skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
no, when certain conditions lead to certain outcomes like cancer, infections and so on, you cannot really go wrong when results come in early and are so positive they are massively significantly different vs the usual course. effect size.
Claiming the developer is in the best position to lock down there own programs is obviously making the assumption that the developer can be trusted. It would be much easier to audit a single file declaring all of the permissions a program has been granted than it would be to audit the entire source code of the program itself. I think it would be a great idea to integrate MAC more widely in package distribution systems.
The detached home is much more the centerpiece than the car.

The car is the currently most convenient way of enabling the detached home, but I think you'd have an easier fight of providing transportation alternativers there than of convincing everyone to give up the yard and privacy and everything else there.

It's not the only possible way, and most vehicle trips are still relatively short (https://nhts.ornl.gov/vehicle-trips) so I sure hope we can do it with last mile + transit vs self-driving cars.
That is what everyone I know uses it for too. It is almost like git, in how every sub team has their own private branch.

Honestly, any important discussion that gets too chatty for teams, should be a meeting.

That being said, everyone in my team generally sits on the same floor, so collaborating physically isn't an issue. I am sure a few of teams's shortcomings will become more evident once we start collaborating with remote teams.
I took a temporary job that was not in my field (software development), stayed there for a few months then joined a product life-cycle management startup as a web developer for half a year. That didn't work out, so I quit, then went back to that temporary job.

I'll be taking the GRE in September and am applying for graduate programs in my area.
Might be a victim of A/B testing. The accurate headline would be "three black beekeepers are transforming Detroit's empty lots" but "black beekeepers are transforming Detroits empty lots" implies the existence of a new social movement with many members, which of course is more interesting and drives clickthroughs and hence ad revenue.

That said, Detroit Hives is a really cool team who deserve exactly none of the blame for Huffpost's bad journalism.
> I don't like Go these days, but I prefer it over Python (mostly due to at least having basic types)

You should try type annotations, with mypy and/or PyCharm it helps finding bugs before you run the code. It also makes autocomplete and refactoring work correctly (I would say they work better in PyCharm than in GoLand)
And what is the likelihood of a lawsuit against the Chinese government even being allowed to occur?
Unpaid is a huge qualifier. A lot of people simply cannot get by taking three months off with no pay.
Those were all achieved pre-IPO. The MBAs run Google now and they want unconstrained growth at all costs. Socially conscious principles are worthless distractions to these people.
Are you aware men can’t breast feed?

Fuck this idea that traditional gender roles are meaningless.
>Well, "most users" implies a majority, which is simply not the case here, full stop.

Well, 30% of the traffic leaving within the first couple of months of the ban, seems rather significant to me:

"The blogging platform’s traffic has dropped by 30 percent since the December ban on all adult content (...) In December, Tumblr’s global traffic clocked in at 521 million, but it dwindled to a mere 370 million in February, according to The Verge".

And moving onwards, it continues to look like a death spiral - a website that lost half or more of its users and is on a slope:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/261925/unique-visitors-t...

>I'm not going to reply to this further. I know the stats, I've seen the internal stats over many years, and this is a pointless thing to argue.

Sure, no reason to reply. I've posted the stats myself, people can draw their own conclusions...
I find it weird that people would not like other variety of bananas. Like there are generally more than one type of apples, potatoes, onions, tomotoes, and lettuce at most grocery stores.

I would like the choice.
Tumblr took away all the porn and that was more or less the only real reason to use it. Instagram is better.
I wouldn’t jump to that conclusion right away.

You open up a lot of free space if you can take away street parking, which could also significantly alleviate traffic, for example with dedicated lanes for small-personal battery powered bikes, scooters, etc.

It’s also not necessary for vehicles to travel several miles to find parking. Typical urban parking is designed so the average person is walking maybe a couple hundred feet maximum? That’s a lot of localized parking. If the car was traveling just a few thousand feet on average to find a lot, that’s not a lot of extra parking-miles traveled, but still a paradigm shift in parking process.

Also, you eliminate the issue of people circling the block trying to find parking, which is adding slow traffic in dense areas.

Finally, it’s likely the vehicle is not going to park, but rather off to pick up its next ride.

At the most optimized, there are pickup and drop off points at every block where someone gets out, and immediately someone else gets in, and off the vehicle goes to the next stop.
I don't understand. I just clicked on the original link above and it plays fine.
Using public transit as your main mode of transportation is not the same as swearing off cars entirely. If you live somewhere with good transit you can get to 99% of the places you want to go without a car with no additional inconvenience. You can take the train to work, bike to the gym, walk to the grocery store, and then when you want to head out to the mountains you can hop into your car (or a rental).

