skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, the new and creative ways of annoying sedan drivers into purchasing vehicles with higher ride heights.
I would respect Apple a lot more if they would just accept the defeat and publicly declare that their butterfly keyboard was a mistake and a complete failure. It was a bold experiment, and they don't always work out but that's okay! How could they not realize their stubbornness was precisely the reason why many customers have turned their back on these new MBPs? I can't expect them to be perfect or correct all the time, but it's more important to be able to accept when you're this wrong.
- you need to go and get it repaired, costing you time and effort
- it's usually time limited
Really the way to fix that isn't enforced ignorance but proper and ironclad severence that says - no donors have no parental rights or responsibilities unless they agree to adopt/marry in later. No matter how convenient it would be to bill the donor instead.
>Who is forcing you to eat meat?

Are people "forced" to celebrate Valentine's day? Are they "forced" to wear blue jeans? Listen to either rock OR pop OR rap OR country?

Demographic == culture. We eat meat because we eat meat because we ate meat, for ten thousand years.

Do you blame a child for their "choice" of religion? Do you blame a family that drives to work over taking the bus, which sucks 4 hours extra out of their day because they live in Pocatello, Idaho and don't have much of a transit system?
I just got a ThinkPad X230 with an IPS screen and an i7 CPU for 180 euros. It's the last one with a non-ULV CPU, which means it's still quite fast. And it all works perfectly, except maybe the bluetooth and fingerprint reader. With a 9-cell battery you'll get easily enough hours of usage, with apmd I'm clocking around 5-6 hours, which is fine for my use.
I listen to them while I run or do house work. I don't have a commute and if I listen to podcasts while I do knowledge work I either don't retain anything or my work suffers.
I would call it “classical” machine learning.
25 years ago I thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail, and hikers there have a saying, "It takes more head than heel". I didn't believe it at first, until I met several thru-hikers over the age of 60, hiking 15+ miles a day, carrying 50+ pounds of gear, up and down over a trail designed intentionally to go valley to summit to valley to summit.

After a few weeks, I noticed that I was no longer looking at the ground. At least, not the ground right in front of my feet. My mind was able to see the terrain several yards ahead, and subconsciously my feet would know where the rocks are. This became an essential skill upon entering Pennsylvania, where the AT is more boulder field than trail. I started to call it "Radar feet".

Edit: it was 25 years ago... sheesh my memory. About two years before I heard about an obscure programming language called Python...
It's like littering. No direct cost to the person doing it but if everyone did it it would have a large cost to society.
In immigration courts the judge and the prosecutor both work for the same branch of government. There is no illusion of independence.

The purpose of the "court" is simply to provide pro-forma due process during an administrative procedure.
Why is the regulator acting like the attack dog for Wirecard rather than investigating allegations of fraud on Wirecard’s part?
The primary reason the Nissan Leaf looked as dumb as it did was because it appeals to early adopters to have something that is outwardly different from convention. I would imagine they're taking a similar approach here.
Tesla's market cap is 44.77 Billion USD. So about One-sixth.
Python now used more for data science than for web development
I think that's very likely!
I don't think the possibility can be entirely discounted. Consider composite materials, a honeycomb. Much more difficult to analyze than a sphere of steel
Also, "simply be more virtuous" is never a solution that has ever worked. I've had similar conversations - "getting a job is easy, just pick a good major and work hard like I did." Sure, but what did standing there and saying that do? When I go meet with the city council, and I say those exact words, what has been accomplished? What policy can be written, what programs can be started, based off casting an accusation like that?
Losing a lot of sales is not surprising if you're forcing existing customers to change payment method. It's enough hassle many will just leave if your service isn't special enough to them.

Beyond that, a big reason to use PayPal is that simply, a lot of people don't have a (internationally accepted) card they can use. PayPal is a useful middleman for those people if they support a payment method they do have.
No information on that yet.

Having said that we see China pushing their market power on brands (the Leica advertisement). Chinese security are contacting Uyghurs in Australia pressuring them to provide information, DNA samples.

I wonder if anyone looking to do business in the future might think twice about hiring anyone on a list in China....
I would move them to a separate page and not delete them. Sometimes you need to know something about dealing with the ugly. Nice work and your blog is great.
For the specific example given there, I'd say it's most often called feature engineering. I'd also argue that it's a lot more necessary than most people think, but I'm probably just being stodgy and am biased by working in relatively narrow domains.

Calling it "feature engineering" implies it's still being fed into some sort of trained classifier to make the final decision, though.

What you're describing of your own work might better fall under the broad category of an "expert system".
Have you looked into using Zapier instead?
Why do you need to use IFTTT?
Well, I might care about predicting the next turbine to fail. If Siemens sensors are truly unrelated to the issues, that'll average out eventually - but I'd be highly skeptical of someone asserting that it's completely unrelated to the failures and not just covarying with something we're not using as a model input.

