skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of a biography I was reading (My Work Is That of Conservation: An Environmental Biography of George Washington Carver). I was at a meeting about diversity for a group I belong to. One of the people there was waxing poetic about it.

Among other things, he bootstrapped the agriculture program at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, at the invitation of Booker T Washington.

Carver was an exceptionally polite and religious man, the sort of person racists could label as 'one of the good ones' and that helped grease some wheels for him. He also a very clever and intuitive man who had a number thoughts on ecology that are just being echoed in modern rethinking of agricultural and land management practices, nearly a hundred years later. Way ahead of his time (which did not work in his favor). But I digress.

What he found when he moved to Alabama: after the Civil War, slaves were freed but the land was still owned by the landed gentry. Everyone was 'free' but they worked as sharecroppers, on second-rate farmland. They were also told they couldn't plant certain things, like food for subsistence. So they were constantly cycling debt loads every year buying food and supplies, waiting for the crop to come in, keeping them constantly off balance. They also couldn't afford the expensive equipment that was featured heavily in the Green Revolution of the time. Speaking out against this earned him some enemies, and if I recall a lot of friction with Washington.

Adam Conover, in an episode about diversity in suburbs, talks about many things, but one that stuck out is higher interest rates for minorities, keeping them out or less secure than their white counterparts (maybe a case of racist algorithms?). The deck is still stacked.
Amazon to close domestic marketplace business in China: sources
My card says PCP.
Dilemma of going academic or industry as a PhD grad
There was a flight for 44.3 hours, then without even stopping the engines another one of 30 hours. That makes for a $10,030,500 flight not even counting the bombs.

https://www.uso.org/stories/253-inside-the-longest-bombing-r...
/s cut out a step and simply transfer DC residents' taxes to the landlords.

> That meant vouchers could be used for one-bedroom apartments renting at up to $2,648 a month, according to Housing Authority documents.
Why? How is Vanguard, an investment management firm which employees thousands of trained professionals, not qualified to cast votes on corporate governance? And in what sense is it "power collecting"?

Yes, this is an issue that is largely debated, and there are some very interesting conflicts of interest - just curious why you specifically think it's so bad.
> But, unfortunately, it's currently impossible to set a maximum price you could wind up owing due to receiving medical care.

Of course, because demand for healthcare is infinite, so you could wind up costing the insurance company an infinite amount of money. And if their expenses are uncapped, they're not going to cap how much you can pay them.

And if they cap their expenses on your behalf, it's not really insurance, it's just a shitty payment plan.
I think you're right. If we think that Zuckerbergs decisions where bad, in terms of user privacy, just wait until impatient shareholders are in charge.

In many ways I believe that Zuckerberg is the sole reason that Facebook hasn't crashed and burned at this point.
I could see a market where you put up a Starlink base station, which communicates to regular phones via LTE or WiFi. That could cover the use case of many Iridium deployments, where you are always within range of a camp or vehicle.
Scientists print first 3D heart using a patient’s own cells
For those interested in isomorphic hexagonal (or rectangular) layouts (like the now dead Axis 64) check out the iPad / iPhone application we make, Musix Pro.

https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/musix-pro-epic-isomorphic/id...

As well, there is an awesome hardware project trying to get of the ground at http://terpstrakeyboard.com (more communication on their facebook as well)
As a Facebook shareholder, i could not be happier. plot the performance of Facebook vs. the S&P 500 since the IPO. Facebook s a money-printing machine thanks to mobile ads, which includes Instagram. There will always be shareholders who dissent. Has Facebook made mistakes, yeah, not but enough to make me sell.
Sell the stock.

Buying a stock with such an awful capital structure is like betting on someone else's poker hand. It's great if you think they're a great poker player, but when they begin to do foolish things, you have no say. And then to complain about the situation you created is ludicrous.
Thank you! That's a good feedback. In our experience of working with the gettext based localizations we noticed that developers almost always omit the context and in result localizers are stripped of the ability to distinguish the message variant which makes them have to ask the developer to introduce it.

This, in turn, breaks the design principle #1 of Fluent - https://github.com/projectfluent/fluent/wiki/Design-Principl...

I'll update the Wiki to reflect that!
Can't understand the appeal of a foldable screen - it looks like shit (big crease down the middle and thick when folded) and for that I get a marginal improvement on idle surface area consumption.

Would love to be proven wrong but I think it's going to be a monumental flop in regards to sales.
Not only did they buy the shares but they bought the shares knowing the degree of control Zuckerberg had.

Zuckerberg has clearly kept control of Facebook with the idea that he had a "mission". While various folks might justifiably doubt Zuckerberg's integrity, it seems reasonable that an entity like Facebook should be run with some commitment to longer term integrity and principles. Whatever process exists clearly should be insulated from day-to-day share prices and the multiple stock voting types achieves that.

