skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hugely disagree, my love of tiles came from being a user first. The tiles were great as a user. Much less clutter than the equivalent widgets and notifications systems on other platforms. With good working tiles, arranged to personal preference, the Notification Area in the Action Center on Windows is a redundant mess by comparison.

Tiles gave an opportunity to see a lot of information at a glance, in a much less obtrusive manner than popup push notifications that get swept into a notification drawer.

The problem with Tiles wasn't even lack of developers building good Tiles. The problem was Microsoft compromising the vision on them and weakening the Start Screen to appease people that wouldn't adapt to change. (It was also maybe Microsoft not making it easier to set Tiles on Win32 applications, which could have been enabled much sooner.)

(I will mourn the Tiles if they go away entirely. Just as I mourn the Charms as being good ideas not fit for this world.)
Peeling Back the Darkness of M87
Employee privacy is at stake as surveillance tech monitors workers
Algorithms to Enhance Forest Inventories
Interesting. Got a project page where I can read more?
I'm not sure the Boston bird can take any significant amount of heat or water

If you take an architecture developed for warehouse running, you'd naturally have to adapt it for fire fighting. If you're not assuming that this sort of re-engineering needs to be done for a shirtsleeves R&D device being applied to the demanding context of fire fighting, then please think 1 or 2 more steps ahead when engineering.

In short: I'm trying to talk about some specific modifications to an existing example and its effect on maneuvering, as a shorthand to discuss a general architecture, not all of the contextual specifics. I would be open to discussing how the contextual specifics would be applied, but to go directly to, "won't work -- specifics!..." is just throwing up roadblocks to be a pedant.

to say nothing of its ability to navigate a floor strewn with (burning) debris

Which is why I mentioned the bogey and extra wheels as in the iBot.
And if the dystopia sucks, die again.
... and the officials don't have an incentive to diminish the stats?
Spy on your smart home with this open source research tool
I've found cellphones don't need to be on the list but the charging cords do!
If you look at the paper, private drug discovery is creating drugs at a declining rate. I would suggest this is because those private efforts are much less research than development, and it's actually the public system that drives much fundamental research. And the drugs to market rate is in serious decline because of a the widespread application of increasingly austure public funding budgets for medical research causing an early pipeline bottleneck.
(I work at Stripe, specifically leading our subscriptions and recurring revenue product, Stripe Billing)

On a high level, the EU is trying to protect consumers from predatory businesses. We think protecting consumers is awesome. However, by virtue of creating stringent laws to do so, they've inadvertently caught many good businesses in the trap as well.

You're right that the worst case scenario is that you'd need to send an email (or just use the pre-built emails we created/tested/optimized) to your customer every month, for every charge. But it's quite unlikely that this worst case scenario would happen. This is because the regulation allows for exemptions, which means that certain charges don't need to go through 3D Secure2 every time.

Examples of exemptions include regular amount subscriptions (same amount, same interval; only the first charge needs to be authenticated), what's called "Merchant Initiated Transactions" which means that metered/usage based billing can also be exempted, and "merchant whitelists" where customers can just put trusted businesses on an exempted list. The challenge with these exemptions -- the reason we can't 100% promise all of your same amount recurring charges won't have 3DSecure applied -- is that it's up to your customer's issuing bank (e.g. Chase, HSBC, etc.) to apply the exemption at their discretion. We have been interviewing top EU banks in the past months and the vast majority of them plan to exempt recurring transactions when they assess fraud level as low.

We know this is complicated, developing expertise on the vagaries of issuing banks and global regulators is not everyone’s dream job, and is not why you started a SaaS business.

But this is where we have spent time developing expertise, and that's why Stripe Billing wants take care of this for you: we will automatically apply for an exemption whenever it is potentially available, and deeply optimize for recurring related exemptions in particular. We will understand the nuances of different issuing banks, and give them the right information in the network request we make to maximize chances of success. From your standpoint can treat this logic kind of like a black box -- just attempt the charge, Stripe will either tell you it's all good or not. If it's all good, you'll just see a successful outcome. If not, you can then choose to have Stripe auto-send emails and reattempt the charge, or you can do so yourself.

Most importantly: Stripe wants to do whatever is in our power to help SaaS businesses and other subscription businesses succeed. As this continues to develop (and btw, it looks like something like this is going to happen in Australia as well), we've got your back and promise to do whatever we can to maximize your revenue under these regulations.

If you have any other questions, would love to be helpful. Stripe will stay in touch — we’ll be emailing you as changes happen — but you can always email me at tara@stripe.com, or just reply to the email you received earlier today!

(edit: quick grammar fix!)
Why Machine Learning Models Crash and Burn in Production
Ironically, indirect government interference.

