skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In defense of brown folks (whatever that means exactly, Amerindian-Caucasian / Latin American?), you get a face shot of the delivery person when using UberEats, and while anecdotal, never once had brown person steal an order. I live in the Chicago loop and have had multiple UberEats orders stolen. White folks are extremely expeditious in my experience with UberEats (speedy delivery is how you get tipped by me and I usually max it out), I've never seen a person of east Asian descent delivering.

Whenever this happens, Uber always refunds me because they track everyone and everything going on, so there's little dispute. But there's definitely not enough background checks going on there either. I've had orders picked up then taken for themselves, and orders never picked up and marked as delivered immediately.

The only way to get past it is to order during the busiest hours and hope you get one of the more professional UberEats delivery folks.
No, we would usually take/be given a stack of twenties. If it’s too much to be in that then it would be a cheque or bank transfer. We’ve paid most handymen recently by agreeing to transfer money later.
And google sucks at those too.
>> A Case of Exploding Mangoes had to be printed in India; the publishers in Pakistan found it a bit over the top and disrespectful to the establishment. To the surprise of everyone, nothing bad happened to me when it came out: no lawsuits, no ban.

I'm reminded of Bill Gates' appearance in Pirates in Silicon Valley, which was generally not flattering, which he described as "reasonably accurate".
Diane Vaughan and the normalization of deviance
Definitely not. Time and time again, it’s been proven people only care about the cheapest ticket price. You can nickel and dime them, treat them like cattle, and physically beat your customers and they will continue to use your airline and airplanes.
At what time of day does famous programmers work?
Try "hillary clinton emai". From a fresh chrome session in NYC I get nothing, not a single autocomplete result. On the other hand "donald trump emai" gets:

* donald trump email
* donald trump email address
* donald trump email list
* donald trump email newsletter
* donald trump email list signup

And just to drive the point home I tried "root_axis emai" and got "root_axis email". Try anyone else and you get similar results, 'barack obama emai', 'george bush emai', etc etc. So yes, this is proof that the results are scrubbed for Clinton email.
It is already done in India and Ukraine. In Ukraine alone there are like 150k+ software developers.
Dude, In which bubble do you live?;-) In the netherlands, (maestro) card payments are king. Currently in Denmark and last week in Sweden: (maestro) card payments. And in Sweden apps like Swish are really popular as well. (Pay to a phone number).

Granted: germany and france are a bit behind in this.
> Thank goodness MS can't create a proper equation editor to save their life, so LaTeX is still the standard for higher-level academia.

Higher-level academia in STEM. Other fields are likely quite much sold on Word. I can imagine that, say, law is chock-full of people using Word.
Another good reason to drop Prime is the amount of waste it promotes: https://depts.washington.edu/sctlctr/news-events/in-the-news...
Yes, you are right! Each bullet point on their site tried to word it slightly differently so it was a little confusing. I messed up translating the aluminum one clearly. Thanks for pointing it out!
If you take away the moat of any business it helps their competition.
Search advertising is different from web display advertising is different from streaming video advertising.

The cloud services (Enterprise apps, hosting, etc) don't need it.

I think we'd probably see a worse Gmail (worse ads or aggressive upsells).
What I liked was that the riflenades are so predictable that on some maps you learn just exactly at what wall to fire them. Having a field ops behind you giving you ammo and shooting grenades into a tunnel is a solid tactic :D
That setup process says things like "Send detailed information to Microsoft. Disabling this sends only basic data." There is no setting for not sending any data.

They also add new settings using Windows Update which you're not prompted about and which default to on, which would presumably then send information between when the update installs and when you realize it's there, even assuming you're diligent enough to notice it at all as most people obviously aren't.
lol exactly. I cancelled my Prime subscription about a month ago, didn't feel the need to write a blog post about it. Nobody cares.
All bot detection is doomed to fail, but you can make it more expensive for the bot authors.
https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/magazine/green-architectura...

