skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have that in Portland and they're reall not a hastle if you're just sitting there anyway. It's no different than showing the bus driver your ticket before you get on the bus, except you do it less and don't create lines that slow down the bus/train.
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Of course it's terrible. Especially when someone is telling you something you already understand and you know it'd be quicker if they would just be quiet and let you quickly explain the solution.

It's probably easier if I just start talking - hopefully they'll take the hint and shut up. In the long run everyone will be happier.
Apparently it's all quite a bit less clear than I remembered it. shrug
Maybe it's time for a consumer watchdog group to step in and do their own reporting for services like this. Like https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/ but with sharper teeth.

I'm not sure how much time I have to participate but I wouldn't mind chipping in a bit on a co-op in this space.

But it might be easier to convince Is it Down Right Now to grow some fangs, or socialize the idea that it does (perception counts for a lot).
Works pretty well in areas that have good OSM coverage as well, and it can intelligently follow gpx tracks. The only thing I miss about it is no Apple Watch integration.
Researchers Build Transistor-Like Gates with Highly-Efficient Quantum 'Qudits'
I recently ordered a nylon shoulder strap that came in a package about the size of a 2.5 inch hard drive. The box it came in was so huge I could barely get my arms around it, and there was probably 50 feet of bubble wrap inside.
Sia is built on a completely different assumption than most large datacenters - uptime requirements for hosts are around 95%, which equates to about 36 hours of downtime per month.

This means that you can run a much leaner database and require substantially less expertise to keep things going. If a rack goes down, you don't need someone on-site to bring it up ASAP, you can fix it the next workday without upsetting your customers.

95% uptime for hosts translates to 99.99+% uptime for Sia users, because users store data across hosts in a 10-of-30 scheme. As long as 10 out of 30 of the hosts are online, you will be able to access your data. The probability of losing 20 hosts when each of your 30 hosts have 95% uptime is exceedingly small; your practical uptime depends more on the reliability of the software than it does the reliability of the hosts you use.

As for commoditization: that's the goal! If we can completely commoditize data storage, prices should come down dramatically, and the market should be a lot more efficient. You won't need to be an Amazon or Google to have a stable and competitive data offering.
I'm using kdenlive in linux, works great for my use.
I know others are using blender too but I prefer the kdenlive UI.
> focus on technical ability, that’s a hell of a lot harder to come by than “powerpoint skills”.

I'll agree and disagree:

Yes, the target audience here SHOULD focus on technical ability. Not because it's "harder", but because that will be the primary decider in getting hired.

That said, I'd say my communication skills have been a central part of my success. Not "powerpoint", so much as being able to distill down ideas, translate abstractions, and of late, learning how to examine other people's ideas without coming across as I'm attacking them. My personal impression and the reaction my managers have given me is that these skills are both rare and valued in the field. But you do of course need technical ability or they are worthless.

I definitely think I've achieved more success than my technical ability alone would grant me. It could be Imposter Syndrome talking, but I'm not actually all that great at this. Just good enough, and my communication skills ensure that the "good enough" is applied where it's needed and to the degree it is needed.

Ultimately, coding is communication, and maintainable/extendable/flexible code is a lot of communication to other devs (including your future self). Even outside of the role of managers, and even outside of planning and architecting with your peers, communication is a valuable skill for a programmer to have.
Border Patrol Agents Attempted to Delete Racist Posts
Did your 5 year old manage to open a credit card in their name or crack your password? Are they lifting your fingerprint with super glue and tape?
> reproduce themselves (and us) into extinction

How would that work? A catastrophic population crash would have a cause, and high population isn't itself a cause.

If we're talking overconsumption, that's a different conversation.
How are they going to 'login'? If it's a link with a unique id associated with the email address, it's essentially a password that can't be changed.

The fact that a person will need to keep opening their email is really a deal breaker. Usage will drop off pretty quickly.
You could also argue that some competition in the currency space could lead to start governments to innovate again in that space
In my opinion, no.

Any program that cannot be uninstalled (and programs that automatically reinstall themselves) should be treated as malware. Even if it’s developed by a $26 billion dollar company.
No, I got it. People who get the joke don’t leave a comment. They just exhale out their nose.
A lost a second degree uncle to Russian state medical system. He died from typhus after a week of terrible agony after similar "just a common flu" dismissals.

It happened in first years after the dissolution of the Union, when medicine distribution was still in hands of the state. His family went as far as to send a person on the plane to Vladivostok to buy antibiotics from the one and only private pharmacy in the region at the time, but it had no injectable antibiotics that were needed at his condition.

The most disappointing about all of that was that the doctor probably knew what his condition was, and knowingly left him to die.

Was it due to doctor being unwilling to send him to ICU due to ICUs being constantly overloaded? Was he reluctant to dispense a rare and expensive antibiotic? Or he wanted to solicit a bribe, or was simply lazy, we don't know.

