's "Pattern Recognition" the main character feels that it takes a while for her soul to catch back up to her after she takes long plane rides. Wonder if this where he got that idea from.
Also, holy shit if this is real:

“As pointed out in editorials by the New York Times and The Verge, the phrase "subscribe to PewDiePie" has become almost equivalent with dumb stunts and racially fueled declarations, and was also muttered by a gunman before embarking on a killing spree in a New Zealand mosque last week.”
EU parliament defends the interests of EU countries, including the Republic of Ireland. Europe is protecting its interests; politicians in the UK assumed that the EU would bend to their will, they were wrong. With Theresa May's hard Brexit and red lines, it was impossible for the EU to
do more; I actually think they did some compromises in the current May's deal. The problem is that May's deal is not what was sold to voters, far from it, that's why no one is happy about the current situation.

Europe just said: You cannot have your cake and eat it.
People who end up on the wrong side of it too frequently.
A lot of MMT is just restating things Keynesians and Austrians already know and pretending it's some brilliant idea. For instance, they think it's a big breakthrough that the government can pay down debt by issuing more currency. We already know the government can do this, and we also know why it's a bad idea.
I wouldn't say that difference holds for all americans. The trains in northeast corridor, which serve ~50 million people (~15% of us population) also have no-talking cars. But to your point, train service is treated as a basic form of transportation there.
who charges the wholesale registry fee?
It was uncalled for, but as an explanation I think the premise of the comment is that asymmetry is the opposite of equality
I think I saw that on the DVDs themselves, or at least on netflix. I suspect the source material was heavily compressed
>Just curious, what are the domain registrars currently support U2F?

Google, Amazon, Gandi (and some others I can't remember off the top of my head) support U2F.

>having U2F is not necessarily making accessing your account securer.

I don't agree with that at all. There are numerous cases of various 2FA methods being taken advantage of. No one has yet managed to crack U2F.
Article fails to live up to its title and offer any defense of YAML, specifically.

Yes, a lot of YAML abuse consists of trying to pretend code is config, and that problem exists for any config format. However YAML specifically is also a uniquely bad config format, even when used for plain config; too many obscure corner cases (e.g. the abbreviation for Norway turning into false, port mappings turning into times when the ends in a number...)
We don't know who the VC is. But this could be a rare and amazing opportunity. I'd take it and run with it!
And the net result of that is what? Why would any business want to have regulations passed dictating what they can do? You can support a free, open internet and still not want regulations dictating your behavior. They aren't mutually exclusive.
If you want to fix San Francisco, don’t blame the NIMBYs – tax the rich
Holy shit this is such a juvenile and entitled comment. Please grow up, you're everything that's wrong with the USA.
They'd also have an easier time further reducing death rates by getting access to tech from competitors sooner, and improve from there.
I am guessing that is a big part of it, avoiding patent litigation is another. There are a zillion patents around GPUs that it is difficult to prove the someone is using without more information about the internals. Back when I signed the S3 NDA/License agreement to get access to their underlying architecture there were specific clauses in that agreement that said I would agree to indemnify them if anyone brought patent litigation against them as are result of information I disclosed. It was unusual enough for me to remember it all these years later.
What innovation?
I'd like to stand at the last paragraph of the article above stating “There is some beautiful structure that somehow coexists with a totally random environment,” Papić said. “What kind of physics allows this to happen? This is a kind of deep and profound question that runs through many areas of physics, and I think this is another incarnation.”

This comes as a blow in the face for those who believe that the universe is the result of randomness or that intelligent design is a fairy tale.

My response to Mr Papic is that this is the kind of physics our Creator has built! The kind of physics causing another familiar entity, the DNA, to refuse to submit to entropy as well. It is another proof of the existence of God and He's greatest creation, the Soul!
Thank you for sharing, this was wonderful to read!