Or wine bottles.
Since no one has mentioned SQL yet:

SELECT *
FROM products
WHERE
(stock > 100 AND price < 5)
OR (price BETWEEN 20 AND 35 AND category = 'outdoors')
OR name ILIKE '%mountain%';
It's certainly grounds for more scrutiny, but not outright dismissal before even looking at it.
It seemed to me to coincide with NPR's recent Planet Money episode

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/12/741283641/episode-926-so-shou...
You might want to join here (copied from another thread) https://futureofcoding.org/slack-readme
Enforcing landfills is a government problem, but recycling is a free market problem.

Mining 1 ton of iron takes 2 tons of ore plus another couple tons of coke and lime. It takes 4 tons of bauxite for one ton of aluminum (plus all the other things). There's also a huge amount of cost involved in reaching those tons of ore.

When mining a landfill gives bigger returns than the current deposits for the same cost of extraction, we'll see our recycling problem go away. Remaining burnables will simply reduce the amount of coal/coke needed to refine.

Government is critical in enforcing landfills though. Otherwise, trash winds up in little piles everywhere (or worse, in the ocean).
Storage and bandwidth are cheaper than ever before, people scrape a billion pages for much more mundane purposes these days, even for academic papers.

Having a full text index on that is more involved but hardly impossible. You're completely right that it's not at all Google's secret sauce. Bing has clearly indexed much more than that, plus invested a ton in actually returning good results from their index. And still nearly nobody cares. It's just not easy to make a better Google, and the people most likely to figure out how to do that already work there.
> Presumably they've tested and found each variation works best in each region. I'd love to see their metrics.

Yeah, me too. Things like these make me think a lot of those metric-based decisions amount to reading tea leaves. I know there are differences between regions, but you wouldn't expect that many of them in the case of efficiently presenting information. Unless of course, efficiently presenting all necessary information to customers isn't what's being optimized for.
Developer to Manager Interview, Senior Director of Engineering at Braze
This is idiotic for three reasons:

1. Google is not a monopoly in search. Bing and DuckDuckGo are perfectly acceptable alternatives.
2. Google search is so much more than its index. Opening up the index would do little to nothing to improve the competition.
3. Even if the author did know what he was talking about, his proposal would boil down to saying McDonalds needs to release the recipe for their secret sauce because they sell too many burgers. It's an ethically repugnant proposal.
I don't think this is correct. For years, the #3 search query on Bing in the US was "Google", and globally it used to be a double-digit percentage of all Bing queries. That suggests to me that people with a default Bing search engine had learned in droves to click their way to the preferred engine regardless of what the default was, and did so without being technically skilled enough to change the default once and for all. I don't know how large a group the latter is, but it seems hard to argue that the two together are small.
Lately I have been using prime membership for Video more than shopping.
That's really cool!

Do you mind maybe explain how you were able to communicative and associative props to avoid using semaphores/mutex?

There seems to be a lot of complaints here about the formality of it all. My preference is usually for more formal literature, just because it tends to lend for a more powerful tool for me. With that said, did you find it to be too formal?
> I think the difference between human "races" is greater than just exterior colouring

No.

http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2017/science-genetics-resh...

> Thus, there is no evidence that the groups we commonly call “races” have distinct, unifying genetic identities.

> Ultimately, there is so much ambiguity between the races, and so much variation within them, that two people of European descent may be more genetically similar to an Asian person than they are to each other

> In the biological and social sciences, the consensus is clear: race is a social construct, not a biological attribute

etc.etc.etc.
Yep. I was a bit annoyed that Scandinavian countries go cashless, but I was caught a few times in restaurants in Germany that didn't accept credit cards. On short trips, I never bother carrying cash.
Could nuclear power save your next ski trip?
Thank you! This is exactly the kind of thing I am talking about.
The baseline behavior, above which anything is ">1x."
There is already commoncrawl[1]. Nobody managed to build a useful search engine with it.
Apparently it takes much more to produce meaningful search results. Making googles index public won't solve anything.
What we really need is a viable competitor to google.

