skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I attended a UX seminar once. We split into groups and were assigned a scenario: improve the check-in experience at a fictional hotel (acted out by the organizers). Literally every other group began their presentation with, "We built an app that..." Most involved checking in by phone.

Meanwhile, our group noticed a number of basic inefficiencies and suboptimal interactions, and proposed about 5-10 improvements to policies and staff procedures.

We all watched the same skit. I thought the solutions were so obvious as to be on the nose, but evidently not.
Okay, so share my email with another company (fastmail + tripit now), and use a separate calendar (unless it integrates with google calendar?)

I trust gmail's security more than tripit, thanks. I think I'd be more worried about the world learning of my trip history if I used tripit than if I used gmail for that.

And also, the average user does not care. They don't want to think about it even to the point of researching a service, they get used to their phone telling them they have a flight the next day, and they want that to keep happening. They don't think about how it works and if they did, "oh no my privacy" is not something they'd think afterward.
Removing your identity is incredibly helpful. The last time I did this from scratch, we didn't have our company name on the door. We were doing a consumer-focused product, so we told all our early test users that we were doing market research. Eventually a significant percentage of test subjects figured out that one of the products discussed was ours, because most of the later questions focused on it. But that was after we got their honest, early reactions.

Basically, if you want to find out whether you're baby's ugly, you have to make sure people think the photos are of a baby, not your baby.
Walmart says its US store managers make an average of $175,000 a year
Perhaps it is another issue, but the fact that I've had it across multiple devices, I'd be surprised if it isn't Spotify's shoddy "algorithm" (if you even wanna call it that). I posted this a while ago on reddit on /r/Spotify[0] that shows two examples of the same song being chosen close to each other (one of which actually was listed one after the other). This is either terrible algorithm or an algorithm that benefits Spotify, not the consumer. The issues have been raised on Spotify's official platform, but they've just ignored it. There are literally thousands of replies[1].

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/spotify/comments/966nx7/uhh_dear_sp...
[1] https://community.spotify.com/t5/Implemented-Ideas/Implement...
Wal-Mart and Amazon are not really in the same industry.

Wal-Mart is an old retailer with a lot of physical stores and a well-established business model.

Amazon is a young software company with the world’s biggest Internet store, the world’s biggest computer apparatus, and a bunch of other things I probably don’t even know about.

But it’s the software thing that’s the important bit. Software is intelligence, intelligence is efficiency, and Amazon is software first. In any “old” industry it wants to enter, it becomes, by default, the smartest competitor therein. It will start out with better logistics than the incumbent industry experts with decades of experience.

It’s like Amazon has a 20-point IQ advantage in anything it wants to do. Or more.

A scary competitor. Scarier than anything from the Robber Baron era.
There were suggestions from Gmail that they had stopped attempting to parse the contents of emails a while ago.

Misleading suggestions, as they had stopped parsing them to attempt to generate adverts from the data they could gather there, but continued parsing for other purposes.
Google Chrome launched with a comic by Scott McCloud in 2008. It looks like Scott McCloud helped on this Federated Learning comic as well.

https://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/big_00.html
"could one day", beware these three word in a title.
I will try that. However, I don't think this is the case as this happens on WiFi as well. Additionally, on 4G with 5 bars it still happens. Everything else works fine and is instantaneous.
Please don't take threads in gratuitously resentful directions. It influences what comments show up later, in bad (i.e. uninteresting) ways. Much better would be to say something substantive that you like about the essay or the genre.
https://unbound.com/
Simple: if you use the Google assistant, you get notifications about packages and flights. Flights get added to your calendar automatically, and other such niceties (for example, I get notified when I have a credit card payment due). A lot of people find this useful.

An ecosystem with useful features leads to profitability without any sort of malice, like people buying Android (or pixel) phones, or google homes, or whatever.
The ones in the article look like they're basically photocells which get activated by lasers to move the 'legs'.

At that scale, you probably couldn't have much battery power either. Maybe it'd be possible to power a small microcontroller off of radio signals which also send instructions. They wouldn't need to be very "smart" as long as something else in the room was, like a phone or router or something.
Grandparent is talking about a legal process, not letters from random folks.
I've found universities to have far more robust mental health services than the general population has.
Renting my phone out to process data gives me a bad feeling. The airplane mode guy is now just straight up turning off the phone and battery.
I've played the Metal Gear Solid games enough to know the crazy possibilities of nano machines.
You're describing IPFS pinning.

https://docs.ipfs.io/guides/concepts/pinning/
I think it's more like 4.5%, something like 530 billion on the GDP of 12 trillion. And no, they can't stop exporting to the US. The entirety of their economy depends on continued growth, and if, unwisely, they chose to stop exports to the US, China would be deeply fucked for the next decade or more.