You can reap the environmental benefits of switching mostly away from cars without sacrificing your freedom to drive to the small number of destinations that are not convenient to get to by other means.
There's a GMO variety of the Cavendish that is resistant to the Panama Disease.

https://www.accessscience.com/content/genetic-engineering-of...
The fact that I like cake is not a conscious decision. My decision is whether I will eat it or not. You don't actually have to be with the people you're attracted to. (We all get old and ugly eventually anyway.)
Detroit is 83% black.
> The 'hypersane' are those among us who have realized, for better or for worse, that the traditional things that most in a society strive for - material wealth, social status, conformity to social structures, etc. - aren't really the keys to happiness and that when you "awaken" (and become hypersane, I suppose) you realize that along with those things come stress, anxiety, the rat race, and, well, a pretty boring existence.

> I dig it! I expect to see a lot of folks reject this notion outright, because, well, cognitive dissonance. If you've built your life around conforming, it might be tough to hear someone suggest it's all for naught.

> Thoughts?

Sounds pretty self-congratulatory, like you think you figured out something most people don't figure out.

In reality, all those "realizations" are so mainstream that they show up in Disney movies--there's nothing nonconformist about realizing any of that. And in reality, the kinds of people who act on those ideas sometimes flee their country and loved ones and live in Russia (Edward Snowden), blow their brains out with a gun (Hunter S. Thompson) or try to strangle themselves with their underwear in a supermax prison (Ted Kaczynski).
Another often-missed factor that may shift the ethical breakeven point is that local air pollution is _really_ bad from a public health perspective, to a degree that's criminally underemphasized. If you're going to be burning fossil fuels for power, doing so in a centralized place away from dense populations makes a lot more sense than doing so next to schools, parks, residential density, etc.
Yet neither Yahoo or AOL were particularly good at display ads. Blind leading the blind.

(p.s. greetings! Been a long time! We should catch up)
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So Rome has a science police?
You mean except for 60 Minutes and every local news station's consumer advocate?
Since it's inevitable that the current bananas will collapse from this, maybe it'll speed acceptance of GMO products. People will ignore their unfounded fears once it starts affecting them.
Except that now everybody insists that you should be using package managers like apt and yum instead.
> In reality, all those "realizations" are so mainstream that they show up in Disney movies.

and yet...
I would be careful about claiming built artifacts play much role in the visibility of repository-delivered malware. Consider "reflections on trusting trust" for attacks on reproducible builds, and also that all the major scripting languages (PyPI, Ruby gems, and npm) have had malicious packages inserted over the last year or so.
I don't see these in conflict. commercially exported banana is based on clonal reproduction and is therefore highly exposed to risk of a disease. All banana varieties (to some extent) have risk, the locally consumed varieties are not always Cavendish, or LadyFinger but include more rich varieties which may or may not be clonally sourced, but do include seeded bananas and plantain varieties, but also have the risk: its just commercial agriculture has driven to a very very high risk of consequence.
Why "black beekeepers" instead of "three beekepers"?
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i’m so disappointed that i, early in my career, fell for the palantir koolaid.
What a really insightful comment. I had never thought of it from that perspective.
I like to view culture as a layer on top of our instinct and natural proclivity for certain behaviours. Men's choice to exhibit or inhibit their anxiety probably would have dictated mating behaviour. No mate would choose another that visibly responded to fears that weren't real. So an adaption would be the redirection of that anxiety into violence or antisocial behaviours, which ironically, are more attractive to some mates, eg. the bad boy image.
Fascinating stuff!
Fun fact - bananas are berries.
> The NY MTA has a surplus of highly competent career administrators and engineers.

Does it? Or are the competent administrators (and engineers, but particularly the administrators - managing big projects is hard!) all getting paid bank at the most lucrative private companies?

If you want transparency and cost effectiveness and speed you need some really fucking good management.
It's the same argument for continuing to manage Excel applications as they scale up to complicated messes.
Are you going to reverse the censorship and let the artists, trans/sex-worker activists, and sex educators that were banned return? If not, you're lying through your teeth about respecting anything Tumblr has accomplished.
I currently live in Vietnam, but was recently traveling around Laos by motorbike. The bananas there are almost inedible... they taste awful. I found it fascinating how different they were compared with Vietnamese bananas.

That said, I saw huge fields of farmed trees literally everywhere there (as well as in VN). I don't think they are in any real danger of disappearing like these articles say. It is very sensationalist news.
That's an excellent question! I don't want to be so presumptuous as to define an exact approach before the technical exploration has started, besides saying it'll be done incrementally and in an easily revertable way to be invisible to users, just like the big datacenter migration Automattic just completed a few weeks ago.

