skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sounds like a variation of hell for specialist retail. You want the sale and that call from the customer making an enquiry is your chance to make sure you are going to be ready for them. You want to have them arrive to ask for you by name to continue the sale.

Small businesses, e.g. the hair salon, should have a student or someone on the desk who can take the calls so the working staff don't have to.

There are ways to be succinct on the phone and to wind things up without wasting customer time.

I don't believe Google have a clue about customer service and I don't believe any ultra clever AI robot solution can help. Nobody phones up their local supermarket to 'see if they are open' or if the 'stock tinned peas'. In specialist retail you want to take the call and convert it into a sale. I don't believe this product really helps with that.

I also am aware that 98.3% of customers have Googled a business before they step inside the store (in the realm of specialist retail or services). So you really want to markup your web homepage with the required JSON-LD for the opening hours, address details and other basics that would be a meaningless interruption. In that way people don't even have to call. If people are calling up about these things, e.g. holiday opening hours, it is not a phone solution that is needed, it is basic information on the website.

We have created these amazing ways for people to contact us, with it people create more remarkable ways of hiding. Not answering the phone, not answering emails is the norm, businesses should not be hiding this way out of courtesy.
> they don't do it out of choice, but because they have little or no alternative.

If they have no alternative, that means removing these jobs would leave them with literally no income at all. How can anyone think it's a good thing?

> This is the same as for regular taxi work

No, it's not, at least not in the US where taxi medallion (completely government-imposed cost) could cost over a million before Uber, and even now can cost hundreds of thousands. Uber medallion costs $0 - they give you the windshield decal for free, as I heard.

> In fact, Uber lowered requirements since you don't need a specific type of cars (like UK cabs) or paint jobs/registrations (in most countries)

And that's bad because it allows those with no other alternatives to earn income access these jobs without impossibly high upfront investment, which also allows to better serve customers, which is obviously bad because.... ? I can't finish this phrase.

> Of course; they want your five stars, they'll all try to look and sound happy and successful

And that's bad because... ?
Anyway, you can't be starving and dirt-poor and "look" an owner of an upscale Mercedes - you'd need the Mercedes at least. You can't just "look" like having one - you have to actually get one.
Brain mapping: New technique reveals how information is processed
Reproducible builds. This is pretty much exactly their purpose.
> Individuals charged with crimes are defended by attorneys without visibly participating in their criminal trials all the time.

Lack of visible participation is far from lack of participation. In the US due process requires the defendant's presence to commence a criminal trial. Once charges have been brought the defendant has a right (that can in some circumstances be waived) to attend and participate in every stage of the trail. Barring a few narrow circumstances[1] once proceedings have commenced a criminal trial in absentia is unconstitutional.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_in_absentia#United_State...
Facebook will never change... it will just become irrelevant one day.
+1 I've long advocated for a higher degree of professionalism and credentialing to establish a minimum bar of competence. Unfortunately, people who only work on yet-another-Rails-SaaS thing complain that excludes those that are not formally credentialed. Even then, try asking a customer of said SaaS product if they would trust something not built with a high degree of professionalism.
Interesting that Google isn't mentioned in the name of the product or anywhere in the ad. That seems like a break from tradition.
I mean, for example, you take 5 expert radiologists, and average their assessments when scoring an image, and your train a NN to predict those averaged scores, and with enough data the NN will beat any single selected doctor in accuracy.
> As a software developer, I'm googling for problems all the time.

Who would learn more? The one who searches for answer or the one who answers questions?
Two that come to mind are John Owen's The Mortification of Sin and Jonathan Edwards' Religious Affections.

They agree with the monks that the body is weak, and often desires what is bad for you. Likewise, the mind is weak, unfocused, and filled with pride, jealousy, etc. Both agree that a focused, pure (holy) life is the goal. Where they differ is what to do about it.

