skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To add to this profane, yet important point: When you talk with NICU docs, their biggest complaint is the wires and tubes.

Often in a NICU there are wires and tubes everywhere. Operating or trying to help a babe invariably ends up with some person standing on some line and pinching it or ripping it out of the many many machines.

I'm super not kidding here. There are a TON of machines trying to keep the kiddo alive. Imagine a 5m sized cube filled with machines all trying to keep a kid the size of a breadbox breathing and the heart beating (or not, sometimes). It's a lot of carts, wires, amps, and waste heat in these rooms.

Wireless is not possible as a lot of the machines aren't sheilded properly or are activley trying to jam some frequency band for a medical purpose (MRIs). Wires are the only solution. Tubes filled with some form of fluid are also, obviously, not able to be wireless. Especailly when things get desperate, there are liquids, fluids, blood, tissues, urine, and saline everywhere as frantic nurses and docs trip over the tubes and pull them out of their machines.

You want to help the victims? Get rid of the wires. Stop dicking about with matrices.
This is NOT a software issue. It's a much deeper Boeing management issue which manifested (in this particular case) as a software issue. When the software issue is fixed, there is no guarantee that the underlying problem won't resurface in some other form.
This has been the problem with results for the past few years. E-commerce gets priority in all things and you have to wade through pages of useless links if you want actual content about what you are searching for.
A lot of IKEA's products are highly modular and you have to buy the individual parts to create a full product. Their pricing strategy is to set base products relatively cheaply, but the have higher markups on additional accessories for customization.

This does create design challenges that other furniture stores don't have to deal with.
Totally agree. Googles' golden egg is not the index but the datasets containing searches done by the user (together with location data from Android and Maps, and speech data from Assistant).

As far as I remember Google is actually shrinking its index in terms of number of indexed websites because 90% of the internet are irrelevant for the majority of searches. Basically "quality over quantity" if you can say that.
Very true and I didn’t mean to say otherwise. There is nothing wrong about being a citizen of more than one country.

I’m trying to point out that Thiel doesn’t actually trust the US government and he is making an argument in bad faith to serve his personal interests, not those of other US citizens
Unfortunately not in the foreseeable future. It is a couple of years old at this point, and I haven't really tested it either. I think you would also need palm rests to recreate the experience well enough.
Those 22k car thefts are all car thefts in Chicago, not just Car2Go thefts.
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Ah, thanks for the correction, I didn't realize that. Still seems like it's not a bad way to generate electricity though.
Amazon has a similar offering.
Being a 10x programmer or whatever isn't all it's cracked up to be. It's not like they let you work 1/10x, or even 1/2x. You're expected to deliver that 10x 50 weeks a year, it's impossible to not get burned out. The "velocity tracking" craze is killer. A very strong developer and regular in #python on IRC was working as a janitor for a while. I didn't get it then, now I totally get it. It's hard to muster the motivation to continue working in software.
That's not a fair assessment. Your opinion of a "sensible position" on "gun control" is almost certainly different from mine. I would take the perspective that people openly supporting socialism is a much further-leftward lurch than any thing on the right. [0] You also brand the NRA as "fringe" and as "general nutcases", which is again unfair. Your political opinion is not the single source of truth or the center of the political spectrum. Your implication here is that the right has become fringe, but the graph linked above shows otherwise.

[0] https://qz.com/1580091/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-how-far-left...
Buried lead: Ikea sells a bookcase named 'Billy'.
YES, theres an extension on chrome and firefox which esentially redirects all reddit links to old reddit, its a godsend.
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Surely the context within which alleged fraud happens is exactly what makes it so?
Why the 787? It's been my favourite ride so far—comfort-wise.
Right, but unlike consumer versions, Windows Server doesn't make it mandatory.
Plus why look at research agencies. India needs to launch it's own communication, and weather monitoring satellites. It's much cheaper to develop and use your own capabilities.
I have zero faith that any new social media ecosystem that emerges in the absence of Facebook would be more secure, or more private -- especially if the new ecosystem consists of multiple independent services sharing data (and if it doesn't turn out that way, that means a new monopoly emerged).

A single large company is also easier to regulate than a bunch of smaller ones.

If you are concerned about monopoly power over social media, go ahead and break up Facebook. If you are concerned about privacy and the security of social media data, you are probably better off regulating Facebook and raising high barriers to anyone who wants access to Facebook's data.
To be clear, I'm pretty sure that means 22k car thefts in general, not 22k thefts from Car2Go.
I cancelled prime and moved to eBay, Aliexpress (albeit slow) cuts out the Amazon middle-man since most stuff on Amazon is now just Alibaba/Aliexpress items, local big retailers price match Amazon and a few bigger sites online, local small business to support...local small business, and just go directly to the manufacturer which turns out often to be cheaper than Amazon wants for the item.
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Interestingly, 90th vs. 10th percentile consumption is about 3x [0]. Income is >10x as you mention, but this mostly reflects the growth of investment accounts, not a difference in how people actually live.

