skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'll also end up spending at least that much on consultants. While KDB is remarkable in many ways -- the first time I saw it I thought the demo was fake, the performance so great -- it is very difficult to develop in.

They have a an SQLish interface, that allows non-specialists to get work done, but anything serious needs to move beyond that.

I haven't used it in a few years, but queries had to be carefully optimized -- swapping the order in a where clause could cause order of magnitude differences in performance. Also it is append-optimized. If you need to update or insert data, it is a nontrivial exercise.
I agree that they should have just fixed the issue but my point was that there’s zero chance they’re going to fork blink because their reason for adopting it was google properties doing weird things in their own engine - after enough time google properties will do weird things in their forked engine too.
What version of OpenGL (assuming that's what it uses on Windows) does WebRender require?
I think it is worth noting that different organizations/teams may require differing amounts of work related to technical debt. This is often driven by business culture, priorities, team experience, long term business goals and many more.

From experience, a lot of people/companies have difficulties marketing what/how/why/when technical debt should be tackled for both internal and external stakeholders. This leads to a less than optimal structure where "new" or "shiny" work is preferable and rewarded, as opposed to a more balanced approach.
Another solution is no traditional grades at all. Introduce standards based grading (tldr: grading if a student met the learning standard or not).
I haven't experienced the coil whine issue, but I'm also mostly powering it from a USB-C dock, if that makes any difference.

I love how big the screen is— it's a 15" display in a chassis that's barely bigger than my old 13" MBP. That said, camera below the screen is a definite negative, so that's great if it's been moved back; I've just assumed I'll get a clip-on USB cam and leave it at home for VC use.
If you are in the market for a good story touching similar topics, I thought Pandora's Star (first of a two-book series) was a great read (I bounced hard off the dark forest)
insurance-risk: yes
> volunteer-driven efforts need reliable people just like anything else does

Amen to that! One of the greatest challenges facing volunteer organisations these days is the supreme difficulty of getting people (especially millenials) to commit to regular and extended involvement. I'm in the national leadership of my organisation, and I hear the same stories from virtually all our groups, as well as from other organisations.

Of course, there needs to be space for people to just try themselves out at first (we certainly have that). But at some point, you've got to be willing to commit...
This is a good thing. Letting government regulate fake news lets them regulate all news leading to a top down fake news. I would rather prefer a world with bottoms up fake news. This is not a bad thing.
Similar to a bank as in a guaranteed insurance of my funds, like the FDIC in the US?
Assuming the story is true as presented. If he’s regularly getting in the habit of publicly attacking people his girlfriend is having conflict with, I am sure his reputation is about as toxic as hers.
I'd shelve another k for 17"...
Question of semantics is mixing up your conversation here I think. Is "the church" the religious authority (i.e. the Vatican), or just simply anyone religious?

Because the Vatican has not persecuted people for their scientific views for a long time, but I agree with you that it's not that complicated to find examples of religious people being anti-scientific. The question is : how many are there, and how representative are they.
If they're using Chrome rather than Edge or the native app then the video is rendered in software, which will quite possibly result in a poor experience on an underpowered machine.

(TBH the same issue happens on a Mac though, except Safari instead of Edge).
Typing this on a Dell Precision 7530. Comes stock with Ubuntu. 128gb of ram, 4 times what Apple offers, at close to the same cost. Linux font rendering still sucks, but I may never use another Apple product again.
Millennials are helping to sound the credit card alarm
In my experience the Uber incident was also intensively covered, even more than each fatal AI incident that happened with a Tesla. While not living in the US, I'm reading up on such issues as does anybody else at HN, but the Uber crash was the only such incident that made my country's evening news (as far as I can remember) [1].

Apart from that: Of all companies involved in the R&D of autonomous driving Tesla is probably the "loudest" (i.e. they make the strongest claims to the greatest audience), so being criticized the loudest is just about right IMHO.

[1] Granted, maybe that was just due to the video footage the killer-car taped.

EDIT: [1] And probably also due to the fact that not the car's passenger/driver was killed, but a pedestrian.
Apple also sells external keyboards with real F-keys. Their newer external keyboards are meh, but the previous model, the A1243 Wired Keyboard with Numeric Keypad [0] is amazing. It goes up to F19, and I just generally prefer their layout. I've been using an A1243 as my programming keyboard for nearly a decade. When they stopped selling them I even bought a used spare as backup for when my current keyboard dies.

My only complaints with the A1243 are that the top row is half-sized, and that it has a useless eject button between F12 and F13 which can't be remapped.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Keyboard#/media/File:App...
Pick the Right Tech Conferences for You
The vomiting was real. The idea that there was a dedicated room for it called the vomitorium is the myth.
USPS Tests Out Self-Driving Trucks for Hauling Mail
Anybody being able to quickly make a significant change has its ups and downs, though... On more than one occasion I've caught word of some fancy spreadsheet a different team in a company has been using to draw insights for months, only to have nontrivial critiques of the source data or interpretation of the data that caused big changes in the results - stuff we would have ideally caught in a dev team's code review or QA workflow, but those processes are entirely bypassed when someone on the marketing team makes a spreadhsheet on their computer and dumps audience data from an advertising platform to seed it.

