skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And TBH I'm not at all sure every podcast needs to be innovating and taking risks. There are lots of podcasts out there that are just interviews with interesting people or a bi-weekly panel-type discussion with sometimes guests in some topic area. Sure, some are good, some not so good but even the best aren't really breaking new ground; they're just interesting.
Apparently the craft is powered entirely by solar power, plus batteries, to work at night. A solar powered craft cannot maintain 130 knots.
If you put your mind to it just a bit (i.e., I wouldn't call this "automatic" exactly but it's not too hard to use the support the language, runtime, and libraries have), Erlang can even do a harder thing, which is update the code handling a given socket connection or something live, in a principled manner, while never dropping the connection.

Since HTTP is transient, it's actually a bit easier than a raw socket since you can expect it to go away soon, or even in the case of HTTP2, you can often expect to just close a socket as long as it's not currently active and get away with it. Many languages can smoothly upgrade an HTTP server by handing off a listening socket to a new process with new code. But even that won't save you for live sockets, because even if you hand off the socket, you haven't got a clean mechanism for handing off its accompanying state.

Several interpreted languages can sort of do this, but I'd call it in an "unprincipled" manner by just slamming new code in place and hoping for the best. Erlang explicitly upgrades the gen_* instances and you can provide a function for converting the old state to the new state cleanly.
> Typically they're appointed because they're related or friends with the elected officials doing the appointing

I don't think that's completely accurate. It's very much party politics at the local level. Party hacks are rewarded. (Which may look like friends and family, but party discipline is highly enforced AFAIK)
John McAfee Vows to Unmask Crypto’s Satoshi Nakamoto
> Don't pre-optimize.

Don't pessimistically de-optimize either. It's harder to remove bottlenecks from mature applications than it is to plan ahead for the target platform and common use cases.

By all means, prototype in Python but if your target platform is, at minimum, a R-Pi 2 and you want the experience to be snappy even when their is high IO or CPU work being done... then don't release on Python; use the prototype to drive the implementation in C.

Maybe consider even compiling from a higher-level language into a C library to minimize the boiler-plate.

Planning goes a long way, even if you don't plan everything up front.
The people who are packing the boxes and knocking on your door don't have access to the microphones inside your house. Hearing conversations and search requests from customers is quite different from knocking on their door or packing a box.

Combining the knowledge of what you say inside with knowing where you live is different than the knowledge of a purchase you made and where you live.

Also, I would certainly assume Amazon to know my home address if I bought Alexa and shipped it there. But most people wouldn't assume that Amazon actual employees are listening to their conversations who also know where you live. HN might expect that, but Amazon makes a privacy promise that is violated here, as described in the article:

> In an April 10 statement acknowledging the Alexa auditing program, Amazon said “employees do not have direct access to information that can identify the person or account as part of this workflow.”

Bloomberg is saying that this statement by Amazon was false, because the location information from the Alexa devices can, in some cases, identify the individual or account "as part of this workflow".
More supply would lower the cost. My point is more supply of studios would not greatly lower the cost of single family homes so we can have our cake and eat it too. Landlords would take a hit but they could also decide to redevelop at a higher density for more revenue. No one has to get screwed as long as we're willing to live near higher density construction.
> It's pretty clear what's happening here: the author prefers music to podcasts

So true. It seems like people fall pretty hard in to one or the other, music or talk. People like the author here doesn't seem to understand or accept this? Or he just has a word count quota. I fall in to the talk side of things, my husband falls in to the music side of things. He gets to arrange all bbq, get-together playlists and I get to arrange our road trip queues that keep me awake at the wheel.

> I was considering writing out a response to each of his points but it's honestly not worth my time.

I, too, want to talk at length about this. Ultimately, that would cut in to my podcast time so I'll just grumble to myself and leave my reply at this.
Because any work delivered in such circumstances has no value (it might be done by your friend for all I know). It creates incentive for candidates to waste time polishing the solution. Most importantly, if you are an employer, think you are probably turning away your best candidates as the only ones that will continue are the ones that are OK with this b*t. Maybe they don't know any better or don't have other concurrent offers to work on or they don't have current job or are not putting effort at the current one. In any case it is likely that they are not your best candidate unless you are best employer in the world that they will do anything to work for. Funny thing, best employers in the world don't ask candidates to do home assignments.

If I am on the market I want to find and chase some number of potential offers. Ideally, I will get all those offers at the same time to pick and choose the best of the pack. This all happens while I have other engagements with my current employer, while I am closing projects, etc. I don't have infinite amount of time. A request like that would drain all my available resources and prevent me from taking part in other processes.
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> provide quality feedback

I always hear warnings about how this opens you up to very scary legal liability, but I'm wondering how true it is. Has anyone ever gotten into trouble providing feedback?