[0] https://voxeu.org/article/consumption-and-income-inequality-...
oh, it gets worse. i made an account, bookmarked a few things. a few days later i try and order them. at the last step of checkout, an "unknown error occurred". as far as i know, that account is still unable to check out.

how did i get around it? by logging out and not using an account/checkout as guest. (obviously, i would have preferred to not use them, but the missus wanted that one particular item.)

but can you imagine having such a major, heavy bug at the last/crucial point of your funnel? the whole thing sucks, but then so does their home delivery, so i'm not sure how much money they make off their website vs in-store.
"stormy daniels" doesn't get any autocomplete results for me even without trump, my guess is this is more about adult search terms getting blacklisted rather than political. For example "donald trump e j" gets "donald trump e jean carroll", E Jean Carroll recently accused Trump of a serious sexual assault and this is autocompleting.
I tend to assume when a past horror is reiterated that it might be new information for someone else. I'd much rather new historical nuance be introduced to a new person over the unpleasant information being privately mine and others left ignorant.
I suppose it's something I opted out, because I don't recall receiving suggestions, but I've seen them on my mother account, and in her case it happens also simply when browsing some products, not only on purchases.

Thinking about it, I would guess it happens when she uses the Amazon application on her phone/tablet...
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It seems to me that your second sentence does not follow from the first.
We are in the midst of the extension phase of Linux. I would actually say Linux demonstrates a modern reinterpretation of that strategy:

1. Enter

2. Alienate

3. Exclude

4. Cancel
yeah, kind of annoying to see this "everythings fucked" narrative as the top post, while it lacks any kind of evidence (even anecdotal would work)
The long tail is important, even if it's a small percentage of search's (which it isn't anyway).

Same reason people won't buy electric cars with 100 mile ranges, even if they very rarely travel more than 100 miles.
I agree, I think a lot of the "reduce consumption or you are wasting your time/money/harming the environment" propaganda takes it too far.

I stated it the way I did to point out that happiness is not linked to consumption in the sense that more consumption does not always equate to more happiness. On the flip side, I was also not referring to a reduction of consumption to the point that it influences one's quality of life. Personally, over the last few months I've noticed some purchases I made in the past that I didn't need or didn't use enough to make it worth it, or where I could have used something I already had on-hand. I use that as a learning opportunity, to adjust my mindset into the future by creating a couple of simple guidelines before making semi-major purchases (did I sleep on it, did I do adequate research into pros/cons/alternatives without going crazy, etc).

Quite to the contrary of what you are saying, I find a reduction of purchases in this way will positively contribute to my quality of life, both in the present and in the future with increased savings rate and decreased clutter. I'd much rather live in a place where I wasn't looking at stuff I don't use and feeling bad about it. I think you falsely equated my statement and this idea about reduction with the millennial's definition of minimalism. That carries a smug connotation, I'm just talking about mindfulness that fits seamlessly into place with your current lifestyle. I even tried not to take a stance on the issue, and only stated that consumption is both the products you buy and the ways you go about doing things, not that anyone who consumes above X amount is evil.
> (edit: I had it wrong, the age of majority was 21 in all cases)

No, you're still wrong -- and spreading an awful lot of misinformation in this thread. The age of consent for straight sex was 17 when Turing was convicted. There was no "age of consent" for gay sex as gay sex was illegal at the time. When gay sex was legalized in 1967 (long after Turing was convicted), the age of consent was set to 21 for gay sex and remained at 17 for straight sex. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent_reform_in_the_U...

It's so easy to find this stuff out that I have to wonder if you have some kind of agenda here.
w3schools still outranks mdn a lot.
What if it’s fun, but they can program without you? Then they might choose to have fun with the highest bidder.

I would program even if money was no issue. There are many who would.
More importantly, Google's core competency is PageRank. Sharing the index != sharing PageRank. As time goes on, others will use inferior algorithms, and become worse. This scheme will not accomplish what it intends to do. Also, you can't just force people to give away their property.
I think Pivotal Web Service (the online, SaaS version of Pivotal Cloud Foundry) is the finest example of multitenancy working on Cloud Foundry.

I also know that Cloud Foundry is being used by lots of government organisations, including the US Airforce.

