skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is natural disaster resilience a factor in geodistributing your white collar workers?

Everyone knows that the SF Bay Area will get bad earthquakes, and some accounts of the Cascadian subduction zone suggest that much of the Pacific Northwest coastal area (including Seattle) has a worse fate looming: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big...
They would be in much worse shape if they hadn't acquired Instagram at a good price.
Goma(Google's internal distributed compiler service) is open-sourced
No, and no. But it seems silly to post paywalled articles on a site that is centered around the audience reading and discussing the articles posted. I have no problem with WSJ charging for their articles. I'm saying that HN shouldn't allow paywalled articles because only 2% of the readers here can actually see beyond the first sentence in the article.

The worst part is that this isn't even some kind of breaking news story which only the WSJ has access to - it is just an article describing a trend which has been around for a while. If one wanted, one could easily find other free sources to post, which cover the topic in an equivalent manner(I assume) - for example, from 2016: https://www.uncf.org/news/hbcu-students-are-burdened-by-loan...
Compared to the $200 Comcast bill I would be more than willing to pay $50 a month for this, plus another $100 for video content. The big question I have is how many subscribers can they support per square mile in higher population density areas?
Those "rewards" aren't savings on fees, passed on to the customer, they are increased fees that are absorbed by merchants. Rewards cards carry higher fees the same way corporate cards have higher fees and the same way Amex in general has higher fees. Larger merchants can have a consistent effective rate on processing fees if their business has a good mix of non-rewards and debit cards (lower rates) in their transactions, but many smaller merchants take a bath on fees if too many of their customers use rewards cards. You'll also see many smaller merchants decline to take an Amex because it simply costs them too much. Your 2% on groceries or 3% cash back on gas doesn't materialize out of thin air and it sure as hell isn't coming out of the processor's or issuing bank's pockets, it is being paid for by the merchants you shop at.
Galaxy Fold review units are failing with disastrous display issues
It's in Zuck's personal interests to maintain a high share price, because his lifestyle is predicated on borrowing money against the current worth of his shares.
Yes, and they voted against the proposals mentioned in the article, except for equal share class voting rights.
How do COLMAP, Meshroom and VisualSFM compare to one another?
Tend to agree. I'm no fan of either Facebook or Zuckerberg. My attempts to leave it all behind have thus far proven unsuccessful, and the fact that FB owns both WhatsApp and Instagram doesn't help.

Still, I'm almost shocked by how viscerally unsympathetic I feel towards these shareholders. I genuinely believe their stewardship would be worse for both Facebook and its users: they'd mismanage Facebook into the ground and, along the way, would utterly compromise users in increasingly desperate attempts to turn things around.
so far my plan is this (of which i’m currently on step 1):

- take online classes through Harvard for a certificate that will emulate the CS background i didn’t get in school

- apply to grad schools

- get a graduate degree studying AI and cognitive science

- afterwards either:

- get a position so deeply rewarding that i don’t mind loss of autonomy

- get a position so high-paying that i don’t mind loss of autonomy

- continue working as i do now but be able to take on much more interesting projects and potentially try to contribute to the various nonprofits and open ventures that deal with AI/AI risk in my free time

- solve the hard problem of consciousness AND the mind-uploading situation and achieve immortality.

all of those 4 options seem good to me, so i’m ok with this plan (notice how it conveniently ignores massive student debt :)
I think you think I’m arguing to go to college at home - nobody here said that you’ve imagined it.

You’re arguing you’ll probably be fine wherever so don’t bother yourself to learn anything about the community you’ll be joining before you go. I’m saying do research into where you want to be. How can you argue against informing yourself?
Read more history. Vindictiveness is a pretty common trait among authoritarians.
I was part of a start-up developing checklist for high risk pregnancies. The checklists were developed by some of the best doctors in the country, who had already proved the worth of using checklists in their own practice. Even with all of that, we had unending push back from every single hospital we talked to. Eventually it killed the company because deals could not be closed. I still hear of hospitals saying they want checklists, and they keep saying that until they see one, and then they don't want it anymore.

Also, it wasn't a cost issue. The package was pretty cheap all told. The push back was in the "system getting in the way"...which was kind of the point unfortunately.
I have one of these, dual-booting Linux and Windows. There doesn't seem to be support for the touchscreen yet; otherwise, it all works pretty well.
Lately I find that people are walking around holding the phone flat in front of themselves even though the screen is black, using it as a speaker-phone.
Quite possibly, but wasn't it Mark Zuckerberg who thought that acquisition was a good idea?
Your argument can also apply to the converse position, as well. Given the absence of evidence of success, can we reasonably accept that such successes do in fact exist? It'd be well within the TSA's interests to publicizing their successes, both for the agency's own operations and as a deterrent against would-be terrorists. They wouldn't even have to necessarily get into specifics.