I always thought of this problem as a legacy left from the Union until I came to know just how monstrously big is the amount of iatrogenic deaths in USA. In fact, iatrogenic deaths make the fourth, or fifth biggest non natural cause of death in the US.

When I first heard that, it struck me. I still cannot comprehend how a country with "No. 1 healthcare in the world" can have that.
Convenience and privacy are on a spectrum. More of one means less of the other.
PowerPoint is one of the worst way of persuasively and clearly communicating ideas, be it to programmers or non-programmers.
Which is where we send our plastic recycling.
It’s unlikely to ever happen, but sometimes i dream about a working world where everyone had read and practiced using Robert’s Rules of Order
Storj was a brilliant idea then suddenly someone put blockchain into it.
>These large mammals are attracted to a hive by not only the honey in the combs, but also a colony’s eggs, larvae and pupae — and even the bees themselves. In one fell swoop, a colony can disappear.

Wow can you imagine swallowing a bee nest whole? I imagine that must do considerable damage to the stomach.
Fairly hilarious.
How can we program in seconds
I still can't reproduce this.

I just put the two following addresses into Notes:

23 California St, San Francisco, CA

23 California Ave, San Francisco, CA

then tapped on both of them and Maps brought me to the correct spot each time.
Something very similar is used by Slack, Medium (also Discord and Quora, iirc), wherein they just send you an email with a link. You click on it, are logged in, cookies set and all that jazz.

I hate it, however. Quoting from another HN comment of mine:

It's _not_ convenient in many cases, such as if you're using an incognito/private window, or on a friend's computer, school PCs, don't have access to email, etc.

I much prefer the traditional username+password system. You shouldn't be memorising passwords anyway, use a password manager.

Your system doesn't allow password managers to work. Password managers are quicker than clicking on links in emails, and if you're on a stranger's PC that doesn't have the browser extension, you can just look the password up in the phone app and type it in.
I'm sorry you're experiencing that. I just wanted to push back and say that I don't think it is necessarily a regional thing, unique or more prevalent to the bay area necessarily.
We need to move away from centralised internet.

You don't have any real proof that Company XYZ aren't using your money to do bad things.

You would stop participating if it turned out the Sia network was mostly used for bad things. In the same vein, you may choose not to use Amazon because it is unfairly treating warehouse workers.
I feel like the above definitely needs to be addressed by management. When your thoughts are unheard and there is no chance to get through it can be highly demotivating as you are undervalued.

I would raise with manager.
Yet another entire service from Google I've never even heard of but seems like I should've...
> They're trying to be a non-profit because they don't actually charge for the service, but the investors still make money by way of holding on to your cash while it's in Libra form.

A not-for-profit can charge for service, and cannot return a profit to investors. Maybe they've ways to wiggle around the latter, but not charging for the service is simply irrelevant.
Don't give up, I won't give up
Don't give up, no no no
Don't give up, I won't give up
Don't give up, no no no

- Blockchain guys

(I know I know.. I couldn’t resist.)
Oh sure, a SAML IdP or OIDC OP _can_ release all kinds of info, but they generally don't if our experience with InCommon and eduGAIN IdPs is any guide. We even made sure we complied with REFEDS R&S (https://refeds.org/category/research-and-scholarship/).
It's a deeply disappointing realization that to a lot of people, basic human decency, integrity in disseminating truth, and a consistent view of facts has become a partisan issue because of the Republican party.
How to Share Power Without All the Drama
I have a problem cutting people off- I get way to excited about what I want to say and jump in. I really appreciate when people call me out and don't take it personally. I also try to work on it and try to help steer the conversation to other people who have been cut off when I see it happen. So IMO don't be afraid to politely just let someone know! If you don't feel comfortable during the meeting, maybe speak with them afterwards, doesn't need to be a big deal, just let em know. If you don't feel comfortable being a little confrontational, speaking with manager types or even just before a meeting indirectly bringing up that everyone should focus on it can help too.

I know sometimes people cut off others very purposefully or in malicious ways, but it sounds like maybe where you're working that's just how it is- so everyone kind of has to play the game to be heard. In that case, try and change the game! A little bit of discomfort now can lead to yourself and probably others being happier down the road.
I took a tour of the Amazon FC in Fall River, Mass., last month. It stocks about 400,000 SKUs, all larger items (as I recall meaning at least one size of the item is more than 15") and they have a lot of irregular items - mops, rakes, window blinds, pool noodles, you name it.