If you want multitenancy on Kubernetes, the easiest solution is to just spin up separate clusters for your tenants (if you size the master nodes small enough, it can still be cost effective depending on your needs). In that case, just go for PKS (Pivotal Container Service) which manages, scales, patches and upgrades your clusters from one single management plane, which is quite handy considering 4 major releases and tens of patch versions are released each year.
It seems like the thieves were mostly targeting Mercedes and other high end cars. It seems like there is an easy solution to just rent domestic mid-size cars and/or add the extra security checks in for people who want luxury cars. Car2Go made it too easy to steal luxury cars seems more like the real issue.
There's also a significant issue with Amazon not actually meeting their SLA's in higher density areas, so "knowing exactly which day you'll get it" often isn't accurate.
> felt like I was flying in a well-tested, mostly modern plane built with well-understood technologies

Given how much of its functionality is embedded in electronics and software, how can you know? Would a passenger be able to recognize if it suffered from the same flaws as the 737 MAX?
Some (large) companies have automated processes where you’re forced to book travel arrangements through intranet portals with a limited choice of suppliers.
Isn't it? I'm not even sure that "monopoly" is the right frame. Google's "price" in their high market share areas (eg search) is free anyway.

To me, the problem is power, not necessarily market/pricing power or even exclusion power. The problem is that the "public square" is essentially a handful of private monopolies. What Google considers "inappropriate" is banned or disadvantaged on YouTube. What FB (or Twitter) considers distasteful can become absent from the public or political debate.

It's no joke, at this point. Things "woke up" when it seemed that shady stuff happened during trump's election. But.. several revolutions had already started on social media, coups, counter-coups, civil wars. 10s of thousands of public officials around the world have been elected on FB.

That is a lot of power in very few hands, under a veil of secrecy, often with bad incentives. It was cheap printed paphlets and union halls that made fascists-vs-communist street fights a thing in the 30s... mediums. These days, an algorithm notices that telling (proverbial) fascists about communists is good for engagement... And the algorithm optimizes. I'm not accusing them of doing this deliberately doing this, but the feed algorithms optimize this way for a reason.. incentive.
These posts are upvoted so that HNers can grind whatever axe is hinted in the title. Today it's Amazon Prime.

Other favorites: DAE hate Netflix?, DAE hate Javascript?, DAE hate scooters?

These "want a cookie?" posts used to annoy me, but I now look at them serving the same purpose as that special day in The Purge: maybe if people vent here, they'll be less likely to vent in other discussions that contain their hobby horse trigger word. Post-nut clarity.
Awesome, I've been doing an audio-only one (and away from Slack)
The article mentions a precedent: "in the 1956 consent decree in the U.S. in which AT&T agreed to share all its patents with other companies free of charge."

Today the picture is completely different. Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple are global - their infrastructure is virtual - not physical lines and cables. If a government wants to cause harm to one of those companies, they can decide to "move" somewhere else.

In addition GAFA is capturing dollars from everywhere in the world and bringing it to the US. It's in the US governments interest to tread softly here. No matter how the media spins things, GAFA is great for the US economy.
I personally would not worry if my next flight is Boeing 737 max either but I would worry if any members of my family were on it.
I really doubt the school is wagging the dog here.

The schools job is to some extent teach what is used outside of schools. If they want to add some other things that would make sense to me, but not abandon a highly used tool.

I feel like pushing another path via schools would be wonky as well. I really would hate to have schools actively try to be the arbiter of what people should use rather than reflect the marketplace.
You can pay a fee to avoid mail spam. Just rent a Post Office box and they’ll filter all that stuff out for you. Downside is that they won’t bring it to your house.

If you want a post office that works for you and taxes you appropriately, amen. Some politicians believe that organizations like the post office should be privatized and taxes minimized, thus USPS is forced to find private revenue sources. The result is junk.
Internet meme turned (potential) real life flash mob.

"Everyone go to Area 51 -- they can't stop all of us" essentially.

As to if it's just internet cranks, the US military shifting views, or aggressive, foreign AGI-PROP is debatable. My money says it's a distraction, but I don't know what it's a distraction from.

Can you imagine if these people decided to, say, storm immigrant detention centers, or abusive corporations... or anything that productive in a meaningful sense?
This book is really good, really dense but the ideas have inspired a generation.

In this video, Sean Parent, at the time working at Adobe on Photoshop, estimated that if PS codebase followed ideas from this book, the codebase could be reduced from 3,000,000 LOC to 30,000 LOC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4moyKUHApq4&t=39m30s
Believer. Initially it was pretty darn annoying and I had to tune out his constant pleas for me to take him seriously. One time I fought back by compared his new direction to finding religion, which he seemed to take favorably.

But eventually he settled down, somebody must be coaching these media outlets to encourage the conspiracy without fomenting revolution. Now he's in a comfortable routine, spouting nonsense to whoever will listen. He'll find ways to convert any topic we find ourselves on to an angle into the conspiracy web. I let him wander around the conspiracy space, trying to find an angle to get me interested in it, then I'll hit back with actual history as I read it. Since these discussions don't have the benefit of Google, we mostly talk around each other without getting into the meat of anything. Which is fine for my purposes.