[1]: https://commoncrawl.org/
Chuang Tzu with his bamboo pole was fishing in the Pu river. The prince of Chu sent two vice-chancellors with a formal document: We hereby appoint you prime minister.

Chuang Tzu held his bamboo pole still.Watching the Pu river, he said:“I am told there is a sacred tortoise offered and canonized three thousand years ago,venerated by the prince, wrapped in silk,in a precious shrine on an altar in the temple.

What do you think? Is it better to give up one’s life and leave a sacred shell as an object of cult in a cloud of incense for three thousand years,or to live as a plain turtle dragging its tail in the mud?”

“For the turtle”, said the vice-chancellor,“better to live and drag its tail in the mud!”

“Go home!”, said Chuang Tzu.“Leave me here to drag my tail in the mud.”
Project Veritas has historically operated by guiding people into saying something ridiculous, either by themselves acting ridiculous (and convincing the person they're talking to that they're crazy) or just driving the conversation to ridiculous areas.

Maybe this Google 'expose' is the first time they're not guilty of that, but anyone who still finds them credible after their last several blatant mischaracterizations is far more forgiving than I would be.
Yup basically if we're talking about building a distributed sort-of vendor-neutral fulfillment system and storefront, that's basically what Amazon is. :)

So there's pretty much nobody that can catch up to this level of dominance, not even the second place players. Which is a clear sign that Amazon should be broken up by the government.
"Galileo provides ‘initial services’ since December 2016. During this initial "pilot" phase preceding the ‘full operational services’ phase, Galileo signals are used in combination with other satellite navigation systems, which allows for the detection of technical issues before the system becomes fully operational."
It's difficult to fully sterilize the compost, and it's very easy to end up with compost that is full of pathogens and parasites. With millions of people in a small area, I think that alone makes this idea infeasible.

The toilets also don't produce bales of dried poop, the composting only partially completes in the toilet itself--it has to be completed outside in a compost heap.

Also dry composting toilets tend to produce more odors than the average person wants to deal with in their small living space.
It puts them on their knees and smashes their little skull in videos!
Asana Appears to Be Down
CSS Grid Is Not a Replacement for Flexbox
This. I shop with a 10 year old Deuter, and although it looks worn, I expect it to last at least another 10 years.

It is also healthier for your spine than an equivalent bunch of bags, and keeps hands free. What's not to like?
Howto: Block Amazon and any site using Amazon Web Services
Lawsuit over Keurig coffee pod recyclability moving forward
To be fair though "Ronja, the Robber's Daughter" is must-see
An easier time than before doesn't mean a good time.
The rumour I saw was that the entire ground segment is dependent on a single Precise Timing Facility in Italy, which went down and took everything with it. Not sure what the holdover capability is like without the ground stations, but I'd venture a guess it's not great,
Make an effort to determine exactly WHY you feel envy. It might be a signal that something is wrong. It's easy to feel envious about pay if you're struggling with debt. Easy to feel envious about acclaim/praise when your skills are not current.
This seems a bit silly - it's not like Google's search results are that much better than Bing or DuckDuckGo (or better at all most of the time). Google has Google Colab, Chrome, and Android, and the whole Docs ecosystem, and they've integrated those things together pretty well while still being loosely coupled enough to switch out any part of the ecosystem with a competitor's product.

Is there a reason to break up Google other than that they are doing well? Other search engines seem to have no problem establishing their own niche and doing well.
Unpoly: Unobtrusive JavaScript Framework
Well if I were concerned about safety I wouldn’t fly Ryanair in the first place, I don’t think the repaint was necessary
> A good shopping aggregator would go a long way in helping.

