skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does that affect your romantic relationships? I imagine you're single since you don't mention a co-living situation which would otherwise be relevant. I imagine taking a girl home you without a bed might not be ideal.

Also, does it affect your ability to sleep on a regular bed without issues?
> Identifies all these pictures of steeples as the same thing

Associatively with no verbal toughs.

Artificial neural networks can do the same. Understanding that two things belong to the the same category does not require language.
Right, it’s a completely different vibe - the live experience is like no other, but the audio quality is often too loud and harsh and crap, whereas listening in the vinyl cafe would be at the other end of the spectrum
Yes you do have to.

Luxury brands are luxury because they have an excuse for their ridiculous price tags, not because they ridiculously overcharge for regular products.

Prada does not make just overpriced H&M dresses...
I have not yet seen any speculation about what a full spec mac pro might cost but I would not be surprised if it approaches 100k$. It can also connect to up to 6 screens for 5k$ which means this thing might go up to 130k$ in price, fully specced

The mac pro itself might have never been meant for everyone. Most of the people in the "pro" group didn't know or didn't care that they might only be on the lower end in terms of "proness" and asked for a new mac pro anyways. But I guess Apple considers them already well served with the iMac pro.

Previously I thought the iMac pro would be phased out as soon as a real mac pro is introduced but perhaps Apple will keep it around now.
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Gender equality in tech: it's time businesses start turning words into actions
Google to Acquire Looker
Top level `await` are now stage 3 in EcmaScript
Blockstream was founded in 2014. The price of bitcoin in 2014 was ... drumroll around $350.

While it doesn't seem reasonable at todays' prices, I can imagine these bonuses were designed and conceived at the normal $BTC rate back then.

Yes, the dollar amounts today are crazy, but if a bonus-plan was announced/created in 2014, shouldn't it still be valid today if the alpha is denominated in BTC?
We're saying goodbye to Google trip
India to order taxi aggregators like Uber, Ola to go electric
My Garmin Fenix 3 (with HRM strap) reckons I used 2600 and 2900 calories for my 2015 marathons at about 190lbs. 4100 seems excessively high.
Looks like it's invite-only beta... any word on pricing?

Paying for Slack for chat plus screen sharing was one thing, but a totally separate project it's going to be hard for me to get approval for something with non-trivial costs.
I just tried this in bash:

for each in `ia search collection:computerchronicles --itemlist`; do ia download $each --glob=*.torrent; done

I have myself a directory of torrents.
I'm certainly no Soviet admirer or apologist as my last paragraph made clear. However, it seems a stretch to say that they helped create the Nazi tide. The Germans had such little respect for Soviet resistance, that they expected it to collapse like a house of cards within a few months. Hitler would have started the war, with or without the non-aggression pact.
Not at all.

When you buy a luxury car you don't pay a lot just because you can, you pay a lot just because you can afford the kind of leather they use for the interiors, which would be too expensive for regular people.
I'm not exactly presented with that option.

If, when clicking on a hyperlink, I were presented with a landing page where I'd be presented a diagram of what the page would look like, in order to inform me that 70% of the initial data mass of the page would be chumbox, and that there'd be a video that expands out of the middle of the article and starts playing automatically as I scroll past, etc etc, then I'd happily rely on that instead of an adblocker. But that's not what happens - instead, I click the link, and the page immediately starts eating up my data budget (which costs me money, yo) and attempting to track me. My best defense here is to use some sort of adblocker.

At which point, the equilibrium point seems to be, some sites I don't even necessarily know they're trying to serve ads to me. Other sites give me a little popup saying, "Disable adblock or GTFO," so I politely GTFO.

It's less possible to do anything on that front with outdoor advertising; annoying as a lot of it is, I can't very well stop consuming the world itself.

TV, radio, stuff like that, that's at least getting easy nowadays.
> you have to also account for the time to take a shower at either end

No need to shower: I just change _all_ of my clothes when I arrive... Cycling clothes on me, business clothes and dress shoes in a semi-rigid pouch in my panniers. Takes five minutes at each end and the total time is still half of what car or public transportation would take !
Looker to Join Google Cloud
If Michelin could produce a tire that lasted 10x as long, they probably could not sell it for 10x the price. They probably can't increase their market share by 10x either to make up for it. So while making such a tire might still be a winner for them, it isn't crystal clear.

It would be a more obvious good deal for a smaller tire maker who has more market share to gain. But they're less capable of sustaining a huge R&D budget. I just hope the solution isn't that expensive.
I don't disagree with what you are saying, though I do think it's a little harsh for what's seems to be just a book to get kids going when they want to draw animals. Everyone needs to start somewhere, and I think this is just one of many ways to pick up drawing.

