skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, you loose that bet then! ;)

Also, paying myself is a strange concept. Yeah, it's 'lost time' but only to me and my family. It's not like other forms of employment. Besides, it keeps us a bit lighter on the clutter, though we would like some more things in life. $800 payed to myself is a lot different than $800 paid to some movers.
Glad to hear your son is doing well. I can barely imagine how difficult those 2 weeks must have been.
Years ago, HP had an incredibly powerful product (secure banking server, using NSA's CMW code), placed in all 325 of the largest banks in the world (not kidding) with a very stupid name. I've forgotten it, but it was a humdinger-darlin'-dumba$$ name that meant something sexually grotesque in Swedish or something. I took over as the product manager in 2000, and immediately went for the rebranding. Granted, HP was large, but the rebranding went absolutely great. First, the customers were actually happy to not have to refer to this mature product by a stupid name, and second, the uptake increased almost immediately to encompass about another 150 large banks, who said, "yeah, we wanted the features, but we weren't going to tell our customers we were protected with the "VirtualVulvaScraper" (or whatever the $#%^&&*@!! name was). It only worked to our advantage to do this, and it paid off at every stage. Never underestimate how relieved a customer will be to see a product they like grow up and start using more elegant branding.
+1 for street names in view port. I tend to research the route and then put away the phone when I'm on my bike. What is the name of the street where I need to turn right?

Also, if I have to go straight ahead for a long time, the street names might change several times, but I don't care much. I'd rather know I need to go straight for 5km, than go straight for 100m, then go straight again for 800m ....
Xoogler here... my favorite Maps spam story is how there was a cron job that ran every (I think) 6 hours to analyze and clean up suspected scam listings [1]. The scammers figured out when the cron job runs, and set up their own cron job putting up their listings again in the minutes after Google's finished.

It's a well-known problem on Maps and has been known for years. It boils down to: scammers are smart and resourceful and very good at making their scam listings look like real listings.

[1] if you're wondering why they didn't do the filtering at submission time, there was a good technical reason for this at the time that I don't remember anymore
In the Qur'an as well! Chapter 102:1-2, very roughly translates as "Surely the accumulation of wealth distracts you, distracts you until you visit the grave"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-Takathur
Just in case it wasn't clear to others, my argument wasn't that it isn't worth doing, it's that you cannot expect the level of returns that almost all articles, publications, and blog posts claim.

To expand, the reason one shouldn't rely on those is because people will bust out the spreadsheet, and put their 7-10% expected returns in there, and then figure out an amount of monthly savings that is "enough" for their goals. And then years will pass and they'll fall short.

Yes, invest - it'll most likely beat inflation. But don't get the false sense of security. (And you'll like need more than a million anyway.)
You’re welcome!

How do you suppose would dates help this series of essays?
I don't know for sure, but I think that's a problem that they had previously solved - I remember being impressed years ago by the fact that the street names always moved on zoom or scroll so they were always in view.

It seems like they've regressed for some reason.
I believe you can set up an iCloud account with just a phone number.
Similarly, my iPad 3 from the same year as the Nexus 7 1st gen sees more use than my 2nd Gen Nexus 7. Also the microUSB broke and I resorted to wireless charging after 2 years, which sold me on wireless charging.
Of course, but perhaps that can be coordinated better?
I wouldn't qualify the frequency of either of those things as statistically "alarming". In relation to how many people drive, those occurrences are exceedingly rare.
> 9900K has 5GHz turbo boost out of box, you just need to have enough cooling.

Anecdata here, but...

Depending on your type of workload, you don't need anything more than your typical heat sink and fan. Using Prime95 as a torture test, my 9900K will clock to 5 Ghz just fine on just air cooling without thermal throttling unless I'm doing the small FFT test, which creates a workload that fits entirely within CPU cache. I'm not sure if I'd consider that much of a real-world benchmark though.
There's the Stiftung Warentest in Germany (test.de).
For internal funds use Multi-sig and require all signers to use hardware wallets. As for contracts, formally verify them using KEVM and get audited by a reputable cybersecurity firm like Trail of Bits.
FUD. I see no legitimate evidence presented here, the article refutes itself
No offense: but why is this guy still talking? Didnt he crash a plane into a river?
What sorts of papers can we read to get a better understanding of data structures?
It isn't semantically meaningless.

Another way of conveying it might be this:

"For instance, they don't even know what their purpose is, which surprises this writer, given what an obvious and basic thing to know that would seem to be."

