skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If only someone taught your friend about the concept of IQ and worst, the different distribution of said IQ among different groups in the population. But we can't say that loud so each one of us will have to go and teach "disadvantaged" kids to figure it out. To save you the wondering, yes, there are genetic differences which affect the max potential and social/environmental differences which affect how much of this potential someone will fulfil.
I bet this 'strategic alliance' doesn't go beyond microsoft selling a bunch of servers for cheap to sony.

Big companies rarely collaborate well on wide-ranging things unless the companies share board members/heritage.

This deal was clearly spearheaded by the Azure sales team, and vague promises of collaborating on future services were probably thrown in to sweeten the deal, but I doubt will go anywhere.
i do believe rubber-hose decryption works wonders in china.
I've posted plenty of comments chiding HN users for posting antagonistically against China and Chinese people and accounts expressing Chinese perspectives. They're easy to find if you want to. So from my point of view, your indignation here is quite misplaced.

I don't want to ban you, but if you keep blatantly breaking the site guidelines, what choice will we have? I'd much prefer it if you would take the spirit of this site to heart, and use it as intended from now on.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How hard did you look for that evidence?
nope. Packages delivered without a signature can still be lost and the insurance paid out. How else would they prevent their drivers from stealing packages?
If you really believe that China doesn't have a deal with Apple that nerfs this in China, I have a bridge to sell you.

China, a country which mandates spyware be installed on phones. Which uses deep packet inspection to block access to foreign websites, that bans VPNs in app stores. China, a country which forces the population of Xinjiang to install Jingwang (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingwang_Weishi), a spyware app so they can grab your on-device files. Which has deployed facial recognition cameras in many cities. Which blocked access to Wikipedi because it switched to HTTPS.

That China, you think, is going to allow all of that to be circumvented just by buying an iPhone? Right. Chinese Government: "You're not allowed to use VPNs. But if you're in Xinjiang, and you need privacy, we recommend buying an iPhone, since it doesn't work with Jingwang, nor deep packet inspection. Just tell the police you have an iPhone, and we'll wave the usual regulations we impose on Android devices."

Last time I was in Xinjiang, people there had iPhones. No one believes iMessage would be snoop proof.
This one? https://www.xkcd.com/844/
600/1400 gates is so small. If that gave even a .01% boost it would be worth the energy. It's basically zero in the total power budget, even at a high clock.
My guess would be a mindset learned early + the impact of being poor (food, clothing, shelter).
"3BR house in a good school district for $200-230k, which is affordable for a family making $60k"

Maybe if you have no children, live in a low-tax area, have an awesome deal on homeowner's insurance and a fantastic health insurance plan, and neither you nor your spouse ever get laid-off or injured.

Otherwise, that's cutting it pretty close.
The place where you'd want to look is the Debian Package Tracker entry for the source package, openjdk-8.

Here's the URL: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/openjdk-8

That has the current status of the package, and links to the bug tracker, which is where I'd expect things to appear!
It doesn’t matter. I’ve been a paying customer of Google (Apps / Mail / Gsuite) for my company. Good luck finding helpful support if you run into any situation slightly outside of the norm. I’ve had my entire company email domain down and was told by Google support to “wait.”

As the other commenter noted, Google does not have a customer-first or even customer-top-10 priority and it shows, again and again.
> However, I've seen the types of transformations the Svelte compiler does and they tend to hide complexity, making it harder to trace and debug code at runtime.

Are you saying the original source code hides complexity that is present in the generated code? If so, I guess that's the whole point, but then a runtime framework also hides lots of complexity that your code doesn't have to manage (which, again, is the entire point of using a framework).

> It's much harder to debug code that doesn't resemble what you wrote in the first place.

With a runtime framework, there's lots of code running that isn't your code, which can also make debugging difficult. With Svelte, at least the generated code is fairly straightforward and easy to step through. In many case, I think it's actually easier, not harder to debug.
Even if you overstay a visa, it's 700 pesos to get a new one inside Mexico (in Guadalajara at least).

I'm the only person I know who leaves the country every six months, and it's mainly because I like to visit my parents at least twice a year and it only costs a $100 ticket for me to see them.

Everyone else discards the visa and pays the 700 pesos (35 USD) when they finally fly out of Mexico.
I recommend to everyone to get outside your tribe and comfort zones and spend real time with people who are genuinely different than you.

For me, the biggest such time was being a conscript in my small European country. Not a great time, but holy shit, did it open my eyes to the existence of people I would never have thought were real!

Emigrating to California was comparatively a mild culture shock. Turns out I had more in common with muslim Pakistani software engineers than farm boys from half an hour outside my home town.
+ midi!
She was 79 and she actually wanted milk/cream with it so she could drink it. But, yes, it was her fault.

