skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> That would be UPS doing that, not Amazon.

> No, there are defiantly people delivering stuff our of cars and cargo vans. I haven't had an amazon order come via UPS or FedEx in a while.

That is the delivery person doing that. The worst is when delivery personnel don't ring or knock, they just slap a "tried to deliver" slip on your door because it's faster for them.
These days, game playing happens on all sides.

(See, e.g., the Kevin Spacey lawsuit for a recent example in the news)

Again, the question is not who would win. It's whether it is worth winning.

Let me use a strong amount of hyperbole to try to make this part of the point.

Imagine a 3 year old challenges you to a fight.
They are completely and totally adamant about it.
You certainly could win.
Is it worth winning?
Or would it be better to try to give them ice cream and get them to stop bugging you.
Now imagine this fight will take 5-7 years :)

Despite what random comments on hacker news say, these are basically settled on a regular basis as cost of doing business.

If they were arbitration (heresy, i know) or some other cheaper/less intensive method of dispute resolution, google would likely (and often does) fight it.

But court cases are just really expensive and time consuming.
The average civil litigation takes 5-7 years to resolve.
Calm, that's a good word to use.

On Twitter I see statements made that are offensively absurd and rhetorically dishonest. I suspect 80% of them are some sort of malactor fomenting division.

I honestly believe the world would be a better place if Twitter strictly enforces a HN style set of rules (argue in good faith) or just went away entirely.
Isn't it all about 'engagement' (at least for companies)?

Facebook -> make the user see more ads

Amazon -> make the user buy more things
Advent of Code – University Course Edition
The Volt app actually looks in your browser files to steal its Slack login session cookie: https://github.com/voltapp/volt/issues/143.
DST Global is a pocket of Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov, alleged criminal, Putin's sidekick, owner of Russian social network VK, which committed numerous acts of personal information disclosure to police and FSB without court order, led to prosecution of political activists and common people. Good luck, Robin Hood (
This is a very thorough explanation of why it matters https://danluu.com/deconstruct-files/
I think the savings from reduced liability and simplified corporate structure would offset the costs. Let's face it, Uber doesn't make money as it is and neither do Uber drivers once you factor in all the expenses.

But if you can shift the liability for driver satisfaction and compensation off of Uber and onto it's franchises suddenly Uber isn't making 10,000,000 transactions per day. They're only making 10,000 transactions per month. That's money making interest for Uber instead of drivers. Also, Uber no longer makes money from rides. They make money by selling franchise rights and access to the platform for franchisers. The franchise is responsible for turning a profit from rides, and also for ensuring their employees are compensated.

There would also be an increase in efficiency. Currently my friend starts off 30m south of Boston for Uber, but her rides typically take her north of Boston within a few hours. Uber doesn't care how far out of her way she's going. When she inevitably shuts off her app she must then drive 2 hours to get home. If each franchise had it's own "turf" this could be organized and reduced. The result is less wasted fuel/time for the drivers and a smoother ride because drivers stay in areas they're comfortable and familiar with.
I really like the Orgzly app for Android. It does everything I think it feasible on a phone interface, and I sync via Dropbox.
Github: the premier collaborative platform for FLOSS development, which itself is closed-source, made under a closed development process. Based on a distributed CVS, it has become a massive SPOF. As if that wasn't strange enough, it was acquired by Microsoft. Was that the victory of FLOSS or the defeat? How can you tell?

WTF is going on?

Mood: "Am I going crazy, or is it the world around me?" ~ https://fishbone.bandcamp.com/track/drunk-skitzo
I'm tired of articles that talk about young people today and then only give out examples that happen at small elite liberal arts universities. What that generally tells you is that the author only interacts with a small slice of young people and assumes everyone else in their generation is the same.
>For example USCIS apparently puts some people through interviews where they ask for intimate personal details of the spouse, like what side of the bed they sleep on or the color of the toothbrush they use. This implies a particular definition of marriage — one where you sleep on the same bed and use the same bathroom.

