skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Drop a glass container and it's almost certainly going to shatter, contaminating whatever product it was carrying with dangerously tiny shards of glass.

Drop a plastic container and it's going to dent or rupture at most, and the product it contains will likely still be recoverable.
Exactly. And I find it interesting this is like the same value prop Craigslist has offered for about 15 years. It’s an old idea but refreshing to it modernized for today’s digital consumers.
A big factor in high adoption for Uber was the fact that each ride was highly subsidised by investor monies.
I have a few experiences with fires. What happens is panic causes people to repeatedly under escalate.
Does anyone use Okta outside of the Enterprise? No enterprise focused app is going to allow any random third party credentials. Okta is also not by any definition a “social network”.
Global Public Holiday API for 230 Countries
I'd say attitude and personality are greater predictors of success than technical competency for very senior level people too. I can't think of many people who reach senior levels with poor attitude and personality. And those that do often hit a wall. Eventually, their attitude and personality gets in the way of their brilliance and other people's willingness to work with them.

I think it doesn't matter only in cases where you were the guy who started it all or you're some crazy skilled mercenary for hire brought in only for emergencies. You can treat people like crap for as much as you want if you're in control like that. Maybe it's even necessary for those unicorn situations. And yet, even Linus Torvalds has said that he needed to change.

Finally, I'd say poor attitude and personality lends itself to arrogance, which also makes technical people hit a wall because their arrogance decreases their technical curiosity. Improving one's skill really does require a certain intellectual humility.
I thought the same as soon as I read the original comment—I've had minor but similar feeling in VR. Try "Irrational Exuberance."
RISC-V sponsors need to spend the money on developers getting ISPC to target whatever the RISC-V Vector spec ends up being.

Without that, you'd have to rely on auto-vectorization and that's not great for anything but HPC applications using OpenMP.
Right, because using a canvas bag instead of a plastic one is just like going without running water.
Trump us using security measures because that's all he has there's nothing real about it. All other tariffs require Congress to act, hopefully we'll remove this power before it's abused again.
The Illinois State Police can confirm that on August 11, 2018, Mr. David Weaver was arrested by the ISP and cited for the following offenses at the scene of a multi vehicle personal injury crash that resulted in multi vehicle fires: Criminal Trespass to Real Property, Failure to Yield to Emergency Vehicles, Stopping Parking or Standing on Roadway, and Walking Improperly on the roadway. This case remains open and ongoing in the court system, therefore we have no further comment at this time. The Illinois State Police's primary goal at the scene of a critical incident, and at all times, is the safety and well-being of all members of the public.

https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/illinois-state-...
As a user, why should I care if it’s also in the best interest of Apple? As a user, I want to use my phone and use services on that phone. The business position of Apple does not concern me. Users only care about what’s best for them. Apple stopping companies from screwing me over sounds great from my perspective. As far as I’m concerned, Apple can make as much money as they want, it’s no skin off my teeth.

“But then Apple will be a monopoly and you’ll get screwed anyway”. Maybe. But no more than I’m already being screwed by every other cable provider, cell phone company, data broker...etc. I like Apple products. I will continue to spend too much money on them. I’d rather be screwed by Apple in exchange for some pro-user policies, than screwed by every other company that’s already screwing me in exchange for...oh right, nothing.
The battles in space sims are not fun.
It is the trading and exploring
. Just like all the fun with Hacker News are with the comments.
My unkind but honest assessment given the evidence is you're over rating how attractive you are, both physically and socially. The good news you can fix both a lot. Hit the gym, get jacked, make a lot of friends. Most anyone can do it. Also if your hair sucks just embrace it and shave it off and grow an awesome beard. And accept that any woman taller than you is probably not interested.
A comfy, nice, slowly creeping death of a grid might be preferrable to some.

Problem is, when the grid fails it's not like you can throttle down the load. Too late for that. It just goes out.
I agree completely, we could easily get rid of 95% of all plastics and barely cause anyone any inconvenience.
I just have to downvote this mentality....