Spreadsheets are nontechnical users' version of "move fast and break things". Often times that can be useful, even essential, but there are many more cases where the primary utility of working that way is also the major flaw. Its faster than traditional report development because it skips any kind of review or QA.
I dont know but one can be obese and play sports. I was obese once and I lost 60 pounds by playing sports and eating right.

I can't speak to chronic pain. That requires medical attention.
If a girl can go to jail for texting her depressed boyfriend encouragement to commit suicide, why can't we throw these fraudsters in jail for manipulating stupid people?
Spot on. I have an elderly uncle in that situation, it is super hard on him. He now has a little battery powered scootmobile and it is more precious to him than any car ever was because it increases his radius of operations tremendously, if the weather cooperates just a little bit he's out there.

I've been trying to come up with a way to extend the range even further so he can visit his old friends with it. It won't be quick but time is not his problem.
Wasn't there some contention that within the same vehicle class (luxury sedan) Teslas were not as "safe" in comparison?

I don't have numbers, but their comparison of a luxury sedan to all drivers has seemed disingenuous (to put it kindly, lying with numbers to put it less kindly).
>Also, one has to wonder why they haven't tried a 30" display yet. I'd back that in a heartbeat.

Maybe they consider the 31" display to be too much expensive. The display alone is worth $1500, when bought directly from e-ink:
https://shopkits.eink.com/product/31-2%cb%9d-monochrome-epap...
QuadrigaCX Trustee’s Preliminary “Yup, looks like your money's all gone”
The could call it the "Macbook Classic"
> like matrilineal lines with strong social expectations of uncles participating in childcare, for example -- there's at least one hunter-gatherer example of this I'm forgetting the name of

There is one matrilineal society with a culture that some anthropologists describe in terms you describe -- the Mosou people. However, more recent anthropological data indicates that this too is not the whole truth. While the Mosou are undoubtedly matrilineal, they typically know who the father is and children with involved fathers (rather than just involved uncles) do better. Moreover, Mosou society is not spontaneous. It developed as the result of a lower class being subjugated by a very patrilineal upper class nobility. The lower class was socially engineered to be compliant, while the upper class taxed them. The upper class was eventually disbanded by communist china, and the Mosou are now mistakenly used as an example of a stable matriarchal society. Nevertheless, even this fails to stand to scrutiny as exposure to the patrilineal mainstream Chinese society means most men just leave for greener pastures in mainstream Chinese society. Were it not for gawking tourists to prop up their economy, it's unlikely they'd be around still.
Is there a reason why this was flagged?

I'm a bit incredulous here, because topics discussing how YouTube censors people (even tangentially) can spark a massive discussion which isn't flagged and buried, but ones about the harms of some conspiracies spread on YouTube seem to be buried immediately.

If HN wants to really be a site that advocates for intellectual curiosity and sunlight being the best disinfectant, then harmful and anti-scientific beliefs should be exposed, discussed and challenged.
> 34 years old. Been writing software since I was 14.

We have very similar profiles.

I use calculus every day.

> Statistics is 100% for sure more useful to me, in everyday life and at work.

I use statistics every day too, working on ML systems.

> That's the thing I really ought to work to get better at.

The calculus comes in pretty damn quick. See also the third point in my original post; concretely, every ML course I've ever seen requires Calculus as a pre-requisite.
The Library of Economics, funded by the Liberty Fund[1], is part of the right-wing Atlas Network[2] of highly ideological and often flat out disinformational propaganda institutions.[3]

Take anything written with tons of salt.

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Notes:

1. https://www.econlib.org/library/About.html

2. https://www.atlasnetwork.org/partners/global-directory/liber...

3. https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Atlas_Network
Fortunately the United States is not run on a tyranny of the majority. The Electoral College insures minority representation of the states.

Unless I have misunderstood you, by that logic a majority of the US could move to TX and rule the rest.
Wow, people are really salty about Apple.

I too wish they would make a better computer, but for now I continue to use them because they are the only machine that I can work on with little fuss of setup and go.

I have the 2018 model with the "Keyboard" which has been fine because I use a Bluetooth Mechanical keyboard anyway and a BT Mouse. I have a single cable or "Dongle" that supplies power, 3 displays, 5 USB 3.0 type A, 2 USB Type C, a SD Card Reader and Ethernet. Its also Daisy-Chained to an External GPU and temps stay good. When I need to go portable I just unplug a single cable and go.
The court accepts the paper (with associated witnesses) and the bank accepts the court order.