The market is doing its job perfectly well maximizing the value defined by government constraints and influence (since govt is the largest payor).
"Mostly dead is slightly alive!"
Nasa Announces Winners of 25th Annual Rover Challenge
From an interview with the soldier [1] (translated by me):

"I've been fascinated by war as long as I can remember. I always dreamed of being a soldier, and of experiencing war myself, says "Mike""

The Norwegian forces in Iraq were tasked with training Iraqi security forces [2].

[1] https://www.nrk.no/norge/xl/_mikes_-kamp-mot-is-1.13728665
[2] https://www.nrk.no/urix/norske-soldater-i-irak-1.12382560
True, there's less incentive to have large families, and it's a practical issue as well, I suppose. You can have your child around and keep an eye on them while you're working on the family farm, but you can't take them with you into a factory and sit them down next to the assembly line.

Are there plans to do the opposite of OCP? I suppose it's easy-ish to forbid people to have multiple children, but to force them because you now need them?
And your completely scientifically accurate but easy for the lay reader to understand description in a few simple words is...?
> An entire generation has been romanticized that if you "do what you love" you'll end up a billionaire.

She's 56, so... which generation is that?
Since we cannot read people’s minds, we prove intent in the legal process through circumstantial evidence, or through direct evidence of intent such as communications or writings.

The TSA need not publicize their wins to prove effectiveness. Guilt can only be established in court; deterrence (which is what we’re talking about here) requires a much lower standard.
I'm with you. Once dead I'd prefer to stay dead. It's actually a comforting thought to know that my life will end. For me it brings meaning to the life that I do still have.
> If everyone in the country had the "certain hairstyles we'd have no problem saying "this machine doesn't work".

On the contrary, it would be easier to say that the machine does work because it does flag down people who have suspicious body features regardless of race.
I think something like this circular logic is actually useful, and in some sense true. It might better phrased as "companies which usually make bad financial decisions die, so the decisions of a company which hasn't died are probably financially beneficial." Further qualifiers could be added to account for longevity of a company (we might put more faith in a company which has spent longer not dying), earning reports, and the fact that a good decision isn't necessarily beneficial (just probabilistically so given available knowledge), but the basic reasoning seems valid.
Mozilla is a non-profit.
Then comes the zombie armageddon.
The thing to note is that India is enroute to negative population growth.

India's TFR is still > 2.1 (2.33), but is fast approaching replacement fertility. Large parts of India (especially in the South), are already below TFR, so while populations will continue to grow for decades (India has a pyramidal population structure), they will eventually start falling.
only just noticed after submitting it was a dupe from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19684386
Same way you evaluate developers. Say you are a manager at a company who needs to hire somebody to develop an application for you. You aren't technical. You have no idea if you need the thing the consultant is saying you need. So you check completed works, existing client testimonials, educational history, recommendations from coworkers or friends, etc.
Already posted today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19684386
Did you work in a Terry Gilliam movie? Was this in the USA? It sounds dystopic.
Programmers tend to be Progressive. So, this makes total sense.
It's just humour. AMP is obviously trash unless you're a Google shill, and this project isn't exactly productive. But at the same time I do honestly believe the world would be better off if AMP developers resigned themselves to building useless stuff like this instead of AMP.
While it is a great benchmark, that is about 3 year old data. The brotli quality 1 was moved to be quality 2, and two new levels have been added. Everything has been sped up and a few levels (possibly 5-10) have got a ~5 % density boost from improved context modeling. Level 10 has been added (about 2-3x faster than level 11) -- in squash benchmark you still see the initial behavior where level 10 copied level 11 performance.
The Linux Foundation is a joke. No major established FLOSS projects pay attention to them.
I also didn't think this. I've read the book but not the article, and while the conclusion seems fine, a lot of the material in the book is stretched.

The one that bothered me the most was the inclusion of the India soap program as support for checklists -- those are entirely different models.

The soap model involved researchers handing out free soap, and teaching people that they should wash with the soap in any of a set of specific circumstances:

- once a day (full body)
- before preparing food (hands)
- before eating (hands)
- before distributing food to anyone (hands)
- after defecating (hands)
- after wiping an infant (hands)

This made a big dent in the prevalence of disease in experimental neighborhoods. Great! This was a good idea. But it's not an example of a checklist. The concept here is that, every time you do anything at all, you see whether it's one of those five hands-washing circumstances, and if it is, then you wash your hands. This is the opposite of a checklist, where you perform a series of verifications whenever you take a specific particular action, not whenever you take any action at all.

(Obviously, people can't handle the mental load of "before doing _anything_, check to see..." and instead would have added "wash your hands" to the appropriate five behavioral sequences. That reduces the mental load from (1) a constant mental drain on any activity of any kind to (2) learning five things. But if you make that switch, you stop having any relationship to the checklist concept at all.)
Well yes, but you make it sound so easy. You'll have to go multiple rounds with the insurance and aca reps in many cases to get it approved after the fact.
Immediately reminded me of that unforgettable movie in which a 1WW soldier who have lost all his sensory inputs and motor control and is still alive brain is used for experiments.