I guess things like "you had no social acumen and your hygiene left too much to be desired to be hireable" wouldn't go over well.
saw the report. they tried to replace the keys that did not work (the most) (0, space, enter, arrow up). did not help, reduced error rate about 50%. and some other keys failed, too. replaced the whole case-top including keyboard. looks shiny and new. wonder for how long the new keyboard goldilocks state will hold this time.
I mean.. $38B of $40B is still better than $0 of $40B. So, at least there's progress...
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you can use stars OR labels - no point using both

you have extra inboxes for each kind on the side

you read in your inbox
you act (potentially reply, potentially mark with star/label, always archive)

if it's a todo you dont get to now you put it in the todo label
if you replied and want to make sure you dont lose track -> awaiting reply
if you handed it off to someone and want to keep track -> delegated
if it's about some future meeting (or flight, hotel, etc) -> purple star (forgot what i called it)

you always archive
this way your main inbox is empty and you know what you looked at
by adding (or removing) label they end up (or get out) in the little boxes

at some point you might go through your todos - handle them remove the star/label

at some other point you might browse through the awaiting replies and realise they are done or no longer needed -> remove label

(and so on)

works really well for me

hth
There's no doubt that light and sound affect the brain, our sense wouldn't function otherwise, I just have doubts about there being particular resonances or harmonics.
This is super interesting! I might have to see what the AcroYoga scene is like around town.

This may sound a bit weird, but sports with "mandatory flow" really appeal to me. Snowboarding being the canonical example I use when I talk about this. I'm by no means as expert snowboarder, and when I'm doing it I have to be 100% in the moment. The sport has a great physical feedback loop for me: if I allow myself to be distracted, there is an immediate violent reminder (as I wipe out). Krav Maga has this too, although its more bursty (lose focus during a drill, accidental hits happen)

Thanks for the suggestion!
Completely unrelated systems and customer expectations. Own Alexa and frequent Amazon shopper. If Amazon wants to improve their voice capabilities. They just need to fire mech Turk and transcribe the audio -> Retrain their models => Assimilate customer information automatically. This whole process can be easily anonymized
Hello,

We have an upcoming product to read you the news you care about. We curate news from various news sources and then convert them to audio using text to speech and build a recommendation engine to suggest you the best topics based on your interest. Appreciate any feedback and ideas.

- Angelo
Others have already mentioned that it only shows up for compatible devices, but why would you want it to show below the payment form? That means a user would start filling in the form before realizing there's an alternate payment method. That seems like bad UX to me.

The only thing that's jarring to me is how the button takes the full width of the screen. This is just me nitpicking though, the design otherwise looks great!
Elements isn't "embedded Checkout." Elements is "roll your own Checkout using Stripe's UI components."
Why is that? I must have missed that rule.
Humans are omnivores, and thrive by variety as Pollock has laid out nicely.

While it is true that a largely plant based diet is probably a good idea, all throughout history being healthy has implied that humans go for a large variety of food sources - conditional on what is available.

As omnivores, we need many nutrients from diverse sources. Good quality protein that is difficult or impossible to get from "local plant sources" in many places. High quality fat, which is also difficult to get from plants in many places and certain Vitamins.

The constraints here are wealth, logistics and locality. In Western countries, plant based diets are a good alternative. But good luck sourcing everything locally or not relying on expensive supplements in many areas where humans live!

China is a poor country. So are many other places. Restricting dietary choices is simply not feasibly for them.

Eating meat can be considered an unnecessary luxury for some areas of the world, true. But not everywhere.
Full sequencing is under a thousand bucks now and has even been on sale once for $200. Another year or so and I bet you will be able to have it done for less than $100
That defeats the purpose. Echo with smart home integrations is really useful
Anyone got any thoughts on when to use Elements vs the new Checkout?
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Agreed. Podcasts let me listen to longer form conversations about topics I'm interested in.
duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19733915 The last one got flagged but looking at the comments I doubt there is much more to say. Let's wait if Mr McAfee delivers.
Apple are currently facing a class action for selling known-faulty iPhone 4S/5 hardware in which they're accused of deceptive or fraudulent business practices. Now they do that across multiple product lines, multiple generations...

https://www.macrumors.com/2019/04/24/iphone-4-4s-5-power-but...
Well, this particular article is about surveillance tech sold by China. The complain is that Chinese companies don't have the sense of responsibility that Western companies have.

While I'd agree that domestically, the West doesn't have China's direct illegalizing of dissent, for the sales of tech to other nations (Saudi Arabia or China itself), claims of Western superiority seem awfully stretched.
Great concept. Would like to see more of this idea applied to neural network processing and configuration in general (which in my experience can sometimes be a tedious, hard-coded affair).
>"Hey, they're fixing it, quit complaining."