The monks advise rigor, abstinence, and communal separation. The idea is if you're good enough, God will accept you. The Puritans say "just try harder" is a counsel of despair because perfection is impossible, and rule-following is always incomplete (there are always more rules to follow). So, the Puritans say ask God for strength to live uprightly, knowing that forgiveness is given by Christ, not a reward for good deeds.
I see where Sochi and Beijing are listed as having made money. With the amounts spent on holding those events (dozens of billions) I’m skeptical of those claims.
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Intel/MobilEye is using TSMC 7nm for the EyeQ5 chip. There won't be any issues.

https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1333990

TSMC 7nm has already deployed the iPhone A12, the iPad A12x, and AMD's Radeon VII. Its mature and ready for mass production.

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The problem with Tesla's 14nm chip is that their capabilities are about to be leap-frogged by a commercial-off-the-shelf solution in just a year. Note that the EyeQ5 is sampling TODAY. MobilEye is aiming at cars being deployed with the thing for 2020.
The problem lately, though, is that the government has been really conservative at metting out an appropriate amount of fines. Human beings are regularly deprived of decades of their lives for silly stuff like possession - if a corporation is forced to pay more than a quarter's profits everyone gets up in arms.

So I agree that a collection of liquid assets is more reasonable, but it the volume is an issue.
“The SCP Foundation locates and contains objects that violate natural law”
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If you have made a pact with FIST (FB/Insta/Snap/Twitter) or the other members of the gang, then it is akin to jumping in a pool of sharks after cutting yourself open ─ not even the friendliest of sharks is going to resist the urge to rip you apart and feed itself!

These breaches and preaches are now a daily occurrence, having found a new level of tedium, especially since overtly parasitical behaviour has long been admitted and identified within certain ecosystems.
A gauge with a needle beats a number on a screen any day because you can just do a quick sweep and see where it is like you said. For critical warnings dedicated lights that are not illuminated any other time are still best. The glass cockpit has an advantage in the latter category since it can draw your attention to any particular numerical value or virtual gauge that is anomalous.
Name one unbiased news source. We are in the age of information wars.
One of my personal favorites:
https://pokemontcg.io/

Which I used to make this a couple years ago:
https://codepen.io/brundolf/full/KNjzaL
How the Census Changed America
How much BS is the airline takeoff safety talk?
> Do you not think there's a case to be made here for MUAs to implement e.g. ACME and make this seamless?

Something like ACME for email certificates would be helpful, but I don't think that's anywhere near the major blocker for practical email encryption.

In addition to the difficulty of acquiring certificates, email is quite likely to be read from different devices (including webmail!). This makes key management more challenging compared to server SSL keys, especially because you also have a much, much longer tail of email applications trying to read email. Key discovery is a difficult topic, depending on how much you trust MTAs and how much you're willing to give up on decentralized email. Widespread email encryption would also probably destroy anti-spam solutions.

Of course, the most difficult problem of all is that the threat model for email is rather different than for SSL. The automatic provisioning of DV certificates effectively relies on the difficulty of spoofing and intercepting a connection on the wider internet and is less effective against nation-state-level threats (if the US government wanted to get a certificate for any domain, it probably could). But email is already naturally secured against those common threats, as your connection to the email servers are protected by SSL. Instead, the goal of email certificates is to protect against others who (might) have access to your email account... which means that automatic provisioning of certificates doesn't cut it.
My understanding is that the Moon's atmosphere is so tiny, it's a lab quality vacuum. I got this from reading stuff from hard SF author Ben Bova. This might be a bit outdated, however.

https://books.google.com/books?id=M6Fkx1hxfw8C&pg=PA190&lpg=...
How come this looks like a completely separate product with no Google branding? Why is this not part of G Suite or GCP? People like single, simple pricing models, not an additional bill.
How much does having a personal website impact your career
I am seeing a lot of people/sites claiming personal websites are a must. but does it really impact your career? Should I spend time in making one? please shed your thoughts on this
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I have a refinement to suggest if someone is looking for a business.

How many contractors (lawn, roof, carpenter, whatever) have you ever dealt with that are wizards at what they do but don't have the cycles to return a phone call or keep you updated on your appointment to save their life? If you're lucky, their spouse/nephew/etc is a part time coordinator? Maybe they call you back at the end of the week when they do all their calls? Ick.

These guys need someone to keep track of their schedules and appointments and keep customers well communicated. THAT'S IT.

I've abandoned so many engagements because of not doing this one thing.
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You mentioned Amsterdam as a location, but I didn't find anything in the "Disney Streaming Services" listings.

