skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get where you are coming from, but Lucene is a building block, a library and cannot be immediately used as a valuable service. ES can be used by quite high level developers to implement scalable solutions.

Building blocks and libraries offering convenience are not as valuable on its own than solutions that offer some quite immediate value at a reasonably high level. Even if from an abstract view both still require developers as users the applicability is quite different. Amazon cannot 'host' lucene as a service per se.

Services vs Libraries
Ironically enough, the name “Shanghai” (上海) literally means above ("Shang" 上）the sea ("Hai" 海).
> Trying to place Berlin as the whole of Europe is pretty unfair to the rest of Europe

I can't say that I've found the attitude of the companies in London or Amsterdam to be materially different from what was described. That doesn't mean that it is the whole of Europe, but I'm willing to doubt that it is an isolated cultural thing.

Given that we both have wildly differing experiences with London, I'm willing to grant that London might have unique and positive offers now (my experience is from at least 3-4 years ago) or that I have at the time completely missed the healthy companies.
And the end result always convinces me that less is more when it comes to web design

Careful with that phrase, as apparently a large number of designers think it means less content too!
Microsoft today has simply no presence in home automation, smart assistants, wearable or self-driving markets that have emerged during past 5 years.

Home automation and smart assistance as platforms are profit loss centers to either invade user privacy in the case of Amazon and Google or as a moat for more profitable hardware in the case of Apple. Microsoft has positioned itself as a neutral platform provider with Azure. There is no real money in the home automation market. The only people who make money in a gold rush are the people who sell shovels.

Wearables outside of the Apple Watch aren’t doing too well either.

There is no “self driving market”. There might be one in the future.

Windows revenues is still falling like crazy and obviously there is no Smarthone story from Nadella yet.

There is a story. Microsoft is supporting both Android and iOS with appps, development tools, and Azure.

Seeing that Google has only made $21 billion in profit on Android in its entire existence (came out in the Oracle trial), and that most phone manufacturers are losing money, the entire phone market is low profit margin business for anyone who isn’t Apple, the carriers, or component suppliers (ie Samsung).

As far as cloud, it’s a lot easier to convince a company to use Azure than GCP and their relative market share shows as much.
7 Awesome SpaceX Photos
>But who gets to set that threshold? Who determines what is reasonable? What if that performance threshold can only be met by fit young people and only until their bodies can't take the stress anymore? How will workers even assess whether or not they can do the job until they try?

If it's harmful to the worker, then it should fall under the purview of OSHA in the US.

Otherwise, that threshold is set by consumers who choose to patronize businesses that treat their employees in a certain way. Almost all of the time, for goods that can't be distinguished from one another, consumers will choose to patronize a business offering the lowest price available to them, hence the businesses that squeeze the most out of the workers survive and the others do not.
Just because you don't view the ads doesn't mean they don't charge people for them.
“Things I Learned” on Hacker News
This isn't aiming for the hardcore tech crowd, or even for the casual western user. This is aiming for emerging markets where even a cheap Android phone is way out of the price range of a standard user.

It's often easy to forget how big India and China are, but their population combined makes up about 1/3 of the world, so it's potentially an incredibly lucrative market to capture.
I think large parts of Africa will need phones too once their infrastructure is available.
You are quite right, China is certainly not an exception here.

What many in the West don't know is that prior to Xi, the political leadership had little engagement in operating the country during Jiang and Hu.

For most Jiang and Hu eras, senior civil administrators were picked on processional basis, with some not even being party members as such. With Xi, things went upside down on this front.

Living in China allowed me to see just how many nation's official are not in line with Xi. Many can barely hold from doing a "facepalm manoeuvre" when listening to Xi's many gaffes.

It's not a surprise that Xi has initiated a massive campaign to clear out government cadres appointed through civic line of work, and appoint party members instead.

Xi will not succeed, the party simply doesn't have enough professionals to staff the civil government. This may sound like a big stretch with CCP having 80M+ members, but only around 5M members make the real political body of the party, with prime majority of them being either "lazy golden boys" or pension age people.
There is cartesian genetic programming and some lisp-like models to encode a program as a tree where all combination are valid.
Combined with recent work on convolutional graph DNNs, this might be a good approach.
They’re coming to nyc because of perceived economic forces that will hold the city’s housing prices up as a high return investment. With the infrastructure actively failing before our eyes the calculus about the city seems certain to change as its reputation and quality of life plunges. Also the cultural forces celebrating urban spaces that created the beliefs underlying this many decade boom have long ago exhausted themselves, at least in relation to nyc. I have lived here a large portion of my life and feel near certain that the speculative winds are shifting elsewhere.
I think it's entirely fair to discuss the marketing of a linked list when they keep calling it "blockchain" and assigning nigh-magical properties to it, which is what is happening here.
Similarly: "...wish someone told...": https://hn.algolia.com/?query=wish%20someone%20told&sort=byP...
That's right, and the previous poster recognizes that:

> I also don't know how we can advance in neuroscience without taking some risks

I replied, because pointing out that we don't have a definition of something is unproductive in both ways: "we don't know what consciousness is? so let's drop precautions" is just as bad as "we don't know what consciousness is? so let's stop in place". It's quite understandable to me to feel that experimentation in this area are disturbing to someone who doesn't know what model of consciousness was used to ensure that nothing immoral is being done. The answers provided in the article don't really address that.