Consider the TSA's bad press. There are years of stories detailing pervasive fail rates in detecting smuggled weapons or explosives by inspectors, misconduct and other scandals, and a number of viral videos showing incidents with groping and other bad behavior. If the TSA had major successes under their belt, it'd offer some rather useful political capital to deploy during the game of hardball that is the federal budget process. And the screeners' union, the AFGE, would be positively thrilled to be able to leverage those successes in support of extending full Title 5 protections and collective bargaining rights, not to mention General Schedule pay, to TSA screeners. Pushing back against the idea that screeners are incompetent would be of immense benefit to both the agency and the union.

Beyond that, a failed plot on US soil would lead to criminal charges against the conspirators. There should be evidence of major TSA successes in court records, and yet, nothing.
My problem with private prisons is not the fact that they're "policing" but about the injustice of keeping a human body in a cell in degrading conditions, which does not apply to the CFPB's actions, and the incentives about that. It seems equally sensical to argue that I should have a problem with the Rust compiler because it strictly enforces rules about appropriate behaviors, just like prisons do.
Couldn't implement the tech, decides to have marketing spin off instead.
> the bigger company the more nasty they get.

Yes. This is why I strongly prefer working for small companies. They tend to offer much more interesting work with a much better working environment.
Though not a scientific donation, this is largely the plan of Bredo Morstoel, a 'corpse' (depending on how well his plan works) in Nederland, Co.

There's a festival every year that is pretty popular in town about 'Frozen Dead Guy'. They have special beer, ice-cream, coffin races, a polar-bear swim, frozen salmon tosses, and a Mr. & Mrs. Dead Guy.

I've done the daytime tour and helped stack dry-ice on the guy. Honestly, he looks like Ötzi the Ice Man now.

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

http://www.frozendeadguydays.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96tzi
In that case, the citizenry voted their opinions on how the government should run the CFPB for 4 years.
Nvidia had (has?) CUDA centers of excellence for more than a decade, they gave GPUs to universities, they've had their own compute related conference for years, they have a huge set of libraries.

During all the time, AMD did essentially nothing. (They weren't financially in the position to do so.) Then they missed the AI boom.

Now they are trying, right at the time where the compute specific performance lead that they once had is gone and when their perf/W is terrible (which is not a good thing for datacenters.)

There is really no mystery here.
Man, if I was travelling to a different country and needed a passport AND forgot my passport, then I would agree with you. I guess my life is not so hectic that I don't forget the absolute necessities (you can't fly without that or you can die without that).
Sure I'll concede to that, though I wouldn't call it prejudice, I'd call it bias. Ignoring the last one, those were two crimes that could have prevented if we secured our borders and funneled migrants through official ports of entry.
There are many cases like this, even if the stats say the border counties are safer than other counties in the state. The problem still exists and is preventable.
I wonder if it's because it's multiple layers down the "company stack." Company A hires company B hires company C and C uses Wipro.
I have not heard of the Boulder Pledge, thanks for linking to it. I imagine Roger Ebert was on the receiving end of a lot of unsolicited offers, being a public figure and all.
I think the concept of a scroll device, as in RUBY might be a more interesting approach than a true foldable. I do hope they're able to work through this... but given the pricing, seriously doubt I want to be an early adopter for this ride.
From personal experience, the Linux port of OpenGenera isn’t very stable.
I'm actually someone who routinely criticizes the fact that current trends (such as widespread use of ad blockers) are a de facto expectation of slave labor on the part of writers.

But I also agree that articles should actually be accessible.

I don't know the solution, but (hard) paywalls de facto exclude a lot of people. This is another serious issue.
I guess this makes the assumption that each woman is impregnated by different men. If 10 women and one man had a TFR of 1.5 the population is still growing no?
Isn't that a reasonable concern?

The decision is specific to that one candidate and related directly to the candidates work history.

Is there no N, where N is the number of jobs someone has had in the last five years, where you would consider someone to be a questionable candidate for a key position?
You're not a troll but you have some major hyperbole and strawmen issues.

When you say Americans are 'barely doing anything' about drugs, and we point out that 7 million people were arrested in a 9-year period for cannabis possession, and that to all those people and their families, that IS A LOT. That is A Big Deal, dude. Many of those people spent time in jail, paid thousands of dollars in fines, and are now permanently cut off from the federal student loan/grant program.

So you basically shift the goalposts to "Ah, that's not enough. That's not really "doing" anything. They should hunt down and jail cannabis users like Snoop Dogg." Unlike one of my fellow commenters, I don't think doing that would cause a general strike in the population, BUT it would be widely acknowledged as an incredible overreach in policing priorities and cost-effectiveness.