Why would I care about the fact that only 10% of turbines globally have Siemens sensors? I don't know the failure data outside of the turbines I own and operate, and those are the only ones I need to predict failures for.
Expert systems? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_system
Thanks for clarifying - I hope I didn't come across too defensive. It's definitely become a sensitive spot when so many are dismissive, so I might lash out at those undeserving of it.

As for the language - JS definitely has its warts and its holes. It's not a language I love, but it IS a language I greatly enjoy developing for. Then again, I thought Perl was a great language (albeit with its own warts) so my views are fairly unconventional. Definitely though, I tend to think that languages fall into a more complex graph than just "better" and "worse", or even "better at X" and "worse at X".
You are so off base and jumping right into some political rant. The article has nothing to do with politics and is talking about Amazon.

If you want to discuss those topics I suggest you submit articles about those topics. Or even write a blog or do a YouTube video about it. This is what separates us from Reddit.

From the HN guidelines:

>Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.
I'm not sure I've ever seen such a highly-voted post.

I checked using the search box, and it appears this the 12th most voted post of all time (so far!).
Seriously can't understand why this post is getting upvoted so much(2896) as of now. Is there something i am missing.
Other efforts in improving the parquet datasets on cloud storage world:

https://github.com/apache/incubator-iceberg

https://github.com/apache/incubator-hudi

Happy to see Delta go open source.
dotnet core is a pleasure to work with, too. I really appreciate the effort that went into making the CLI nice to use. Things like project init, package management, building, testing, etc.
> An authoritarian or a libertarian don't in general care about equality, but that the inequality is fair. They would say as long as the system or the conditions are fair the outcomes are also fair.

Can you be more specific about what you think the difference between fairness and equality is? For example, if one person is smart enough to become a doctor and another isn't, but then doctors get paid more than housekeepers, is that the difference? The system is fair (anyone smart enough and willing to can become a doctor) but not equal (some people aren't smart enough and doctors get paid more).

But using that as the difference is more of a communist ("to each according to his needs") ideal than a democratic one.

And authoritarians generally don't even care if the system is fair -- if it's unjustly enriching their own people then it's authoritarianism working as intended.
I've got an X1 carbon that developed bad pixels. (Anecdata I know, but I've never had an Apple device, out of more tha na dozen over a decade, with a bad screen, while every Lenovo machine I've ever had, five now, has some level of bad Q&A with the screen, usually backlight bleed.) They replaced the panel on-site, which was good, but not the bezel (which is a sticker and is now peeling off slightly from having been peeled off and reattached).
The Dark Ages are something of a misnomer but there does not seem to be any question that levels of literacy, trade, and social organization were lower than the preceding Roman era and than even the latter part of the middle ages after 1200 or so. Indeed much of the 'darkness' is the result of so few written records surviving from the era, which in turn points to far fewer of them being generated in the first place.

The question for anyone trying to roll back the use of the term 'Dark Ages' is what would you call it instead?
Proprietary hardware and software is fine! Don't feel guilty about not using Linux. It's simply not for you. Be happy with your choice with Apple. You can still support and use FOSS software on those computers if you like.
> I'd used LFS and move the ACLs to the file server, if using a single repo was a hard requirement

If you're putting a few large files in LFS, or maybe a couple sensitive files, I can understand and I'd say you're still using Git, but with some extensions.

If you're putting an entire sensitive subtree in LFS, I don't think you're really using Git any more, in the sense that many of your standard Git workflows will have to be different.
Future development will be focused on Elements and the new version of Checkout, but we’ll continue to maintain the legacy version as long as we can. Note that if you’re accepting payments from PSD2/SCA-impacted countries, we do recommend using Elements or Checkout, as the legacy version of Checkout doesn’t support 3DS.

Would love to hear more about why Elements or the new version of Checkout don’t work for your use case — can you shoot me an email jenan@stripe.com?
My point is they aren't "nice to haves" if you don't ask for them. They are "purely random to haves".

Ask for what you want. What's the worst that could happen? The candidate gives you want you asked for? Not a bad sign for a prospective employee.
Exactly. I was doing a competition that required me to run windows with a linux vm on top of it. This means I couldn't easily do it. Ended up having to use WSL, which is much more hassle than I ought to have to go through.

I agree as well with the unit comment; they're great. But I just can't get past the plans for world domination.
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"If we find things we like, 996 is not a problem," Ma said in a blog post Sunday on Chinese social media site Weibo. "If you don't like [your work], every minute is torture," he added.

I agree with this sentiment, I happen to work 996 on my own stuff mainly because I love it. I know a lot of people who have jobs and pour themselves into it because they love what they do as well.