This would contradict your earlier assertion, "No bank is going to ever use your paper reciepts to correct something electronic."

There are just too many cases of fraud involving paper.

Having a paper trail is still worth more than just someone's word.

Waving a balance statement in front of a bank manager will get you nowhere.

My wife is an underwriting manager. She has had someone try to apply to her bank for a loan using screenshots of bank web-apps. It did get that one potential customer nowhere, in the end. That said, there are some customers of her bank that have corrected the bank using paper documentation. I've even heard of businesses that lost records, asking for copies of printed customer statements to help reconstruct their data.

The world used to run on paper records. They still mean something in 2019.
If other manufacturers released a public beta, opt-in version of an incomplete self-driving solution, I’d consider them dangerously irresponsible with human life. Tesla makes it part of their sales and marketing.
Coinbase is not regulated like a bank. Just to pick a relevant point, if someone makes an unauthorized withdrawal from your bank account, that is fraud and your liability is limited. The bank has responsibility for making sure they identify you. https://budgeting.thenest.com/banks-liability-there-identity...
Hackernews never fails to blow me away.

I can't be the only one who thinks it is insane to say the Internet hasn't produced or improved anything.
So who are the originators?
Ahem, I'm not sure where you volunteered, but I have every single one of those benefits in my local students union. (Except maybe number three, but that could be arranged if I wanted to.)
Any Yale Patt alums here?
I've struggled with this idea - almost everything (outside Apple specific development) is ported to Windows. My work is in .NET and various Javascript frameworks. Never had a problem with Windows.

Plus I feel if I really needed a Linux environment, the Linux subsystem would fill that need.
I'm not "against" Tesla, but they basically epitomize the advent and promotion of "wealth virtue," where rich people buy a product or lifestyle that the vast majority could never afford and then act like poor people are ethically inferior accordingly.
Please list the lies and explain why they are lies.
> Don't invite someone and when they arrive tell them they are not welcome to speak. Post a list of speakers before, get your feedback and live with your decisions.

The speaker was notified in April 25. The conference will happen in mid-June. She was given fair warning.
do not forget an explicit focus on spirituality. other groups might have some modern, diluted equivalent as a second order effect, but religion contains spirituality and spiritual rituals right in the forefront.
A startup without technical debt, is mismanaged. The financial runway is the first consideration for survival. Spending a second on anything that doesn't get the startup to the next phase is a second squandered.

Any exception to that?
Deleting VMs on business accounts?

What joker thought that's a good idea
At first glance, it kind of does. Although it makes you wonder what you'd actually put in this public announcement. Would you simply state the facts (along the lines of "sorry, but X isn't going to be speaking after all.") or would there be more detail (read: speculation) included?

I don't really think there's a way to win this. In the event that you're wrong, it'll blow up. In the event that you're right, it still probably will blow up, depending on whether that person (or their fans) go on the offensive or not.

The only actual winning move is not to have played (only inviting people that you know, doing advanced due diligence on anyone a degree of separation away), but are you really winning if you do that? It would seem to seriously limit your horizons.
I've actually ported some Clojure code to Common Lisp no later than two weeks ago and it was pretty much as straightforward (if not more) as porting R5RS to CL. In my (admittedly limited) experience both CL and Clojure favor a certain high-level coding style with complicated macros versus the more simplistic style of Scheme. Contrast CL's loop construct, Clojure's for statement and Scheme's typically more recursive approach to iteration.

You're welcome to draw the line wherever you want, maybe for you conses are mandatory in a Lisp language but I don't really understand what you hope to gain from this discussion. I might as well say "tail call optimization is absolutely mandatory in any self-respecting Lisp, therefore CL isn't a proper Lisp dialect".

This is effectively the same level of discussion as a Java programmer saying that C++ isn't "true OOP" or an Haskell enthusiast claiming that Scheme isn't a true functional language because it allows side-effects. It's just silly gatekeeping that doesn't lead anywhere interesting.
I hope you realize how dystopian that sounds. Do we need a Ministry of Truth?
Let's be clear: Their numbers are bollocks, and a serious reason why not only should we worry about their cars killing people, we should be worried about their callous indifference to lying about it.

>In the 1st quarter, we registered one accident for every 2.87 million miles driven in which drivers had Autopilot engaged. For those driving without Autopilot, we registered one accident for every 1.76 million miles driven. By comparison, NHTSA’s most recent data shows that in the United States there is an automobile crash every 436,000 miles.

Take from this 2 things:

1. Either Tesla drivers are 4x safer than the average driver or their stats aren't comparable with the industry standard measures (1.76m vs 0.43m) and they have no problem with misleadingly comparing the two.

