skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally, I hate FedEx with passion! They are the most unreliable, the most clueless and most difficult to work with. UPS never has an issue leaving packages by the door, whereas FedEx would always record a failed attempt to deliver. Last year I had a nightmare situation, where a case of wine was being shipped via FedEx and they "made an attempt" twice without bothering to leave a notice!!! (I suspect they weren't even at the right building). I ended up escalating it up the chain significantly to get it resolved but I swore to never ever ship anything by them.
Only if the customer wants them to be. If the customer wants to give you their real email address, they are free to do so. If they choose not to give that to you, but you want to contact them anyway because you think you know their desires better than they do, well... that’s exactly why this is needed.
USC School of Social Work in Financial Difficulties After Online-Driven Growth
You won't be able to play through the full storyline though.
Spread spectrum still has limitations. The more codes you add just brings up the noise floor for everyone else.
Understanding the safety and privacy challenges faced by South Asian women
Barnes & Noble actually used to have pretty knowledgeable and devoted booksellers at least in some areas and despite pretty crappy pay. Those were the people who just love books and they were willing to take the low pay for a job in an industry that they were attached to. From a business standpoint though that meant that you had people who would stay at the store for much longer than is common in a lot of retail settings.

That really changed after a disappointing 2017 holiday season when they laid off close to 2000 mostly long term employees in February 2018. They basically dumped a lot of long-term employees and hired much less experienced basic retail workers if they hired anyone at all. There was actually a fair amount of angst about it at the time particularly among bibliophiles.

A trenchant but insightful review of events from the time: https://audreyii-fic.tumblr.com/post/170886347853/the-entire...
You cannot expect the actual workers in radioactive disaster area to make such reckless decisions on their own. Such worker typically is not competent enough to decide that the directive of maximum acceptable risk should be overruled to make further work possible. The decision to expose workers to extraordinary risk should be made by the people in charge of the recovery effort, who should either be nuclear/biology experts or largely rely on what such experts tell them.
It’s not true in that this is not mandatory. Users are free to provide a non-private or even a non-Apple email. Apple only has as much control as your users give them. If you think that’s bad, maybe you should consider why those users don’t trust you.
Nurse warns women to stop vacuuming their vaginas to end their periods
XCOM: Apocalypse also took this aesthetic and ran with it all the way into the future.

https://youtu.be/2CUYps6AOZ4
A service called Loop[1] is currently being trialed that delivers goods using all reusable (not just recyclable) packaging. The service also picks up the used packaging. It is a collaboration between Walgreens and Kroger.

1. https://loopstore.com/
I'm very sympathetic to your overall sentiment regarding utility of many of the new features. My point remains however, that even addressing the current feature set is monumental enough of a task. The Javascript standard has become complex enough to implement and maintain from a functionality point of view, let alone keeping it secure.
Used to play the EV series an awful lot. Right now my jam is "StarSector" http://fractalsoftworks.com/ which is an amazing game and obvious labour of love by the dev who also keeps intresting blog posts going.
"plus the added liability of it breaking and a consumer reaching their hand inside."

Do people just make this stuff as up as a concern? There are plenty of areas where this is done without problems.
the writing has been on the wall for quite a while, sigh.

it gives people fond of memories, unlike amazon while you can get something cheaper, amazon has nothing else
Defending Against Neural Fake News [pdf]
Unless people are saying nice things to you on the orange website, then you definitely should listen!
I agree it's a little weird, and we do get requests for it once a month or so. When we decided on just adding a single 3rd party option, FB seemed like the most platform agnostic. We'll probably be adding all of them now though.
How do you "give respect" to people who, given half the chance, would literally ship you out of the country you've built your life in for the last two decades?

How do you find "common ground" with people who are seriously convinced that your mere existence is robbing them of something they cannot coherently articulate, when all the facts are that you are actually helping their own welfare?

I am afraid you have no idea what being an European (or most other ethnic minorities) is like in 2019 Britain. For us, this is not your standard dinner-party "lib vs con" parlour game, or the occasional shouting match at a family reunion - it's the difference between being a citizen in a modern democracy and being something very close to a Jew in Brüning's Germany.
Historically, you're right. But the meaning of right/left changed post WW2 (some would say WW1), at least in most european countries.
Reading and replying to this comment was not free then.....

Free in the colloquial sense means "no money required", otherwise nothing is free since there is always some cost, if not an opportunity cost. What are you going to do, complain that an app required bandwidth to download?
I think a feature that allows you to not download specific apps from the store would be interesting.
I think something along the lines of Google Stadia will really open up some possibilities regarding this.
Oxygen and nitrogen are hardly rare substances in the solar system, and probably not even on Mars. There are near infinite number of "tonnes" on Mars.