For example men's spermcounts have been going down steadily and predictably for over 30 years, and are now HALF what they were 30 years ago. Scientists have done thousands of studies and haven't identified a root cause. (I bring this up because many plastics are made flexible with a xenoestrogen named BPA)

We can't say "Plastics must be fine," we have no control group to compare against. For all you know the increases in allergies, nearsightedness, autoimmune disorders, or reduced sperm count are related.

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Remember when leaded gasoline reduced a whole generation's IQ by a few points and caused a crimewave? Sometimes the negative effects of an enviromental choice take decades to figure out.

It's past time to switch into a "cautious until proven safe" way of thinking when it comes to health and environment.
To the people saying that Uber rides are heavily subsidized... What percentage would be "heavy"? Because I thought Uber's loses as a fraction of revenue were around 20%, which doesn't scream "heavily" to me
Rendezvous with rama is an amazing book.
Why not time cards that are punched by a machine

I know a factory in Chicago that still has huge time-card punching machine from the late 1800's. It's enormous, and looks like a cast iron wheel of fortune. Very cool.

Somehow the company has managed to function for 150 years without adding facial recognition to it.
Same thing when I interview people. I don’t know is a sign of confidence to me. It is the right answer in so many situations. Unless you have a reasonable shot at deriving the answer on the spot, it’s what more people should be saying, and not only in interviews.
JSON in Janet Shell
No reason you couldn't have some of these features in a crypto wallet. Lots of schemes are being created with with multisig, smart contracts, and social recovery methods. Here is one around freezing transfers not to a known address.
https://www.coindesk.com/ethereum-startups-team-to-offer-ban...
Are there any Chinese guest workers in Europe? How about agents and/or Europeans who could be bribed to misroute?

What about the above, applied to a country that is between Europe and China? Such a country could passively listen while China takes the blame.
Hahahah!

Let me know when Craig Wright actually signs the genesis block, and cryptographicly proves that he is Satoshi, and does so publicly in a way that I can personally verify.

When that happens, I will give you 1000$ worth of BSV.

It won't happen though.
Cheating is possible - others clocking in for you

Having someone else clock in for your isn't always cheating. For example, leaving early so you can drop by the post office on your way home from work to drop off the company mail.

Or the opposite where my wife works: People will punch in for her because she has to go to an off-site meeting or event.
Man, I've always dreamed of a spiritual successor of Elite fit for the 21st century, I can't believe my prayers have finally been answered! I can't wait to fly around in my Cobra III and blast some Thargorns!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BusyBox#GPL_lawsuits

The author can sue for damages and receive cash.
Have we reached the point where literally any malady can be blamed on climate change? Because if so, we have also reached the point where very real effects of climate change can be written off as "the boy who cried wolf".
What is this "noise floor" you speak of?

https://www.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/comments/49yuwx/til_gp...

The whole idea behind SS and UWB techniques is that the noise floor is under your control, rather than Boltzmann's.
I like the distintive effect combining realistic light behavior with retro fps textures.
You can never have this discussion honestly because egos come out and attack it. So many people have their identity so deeply tied to their place of birth it's impossible to extricate them and talk about any failings. I live in rural America now and the beliefs so strongly held, vs what the world out there is really like, are confusing and frustrating.
GitHub is a provider that I use to sign in to some sites.
> real life things that people care about like how much money is in someone's bank account

How is a ledger entry in a bank's computer more "real" than a ledger entry in a public blockchain.

Funny how blockchain discussions proceed in endless circles when people believe without evidence that familiar money is in any way "real" instead of an imaginary social construct, while blockchain money is somehow fake, fraudulent or unreal.