I also don't agree that consciousness is a complete mystery. We can infer criteria based on various measures of similarity, although the one criterion given in the article: "brain-wide activity that would indicate the organs could be conscious" doesn't offer any explanation as to where the criterion comes from. I take this as a failure to explain and justify that the precautions taken to eliminate the risk were enough.
They're handy for doing the dirty work for other companies. FB content moderation, for instance, which carries a mental health and suicide risk that FB would rather not bear.
If you're at a point where the money isn't as important as stability it could be worth it. As a close relative of mine who was a lifelong state bureaucrat put it "you have to rape a kid to be fired but you'll keep your pension unless you video tape it" which based on other things that happened in his department over the years is an exaggeration but not a big one. I'd definitely consider working for the government after my house is paid off.
But this doesn't include the Nokia ones, does it?
I have in the past accepted a job at a company that professed they had a 60+% turnover of employees within the first six months. At least half of that number was fired within the first month. It did not bother me that they did so, I just needed work at the time and I was confident I was good enough to stay.
Twitter won't ban Neo-Nazis because the algorithm might ban GOP politicians too
It would be similarly ok, but not nearly as effective, I assume. Which is probably why nobody does it.
Luminary a “Netflix for podcasts” raised $100M pre-launch with some controversy
Bill more next time.
That's nice to know.
I assumed that there would be a cost barrier too access as with most US health care.
Neither Fitbit or Android wearables are exactly shining beacons of success technically or in terms of profitability. The smart speaker business is also a no profit business.
It seems odd to me to call this "open source" when I can't find a statement of license or copyright on the site (maybe I missed it?).

I would expect something like a Creative Commons license to make it clear what can be reused and under which conditions.
Is It Future or Is It Past: The Anatomy of an Evolutionary Storage System
Needs to be done. Also tougher penalties for those who let their cats roam.
From the article: In the centre, at Lujiazui, the city has given up on the street level entirely and created a huge, circular, above-grade walkway accessible by escalator and connecting to all surrounding buildings.

But that's probably not what you meant by "solved".
I suspect in any other context the idea that kids are playing more basketball or doing more art while growing up would be looked at as a huge positive.

However, because a lot of kids from “bad areas” are looked at as criminals by virtue of the place they were born and raised, their playing sports and doing art is looked upon negatively, because they are “not being prepared to work in a modern economy”.

As an aside, Id argue that in a modern economy it’s impossible to prepare kids anyways, because it moves so fast that we don’t know what it will look like by the time they are adults. As a result, a well rounded education, which includes sports and arts is the only way to prepare children for a modern economy, even if we are ignoring the mental and physical health related benefits.
Dark Matter Detector Records One of the Rarest Events Known to Science
What evidence? Afaik average IQ is constantly rising: https://ourworldindata.org/intelligence#iq-gains-over-time-a...
And that’s a full of people buying $40 speakers....
I am guessing that technically, since a human can override the system, a human chose not to. So the decision is not made solely on automated processing. This is purely semantic of course, but might get the off the hook (which tells a lot about the usefulness of those laws)
Yeah... downgrading anything goes pretty much against the nature of my current distro (Arch)
capitalism, by its nature, will optimize all products to the level of 'just bearable'. Look at airplane seating.
No surprise.

Much of the "science" used to support business decisions is bullshit, made up long after a decision was made by someone powerful.
the very same reason newspapers have columns and not full width text.

Newspapers also do not have 6-inch margins on either side.

Another irritation of mine is fixed-width sites. If I'm making my browser window wider, chances are I'm trying to widen the text, not expect it to stay in a narrow column in the middle with useless space on either side. If I wanted it narrow, I would've narrowed the window.
In all large companies I have worked (>10K employees), the level of bureaucracy is similar to the government and decision making is really slow. In my experience, "private is more efficient" is a myth and primarily driven by ideological reasons.
I just broke down crying: Canadian video game creators
Oh thank god. I thought for a moment there the chimp could figure it out but I couldn't.
I will never tire of reminding people of this: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pepsis-nonsensical-logo-redesig...
Why should they worry about it? CxO are rarely held accountable for their missteps by the board.

Maybe this time it didn't go out unnoticed because someone actually tried to use their website and got pissed off it didn't work
> A warehouse job is a warehouse job. No education needed, why wouldn't a computer system should not fire people on simple productivity numbers?

