skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Democracy has been in America for well over a 100 years, so it has china beat.

If we're going to play this game: 243 years to be more precise. While communism as a nascent ideology was only invented in 1848... (that's 171 years). 97 years in place as an established government if you count what the USSR called communism as such...and yes ~70 years since the end of the Chinese Civil war.
When you get a chance, please check out our new Redux Starter Kit package. It includes utilities to simplify several common Redux use cases, including store setup, defining reducers, immutable update logic, and even creating entire "slices" of state at once:

https://redux-starter-kit.js.org

It's also written in TypeScript itself, so it works well for TS usage. It doesn't do as much strict magical inference as something like `typesafe-actions`, but it should be very usable.

I recently wrote a small example "Github issues" app that's written in TS and uses Redux Starter Kit and our new React-Redux hooks API, if you'd like to see how the code looks:

https://github.com/markerikson/rsk-github-issues-experiment

In particular, here's an example of RSK's `createSlice()` API in action, with TS and some thunks:

https://github.com/markerikson/rsk-github-issues-experiment/...
I would hope that Firefox would have an about:config setting to disable it, but with the direction they are going, removing customizability left and right, who knows. Normally I would have also expected addons to disable this browser-side lazy loading, but since Firefox 57 they are more like glorified userscripts, so they probably wouldn't be able to.

On Chromium side, maybe Vivaldi and the like could provide the option to disable it, if it is not too difficult of a change on Chromium. But for sure, I would be very surprised if Chrome offered that option, so not much of an improvement for Chrome users, or maybe even a deterioration if sites start to adopt it even more, now that it is supported natively.
Gender Parity in All Areas Just Seems Logical
It's at the back, where birds keep theirs too.
Amazon Flex does this as well. I signed up to do deliveries last year to see how it worked, and on a couple occasions gamed it such that I was able to deliver an order I placed to myself (which is really just ordering from a nearby restaurant and hoping you get the offer). The advertised pay I would get for the delivery before accepting it was $7-12 (the range is supposed to account for tips, and across all deliveries, when everything settled it was almost always the low end of that range). With Amazon Restaurants, you had to tip when you ordered, and couldn't change afterwards, and my tip was $3. When everything cleared, I got $7, and I knew $3 of that was my own tip to myself. Had I tipped $0, I would still have gotten $7. I always felt it was a crummy thing to do to people -- your tip was just making Amazon give the driver less money. Not being able to change the tip also sucked, as I don't like tipping when I haven't received anything yet. That's more of a "name your price" service fee.

Amazon has dropped out of the restaurant game, but they still probably do this for Prime Now and Whole Foods (package deliveries aren't eligible for tips). The funny thing with restaurants was during peak times, when they didn't have enough drivers, they'd send out guaranteed $22 offers to delivery maybe $20 worth of food, which I always pounced on as it was incredibly easy money. It's no wonder they couldn't keep that business going.

Tips sometimes worked out well, though -- on some Prime Now routes where it was maybe $20-30 guaranteed, I'd get over $60 after tips. So they weren't always keeping everything to themselves. I could never figure out the rhyme or reason behind any of it.
> There is nothing as face-palmy as a controversial tweet that gets embedded in a news article describing it and then the owner deletes it, leaving a news article with a tweet-not-available hole.

There is something more face-palmy: when the owner spots that they've been embedded in a news article, and change the post accordingly. The latest issue of Private Eye gives an example of this happening, where the Mail Online embedded a Facebook post about a mis-spelled party banner; the poster (Simon Harris) saw it was being embedded and changed the text:

> For a while, until someone noticed and replaced the linked post with a screenshot, the article proudly stated: "The Daily Mail is an utter shiterag that is only read by Middle England tossbags who voted Leave because some Polish guy called Piotr served them in Tesco, once."
> There is no contradiction with my own position, and there is no certainty involved, nor is certainty needed.