2. Tesla is not interested in supplying a real metric for how likely you are to crash in a Tesla, but instead provide PR numbers (accident per million miles when Autopilot is overwhelmingly used only on the safest roads?)
You're right, my point was more that there exists some states that look like Austria/Germany, and some states that look like Denmark. The existence of a bicameral legislature was more a reference to the self-governing nature of the states (which have executive branches, constitutions, and judiciaries).

Which is all to say: the US is more similar to the EU than it is to any one of its individual member states.
https://www.uua.org/find
That was a software bug IIRC
Ugh, I am so tired of people making this argument every single time something horrible happens and people suggest, you know, DOING something about it.

First off, they don't have to censor, they could just stop recommending these videos, and that would help a lot.

Second, if you seriously can't see why a for-profit corporation restricting content that literally leads to children being poisoned and dying isn't anywhere near Orwellian, then I am afraid that we have nothing further to discuss.
> I'm sure it IS much more pleasant to imagine the magic sky fairy will take care of all the world's problems.

The alternative of course is nihilism in the face of the inevitable heat death of the universe. My magical sky fairy seems pretty good right now.`
Hold on. I was with you until you picked this example. How does Maryland run a single-payer system for Marylanders when sick Delawareans can move across the state line to access that care and still commute to their current jobs?
There may not be a choice. Vanguard refused to log me in until I configured 2-factor SMS.
Say Goodbye to the Physical Kilogram (and Perhaps Much More)
Did they just reinvent B trees?
Catalog of Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (2003)
> Even super conservative less diverse congregations I know preach unity of the international church, go on mission trips, etc.

This kind of thing is actually more common in more conservative churches in my experience. More progressive groups don't focus on evangelism/conversion as much.
It's certainly only a part of games, but this also happens outside of games like Fortnite.

For example, one of my favorite games is Celeste, a fully offline, single player platformer that's about 18 months old. They've had a lot of releases[1], and at least one of them sounded like, to me, like a decision that was made purely because it was easier to implement technically. (I won't get into it here because it's pretty off-topic, but if anyone is interested, I can elaborate. It's "The Prologue Dash cutscene is skippable") There's also one more major content update coming that appears to have new mechanics, and it's already late. That said the game is amazing and I don't fault them for any of that at all...

1: http://www.celestegame.com/changelog.html
It solves the team / management problem,that for example.you have five teams and five to eight micro services. Maybe even more by pulling data from outside sources.

Those five teams iterate over there service and product. And maybe even the outside service iterates there product.

How do you make sure that everyone is on the same page and is using the right version and that the right service talks to the rights service in the right way? Especially the outside service for example?
This is the reason I have disabled SMS as a recovery option in my gmail/google account. My 2FA for gmail is now my iphone and ipad. THey have to know my password and get one of my devices to hack my account. I also use protonmail and for SMS based 2FA, I plan to use a google voice number from a totally different google account w/c forwards the text to my protonmail account. Google voice numbers cannot be ported out. Hence, avoiding the sim hack. They can port out if they hack my "shadow" google account. The trick is to never use the shadow account for anything. Hence, the attackers have no way to get to your google voice.
You mean the guy who told people autopilot had trouble in that spot, repeatedly, and then negligently caused his own death by not paying attention in that very same spot?

No one deserves to die, but he is responsible for his own death.
Please don't. What you're referring to doing is a snowball that routinely can (and does) roll out of control. The internet would be a marginally better place if it didn't turn into mob retaliation at every outrage incident.
Keep your eyes open - volunteer organisations will often put up posters to advertise their existence. Or browse your local community newspaper.
I feel like there are some really nice ideas in here, but I felt like the metaphor of the dark forest really took a turn when the author started using it to describe the communication channels they felt like were still safe.

I'd personally term those burrows or something. Something that is hidden from external observers walking through the dark forest.
So how do politicans, do not deserve the same (in case they do the same)? Or when Mark Zuckerberg manipulates the mood of fb users? Where is the line?
I'd give more weight to the combat speech with more speech attitude of giving a rational, well researched response to claims like the one described in the article if those claims were spread, through the populace, in an equally rational and non-emotional tone.

Incidentally, the most effective and least abstract arguments against murder and genocide are based on emotions — leaving them aside, you're left with assigning a worth to the lives taken.
US warns of threat from Chinese drone companies
Membership in a community is one benefit that churches/religions provide. Another is a worldview that values selflessness, altruism, and honesty. I don't think those things can exist apart from religion (at a cultural level, anyway), because as soon as you decide morality is relative then everyone is free to choose the morality that is most convenient for them/their tribe. I think this explains much of our political divide and the "post-Truth" era generally, and we're only a decade or two into mainstream moral relativism. This is, of course, speculation so take it for what it's worth.
What your ability to engage with stories says about your real-life relationships
Oh really? What way of passing on knowledge do you have that is free of all bias?
Didn't they announce the flex gate repair program today?

https://www.macrumors.com/2019/05/21/apple-backlight-service...