I'll admit their wording seems a bit overly casual, but it does convey things that simply saying "such as their purpose" would not, and it does it in fewer words than my example above.
So? That just means the car won't crash before you trick it into driving into its convenient ambush spot.
The cost of administration of the social safety net programs disappears when you stop caring if the benefits are used to buy cigarettes instead of milk, validating that a Section 8 domicile is worth the payments to the owner, or verifying an individual on unemployment is actively trying to return to work. Everyone gets $X.
You might be interested in Greg Egan's book Diaspora, which shows a view of a possible future in which we are able to upload our brains to computers.
Florists do something like this too.
The article said a teenager did his homework while on one.
Wouldn't they be able to solve this by requiring each registered business to install a beacon at their store? Each beacon has a unique ID that is tied to the business and the only data it sends back to the server are the ID and the coordinates. It's 2019, why do we have to send people down to manually watch or surveillance a business? That sounds more like a murder case investigation and a bit excessive.
OSM has a community in most places. Nobody really cares about google.
No, in the face of an unexpected obstacle (multiple bird strike) he took decisive action to safely put the plane down with zero loss of life. He's a hero.
While the reset procedure is too much there does need to be a way to reset bulbs are out of reach.
If you still have problems after the latest App Store update, their TestFlight build fixed that issue.
How long is it going to take you imbeciles to realize that self-driving cars will never work?
> Maybe in the form of a cuff that you clamp over someone's wrist that can use computer vision to identify veins and automatically insert the needles and run the machine.

There's a reason they put the lines in the femoral vessels - these cannulas are like hosepipes - you need to access the large vessels to get sufficient blood flow through the whole circulation.
Would love that. Please and thank you.
True, but it's a vulnerability to any self-driving car that depends on GPS. Cars with a human in the loop just nope out.
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"It seems that most people who care already understand the high-level principals of US media propaganda manufacturing..."

Well, how do principals emerge in the first place? Often by intense research, data gathering, and sound argumentation.

I can't think of another work out there that lays this foundation like MC. If you do read it (or watch the documentary which I've heard is pretty good), you might be surprised at some of the filters that exist in the modern propaganda model. I sure was.

Anecdotally, I have plenty of well-educated friends who "care" and also consider themselves very media-literate. A lot of them also readily parrot talking points from the NY Times.

Having this body of work (which is an academic goliath, even by Chomsky and Herman's standards) is essential to critical media studies.
OSM isn't, but I suspect it's mostly because it's not high profile enough (the old "nobody bothers writing viruses for Linux" problem). If it were, I'm sure we'd see junk data. OSM's data is version controlled in some way, so I'd assume it could be rolled back, but that sounds labor-intensive.

I use OSMand instead of Google Maps, and love it, except for the absolutely atrocious address parsing when searching. There's also a general lack of street numbers in my area (Pacific NW USA), which can make things difficult.

Amusingly, it also suffers from the "won't show you street name labels" problem that other posters are accusing Google Maps of.
Even if the nurse is billed out at $500 an hour you're still only 1/6th of the way to that price.
What to do when Customs asks for your social-media account info
It's a very good time to dive into microservices/containers/container orchestration.

Good times.
> Why were Coinbase employees allowed to use Mozilla Firefox?

Nowhere in article it is said that any Coinbase employee was using Firefox. It only says that attack targeted Firefox, not that Coinbase employees use Firefox.
I think the point is the definition of toxic masculinity that you are using differs from that of some of the other posters.

As I understand your definition toxic masculinity is the pressure society puts on people to conform to negative masculine roles.

My personal definition would be people expressing there masculinity in a way that is hurtful and belittling of others.

They both are part of the same problem where society creates and perpetuates and pushes people to toxic expressions of masculinity and that in turn hurts the public in general. Which looks something like:

Society -> Masculine Roles -> The Public

I'd call the negative expression of that chain Toxic Societal Norms and the second part would be Toxic Masculinity. In both cases it's the noun, societal norms or masculinity, that is the source of the toxicity.
Causes of death in the US: facts vs. Google searches vs. media coverage
Clearly defined spec + order of magnitude funding difference + new market = ideal product cloning opportunity

As has been mentioned here, Facebook is running out of strangers to connect: future growth will depend on adding new types of users.
I respectfully disagree. Simple and elegant code is extremely difficult to write, and the ability to do so is mostly orthogonal to intelligence. However, below a certain threshold of skill and capacity for reasoning about spatial complexity, the developer is much more likely to write confusing, tangled, unnecessary, and verbose code. Reading through a codebase with tons of copy pasted code requires far more effort than a codebase with well designed abstractions. The key phrase there is well designed. What you are describing is someone who know which abstractions to use when and where, and that is a skill that requires lots of experience and technical maturity.
I didn't miss your point, I disagree with it.