That said, I'm honestly interested in any suggestions for books or online courses that you would recommend for someone who wants to improve their drawing skills. As a kid I got a lot of feedback from various people that I had a talent for drawing, and I remember my drawings were in fact quite good compared to everyone else, but sadly I never invested more into this and forgot about it in favor of playing with computers ;-). Until a while ago, when I wanted to pick up drawing using my iPad Pro + pencil + ProCreate. I really want to invest more time in drawing and make a hobby out of it, but I have no idea where to start except trying to copy other illustrations. When I try to draw from imagination I'm so disappointed with the results and my total lack of direction how to improve, that I quickly give up. I would really love to find some good drawing books, online courses or other source material that structures the learning process in a way that can give some positive reinforcement, but so far I have not been able to filter out the right source material from the vast supply of 'this is how you should learn to draw' resources.
Ted?
Building Blameless Working Environment
Internet over pigeons, ping time 6165731.1 ms
Eh. Driving time isn't completely lost, but it is pretty low capacity if you want to study or be entertained. I used my metro commute for 3 years to learn programming languages, take college courses, read stacks of books, nap, learn to cook with cooking shows, and solve technical problems for work. I used my car commute for 3 years to...listen to some light entertainment and music. I managed to get a speeding ticket while listening to a podcast because I wasn't focused enough on driving.
https://abc.xyz/investor/news/releases/2019/0606/
Pick any discreet bag up, and if the owner comes after you, say oops my bad. Not that hard.
I don't think your parent was making any such moral equivocation. Authoritarianism aligned with $my_ideology is a terrible thing, but it does seem like a fair number people would actually be most comfortable with that and liberal democracy is just a token, socially acceptable icon. They may not even realize that if they had their way on every issue it would amount to an authoritarian regime.

To put it differently, how many people are actually championing individual rights for every issue?
For another data point, the Subaru Forester - which is more of a light SUV - only has a max passenger+cargo load of 900lbs.
I think many people who can afford this sort of thing barely have any money to rent a closet in a city like Singapore.
I love this idea. I am more than a little jealous as I have wanted to build something like this since college. I just save my .md note files to a cloud drive and load them as a project w/ sublime text. It's not as beautiful as this but it works.
DailyMail: fifty percent drop in traffic after Google update
> accelerated the move to liberal democracy

.. in the short term. And it worked for those countries west of Kiev. It did not stick in Russia.

The problem is that the US has always had its internal tension between the official liberalism ("all men are created equal"), the colonial racism ("except those guys"), economic freedom for the individual, and economic freedom for the megacorp. It exports all four of these, and sometimes the wrong ones win in another country. The banana republics got the racism and capitalism. Russia got hyper-capitalism with poor rule of law, enabling its collapse into a Mafia state.
Companies often pay for commercial licenses and to use SaaS. Just look at the number of companies paying for Oracle or support from a GNU/Linux vendor like Ubuntu or Red Hat.

I wonder if it's about control. With a SaaS you can switch to a competitor. It's possible to switch between GNU/Linux distros and the companies that support them. Change is possible. This can protect you from a vendor tanking or who has bad behavior.

Oracle is an outlier. They aren't going away. There's enough business to keep them around. And, many companies are trying to get away from them slowly.

When you have an AGPL and commercial dual license it puts that vendor in control. Do big businesses like putting others in a position of power and control over them? If that business is small or a startup do they want to have that as a hard dependency? Is it a risk to the big business?

This isn't about paying for commercial licenses. It's about risk mitigation. Something big businesses do a lot of.
That is the reality of a republic system and term limits.
"Pro" is NOT a price.

Is features.

Apple was already "expensive" but somehow reachable. Now, the Mac line is more and more out of reach for anyone without deep pockets.

---

I could have understand (somehow, still out my reach for a machine >3000) if the Mac Pro was > 10 cores, >= 32 GB, >= 1TB SSD, Vega or Nvidia > 1080

ie: just buy and is already a top of the line (or, what you will do with a base (old) Mac Pro to get to middle config)
Wonder what material that greyish rock looking stuff on the surface is.
Why did you take the parent post as an example of anyone being completely blind to the actions of the Soviet Union? The points seems to be that treating the immediate Post-WWII era as some high point for democracy is... well, requiring further support than is immediately obvious, anyway, since there were two victorious sides, one of which wasn't democratic at all, and the other which supported autocracies all over the world, too.

Pointing out that the spread of democracy post-WWII was mostly confined the defeated states in that conflict, and that neither victorious side did much to support democracy elsewhere and even the "free world" often did the opposite, isn't a defense of the Soviets.
Hopefully Google starts a campus in the Santa Cruz area off the back of this...
Only if western policy supports it.
Mostly limited to pistol-powered aircraft that use 100LL, and not anything with a turbine / jet engine (which uses diesel-like Jet-A fuel (kerosene family)).

