skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The person that I quoted was responding to someone who talked about keying in directions and the limitations that Mazda's limitation will cause for that. That functionality is not available while driving even with a touchscreen.

To me, its a situation of throwing out the good with the bad.
So if cryptocurrency is taxed on capital gains, and this is a stablecoin, can they buy their own currency in whatever tax haven they are storing money in now with money they want to repatriate to the USA, then sell the coin in the USA and pay no taxes because it is a stablecoin to they didn't actually have any gains? And they do all this while controlling the cryptocurrency itself?
OK, but where are you going to find engineers with experience in those archaic technologies? And stuff breaks; where are you going to find equipment to replace it? The industry has moved on and is no longer making stuff like core memory, so you may not be able to acquire it even if you are willing to spend a lot.
Has Google made any public statements about whether or not calendar data is used for ad targeting? Gmail was used for ad targeting until mid-2017[1] but I haven't seen anything about calendar.

[1] https://blog.google/products/gmail/g-suite-gains-traction-in...
this is actually the reason i didnt get a tesla! 800 comments in this thread and maybe im not alone. hopefully things change for the better.
At the very least, if you had your Google Calendar synced to your mobile device (with the Calendar app) you can still view your meetings offline. You just can't add new ones.
Seems like the whole backend is down as meet.google.com isn't showing scheduled meetings either
I think that's just called "investing."
sqlite is not a proper choice for a service like this, something like Postgres could actually provide a proper DBE that could net some performance benefits.
Do you mean other than the ads inside gmail?
Because then it would be a double planet.
You could get their corpses there, sure.
Navigating Matplotlib
> How about the arts? How about history and culture, you know the stuff that makes living worthwhile beyond your usefulness to line the pockets of capitalists?

Do you ever think about the possibility of people making art or studying history without going into tens of thousands of dollars of debt?
I feel like the biggest losers here are open consensus-based cryptocurrencies like [Stellar](https://stellar.org) and [Ripple](https://ripple.com). Libra seems to have the same niche: a consensus-based blockchain protocol rather than proof of work. I fear that having the clout of a bunch of tech companies behind it will get consumer buy-in much faster than Stellar will (with IBM World Wire).

A stablecoin backed by a consortium of large companies is an interesting design choice; it's more intuitive for consumers, but seems like it opens itself up to arbitrage, taking advantage in price differences between the different currencies the crypto is pinned to. I much prefer Stellar's decentralized exchange, where tokens can be issued by any user and exchanges from one token type to another happen transparently via people advertising exchange rates.
It's a whole new avenue for predatory lending practices such as payday loans, too.
Ask HN: Open-Source Neural Architecture Search Framework?
Hey HN,

I've been doing some research into Neural Architecture Search recently, and I've come across some tools like Auto-Keras. While they seem promising, I feel like a more robust, powerful tool would be a lot more useful for the machine learning and software engineering community.

Is there any tool that lets you swap the search algorithm and criteria dynamically? I imagine something like this would become a huge part of modern machine learning in industry.

I of course probably have some mistaken assumption.
Same from India.
I wouldn't be so sure about that.

About 2yrs ago I booked a flight to my relatives for a Christmas trip and pasted the info into my Google calendar. Within hours, I got google calendar notices about not having confirmed my hotel reservation. It was VERY annoying as it was borderline deceptive, presented as if I'd already gone through the whole reservation process but failed to confirm.

It was definitely a Google notice, and a Google confirmation process when I clicked through to confirm if I wanted this service. I shut it off as best I could find and told them I wanted no part of any such deceptive marketing, even though I would perhaps have wanted a service that made it clear that I was being offered an option, not a fake reminder.

I saw nothing of it since, but then I'd shut it off, so I should have no data. So, it seems that Google has siloed projects that not all employees know about...
G Suite Status Dashboard:
https://www.google.com/appsstatus#v=status&hl=en

Looks like Gmail had a service disruption yesterday[0] and they're investigating Calendar now.

> "We're investigating reports of an issue with Google Calendar. We will provide more information shortly. The affected users are unable to access Google Calendar." [1]

[0] https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=1&iid=eb...
[1] https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=2&iid=cc...
This article reminded me of a long-form article I read on here (below) about a maritime disaster that was similarly well written. Not surprised that it turns out to have been written by Langewiesche as well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16757343

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/04/inside-el-faro-the-w...
> How easy/hard is it for a developer?

If one is targeting any SAML compliant IdP, then this would be very hard and painful unless the developer chooses to use a mature library that preferably provides high level APIs to handle the request generation and response handling.

> How about setting up an identify provider in dev?