I believe people in China understand very well what paper money is and means, in roughly/ballpark the same terms as Americans.

I could be wrong.
interesting, in that from my perspective it's a joke that only works if you're reinforcing a cultural attitude that they're breaking a norm. I.e. it wouldn't exist or even thought to be said unless there was an inherent expectation/value in working long hours.

Also, I'd probably worry that such frequent jokes walk a very fine line towards passive aggressive behavior (again, such jokes just won't exist where there is no expectation).

obviously I don't know your workplace, so there's a good possibility no one gets offended, but just pointing out there's different interpretations of such actions, and just because no one's saying anything doesn't mean it's not happening...

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It seems like most chromebooks today run on x86. I have a pixelbook I picked up on sale for around $650 (mid-grade model marked down from $1200). I've had it for around a year now and it's been a good experience.

I think the big issue for most people and chromeOS is that $400 laptops suck no matter which OS they run. A 12" macbook with the same specs (256GB SSD, 8GB RAM, i5 Y-series processor) runs $1400, has no touchscreen/tablet mode, no pen capability, a bad keyboard, one less USB-C port (a big deal for me), and (surprisingly) a smaller, worse trackpad.

Software has gotten radically better recently. I run chromeOS for my browser, Android for a few apps, and Crostini/Debian 9 for the rest and development. My big complaint is that Crostini isn't GPU accelerated at the moment (they have it working in nightly, so it's coming later this year).

The best part is how seamless it is to run 3 different OS's in one computer at the same time. Android (and Debian) are full installs, so no emulation issues. Instead, chromeOS basically hands off a frame buffer for them to fill (along with relevant IO events they are allowed to see). An Android or Debian apps act just like any other native window on the system while still providing a high level of security.

My big complaint is that some compute-intensive things like running a full test suite takes some time, but that's simply an artifact of the fanless, Y-series form factor (and I still have the option of SSHing into my desktop). I'm not a big fan of the new, unified settings and notifications (I preferred them separate), but it's not a huge issue. I'd like multiple desktops, but those are supposedly already in nightly too.

Overall, I'm not sad to leave my Macbook Pro sitting on the shelf.
What if you required 7 hours for a listing to go live?
Except it's not fast - apparently it takes 1-2 weeks and if this thread is anything to go by, the customers seem not happy at all. Gluing batteries is just crazy, I didn't even know they do that these days (old Thinkpads for life).

Still, people keep buying useless shiny things for exorbitant prices, so Apple must be doing something right. I just don't know what it is - maintainability or easy repairs definitely isn't it.
50% pop, not bad. Underwriters got $0 of that pop, very nice for whoever pounced early.
US tech workers of Chinese descent see trade war backlash
As a Mozilla employee I can say that I was in the security group but lost access at some point since I wasn't very active.
Some offices in Thailand will nuke the aircon to save money at certain times
Yeah, it's taking up valuable space we could be using for content marketing, politics, clickbait, or startupcanistan circlejerking!
Amazon does employ more than tech people which is probably what the person was referring to.
>small pocket who we truly incensed. While the incensed group was extremely loud, they were also a tiny, tiny minority

Thing is, that small group is your grassroots, influencer base without which you fail to thrive. G+ never got beyond the starter 'tech nerds' blogger type adoption and out into mainstream headspace.

You don't have to bow to that crowd to succeed, but at the very least you have to avoid annoying them away from your offering.
It's amazing how much more complicated that procedure is than for the 13" MBP of the same vintage. You would think the smaller notebook would be harder to disassemble, but there are actually fewer cables and parts that need to be moved out of the way to get at the battery.
New versions of macOS put up permission dialogs when apps try to access hardware or sensitive data.
South Africa wins supercomputing competition
Wow. Created a Hacker News account just to slam Sully..
Or, you know, avoid spreading bullshit, so you won't feel guilt when they believe you or shame when they find out :)
Reader was the shot that killed any trust in Google's service for me as well... Today it's mostly my gmail account that is mostly bulk mail, fallback search when ddg fails me, and maps on my phone. And even the gmail I've been contemplating how to best get away from it.
It is necessary because of some limitations, but IMO it's also a great idea nonetheless. Types' names are a great documentation, one which you can't get with pure inference.

Even languages that have (close to) the best possible inference, like OCaml, still have additional syntax for defining types, because it 1. gives you documentation and 2. allows you to do things that are mathematically proven to be impossible via inference.

