skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to play MapleStory in my teenage years. I would wake from 7AM, grind-grind-grind all day with friends (socialise, communicate, learn) and then sleep at anywhere from 9PM to 1AM.

I did that for years and I never batted an eyelid. I enjoyed the levelling and the returns those gave, I enjoyed the mindless attacking sprites all-day and the optimisation that allowed me, I enjoyed sharing that load with friends (new and old, real and digital).

I'm not your OP but I can absolutely say I would love to relive a year of that life given genie-magic.
> solar panels (hard to compensate their energy production with the energy required to make them)

That hasn't been a major issue for a number of years. It only takes a few years on average to 'break even' on energy in vs energy out [1].

[1] https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es3038824
If you fill a ZFS volume too far you will start encountering a lot of difficulties just as you do with btrfs. This is an edge case that you really should see coming if you've worked with either on real machines.
It seems like hedging your bets by supporting a large number of competing SDKs is the new normal. Microsoft does exactly the same thing. Apple appears to be alone in committing to something specific.

The problem with this sort of hedging is that it only works for platform providers but not for developers.
Safety regulations, stricter emissions regulations, drive by wire tech, crash zones and everything else petrolheads don't like about cars make them better for commuters.

Even with all these features, the average increase in weight for cars of the same size has been a paltry 23kg. The weight increase of the "average car" comes from people buying SUVs, which people increasingly are.

For a track day car, a cheap modern sports car like a miata, or a 1980s/90s sports car has all the characteristics you want for the price of a modern commuter car. Its just that a commuter cares more about relaxation than road feel. :-)
> its recessed light fitting that do the damage to leds

Heat is really ungood for LED's and the drive circuits[1]. With a recessed fixture there is no place for the heat to escape.

[1] I've noticed excepting electrolytic caps electronics that doesn't get warm, basically lasts forever.
The way I have understood UBI, it would replace benefits and allowances but not programs such as universal health care or universal social care - I suppose it depends on how you define a welfare program.
I guess not all search is profitable, perhaps there gradually "optimising" on financially profitable search, so only crawling sites that relates to content for users that bring then in money, only returning SERP items that bring in money? Obviously they need their search to be broadly useful too, but many searches probably have no financial benefit for them??
I think they still could have served that pun with a better written article.
Waymo is closer to what? driving on some simple californian roads?
You really did her a disservice by recording the sound in a bathroom stall.
Look at the program:

fn find_replaced_sequence_length(sequence: String) -> usize {
// Replace the following patterns, one at a time:
let substs = vec![
("tHa[Nt]", "<4>"),
("aND|caN|Ha[DS]|WaS", "<3>"),
("a[NSt]|BY", "<2>"),
("<[^>]*>", "|"),
("\\|[^|][^|]*\\|", "-"),
];

// Perform the replacements in the sequence:
substs
.iter()
.fold(sequence, |s, (re, replacement)| {
regex(re)
.replace_all(&s, NoExpand(replacement)).into_owned()
}).len()
}

It measures performance of RE engine. I can switch from regex crate to PCRE2, and program performance will match C.
I would make the search input more obvious. My focus is dragged first to the "query, entries, per page" buttons because of the gray background.
My comment is for LED lighting the power supply and the LED's should be separate units.
> The question is whether even $20,000 is sufficient motivation for someone living that kind of lifestyle to return to work.

Suppose that it's not, at scale. Then the work still needs to be done, so wage rise until it is enough for enough people. That seems like more of a benefit than a problem.

> There's an old parable about a fisherman taking on debt to start a business to grow a fishing fleet so that he can eventually sell the business and retire to spend his days fishing.

That's kind of the point.

You want to go fishing but you don't have a boat. Boats are expensive and you don't have enough money. So you borrow money to buy five fishing boats so you can make enough back to own one of them outright. Then you do and you can go fishing.

If you give the fisherman the first boat to begin with, he doesn't go out and build a fleet, but he's still a fisherman. But there is nothing wrong with being a fisherman. This is the basic trade off in having social programs at all instead of pure ruthless capitalism.

Presumably the real problem is with the people who choose to do things that are totally useless/harmful rather than the people who choose to be fishermen. But is that really a novel problem? Is it "optimal" for people to go home after work and play video games instead of working more? What about developing video games? What about growing tobacco, or mining coal, or building bombs? There are a lot more counter-productive things than sitting in a room and effectively doing nothing.

> How many people do you "write off" from participating in the economy? If the number is too low, and UBI doesn't really provide enough people with enough money to live a basic lifestyle, have you really made a difference at all with UBI?

Your assumption seems to be that the purpose of a UBI is to provide people with a basic lifestyle with zero supplemental income. But it doesn't need to do that at all. There is no inherent requirement that it provide any given level of support. It would be a great improvement if all it did was provide exactly the same level of support as existing welfare, but provided it in cash instead of with strings attached, and had no phase out so that low and middle income working people received a little more at the expense of the rich.