The easiest way is to not setup one in dev by oneself, but use free instances (potentially unstable at times) provided by the likes of Okta (okta.com) and other cloud based services.
See also: Paul Graham’s essay “The Python Paradox.”

http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html
I don't think it would matter. One (or four) degree(s) is a similar change in either scale. I think the larger issue is the disconnect between global average temperature and local weather systems. I think people read "4 degrees warmer" and think that all of their weather forecasts are going to be 4 degrees higher than they used to be. It seems like a small change when viewed like that, but of course that's not what is going to happen at all.
Search also has the possibility of degrading nicely, unlike a calendar. You could store the top million sites in some backup service and drop down to string matching if you had to. Searching for “how to train a hunting dog”? Here’s the Wikipedia page for Dog. Best of luck.
I don't know about you, but I rewrite all of my appliance firmware in chicken scheme.
Companies pay €€€ to use it for business. Free version was good introduction.

One reason for using Gmail (which is generating ad money) is the integration with calendar. Getting travel bookings automatically in calendar is useful.
The Cryptoviet Union
This is a great example. I automated away the jobs of a few people at a transportation company that had a few large clients that expected to be invoiced in particular ways with additional documentation.

We put together a document imaging solution to gather all the relevant docs from all loads and made the pickiest customer the default for all invoices and automated the entire system. Instead of laying those people off though, we focused them on calling on unpaid invoices which greatly helped accounts receivable.

Similarly, at an oil and gas company we took the better of several business processes, molded them into one optimized process, automated it, and after a dip in the price of oil and layoffs many jobs were never rehired for.

At both of these places the leadership saw the value of getting the software right, hired for it, and we got the job done. I estimate the oil & gas company saved themselves $1 Billion over the next 10 years.
Just got 4 calls from different departments and two people coming here saying the internet is broken ("Google calendar is broken company wide!").

(Please introduce more meaningful error messages, Google)
As other commenters have said, we don't have the tools to see that far yet, so it's only through a miracle of math, physics, and engineering that we can deduce the size, distance from the star, and atmospheric composition of exoplanets from variations in the brightness and color of a distant star over time. The James Webb telescope should help, but because of the nature of the technique our observations are constrained to solar systems that are perfectly aligned with ours, such that the planets pass directly in front of the star relative to the observer. It's possible that we can survey enough of those stars to get a rough idea of the ratio of life friendly planets, but we'll likely never know for sure. Maybe conditions for supporting life are correlated with alignment to the galactic plane!
Those are not exclusive, you know that, right?

On the contrary, a shrinking population is much more likely not to be able to manage those issues.
Ye olde adage the shoemakers own shoes comes to mind
> majority

I would agree, as long as the "majority" refers only to the majority of people that use and maintain the particular platform upon which the censorship is occurring.
At these big tech companies, your level is not just a puffy title. Within whatever your current level is, there is not much opportunity for compensation growth. L+1 usually represents a large leap in compensation, which explains the emphasis on it.

Nobody leaves FAANG1 for FAANG2 to simply get a title bump. They leave to get the level bump which sometimes means +20%, +50% or even +100% in terms of total comp.
Neat, but think article title is trying to make this seem alot more interesting than it is. Rope bridges are common
This is similar to the story about planes coming back with holes during WWII. They focused on adding armor on those spots but the number of planes that came back home didn't increase. It turns out that the planes with the holes were the ones hit in non vital spots. They should have up-armored everywhere BUT those spots.

It's a similar situation here. The helmet prevent death but increase the amount of injuries. Removing the helmets and adding more body armors would be problematic.

Edit: Wrote this out of memory but here's a source if you want to read more. https://medium.com/@penguinpress/an-excerpt-from-how-not-to-...
Sounds like the premise of Aurora! Which definitely turned me off the idea of multi generational starship travel. It's not ethical.
Same for me. I'm at a coffee shop and thought it had something to do with their wifi.
> However, it turns out that there are a lot of developers that really love Elixir!

Turns out it has nothing to do with being non-typical and everything to do with Elixir.

This is more of an ad for their company than an article on hiring for unconventional tech stacks.
Most outages aren't so obvious as this one, and any ping will fail intermittently (often because the ping agent has a failure.) Google definitely has loads of pings hitting Google Calendar in various ways. Exposing this monitoring to the public is not practical or really useful. (And would aid would-be attackers.)
It’s Disney dollars for Facebook ads. Yawn.
Good point. That made me realize my preference is a bit more nuanced. For anything where navigating menus or anything displayed on a screen is required, I'm all for touchscreens.

For other things, like volume adjustments, climate control, seat position, etc. I agree that physical controls that can be operated w/out visual interaction are best.
The avoidance of Monsanto seeds could be a part of it.
Please tell me you have not been coding in Python for the last five years.
Ah, that's like RFC 4210 for PKI!
I think he is onto something. Unbound population growth combined with rapidly increasing standards of living can only lead to larger carbon foot print by the nation as well as larger water consumption. I think controlling population to some degree (I don't know what that degree is) would be enormously beneficial to the environment.
I prefer one screen. For work, I use 15-inch MBP without external display. Sometimes, I use a stand to raise it a bit and use wireless keyboard.

