skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, you can probably optimize for that, but understand that you’re preventing people from turning on red or getting into the left turn lane in time for the signal to appear this cycle and you’re also trapping people going straight on the other side of the previous intersection.

I suspect it might be good for getting through that intersection faster, but in general I think it’s probably best for all traffic if stopped traffic takes up as little room as possible.
https://mastodon.technology/@Loy
“The payments, to be made over 20 months, will cover removing fiber cables ”

WISPs should be allowed access to the fiber network instead of removing it.
The book is written by someone whose self professed philosophy is badly argued nonsense. See objectivism.

If she could at least write entertainingly she could at least have done one thing right. As it stands she could have contributed more to society by selling hats. Even badly made ugly hats keep your head dry. Her books neither inform nor entertain.
A Discussion on Solving Partial Differential Equations Using Neural Networks
In the UK, if you want to see the government's financial position, not just expenditure but income, assets and liabilities, and consolidated accross all of central and local government to international accounting standards, then you can read the Whole of Government Accounts [1]. They are pretty accessible and well written, and there is a (more complicated) interactive version [2].

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/whole-of-governme...

[2] https://www.nao.org.uk/highlights/whole-of-government-accoun...
Gerald "SICP" Sussman on Programming as a Medium of Expression of Ideas
millions also voted for trump, Hitler or believe earth it's flat, just because many people do stupid things doesn't make it good/rational, most of the society it's stupid/irrational, that's just fact (sadly democracy with equal voting rights it's best we came with), just because they are in majority doesn't make their acts right unless you identify with them, then good for you and feel free to ignore facts

as for saving someone's else child I would most likely not do it if I would calculate it's too risky for me (unless I would be stupid by instinct), if their own parent/guardian font care about their lives why should I? I don't expect other people saving my children. though it's not fair comparison,I am sure you have minute to decide if you save some piece of art work compared to split second decision to save living being

I also worked in past in insurance companies, after dealing with thousands of accidents my advice it's always run over animal, don't try to save it by avoiding it (unless it's boar or something similar comparable to concrete block/tree), try to fight your instinct, saw way too many dead people or in serious injury because they tried to save some stupid dog/fox etc and then crashed into some tree/building etc
> India is a huge market.

There was a time when the British destroyed the textiles trade in India and made everyone buy stuff made in Manchester. Before that India had 25% or so of the global market.

With a billion or so people living in the sub-continent there should be an indigenous mobile phone and eco-system that suits the market better than what Silicon Valley can provide. China can do it, Europe used to be able to do it. It is not as if India is short of highly educated software engineers. If, instead of everyone in India having an Indian mobile phone, everyone has an iPhone then everyone is going to be sending off a portion of their wealth off to Cupertino (even if that money ends up in off shore tax havens).

There are national security issues with this, regardless of how well Apple claim they are on the side of privacy. Just for sovereignty reasons the Indian government should be using heir own tech instead of providing incentives for Apple to set up shop.
While correct, I'm not sure this argument makes any difference. If a designer considers colorblind users, they can also make sure that their icons still work in monochrome.
Nah. There are multiple options:

View the problem of reaching the rocket as similar to locating the head of a CNC or 3D printer. You need XY positioning. Put the gripper on a bridge that spans the ship. The gripper moves along that bridge for movement in one direction. The bridge itself moves along tracks in the sides of the ship, providing the other dimension of movement. The mechanism can be doubled up to grab from both sides simultaneously, possibly eliminating the need for an active gripper.

Another way is an arm. An ordinary heavy-equipment arm, as used for digging up roads, could reach out and pin down a leg of the rocket. It need not be automatic; a human could remotely operate it. The vertical dimension isn't really needed, so sliding the arm is also an option.

Another way is to flood the deck with adhesive, possibly something like molten solder or polyurethane foam.

Another way is to pre-place grippers all over the deck. Make a deck of grippers. They just grip; they do not need to move around on the deck. It can be mechanical, electromagnetic, or vacuum.
> Any school which is claiming really great results pretty much never holds up.

That actually isn't true.

We know (we have had multiple state programs demonstrate in real programs) what works in the elementary to early middle crowd--roughly $15,000-$16,000 per pupil spent on the worst performers sustained every single year will bring the worst performers closer to mean ever year. Even the Gates foundation documented this.

We simply do not have the political will to put it into broad action.
I really cannot get why reverting to JavaScript is better. I believe Mozilla people are professional and know what they do, but some explanation would be welcome.
Tic Toc Pwned – Child tracking smartwatch API flaws
Further details:

https://www.troyhunt.com/how-to-track-your-kids-and-other-pe...
Does he actually believe this or is he manipulating the public?
> It's always amazing to me to hear assumptions that decentralisation is a feature.