The FAA is working on it, but it seems it's not a simple problem:

* https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2018/october/03...
aka historical revisionism
If you want to embed styling/layout information directly in the HTML you can do that using the "style"-attribute.
Seems reasonable to me that the management would try and retain talent...

The bigger issue here is a highly paid workforce without a great product we have all heard about.
Chain grocery stories like Safeway...
Most looker instances I’ve seen are wired to redshift. How long until support for non google cloud databases is dropped, deprioritized, etc?
Apple looking to buy robotaxi startup Drive.ai
That would definitely help Santa Cruz’s rental market
The reddit is great!

https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/
I would love to see proponents of such bans trying to explain to a random plumber, gas-fitter, electrician, floor tiler, carpenter or other craftsmen, that they cannot use a car to bring in the material and tools they need to do a work with, that the customer is ordering.

Ideally, when the customer and the person doing the explaining is the same person.

Same for gods delivery. You bought a new freezer, washer or other heavy gods? You can pick it in the store in the fringes. No deliveries into the city, you need cars for that.
As someone who also completed a Master's thesis, I really hope that feeling goes away at some point.
civilization ending means the end of large-scale, complex human societies built around the specialization of labor
I mentioned this downthread, but a classical example is Kodak missing out on the digital revolution in cameras.

They had a technological lead, but were afraid to cannibalize and threaten their cash cow (film). In the meantime others with less to lose, jumped in and eventually took over the market and Kodak became a shell of its former self. Point being, it's not unheard of for companies to be slow to adjust to a new realization.
James Mickens is great! He's listed his own work here:

https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/wisdom-james-mickens

> James Mickens offers his timeless insights for free, because he loves you and he wants you to succeed. Please enjoy the undeniable masterpieces which are collected below.
With my Bakfiets Long cargo bicycle, I handle 100 kilograms payloads easily - a washing-machine sized item is perfectly movable by pedal power.
In 25 years or so a new generation will come along. I wonder what they will replace the smartphone with.

Which is to say this has been a constant in history. The details are different of course, as is the time between generations.
Maybe this behavior will change under the scrutiny of anti-trust investigations.
I'm curious to see how Google handle acquiring a company which requires some fairly high touch sales. Looker is a fantastic tool, but its not something which is useful from day one, and at least currently has a high enough price tag attached to it that they involve a lot of sales engineering in getting new customers to a point where they're able to query data they care about.
I admit it's a stereotype but the German's are certainly more inclined to follow the rules than the average. Certainly when compared to the French.

Edit: Excuse the stupidity. I read Cologne in my head.
At least the current political situation allows for embellishments. Last article I read attributed the invention of computers to Alan Turing.
I really don't see how that would be the case. Both Haskell and C++ are general purpose languages, there are plenty of projects written in many overlapping domains. The test would to treat projects as black boxes, and look for trends across many projects. If you saw a trend that Haskell projects are consistently delivered faster by smaller teams, then you could make a hypothesis that Haskell is a factor. At the end of the day, we've come up with ways to test hypothesis like quantum mechanics. I'm pretty sure measuring impact of a language on software development process is a tractable problem.
I appear to be the only woman to have ever spent time on the leader board. It's only 100 names long, but HN has been around more than a decade, so a lot more than 100 people have spent time on it.

That means that less than one percent of the top ranks is openly female. This is consistent with the gender ratio suggested by this old poll:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=591309

For comparison, 17 percent of the CEOs in the US are female. HN cannot even begin to compete with that lousy statistic.

So the evidence suggests I'm some kind of amazing Wunderkind, breaking the glass ceiling and doing what no other woman can do. I'm still dirt poor. Meanwhile, some male members of the leader board are self made millionaires, in part due to their participation here.

I repeat: There is always some new BS reason to dismiss me. And it is exactly that: BS.

Sexism is very much alive and well on HN.
The looker blog post addresses this though the google one doesn’t:

> For customers and partners, it’s important to know that today’s announcement solidifies ours as well as Google Cloud’s commitment to multi-cloud. Looker customers can expect continuing support of all cloud databases like Amazon Redshift, Azure SQL, Snowflake, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Teradata and more.

Time will tell - but I suspect we’ll see new features will be “bigquery first”
Perhaps, but Copenhagen isn't in Germany
Because aesthetics do matter, and if you want something that looks nicer than Windows 98 and have the RAM to spare then why not?
Injuries would probably be a better statistic to use, as you much more likely to die being hit by a car than a bicycle. I'd also guess injuries in bicycle on pedestrian collisions are nearly impossible to measure accurately, as most of them are minor and go unreported.
Hi,

Email is currently not planned, because it's not easy (IMAP, POP...) to do it correctly and securely.