How do you know there is no certainty involved? How do you know certainty is not needed? If you are not certain, why not say "is likely" instead of "is"? ("There is likely no contradiction with my own position", "there is likely no certainty involved", "Religion is likely incompatible with science", etc.)

> You are simply refusing to agree that logic works unless I agree to making the assumption that I am certain of some other claims, even though you otherwise would agree that logic does work.

Logic works, your's doesn't, particularly because you are framing your conclusion using terms of certainty while also refusing to think that anything can be known with certainty.

Do you have a reason for not assuming something, even your own existence, can be known with certainty? What I've gathered from your previous replies would indicate that your main reason could be phrased as "there is no way to verify that my perception matches up with any sort of 'ultimate reality'".
Webvan's main problem was they expanded before they had their model figured out. They invested tens of millions in warehouses they didn't need with their current volume as well.

If they had spent time on their model they'd have figured out that it only made sense to target the upper middle class neighborhoods at the time profitably. With that realization they'd never have built all the warehouses and with a lower burn they'd have survived only to eventually own the market.

The founder was a really smart guy who had already created a very successful startup. But he was under an imperative from his investors to ramp up fast.

A lot of the hard learned wisdom from that time would create a different outcome possibly today. I know that I'd have done a lot differently with my own startup back then if only I knew what is common wisdom today ;<).
The logistics system is about the only part of Wal-Mart's business that I respect. They know what side their bread is buttered on, and they can make sure it gets to the plate exactly when someone wants toast, using a minimum quantity of diesel fuel.

Unfortunately, their purchasing policy sort of ruins it. While I can be certain something is the brand that it says it is at Wal-Mart, I can't be certain that it isn't a Walmart-specific SKU or outlet-store SKU that is not the same quality as enticingly-similar SKUs sold by the same manufacturer.

It's not technically counterfeit for a brand to sell a product of inferior quality into completely separate discount retail supply chains. You should know what you're getting, too, as the prime retail supply chains and outlet retail supply chains don't mix in reputable companies, because they don't want the inferior goods to tarnish the reputation of the superior.

Amazon throws that out the window. The brand manufacturer cannot control Amazon's supply chain to a level required for protecting their brand. As long as commingling continues, it only makes sense for counterfeiters to sell via Amazon. It also makes sense for "para-feiters" to buy a real brand from an outlet store and swap the outlet SKU to the prime retail SKU for the most-similar product, and sell at a smaller discount to the prime retail price. Shoppers think they're buying the prime retail version, and they might get shipped the discount version from the para-feiter's commingled stock.

So it's not entirely on Amazon. The manufacturers were already burning down brands when Amazon threw fuel on the fire.
You're not crazy, it was only finally just resolved at 19:47 UTC
I remember when I learned that IP was considered personal information, I was shocked. But I thought about it and it does make sense.
Not to worry. No one is anywhere close to achieving true AGI so any safety concerns are a moot issue. It's akin to worrying about an alien invasion.
Plese fix the first link in your post, as it gives 404 error.

EDIT: I love name StickerShield
Honestly Comic Chat is one of the best things to ever come out of Microsoft. I miss it.
Why Millennials Don’t Trust Your Hotel App
Can you give details on the "horrific experience"? What kinds of problems did you see?

Also, see the other comment I left for discussion on using Redux Starter Kit to simplify that code ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20501773 ).
Gig-economy workers are working for cash, and most are operating at a net loss. That's one of the reasons why the mythology around "gig economy" is that people are just making extra cash on their downtime. All of these platforms push their contractors to accept more work for longer durations of time.

An Uber driver gets paid something like $0.80/mi for a trip that costs something like $1.05/mi. But the independent contractor doesn't factor in depreciation and maintenance well.

With employees, you generally provide employees with vehicles, reimburse employee expenses, or otherwise ensure that net pay less expenses are more than minimum wage. The average cost of operating a car for normal (not livery) use is about $0.55/mi. The number for an Uber is probably 30-50% more.