One of, if not the biggest problem with many of those Apple fanatic is that Apple could do no wrong. And this is speaking as someone who like Apple but increasingly irritated by their action.
It’s good to have folks like you who stand your ground. However, reality is different and unless the company really wants you specifically and the hiring manager has the political capital to change the hiring process like that, it won’t have much effect unfortunately.
Don't know if it's typical, but I had a double-fire problem that was intermitent, and, of course, didn't show up when I tried to demonstrate it in the store.

They said, no problem, we believe you, and replaced the keyboard anyway.
Ask HN: IFTTT Pricing Model – $20k
I've been told by an account manager at IFTTT that the pricing model starts at $20k, and that it is the lowest available price. I think that seems a bit on the high side for a small startup looking to integrate.

Have you any experience with the IFTTT pricing model and if so, what are you paying for the integration, how many active users using the integration?
I think it's just a matter of time before people switch from using PayPal.
That is a highly naive statement to make. Per the parent comment, look at Wells Fargo as another example. They've been caught massively stealing from their cusomters multiple times, yet each time they come back with the same boilerplate mea culpa. Sokoloff is absoutely right, these companies are mostly concerned with getting back to status quo; they care about customer 'trust' only as far as it negatively impacts their bottom line.
I’m curious about what you consider a “travel OS” and how is that different from regular OS.
The hidden costs of engineering time in technical interviewing
I find that actually embrassing the depression and be that music or a sad film and letting those negative emotions have focus in a form of distraction. The upside is that after such exposure, the contrast of reality helps raise the mood. Obviously it's not a golden solution and the level of improvement varies as long-standing life issues are still there.

But instead of fighting the depression and feeling more down as you end up failing your own standards - fueling the depression. I find embracing it, have a dam good cry, have no shame in expressing such emotions and with that cut of much of the fuel that whilst does not soley instigate the depression but more prolongs it. Just helps.

Nothing worse than feeling down, and then feeling even more down because your expectation is that you should not feel down. It's a vicious circle of fueling and depressive period. That and worry about how others percieve it and the whole social stigma's of it being a weakness. So being mindful of such a mood and embracing the mood with a good solid cry, whilst not intuitively what you feel will help, actually does. Real key part is that you take control of the depression more than letting the depression take control of you, and by embracing and accepting it you take that step back into a driving seat.

But music is really useful for fixing moods, equally in todays noise poluted enviroments that cause micro-stress (stress you hardly notice but all add up), headphones work wonders. As I have found that stress can and does impact and induce depression. It is identifying those area's of micro-stress and dealing with them that help keep stress in check and with that, depression.

But everybody is an individual, so no solution will work for everybody. Though the side-effects of music are far less than any pharmaceutical offering.

I'd also suggest, try an old album from better times, For me Blondie Parallel Lines does the trick.

Equally some emotionally cold electronic music like some John Foxx renditions help to focus the mood, for me at least. Not what I'd call sad music (though some could), more what I'd class as totally emotionless in many ways.
>>Now, suppose that 75% of the bad turbines use a Siemens sensor and only 12% of the good turbines use one (and suppose this has no connection to the failure). The system will build a model to spot turbines with Siemens sensors. Oops.

Given a statistically large enough sample, 2 outcomes:
1) The Siemens sensor actually is at fault.
2) The Siemens sensor is a part of a larger system, which is different in non-Siemens turbines, and that system is failing.

Either way, the model prediction on turbine failures is enhanced with that Siemens feature. But to even get to this granularity, you are diving into model explainability, or what features were important for each prediction. Here, you try to understand the black-box to find reasons for particular input->output.
I'd argue that hydrogen is actually among the best, with helium of course being second.

Helium wins out on the inertness, but has far lower lifting capacity, and of course has a supply issue.

Hydrogen wins on lifting capacity, supply is not an issue at all - but it has a weird image problem, thanks to one singular accident - which was arguably not caused by the lifting gas!

Prior to that accident, hydrogen had a fairly great record with airships, and it was used extensively for ballooning as well without many incidents.

Hydrogen by itself isn't flammable - you need another particular gas involved for that to be an issue. You also need a source of ignition.
I think very few things are "cut and dry", but if it was indeed true that the claimed study was never done, and if the superiors knew this and lied about it, and then retaliated against this scientist for attempting to bring this fact to light, then yes, I absolutely think they should be fired. Note that "bar from public office" is not even a potential sanction in this case - the superiors are not publicly elected officials, and saying "no public government is allowed to hire you" is not a punishment that exists or is legal in the US. Depending on the level of knowledge, I'm guessing there are some criminal punishments available, but that would obviously be a very high bar in terms of determining culpability (IANAL).
Welcome to Night Vale

The Black Tapes

Within The Wires

Myths and Legends

Ear Hustle

The Allusionist

The top four there are fiction if it matters to you.
Better power efficiency, mostly.
>A puttering democracy is still better than a thriving authoritarian country.