Oppositely, activist shareholder coups generally aim to extract as much money as possible as quickly as possible from a given company. It seems unlikely this approach would involve more privacy protection, less manipulation, etc. Just the opposite.

The problem of a private entity becoming the host of a lot of essentially public discourse certainly remains. The thing is that I personally trust the powerful enemies Facebook has found (mainstream media, various elected officials, etc) even less than Facebook, which speaks a bit to problems this society is having.
I feel as though this piece is a bit alarmist, but I'm curious if we are approaching the first big test of these ownership structures of public companies where the founder(s) maintain majority power.

Up until now, Facebook has consistantly provided excellent returns for investors, and this has also allowed other companies, like Snap, to have similar shareholder voting rights. Investors have yet to penalize a company at their IPO or overall stock price for this practice, but I wonder if we may see a change in that attitude if Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook's other shareholders start to have significant public disagreements.
Dual share class IPOs always seem fine when a company is in its hot growth mode and the founders have a halo. They very rarely end well. Shareholder democracy works. A CEO who is able to convincingly explain their long term vision to markets and has earned credibility has nothing to fear from the short term hordes.
> So everyone sells, drives down the price of the stock, and then what?

Then those people aren't shareholders in a company whose management they find unacceptable. Problem solved, from a certain point of view.
I think it's often more about hypocrisy than it is about the act/actions. It seems to, at least from my pov, work out worst for conservative/republican politicians than left leaning ones. Of course when you get bad actors on the left, this also means things are overlooked or forgiven that really shouldn't be.
The main problem with things like privatizing prisons is that doing so seriously reduces the ability of the citizenry to affect how they operate, compared to them being run by the government.
It's worth noting that Samsung previously announced they would replace for customers any Galaxy Fold with screen issues. Also all Galaxy Folds are covered under Samsung Care+ which includes accidental damage. It's still a risky first gen device but at least you're getting some protection.
I really can't find a reason to agree with this. I guess if we use different definitions of "war." But a total war between any two superpowers will be profitable for no one.
"instead of caching the actual value, we cached a Promise that will eventually provide the value"

I did this exact thing recently in a client-side HTTP caching system for frequently-duplicated API requests from within a single page. Cool to see it pop up elsewhere.
What is really needed there then is an index that excludes companies which don't have relatively open governance structures.
Question, aside from reduced confidence in future value of future value and side from better opportunities elsewhere — what would make you sell a company that is making good money?
When I interviewed there, one of the interviewers took me to a window and pointed out all of the different buildings amazon either owned outright or had office space in. It was impressive, at least to realize just how big Amazon actually is.

I don't know that it's healthy for one company to dominate so much space, either from the company's perspective or a city's. At that point, with workers already being remote from each other (blocks or miles apart) it would seem to make more sense to me to focus on getting the company shifted to full remote work for anyone not needed in a data, phone or product center.

There are certain things that I miss about working in an office, but I don't know that I'll ever take another job that isn't remote again.
I have been feeling the same. This prevalence of bullshit in an industry I joined (computer science) to avoid such bullshit has been the most shocking experience of my life.

Another related topic to add to your list: Boeing culture https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19671611
This process could have easily been avoided by simply requiring websites to add the RTA header to any part of the site that could contain adult material or user created content.

It looks like this:

rating "RTA-5042-1996-1400-1577-RTA"

It is trivial to configure in all web servers and most reverse proxies. Then simply put the requirement on parents to enable parental controls on their devices. Each parent should be able to decide what is appropriate for their progeny.

Instead, people must submit more PII to governments and websites. I can imagine this going horribly sideways. Or perhaps side-stepped? Perhaps usenet and small chan boards will make a come-back.
Is this really different than the memes about bluetooth headphones in general? It's not so different than the things I saw over a decade ago. This isn't new.
Most important question: what will minimize your future regrets?
Of course it is, if it can. This is a consequence of putting an investment vehicle in charge of what it's investing in. The only alternative is having the investment vehicle potentially own a company and not get to control it, I suppose because it's an investment vehicle and not capable of directing a company appropriately.

Which makes sense to ME, but you can be sure your investment vehicle is actively directing everything you're investing in, towards whatever benefits the short-term value of whatever you think you're helping.

Possibly excepting certain arrogant companies like I dunno, Amazon, Uber: stuff that is essentially ungovernable, especially when you can't get controlling interest of the thing.
Using of array lookup is a bad wayof optimization:
digittoval[src[N]] can take up to 200 cycles if not in cache

Only synthetic tests that small enough (most of them do nothing than tested code) show good results.
Guild Says “Thousands” of Writers Have Fired Their Agents Already
Yes, naming is hard, but, to quote the previous commenter "this can be worked around" - you can `slug` any string if you want to.
We prefer to think of the ID as the base of the social contract between the dev and the localizer. This enables a lot of fine tuned control over string invalidation.
>And doesn't it create potential situations where you require a lawyer?