At the point when we start this the Tumblr team will have been part of Automattic for the better part of a year if not more, so there will be a lot of learning and evolution of the products on both sides to make any migration easier.

I promise we'll write about it afterward for anyone who is curious.
This is the tech company that really deserves to be beaten up in the media!
You need _some_ roads, but not to the extent of your typical suburban sprawl. Where I live (Vancouver, Canada), there are sufficient roads for most travel, but the city also has relatively high quality public transit and decent bike routes. I don't think GP meant that a city should have no roads, but rather that transportation infrastructure is almost always going to be an expenditure for a city. America has simply chosen to prioritize cars over other transportation options.

Higher density minimizes the need for cars.
I'd be interested to know if folks here with dyslexia agree with the sentiment that dyslexia affects their visual ingestion of words, and that visual aids (like the colored filters he discusses) can improve their reading ability.

I ask this because many dyslexia experts in the US (and some outside the US) insist that dyslexia is purely phonological, and therefore non-visual.

As someone who works in the field but does not have dyslexia, I have to reconcile these academic's edicts with the personal descriptions I hear from individuals with dyslexia, which clearly indicate that dyslexia can have visual causes and aids.
The Teams client is built on Electron? Why?

Developers need to stop building slow applications. This is ridiculous. It's 2019 and software is slower than it was in the 90s.

It must take an enormous number of CPU cycles to execute simple tasks in an Election-based app. It's just incredibly inefficient. I heard similar things about Slack – that it was built on Node, maybe Electron, and was dog slow, especially to open. It's frustrating that developers are bringing the slowness of the web to the desktop. Just build proper desktop applications using native desktop APIs.
So, from reading the article, it seems like this policy researcher helped torpedo a positive change that he spent insufficient time researching and attempting to understand. He did this, unknowingly, but nonetheless in service rich people defend their advantages over the needs of poor people. His initial accusations of failure to engage with parents was actually false, by his own admission. The researchers followed an exemplary engagement process that attempted to balance the needs of all stakeholders. But reflexive hand-wringing, marshaled effectively by those who stood to lose a little of their existing advantages, destroyed the work, along with the political capital that would otherwise have made it happen.

Is there an expression of remorse anywhere in the article? I didn't see it. Suggestions for how things could be done better are all well and good. But I don't think I'm unreasonable in expecting some contrition from someone who participated in a screw up this gargantuan.
FWIW, I'm using Teams from home as I type this, and I've never seen this come up as an issue in our (large-ish) company's communications channels. I don't believe you're experiencing a Teams problem.
There's a 2.5x improvement from serving AMP rather than HTML. There's also a 2.5x improvement from prefetching. The part that the article dismisses is the change from just the AMP cache but without prefetching.

I think there's a pretty big difference between a few seconds and instant. Maybe you think the difference doesn't matter to the UX, and there's at least a discussion. But just going lalala and denying that the difference exists?
Ask HN: What do you think of not-engineered-to-last products?
FitBit 2 Charge display spontaneously failed about the 2-year mark. Searching around, I noticed many others have experienced the very same issue and that they're not standing behind this obviously defective product.

1) Why do customers keep letting themselves be abused by companies with crappy products that don't last?

2) IANAL. Is this type of defect something that could lead to a class-action lawsuit and/or a recall?
It doesn't automatically race. The "async" block in Kotlin is an equivalent to "spawn" in Rust, and launches everything in it as a child task. However compared to Rusts spawn Kotlin makes use of structured concurrency - which means parent tasks wait for child tasks and if you cancel a parent task the child task will get notified. So it's meaning is definitely closer to the join() based solution you documented.

The sequential but still async version in Kotlin is simply

val result = runBlocking {
doSomethingUsefulOne() + doSomethingUsefulTwo()
}

No awaits necessary
No need to apologize, my comment wasn't unambiguous. But that's because it doesn't matter how my sentiment is interpreted - it gets people thinking either way.
> At the local level, it costs NYC twice as much per passenger mile to operate almost an identical subway system to London’s.
> Moreover, by your logic, infrastructure would be better in liberal cities and states. But it’s not.

NYC and London, both liberal cities, the latter arguably more liberal as regards public transit funding, yet NYC costs twice as much per passenger mile of subway. Seems like being a liberal city doesn't really explain the difference.
I just want to know who thought it was a good idea to return results with zero context around them and no way to jump to that point in a conversation. Right now the best you can do is search to find a date, then scroll up until you hit that date (which takes forever, since it lazy loads the convo one "screen" at a time)
From Wikipedia: "Cavendish bananas accounted for 47% of global banana production between 1998 and 2000, and the vast majority of bananas entering international trade."