Am I missing something?
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https://www.yelp.com/biz/ganesh-temple-canteen-flushing

Last year I was in Flushing, Queens NYC and visited this basement canteen. It had the desired features mentioned in the article. I'm not South-Asian, but I didn't feel at all unwelcome. It was raining that day, and I sat and drank tea for a little while to wait for the rain to shop. Cheap, decent food. Plenty of seating.
We all rely on the clues like is the distributor well known, is the software very interesting to attackers, etc. Piping curl of random url to shell and running configure and make of tarball from random url is dangerous, because you do not know what gets executed. I don't see a difference, it's the same problem. If you have to run those programs, the safest way is to do so on a dedicated "untrusted" computer that has as little access to your data as possible. On your main work machine, rely on vetted software from well known reliable sources, for example your OS distributor.
I cannot agree more with the assessment that agile works well with front end and poorly with backend.

Agile with the backend/infrastructure actively encourages taking on technical debt just to get something, anything up and running as quickly as possible. Which is great for PMs' careers but terrible for the developers who have to maintain those systems, and ultimately the organization as a whole. Maybe it's even great for job security or to get an IPO/acquisition as quickly as possible, but it really does result in much more work in the long term.

The issue is that the people who push for these terribly designed backends that suck up unnecessary human-years worth of work to maintain, patch, and fix are never held accountable. And if you're stucking as a developer working on these systems, you're screwed (and it can even be bad for your career since you're not shipping anything new). I can't tell you how much of a relief it is to just walk away from that kind of mess... which really, makes the situation even worse, since everytime that happens organizational knowledge gets lost and some poor soul gets to start working on something terrible with much less context
The case I like to bring up was the Volkswagen emission scandal. The executives where pointing fingers at "well shucks, these engineer's must have done it and not told anyone". Having a strong sense of ethics would be to stand up and say "I can't do that lest I risk my license so fire me".
Curious what institutions you're referring to, could you list some examples?
I think there are two sides to risk. Risk tolerance for a given mission is one. Mission tolerance for a given risk is the other.

What I mean there is I doubt that SpaceX will be a less safe option than NASA, Roscosmos by proxy, for getting crew to the ISS. But SpaceX's big picture plan is to get people, regular people, to Mars. And that is something I think would never happen with NASA would never even consider taking on because the risks involved will be extremely high. NASA tried sending a civilian to space exactly one time - Christa McAuliffe. She was to be the first of many. The mission was the tenth, and final, flight of The Challenger. She died. NASA said it would be a few years before they followed up on their plans to send a journalist and other civilians into space. That was 30 years ago.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_ac...
Billionaires don't need your help, why choose to lend your efforts to it.
Thanks for the link. I had no idea this could be considered "basic". You're right, I didn't hear about this while developing some C++ programs.

Out of curiosity, what's something you consider difficult or at the edge of your abilities while programming C++ in Linux? (Maybe something related to code generation?) You're clearly a very advanced user.
Multiple cursors has been supported for quite some time now in VSCode, as well as related useful default editor shortcuts like jump cursor by word, beginning/end of line, etc, that are especially useful when moving around multiple cursors/selections simultaneously.
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There Is No Enlightened Argument in Favor of the Sat
thanks, I didn't know. It didn't seem basic to me, but an advanced technique.
Some colleges will allow non-students to buy individual meals, or even meal plans, at their dining halls which are usually as you describe.

Mall food courts also have a similar experience.
Probably not, but there's also probably not any non-billionaire investors out there whose gains are squeaky-clean.
Wouldn't the US government taking over Tether give them a toehold to monitor or control Cryptocurrency? They couldn't control all of crypto, but they could possibly control the favored way of getting the value out.
I found something similar to this a few years back[1], where the daemon would download and run anything if just “dell” was in the referring host. It seems they have improved the security somewhat by using white lists, but their coding practices seem a bit shoddy. Why have an SDK token at all if it’s public and globally shared?

I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of the code was shared between the previous incarnation that I found an issue with and this pre-installed version.

1. https://tomforb.es/dell-system-detect-rce-vulnerability/
Plenty. There are, for example, three Waltons with personal valuations above 40 billion dollars.

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