Personal laptop is connected to 21 inch monitor but I keep it closed most of the time, so only one screen.

I find my productivity is so much higher on one screen vs two.

However, I feel like vertical configuration, in which laptop is in the front and monitor is raised and slightly behind laptop works for me, as long as I am not moving my neck up and down.
Yes. Do you think 99% of people who go to college are self-thinking and not corporate drones? Why do so many of them move on to work at corporations?
Plenty of companies still use EDI for this.
"We're investigating reports of an issue with Google Calendar. We will provide more information shortly. The affected users are unable to access Google Calendar."
My dog will watch my LCD TV, she likes watching Minecraft and dog videos.
It's not hard to make the case that today's governments are tired and slipping and in need of reform. But there's no such thing as the libertarian fantasy of "lack" of governance. Human nature dictates that if there's a power vacuum, it will be filled. If it isn't filled carefully with a system designed to serve the people, it'll be filled by whoever can take it for themselves. And whether that's a feudal lord or Mark Zuckerberg, it will be worse than the alternative.

It's nothing short of a miracle that for the past 150-200 years, we've managed to fill much of the world's power space with a system that roughly serves the people (with lots of flaws, but nevertheless). Let's hope it isn't just an anomaly.
The validity is already known since most email servers will send a bounce if the address is not valid.
It is easier for me to do it that way as well but some people aren't familiar with docker and prefer to install into their OS.
> The Tesla's all-touchscreen situation in particular seems like a terrible idea.

Terrible idea? It's the best thing since sliced iPhone. Keep in mind that the "car" is usually driving itself; that's a much higher level of solving the "silly human takes eyes and hands off road" problem, which makes what Mazda is doing seem, frankly, short-sighted (disclosure: although a Honda/BMW/Tesla fan, I've always secretly cheered for Mazda because I like their driving "DNA," and if I ever buy another non-EV again it might just be an MX-5 NA or NB for autox/track use). Now, of course, they're _currently_ not in the same league, but this stuff is getting cheaper (technology! heck yeah!) and these changes should be a look toward the future. All of that said, I don't feel like there's anything wrong with the move they're making, just, again, doesn't seem terribly forward-looking -- other than that, it's perfectly fine.
Calendar is loading, but not my events o_O
Facebook having 2 operational databases instead of 1 still fails to inspire confidence.
Nothing. We're far past the point of no return at this point. Minimizing the disastrous consequences of climate change requires a coordinated worldwide effort. In principle, the only thing you can do that might make a difference is get active politically. In practice, given the level of dysfunction exhibited in global politics right now, I'm extremely pessimistic that there's any hope of doing anything on that level either.
Sorry to be the 15 year old, but could they have not chosen a better name?

Preemptively yes ive read the history of the name, but i doubt they didn't know the homophone.

The puns write themselves: More. Coq in Your Browser
I was just thinking exactly that: this is a check-cashing "bank" that preys on the poor and disenfranchised especially.
How many features do you need? I have a 2019 Subaru Forester and if I could have gotten it without a screen I would have. Everything I need while driving is on the steering wheel (cruise control buttons, radio controls), climate is a knob and 2 buttons. Everything else I don't need while driving.

The only thing a screen is good for is a backup camera. In my ideal car the screen just turns off or hides away when I'm not in reverse. Everything else is a distraction when you should just be driving.
I think you mistook my post as supporting Facebook. I am not supporting Facebook nor do I trust central governments. I ultimately think the Swiss model of governance where a lot of power is held in the region.
This is very much not true. There are good cases for both. John Skeet, who knows more about this topic than anybody I can think of, wrote a blog post that explained it well:
https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2019/03/27/storing-utc-is-not-a...
In addition to the other replies, I defer to the great Jon Skeet: https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2019/03/27/storing-utc-is-not-a...
Good teacher.
Not true. Billable labor rates are negotiated with the customer. The actual pay that an employee gets is based on market rates and the perceived value of the employee. The one may influence the other.
Or a day-night-day-penumbra-umbra-penumbra cycle. The primary-facing side would get maximum light just before entering the penumbra, experience total darkness in the umbra, and get some light directly from the star and some reflected from the primary from the time it exits the umbra to the time it re-enters. Every day would have a full stellar eclipse at noon. Every night would see the primary cycle from waxing half through full to waning half. The space-facing side would have an ordinary day-night cycle with the same period as its orbital period around its primary.
You're correct about payment in the developed world.

But the Libra website highlight potential usage in developing countries.
I may be wrong but in my opinion there is a huge market to take over in the countries where one has a Facebook account before having a bank account.