Besides, if the alternative is to leave Mars dead forever, I'd rather let it live for a billion years.

But maybe I don't get what your alternative is, if any?
I hope they don't kill B&N.
I dropped out of college while pursuing a Physics degree. After which I didn't have much in terms of career prospects. There was a B&N near my apartment and I bought a lot of CS and programming books and went on to get jobs at FAANGish companies. I think I've spent about $30,000 at B&N over a 15 year period. I mostly buy from Amazon now but still go to B&N to be able to quickly physically browse through various categories of books.
Do I understand this correctly that information about the crime is protected, but information about information about the crime is not?

This doesn’t sound right. For example, what’s the difference between being compelled to give up your password and being compelled to reveal where you buried a murder victim?
We recently had a 15 month long project almost fail due to some stupid shit and a really wonky error no one understood so far. <Almost fail> as in "Keep the customer on the phone we have 3 possible things to try and don't hang up! No one leaves that call until I'm out of hacks to deploy!" That evening we had the entire ops team in the houston-mode for several hours.

And yes, once we had a workaround in place the customer accepted, we reacted like that. Except we also had our critical-incident whiskey go around. Then the CEO walked in to congratulate us on that project. Whoops. But he's a good sport, so good times. :)
Thank you for your response. This is one of the reasons I come to HN, you were very helpful. Just curious, what sort of work/tech stack is Microsoft doing/using in RTP? What levels are they looking to hire?
I’m one of the four, unfortunately. I fully expect to be working until I die or at the very least until I am physically and/or mentally unable. I’m starting to resign myself to that future and can only hope I continue to enjoy the work that I do.
Maybe, but no one is forced to use their ISPs DNS either. Giving user's data to one snoop to protect them from another doesn't sound like a win to me either way.
I think the primary value from having a public hash chain in this case is that Facebook can't really do malicious things secretly. If they were to perform the procedure you describe, it would require very publicly listing all the accounts they are devaluing, and it isn't actually obvious that the impact on the value of the coins in those accounts would be significant. The value of the USD didn't instantly drop when it stopped being backed by the gold standard, and a coin that Facebook refuse to trade for cash would just be a "fiat" version of the currency, which could definitely retain value.

Today, when PayPal or Patreon shuts down an account, we only find out if that person complains and anybody pays attention. I imagine creators might prefer a platform that doesn't have obvious ways to easily shut them down, and where Facebook can claim to a court that doing so requires fundamentally compromising the security of the system.
You are probably thinking of pipelining in terms of the popular web browsers. Those programs want to do pipelining so they can load up resources (read: today, ads) from a variety of domains in order to present a web page with graphics and advertising.

That never really worked. Thus, we have HTTP/2, authored by an ad sales company. It is very important for an ad sales company that web pages contain not only what the user is requesting but also heaps of automatically followed pointers to third party resources hosted on other domains. That is, pages need to be able to contain advertising. HTTP/1.1 pipelining is of little benefit to the ad ecosystem.

However, sometimes the user is not trying to load up a graphical web page full of third party resources. Here, the HN commenter is just trying to get some HTML, extract some URLs and then download some files. The HTML is all obtained from the same domain. This is text retrieval, nothing more.

If all the resources the user wants are from the same domain, e.g., archive.org, then pipelining works great. I have been using HTTP/1.1 pipelining to do this for several decades and it has always worked flawlessly.

Typically httpd settings for any website would allow at least 100 pipelined requests per connection. As you might imagine, often the httpd settings are just unchanged defaults. Today the limits I see are often much higher, e.g., several hundred.

It is very rare in my experience to find a site that has pipelining disabled. More likely they are disabling Connection: keep-alive and forcing all requests to be Connection: close. I rarely see this.

The HTTP/1.1 specification suggests a max connection limit per browser of two. There is no suggested limit on the number of requests per connection. In terms of efficiency, the more the better. How many connections does a popular we browser make when loading an "average" web page today? It is a lot more than two! In any event, pipelining as I have shown here stays under the two connection limit.
They said "you must implement sign-in with apple if you implement other third party logins". The inference is
A) You (app developer) can build your own login - then this is not an issue
B) You (user) can switch login - developer has to provide this switch feature, but if they do, it is not an issue
> they’ve been implementing privacy features for several years…

Yet this one is not a pro-privacy feature, it's an "apple owns your privacy" feature. Apple will control your account access and even be able to read your emails. Sure you trust them, but in the future they 'll use it to push their own ecosystem (like apple payments) to developers. We 've had single sign-ons for too many years to know that any ecosystem lock-in is a bad thing. As bad as email sounds, it's still the free-est , most decentralized login provider available.

> If Mozilla or name your blessed organization of choice came up with this system, most of them would be fine with it.