I try to walk the fine line between humoring and encouraging him, balancing my need for real intellectual stimulation with accommodating his emotional ones.
In most of the UK now, recycling is collected more frequently than non-recycling. For us, non-recycling is only collected every 2 weeks, and the bin issued for it is half the size of the recycling bin.

Food waste is still collected weekly, and is sent to an anaerobic digestion plant.
Nit: ON Jobs' watch is more accurate — it's not evident (although it certainly could be true) that the cited developments occurred under Jobs's watch, i.e., that he was in fact overseeing those developments. (The term "on X's watch" derives from a naval expression: Event Y happened while X was "on watch," i.e., it happened "on X's watch," where the term watch refers to a time period.)
DHSMV (what we call it down here) wrote me a couple of months back to let me know they were hacked. Although they didn't offer ID protection (FWTW) they did call a few times to remind me that they lost something beyond what they're peddling.

And speaking of peddling, they're peddling to people banned by other states from accessing the same sort of material, per http://www.fox13news.com/news/fox-13-investigates/senator-ca... (2016)

I loved Florida when I moved here in the late 70s but Something Happened and the grifters latched on to the power handles. We went from pervasive but obvious corruption through the mid-late 60s, true honest to god sunshine - passing laws other states modeled themselves after, then wham that Something Happened. Don't blame me, I voted for Pajic.
You can cancel your auto renewal.
The mattress and consumer electronics industries do the same thing with model names, specifically so consumers can't comparison shop. Very shady.
I get 'em constantly. Sure you didn't filter-rule them away years ago and forget about it?
>They also really, really want you to use the mobile app, which presumably means it does something privacy-violating.

This is great life advice, and true of almost any app.
According to a report from 2009 [1] "The Galileo ground segment has two GCCs, each with a Precise Timing Facility (PTF) providing a very stable reference GST to all elements in the GCC. The two PTFs are developed by separate companies; this diversification is applied to reduce the possibility of common failures in this important element."

I suppose it's possible the second GCC hadn't been fully commissioned? Or the switchover failed in some very hard to recover way?

[1] https://reports.nlr.nl/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10921/210/TP-2...
It makes them like the New York Times, which sells ad real estate. It's a much different business.
It doesn't even have to link the results to a specific user, linking them to the search terms is enough.

It's possible to achieve something similar by measuring bounce rate, but in any case, the sheer number of searches is what matters. For new entrants, this kind of expertise will be very hard to get.
I can say that describes the situation in Vancouver (Canada) Although not sure about the taxi lobbying part - but personally I'm glad Uber is not here.
I talked a bit about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20435309. Basically, the compiler has no need to do things like perform reads in the face of undefined behavior: it could output an empty executable if it wished. Maybe your specific version of the compiler does, but that doesn't mean others (or even a future version of yours) will. Trying to figure out what a compiler might do in the face of undefined behavior is generally not a worthwhile exercise.
Sometimes sites get dropped from the results because they are malware hosts. It’s more likely to happen to small independent sites. They are also more likely to just pack it up and shut down their sites.
> 15% of Google searches per day are unique, as in, Google has never seen them before.

That is impossible, and therefore wrong (I'm wrong, please see below). To know if a search is unique, as in Google has never seen them before, Google must be able to decide if a query it receives was seen before or not. Even if we assume Google needed only one bit for each message it has ever seen, and assuming it only saw 15% of new messages each day since its creation more than 20 years ago, it would need to store more than 2^1471 bits.

What could be true is that each day 15% of all searches are unique on that day.

Edit: I'm wrong. The 15% of completely unique messages per day are in regards to the messages per day, and not in regards to all messages it has ever seen, therefore exponential growth doesn't apply. To see that, assume Google just received one search query each day for 20 years but it was unique random gibberish, then Google could easily save that even though 100% of all messages per day are unique.
It’s one of those things that you shouldn’t “say”, but everyone knows: victors write the history , then yesteryears lawbreakers become todays lawmakers. But only for the victors does this work. Everyone else rots in prison.
The only thing that you need to do is to make your hardware 100% compatible with Linux, BSD, Windows and MacOS (if it's possible). I even bet that if you would build machine that is unofficially, dead simple to run MacOS on it (sort of like everybody knows that Thinkpads run great under Linux) you would win a lot of developers.
It is the crown jewel because people choose Google precisely because they are understood to have the largest index. It's comparable to Verizon marketing 'the largest network,' but with many more benefits accrued to the company who is believed to have the largest search index.
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