I'd say its only an issue once you are being punished for not working 996.
>The so-called masculine pronouns can be gender neutral. Their use is usual and proper when the gender of someone is unknown. This is true of practically every language on Earth.

In theory, sure.

But imagine I told that riddle where the solution is "the surgeon is the boy's mother". But I kept referring to the surgeon by the "gender neutral" pronoun "he".

You wouldn't feel like you had been misled? You wouldn't feel I had committed to a gender?

I'm not a fan of being super-PC about pronouns, myself. But you have to admit, they do trick you into certain assumptions about the referent that can lead you astray (unless you practice Herculean levels of epistemic hygiene).

I'd rather err on the number than accidentally rule out a gender.
Give her a medal! We need to get serious about celebrating whistleblowers.
>That has nothing to do with this article. This article is about exact GPS/location coordinates, has nothing to do with "a dev can listen to conversations".

User: "Alexa how long does it take to drive to Walmart"

Alexa: proceeds to give totally nonsensical directions to a Walmart that isn't even the nearest one
That's filmsy grandstanding.
With current tech, you can not switch the world's population to a vegetarian diet without obliterating most existing forests.

Agriculture is one of the prime reasons for deforestation (and in some countries, pollution), while pasture doesn't really need arable land.
> why would you want to apply the unix philosophy to nets

I wouldn't and won't
This post is NOT about being inquisitive, maybe you didn't bother to read it..

And being contrarian for the sake of being contrarian is a TERRIBLE idea. I'm all for thoughtful criticism, but simply disliking things for no intelligible reason is grounds for ridicule.
The particular case I'm thinking of involves a repository which is large enough that full checkouts are slow, so you do partial checkouts to make things faster.

Maybe at some point there will be tools that let you do this with Git, maybe built on top of something like Git VFS. At the moment it just kind of sucks. Subversion and Perforce both handle it just fine.
According to the article, the Phoenix has a reversible hydrogen fuel cell on board. Just a guess, but maybe it's filled with helium on the ground (for safety purposes),then generates hydrogen (from electricity and water) once aloft to replace any lost helium?
Apple operates on Form Over Function and has for years. The engineering team is subservient to the design team. You are seeing the consequences of it live. The engineering team knows the butterfly keyboard design is fundamentally flawed, but the design team has priority. There's only so much the engineers can do to make it Function while being constrained by Form.

This is the same type of corporate structural flaw as Boeing has, just without the loss of life for Apple. They needed to sell the plane without re-certifying, so the management demands some poor engineers work around it while having their hands tied behind their back.
Highly used programs: emacs, vi, Tex , latex, R, python, lisp’s, awk, sed.

Yes No multimedia programs, cause I am a mathematician and for pdf I use pdftools; so no Adobe also; started with Slackware in 2007 after an abysmal windows period from 1991 till 2007; now I use openbsd and emacs simply rocks and is rock solid on openbsd.
Couldn't agree with you more here. I personally use Nim as an application language too and it will take a lot of convincing to let me go of the precious GC :)
> It literally is a matter of clicking “backup” on one phone and choosing to restore on another one.

No. It is not.

Please tap "backup" on my dead phone. Please tap "backup" on my working phone when I have no computer or Internet to back it up to.
I think "Late Antiquity" is common.
Travel OS, so I basically browse the Internet, watch some videos, listen to some music and do some hobby projects. Also it's nice to have a not so expensive laptop for travels, so it's not such a big deal if it gets stolen. And of course the travel machine uses full disk encryption. Size is important here: I prefer 12" for travels and 14" for work, when I want to view multiple files at the same time.

OpenBSD has hard time using even 4 gigabytes of RAM with Firefox having multiple tabs open. My Arch installations easily take over 8 gigabytes, if I'm not compiling anything.

If I need a backup machine for work, I kind of want a Linux with all the Docker, Spotify, Signal etc. easily available.
The long standard for lots of software is to have a blank "file.conf.example" file (with only the variable names but blank values) which you commit to git, and have the code look for a file named "file.conf" which you explicitly exclude from git using gitignore. This allows you to have a template config file while still preventing the secrets from being written to git. Then you can have the software provide some sort of alert when it is launched for the first time saying "config file not found, please duplicate file.conf.example, fill in your details, and name it file.conf."
Does this allow someone to decrypt a stolen device?

I moved from an iPhone to a Galaxy S9 about a year ago because I was getting fed up with Apple's hardware problems, and wanted try Android again.

I convinced myself that I was able to secure the Android phone as long as I always bought the newest one and kept it up to date.

But decryption after loss is an untenable scenario for me. I had read that qualcomm's trustzone has had software exploits in the past, but I didn't think it would happen again.

Is there any way to trust that the data on my Android device is safe? If I lost it today, someone could keep it around for a while until the next exploit drops. Has Apple ever had an exploit of this nature?
This sounds like a job for mutagen: https://github.com/havoc-io/mutagen.
I think you assume here that the historical effects that led to Siemens sensors correlating with failure will continue to be true in the future. And I think that is the key fallacy that makes AI bias a problem.