Mozilla came up with Persona, which would be great if they pushed it further and perhapps provided an anonymous email relayer like this instead of being based on existing email providers. With Mozilla the big advantage is that your account is not tied to any other service, real name, credit card etc. I wouldn't use Apple Login to sign up to a porn site, despite the high standards of apple's security.
> If the iPhone did not have [...] Google Maps then less people would buy iPhones

Google tried that, that’s why Apple built Apple Maps. If the iPhone did not have Google Maps less people would use Google Maps. That’s why Google makes it available.
I had the exact same thing with a D&D book. I don't remember which (it was 5th ed, so fairly recent), but online it was equal to the Amazon price. In person it was like $10-20 more, and yeah, wouldn't price match.

Taught me to never look at B&N for a book I wanted again. I only ever go in there now when I happen to pass one with time to kill and just want to browse.
Zero Knowledge Proofs: Owning Our Identity and Our Data
This is a nice overview, however, the images seem to be for NMR imaging (NMRI) while the equations are for 1D NMR. As other posts comment the NMR only portion can be relatively simple, but it's usually used to characterize chemical samples by their resonances. Imaging is very different.

I'd note that for 3D NMRI the challenge of tomography (extracting the 3D data from a bunch of interfering resonant torus regions) is actually more difficult in practice (I haven't heard of ML/DL techniques, but I'd expect they are now used) though the concept of NMR (without imaging) is more physically interesting. Furthermore, when chemistry is important the fitting algorithms to extract weak NMR signals overlapping strong signals is actually also moderately complex and over looked here for the sake of clarity and brevity.
If Apple doesn’t place some guarantees around the emails, then yes, I’ll be blocking the relay domain. I don’t care to know a user’s true identity, I just want to ensure that the same person can’t use the system to trivially create unlimited new anonymous accounts on my system.

I’d like to see these:

1. Restricted to people who have associated a physical Apple device, and

2. No ability for the user to re-scramble the anonymous identifier once it is assigned to a service.

If these two criteria are met, I won’t consider it a throwaway email service.
> Last year I wanted to buy Thinking in Bets (great book, btw). I was feeling impatient, so I looked it up on Barnes and Noble's website, and saw that a store where I was had it in stock.

> I went in to purchase it, and the price in store was a couple bucks higher than the listed price online.

If you looked at in on the web and saw that it was in stock, it also had a “buy online and pick up at X store” button on the results page online, which is both more convenient and avoids the problem you relate (they've had that feature for years, and I just tested and it's still there now.)

The in store price is probably higher because people coming in, going through the stacks and de-merchandising books, asking questions, etc., cost more to service, and would be even more unsustainably unprofitable if online prices, which are for sales that don't have those costs associated were charged (meanwhile, online sales would be uncompetitive if in-store prices were charged.)
Very good paper,

I would like to find the right game to do some research with CFR as i think cooperation in incomplete information games is one of the most interesting field in AI.

I would like a game :

- Turnbased

- Incomplete information (fog of war)

- Team based

- Strong cooperation and coordinations between players is requiered for win.

I started to create a 2D CSGO, but i would like to know if there are any similar game already existing.
Appreciate the detail.

I'll add that I can recommend the DSO-138 for those new to electronics and want to start with something fun. It comes in a kit (soldering + assembly required), and is great way to get introduced to electronics assembly. At the end you'll hopefully get a working oscilloscope to play with :)

It's an awesome project for kids too!
> However, A would not have accepted "what did they want" as grammatical under any circumstances.

Huh, so what do they use when B doesn't know Joe's gender?

> There is no such thing as this in linguistics.

Well, more pedantically: in the sense that it makes determining whether a sentence is grammically correct more dependent (or dependent, if it wasn't already) on random details of the outside world that shouldn't matter until we check for semantic correctness.

> is certainly not the weirdest or most arbitrary-seeming way of assigning noun classes

Of course not, natural langauges (actually by definition) are 'designed' by pseudo-evolutionary processes; if anything, it's surprising they aren't worse.
-_- I never appealed to 'more manual work', nor did I say that. If you refuse to understand my point and want to make up things I did not say, so be it.
The whole point of Risc is to avoid instruction complexity for rarely used instructions. Popcount and family are most likely microcoded to expand to a loop anyway, so why add this complexity to silicon?
Yes, HN is a PR site. People pay to get content frontpaged here.
That's not how this works though. If I want to post video clamining someone did something, I sign it, but what does this prove? Nothing.
Mystery of SFPD vice cop's killing in Walnut Creek 30 years ago remains unsolved
Amazon's smaller mall bookstores feel the same way if you have kids. Heck, they even have less toys, which is useful when kid wrangling (the last time I went to B&N, I couldn't get my toddler out of hte book section).
Thanks for that!