It could provide enough to live a basic lifestyle for some percentage of people, but the number depends on how many people you actually need to work. If more jobs get replaced by robots, the number of people we need to provide all the necessities of life goes down, and why shouldn't we allow more people to only work if they want to? The amount can start off modest and increase to the extent that things actually go that way.
Coming from someone using an S7 Edge since its release, I don't think it would be an upgrade for me. I'm losing more than I'm gaining, I don't think I can go back to a non-waterproof/water-resistant phone which doesn't have wireless charging.

From an S6Edge+ perspective, if you're missing out the latest software updates and need an upgrade in the camera department, then go for it. Otherwise, there may be a better choices in the market or just go with a "premium" smartphone to future-proof for another 3-5 years.

Edit: spelling
Might have less to do with users and more to do with Oracle v Google
Well, because stating needs and not implementations disempowers managers and means they're left with no feeling of grip. It makes it hard to imagine what you'll actually get and whether it'll be useful, which is scary. Plus, what people need is often so vague that literally anyone could have come up with it and it's embarrassingly obvious. If a manager goes to his tech team and says, "I need to make our business more efficient. Think of something!" then this may be the best way to get results because often the programmers understand the business as well as or better than the managers and they understand the codebase, but who would respect a manager who said that? It'd be Dilbert cartoons all over.

This is one reason why tech firms win. Their senior management are made of [former] engineers who are much more aligned with the workers around what implementations make sense.
Add high criminality and overall police state. Definitely a place of much less true freedom compared to any western europe (unless you define freedom as hoarding tons of guns for when 'they' come). Directly contributing to mass murder of some poor guys defending their home country from foreign invasion for power and greed half around the globe with your taxes. Much more free time to have a life. And so on and on and on.

We as software devs can literally spin a globe, close eyes and point randomly and simply move there. Some places are harder than others, but its still a breeze compared to many other professions if you have some good experience. Why would anyone go to US these days baffles me. The real quality of life is much harder to get there.
How Google News Works
moving away from oracle is `not much gain`?
Oops, sorry for assuming!
The difference is who pays for the load.

And now that developers make the visitors pay for the load (through their electricity bill, and also through their mental state), they don't give a shit about how much the users will have to pay - and thus how much electricity will be unnecessarily wasted on a global scale.
Asia Noreen
Trump Tax Figures Show over $1B in Business Losses in a Decade
Oracle v Google
Cars are getting more expensive, and people are keeping them longer. The average transaction price in the USA is $36,000. Even a base model economy car with financing is $25k. A nicely configured economy car will be $30k with financing.

This is a lot of money for many households, and the sales prove that; fewer cars were sold last year than during the worst part of the last recession.

In GM's case, not only are they going though a national downturn in sales, but their management is keen to outsource engineering to far cheaper companies overseas.
You're getting downvoted - maybe you should move to SF.
Hell. I left the US and got a job as a remote developer for a company in Japan (and since have started my own business). I make less than I would in the States but I’m happier overall.
Google's been hacked, individually, to major geopolitical significance, and at scale.

John Podesta: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/how-john-podest...

Colin Powell, and others: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/15/colin-... https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/16/us/politics/email-hacking...

Tibetan activists, broadly: https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Tibet-activist-s-e-m...

NSA and other surveillance operations claim access to Google, and other online service providers: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants...

There's been no widescale mass comprehensive breach of Google yet, that we are aware of. But that may simply be a matter of luck and time.

Google have said Gmail users should not expect privacy:

People sending email to any of Google's 425 million Gmail users have no "reasonable expectation" that their communications are confidential, the internet giant has said in a court filing.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/14/google-gm...

And, though I cannot find a link presently, in the wake of the Snowden revelations, Google employees told the Guardian that integrity of Gmail and associated Google accounts (and they are all associated) could not be assured. Probably 2013-2014 timeframe.
StoreKing lures Amazon by connecting the dots of rural India
In the case of DRM, chrome is fulfilling a market desire that firefox had to follow suit with once the companies that adopted it realised their desire could be fulfilled. This is an issue with the companies implementing the DRM, not chrome saying "Yes we can meet that need that no one else is providing for". Also firefox still allows you to disable that feature, so you still have that choice not to allow DRM content.

All of this though is still based on the premise that leveraging their market influence is a bad thing, I just don't see it as an issue. If they use that influence to push a product or service that people don't like, people will not use the product and they'll have lost influence.

In the example of mail servers being "harder to maintain" because of over zealous gmail filters all I have to say is: Tough. People like not getting spam and having over zealous filters is a method of achieving that. If you want to be able to send mail to Google's mail service, you'll have to meet their rules.