They aren’t looking for a “particular definition of marriage.” They are looking for inconsistencies and divergences between what each partner says, thus trying to catch them lying. I heavily doubt they will call your marriage fraudulent just because you and your partner don’t share the same bed.
Which would make complete sense. Anyone like Steve Jobs would be launching their own companies. People running fortune 10/50 companies would have risen through corporate ranks to be CEOs and be more like Cook not Jobs.
This is a good point. To wit, I'd say the Google MVP was probably the Stanford PageRank paper.
The most famous is the Philosopher's Stone: a substance that can convert base metals into gold.

But in itself, that was not the point. It would also transform the owner or user -- it was a hermetic symbol, a mechanical means to "pierce the veil" and to see the deep mystical and magical truths, the Real Reality. It was immanent, a thing in the world, that enabled the transcendent, to go beyond, above, outside of the world. Its discovery would have been the single most important moment in the history of the world, the moment in which humans had a reliable road to divinity.

Hmm. Sounds familiar, doesn't it?

But out of alchemy came modern chemistry, and also some parts of the scientific method. After all, as some smart people worked out, you could systematically try all the permutations of materials that your reading had suggested as possibilities. That meant measuring, weighing, mixing properly, keeping detailed notes. Fundamental lab work is the unglamorous slab of concrete beneath the shining houses of the physical sciences. There were waves of hysteria and hype, but after each, something useful would be left behind, minus the sheen of unlimited dreams.

Hmm. Sounds familiar, doesn't it?

These days it is possible for a device to transmute base metals into gold. But the operators have not, so far as I can deduce, ascended to any higher planes of existence. They have eschewed the ethereal and remained reliably corporeal.
Small nitpick: loading state should be a counter incremented / decremented on each request / response, not a boolean.

This looks very nice though, avoids almost all the repetitions you usually have to write when setting up reducers and actions!
I wish more products would adapt 18650 batteries. My flashlight can pump out over 2000 lumens or still very bright for a really long time. 18650 has very high density, can be charged and discharged rapidly depending on the cell, and has safety fuses. I've thrown away a bunch of rechargable AA batteries and not a single 18650.
Is this article supposed to be a reductio ad absurdum of utilitarianism?
"Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams, who has now also taken over the company’s legendary design studio."

This might be a dumb question, but does the COO usually manage design? Our COO is very much a supply chain, logistics, procurement and day-to-day administration type manager. I can't imagine him having any sort of sense of good design.

I'm sure he's (he as in Apple's COO) not there in the design trenches on the daily, but he would have final say on overall design, unless I'm misinterpreting what it means in the article.

To be fair I probably would've said the same thing for a CEO before Steve Jobs came along but he's proven himself to a be very rare exception.
Are you sure you were using a non-enterprise edition of Windows 10 1809?
How Legal Marijuana Is Helping the Black Market
Kafka productivity hacks
University of Chicago to Make SAT, ACT Optional for Applicants
Do you think all view points should be heard? Should Jewish and gay students have to debate Nazi's about whether or not they should be murdered? Should black and women students have to debate if they should count as property?
xattrs was their reason, IIRC (even though other filesystems also support xattrs).

ETA:

> A supported file system is required as Dropbox relies on extended attributes (X-attrs) to identify files in the Dropbox folder and keep them in sync. We will keep supporting only the most common file systems that support X-attrs, so we can ensure stability and a consistent experience. [0]

[0]: https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Error-messages/Dropbox-clien...
You think in terms of theoretical society that is either On or Off. No place is like that.

You missed the point that the people fleeing is already stealing tax and are likely the bad parts of the system themselves. They are fleeing from others like them and the justice, to begin with. If the system will collapse or not, i doubt that cross their mind.
Number 2 at a company does not automatically mean heir apparent. In fact it has historically been very rare for a COO or other such executive to get promoted to CEO.
I don't think I get it, what do you use global state for? And what do you use to query your API and store responses then?