One of the most interesting parts of the tour is the "box machine" used to scan and make custom boxes for these odd-shaped items. We watched a worker take a bundle of tiki torches and quickly package them using the machine, and it seemed pretty efficient in terms of matching the size of the box to the size of the item.
This is terrifying. The article is implying that the sailors knew not to use the internal systems for anything personally sensitive but continued to use it for government business. Cyber in the government is horribly broken.
The repository would show who wrote the bug in the first place, and it would have to pass code review. One would have to wait for the developer to leave the company before activating this scenario.
Switch 2 and 3 and you can see what the issue is.

Content creators can easily create distribution platforms of their own. So if you're Disney? Well, why deal with Netflix?

Netflix et al are then in a bind, in that they eventually have less and less content, so they start making content.

It's kind of a vicious circle.
Still remember back to the time when S3 bragged their SLA as five nines. After the notorious incident ~2 years ago, they made it down to three nine.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

As an aside, once in a while I imagine what kind of field day Upton Sinclair would have with this trip around of the pendulum swing toward dystopia.
I used to work at Amazon in the physical audiobook publishing world.

For physical audiobooks, most of the NYC publishers priced their audiobooks based on the number of CD's the book would go on. Longer books required more recording and more CD's in a box and would be priced higher. They sold, but not that well because the relative pricing was high. You could see physical audiobook sales crater once a book moved from hardcover to paperback. I did the data analytics and was able to determine the pricing formulas that audiobook publishers were using.
2x3Tb disk at hetzner, line rental, electricity included is 30€pcm.
This is a membership store, they do NOT require a receipt. They look up your info, find the item and process the return.
Android is being locked down as we speak too, and iOS has on average a much nicer user experience.

There’s no good choice right now, and you simply have to choose what shortcomings you want to deal with.
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Considering it outputs what you tell it to output, you can add aria-* all you like. This doesn't have a corresponding UI component library, it's a lower-level library for creating components.
I wonder if this is a sort of thing you could interest EFF or another organization to put funding behind.
The weight of the cameras doesn't really make a difference, because everyone has to carry them and so nobody is put at a disadvantage. What does matter is the aerodynamics of the camera pods - the rules give manufacturers some degree of latitude with regards to the design and placement of the outboard camera pods, so they can be manipulated to provide a tiny aerodynamic advantage.
Since it's coming from under the rind of the cocoa bean, wouldn't it be fructose then?
I got them here https://www.goldstandard.org/take-action/offset-your-emissio... I think because some research I did a while back led me to consider that site reputable and not just greenwashing.

I think the biggest thing you could do would be to bundle them in automatically to the purchase of things like airline tickets or gasoline, and make them opt-out, not opt-in. Imagine if when you booked a flight, the last page said "The price of your ticket includes $15 to help stave off environmental disaster. Click here to kill adorable baby penguins and save fifteen bucks."
Apple products have always made choices for their customers. Most of the times they're helpful and desired like this one but some times they're also anti-competitive. eg. making Spotify and Google maps second class citizens compared to Apple's own offerings.
Downwash might be beneficial for F1 cars, because it would put more weight on the tires.
Change the format of the meeting I'd say. If a "meeting" is a free-for-all discussion it's going to simply be the loudest or most enthusiastic person that's gettting heard. So don't have free-for-all discussions. Have moderated meetings go around the table asking everyone for input.

In "brainstorming" or problem solving meetings, instead of everyone going silent and then the loudest guy getting an idea, try briefly breaking up the meeting from say 6 people into 3 groups of 2. Discuss for 2 minutes and then present the conclusions to the whole group.
I'm trying to understand the reliability story better. I'm currently looking at this page:

http://siastats.info/contracts_status

Does that mean for every individual hoster-renter contract, of ones that were established and used, some ~9% of them failed?

That would essentially mean that to get equivalent numbers to those advertised by B2, which claims 11 9s I'd need to buy over 10 contracts. Is this actually how bad it is at the moment?
Additionally the language and penalties for fare evasion often don't match that of say parking tickets, which I would put as roughly similar in terms of moral violations (i.e. taking advantage of a common good, but not endangering the safety of others, like say speeding).
But also, now a lot more art exists in the world that would otherwise have never have been created!

Sure it's annoying to view, but it's out there! (Note, it's annoying, not necessarily expensive! You can subscribe to a different service each month.)
I replied to them on Twitter in case they have something amusing to say :)
That's really not true. Or at least in europe, 70% chocolate contains 70% cocoa solids. The remaining 30% are mostly butter (cocoa butter or another type of fat) and can contain sugar and milk.
We Changed YugaByte DB Licensing to Apache 2.0
Private entities that knowingly transmit robocalls, spam, and financial scams should be prosecuted for harassment and accessory to fraud. As they've long argued, they're not a common carrier with a responsibility for neutral content transmission.
Most professionals use Adobe Premiere (+ Audition/After Effects), Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve or Vegas Pro, some use Blender and Kdenlive is great for smaller and simpler edits and works on Linux
These ideas are all the wrong direction to decentralize. We don't need more layers and more complexity and more blockchains, we need simple, reliable, accessible household appliances. For storage, for sharing, for posting.