However it was also McDonald's fault.

That was the reason for sueing, and the jury agreed.

> but making the world completely safe for people who use these things carelessly would mean depriving everyone of their proper use

Why would you argue that it is a binary choice between personal responsibility, or complete abrogation of responsibility?
I wouldn't be surprised if abstract thought/problem solving and critical thinking need to be taught quite young to stick. Sort of similar to how much easier it is for young children to learn new languages compared to adults.
Your post was probably downvoted for being a generic programming language flamewar comment, which is something we don't want here.

Would you mind reviewing the site guidelines, which ask you not to go on about downvotes like this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> They'd probably lose a ton of money if they allowed you to filter those out.

Oh, I agree - which is why I don’t buy the idea that the App Store editors try to highlight “premium” games. Making them easily discoverable would be trivial - but cuts against their profit motive.
I agree they are a world leading manufacturer (#2 behind Samsung), and I agree that some of their devices are premium. I'm just saying they are not a leading premium manufacturer. Those are 2 different things. Apple and Samsung are by far ahead in volume sold for premium devices globally.
Well they already have their own processors so I imagine that won't be a huge loss.
OK, changed to that from https://www.tulsaworld.com/durand-bar-owner-uncovers--year-o....
This is the strangest thing I've read today.

At so many levels.

Really really weird.

I wonder if the author's LinkedIn now says "Acting CEO" at company blah, thereby qualifying them for some full CEO role somewhere as a next career step.
For all the issues with Google Fi (and I've had blissfully few, but I believe these stories and hear sadly too many of them), I have had zero issues going internationally with it. It just works, and it works better than T-Mobile's equivalent functionality (even though I was told at one point that they're "just" piggybacking on it). I've gone to Japan and all over Europe, and never had a single issue.
https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS44188018
I kayak and fish in the bays of NYC. A fact not known by much of the population of the city is that almost every time it rains, the sewage treatment plants release raw sewage into the ocean. This is due to the storm drains being drained by the same system that sewage is treated from. Due to this the water is filled with trash, floating condoms, and wet wipes. So this isn't just third world countries. It is bad enough that bacteria and nitrogen wastes get into the water when this happens. They should at least capture the trash and disgusting sewage products.
Not genetics usually but rather simply screwed up educational system system that discourages thought
GPT-2 Simulated r/Slatestarcodex “culture war” thread
At this point, I straight-up refuse to ever entertain giving Google a cent of actual money. It's very obvious from the multitude of stories like this that no one can rely on them to provide a reasonable customer service experience unless you're a big business with a large spend.

At least with data-funded services, I can choose to stop any time. I'm never on the hook via some form of contract.
It’s very likely that the rep you were communicating with was some flunky from Ingram Micro, who handle fulfillment for Fi. Not that it makes you any happier but this is just something Google can’t do in-house.
Again, Arabist by trade. I have read Edward Said. My take: Orientalism has been internalized by insider and outsider alike, as it kept the wheels greased and trains running on time. Turning that back will take a long time, whether western powers try to fix it out I'd guilt or locals do of their own accord wholesale.

Egypt has many ills. As a young man I tried blogging in Arabic and said to any listening audience: focus on improving education and economics to fight Israel since because the Saudi Qatar spat, on paper, that was the existential threat and money talks, and if you're serious that's how you'll win a war with the west on your side, o Egypt, not with silly peace settlements and weapons stockpiles. Official rhetoric talked of outside threats, not inside ills (build a wall anyone? My time there informed a lot of my extreme cynicism about US domestic politics). Random people would come out of the wood work and label me a Zionist agent and because I said put Egyptians first.

I was amused and realized I should give my opinions to myself. I stopped soon after.

Want to read someone real? Look up Abderrahman Munif: the other Saudi aside from a few like Bin Laden stripped of citizenship; a hardcore Baathist who was an oil minister in Iraq, became jaded, left politics, and became an artist and social activist. Only one book translated and his Cities of Salt magna opa was the prophecy that part of the world snubbed about western nations devouring them complicity. It will be ironic to read him.

And Egyptology doesn't pay bills for locals. He has a story about that. Come find me in my profile if you're interested, since no one remembers that book. Lol
This doesn't show they are a leading premium smartphone manufacturer. This says they are a 2nd largest smartphone manufacturer.

Leading premium manufacturer means largest volume of premium smartphones sold. Huawei doesn't sell a lot of P30 (although I agree it's a premium device).
Have you tried using emulator for that? I've tried and don't like the touch control (physical joystick has better feel). And playing on phone can easily be interrupted, notif or calls for example.

Then imo people don't want to spend 50$ because switch > mobile for gaming.
I've used Google Fi for years, and I've heard stories like these for years. Despite comments in this thread, I don't think these experiences are new; they're just more common now because more people are on Fi.