>> Few years ago, the biggest US export to China was plastic and paper (garbage)

From https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/china-mongolia-taiwan/peo...:

"The top import categories (2-digit HS) in 2018 were: electrical machinery ($152 billion), machinery ($117 billion), furniture and bedding ($35 billion), toys and sports equipment ($27 billion), and plastics ($19 billion)"
Will you stop posting your fake wisdom derived from your entrepreneurship """experience""" if Google decided to blacklist your website from appearing on its search results? Your entire """great company""" is dependent on the generosity of Google with exploiting famous search keywords like "meme maker", "meme generator". What will you do if Google put your """great company""" domain on just the second page results?
Not to mention it's a nightmare to scale...
Short, and to the point!

I salute you.
Amazon is just one facet of a larger phenomenon of social and economic centralization and the ever-intensifying tournament by which the resources are distributed as a natural and necessary consequence.
Hats off to the women who agreed to give birth inside a MRI for this study. Wow!
You mean, if someone drives too close, you prefer your whole bike to be pushed over? Because that metal pipe would have to be mounted in a secure way / not fall off accidentally.
When I looked at the animated picture I wondered about the flashing dots on the circuit till I realized that these are probably reflections of the laser beams directed onto the microbot.
I agree, the counter is certainly odd. That bit of code is Mojang's, I'm not sure what it's measuring.

That said, I take no responsibility for it being laggy - the version of my engine they're using is from 2017 and I've done some performance stuff since then :D
Re barcodes, in Germany, in the beginning, the cashiers were trained enough that they could actually enter the UPC from memory faster than scanning the item. Later, they added the barcodes on all sides which increased the speed even more.

The quarter in the cart thing is very common in Germany even at high end supermarkets. The higher overhead compared to the US makes it very hard to higher people for this kind of job -- the minimal gain in customer acquisition doesn't pay for it.
Costco has similar rules now re deliveries; They are tightly controlled by HO.
Recursive Powerpoint Presentations [video]
That was not at all clear from their public messaging. the Machine may very well be a concept but it was messages like a revolutionary product
https://www.amazon.com/Law-101-Everything-About-American/dp/...
How do they assure you that the training algorithm isn't just exfiltrating your data?

Edit: By that I mean... What's stopping the model from being as simple as "learn my personal information"?
The moment you lose your job and your COBRA period runs out, you're at severe risk of financial catastrophe — the stress from which can lead to further health problems!

It’s even worse. If you lose your job and the company you were insured through goes out of business, you no longer have a plan to buy into.

That almost happen to me in 2012. The company I was working for was on the rocks, it got acquired, and they laid everyone off. That by itself was no big deal. I had a contract lined up with one of our former customers the following week.

I went to get private insurance and found out that I couldn’t get any because of what I thought was a minor “condition” - even though I was a part time fitness instructor, had just run two half marathons, and could pass any of the military fitness tests for my age.

No problem, I thought. I still could get COBRA. Then the acquiring company cancelled the insurance plan - no more COBRA.

I was engaged, and my now wife suggested we moved the wedding date up so I could get on her insurance.

We said never again. She got a job with the school system and we are guaranteed access to insurance for the rest of her life after she has been working there for ten years.
I don't see why an area manager for Aldi stores shouldn't be getting paid a lot of money. It's not exactly an unskilled job, it just doesn't require extensive qualifications. You're managing large numbers of employees over several different stores.

Some days I feel bad about how much money I make as a software engineer. It's an easy job. All I do is sit at a computer and write some code for a few hours a day. I don't have to manage employees or stock or anything like that, I just listen to music and hammer away at a keyboard.
Ok. I misread. So people are basically mistyping their own E-mail?
Agreed! I think products where the purchaser and the user are different are an enormous graveyard for startups. There's a big difference between building a product and building a business no matter the sector. But when the purchaser and user are different, it can be way worse. Good designers and engineers want to focus on improving the user experience, but that may not translate into sales at all.
I believe they also source their own branded items from multiple vendors to avoid lock in. If one fails to deliver, they have another source. Keeps everyone one their toes at all times.
They seem be taking them out of a lot of stores, the shrink is more expensive than just paying somebody the $12/hr.
Don’t all of the recent MacBook Pros and Airs have low relatability scores?

That may factor in to some people’s decisions.
Additionally, it’s pretty nonsensical to claim that prosecutors will use public show trials to smear opponents, but allowing them to publicly smear opponents would make the proceeding more fair?
How many people both have a pre-existing condition and can afford insurance on the private market? If you are part of a group insurance plan through a company, they have always been required to accept people with pre-existing conditions at the same price.
Maybe your phone's location history at an allergist's office was a hint that you have allergies? I've heard stories about Facebook suggesting friends of friends as "people you may know" after they crossed paths at some location.
A cluster brain/Hive mind would be one option and splitting the brain across several robots.