Decentralization is not a feature for the end-user, it's a feature to developers. It's probably impossible for a new social network to take on Twitter, Facebook, etc. directly. However, a decentralized social network allows startups to move far quickly and implement other features that the big social networks are lacking.

I suspect that whatever social network eventually pushes out the dominant players today, will use tools like these.

One good precedent for this is AOL. AOL was safer and more user-friendly than the world-wide-web, but the web's decentralized nature allowed competitors to spring up much more quickly. I suspect something similar will eventually happen to today's social networks.
Amazon lets people sell $5 Ikea items for $45. Fuck them.
That's awesome, thank you for that. It's refreshing to see cool and clear head in the midst of all these topics that are too easy to trigger people in the amygdala.
Hi, I am from Cosmos DB engineering team.

Yes, for shared throughput database, you will need to create a new database.

- You can create MongoDB API collections with shard keys defined. It is fully supported by MongoDB driver

- Support MongoDB collections without shard key specified is coming in May

Thank you for the feedback on the docs and the missing code samples. We will add those in the docs.

Thanks!
Ironic, the woman responsible for the catastrophe:
"...rather than spending the day just listening to keynotes..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2Pruxom9-8
However there would be a lot less choice because not all Android phone manufacturers are going to bother and the prices are going to go up because of less competition and higher costs for everyone. Also consider that other countries are going to respond to this kind of protectionism which is not free.
Reads like a high school compare and contrast essay..
This sounds like Lance Armstrong's description of what lead to his doping scandal. The point is that it's ok to do it because everyone else is, until it isn't ok any more.
Tooltips solve the problem of power users forgetting the meanings of icons.
Default &transform function should be *.fc

The one-liner solution is: @data.unique(as => &fc)
It's one thing to say the evidence that most supplements do any good just has not been produced, despite endlessly repeated, strongly motivated efforts.

It's quite another thing to discover, over and over again, that they are actively harmful. This has happened with vitamins A, C, D, E, iron, calcium, fish-oil extracts, and various anti-oxidants. The most common effect is increased cancer risk. Actually being outside, and eating actual fish, fruits, and vegetables really does provide the benefits people hope for from supplements. Evidently the good stuff isn't really the vitamins or the oils.

If there is a good story for multivitamin supplements, it would have to be (something like) that many people have increased need for certain nutrients because of various impairments and minor mutations. Discovering exactly who all these people are, and exactly what their metabolic quirks are, would be far more expensive than just giving everyone multivitamin / mineral supplements, and hoping to cover most of the problems without knowing precisely who is being helped.

But when we find supplements causing active harm in some cases, and no measurable gain despite looking very hard for any, it gets less defensible.

I have a need for 5000x as much vitamin B12 as most people, and it makes an easily perceptible difference for me. The typical supplement with 100 or 500 ug wouldn't help me enough. Fortunately, there is a simple test for this deficiency, so it is easy to tell if the supplement is working. (Also, the shooting pains in my forearms and numbness in thumb and fingers are pretty noticeable when they come and when they go.)

I would like for supplements, in general, to be safe and to help some people, even if most people get no benefit, but the increased cancer risk seems like too high a price.

There might be some supplements that are both safe and helpful for many, but I don't know if we know of any. Zinc?
Using Firefox on android I would only get the 'old' style Google search results. I installed a popular user agent switcher extension (featured by mozilla) that made me appear to be Chrome when on Google sites and I got the same rich results page as a Chrome user and it worked perfectly.

I had to uninstall it as I started seeing captchas everywhere. The recaptcha v3 test page gave me a score of 0.1. After uninstalling this jumped to 0.9.
Also just retractable walls.
Or they listened to some consultant who told them they needed to pay him big money.

The smallest business I know just gave that task to the General Firefighter, who has spent zero minutes working time on the new task so far.
Just to be clear, I'm not saying "American is exceptional" in its press freedom. "American exceptionalism" is a concept (unrelated to press, I think it's origin is a political doctrine) that I'm referring to here. Strangely I think a lot of people here took that phrase "American exceptionalism" to mean US press is best in world. Could be a non-native English speaker thing, or could just be that the concept of AE is not that widely known (which if true, would be another sort of satire about AE, nice :)).
> As a former owner of 2 TDI dirty diesels

Sounds like you enjoyed your diesel hot rods for a good long while. You really should consider foregoing your martyrdom at some point; the well of sympathy for you isn't bottomless. Some of us can recall the years of self righteous VW owners lecturing the world about their little miracle cars.

You bought into a fraud. An honorable person finds a little shame in that, even when they can claim innocence.
You can still grow coconut and seagrape.
If it were cheaper to build iPhones in India Apple would have been doing that from the start. If you’re lucky prices will remain the same but they probably will go up.
https://www.spacex.com/press/2012/12/19/spacex-announces-lau...