I'd actually be very surprised if the filters are intentionally ruling out alternative mail because that would hurt the marketability of gmail.

In fact, that's the crux of it. That's why the legal definition doesnt match the reality of monopoly, because in order to be a monopoly you have to be providing the best on the market and if you're not, a competitor will and you stop being a monopoly.
The title is a bit misleading leading to disappointment. I was expecting something like a self driving car. You just give the desktop an objective and it figures out how to get there and then gets you there.
They already know I’m wanking from the traffic to the Pornhub CDN
Boost Your App Reviews, Ratings and Downloads
Researchers doing something using smartwatches =/= every smartwatch manufacturer already does this.
Reminds me of when nest 'bricked' revolv devices and migrated the users to nest.

I am sticking with a non-IOT thermostat.
» And one more scenario: before closing the elections, officials can make a list of people who didn't vote and vote for them. If they didn't vote they probably don't care about elections and won't find out that someone voted for them.

This could already happen today. This is why all major candidates, even in these united states, send their own observers and not simply trust election officials to do their job.
Thanks. I also thought that they were urban legends. I do still think it's rare enough to not worry too much about, but at the same time I think the common narrative among psychedelic proponents that "if anything, it makes you _more_ alert/aware/whatever" is unrealistic.

As a community, though, psychedelic users have a pragmatic mindset about preparation and are generally sensible.
Speculation as the comparison was between a small company and Uber is that because Uber wouldn't use that word? and yet Uber has a worse reputation
Google tests ads-only result pages
Dude.. this comment is infuriating. You have a valid point, but you stuff your points justification with blatant lies AND you know they are lies. You ask us to call you out but the many of us who are not deeply knowledgeable about games would not know which examples are incorrect and how many are incorrect.

From skimming over your references roughly 40 percent of your examples have micro transactions and about 40 percent do not have rich narratives. Yes, I pulled these numbers out of my ass and you can nitpick them all you want, but I work in the gaming industry and know what I am talking about /s
Background info: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-hmm-the-results-f...
There are plenty of high-profile Qt apps running on four wheels, and I bet with more users than all Flutter apps combined.
And you can't debate the other side either without being called a bigot.

Look at the hatred Jordan Peterson gets, who by pretty much all measures is as reasonable a human being as you might expect to meet on average.

There are many online articles these days saying things like "yet another white male point of view" horribly generalizing all white males as the same and that is some how acceptable. It's no different that than me saying all black men listen to hip hop and have big hair. (I'm struggling to generalise but I'm sure the point is clear)
This phone caught my attention because they added the headphone jack back in.

Unfortunately the screen is still huge, even in the non "XL" version. I'd rather not move to something bigger than my iPhone SE.
I'm sorry. I can rant on about this for hours and hours and I feel like I'm already dominating this discussion too much. I don't believe language barriers are such a big problem. Most tech people speak English.

What's ironic is that those language barriers are exactly solved thanks to translation innovations coming from the US. I'm now able to communicate much more easily with fellow Europeans.

I truly believe we have a problem in Europe where there's too much focus on welfare and government control at the cost of free market and innovation. Too much "system thinking" as opposed to creative engineering. This used to be different a couple of decades ago.
I develop apps for tvs, so size and performance matters a lot since they are a lot of tvs already shipped with low end SOCs. newer ones are more powerful, but people doesn't change tv as frequently as phones.
Thank you for sharing! Loving it already :)

One question: Are you feeding this application manually with RSS feeds from different websites or do you have a crawler in place?
I feel like you wanted to attack his point found nothing and then went after his choice of feminine pronoun.
What is a status page and why you need it
> Only if you deliberately unwrap the optional

"Deliberately unwrap the optional" is the exact same thing as "deliberately unwrap the pointer", you just deref' it and it's UB if the optional / pointer is empty.

C++'s std::optional is not a safety feature (it's no safer than using a unique_ptr or raw pointer), it's an optimisation device: if you put a value in an std::optional you don't have to heap allocate it.

> It super easy to just dereference any pointer you got back from some function call in C++, without paying attention.

And optionals work the exact same way. There's no difference, they don't warn you and they don't require using a specific API like `value_unchecked()`. You just deref' the optional to get the internal value, with the same effects as doing so on any other pointer.
Are TPUs drop-in replacement for CUDA if you were using TF?Can I simply change device from CUDA to TPU and run any TF code? Last I heard, TPUs still had long way to go towards making this happen...
I hardly can say how much I second you. This feels like a bad full screen interactive video simulation of a mobile phone screen in the browser.
Don't look any further. Calibre FTW.