Most of the time yeah I do use Redux (sagas) to query my API and store the result. Many of my components need access to the same data (who's the current user, what's their list of items, what's the current item being looked at...), so it's at least shared state if not global
It seems like many of the people who need this worst are the least able to flex and reach that lip... also it's hard to reach from the window seat.
Thank you once again for the detailed reply.

I appreciate that you have a nuanced position on the topic of Docker security, based on deep expertise. Sadly, that nuance is lost on 99% of the people I see shouting that "Docker is insecure", the same people who presumably downvoted my original comment into oblivion. They are calling Docker insecure not because they understand what you explained (they don't), but because they have heard half-truths or outright fabrications, and are repeating them with absolute conviction, without bothering to argue their point or check even the most basic facts. As someone who has a lot of actual first-hand experience with Docker I find that very frustrating.

So, although I agree with everything you said, and appreciate that you took the time to write it down; I believe that your answer has unintentionally vindicated the many people lurking on this site who hold the widespread, almost cult-like belief that Docker is very insecure - insecure to the level of gross negligence, in a way that you and I understand it isn't.
New York state banned the sale of smoke alarms with removable batteries earlier this year.

> Starting Monday, all new or replacement smoke detectors sold in the state must either be powered by a non-removable battery good for at least 10 years or be made to be hard-wired to buildings.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Law-Bans-Smoke-Detecto...
While I agree with most of what you say, I'm struggling to see how rule breakers get rewarded.

For the most part pretty much everyone in the immigration system gets screwed, other than the wealthiest, whether they buy their residency, or they hire the workers who are either here illegally or legally.
Agreed. There is a definite process to work through to ensure that all these various bases are covered. It's not easy but there's a lot of good information out there on how to manage it all. I recommend Customercentric Selling and/or Exceptional Selling as two books that contain a lot of quality advice about engaging with business leaders in a selling situation.
If you get a $3 18650 flashlight off ebay with the single XM-L led, they're fairly low brightness (I'd guess 250 lumen) and can be mounted as a bike headlight with a $2 adapter.
Revenge of Microsoft Bob!
Alkaline batteries are NOT good at low temperature.

The most reliable power I have found are the single-use lithium batteries, especially when the temperature drops.

I should also mention - use rechargeable batteries for devices you care about.

If they come with batteries, usually alkaline batteries, there's a good chance they will discharge, then start leaking and either damage or destroy the device they came in.

Meanwhile, rechargable batteries have much better sealing and rarely leak even if fully discharged.

Small(ish) price to pay to preserve an expensive device.
WeWork secures 'financial inducement' of £55.7m in Brexit windfall
Sorry, but repeated studies on the issue basically find people simply don't care:

"Only 33.3% were concerned about their personal contact information like email address and phone number being shared with third parties, while 10.2% were worried about their friends and contacts being shared."

Can you find me one that says most did?

Because I can't.

Truthfully, if people cared half as much as hacker news thinks they do/should, it would already be a solved issue.
I think this is confusion of two pretty distinct things, I'm fine with affluence being a metric in the immigration process (especially if, as with Canada, the government directly profits from the temporary use of that money) - the issue in Vancouver more lies in the usage of vacant properties to park money from overseas, since cities suffer from having artificially lowered vacancies it is pretty proper that a vacancy tax is leveraged on these properties to recoup the lost value - the issue here is mostly that the prior Premier worked to block such a tax repeatedly, we now have the tax in place though it's implementation is still having some growing pains.

Thus we're getting some utility out of recouping lost value from the tax, but the disincentive the tax would have represented has come in too late to avoid the huge property value spike, ideally we'll see those inflated values decrease somewhat as real estate as a savings account becomes less attractive and starts depreciating the parked value quicker.

There is also the issue that it's hard to audit residency currently.
If you saw the code academics and students write, you'd know why they don't want to publish it.