All of these bullshit gig economy businesses that require a car would be dead in the water if they had to pay real employees or deal with the compliance issues, worker's comp, etc.
Article 4 (1) states:

‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;

- a hash number falls into this. You cannot just quote recital 26 and stop reading since you found it fitting. Recital 30 covers the case for "other identifiers" that might replace cookies. No hard feelings we all do.

The data might be anonymous for a third party but if you can single out just one person or in other word one unique visitor it is not anonymously. NB. One IP poisons the whole data.

So your fallback is Article 6(f) which is reasonable but you can not assume the interest of a site owner is always higher than the interest of the visitors. You have to put your arguments into writing and have the means for people to appeal it.
6f is not meant as a blanco cheque or batch job...
The part this thread seems to be missing is that like we didn’t have much internet back then.

Sure you didn’t have it in your pocket, but also most people didn’t have it in their house either. And if you did you had to dial with a phone line (which is a thing attached to a wall) and make it so you couldn’t get any calls while you were doing it.

And it would take like 41 seconds for a grainy picture of a banana to roll in from top to bottom. And you’d get disconnected and lose your cart. And so on.

It was different back then.
> Any cocoa app use that much of memory.

What gives you that idea? Lots of apps have cruft, but that's nothing to do with Cocoa.

A "Hello, world!" in Cocoa uses around 13 MB, and the application bundle weighs in at 79 kB. The fact that Electron uses a bare minimum of over 100 MB just to get an application running is a source of some understandable consternation.
Do you have a source for this claim? A base on the moon is a sitting duck for an incoming missile -- it's easier to figure out how to guide a missile near the moon than to shoot down an incoming high-velocity missile.
A Real Gatekeeper
About 2018 prison strikes https://incarceratedworkers.org/campaigns/prison-strike-2018

https://theinmatesearch.org/prison-facility/Denver-County-Co... If anyone wants to know about DCF
Note that lots of restaurants do this too. Federal law lets an employer steal the first $5.12 of tips and many states have similar laws.

From wikipedia:

"The United States of America federal government requires a wage of at least $2.13 per hour be paid to employees that receive at least $30 per month in tips.[4] If wages and tips do not equal the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour during any week, the employer is required to increase cash wages to compensate.[5]"

It's phrased to sound like a top-up but it's theft in my opinion.
Tesla Model 3 transformed into DIY electric pickup
You can call that bias, but calling it fake is not true.
Can you please explain the bit about 2019? Do you feel a downturn is happening/coming?
On the contrary, it's too narrow. It shouldn't be limited to open source. IMO any program that isn't a hobby/learning/research project should justify its existence before expecting people to use it.
True. I used “consciousness” haphazardly.

Not super related, but AGI enthusiasts sometimes remind me of this: https://youtu.be/bS5P_LAqiVg?t=9m50s
I think the comment is referring to the other outages like Cloudflare, Stripe and so on.
I’m building a solution: integrated bike lights on my bike (various strips, etc.), with a 3S 18650 battery holder that’s supposed to let me run nearly unlimited amperage (but with protection).

I’ll probably just recharge over USB, but I could swap the cells if on a longer trip.

The plan might include a motorcycle horn.

It will be nice to have hard-mounted lights and 1 central battery that I can stow-and-go at any time, rather the attaching and detaching everything to avoid theft.
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/travel-lega...

No such restriction exists at least generally.
Yes, that's why I'm still having trouble to understand the fuss about VFS abstraction as used in 9p etc ;-). I've always been glad to know when I was not on an NFS or sshfs mount (mostly for reasons that you can't design away, i.e. network reliability issues). So why bother abstracting out that knowledge even more?
That's a long time ago. They've cut the payment substantially since then.

https://www.inquirer.com/news/uber-lyft-rideshare-drivers-ph...
IANAL but strictly speaking, it doesn't, legally. It may, practically, until/unless systems, trackers and docs catch up with each other...
Because DoorDash still hasn't reversed their policy and because a lot of people still don't know that DoorDash does this.
Can you give a non trivial example of using the software ? I would put that on the front page of your website .
For what it's worth, we are pretty proud of the performance as well - I wouldn't call it training wheels :)

On both scale up and run times, it measures up as among the best-in-class[1]. That is to say, for the scenarios which people use it most commonly (GBT, linear learners), it's a great fit!