Movie title is "Johnny got his gun". No idea how mainstream it is but i suspect not that much.

If you believe nothing could be worse than death, you should consider to watch it.
We have this setup at my local hackspace in Montreal. Most HAM folks have not been very active in the last few years and the Twitter API changed so the teletype monster is now quiet again. I guess the IRC module could still work if someone with the time and the knowledge would oil the gears. The idea at some point was to use modified bi-directional pagers and the teletypes for a city wide wireless comm network. It is a wonderful machine to see in motion. Electromechanic computers are amazing.

Reminds me of other examples such as https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/03/gears...
Reminds me of old 80ies Smalltalk environments.

* everything is an object

* image-based persistence

I believe you cannot much traction in 2019 by merely claiming benefits of being object-oriented. These times are long gone.

The basic ideas of OO(extension by inheritance, coupling data and code=poor concurrency, wrong abstractions = expensive rewrites, wrong incapsulation = impossibility to change behavior) turned out problematic in use.

I'm still waiting for OS that positions itself to be "100% async" - every operation/event is a future/promise/callback, everything can be hooked, is progress-trackable and cancellable. That what I can stand behind.
Presumably, one can still lock down pages in memory (https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mlock, http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/mlock.2.html).

So, build default data structures as if everything is swapped out, and add structures designed for use in memory for caching that data.

Alternatively, only use structures optimized for in memory use, and trust your OS to keep the active set paged in (easier, but can harm performance if you have much more data than RAM)
Ask HN: What are the next steps regarding processors technology?
Given that Moore's law has come to an end and it's not doable to keep shrinking stuff, where will the next improvements regarding processors be made?
The Type-Safe Builder Pattern in Java, and the Jilt Library
Military folks tend to get married and have kids much younger than the office-worker set, from what I've seen.
Now that they've published the vulnerability, they can take advantage of that information in future plans.
I think you'd see a bump upwards, followed by a slow fall downwards as people realize that there's a hell of a lot more to running a small business than just healthcare costs.
Well, then I suppose they weren't needed any more. A full time C-level/VP-level position who's mere job is to say "Don't change anything!" doesn't seem very useful.
Population growth depends on cheap food using cheap energy for tillage, fertilizers, irrigation, pesticides/herbicides, transportation, processing and so forth.

If energy becomes expensive, as it most likely will, then population growth will stop.

Some of the projections appear unrealistic. For example, Mali is projected to grow from about 20 million to 80 million by 2100. Given Mali's geography, this seems unlikely.
So you think if we paid more in taxes and turned all of it over to the government, the current level of beurocracy would decrease?
For me, the usage of spaced repetition ("a medium which makes memory a choice") built into the essay was more interesting than the content itself. Now we just need a standard for embedding these sorts of question and answer in documents so you can use the spaced repetition software of your choice (or just publish an anki deck for it).
'wE mOVe FaSt AnD bReAk THingS'
Game of Thrones – Survival Analysis of Characters – Genie Lab
vistimo.com => more in the context of software time estimate management
They had a post on it yesterday https://blog.vistimo.com/post/169546687605/estimation-math

https://causal.app => might be interesting too
Also don't forget that Mr. Good might have tougher customers because he's Mr. Good and his prices are low or because he's willing to take on the hardest jobs that are unlikely to leave customers satisfied no matter how good they turn out. If you're the guy that everyone goes to because nobody else is willing to try and fix what you will your success/failure ratio will by abysmal.
A big +1 for this book. I read it with the team of developers I managed (at a consulting company, where estimates directly made the difference between profit and loss on projects) and we found it very useful. It got us to quit using "gut" estimates quite so much and to always keep an eye out for actual data or at least things to count.
> Bug reports should be sent to address@hidden

Will do.
It's a tough pill to swallow, I'll give you that, because it challenges the idea that we live in a just and ordered world. If it turned out that nobody was in charge, or that those in charge are no smarter than we are and don't particularly deserve to be in charge, or even that they're mismanaging things grossly... well that means nobody in the world really knows what the hell's going on and we're all just floundering along. That feels like being orphaned. Or pushed out the door into the cold night with no shirt. "Le Roi est mort - vive le Roi!"
Does the "huge margins of the healthcare industry" include all the money spent on failed pharma startups? If you spend $1bn on a drug then make $1bn profit but the other 9 drugs failed (after someone having spent $1bn for each) the margin isn't 100%, it's 10%.
"Easy to reason about" doesn't mean "Doesn't require you to read any documentation."
I do it for work all the time. Maybe that does take something away from sport, like a car mechanic losing the desire to tinker with his own car every day. One does need an income though, and IMHO you might as well do something you basically enjoy. See "Who is hiring?" post at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19543995 if it seems like your thing.
"floating", "silence", and "black" are sensory states. There's no assurance that a brain in a pool would feel any of these. It's hard to know what a brain will project as it attempts to construct a reality matching that for which it evolved.
Last time I checked <video> worked fine without javascript >>
Recipes are checklists too.
Option 3: the experience of being disconnected from your body is so distressing that you can do nothing but attempt (and fail) to scream. The scientists have no idea you are in distress. This goes on for months or years. By the time technology develops to a point where they can communicate with you, you are irreparably broken.
The reasons things start, and the reasons they persist, are often quite different.