Please stop adding layers and layers of calculations, it's a waste of energy.
The cut off being part of the culture can come from a lot of factors, but the ones I've seen are:

1. Abject rudeness or lack of a culture that values social graces (usually the "hacker"/"power player" mentality). Usually can't be solved except from the top, but not as common.

2. Time pressure. The rudest meetings in my current workplace happen when the meeting is ill-formatted (like a design review meeting that has nothing posted beforehand that only lasts 1 hour and is expected to get a stamp at the end). The time pressure for some people to get their points or feedback across results in a total loss of empathy.

3. Lack of any moderation or management. If nobody is in control of any meeting, it leaves it to the loudest voices, who sometimes won't give space for others to talk.
And they only work that way if you switch the DB driver frequently during the development of your product.

The abstraction is useful. The abstraction is leaky.
It's kinda designed to expect that; you end up paying for more redundancy over more hosts, which is a win. Yes some will / may be down, but a) they're penalized financially, b) you can (by default do) have redundancy
The EU Suffers from a Navigation Failure
Scale, rate, time, and distance matter.

Fundamental changes to these, matter. Even small ones. Especially big ones.

Moving the needle a few percent (or fractions of a percent) can be game-changers in business or politics through threshold effects.

Moving the needle by orders of magnitude is effectively an entire new physics regime. And that's what we're seeing here.

Just because Y is "the same as X" doesn't mean that Y is X, if the rate of change is 10x, or 100x, or 1000x, or 1,000,000x greater. A 10x change gets you from walking speed to a car. 100x is an aircraft. 1,000x is an ICBM. The Tsar Bomba is Greek Fire ... at scale.

Infotech advances change costs by factors of millions to billions, far outside the scales above: ICBMs compunded, several times.

And such changes have massive unintended consequences.

Information technology is the perception and feedback system of society as a whole. Changing properties of information perceptibility, parsibility, storage, retrieval, processing, and distribution of information fundamentally changes entire social orders, and often not for the better. Lowering costs makes marginally "profitable" -- often in the rents-extracting sense -- applications more tractable. In that context, religious and political propaganda, yellow journalism, advertising, noise pollution, popular demagogues, urban legends, email spam, robocalls, stalking, harassment, pseudoscientific myths (flat earth, antivax, truthers, birthers), media (social or otherwise) smear tactics, and automaded extortion are entirely predictable outcomes.
OSS devs, track mobile apps that use your code/SDK
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You might qualify for Special Enrollment due to a life event.
So do you get all the concurrency abilities of go with something like this or do you essentially get a nicer syntax around the capabilities of JS?

Sorry if this is a dumb question but I'm pretty new to wasm.
It's a broken world if you think this is good at base level.

Sugar is mass produced and very efficent. It'll use way less energy than this 'new' method.

It doesn't matter where the sugar comes from health wise, magic won't stop it giving you cancer. Unless it's is a different molecule?

The cocoa leftovers has a use, such as fertilizer, turning them into hipster food doesn't do much.

It might make it more a more interesting world, hipster is a hobby with as much value as most hobbies and it's less efficient, so increases consumption, which is good for economics.
Ah you are right, my bad. I was thinking of TTFI.
You can use storj to host your files without using blockchain. I think they accept credit cards directly. Also storj is doing a lot to make sure only reliable hosts are allowed to continue to operate on the network. If you aren't serious about having a reliable hosting node then you'll eventually get booted from the network.
First of all, what if you lose access to your email address? Now you can't access your service anymore?

Second, why use email? It's not secure. Depending on your threat model, it might not be a good idea.

What about a (phone) app associated to your email address that generates a short passphrase (think magic-wormhole
style) every few minutes which will allow you to login to any associated service? (Caveat: one login per passphrase). Of course, now you need to make that app secure and compatible with login services..
A PDF is more portable, smaller file size, and it brings along the fonts it requires to display as-you-created-tt on another computer, which may not have them installed.

Plus you don’t have to worry about the errant slide transition working its way in, and it tends to load faster.

I don’t, as a rule, include video or other fancy effects in presentations ( they’re still referred to as “slide decks” where I work ), so PDFs are perfect. YMMV
On Windows I'm using DaVinci Resolve. It's closed source but free, and professional quality.
What if we just make transit free at point of service? It isn't like those fares are really paying the costs
Fully agreed. Technical ability comes first, but having good communication skills is a hell of a force multiplier.
The method of optimization probably has little to do with the interpretability of the model. Gradient optimization (i.e. backpropagation) can be used to fit logistic regression models, which are interpretable. Evolutionary algorithms can be used to fit deep neural networks, and will not make it more interpretable.

I'd say the least intepretable systems are biological, which are the outcome of an evolutionary process