A significant fraction of Americans think that our current anti-drug criminal justice system is incredibly authoritarian and anti-democratic and heavily over-funded already, even despite the recent liberalization on cannabis in some areas.... so that's probably why when you say "Oh, America isn't doing anything about drugs," you get so many people saying "WTF?!"
My guess is it helps people who don't like large phones (in terms of surface area) in their clothes pockets. Sure it'll be thicker, and maybe some people have an issue with that, but it would potentially fit better in some situations while still unfolding to a larger screen size for regular use.
Hi! FormatJS is very similar to some of our bindings, and is powered by MessageFormat on the lower level.

Here's our take on the differences between MessageFormat and Fluent - https://github.com/projectfluent/fluent/wiki/Fluent-and-ICU-...
Opioid addicts and chronic homeless just keep moving from across to country to set up tents in our city because of Amazon's high wages :(
Technology doesn't kill job opportunities – Egypt's Minister of ICT
> Even if the Fold has some problems

The absolutely most important aspect of this $2000 device is failing within days. The only way this could be worse is if they started exploding, too.

I'm exciting for neat ambitious devices also, but they have to be more than paper weights. If these are all failing so soon, either there was no QA whatsoever, or some QA manager within Samsung was ignored...
You are not permitted to use retirement funds for any margin trading, including short-selling. That is why you cannot short from your account:

https://www.irs.gov/publications/p590b

> Generally, a prohibited transaction is any improper use of your traditional IRA account or annuity by you, your beneficiary, or any disqualified person.

> The following are some examples of prohibited transactions with a traditional IRA.

> - Using it as security for a loan.

If your IRA let you sell calls, you likely own the underlying equity.

Surprising how many people aren't familiar with the rules and just downvote
The more I read about Amazon's expansion plans the more I believe that they never intended to place a substantial office in NYC, or at least had already abandoned the idea before the opposition to it even grew. It really doesn't seem like we lost anything we were actually going to get.
My issue with it is that index funds don't compete on the quality of their contribution to governance. Many index funds are kind of fungible with similar low costs and performance relatively to the index they are supposed to track.

So how much money (and by extension votes) these index funds wield is not connected to the quality of their contribution to governance. It also seems to me like there isn't much accountability and visibility into how they are voting from the perspective of people deciding which index fund to invest in.

So you have people collecting massive amounts of clout, but no feedback loop ensuring that they lose that clout if they underperform at that particular task.

Also one of the talking points of passive investing is that the trained professionals aren't as qualified or smart as they think they are. Active management risk is something to be avoided. As some of these funds grow in size they wield significant power and introduce active management risk. You just don't see it because the fund still tracks the index.

I know that last bit is splitting hairs. Some active management always occurs otherwise how can companies function.

One question is why should a passive fund be treated differently from an active fund in terms of how they contribute to governance? One difference is some of these index funds are absolutely massive and wield more power then a typical active fund.
Great question / good points! I don't mean to single out word of mouth recommendations. Perhaps the pledge could be individually modified so that one could specify per-platform definitions.
So am I missing something here? If they think Zuckerberg is so damaging to the company why don't they sell their stocks and invest in a company they feel good about?
btw: https://www.reddit.com/r/photogrammetry/
By their logic this should be considered a big win. Amazon is no longer force feeding their high paid jobs into the local market. Those neighborhoods will be more equal now, even if it means having less.
World War II's Last Doolittle Tokyo Raider Dies at 103
Ah yes, the other end of the spectrum, which I also find not unattractive.
That's an overly pessimistic view. I give them 3 years.
Is this checklist used in the United States?
> Is it really that weird to not have "enemies"? There I people I wouldn't hang out with or wouldn't work with again, but I don't think I'd consider them enemies.

You made the assumption that I considered them enemies, or that they would even know who I am. If I am an identifiable member of the wrong community, social group, or race from the point of view of the mob in power, I don't have to consider them my enemy in order for them to see me (or my family, or friends) as one. Do you want to contemplate the possibility of genocides, of which we have seen plenty in the last 30 years, being replaced by "vaticides"? Because once the technology allows it, it will happen.

I've lived through this kind of historic upheaval once already; I know that of which I speak. The point I'm making is that any new technology can and will eventually be used by the wrong people for the wrong reasons, and that the likelihood for that to happen is directly proportional to its potential for good. We better make sure that potential good is really in balance with the potential bad before we commit to bringing it to life (pun intended).
m.xkcd.com has the alt text in an expandable section underneath the comic. It's such nice experience it's silly that you have to change the domain to use it, Randall should just copy that to the main site. But just swapping a www for m (or if no www, adding an m.) to the URL is easy enough.