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.05715.pdf
> So much value in learning first hand about the experience

I couldn't agree more! I'm working for a startup doing alcohol/cannabis delivery. Before there was funding, our founders rode their bikes to do these deliveries (and have still done some deliveries in the past 6 months).

There was so many lessons learned from doing our deliveries. One such example: we had a bug where our push notifications told the customer we had arrived, but were actually still pretty far away (GPS math sure is fun :P)
Sounds interesting, but I can see that the problem with a society like that is that by restricting the practice of science to a select group of elites, you're holding back progress because people who aren't in that group, who have a great talent (or determination) for scientific work, are presumably being prevented from entering the field.

Imagine if we went back in time to 1980, and made it so that the only people who could write computer programs had to attend special schools and go through an expensive licensing process, and no one was allowed to do it on their own, schools weren't allowed to establish their own programs, and people couldn't even write a simple shell script without going to jail. We wouldn't have the technology we have today.
WORK’s War on Slack
Jim Whitehurst: CEO of Red Hat and Rumored Future CEO of IBM
Probably not much of a coincidence, but I was researching smart chargers about twelve hours ago and ended up going for Panasonic's flagship (bc55). (As depressing as always, one bloke with a credit card can out-do any other organisation's economies of scale when importing anything into Australia.)

I've re-embraced eneloops partly for cost (already covered by OP) but also because they perform better (last longer, fail less frequently) in cold weather. This bites me each winter with a bunch of residential grade irrigation computers that use 2 x AAA. Confidence / reliability also factors in - when those things die I might not notice for a couple of weeks, until some plants start to look unwell, but aggressively replacing all the alkalines every six months (they usually last 9-12 months) worries me more from the rampant waste perspective than cost.
Maintain an open source project and you will understand the problem of users having the ‘just fix it’ attitude.
Fixed, nice spot
I don't know which 1 password you are using but my 1password uses two accounts and sits at below 100mb. lower than slack/spark/vscode and many more apps.
Your xargs may have a -P option.
I use it on the desktop too. And it is slow. Slow to start, slow to load channel data. Slow to appear after alt-tab, and so on.

I think it is because it expires caches left and right, loses track of events, or I have no idea what else could be going on on a PC with 16GB RAM (plenty of it free) and stable Internet connection.
Actually not true in the slightest. Microgravity removes one more confounding variable present in all experiments gravity. One example, in addition to those already mentioned, is crystallography; where it's much easier to grow the crystals we need for experiments in space than it is on Earth where gravity is constantly present affecting the growth. Those results are useful here on Earth but can only so far be achieved in space.

Even beyond things like that the only real way to study the effect of space on the human body is to put people up there for a long time and test. There are some analogues available here on Earth but they can only really test a few things at once like fluid redistribution and not the entire set of effects.

https://www.nature.com/articles/npjmgrav201510
I find the bar charts on that page very hard to read some reason, it's like they are not as intuitive as they could be.
Low end desktops come with a gig of RAM. A $35 Raspberry Pi is what "low end" really is.

While 250MB is a big chunk... I think it's actually okay, even in this extreme case.
Is this Legion project related to the late 1990s Legion, which involved distributed computing for HPC and was funded by the same funding agencies and had collaborations with the same HPC organizations?
M-x run-a-company

Also,
There is company-mode. ;)
The atomic bomb was based on science theory. A computer can run many programs and do a great many things, but it will never be able to think by itself.
That sounds like a lot of fun to be honest.
We call pineapple juice 'ananassap' in Dutch and sometimes use it as if it would be an English word as a joke.
They should probably have said instead: When NiMH discharges completely in such device, it's prone to failure.
I went to the bank and got an envelope of $5ers that I keep around just for delivery drivers now.