However - No need to have the computing/brain in the robot at all. Equally a group of these robots sharing sensor data would make some central processing design even more suitable and allows the robots to not be limited by just their own sensors. So many upsides with that aspect.

Onboard you would need very limited processing and wireless comms and that would be it, all the intelligence can then be offloaded and would also make such robots cheaper and less energy dependant. More so as with lower power usage, wireless powered becomes much easier, as well as offer a wireless communication channel using ambient backscatter.
They purchased Heroku.
SpaceX Sues the Federal Government
It's 10 to 13 kids, depending on how you count. (adult dependent, unborn, miscarriage)

It's just my wife and I, her staying home, without staff or personal time. We homeschool them until they can get a 3 or better for AP Chemistry or AP Biology. My kids get funny looks going in for those tests at age 10 to 12. After that, as early as 6th grade, they can start dual-enrollment at the local college. It's free until high school graduation, which is sometimes enough time to get an AA degree. We don't do organized sports, but they all have unicycles. There are some organized activities to attend: scouting (BSA and AHG), a homeschooling group that does history/gym/art/writing together, a free band day camp in summer, and a big road trip every few years.

I only have 4 bedrooms. I ended up putting the kids all in a much bigger room, leaving the bedrooms for other purposes. More interesting is the "car", with 5 rows of seats. It is 3 tons empty, 5 tons full. We go through 2 gallons of milk per day. I can spend $1000 on 3 or 4 carts of groceries. We can finish a pair of chickens or a mid-size turkey in one sitting.

I haven't had much luck turning kids into programmers. At one point I got several to enjoy Scratch, but then I found that the computers were severely abused to waste time on junk like the "Tanki Online" video game and the "Annoying Orange" videos. I had to take away the computers. Recently kid #2, age 17, decided to choose the career. I've mostly taught him C now. He does that on Ubuntu and for his TI-84 Plus CE. I think this has created a programming aversion in some other kids, because they saw how excited I got to be finally teaching C and didn't want to spend all their time with me. For the oldest 5 the career choices are unknown (hurry up...), programmer, lawyer (physics undergrad), unknown, and midwife. BTW, programming the TI-84 Plus CE in C is pretty wild. You get a 24-bit int.

It helps to be close to work. I'm less than a mile away, 3 minutes by car or maybe 16 if walking. It helps to work only 40 hours per week, with an extremely flexible schedule.

Right now the main source of stress is kids wandering away from homework and chores. I don't want to have to stand over them in one room, waiting and watching as they work. I want to go do other things.
I work in the enterprise payments space that functions on ftp transfers of xml, edi and text files and it's not necessarily a bad thing, just as long as it works. Much easier to troubleshoot why you got bad data if you have a ftp to look at with a daily xml file that gets posted.
Is it truly native? I was digging around and found some references to https://www.wxwidgets.org. I thought the GUI looked a little off to be truly native...
They’re like Uber for Freight?

They even have a website that’s a tongue-in-cheek reference to this: https://www.uberfreight.com/
In my experience they’re faster, pack the bags with less wasted space (but not heavily, just good at fitting things appropriately), and importantly they’re not distracted by dealing with the cashier for payment or coupons or whatever other questions may arise.
Crates You Should Know: bindgen and cbindgen—generation of Rust/C FFI types
I am extremely scared it might be. It is certainly under threat. Much depends on Kavanaugh and "settled law"

Reproductive rights vested with women should be clearer. This situation concerned me the moment trump was elected. (Not an Amercian, not a woman)

In case it's not clear I believe this is a women's right to choose.
Only of they used or had used in the past Pardot...
>How many died of radioactive krypton gas poisoning after 3MI? (No, not zero.)

Can you actually prove anyone died as a result? The American Nuclear Society concluded:

>"The average radiation dose to people living within 10 miles of the plant was eight millirem, and no more than 100 millirem to any single individual. Eight millirem is about equal to a chest X-ray, and 100 millirem is about a third of the average background level of radiation received by U.S. residents in a year."

>"Several health studies found there were no long-term adverse effects on the health of the population living around TMI."

http://www.ans.org/pi/resources/sptopics/tmi/whathappened.ph...

More studies:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2389745

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1405170/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2029040

I welcome any evidence to the contrary.

>The author clearly has access to far better information than defenders posting here.

If that's the case, why doesn't he share them? Just sounds like an appeal to authority. Regardless nuclear is safer by a massive margin, and again I'd be very surprised if that still wasn't the case even factoring all of that in. Even if you did have evidence of thousands of people dying, it'd still be safer than all other forms of generating power, not to mention much cleaner.