Also, more likely and non- nefarious, but no less harmful, there's just an academic culture that says "this is what a paper looks like and this is what it contains". Moving from this pattern increases the odds you'll not be published, and it would also likely result in a scandal when someone uses it to point out that the peers in peer review are neither peers (they can't read nor understand nor test the code) nor reviewing (they won't actually put resources into code review).
Here's also the top earning writers on Patreon: https://graphtreon.com/top-patreon-creators/writing

I give $30 a month to number 10 Wildbow because I greatly look forward to his stuff.
Related from 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10764268
I do take your point but when we get into this area, it becomes a big question of trust. Because if I gave you a hash, you would need to guess the 256 bit salt in addition to all the other possibilities.

I mean, hey, here's a hash: 26246226167b9f190d3a1ce726efe07ae18bbf0480a78d19390b9aaf13f25cb0

Imagine you just got hold of it through a data breach. I'll give you $1,000 if you can get it de-hashed before midnight Chicago time ;)
Apple close to buying Intel's modem business: report
No. Front running is illegal, that's not what RH does. What RH sell is uncorrelated orders, and the users actually get better prices from this too.
Can't you use whatever accounting method you wish, regardless of how they report it?
As far as I understand it, that just means that sellers have the option to opt in/out of the commingling program (Settings => Fulfillment by Amazon =>
FBA Product Barcode Preference).

Yes, there is a cost for the seller if opting out - they need to apply their own barcodes to the products in that case.
I think this is way too broad an interpretation to draw from a paper that shows that a single dataset was bad. NLP datasets have had a good chunk of these issues, but people have been aware of this issue for a few years and newer datasets, e.g. SQuAD 2.0 explicitly try to address these sorts of issues.
We don't simulate folding the proteins though. We actually do it for real in every cell in our body and we do it really fast.
Not all speech is useful speech and some speech should be shut down depending on the context. On Discord I've had people complain about me trying to stop people calling other people "fags" or "retards" and I have been called a SJW for stopping people just saying lies about trans people (which they always try to defend as if it's some sort of legitimate political opinion).

Edit: It's generally kids saying these things and I get it that they often just don't know better but it's really night and day how much better things are if there are some boundaries.
You're not wrong, but why does the seller get a pass? If I get a catalog in the mail labeled "Bob's Swimsuits for Portly Gentlemen," and I call the 800 number and order one, and instead I get an angry bobcat, my beef is with the folks at Bob's Swimsuits.

The fault may be with the company Bob hired to manufacture swimsuits, or maybe the shipping company for confusing boxes, or maybe Bob's catalog contractor got some model numbers switched around, but I'm just the customer. None of that stuff is visible to me, and I have no control over it. If the catalog company or the fulfillment company or the manufacturer part of the pipeline is known to occasionally produce bobcats, it's Bob's job to fix it.

Yes, this is Amazon's fuckup, but it's not the customer's job to conduct the postmortem. The customer has the privilege of blaming the entity they do business with.
Scaling Twilio (2011)
It's not clear to me from the post - did they do the same changes on the website version? Should I expect the same improvement there, or are those completely separate implementations.
I think there is a lot of evidence that explosive progress could be made quickly. Alphago zero, machine cision, sentiment analysis, machine translation.. voice.. etc etc etc

All these things have surged incredibly in less than a decade.

It's always a long way off until it isn't.
There was no reason to use Emacs if that's the way you used it. IMO the reason to use Emacs is because you want to customize things. It's a programming language that you interact with in the form of a text editor. That's a pretty small number of people for sure, but for those that want that, Emacs cannot be replaced by a random IDE.
I've been using Emacs for about 24 years now. That's 24 years of doing all of my best work as a programmer and writer in it, 24 years of accumulated muscle memory, know-how, and grokking the philosophy of Emacs. I've tried VSCode and various IDEs several times now, and I might even switch once these offer me enough of a value-add over Emacs to make me want to abandon those 24 years of accumulated knowledge. Which is a tall order to fill, and as good as those tools are they don't come close to filling it.