Let's guess the next argument in the endless circle: (a) money is backed by the military, (b) money is backed by tax payments, (c) money is backed by debt, or (d) tulips.
In my case, what was the worse that could happen? They were going to fire me? I was doing presentations for potential buyers of the company. I knew we didn’t have more than two month’s runway left. If I had thought I was risking a long career at the company I might have been more careful.
I'd need some serious convincing to accept that sending a randomly selected person into space would have anything close to the positive impact that sending the "Larry Ellison"s of the world into space could.
> I'll never use a Linux desktop, because I have a FreeBSD desktop

I wasn't responding to them....
If I want to switch away from Gmail or Facebook, it's the same exact process. This is a problem, but not any worse than the alternatives.
The key thing is knowing that their level of curiosity may not be what you prefer. I've come to terms that people often don't actually care about understanding what I do and would rather just make assumptions about it. If you can't accept that and let it be, you can become a very despondent person. :) And then when you try to correct their misunderstanding, you just make them unhappy too. Everyone loses.
I get mad at the Haskell tools I use every day, and then I remember that nobody else is really in better shape.
Noam Chomsky comes to mind immediately. I have seen very few people who are as humble.
Doesn't this analysis rest on the assumption that movies are equally good each year? Maybe I suffer from nostalgia (or survivorship bias) but I'm not sure this is a good assumption.
I seem to remember reading a story a few years ago about them laying off all their long tenured employees
We also offer LinkedIn, GitHub, Yandex and (soon) WeChat. Most users actually use LinkedIn, but we are a recruitment firm so the stats are biased, but it's not true that only Google and FB are the options offered everywhere, at least not in this part of the world.
The Celera 500L aircraft may fly soon
Sometimes that happens, but why always? And that's a bug not a feature in my book to the extent it is true.
Something similar happened at a billion dollar company where I worked.

I ran their web site. When my job got outsourced, I got exactly four minutes notice before being shown the door. I was (and still am) the only one with the password for the domain registrar. The people who own the company have too much arrogance and pride to call me to ask for the password so they can give it to the Indian company that replaced me, so after several weeks of the web site not being updated with the current pricing (which changed almost daily), they opened a new domain.

As of last month, my site still sits there as a time capsule with the old pricing, employee bios, and everything from six years ago. I can understand why the domain hasn't changed, because they paid for 10 years in advance. But I don't know why they're still paying the hosting bill.
> I'd say attitude and personality are greater predictors of success than technical competency for very senior level people too.

Yeah I’d agree. But I think somebody with a good attitude, who can get on well with others, has a greater chance of being able to quickly fill in any competency gaps they have in non-senior positions. For senior positions, the baseline is higher. I’d hire somebody with good character, but inadequate competency (within reason) for a lower IC position, but for a senior position, I’d want both.
If the copyright-holder of the GPL'd work doesn't do anything, the consequences are... nothing.

The owners of lots of GPL'd works such as the GNU project tend to take an approach of quiet negotiation. They will contact the violators and attempt to inform them about their responsibilities when distributing GPL'd software. They want software to be free for examination and modification and many violations are unintentional.

GPL violations are extremely common, especially with Linux. For example every ip surveillance camera runs Linux/Busybox/etc and I have never seen one that provides source.
Totally makes sense. Let all execution be in coroutines like Go and you can await/context switch cheaply anywhere. Why have two kinds where only one can do some things.
> Yes, that's defrauding Google. The point is that Google shouldn't be liable for when someone defrauds them.

Except that Google is still defrauding me too. Google should not get to make money off of my content without my permission.

If Google were simply hosting the content and not serving ads, not taking paid subscriptions, etc. then your points that Google should not be liable for the behavior of the users holds a lot more water.

For example, YouTube could set the default that everybody can upload, but people can only monetize or serve ads on content after verification. Now, I still think YouTube would need to be disincentivized as it is still freeloading off the commons, but that's a very different problem, and YouTube is in a much more sympathetic position.