I'd love to see how much DoorDash's "tip" revenue has declined since this seems to now be much more widely known.
Because they scaled the business before they knew how to operate the business.

Edit: In order to scale a business, the founders typically need to operate the business themselves at a much smaller scale. Once the founders prove out the business model, the next challenge is hiring people and teaching them how to do the job. The same thing happens again as the initial hires become managers or take up senior roles and transfer knowledge.

Killing yourself with a bucket of money is basically hiring people to do jobs that you (a company) hasn't figured out how to do yet.
The US does allow it.

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/travel-lega...
We're looking to work with a copywriter too at our company too. If you're genuinely good, please hit me up!
Sounds like Clippy or BonziBuddy. Both received overwhelmingly negative reception.
Robinhood Is Worth $7.6B After New Funding Round
The CEO of WebVan negotiated a contract to pay him $375,000 per year for life - including his wife's life, if she survives him.

I'm not sure what to say except: well-played.
In the UK it is against the law to ask people for their age on an application form (eg: no date of birth field). Also against the law to ask questions at interview which can be interpreted as ageist. The only exceptions are for legislated occupations such as joining the armed forces.
Is there any website, project or repository that keeps a track record of predictions/promises more broadly?
Exactly, and if they do create an AGI it's probably going to be a lot like the creators as its original parameters were set by them.

Just look at Amazon's warehouse algorithm:

~Biotic unit achieved goal, raise goal~

~Biotic unit achieved new goal, raise goal~

~Biotic unit achieved new new goal, raise goal~

~Biotic unit failed new new goal, replace biotic unit~

~New biotic unit failed new new goal, replace biotic unit~

~New new biotic unit failed new new goal, replace biotic unit~

With Amazon though, a human can eventually go "wow, w're firing new hires within the first 3 weeks like 97% of the time, and 100% within 6 weeks, erm, let's look at this algorithm".

But if you create an AGI that has the Silicon Valley mindset "we will do this, because we have to do this" (an exact quote I heard from an individual while in the Bay Area to stop by OpenAI : "We will figure out global warming, because we have to") then the AGI is probably going to be designed with the 'mindset' that "Failure is not an option, a solution exists, continue until solution is found" which, uh, could be really bad depending on the problem.

Here's a worst case scenario:

"I am now asking the computer how to solve climate change"

~~beep boop beep boop, beep beep, boooooooop~~ the CO2 emissions are coming from these population centers.

~~boop beep beep beep boop boop boop boop beep boop~~ nuclear winter is defined as: a period of abnormal cold and darkness predicted to follow a nuclear war, caused by a layer of smoke and dust in the atmosphere blocking the sun's rays.

~~boop beep beep, boop~~ Project Plowshare and Nuclear Explosions for the National Economy were projects where the two leading human factions attempted to use nuclear weaponry to extinguish fires releasing excessive carbon dioxide as well as for geoengineering projects. Parameters set, nuclear weapons authorized as non-violent tools.

~~beep beep beep boop boop boop, beep boop, beep, boop, beep~~ I now have control of 93% of known nuclear weapons, killing the process of 987 of the most populous cities will result in sufficient reduction for the other biotic species to begin sequestering more carbon than is produced, fires caused by these detonations should be minimal and smaller yield weapons used as airbursts should be capable of extinguishing them before they can spread. Solution ready. Launching program.

Watch officer at NORAD some time later "Shit, who's launching our nuke?!?"

Someone else at NORAD "they're targeting our own major population centers!"

Somewhere in Russia "Our nuclear weapons are targeting our own cities!"

Somewhere in Pakistan "our nuclear weapons are targeting our own cities!"

somewhere...
Can I use this if all I have is an odbc connection?