Electric indent alone makes me want to stick with Emacs. I'm so used to how Emacs does indentation that I get frustrated whenever I'm presented with an IDE that doesn't do it that way (nearly all of them without special extensions).
https://www.google.com/search?q=battery+life+calculator&oq=b...
That’s the tricky bit - for anyone who is technical amongst a non-technical team, where you can’t expect or rely colleagues to deal with the environment. Same goes for Jupiter Noteboks and similar solutions. This is so why, in my opinion, Excel VBA has been successful, in that everyone has it by default and it is easy to distribute solutions or demo’s.

Anyway, what you’ve achieved is really cool. Thanks for sharing.
When I started writing it back in 1999, it was what I knew. I also had a C library for dealing with CGI scripts I wrote from the mid-90s. Also, for several years my website was run off a 486 I had colocated at a company my friend was running, so there was a performance issue as well.
I have heard a form of that joke in the United States but for when taxes are increased on cigarettes. The shareholders of the tobacco companies feel the pain less than the children of the addicted.
Delete, but the word delete is deleted. Yo dawg.
> Relevant discussion: “Linux users were only 0.1% of sales but 20% of crashes and tickets”[1]

Might be fair to note that these numbers are for a video game, not a file syncing app. Linux is relatively new territory there, let's say when Steam started supporting it.
I worked for Redknife, later renamed OpenLatitude, that was WebVan's primary B2B exchange hub. We translated their orders/invoices/catelogs back and forth to their vendors. They were our second best customer behind MicroWarehouse.

When they went down, they took us with them. MicroWarehouse exercised a contract clause to purchase our software and hired me on a three month contract to teach them how to use it. I took it because my option was to be laid off.

Brings back memories, and not all good ones. What a wild ride.
So basically, after "disrupting" cab companies, Uber would be transitioning into a software vendor for cab companies.
OpenAI should change their name. Seriously, it’s confusing.
I'm not sure how your analogy works.

1. Dropbox isn't just storage. If it was just storage, it would never have taken off. The reason Dropbox makes tons of money is because it's actually selling a process. Still commoditized, but it's not as lightweight as toilet paper.

2. If you feel like creating an ext4 partition is analogous to remodeling your bathroom, I would question where you choose to hold strong opinions.

I think you have your analogy backwards. I'd happily switch out the toilet paper brand (the file system on one partition) in my bathroom (how my team and I manage shared documents) if that's what it takes to make the bathroom fit its purpose.

Besides, Dropbox didn't kill Linux support, they scaled it down to ext4, which is a perfectly inoffensive choice of file system for an end user.
I've done the transformation layer in the small to keep components running during a re-write/refactor. Create a new structure and write some code (in the DB or otherwise) to make the new structure look like the old structure long enough to eventually replace that old code.

I can't imagine doing that as an independent step towards a rewrite.
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Wow. Not even nuclear powering it.....
I agree, Greece might not be one of the best countries but a Greek passport is worth more, compared to passports from other countries [0].
Investing 250k on a house gives you access to an EU country with a “powerful” passport and you get to keep a nice Mediterranean house. Now if only I could find an “investor” to buy the summer house I’m selling :-) (oh boy, I’m really going to be downvoted for this shameless plug)

[0] https://www.passportindex.org/byRank.php
And if you return too much stuff they'll ban your account; very cool.
> can't you just

This is how you know you're about to make a really good point. Heck, I could code this up in a weekend!!
And when you need to delete your node_modules folder for the upteenth time, it's a nice 5 minute break.
I am working on the same lines, creating an AI assistant which will pretty much do anything you want to do and you will do. I have been training the model on my UI actions on the computer and trying for my assistant to do the same using reinforcement learning. I haven't reached an appreciable working product yet it works great for me, it can screen cast, type passwords not only in browser but also on consoles. I am constantly adding features to it and I have had the same question as you for a long time.