I think there are two major issues: first, Google doesn't really care all that much about Google Fi. It's just them keeping their foot in the water for later, not a major focus right now, so it doesn't get the attention and care it really needs. Second, Google Fi is honestly great, right up until the point it isn't: if you ask around the community, there's a strong split between people like me, who have had nothing but good experiences, and people like Jason, who have an amazingly awful experience. It's basically that Google Fi is thoroughly buggy: you're fine as long as you stay in the happy path, but the moment you get to something untested (stolen phone, FedEx loses shipment, the discount fiasco a couple weeks ago), everything goes to hell.

I've stuck with Fi so far because the pain I've hit has been negligible for me [1], but I currently assume that it's just a matter of time before I get burned in some capacity. It's a trade-off that makes sense, given how I use my phone, but it's annoying having that in the back of my mind.

[1]: The one thing they did flub was the Pixel 3 discount a couple weeks ago, wherein they accidentally charged and then refunded the entire value of a Pixel 3. Because I pay my bill by credit card, and because that card is nowhere near its credit limit, this was just two lines on a bill for me that I never really have to think about. But for those who pay their bill by debit, or who were near a limit, or whose bill rolled over between the charge and the refund, that was also a horrible experience that angered them about Fi. Those kinds of stories have been par for the course.
tesla is starting to automate car manufacturing and seems to be making progress. can you comment on the feasibility on automating smartphone manufacturing? do elements of smartphone manufacturing render automation intractable, or harder than car manufacturing?
Unrelated, but one thing that's confused me, as someone who doesn't really use Docker.

I don't think of a programming language as being the thing upon which I would base my layers of containers. My expectation, as someone coming from not-containers, would be that I should first start with a core-libraries container, _then_ a language container, and then packages on top.

Having this clarity of composition, I think, is important if I need to start bringing other stuff into the environment, particularly stuff that requires compilation, so that I know what to target it against. It also makes it easier to know when a layer needs to be upgraded, for example because of a security issue.

The downside I see is that maintainers of layers higher up in the stack would possibly have to build multiple variants of their layer. But maybe that wouldn't be too big of a problem?
Amazon’s customer support has begun to degrade. We’ve had some bad experiences recently.
As I understand, Huawei doesn't use Qualcomm IP anyway. They have their own LTE modem.
It is seriously not ok to be this aggressive or post personal attacks to HN. What incentive does anyone have to participate here if they're going to be harangued like this? Most people have genuine knowledge about the field in which they work, so harassing them about their employer is particularly counterproductive. If we allow commenters to disincentivize that, this place gets less interesting.

Please review the guidelines and don't ever do this again, regardless of how strongly you feel about some issue.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: it looks like we've had to ask you a great many times before to stop breaking the site guidelines in your posts here. I assume you know that we ban accounts that won't stop doing that. Would you mind taking the spirit of this site to heart instead? We're looking for curious, thoughtful conversation.
So, I'm a Fi customer and have a Pixel 2. I'm planning to upgrade on the next release but the rumblings from folks since the Project Fi to Google Fi transition have me concerned. Is there a rate-my-professor for phone plans?
Dependency Inversion in Clojure
So you think other nations will retaliate also?
Core library of what programming language, if you haven't picked a language yet?
I've just been learning lisp with DrRacket and learned about parameters and wondering how it's done in other Lisp-y languages, specifically Clojure and came across this post.

Any Clojurists here to comment on which ones they use and how they fared on various projects?
USV is better that ASV for me because USV is visible.

For example I can write code samples such as:

echo 'a␟b␟c␞d␟e␟f␞g␟h␟i' | tr ␟␞ '\t\n'
a b c
d e f
g h i

Yes my offer is available for other tabular data tools. I want USV to become a good choice for data exchange. Message me at my contact information in my profile here.
Except this is a regulation that was in place prior that businesses had to obey.

Why did the government require it? Why couldn't the business claim "Real Cherry Pie with 25% real cherries" on their product and let the consumer differentiate how many cherries they wanted in their pies? Sounds like bureaucracy that felt that consumers couldn't figure it out.

Edit: And, I don't see this as the government trying to trick consumers. I see this as the government getting out of the pissing match between pie makers. Let consumer product watch groups rate the cherry content of pies, I say.
Yes, of course there has been progress since the '80s and '90s. Things would be really bad otherwise.

>> Modern autonomous vehicles are much more impressive.

It really depends on what you consider impressive. The DARPA Grand Challenge involved one road loop with stunt drivers instead of real traffic. These are still strictly controlled, laboratory conditions that tell us nothing about the ability of robot cars to operate in the real world.