Which could easily have the title:

"Elon Musk Says SpaceX Will Launch Falcon Heavy In Two Years (2011)"

Sure, don't believe his dates, but he may just deliver it.
It is fun to watch cars changing lanes like maniacs as if it matters.
The ones still driving 160 are mostly foreign drivers in my experience. Most German drivers obey the speed limits. Note I'm not German but often drive through it.
Hi, I am from Cosmos DB engineering team.

Thank you for the feedback!

We have published a number of documents on pricing transparency and cost optimization of your Cosmos DB cost that we want to make sure everyone is aware of:

[1] Pricing model - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/how-pricing...

[2] Optimize cost for your dev/test workloads - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/optimize-de...

[3] Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/total-cost-...

[4] Understand your bill - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/understand-...

[5] Optimize provisioned throughput cost - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/optimize-co...

[6] Optimize query cost - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/optimize-co...

[7] Optimize storage cost - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/optimize-co...

[8] Optimize reads and writes cost - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/optimize-co...

[9] Optimize multi-regions cost - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/optimize-co...

[10] Optimize with reserved capacity - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/cosmos-db-r...

If you have any questions regarding pricing, please feel free to reach out to us directly at AskCosmosDB@microsoft.com (direct line to the product team).

We do really appreciate the feedback.

Thank you.
YC Bangalore Interviews
Did anyone get an invite for Bangalore/ SF YC2019 Summer interviews?

https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-interviews-in-india/
People managed to share email addresses, which are name@domain.
Not sure what you are talking about, the US jailed a VW executive in 2017 already [1].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/dec/06/oliver-schm...
Another interesting way I look at projects is where the objective is unknown, where I'm searching for things that can only be discovered, not imagined in advance.

In that case I want to choose the search path with the largest variability in output, and limit downside time cost by just giving up after some time.

This is the antifragile approach. Seek out sources of volatility. Explore, don't chase predetermined goals.

This is also useful for software development.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/10/24/or...

Amazon lets drug dealers sell thousands of dollars of weed through their storefront.

I wonder if Amazon allowed drug sniffing dogs to search the warehouse, if they didn’t, seems like an endorsement of some kind.
I used to believe in meritocracy. I used to think it was an objective and fair way to structure society.

As the article expounded, it just ends with people who has less to contribute being marginalized.
It depends on whether it is an essential dll or an optional plugin. I probably could have phrased that better originally.
Can but may be not. Can we have a kill switch we do not need to find and fight against like 737 max.

Auto vs assist.
Force vs option.
Blind-Trust vs not-be-Lab-rat

Ok if anyone kill all programmer and the company executive is subject to murder charge. How about that?
The fiber isn't salvageable. Google did an "experimental" deployment which turned out to be utter trash. The short summary is they dug tiny little trenches in the road, and filled the gap above the fiber with foam. Vehicles, snow plows, and construction happened, which all happens to fairly efficiently rip the guts of their network out.

That's why Google is leaving: They don't want to redeploy the entire network from scratch.
I'd love to see an addition to this for motorcycle lane-splitting. I assume that's illegal in Germany though. Still though, if you want to keep your CO2 emissions down in exchange for a somewhat higher risk of death or dismemberment, motorcycles are a great choice. Oh and they're cool so there's that.
> Why are builders not flocking to CA to build?

NIMBYs. Builders want to build, but the people who already own won't let them in most cases. I live in Cupertino. They want to build 2000 units next to my house. Most of neighbors are against it because it will "change the character of the neighborhood". That is true, it will. But I'll be the farmers who lived here in the 1960s said the same thing when all of our houses were built as the farmers sold their land.

The main difference this time is that the current residents can't get rich selling their land because the developers want to build up, not out.

CA tried to solve this with SB 827, which would force upzoning near transit. Sadly, it was poorly written and failed to pass, but it was a good idea. It would have forced pretty much all of San Francisco to allow building medium size buildings in place of existing single family homes. And a lot of the rest of the Bay Area too.
> An honorable person finds a little shame in that, even when they can claim innocence.

... what? So, if someone falls for a pyramid scheme they should be ashamed of themselves? If someone gets tricked by a phone scam they should be ashamed?

Even in a sea of "you are always at fault!" bad takes, this has to be one of the worst. Victims should never feel shame that others abused them/their trust.
Would self-driving AI cars change these simulations? Seems they could coordinate to optimize for flow.
Oh man, city of heroes. I spent a long time reverse engineering this game when it originally came out. It had some unusually complicated networking code, IIRC. I was able to write a (the first?) client that was able to emulate some of the protocol, but eventually I sort of lost interest. It was fun to work on for a while.