For some European countries there's PriceSpy that scrapes prices and shipping costs (I suppose it scrapes as I would guess e-commerce entities would not publically expose API to query their products). It works OK most of the times, but sometimes it reports old or not updates prices, so I would say it's not foolproof.
Living near a warehouse or on a major shipping artery means things show up very quickly basically no matter what. The post office / shipping companies don't stall orders just for the heck of it. If it takes two days to go from here to there, even though you paid for slow shipping, you'll get it in two days.
I'm so disappointed by Prime. The main reason I signed up for the trial were movies and TV shows. But it seems like 90% of the content is not available in my country (Switzerland) without buying or without proxying the stream through another country. Gosh Amazon, first you make me thoroughly excited and in the next moment you utterly disappoint me. Why couldn't you tell me beforehand?

I'd never buy 5 seasons of a TV show while knowing, that some neighbour in another country get them for a few bucks each month...
Your service is exactly what I wanted for a pretty long time for an accessible price.

Are you going to offer bigger package too? The hobby one is most probably more than enough for me for a long time but I may need more later on.

The templates are nice at first too but they are hard to get to afterward (I found it back when clicking on my user image).

EDIT: I also love that you include the kubectl commands on each page, for a newbie that's amazing!
Cool, I look forward to your evidence and data that you're using to contradict the story in the submission, because the very article states that if you tried to pitch a loan approval algorithm with any of the things you suggested in a modern bank, you'd be laughed out of the firm.
You do pay a fee for mail service. While USPS is not directly funded by taxes, it is funded by the Federal Government. Our taxes are responsible for financing the government's initiatives.

The problem is that the cost to bulk mail (at least 200 pieces) is merely $0.19 per piece. If you want to DOS an entire zip code regardless, EDDM is actually cheaper (per piece) at $0.187. USPS is getting that money. You would need to pay a fee higher than $0.19 per piece of junk mail that you receive for USPS to just break even.
Bingo.

"Yo dawg, I heard you're thinking of a new way to make money...so I wrote a book about thinking of a new way to make money so you can think about a new way to make money while I make money from you thinking about my new way to think about making money."
> Tab support was added without linking against the new SDK: apps would get it "for free" when running on macOS Sierra.

Yeah, right. I remember being very happy as some of my not-worried-about-mac applications (it's a word processor that uses a special format only used in our country) had tabbing enabled. :-)
Encrypted GPS do yu even make sense, what benefit an encrypted GPS will provide. Eu will know where were you when you requested something and even if your data was encrypted and i don't think you can intercept gps coordinates and you have to intercept at least three for it to be useful.
I think it really depends, I use amazon prime as my primary shopping method, without it I would definitely need a vehicle.

> Experts say that e-commerce could actually, if optimized, be beneficial for the environment. Getting into your personal vehicle and going to the store isn’t very efficient, but consolidating multiple shoppers’ deliveries into one vehicle can be. Anne Goodchild, director of the University of Washington’s Supply Chain Transportation and Logistics Center, told BuzzFeed News, “Broadly speaking, delivery services have the potential to dramatically reduce miles traveled.”
"hillary clinton emails" is a topic that is widely published around the web. Autocomplete should pick up on this and recommend it. I even went to the trouble of typing "hillary clinton emai" and no autocomplete suggestions were brought up.

It is a rather suspicious result. Suspicious enough that it is hard not to imagine a deliberate act is behind it. I admit that I don't have any proof.
> in that situation he would not be such an icon for disenfranchised minorities

In other words, he's an icon to different people for different reasons? That makes sense.
>That is, they consider knowledge gained in one of these applications to be non-transferable to other, similar applications.

What evidence do you have for this? Based on my experiences with k-12 tech education in the US, this sounds like complete BS.
Interestingly enough, the pilot who made a simulator experience video about 737 MAX runaway MCAS crash event (Mentour) is a Ryanair pilot too.
Ryanair ‘re-names’ Boeing 737 Max planes on order
Code Review Tactics
Although I agree that more people should cancel Prime, this author isn’t the target market exactly because they live in a city. I also live in a city and can easily get by without Prime. I can walk to everything I need.