TS is great, and also moving really fast and becoming better every 2-3 months.
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Market share has something to do with it too. If as many people used OSM as use Google Maps, I'm sure that it would become just as bad.
Form factor I suppose. I just don't use my phone for as many things as my iPad (which I have always with me, with LTE). iPhone I use for short messages, google maps and quick email read-throughs and taking photos. That's about it. Maybe streaming songs. Any Android phone can do the same, some even better (Huawei Mate 30 Pro cameras e.g.)

iPad can do all the above, plus much better web browsing, reddit, video/youtube viewing, photo editing, email and writing in general (with Apple Smartkeyboard), etc. It works with touch, pencil and keyboard and just feels like my personal device.
Read an article recently about someone in Europe who successfully sued Facebook to have their business removed from the social network. Apparently Facebook were adding pages for businesses by themselves, including pictures and everything and were even showing ads for them.

Said person was upset that they did this behind their back and asked them to take it offline, whereas FB suggested instead that he creates an account and takes over the page. He sued and won, then Facebook of course appealed and lost several times, needing to pay in the end 70.000 EUR as punishment. Now anyone (in the EU probably) can refer to this case and ask their business to be removed without having to create accounts.

Maybe someone should sue Google and create a precedent.
If we were talking about Ruby or Python, you'd have a stronger point. However Typescript's benefits far outweigh its drawbacks in light of Javascript's excessive lenience. Since, you're complaining about types, have you made good use of Typescript's interfaces and class inheritance? They're pretty powerful and even more flexible than something like Java.
Not quite 20; I have never interacted with BonziBuddy.
Right, that's how a module should be written. But the purpose of an audit is to find things that aren't as they should be. If you're using a module in the standard library, or another module that's widely used, then you can reasonably assume that any unsafe behavior is encapsulated. But that's more because you know the code quality is going to be at a certain level than because of the module boundary per se.
Google TSB / Banc Sabadell
Do any of those provide enough incentive for scammers to care about? Why would a scammer care to get fake data into any of those services?
This article was initially inspiring and interesting, but eventually I think it is a mud of "sound lies".

I like the idea that human cognition has a huge impact on our lives and it certainly has. But trying to pull off a new pradigm shift on the congnition hype train is annoying.

What is true for me is that even average software and systems we build can get insanely complex. To fix it, it is just suggested to reduce the product size, train / hire people. It is absolutely not wrong, but the narrative is. If we talk about congnitive load we should look at formalism. Yes it sounds awful. But having clear rules of yay's and nay's is when designing and evolving systems can clearly reduce cognitive load, because I cannot remember all the stuff people failed at in history.

PS: Please don't mix up fomalisms with principles.
Vue RFC: Expose logic-related component options via function-based APIs instead
"Masculinity isn't an unchangeable trait though"

Can't tell satire from serious arguments any more. Not sure if that's because I'm getting old or because the world is going nuts.
Both of the engines on the aircraft he was commanding failed, over the most densely-populated region in the country. He then landed the plane with no damage to anyone on the ground or inside his plane.

Most would agree that that situation couldn't have been handled better.
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Pornhub told me that there was a mature divorced woman waiting to have sex with me, just three miles away. Which puts her in undeveloped forest wilderness in any direction. I'm a little worried about her out there but don't want to get involved. Should I call search and rescue?
You’re welcome! Glad to hear they were helpful.
Were the Yellow Pages ever actually curated? It's been a very long time now, but back in high school I did some freelance computer repair work by making up a business name and putting it in the Yellow Pages with my cell phone number. As far as I can recall, there was no validation of anything other than that the check I wrote them was good.
Ha, I'd just not thought it through for some reason.
This, absolutely. The unexpected multiple bird strike took out both engines simultaneously. He made a conscious decision to bring the plane down in the river, as opposed to attempting to reach a nearby airport. Had he decided to go for an airport, he almost certainly would have fallen short and killed people on the ground (in the densely populated New York City) in addition to everyone on the plane. Bringing an aircraft down for a water landing is an extremely risky thing, and he was able to do so successfully without losing a single passenger. Hero indeed.
Yeah. Chips made out of silicon are more valuable than silicon is. I mean, how disconnected from reality does your view have to be to not see that?
How do GPU cores differ in that they have thousands of cores?
This isn't really that industry specific, the rehab scams were the same way: https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/7/16257412/rehabs-near-me-go...

You look for a local addiction rehab, but get a call center for a company which pimps out rehab centers in Florida.
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Or deliberately bullshit as much as possible so that people develop critical thinking skills :)
While not as bad as some companies (Pinterest), it does seem they're headed in a direction where wrong-think will get your videos pulled, your entire channel demonetized or worse. Kind of evil.