That is your opinion. You'll find that many people disagree. Maybe not here, in HN, openly.
Thank you for the links. Time to build a new server!
I love linux! It keeps me on my toes. I get to reinstall my OS every few months. (NVidia Drivers die after update to kernel. nvidia-current doesn't work with graphics card.)
When I don my foil hat, I hypothesize that the swine fever was intentionally introduced and propagated by unregistered agents of the US as retaliatory sabotage for increased tariffs (62%?) against US pork products. China represents 17% of the export market for US pork.
People are very change-resistant when it comes to OS and text editor choice and don’t understand how the other side lives without $feature_of_choice.
Solid-state battery: What you need to know about the lithium-ion successor
This spurred me to think of a neat way to help the community.

A site that takes requests for opensource code packages or modules (or refactors or contributions) and lets applicants work on one of those.

The hiring company could select what skills they want to test the applicant on and the applicant could pick among any number of matching requests for open source work.
I tend to agree. I started with Slackware when I first used Linux and it is heavily inspired by BSD. It remains so today so I've switched back to using it for day to day work and on a few servers I manage.

All other servers are using OpenBSD so it looks like I've got some upgrades to get to!
That's a stub resolver.
I'd argue the opposite. I wish car companies would push their EVs further into the futuristic aesthetic.

The Chevy Bolt is a wonderful vehicle, but it looks almost exactly like a legacy gasoline car. A regular person could easily mistake it for the current Chevy Spark. Similarly, the Chevy Volt looks almost exactly like a Chevy Malibu. And a Nissan Leaf looks fairly similar to a Nissan Note.

I'm aware that they don't want the car to look too "scary" or unusual, and it's a huge cost savings to re-purpose existing parts/designs. But just as a personal preference, I wish the more EV-focused concept-car-styled designs could actually make it to market.
It seems like there's a legitimate use case for this data: troubleshooting/quality scoring the results for inherently local searches.

"Alexa, what's the nearest pizza place?" "Alexa, is the corner coffee shop open now?"

(Disclaimer: not an Amazon employee, but [generally] happy Alexa user.)
If you consider the era, type of music, and the title (Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds is the correct title) I'd say the evidence points in that direction.

Although Lennon denied this, he admitted he was inspired by LSD. However he has a good reason to deny this: to avoid the radio ban.

Perhaps we will never know for sure. We do know for sure it was perceived as such.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_in_the_Sky_with_Diamond...
Certainly for communication that is the right way to go.

Having said that the suits have to be in the loop to some extent, they just need to be able to control those "I don't like this sue them" instincts and understand how to better channel that energy.

Security needs an executive level person to be able to directly work with the other executives to push things if only because the inclination to hide or not fix things is so common. Security just isn't a part of a lot of engineering teams mindset / time budget.
The problem is largely fixable. Interconnect the two AoA sensors so they can validate each other and add some logic to detect failures like we've seen where the AoA suddenly jumps to an extreme position and add an indicator or audio alert for that situation. Also modify the cutout to only disable the MCAS inputs so pilots can fix the MCAS trim adjustments using the electronic trim instead of having to use the manual wheels. Finally limit the total trim amount like they originally had in the FAA approval process.

Those together should prevent more crashes. It doesn't fix the underlying problem that the MAX8 has fundamentally different handling properties during climbs that were papered over by a black box but they should prevent it from causing crashes with training.
I fear that the touchbar was just to test the waters.

Soon to make laptops .5mm thinner, the macbooks will probably have touchscreens keyboards instead of physical ones.
The on-demand feature changes the nature of the medium. With radio you are often joining mid-stream, whereas with a podcast you always get to hear the whole thing. Plus the live callers, as others have pointed out.
Brit and Co is laying off most of its employees
Nim enticed me to create my own systems-ish language: https://github.com/AZHenley/knox It is still just a toy and in the early stages.

It’s been fun. Thanks for that, Nim.
I do that every time I see a story like this. So far the cost has never exceeded the utility.
They probably have a better clue then most of us. But they also have opportunism
Can you say a word or two about why the new Checkout experience is a full-page redirect instead of a modal dialog? (I preferred the dialog.)
Please show me what part of GDPR that will prevent this.
Yes, currently these two variants don't cache; my primary use case was to use as source for PiHole/dnsmasq. I've a Python version in the works that would cache based on TTL.