>with no requirements or plans for improvement,

The only reasons we're not improving plants and building new ones is government regulations preventing it.
Insurer: Iran's Guards likely to have organised underwater drone tanker attack
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/01/opinion/out-of-the-asylum...
My wife has more exposure to abortion related discussions because the Spina Bifida Facebook moms groups (there’s some dads but it’s almost all moms to be honest), constantly have women joining asking if they should abort. The mother’s feel strongly pressured by doctors to abort, but it’s a weird thing because you don’t know how bad the case is going to be. We’ve seen a dozen Spina Bifida babies come and go from the NICU, all of them with less complications than our little girl, and often home within a week. No tracheotomy, just a brain shunt and the back closing surgery.

It’s a tough question. There seems to be an implicit assumption in a lot of abortion arguments that a reduction of suffering should be a goal in life, but maybe some suffering and struggle isn’t so bad. I’m also fairly libertarian in that I support abortion rights even though I don’t think we’d personally abort. I heard someone say recently that with abortion, maybe ideally we don’t want to live in a world where people don’t feel that’s their only option. A lot of these children, despite the issues, sure they might have to catheter themselves a few times a day and give themselves enemas and sleep with a CPAP, but is that better than not existing? I think so, but I don’t think it’s my place to tell other people what to believe.

Life is certainly going to be a little harder for us, but even if she died tomorrow I don’t think I’d go back back and do anything differently, aside from maybe strongly encourage my wife to take a methylfolate supplement, which might have prevented the condition. My daughter certainly seems very happy to be here, and even though it hurts us, I think that it’ll be okay and maybe that can be okay. We’ve adopted a sort of Stoicism about it that gives my wife and I strength. I’m a person who also insisted on getting a colonoscopy with no sedation, so maybe I’m just a really weird guy.

I’ve been chewing on your question all day and that’s what I’ve come up with, it’s an interesting question and I think there could be a lot more nuance around the discussions maybe not of what the laws are surrounding abortion, but our ethical framework and thoughtful reasoning for getting an abortion. I certainly still don’t think it should be illegal. If you make it illegal you end up with crazy things like in Columbia (I think), a woman with three children was arrested after coming to the hospital having a miscarriage, and was accused of aborting her child. Awful stuff.
HP was big on hype. HPE spun off in 2017 and is big on contracts.
Well the cynical view would be.

1) This still lets you have personalized models, just trained on more than 1 user, thats fine at google's scale anyway

2) Their competitors (FB, AMZN) dont have the edge compute (Android) to do this, and to a lesser degree don't have the ML stack (however Android implements this at the API level will be very Tensorflow focused)

3) Now google can push for privacy regulations that prevent FB and AMZN from storing your raw data

4) Profit

That said theres nothing stopping FB doing federated learning within their app on mobile, I just don't think they have the privacy background to bother.
Nothing, of course. But they are probably going to use an open source implementation with probably some kind of deterministic build/compile systems, so they can show you what the training algorithm is (that it does not contain a hidden user id or such to magically "overfit" for that user), and similarly the training questions should also be knowable and provably non-user-specific.
No, they don't. When they come in contact with another, already synthesized, protein of identical composition, they alter it to match their own shape. That is a far cry from replication or reproduction. The other protein has an equal role, in its readiness to conform.

Other molecules alter the shape of proteins not like themselves, in otherwise similar ways. We don't call them alive, either. Prions are interesting in that their action produces more identical action, in an exponentially growing fashion, unlike other, otherwise similar, processes.

If you like, you could say the prion's shape, itself, reproduces, given a substrate of conformable prionic proteins. That makes it more like a meme.
What's true for high-tech manufacturing might not be true for farm labor, meat packing, hospitality and food service, construction, or the other kinds of jobs that many immigrants are doing. The pool of unskilled jobs with decent wages is shrinking and will continue to do so. Artificial labor-force limitation is a temporary palliative at best, and energy spent kicking others off the bottom rung of the ladder would be better spent climbing. Climbing, not kicking, is what capitalism is supposed to be about anyway.
Why is it such a simple dichotomy? Most people have to make large efforts to maintain a legal shelter and it's as easy as a medical emergency to slip from the tenuous position of not being homeless.
Dgsh – Directed Graph Shell
Yeah, I've dealt with SFTP + CSV workflows and it's not so bad. I ended up writing a virtual SFTP server which was not backed by a filesystem, and which would prevent malformed data from being written, and make closed/authoritative files immutable.

It's obviously not ideal, compared to a well-thought-out purpose-built API and a complete set of tools, but that takes work, and isn't always better faster than the refined hack.