Now, would all of this kill YouTube? Quite possibly. However, once you prevent YouTube from freeloading, you might actually get a video service that has a business model that doesn't suck.
Oh sure, but as many people as before?
Cynically, I would guess just about nothing. If it could be proved that the GPL'd source was compiled in the real game, and was knowingly taken from a GPL'd source, I suppose whoever holds the rights could sue. I think it'd be difficult to prove sufficiently.
I’m impressed by the method of mapping higher dimensional vectors to a consistent tree representation, but I’m not sure what the take home point is after that. The BERT embeddings are (possibly randomly) branching structures? I’m only eyeballing figure 5 here, but the BERT embeddings only approximate the dependency parse tree to the same extent that the random trees do.
I’m not sure if this is right approach. In fact in the 70’s, the US basically went through this back and forth, largely influenced by one book:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Antitrust_Paradox

Essentially, the book advocates that the only goal antitrust laws should have is to protect consumer welfare, not competitors.

IMO, Apple’s requirement doesn’t feel like it would harm consumer welfare.
> I wonder if this will impact game archival efforts.

Just one more area where piracy has our backs.
More readable link:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1137120829005750272.html
It actually costs them a ton of money to physically label the prices on each book. B&N adds their own sticker over the top of the MSRP when they receive the book. Changing the sticker every time the online price is changed would cost them a small fortune.

If you're ever wondering why the online price differs from the in-store price by a significant amount, usually it's not because the retailer is trying to gouge you. It's because they would have to pay to have the shelves re-tagged. Retailers don't use the regular store associates to re-tag shelves. Instead they usually have roving teams of contractors who go around retagging everything on the store shelves periodically.

The only way to really eliminate this is using electronic shelf labels, and that's quite impossible in a bookstore. Much of their inventory is thinner than the tags themselves.
I've devised a way to have a procedurally generated tech tree. Actually, it's an inexhaustably large number of tech trees in a huge Directed Acyclic Graph. The particular resources will be partially location dependent, which will motivate the exploration and trading. That's the plan, anyways.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3DPalL7p5w
I mean. That sounds weird precisely because "you" used to be plural.
Sudden urge to make an AMSR recording, just reading that list.
AirSnap AR
When the best interests of Apple and the best interests of its customers diverge sufficiently, the customers will leave. This is their entire pitch, so they better get it right. At least people need not worry that advertisers would be Apple's true customers.
I emailed dang to correct it.
Didi may have executed better than Uber, but there was pretty significant informal protectionism going on, as well.
All 44 Nations Battle for Earth Until 1 Left (Civilization Battle Royale)
Should I just make one? My game server is tailor made for top-down asteroids style mechanics. When I last benchmarked, it could handle 73 player melees, but it should be capable of something like twice that now.

https://www.emergencevector.com
ah, I see what you mean.

net neutrality certainly implies more regulation, but at a local level the monopolies/duopolies are often propped up by regulations.
Sooner or later it is likely that microbes which can digest plastics but are currently extremely rare, will multiply, become common and evolve since we are making plastic pollution increasingly common throughout soils and seas.

What will be the timescale and effect of a new category of microbes on earthly micro-flora? In soils, in foodchains and within our own guts ? This uncertainty presents an unpredictable biohazard. An intelligent population having noticed its accidental emissions would try to limit and reduce them in scale for its own and future generations biological security.
Honestly, I'd really prefer that to all the times when I have slightly damp fingers an my fingerprint sensor is not registering, or it is causing issues with swiping.
https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/7xqh3f/barnes_noble_...
Senders to Apple's email proxy needs to be pre-registered first (and I highly suspect the generated addresses are scoped to each individual app's whitelist), so no, not everyone can send to those addresses.
If I'm reading this correctly, it is very close to what Python has been doing for over a decade, so I am not sure that using a "rejection method" counts as "new tech". Here are the relevant snippets.