> it was excellent at running Compute Shaders

On one hand, that statement supports my belief that there is more to graphics than just a lot of raw compute flops.

> It would have been a very strong chip in the high-end visualization world, where tiny triangles, super-short lines and massive data sets are the main workloads - all things Larrabee was great at.

But this goes the opposite way. :-)

Because you'd think that a lot of small primitives would make it harder to deploy those raw compute flops.
I'm consistently amazed by the articles produced by the RPS team. Maybe they just fit my preference of writing style but I genuinely think they write some of the most interesting and engaging articles on the internet as of right now. Kudos!
The problem I have with having queries like this in my code is that your schema and your code can get out of sync and these are errors only occuring at runtime.

Therefore, looking for a safer solution, I've also looked at various options in my last Go project, and ended up with SQLBoiler. It supports fetching related documents in a single query and seems to be quite performant.
> do we really want plural verb forms to also be singular sometimes?

Wait ‘til you learn about scissors and underwear, it’s really going to blow your mind.
> However if you grab the book yourself from the physical store and save them a step

The average customer gettibg the book themselves rather than ordering it and picking up at the counter is imposing more cost (and that's even more true of the average in-store customer, who probably hasn't searched online for a particular title and checked inventory and then decided not to do online purchase and pickup; by doing that you are making yourself indistinguishable, from a pricing policy perspective, from a much more expensive to serve class of customer.)
Which woman?

The one on the picture might have, but what about anyone who to overzealous neighbours looks like the person on a rather crappy picture?

What should they do to avoid being accosted on the street, or worse?
It’s about time we had a good 5th-Edition D&D computer game. Hope this is it.
And then the police harassed them until he moved away. Department of Justice indeed.
USSR tried to cover up information on the disaster. They said to soviet people: don't worry, we have this under control and refused to cancel May 1st parade in Kiev. People in affected areas found out about the dangers from western media first, only later the state admitted what had happened. The state later (months, years after the disaster) tried to suppress what Legasov had to say and refused to give him the medal.

Pretty bad record for the USSR government, and pretty well depicted in the series.
Reminds me of a Robert Hughes quip: "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize".
I don't mean to sound mean but it seems to me as a European that Americans value comfort and convenience over being prudent and thrifty. I hear stories from people on massive salaries yet struggling to make ends meet due to a lifestyle of extravagant food choices, car purchases and other material junk which is not necessary. The saving grace of all of this is the recent trend on the topic of FIRE- people who realise they don't need all that junk and prefer financial freedom over a life of servitude.
(Throwaway due to my employment.)

Meanwhile this[0] was posted on some of the entrances to the common buildings on Microsoft's campus for some time. They seemed to be training an algorithm for "fairness" by taking video of employees that were entering via certain doors. You could "opt out" by choosing another entrance though.

[0] https://imgur.com/a/qYuelxD
+1 on the search part. I fully expected a search bar on the landing page and just got sign-up and feature page. Seeing any form hits the : interest level exceeded: mark for me, but I'm so for supporting anti-google that I will wait for you to have bloom.sh have a nice big search bar in the middle like https://duckduckgo.com/
A little trick I've found out is having a GSuite account added to the Gmail app and generally always using the "all inboxes" view, I've seen no ads with this setup.
For everyone talking about the benefits of glass bottles, they have their own dangers.

This study from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia showed that broken glass bottles accounted for 15% of all lacerations in children (the largest single cause) and broken glass bottles most frequently inflicted injuries resulting in functional impairment or hospitalization

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abst...

There may be a possible danger from plastic bottles over the long term, but widespread glass bottle adoptions is going to result in a lot of lacerated kids.
As a technique against this, at the point that you're writing the code to begin with, have you ever tried documenting the reasons you're doing something even if it's blatantly obvious at the time?

// rather than use the API we parse a scrape here with a
// regex because we signed up and it doesn't have half the fields we want.

like, totally obvious. except six years later when the regex stops matching, and you are already using the API all over the code anyway and you get to this part with the scrape and you don't get it. Are we trying to elude the API requests number limit? or what is the reason for this bizarre scrape.

a lot of people would refactor by seeing if they can put the API call in there, but this wastes massive time you could avoid if you knew the reason for this in the first place. and maybe the API still doesn't have it, and so you put the API call in, you try to remember the reason for the scrape, and then you realize that all this is still the best way to do this, you just have to update the regex to continue to match. work that could have been saved by a simple comment telling you the reason it looks this way.
Depends where you live. I have the complete opposite experience in San Francisco. UPS has lost packages left and right while Fedex is always on time and super reliable.
Jared Kushners white supremacy shines through -Opinion