Sure, but improving your BATNA helps your negotiations even if you don't need to exercise it. The bill gets handled with opening a dispute and sending a "give me documentation for an implied regulatory complaint" letter. If things devolve into a lawsuit or threat thereof, I tell them my financial situation and what they can expect from a lawsuit and offer to settle for a nominal amount.

>Wouldn't it be easier instead for healthcare billing not to contain so many gotchas?

Well yeah, but I can't change the healthcare billing system, while I can change how my finances are structured.
If someone has an alternate link for this story we can update it.
How do folks view the alt text on mobile? With Firefox I can long press on the image and it'll show me part of it, but to see the whole thing I have to use the "Page > view source" but that isn't available on Chrome, nor iOS Safari AFAIK

I much prefer SMBC's "red button" for accessibility, but xkcd is unlikely to change just for mobile users
Somewhat of a follow-on from [1] discussed in [2].

[1] https://davidsimon.com/but-im-not-a-lawyer-im-an-agent/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19570735
Couldn't you build analog relay stations that add 0 latency if they are for a dedicated (non-switched) connection? Where the receiving antenna pipes the RF through an analog amp and sends it out the transmit side (possibly using filtering to clean up the raw signal)?
That said, even if it fails the next stop would be FAANG and that's where talented programmers are that are impossible to find in academia.

A few years later, richer than academia could ever provide (I left academia and did not regret it)
Cannot remember the last time i read a wsj article. paywall hits every time. People should stop submitting articles that cannot be read by the majority of users here.
I walked to get lunch down the street from the office today, listening to a podcast on my way.

Midway, a stranger that I did not want to talk to tried to get my attention, gesturing up to his ear. I smiled and waved hello, pretending that I didn't know he was trying to stop me during my precious few minutes away from work.

The interaction didn't go as he had hoped, but it went exactly as I had hoped.
Robots.txt was my first thought as well, but that is said to not actually block your site from appearing in the results. They'll gather from other sites what the page is about (think <a href=mysite/somepage>how to knit a sweater</a>) and show that as title without page summary. Maybe if it looks like the site is down, they won't bother.

Blocking is based on user agent, they seem to set that reliably and the IP addresses change. You can do some reverse lookup magic but this was way easier than looking up every single IP that visits my site.
what about “everything is fine forever” as a possible thing with a non-zero probability of happening (which then does happen)? how does that confound the calculus?
Wait, what? So if the false positives were evenly distributed across races, then that's no big deal?
Now that they've gotten the credit for refusing, they'll probably wait a year and do it anyway with some slick PR. You can link this comment then.
Hi! Thank you for your feedback. I'm one of the authors of Fluent, and this wiki article.

I have, in fact, been using Gettext for quite a few years, but of course, as you pointed out, I am also biased.

If you have suggestions on how to improve the article to better represent the reality, please, file an issue and provide a PR! Our goal is to express our design differences, but we don't want to mislead anyone!
It seems "Amazon's Choice" has its issues

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/dont-j...
You can buy Artificial cerebro-spinal fluid from places like this: https://www.tocris.com/products/acsf_3525

Or you can make it yourself per: http://www.alzet.com/products/guide_to_use/cfs_preparation.h...

Artificial blood is way trickier, but there are a lot of advancements being made. It's really exciting!
I find Zuckerberg's decisions largely indistinguishable from what I'd expect of an investor demanding short terms gains over long term vision and sustainability.
I'm happy for you that that works (really), but I'm probably one of many people, perhaps even the majority, who lacks that skill, and who is significantly affected by 'those guys/gals' to the point of giving up office life for the most part (because I can afford to, though).

I strongly believe that respecting other people means taking into account that they might not possess my particular skill-set, and especially when said respect doesn't cost me much effort but causes others significant stress/discomfort, not showing this respect is just being an asshole.

(Of course, that's assuming that I'm aware of all this. The other side of this 'transaction' is for the other to express whatever problem they might have with my behavior)
Unfortunately, in the current political climate, yes. More specifically, a smaller group of people would care about that, then the group of people that cares about the current, non-even mis-identification, so there would be less political will in opposing it.

Cigarettes are considered harmful to everyone, you don't magically get the ability to resist addictive, harmful substances when you turn 21, yet we ban sale of them to minors - for similar reasons.
I can imagine, that specific technology is obsoleted mainly because of the cost to get it running and if a single feeder breaks, the whole machine will be down. Most of the industry is heading towards automated fiber layup and placement like this one [1].