I can't find the link but I came across an article explaining that in Myanmar Facebook and "internet" are basically synonyms. That's because when most of the population began to have access to the internet it was only via Facebook services that are provided freely thanks to a commercial agreement between mobile providers and Facebook.

Now just imagine if Libra could pull something like that for payment services in all developing countries.
> something flipped in small business owners minds

EU intercharge cap (The Regulation on Interchange Fees for Card-based payment transactions) entered into force in June 2015 [0] - it was probably that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchange_fee#European_Union
You can mutate objects from multiple threads in Go without using channels.
Then there's good old IE 11:

foo = new Date(2018, 6, 100);
[date] Mon Oct 08 2018 00:00:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
Saying "haters" makes it look like the people criticizing Facebook don't have serious concerns about the influence it has on the world. It's not being a hater of Vim, or Python. This is far bigger.
In one of my past jobs I was a Level 3 Electronics Engineer for LM, and I made right at the middle of the pay band. It paid okay, but lower than someone doing my same job at the same place but working for Northrop Grumman made. I saw many people jump from LM to NGC just to get a big pay bump while doing the same work.

But LM is actively trying to reduce its number of Level 5, 6, and 7 engineers (the highest paybands on the technical career track). You would typically find a Level 5 engineer serving as an engineering technical team lead, a Level 6 as a site deputy chief engineer, and a Level 7 as a site chief engineer. A few years ago, LM Aeronautics offered all Level 5 and above engineers an early buyout/retirement and got over 1000 engineers to leave the company that way. Those engineers were largely not replaced, either in skills (hard to replace that level of expertise), billets (those jobs were not re-filled), or promotions (the sudden vacuum at the top end of the technical career pyramid was not filled by promoting large numbers of level 4 engineers to level 5, etc).
Wow... That's a really bad year for google.
Is it an easy task to install Mezzano on Virtualbox? How long does it take to get the system up and running?
The prophecies of William Gibson continue to unfold. I'm waiting for the Rastafarian colony in high orbit.
Didn't NASA report recently that earth is greener than 20 years ago due to China and India?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19228922
> selective breeding came very late to the party

I think that breeding before 17th century was focused on the dogs job such as hunting wolves (Wolfhounds), sheep herding (Border Collies), watch dogs.

When you don't breed for apperance and only have a low number of different kinds of jobs for dogs, then you only need very few breeds.

The Irish Wolfhounds were out of jobs in 1786 (no more wolves in Ireland) and the breed practically died out.
Gmail literally gives me ads related to the email I'm viewing. At least before I started using ad-blocking.
The "Sad" version is in the <title>. That usually means that is the original, and they changed the <h1>.
Yes, for unbanked people who, according to the Facebook FAQ, set up an account using a state-issued ID and jump through a bunch of other hoops that are the same you would need for a bank account.
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Very much agree on kids showing interest. I didn’t even have much choice, when my kids weren’t interested, they wouldn’t do it. Now that they’re interested, they’re self-motivated, exploring and begging me to help them.

As far as language choice goes, I’ve tried to teach my son Python and a couple other languages, but he’s not that interested. He’s choosing JS and is self-motivated to learn because he can share his creations with his friends super easily, and because he can edit JS files directly on his website that doesn’t need to run a back-end. That’s not really built-in to any other language. TypeScript is closest, of course, but for a kid the prerequisite of learning npm and a transpiler and installing them on a server are huge hurdles.

Personally, having worked in Python, C++, and JavaScript professionally for a couple decades, I’m not in the least bit worried about my son learning JavaScript and being able to use what he learns in other contexts, not even a little. All languages have oddities, and IMO JS doesn’t have more than any other language, they’re just different. JS is really great for asynchronous thinking and quick to prototype interactive web pages and games.
Hmm, makes me wonder why I let that experience drop off my resume.

Oh yeah ...
It turns out that Pakistanis are humans too, and they need water as well. Besides, there's the little problem of nukes.
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That’s an excellent point that time had kind of glossed over for me. When you mentioned that, I remembered playing a couple of commercial games. You’re right - they were better, but not that much better.

Thanks for the comment and helping my memories! This has been a great thread.
The "rust belt" and it's socio-economic realities meander quite a bit throughout the NE
Agreed. Though it seems like the consensus protocol does protect against malicious or compromised gatekeepers.

It seems that by dialing up the trust in their validator nodes (to something significantly greater than the trust you might have in a bitcoin node, but also significantly less than 100% trust), they are able to decrease the work involved in the consensus protocol, reducing energy usage.
The hardest part is actually having your resume read by a human decision maker who is not HR,agent, jobsite, middleman, etc.

To do so, your resume must look flawless. And impressive. Both content and form. For form, try Latex.

Then find the decision maker and send email directly. The job sites are useless.
> they provide a nice web interface (Horde)

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder :)

https://www.horde.org/apps/webmail/screenshots