Because they're human beings.

How'd you like to be treated in such a dehumanizing way?
It’s much easier as a company to introduce a system to automatically fire people than it is to teach your managers how to fire people without taking their own comfort into account (e.g. not firing because it’s a pain).
So? We're not talking about selling administrative record keeping equipment to goose-stepping despots. We're talking about medical research that in the medium term seems likely to prevent people from dying. We're nowhere near growing self aware beings in a lab but people are acting like that's what we're doing. We're so very far from that that it makes no sense to hamper research. To put it in perspective, this is like restricting the sale of capacitors because someone built a small rail gun and you're worried they're gonna shoot down the ISS next week.
Kevin Deum has made a really solid argument for his lead hypothesis. He points to a solid bank of data, as well as peer reviewed sources. Further, I haven’t seen anyone point to studies refuting the hypothesis.

What I don’t understand is why Drum is the only one who seems to believe this theory? Is it just because I’m missing the research that has pretty much disproven it?
Being like Apple isn't the only way to make money in this world.
Cops can force your finger onto an iPhone to see if it unlocks, says judge
Pretty interesting article. The only bit I'd have something to say about it is:

> Indeed, it would mean that the designers would have to add a bad experience in for every three good ones in order to get the positivity ratio right!

Which appears to be incorrect as the positivity ratio was supposed to be a minimum as according to that same article. Presumably having more positive experiences doesn't make the situation somehow worse.

Nevertheless, maybe it's an interesting or even useful heuristic that you could get away with one bad moment for every three good moments you provide, even if it is about as scientific as an analysis of unicorns on a flat earth.
I wonder if that's how new born babies see the world, before they're able to recognize objects and their environment.
That would have nothing to do with Amazon choosing to automate a process. Society, i.e. government, has the power to decide what the floor is for human treatment. The people lucky to live in democracies can choose to vote for representatives that provide minimum amounts of paid leave, maximum amount of hours worked, etc.
If the form factor is good enough why wouldn't you want the ability to have a tablet sized screen whenever you need a bit more space to do stuff?

This seems like the first actual bit of interesting innovation in smartphones in about a decade..
It's under MIT: https://github.com/oleg-koval/counter-interview.dev/blob/mas...

But yes, this should me more explicitly mentioned if they are advertising it as "open-source".
You probably tried this, no idea if it ever works, but in case someone reads your comment and is in the same boat: https://support.google.com/accounts/contact/forum_ar_escalat...
Dreams is the most important game in a decade
Reform is only one of the four major reasons for incarceration. You've addressed that he's reformed, and I'll stipulate that he has for the purpose of this discussion. I don't think that alone is enough that we should give him a pass. Plenty of people reform before they are convicted of any crime. Most murderers would never reoffend and sincerely regret their actions. But nobody speaks of letting them skip jail solely on this basis.
Here is my summary of the mistakes Hertz made:
- hired the vendor based on a cool demo & vendor size
- did not have a Hertz employee as Product Owner
- tried to go big fast instead of taking an iterative approach
- did not implement proper tests & validation
- spent $10M without building internal skills

Disclaimer: I am totally bias here as I am consultant and our business model is to help our customers with their digital transformation while teaching them devops and cloud technology.

$10M for a project of this size and importance does not seem unreasonable to me. The big mistake is that they didn't seem to have a plan to take ownership of the project and learn the skills required to carry the project forward without Accenture.
Classification of the event in the headline: "Measles Outbreak"

Actual number of confirmed measles infections: 1
Not trying to defense the writing style, but is says 'opinion' right on top.
That was the case for myself as well. I used to find in therapeutic to pin cookie recipes and Halloween decorations during my work break (from a job I was not too fond of).
Gist, which is pretty far in the post:

> Starting with CrateDB 3.3, we will start packaging and distribute the “CrateDB Free Edition” that has all the enterprise features included. The new restriction we have introduced is a scaling limit on instances.

The free version is now limited to 3 nodes. Previous versions were feature-limited instead.
How do you compose JavaScript functions with multiple parameters?
Humans seem to be comforted when there's an explanation for something, even if it's just plain wrong, it seems we don't care that much.
It doesn't matter! I could be doing anything, ANYTHING, and it'd still count as working hours. If the company doesn't want you to waste time traveling, you shouldn't be traveling.
when i worked in a workplace i always assumed they didnt but thankfully my skills are good enough that it doesnt get me kicked out. i can gel with a few people but its pretty rare.

does it matter to me? nope but im autistic so its not really a strange situation for me, i generally assume people only speak to me if they need something, on the rare occasions where they dont i start wondering what sort of ulterior motive they have, which is probably why i dont really have friends save for a few people ive known decades
> how to spend a lot of effort to solve a problem you would never have if you didn't use rust

No, you don't have that problem even in Rust. Rust has C-like pointers, so if you're OK with them, you can just use them as if you were writing a C program.