We aren't just looking for patterns. We are looking for patterns so that we can take action and affect the future. If the patterns, which are real enough in the historical data, don't correctly predict the impact of a choice, then they are anti-helpful bias.

For example, it may be that the company bought Siemens sensors years ago and then switched to another brand later. Unsurprisingly, older turbines fail more than newer ones. So, really, it's age that is the causative factor and the concrete action you want to take is to pay closer attention to older turbines. Even though the correlation to Siemens is real, if the action you take is "replace all the Seimens sensors with another brand", that won't make those old turbines work any better.

In other words, understanding data doesn't just mean "see which bits are correlated with which other bots". In order to be useful, we need to understand which changes to those bits in the future will be correlated with which desired outcomes. Anything less than that and you don't yet have information, just data.
I'm not quite sure quite how ultrabook is defined, but if something like the GPD MicroPC counts, it weights about half of what the Macbook does (400 grams vs 920 grams), while also having way more ports (HDMI, ethernet, micro-SD, 3 USB-A , USB-C, and a serial port). Granted GPD devices are kind of weird and not directly comparable to a Macbook— it's probably the only laptop keyboard worse than Apple's current one, and the trackpad isn't in the same league as Apple's.
gvisor is a fundamentally different thing from Firecracker (or the role QEMU or NEMU play when used with KVM). There's a pretty good summary here: https://gvisor.dev/docs/architecture_guide/
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1913397

Direct: https://news.ycombinator.com/topcolors
Sure. But in order to see all sides of the argument and make an informed decision, one should read at least a few different sources, no?
Looks like it was temporary. Whew!
Just remove the gender/sex as variables for the AI and maybe name too. Preprocess the resumes to remove them. Now you remove the majority of gender bias for the AI.
I had been exploring Lisp (in particular, Franz's Allegro Lisp and LispWorks Lisp) some years ago, and around the same time, came across the "edit and continue" feature in Visual C++ / Visual Studio (may have been 6 or other version). IIRC I blogged or tweeted about both, and that maybe that VC++ feature was inspired by something similar in Lisp.
Race and culture are two very different things. There certainly can be some correlation, but drawing conclusions of suitability for employment based on race is a problem.
What's a "proprietary" JavaScript interpreter anyway? JavaScript (ECMAScript) is a standardized language with many implementations, and ES3/ES5 is arguably one the most portable languages of all time.
Looks like it's still a pre-release feature at this point.

Hot code-reloading part of the talk: https://youtu.be/7WgCt0Wooeo?t=1519

RFC: https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/8927

Code: https://github.com/onqtam/Nim/tree/hcr-1
In my experience, music that matches my mood makes me fee less alone.

I had some tough times when I was a teenager, and didn't seriously get into music until I discovered Rammstein(my favorite band to this day). To most people, it's very brutal sounding, often angry, sometimes depressing. My parents had no idea why I listened to some German guy growling in front of "rock music".

My whole world was changed because, finally, someone else expressed how I feel. Now, the lyrics themselves are often grotesque or even silly, but I didn't understand most of it and what they were saying didn't matter to me anyway. I was comforted by the fact that these guys could put into music what I could fail to put into words or deal with in my own life.

Simply speaking, I find such music to be cathartic. Actually, lots of different moods of music can be cathartic, but negative music sticks out in that category because we're expected to listen to music that "lifts us up". I think that's why I actually become more depressed by listening to happy music when I'm sad; it's as if the world is telling me that I shouldn't feel the way that I do. Having my feelings recognized by music is about as good as having someone tell me that it's okay to feel bad about my situation.
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This needs a multipronged approach. Regulations, where regulations work, consumer advocacy where consumer advocacy works, plant-based meat emulations where emulations work, and so on. Honestly though, I'm quite pessimistic that this problem will be solved in the next 50 years. As China and India have become more affluent, their meat consumption has only increased, just the way it happened in the west. And I know from looking around that even educated people here don't care how their meat was farmed.
Also "Middle Ages" or "Medieval period". Pretty common though a bit wide.
You really should. If the sample is "all the gas turbines you own" and you disproportionately use Siemens sensors, your turbine failure forecast will (with high likelihood) reduce to a Siemens sensor forecast. This is easily plausible even if your sample's correlation between Siemens sensors and gas turbines is completely superfluous.
I think expert systems consist of a "rule engine" where rules can be added dynamically?
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My honest answer to that is; get it in writing, because WHEN the shit hits the fan, you've got evidence in your favour.

Managers always want compromises for cost or speed, is up to us to make them understand which compromises they really don't want to make. If they want to make it anyway, get proof that it was done on their orders.