skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Better to have a dollar today than a dollar tomorrow, especially with economic headwinds on the horizon. Assuming Salesforce has some foreign capital in this fund everyone is still desperate to invest in the dollar.
Apple should pull the plug on the iPhone (John C. Dvorak, 2007)
A useful approach is to learn 95% of the language from K&R, and then refer to the newer standards for the incremental changes.

If there is a book as good as K&R and covers the new ideas, I'm interested to learn about it! :-)
Username checks out. I'd definitely believe Bill Gates over J Random Ycombinator any day of the week. And he's right, nuclear is the road to go on if you want reduced emissions.
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This is nonsense, there are plenty of public trash cans in Tokyo at least. Not on every corner like in the States, but within 2-3 blocks you can find one and plenty of establishments have no problem letting you use their trash can.
Buying from the pragprog site gets you a 50% discount on the hardcover when it comes out, if you have any interest in the paper version.
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6. You choose torrent for ethical reasons.

To provide a culture access to everyone and not only those with enough money, to bypass censorship and virtual frontiers.

But also to avoid financing distribution companies, that P2P made obsolete.
Companies that finance themselves before the tiny subset of compliant artists working for them.
The very same companies that make you thing that "sharing is wrong"... Seriously, put this out of context and feel the absurdity of it.

Still though, financing culture still an open problem. For now the only ethical way seems to be the donate buttons and bitcoins.
Microsoft's own inbuilt Windows Defender is Romania's former RAV Antivirus which they bought in 2003.[1]

[1]https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/yongrhee/2019/02/21/wind...
That quote is interesting. I'm not surprised to be a minority but I've paid for Netflix for several years and at no point would I have subscribed to HBO instead (though I did look at doing it, but only for GoT).

It would be nice if media companies could stop trying to own the World and instead be content offering a good service for good compensation. When they get to that point they seem to go "well if we can force people to consume something else that they don't like as much then we can get even more customers". Bleurgh.
> The company said “we do t recommend using Avastin in the eye as we didn’t manufacture it for that use”. Legally, they couldn’t support it other (off-label).

They didn't have to support it. But they actively opposed it by taking the NHS to court.
I wonder if the author has tried TypeRocket? The WP devs I know who use it tell me that it improves things so much it should just be the default.

https://typerocket.com/
The firewall is the edge of the passenger cabin. There should be no crumpling going on because the perimeter of it is the structural component that ties together the A-pillars and rocker panel structure. If you crumple the firwall you are pushing the dash structure back at the occupants and removing support from the A-pillars allowing them to more easily deform. Getting it to deform 6" or so (I recall that was the number they stated, I'd need to check to be sure though) in a crash that was well within the range of speeds vehicles are crash tested at is noteworthy.

Edit: Is the firewall is structurally irrelevant in modern cars or is reality not convenient today? The inability for people to disagree without trying to silence each other is why people complain that HN is turning into Reddit.
Contrary to what the GP is saying, Glassdoor seems EXTREMELY resistant unless the review is actually fake and/or contains proprietary information. It's absolutely nothing like Yelp.

I do understand that they have their "own" system that automatically reviews posts and removes them. Sadly that hasn't worked out fantastically at my employer, they mostly remove these 5 star reviews.
Automattic is fully remote, so it doesn't matter if he's in the Valley. They are not in the Valley.
I'm rooting for Rivian, if they make a true small SUV after their initial R1S launch I'd be all over it.
Shame they couldn't buy it from France.
Yeah, because a phone imaged by an entity controlled by the CCP is better than a phone without Google or Apple.

I'm no supporter of either Apple or Goog, but applauding a mass spyware device from the CCP would be satire a couple years ago.

It's not like they have a track record of subverting phones for targeted genocide or anything[1]

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/09/massive_iphon...
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I think it's pretty convenient they can pander to the environmentalists and save a ton of money all in one go.
Not just to Netflix and Facebook. This is why I don't, and won't ever, own a smart TV.
The snake oil is only necessary for companies who want to sell a vision of something that absolutely exists (co-working), but lacks the profitability threshold that investors would get excited about. So they have to turn this into a "it's Co-working...reimagined!" BS.
there is always a way https://www.autotrader.com/car-news/heres-why-so-many-exotic...
Another way to read the original post's "due to age" might be the age of the content itself, rather than the age of the user downloading it.