(Before m.xkcd.com I'd often jump over to the Explain xkcd Wiki, which is another good option.)
> Why are you so down on real life

Bizarre interpretation.
Part-revived pig brains raise slew of ethical quandaries
My current company is paying 100%. The rates jump going from 1 to 2 people, and then again when you throw in kids. This has been my experience at most places, aside from the company fully covering the cost. The $820 number is entirely their contribution.

If we did have kids and needed them to be covered, we'd run out of what the company offers to cover up to ($10k / year) and have to start contributing as well.
Well to be fair Mathematica had a client server notebook architecture since early on. Today it also supports a web fronted besides the now (QT based?) native client. The native client is way more powerful and performant than anything that Jupyter offers and can be extended in the client Language itself. IPython/Jupyter is a more or less direct copy of Mathematica's interaction pattern but as is often the case a poor imitation in many regards.

As a comparison https://observablehq.com seems like a genuine novel take on the notebook pattern and is unsurprisingly a commercial effort with some open source components.
So we shouldn't do anything about mass shootings because they don't affect the overall crime stats?

We should address any crime problem if there is a solution, not ignore it because it didn't make a large overall difference and the city is safer than other cities.
Purescript does the same thing (some people like using Unicode symbols for “forall” and function arrows) and it’s also led to amusing github goofs: https://github.com/i-am-tom/purescript-prelewd
Not to be pedantic but I think it needs to be a higher than 2 in order to not shrink. The number usually stated is 2.1. This is to account for people who die before having reproduced themselves.
Non-amp link: https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-giving-away-...
The short answer is libertarians are hostile to collective action. The only politically powerful group that aligns with is that of extreme wealth.
Ask HN: Contract sample to provide service to company in Egypt
We are based in Dallas Texas legally, and we just closed a deal with companies in Egypt, and we want to know how should the contract look like with them?
With 40k workers in Seattle, there'll be a lot of Amazon-aligned third parties. Construction, restaurants, etc.

Amazon wound up doing what they threatened anyways, even though Seattle gave up and rescinded the tax. I do wonder how those protesters feel about that after the fact.
Chrome on Android shows it all.

There is also the mobile version, which has a button to show it.

https://m.xkcd.com/2138/
This is the problem with looking at inequality all on it’s own.

Take a population where everyone makes $20k per year. Great! It’s equal!

Take another population where half make $30k and half make $50k. Oh no! Inequality!

I’d rather be in the 2nd population.
The problem isn’t that Zuckerberg isn’t up to the challenge of running Facebook. It’s that no-one is.
> (This article does not condone the use of AirPods during sex.)

Honestly burst out laughing at this part.
And often, that's the idea, that privatizing what was originally something with some social oversight into something that can be abused. One glaring example for me is that the NSA is mostly contractors now.
> 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.

This attitude concerns me, a bit. You're mad at Microsoft (it appears) for something they haven't done, and for using "slick PR" that doesn't exist.

What's the basis for the anger?
Do you happen to have a link to a page explaining these techniques? I code in C and dabble in Rust, but this sounds interesting.

(Sorry, I know this is a few days old by now...)
non-"tech" companies use Wipro etc for their websites and internal IT tools. All the stuff that's too boring or custom for Microsoft and Google etc.
You might be interested on https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/12/what-makes-you-you.html
The barriers (at least in the US) to university study are seldom admission. There already exist many accredited institutions that admit essentially all applicants with a high school degree or equivalent. The things that stop people who would like to get a college degree are more often money and time. Incidentally, these are the same things keeping would-be professors from tenured positions. Someone has to pay the professors, after all.
Or a secret listening device, depending on where you leave your phone...
> It's Amazon's fault for bringing in high-paying jobs.

That's not a fair description of the criticism. Amazon isn't "bad" for providing people high-paying jobs, Amazon is bad for dumping the financial pollution from their high-paying jobs in downtown Seattle. Those are not the same thing.

It's possible to recognize that high wages for employees are great, but to also to recognize that these high-wage earners drive the cost of living up for all nearby residents, and since those residents can't also work for Amazon they have no recourse.
In all honesty, it's because I did not know that paying for Reddit / Youtube would turn off the ads.
I don't fault them for that, but they could definitely afford to improve the working conditions in the warehouses (including pay) which is part of the inequality.
Note that rereading a book doesn't have to mean cover to cover. If you look things up in the book once in a while you should have it.

It doesn't need to be you who reads the book either, it could by your personal library and you lend it to friends interested in the same subject. Public libraries will get rid of unpopular books so having a personal library of obscure subjects you care about is useful. (The internet does not have everything)
“occasionally”

That’s the keyword here.
Why, do you think conflict only exists in fiction?