Residents of banana-producing countries eat more varieties of bananas (locally produced), but even those bananas are at risk.
No, that’s a misconception.

While Dodge v. Ford does say that companies should be run for the benefit of the shareholders, it gives management a ton of latitude in deciding how to do so. Here’s a quote from the actual text: “[T]he ultimate results of the larger business cannot be certainly estimated. The judges are not business experts. It is recognized that plans must often be made for a long future, for expected competition, for a continuing as well as an immediately profitable venture...”

Shlensky v. Wrigley deals with the Chicago Cubs’ refusal to install lighting for nighttime games, due to concerns about how it would affect the game of baseball (which their president believed was “a daytime sport”) and the surrounding neighborhood. Although these are fairly nebulous concerns, the court held they were reasonable business judgements. The decision cites another case, Davis v Louisville Gas and Electric Co, which says “the directors are chosen to pass upon such questions and their judgment unless shown to be tainted with fraud is accepted as final. The judgment the directors of the corporation enjoys the benefit of a presumption that it was formed in good faith, and was designed to promote the best interests of the corporation they serve.”

The standard, from In Re Walt Disney, is that business decisions aren’t reviewable unless “the exchange was so one-sided that no business person of ordinary, sound judgment could conclude that the corporation has received adequate consideration".
I found this from 2010, that uses GNU radio piped into a soft modem: http://oz9aec.net/radios/gnu-radio/connecting-gnu-radio-to-t...

Which would be the easiest way, unsure if you could do it purly in GNU Radio as not that up upon it, though software modems been around for a while, and more optimised code for the task. Historically the earliest software modems date back to the 90's.
Wonko is one of my favorite characters! I wish his point of view got more air time. The world absolutely has to be insane. There are just too many degrees of freedom for orderliness to be strong enough for normalcy.

I’m not quite comfortable using the term hypersane without further explanation. It sounds like a person capable of keeping the world in “perspective”.
Stupid GNU Radio tricks.

http://www.w6rz.net/spectrumpaint.mp4
I worked for a company in America in the past that had a woman that came to work the next day after giving birth as their was no parental leave whatsoever. We were at a lunch after a charity fundraising event and the CEO laughed about it and said that "she was born to breed."
It really depends, I've seen many examples where:

1. the package offering the functionality I needed was much more complex than needed and my solution implementing that functionality was much simpler (because it implemented only what I needed)
2. was not the best quality, because it was written by someone who was not necessarily better than me, or didn't spent enough time understanding the problem he was trying to solve

Having said that generally popular packages are good quality, although even then #1 applies, if you need just small functionality of a specific package try implement it yourself, it might turn out that the problem was not as hard as you thought and because you're just implementing what you need it might be more elegant.
I know the feeling. For much of my career I drank the koolaid of the military-industrial complex. Thankfully never worked directly on weapons programs. But still sad that it took me so long to acknowledge how evil it all was and leave it.
I wish there was some sort of leave for when you take in foster children. I imagine though this could mean leave every few weeks to months to get a new child or children acclimated to life away from their parents (and otherwise the life they know). As a foster parent now I’ve been struggling for months to meet deadlines, keep up with the house and tend to the ever unknown needs of kids that have been taken away from their families. L
$1.1 billion cash
https://www.businessinsider.com/yahoos-board-approves-11-bil...
> The UI is much worse than Slack.

In what way, have you found?

I ask because I use both daily, and I like Slack better in some ways and Teams better in others.
Google is a business built on mass surveillance.

I'd gladly go back to pre-Google search and MapQuest if they weren't based on mass surveillance as well. Sadly, they were. Many if not most internet businesses are. The problem runs much deeper than Google, but they're one of the biggest offenders.
Startup time of different programming languages
I mean, federal law has little to say about the pricing of PDFs generated from databases in the supermajority of instances. Lots of them cost tens of thousands of dollars. The price is what the market will bear, etc etc.

From the perspective of a savvy technologist talking to another savvy technologist on how to optimize for their preferred outcomes in personal finance:

1) You probably do not need credit monitoring more than 3X per year unless you are actively applying for a mortgage, because you are unlikely to get signalful updates from it which will change how you conduct your affairs in a fashion which optimizes for your interests.

2) But if you do not take my advice on #1, you can get free ~weekly reports from e.g. Amex or Capital One or Chase as a function of having an account with them. Of this group, note that you can open a checking account with Capital One with an initial deposit of IIRC $1 and keep it open forever.
Passwords for Blizzard accounts are also case-insensitive, as they are converted to upper case before hashing. Try it!

I first found this while working on a WoW server emulator in around 2009, but I believe it's been the case since Battle.net 1.0 was launched in 1996. In order to preserve backwards compatibility, it's never been changed.