Prime makes the most sense if you’re in suburbs and/or have kids. It’s a huge time saver for those people.
For me the yearly cost covers the amount I'd spend on shipping for xmas gifts alone. I HATE xmas shopping and so being able to do it all there is great.
That's a more generous reading of the mood on Twitter. I also think that many people have good intentions, and are only trying to reduce the general levels of impostor syndrome.

> Some people have worked with so-called 10x developers, who have been slavishly defended from criticism by management, who are churning out piles of code that will be difficult to maintain, ...

And I have experienced this anti-pattern several times. But I worry that we're throwing out the child with the toxic genius bathwater.

> 10x is a big exaggeration

The actual actual factor is a function of your work environment. If HR hired "nice" people who failed all the trivial interview questions, would that number still seem unbelievably high? That's what some small shops do when developers are hard to find :|
The iBook did look a lot like a toilet lid but some colors looked great on the G3 iMac. I used to own a graphite one and I think it still looks cool.
The Common Crawl corpus is already available and stored on S3 - so analyzing billions of web pages is literally already available with an AWS account and a simple map reduce job.

I'd actually advocate for making public an anonymized list of actual search queries.

Domain specific search engines could evolved based on the demand of what has already been searched for.
> I wonder why the optimiser didn't choose false and let the assert pass?

I don't know exactly, but it's kind of a moot point. I would have negated the statements until I found a way to make it return what I want it to.

The point is that the compiler picks some result, and it does so "locally", so when it picks results for multiple comparisons it makes no attempt to check that these results are all "consistent" and can even arise for a single value. The result that we can observe is that the value is "unstable".

To "fix" this (assuming we wanted to specify that unstable values are not allowed in C/C++/Rust), the compiler would have to keep track of which constant foldings it already did for some uninitialized value, and make sure it remains consistent with that. That's a hard problem and likely undecidable in general. Allowing unstable values frees the optimizer from this burden, letting it optimize more code better.
curt15 says> "While businesses are obviously reluctant to use Libreoffice because they need perfect compatibility with MS Office files, K-12 students have no such constraints."

I recently set up a new home-office PC for a friend. I tried to use Laplink PC Mover Ultimate to migrate/MS Office applications to the new machine: hours of phone and remote-control support failed. So I migrated the data with a USB drive and downloaded LibreOffice as an MS Office replacement.

My friend logged on to his new PC and quickly pronounced the migration a success. He's been very happy with LibreOffice ever since. Several other persons use the same machine with no problem.

The move to LibreOffice has been surprisingly transparent.
When you are in UB it's even more interesting to ask what the hardware actually does because the standard will not specify anything.
Yes, precisely. Now if you have a really brilliant engineer who could found a 100 million plus company, but they're working for you by some twist of fate instead - if you treat them like a code monkey they're going to hate it, and you're wasting their potential. This is what e.g. Google does. On the other hand if you empower them and get the fuck out the way, they may well surprise you.
No stinking loops link:
http://nsl.com/
A deep dive into gadolinium-based adverse reactions
There is no way that Health and Security outcomes are worse today than maybe 50 years ago. The crime rate has fallen dramatically since the 90s, and health outcomes are dramatically improved between advancement of medical tech and generally improved care.

Do we have an obesity problem? Sure, that's kind of a self caused issue. You could blame our food being too cheap, but the alternative is starving to death which is far less in your realm of control.

Minimum wage is at its highest in direct value, luxury goods are at their cheapest. Now instead of writing a letter or traveling significant distances, you can chat with your friends all damned day.

Is life hard and imperfect? Of course it is, but to suggest that somehow life is harder now than in the past 25 or 50 or 500 years is absolutely foolish.
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 855 Plus chip is built for gaming and VR
No, the optimization they do for the low-quality query is more than balanced out by the higher clarity and relevance of a well-phrased query. There are often extraneous words that aren't simple stop words, and they're not 100% successful at removing these extraneous ones.