But as many users seems interested, I may add it to the roadmap :)
PySyft and the Emergence of Private Deep Learning
Unsalted tomato juice may help lower heart disease risk
They have done that sort of acquisition before...Apigee is one example. Before that, ITA software.
I think so too! Keep up
I'd wager the average person is more likely to grasp the mathematical incongruency than have the buying power to afford the incongruency.
CSS Grid: No Nonsense Layouts
What on earth is this? The pet project of some disgruntled advisor or board member?

This is written like it’s journalism but it has a really weird agenda. Also unless I’m mistaken, “siphon” is a pretty messed up way to describe what’s going on. It looks like they’re paying their employees? Partially in bitcoin? Who cares if a private company pays its employees whatever it wants. (Except maybe some insider with an axe to grind).
I wonder why this is?

https://www.infoq.com/interviews/erik-meijer-linq/

(from "3. How does LINQ work?")

What we have done, and what the mathematicians call Monads, we have identified these sets of operations, we call them standard query operators; we have a list of about 25 standard operators that you can apply to any data model.
It would definitely revitalize the coast. But at what price? Can you imagine the gridlock on State Highway 17 (and the Pac HWY)?

If I sat in the governator’s office, I’d push for a commuter line from the South Bay to St Cruz. That would be so much more beneficial than the HSR to no-where we wasted 70 billion on.
Maybe I didn’t make that clear, but that’s what I was talking about. That’s why I used the term “vector” instead of “stack.” A vector ADT usually allows insertion/deletion/replacement from the middle.
Thank you for the hint! I'll certainly do it!
Tire shops will still charge for the winter changeout and whatever maintenance people have been delaying with it.

I'm honestly happy if they last the same length, as long as I never need to worry about running on a flat - even just getting the damned tired pressure sensors calibrated correctly turns into a day or two of effort.
Becoming Parents to Ourselves
> I said "thank you, but I'm Norwegian, we walk". The man looked at me for a few seconds then barked "Well I'm American!", then drove off and we both laughed.

What a clever, considerate American, making use of energy-efficient transportation and stopping to offer rides to strangers along the way!

> The feet are superior everywhere except highways

Try walking to work in business attire on a few 100 degree (38C) days and then tell me how you feel about that...
audiophile
n. A person having an ardent interest in stereo or high-fidelity sound reproduction.

please quit your gatekeeping
Dead bodies, wild dogs, squatters in government-owned Detroit houses (2018)
You are right, but for the beta it was really the cheaper card in my hand because I didn't had to setup 10 server to assure data resiliency etc...
> Looker is a fantastic tool, but its not something which is useful from day one, and at least currently has a high enough price tag attached to it that they involve a lot of sales engineering in getting new customers to a point where they're able to query data they care about.

That describes most enterprise software, so it's not a unique challenge.
That's deaths. I'm not going to argue that car collisions with pedestrians aren't more likely to kill then. The point was accidents, not fatalities, so I don't see what this statistic demonstrates.
"Authoritarianism aligned with $my_ideology is a terrible thing, but it does seem like a fair number people would actually be most comfortable with that and liberal democracy is just a token, socially acceptable icon." -- This is expressing my ideas better then what I wrote. Although from their point of view it may not be terrible.
It's a decent client, but be aware that you might want to increase the file descriptor limit, the client at the moment doesn't properly close files from my experience in using it to upload a fairly large folder structure.

A simple `ulimit -n` with the raised descriptor limit should take care of it.
At Next 2018 we had Jordan Tigani (BigQuery Director at Google) and lloyd tabb (Founder of Looker) on stage together. Maybe a sign of things to come:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gYUGv_omJA
> in an attempt to pretend that state doesn't exist.

I think you misunderstand continuations, as they are closures which often do contain state. In fact, they can be used to capture all of the state relevant to the session.
Because today we have higher standards for how "put together" we appear in public.

I cannot be in the office with pit stains and BO and expect to be treated with respect and have the same career advancement and pay as if I show up fresh, with hair combed and no BO or visible sweat.

Today, our hygiene standards are higher and for many of us, driving to work is part of "the cost of doing business" because of this.

The same goes for if it's snowing..walking around in soggy or salt-stained boots is not a thing I can get away with doing.

People do it, but I have a job where I have to meet certain (yes, partly self-imposed) expectations on appearance and hygiene and I can't meet those expectations if I walk 20 minutes to work in 80 degree, snowy, or rainy weather.

I'm not a dandy or a snowflake or whatever. I love sweating and I love hiking. Being outside in the rain can be a sublime experience. But that's just not compatible with a trip to work.

I don't like it but as I said, it's part of the "cost of doing business" in society.
> You can also have a private conversation with the passenger

Depending on how you value your conversation and your lives.

Distracted driving isn't only caused by conversations on cell phones and there are studies behind why many states have limits on passengers riding with young drivers.

If you're the passenger, you should hope that the conversation is vapid enough to not distract.