Waymo's disengagement rates don't really say anything, either. Perhaps Waymo is now driving its cars in easier conditions after noticing that they tended to disengage too often. What we know for sure is that Waymo doesn't have autonomous cars -as noone else does. If they did, they'd be out on the streets without safety drivers and counting autonomous miles, not miles without disengagement.

According to the post you link, reporting rate of disengagement is required, but the fact that Waymo chooses to advertise theirs as a measure of improvement of their cars tells me that they have no real results to show and instead choose to tout a meaningless proxy just to make people believe that they are further ahead on the road to autonomy than they really are.
I’ve heard this lil story before but honestly both strategies are really dependent on the situation.

There might be situations where’d you want to continually churn out pots. In other situations, pressure is really high, and you have one shot to get it right.

Both strategies depend on the context. If anything, the best approach is to figure out which strategy is needed for the given situation. I would imagine, strategy of churning out pots is the most common one.

But safety critical systems certainly need that pot to be right the first time otherwise people die.
The point is, you can render specifity to the point of uselessness. Of course there are specific situations & circumstances where a given occupation is more risk prone than another, but global averages are where public perception & policy are set & laws are made. Such is life.
Michael Vann wrote this recent book on the Hanoi Rat Hunt

https://global.oup.com/ushe/product/the-great-hanoi-rat-hunt...
Google has too many hobby products for me to trust them with an actually mission critical part of my life that is my only phone line.

I really need to be able to walk into a store or physical location to talk to an actual person. Plus the accounts of Fi customers getting locked out or if you can’t use Google Payments, you can’t pay for Google Fi.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18886804
And this is why we don't use gmail
Sure, it may not be quite as corrupt.

You answered yourself. It's a matter of how widespread it is.
In my opinion part of the problem with Bluetooth is that the API exposed by android and IOS is like... two or three layers too low. Imagine if in web programming you set the MTU size in your HTML and you get the idea of what programming Bluetooth is like.

Another issue I see is more of a view point that people have trouble shaking. Typically we think of the server as being more powerful than the client, but in BLE the client usually has more processing power and battery by several orders of magnitude. Once you examine this preconception BLE makes a whole lot more sense.
Socialism is doing quiet well in Europe and seem to provides a much better standard of living for the average person than America's capitalism implementation.
Eventually you have to deal with content that contains your separator characters, however obscure. So essentially you have two choices:

A. use some "weird" separators and hope those don't appear in your input

B. bite the bullet and escape and parse properly

Option A is perfectly reasonable for one-offs, where you can handle exceptional cases or know they won't occur because you know what's in the data. However for reusable code, you need option B, which means not using `cut` to parse CSV files, for instance (since commas can occur inside double-quoted strings). In that case, what's the benefit of using USV over an existing, more common, format?
How about someone for president under 80. Many other countries are doing this just fine but for some reason, the only people considered for the presidency are old white males.
A clean slate that repeats all the same mistakes in 10 years, but at least we will have a $clean_slate+1 and really get it right this time.
When you think about it, it's amazing there isn't more terrorism.
In that alone Seneca thus reported that Roman culture had every right to be dismantled. If you push a man so far that he'll kill himself with a sponge recently up someone's butt, your entire society has gone too far.
Still plenty of room for custom configuration and plugins. Lots of things people want that you can charge for outside of VPS administration.
Taking notes for my RL research..
sooooo many questions..
I'm partial to the Feynman Algorithm:

1. Write down the problem.

2. Think real hard.

3. Write down the solution.
Let’s see really the story here is:

asset class [X] declines in value due to [new market entrants] - those that purchased this asset on a levered basis were hurt the most
6 years is still young for code. My current employer has code that's 13 years old. My last had code that was nearing 20.

And there's nothing wrong with that. Old code isn't "bad". In fact, it's almost certainly better than new code, because it's been battle hardened. It's got that fix in it for that weird edge case.
I don't want to click far enough into the signup to get to an actual contract, but I'd be extremely surprised if it
didn't have an arbitration clause as requirement.

For some things you can opt out of arbitration, but not for others.

The online fi related contract (which I obviously not the actual carrier contract) I found is:
https://fi.google.com/about/device-protection-terms/
which indeed has a mandatory arbitration clause.

It's high time that the arbitration act gets dramatically scaled back. I don't have problems with reasonably sized companies agreeing to arbitration in contracts with each other, but it doesn't work for end users and employees.
I still don't understand your numbers -- you currently say (630pm pst)

> fewer than 88% [EDIT: 80%] of taxi medallions were owner operated

while the source for the wikipedia page [1] says

> Only around 18 percent of cabs are owner-operated, putting most medallions in the hands of big taxi fleets or brokers who simply rent them out.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20120727153845/http://www.slate....

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20120728173548/http://www.slate....
I looked for it before and reached the same conclusion -- it is just a made-up story.