Some features (there are thousands of them):

- You can make plugin for any magazine (python) including self-published

- You can scan books for ISBNs and get certain 1 on 1 match online without any effort or search foo. Without ISBN it will search by given criteria

- Batch operations for everything

- It first uses cover of the book (first page in PDF, epub etc), downloads covers if there aren't any, or generates them if nothing can be found

- You can add arbitrary metadata and give them types (bool, text, urls...)

- You can share via web server and access lib from browser and even add books from browser or simply copy them to special folder

- Its x-platform

- It supports zillion formats, and basically you can add zip or anything. Audiobooks could be handled better but ok.

- Its updated weekly for years

- You can have different libraries, groups, virtual libs etc.

- Awesome converter from-to number of formats

- You can both have online tags applied and your own tags. I have personal tags such as `reading`, `must read` etc. along with my own classification on books that isn't merged with online stuff and is kept separatelly.

- Awesome ebook reader

- Many more options

- There are plugins to put kindle encrypted books offline !

Simply, there isn't anything better out there. Anybody not using it simply doesn't know better.

The only thing it doesn't have is in text search, but hey... I am sure its comming one day or you can implement samo mumbo-jumbo on your own.

NOTE: Calibre is IMO not that good for research papers although YMMV. Zotero might be better choice for this.
"Lambda is a very specific kind of hammer that's extremely good at hammering a very specific kind of nail."

Wise and funny, at the same time.
Our idea here is to try to enhance the human element in online interactions, or at least to prevent it from destroying itself. If that isn't clear from the site guidelines, I'm not sure what would persuade you? All of them are meant sincerely.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I know unsolicited advise is often not appreciated (for good reason sometimes), but perhaps you need to work on a better work-life balance. If you need weed to get through the day and meet tight deadlines, perhaps you need a less stressful role. Personally, I've cut back on the hours I work for this reason. Sure, I earn a lot less, but I'm much less stressed, happier and am starting to get my life (physical, mental and social health) in order.

PS: I buy most of my electronics from mouser or if its a hobbyist pre-assembled item, sparkfun/adafruit. I am just a hobbyist, though.

In any case, good luck.
Capitalism is free market which allows you to switch providers freely and, if enough people agree with you, it will eventually create a market force that will make PayPal step back or lose it's business.

It may be greed and lack of sight from PayPal side, but capitalism tends to adjust itself.
Thanks, so it's kind of specific CPU stuff and "advanced" peripherals. I get what people are talking about now.
Java 9+ is not supported on Android, so if you want to link to a Java 9+ library for an Android application, your only path is to rewrite it in Kotlin, as it is clear from this announcement that Google won't bother to add the required machinery to ART to support Java 9+ class files and new libraries.

Naturally the other alternative would be to downgrade the code back to Java 8, but then the question remains for how long they will keep it around.
You're right about the logic of corporations when it comes to hiring decisions. He probably doesn't have much of a future in automotive.

His career has taken an ironic downtown, ironic enough to land him as the centerpiece in a NY Times article. That will certainly help his profile.
Once you're at the level of OCRing text from screen, it becomes a general-AI-complete problem. See e.g. how bad OCR still is for books, and there you can still make good assumptions about the shape and meaning of text (sentences, paragraphs, chapters). With arbitrary UIs, you have to recognize what each block of pixels means, and that's the GAI-complete problem at which even humans fail (that's why the UI/UX/HCI fields exist).
> A bit silly, there are plenty of Good Reasons to eat meat.

Yes, but no reason to eat meat every day / multiple time a day.

> I must be a vegan to be a true environmentalist.

No, just act according to your beliefs. If you willingly do something going against what you preach then you should look into yourself, you're either lying to us or lying to yourself.

You don't have to be an extremist, if everyone was acting on the low hanging fruits [0] it would already help immensely.

[0] Eat local food, don't waste food, reduce meat consumption, don't overuse AC/heating, don't be one of these guys who take the plane every weekend, don't buy useless low quality gadgets, &c.

Also: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius/Let...
You should read up on thermodynamic laws...
Do Americans recognise the term "wank"?
That's not my point.

These shenanigans are not existential to their business.

MS could quit that instantly and they'd be fine.

As privacy becomes a thing, they are well prepared.
I love articles that explain by providing examples with how to click via a menu. I use the keyboard extensively, but learn via menu items, mouse clicks, ... first, only then will I find shortcuts to do things I want to do.
Ok, but the title doesn't speculate; it makes the claim outright. People naturally feel rage at the image of someone being banned so arbitrarily and trivially. Generating rage with evidenceless claims is definitely clickbait.
thanks! There is an endpoint to add manually at moment.
I am fine with Google having their own ".NET", at least it isn't Google J++ anylonger.
Loved your website! Simple and to the point!
Top Startup Challenges and How to Deal with Them
About Baidu Search Update in Firefox
I think you'll find it's Western Capitalism that's the scam and that IoT is still a reasonable idea.