The US doesn't seem to have subscribed to strongly-cenralised economic policy for nearly 70 years. And yet the employer-feudal healthcare system continues.

Preponderance of evidence suggests that dominant economic, financial, and power structures prefer it that way.

The origin story is an interesting footnote, no more.
I figured that would be under the petroleum and electricity column but sure, that's definitely true. They also use some mighty damned big trucks and explosives in quarries. I wonder how much of the 80 years of building a cathedral is just sourcing and paying for the stone.

I also love the solution Christopher Wren came up with after the Great Fire. Everyone wanted him to design their church. He made a compromise: I'll build you your church but you don't get a bell tower until after everyone else gets a church. So he went around building churches and then swung back through to add bell towers onto them.
I'm pretty skeptical as well that this is useful for really anything. That energy density is so low that I can't think of a single application where either batteries, solar, wind, or some combination of the above wouldn't both work better and be cheaper.

Just to put a little perspective out there, 0.2 mW/m^2 means that 1 square meter of this stuff would take 600 days in ideal production to match the amount of energy stored in one charge of a single rechargeable AA (~3Wh).

1 clear day, plus a tiny solar cell and a AA and you can get 600 operating days of energy really easily.

And here's the thing, if this thing gets buried, it isn't going to generate electricity. So you have to imagine an environment where the snow is constantly melting, you can get a giant sheet of this stuff, and for whatever reason there is no battery chemistry that would work.

You could say "Well, it would make a good snow detector".. but even that it somewhat silly. Because, again, if it gets buried it won't be detecting more snow. So now you need some complex rigging to keep it from collecting snow so it can register that snow is falling. Why not a camera? A weight sensor? etc. Plenty of pretty cheap and low power equipment can do just this without the additional concerns introduced by this piece of tech.

This thing is useless. Maybe interesting to make, definitely not practical for really any application.
I was thinking of the Bobiverse- have your head preserved for reanimation when future technology allows, only to have it declared a non-person and sold to a corporation which digitizes your brain and puts it in a satellite...

https://www.amazon.com/We-Are-Legion-Bob-Bobiverse/dp/B01L08...
The Sneaky Tactic Ecommerce Brands Use to Attract More Customers
The rust approach to this kind of this is not to use global flags to control this kind of behavior, but to use wrapping types to get the behavior on the spots where you want it: https://crates.io/crates/fast-floats
Nothing in the guidelines about posting substantively. One does stipulate "Please don't post shallow dismissals", but I don't think that qualifies as utter dismissal.

Here's something else the guideline says: Don't feed egregious comments by replying
> Christmas because it is just a pagan celebration with a fake wrapping of Jesus. They might say anniversary of the resurrection instead of Easter

The only “Christians” (the application of this label to them is controversial within Christianity) that take this approach are Seventh Day Adventists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and some related groups, who share the trait of rejecting the concept of holidays (with the exception of, or as distinguished from, the regular Sabbath). I know of no Christian group that rejects Christmas for pagan ties and refers to Easter in the way you describe.
I don't think Wikipedia is a good source for anything that goes against an established narrative, no matter the subject. I don't have any interest in making sure Wikipedia is up to date when there are state actors publishing their view of events on Wikipedia.
This is an issue on the civilian side as well. They're strongly encouraging engineers and scientists to pursue management positions and degrees. They're tacitly discouraging pursuit of higher degrees in science and engineering outside of a few areas (and even there it still turns into resume fodder for management positions). So there's becoming a huge drain on the civilian workforce of experienced people and the new people are too young (fresh grads) to keep up the level of capability their predecessors (now bosses) had (and now expect, but don't understand that the new people have no guidance or mentors).
FCC chairman opposes China Mobile bid to provide U.S. services
The Impact of Voice in UX Design: and What to Do about It
“The screen on my Galaxy Fold is completely broken, unusable just two days in”
It probably helps that it doesn't need to last more than a few hours too.
When you dump a link to a 60 page pdf and you’re going to reference it, please list the page number and/graph you’re referring to. I don’t want to guess.