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZt5PrXbr6k
I don't have the spare cycles to test this out for myself right now, but I'm curious if a 64kb table would be substantially faster. You'd cut it down from 8 indirections, 3 shifts, and 3 ORs to 4 indirections, 1 shift, and 1 OR.

uint32_t hex_to_u32_lookup(const uint8_t *src) {
uint16_t *wsrc = (uint16_t *) src;
uint32_t v1 = digittoval[wsrc[0]];
uint32_t v2 = digittoval[wsrc[1]];
return v2 << 8 | v1;
}

(Also, small note: The function is named `hex_to_u32_lookup` but it only gives a 16-bit result. Might want to clarify in the post.)
Beep Beep Huawei Gets into Car Systems
Microsoft is actually lobbying pretty hard in Washington to ban private use of facial recognition. The cynic will say that it’s because they realize that Google and Facebook will outdo them here, but I couldn’t care less about their motives.
Do you work for free? Should newspaper reporters?

I pay for access to the Wall Street Journal. If you are able to do so, and if you value the type of content they produce on a regular basis, I would highly recommend subscribing.
Have commented before that something as politically powerful as Facebook's graph will be the focus of machinations. Zuckerberg is certainly not the most evil person who could run that company, but it means he's got to be sure he can fend off every more evil person who thinks s/he can.

If we can imagine hypothetical circumstances under which he could be forced out, or lose control of the graph it would be a good bet to watch for events that might set that in motion.

Right now, they're using leaks to discredit him and to isolate him from mainstream political support.

The most plausible play is one where they leverage antitrust to "break up" the company, leaving him in control of the advertising business and his shares intact, while getting the graph into hands who can be more "politically accountable," that is, more connected, who can then use the graph for direct political ends. Democrats are making noises about it already, and oddly, he may have more allies among neocon Republican types who would prefer to deal with an internet dictator or king than a slippery progressive committee.

Conspiracy? Hardly. It's just incentives.
Not many companies are going to hire an engineer from a non-accredited university. Sometimes it is specifically called out in the job posting. Accreditation is there for a reason, otherwise you end up with a bunch of people with degrees from diploma mills and ITT-like organizations applying for jobs they have no business being in.
Also, in contrast to what some commenters believe, you cannot short FB from your retirement fund.

One most certainly can, as most recently I sold calls from my Fidelity rollover IRA. Now can I literally short stocks from my IRA? I just tried it, and I'm not given the option (whereas I am on another account). Maybe that's a feature I don't have turned on, or maybe I can't literally do that from an IRA. But if I can trade options contracts, I could effectively do the same as shorting.
Facing arrest, former Peru president Garcia kills himself
It might be that the incentives offered in Western European countries aren't large enough, but it seems counter-intuitive - we had much larger families when the incentives were much smaller. The long established population has very few children, recent immigrants (from poorer countries) have more, but also show falling birth rates within a few generations. And that's in countries with free education, usually free healthcare for children, tax rebates, financial support from the government et cetera.
> Is this a higher failure rate than average phones?

At this point these are just review models—the phone itself hasn't been release yet.

> Or is there a extremely large focus on all of these devices because of what they are, and therefor problems are more "visible"

There's a large focus on these devices, because the people who got them were given them for that purpose.
The Scientist Fighting the Dumbest Kind of Bad Science Reporting on Twitter
The Universe’s First Type of Molecule [Helium Hydride] Is Found at Last
Sex tape is to whatever you’re talking about as spending money is to bank robbery.
uh... sell and #deletefacebook
For ya'll dabbing into the list of rules - feel free to use the Unicode Plural Rules list as a reference point - http://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/33/supplemental/language_...

It's a great abstraction that makes a lot of Fluent easier :)
Support for innovation. Not supporting that it got stolen before launch...

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/30/tech/samsung-china-tech-t...
pzstd does support -d (decompression) option with a default of 4 processes, which can be set with -p. It's part of the zstd package, but I guess it's separate because it's experimental? Not sure what the difference is between zstd -T4 for compressing, and pzstd -p4 for compressing.

Anyway, for a test file I get ~125% CPU with pzstd -d, so it is able to do more work, and slightly decreases time.

Decompress zstd -d

real 0m19.125s
user 0m10.888s
sys 0m2.575s

Decompress pzstd -d

real 0m14.819s
user 0m14.017s
sys 0m4.163s
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19590180.
Many headsets made for phone communication are mono. Perfect for switch-board usage from the old times. One ear for the phone, the other for talking to colleagues.
I think Zuckerberg's attitude (whether he really believes this or it's just a PR tactic, I have no idea) is that if Facebook does it, then it must be a good thing by definition.

> I would not trust FB any time soon again.

I agree, although I would say that I won't be able to trust FB ever.
Many Galaxy Folds Are Breaking Already
Electric company propaganda!
Corruption is a more honest version of lobbying in most countries. You pay a % of the total contract in bribes and you are guaranteed to win. Also the price will be jacked and you can skip a few cm of asphalt etc etc.

They are rarely caught...US DOJ got them, that's why they are going to jail.
Basic Implementation of TLS for Memcached