Code for shuffle(x):

for i in reversed(range(1, len(x))):
j = randbelow(i+1)
x[i], x[j] = x[j], x[i]

Code for randbelow(n):

k = n.bit_length()
r = getrandbits(k)
while r >= n:
r = getrandbits(k)
return r

Code for getrandbits(k):

bytes = ((k - 1) / 32 + 1) * 4;
for (i=0 ; i<bytes ; i+=4, k-=32) {
r = genrand_int32(self);
if (k < 32)
r >>= (32 - k);
bytearray[i+0] = (unsigned char)r;
bytearray[i+1] = (unsigned char)(r >> 8);
bytearray[i+2] = (unsigned char)(r >> 16);
bytearray[i+3] = (unsigned char)(r >> 24);
}
I think his point is just because we got along without it is not a good reason to abandon something. But yeah, too much waste all around, including plastics
Maybe I'm not up to speed with the latest PyTorch, but to me Keras feels much more natural. In Keras if you want to define a deep learning network, then you just do that, you specify the first layer, the second layer, etc, then you calibrate over some test and validation samples, using a certain flavor of gradient descent, for a given loss function. In PyTorch, you have to define a class, with a constructor, some method called "forward", I don't know, maybe if I follow an example to the end I get the hang of it. My problem is that I don't want to write object oriented programming, I want to do machine learning. Keras doesn't force me to know what a class it, or what it means to inherit from nn.Module, or that a constructor in python needs to contain 'self' as a variable. PyTorch, at least the exmples I saw online want me to do just that, and that's a turnoff.

On the other hand, in Keras I can't (easily) change the architecture of a learner after I defined it. I can't prune some nodes and split others, maybe that's easy in PyTorch. If that's the case, I'll take a second look. Until then, when I have some time, I'm really tempted to invest some time in MXNet, as the book "Dive into Deep Learning" appears to be quite good.
He says everything in the control room was pretty routine, no misdeeds, no risky experiments, no drama, no questioning of orders, no worries as unpredictable behavior of the reactor happens, the reactor was just poorly designed. After the explosion he was confused and didn't know what happened and what to do. At some point after looking around, etc. he figured out that he needs to take measures to prevent new fires on the exploded reactor building. While they were busy taking measures they got sick, started vomiting. Eventually he got taken by the ambulance to the clinic. In the clinic he was questioned, eventually got arrested. Complains about USSR, that soviets wanted to blame the disaster on the reactor personal and that the judge only did what the politburo ordered.
Sounds like you could adapt Leibo’s sequential social dilemma games. https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.03037

Instead of a total collective reward being the goal, you’d have team-based scores. You’d need cooperation within the team, and aggressive action against the enemy team.

Here’s an implementation of 2 games https://github.com/eugenevinitsky/sequential_social_dilemma_...
Two top executives leave Uber posts
The corralary being: a shallow brook babbles the loudest
> I have personally noticed that overall average cost of Uber/Lyft for me has gone up

I took a taxi last month for the first time in something like 6 years because uber was 15 minutes away and surging. The taxi was already there and cleaner than almost any uber ive ever taken - and cheaper than the surge.
It's competing as much as you need to to make the sale, not competing as much as you can.
I've voted for the green party before but it felt like I wasn't doing anything. I think it's more effective to create caucuses/other groups within the existing large parties to try to get them to change. This is basically what happened with the Republican tea party and is happening now with the DSA. Both cases have been more successful than anything the libertarians or greens have tried to do
Never head of poetry before. Looks very nice. Thanks for sharing.
Fewer Than Half of Violent Crimes Are Solved in America
Yeah I used to live a few blocks from Powell's Technical about 10 years ago. What a place.
Reliable signatures to detect known software faults
A quick Google shows a few sites that keep history of IMDB ratings. Unfortunately they seem to concentrate on movies actually in the IMDB 250

Some interesting ones:

Avatar - http://top250.info/movie/?0499549

Se7en - http://top250.info/movie/?0114369

Heat - http://top250.info/movie/?0113277

Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens http://top250.info/movie/?2488496

Terminator 2 - http://top250.info/movie/?0103064

Note: There seems to be a big shifts in movie ranks in May 2005 and July 2012, probably due to a change in the ranking formula.