I remember there was an incident once where an online acquaintance of mine got hold of the admin tool for the game. I believe he found it by tracking down one of the engineer's personal websites, which for some reason had a copy of this tool accessible on it. The tool gave you administrative access to the servers (not ssh, administrative within the game), with no other form of authentication. We had fun with it for a little while, and then eventually the engineer who's site we had taken it from joined our little IRC channel to ask us to stop using it, and we did. Fun times.
If you have a mixture of products at a price of 4 5 5 5 7 8 and 4 5 is counterfeit 5 is used 6 7 8 is the same product you would find on any merchants shelf for 6 or 7.

If only 4 is returned then on net they made more sales and the consumer sees that he can get product foo on Amazon for only $4!

Amazon makes more money by providing you with a worse experience so why would they improve it?
Much of society is built on lies and delusions. Stories. Human beings are incapable of unraveling truth or reality from the stories they tell each other and themselves.

That is in fact metaphysics. And claiming that you don't believe in metaphysics and instead in science or whatever other ideology is itself metaphysics. Fundamental nature of reality for people are stories. And power tends to twist these stories to meet their own needs. The needs of capital and power in world is such that it needs us to believe these things. That only merit is to be rewarded, because that's how you make more money by merit seeking individuals looking to prove themselves. That wealth is to be admired, if you don't admire them then what are they playing this game for? That your isolation caused by their games and their metaphysics is your fault and you can fix it yourself without any of your own shared stories with other people.
They could make the prompt less intrusive (on average) by only asking a random sample and just not tracking the rest.
It depends on the country they are in. They were not so generous here in Germany, cause our government still protects VW. Prosecutors have none of it, but that takes time and so far they don't really feel the heat.
I built a code generator package in Kotlin which generates codes for Kotlin, Swift, Web (JS), and React-Native (TypeScript). Basically, you provide your class definition in a DSL style (Similar to TOML) and it will generate the implementation and interfaces of the bridge for different technologies.
I get where you're coming from, but I remember an all hands back in the mid 2000s and someone asked Jeff, what's up with Amazon MP3 isn't that going to cannibalize our CD sales? And Jeff said, absolutely, but if we don't cannibalize our CD sales someone else will. Controlled autophagy is healthy. Coincidentally, this principle applies generally, which is why intermittent fasting is a thing.
Co-Star is powered by Haskell: https://www.costarastrology.com/jobs/. I guess that is the origin of their strangely familiar-sounding name.
Yeah, I noticed that too. Instead of changing my user-agent string I switched to DuckDuckGo.
In most ways they shouldn't, poorer countries have been doing rather well out of globalisation. If trade wars started all over the world they would suffer the most.
Let's list every inner city school across America (is there such a list?), list the "promise picks" that can be funded in them, and then have a place benefactors can sign up.
Announcing General Availability of Apache Hadoop 3.0 on Azure HDInsight
Both, I think.
> Because Amazon has chosen to allow that, for reasons which probably have to do with money.

Yea.. that, nor the tirade that follows comes close to answering my question.

I also suspect your thinking and reasoning are incredibly misguided.

While Amazon isn't stupid they aren't nearly as money focused as you seem to believe.

What I suspect but do not know for sure is that their reviews were/are a massive part of their business model. Acting as big SEO signals and including a number of nice benefits when it comes to sales and marketing.

What we are likely looking at now is friction at scale.

Amazon has unleashed a large amount of Alibaba trash into the market in order to compete with a very real competitor, hell sales/revenue wise Amazon is the underdog.

We will likely see moves to clean up reviews.

So in the end I guess you were right "duh money" but it's a bit more nuanced than that and far from direct.
Good for everybody when knowledge to produce high end electronics at scale is not exclusive to China.
A very good explanation on what we are looking at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUyH3XhpLTo
looks promising, but loading one large model takes lots of time. It is simpler and faster to load if we have asset of images.
My first impression is that the goal of this project is to run binaries that were likely built for other purposes like the web, not that they actually think that making libraries into webasm and running them into python has any particular advantages vs other options that already exist
“A separate class action lawsuit was filed on behalf of 64,000 tech workers for an estimated $3 billion in lost wages.“

So they went through all this effort to save 3 billion/64000 = $46,875 per employee. Is that how it should be interpreted? If so, these executives are greedy scum.
To add context to the above, looks like SpaceX's Falcon Heavy launched 2018-02-06 [1] after Elon Musk's 2011 claim [2]:

> “Falcon Heavy will arrive at our Vandenberg, California, launch complex by the end of next year, with liftoff to follow soon thereafter. First launch from our Cape Canaveral launch complex is planned for late 2013 or 2014.”

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_Heavy_test_flight

[2]: https://www.spacex.com/press/2012/12/19/spacex-announces-lau...