The effort here was not forced by Rust, but was author's choice to get a guarantee the code is safe. And I'd say it's relatively low effort given it's reusable, and it'll stay safe even after code changes. In C you'd instead do meticulous analysis, debugging and add a comment "// careful, don't break this!"
Great article about how to use hex grids in games:
https://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/
I though he was being clever; "egregiously" means "in a manner consistent with being out of the herd". Bad or offensive for the goat-herd maybe, but perhaps not for the goat.
The first time I was the same. I looked at it a second time and the longer I looked it felt increasingly uncomfortable, almost to the point of panic.
Why CMS are not fully secured?
Form Decoding: The Next Era of the Form Validation
Now that is a proper argument and I will let other more informed people argue in this thread.
Funny you mention that. Once money is no longer an issue, I'd consider going to work for a university. Many of the same benefits (and drawbacks).

A few years ago, I seriously considered working for EdX as I believe in the mission, but all the EdX positions that were open were MIT employees (amazing benefits, fixed [and uncompetitive] salary structure) and we had two young kids at home so it wasn't the right time to consider that.
It still sounds awfully similar. If you're firing ~30% of hires after the first month, then you're clearly treating it as an extended interview. And the first month of any job (in software, at least) includes a lot of training/ramp-up, so you don't expect to get much labor out of that period. The main difference is just that an internship has a several-month unpaid leave starting 3 months after hire.

I suppose it diverges more if you consider internships prior to the final one due to the weird optionality on following intern seasons, but I think that's a minority of internships due to the hiring goal (once you start looking at 2+ year lead-times before a potential full-time start date it becomes much harder to justify).
Yes, because you all classified opposition speech as nazi speech. Because you lost the culture war. You are a literal fascist.
> CxO are rarely held accountable for their missteps by the board.

Why is that?
I'm reminded of this The Thick of It quote:

"The thing is, you’ve been listening to the wrong expert. You need to listen to the right expert. And you need to know what an expert is going to advise you before he advises you."

Which is about politics, but I think high level business decisions are often as political as anything else.
Keep in mind though that strokes (and ministrokes) come in many forms. They can affect most brain functions and sometimes you won't even be aware of them.
Exactly. One package that costs 5 cents more? 10? 100? Not a big deal.

50 millions packages that cost 5 cents more? Kind of big deal.
"Addressing a problem" is viewed the same way as fixing or attempting to fix a problem. I've not heard it used to imply making a problem worse.
Impact of a Night of Sleep Deprivation on Novice Developers’ Performance (2018)
I remember some science show where they said a cup of hot water technically has slightly more mass than a cup of cold water, due to the mass contribution from the (higher/hotter) energy. Are you saying this is not the case? Would a near-absolute-zero cup of water (ice) have the same mass as a cup of boiling water?
Measles isn’t as “deadly” because we vaccinate.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measles
But given the evidence, being like Apple is clearly the most effective way to make money in this world.
It's also 109x40 pixels (at least on my system). No exactly a huge fucking logo.
> ...then it should fall under the purview of OSHA in the US.

Will OSHA end up being an algorithm as well?

Sorry, but contrary to techno-libertarian fundamentalist beliefs, institutions and courts just can't keep up when things are so insanely lopsided in favor of the rich and powerful.

That said, nothing is going to stop amazon from instituting whatever crazy "expert system" they want to abuse warehouse workers until they're all robots.
So a tool to fix the tool that's supposed to make things better.
> I really hope this anti-vaxx thing is a passing fad.

Cartoon from 1930s: https://twitter.com/PhMai/status/1114922143387660290

From the 19th Century: https://twitter.com/lievesofgrass/status/1113386971076923393
Lots of this has been done in language, like the Rockwell Retro Encabulator (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w) and Plumbus (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMJk4y9NGvE)
Then it shouldn't mix first and third person in the same sentence. "ifixit (they) have removed our review". Makes no sense. It sounds like they are two different entities.
I don't understand why anyone would trust these VPN services. Its the perfect way to MITM people who has something to hide. The marketing is aggressive and the price is low, so you can't help wonder how they make their money in the end.
They sold phones that were exploding into flames just a few years ago. Aside from some memes it didn't hurt their brand.
Is Gross Margin closest to GDP? In GDP when I sell Paul a loaf of bread for £5 I'll probably make £4 gross margin but my revenue is £5. GDP measures the total cost of the output, not the output minus the costs (in fact for the GDP of the whole system it's output PLUS costs since the costs count as outputs of other people in the economy)

I think a better comparison would be revenue surely?
Photos of Shanghai that show up in western media never seem to show much traffic. Are they staged, or is there really very little traffic there? If so, how does a city of 25 million not have traffic?