For example, you can't get a digital copy of the original Star Wars theatrical release, but there are fan conversions of old VHS or film reels and additional reconstructions that aren't legally available, but are certainly out there. I know that when I was doing pop-culture research for a thesis on pre-WWII American Cartoons I ran into a lot of works that were only digitized by amateurs and hobbyists, and therefore not legally available anywhere.
I find it hilarious when reading news like these to remember that the official stance of US government is that their national security is endangered if that phone ships with Google Play.

EDIT:
It actually is national security (https://www.google.fi/amp/s/www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/tru...)
In between Groupon and Descript he was working on a product I loved called Detour. Our first time trying it, my wife and I lived at 24th and Valencia (San Francisco), and we walked over to Mission and 24th for a group tour they were launching. Detour was creating audio walking tours driven by GPS.

Keep in mind, at the time, Andrew was sitting on hundreds of millions of dollars from Groupon.

We walked up to do the tour and to test the product. There were like 4-6 people there, and I'm sure others had already started the tour. My wife had zero idea who he was, I vaguely knew what he looked like.

We get there and Andrew is standing there at the 24th street bart with a Detour t-shirt on. My wife's app doesn't work, and he helps her get it installed. He is annoyed that the software isn't working, but couldn't be nicer. He patiently figures it out and we were off.

I told her, I think that is Andrew Mason, the guy that started this company, and also the guy that started groupon. She laughed, and was like, no wonder he cared so much.

I guess the point of the story is that I have zero idea what he is like to work with from experience, but my moment meeting him, he came off as humble, smart and nice. Most importantly someone who cared deeply about his company. I like working for and with people like that.
> SemWeb stack has almost zero adoption since its inception while graph databases are trendy

Where is my LOL GIF :D

RDF Knowledge Graphs used by: Elsevier, Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters/Refinitiv, Uber, Zalando, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, HSBC... do I need to continue?

If you mean "mainstream developer" adoption, that is a poor and irrelevant indicator, because mainstream is not where the innovation happens.
Silly reactionary hyperbole.

Our peaceful and sustainable coexistence with the rest of the world (natural or otherwise) has always required the curtailment of some liberties.

You cannot sell tubercular beef and poison the population. For the same reason, you cannot submerge island nations and cause droughts that make other regions of the world inhabitable. Deal with it.
How deep was this list? I expect that places like Quantico Virginia might have more cameras. Quanitico has a population of around 500 people, but it right beside bases for the Army, FBI, DEA ... basically everyone that really really likes cameras.
He did win Presidential election, pretty good for someone you call a loser.
My understanding is that Automattic owns WordPress.com and not WordPress.org.

i.e: You can be in Automattic business and make a dev team larger than them that develop the core WordPress. They don't rule WordPress the open source product but just are a company that made it.
Jeffrey Epstein also met with presidents and other top level elites. Talking with academics is the expression of his power and not the source. Otherwise academics is the doorway into the social circle of presidents and other power elites, which is really dubious, like you’d have to punch above Richard Feynman to convert academic prestige into power.

Being metaphorical Richard Stallman doesn’t give you access to party with presidents.
PG really needs better ranking at least TF-IDF but also BM25.

There has been some work but not sure when it will be stable, needs a new kind of index:

https://github.com/postgrespro/rum
I don't find this surprising at all and I think it's likely often in founders' best interests to still take a preemptive deal. It removes risk (which creates value) and also allows them to remain focused on operating the core business. There are obvious downsides here but I'd guess on average the benefits of that slight extra dilution far outweigh the costs.
AWS profits something like a million dollars an hour so it's pretty unambitious to need 11 years to make AWS be fully green. $100+ billion in profit will accrue from AWS in that time. It doesn't take 11 years to claw back 1900 workers' health care.
You would get a lot more feedback if the landing page described the product a bit more - specifically what you're doing, how you're doing it, and why I'd want it...
Makes sense - one should always price shop when able to.

As an employee When you get a job offer the very next thing you should do is reach out to those companies you are most interested in / furthest along in the process and ask for acceleration. They won’t always be choose to accommodate but I’ve had it happen / improves the quality of my offers.
Infecting machines with malware intentionally? They did this and are still allowed to sell product?
Fermin here. Danny, I loved working with you at Google but let me correct you about my promotion and money. Not true.

I respect your point of view around our technology. You may like it or not (some folks love it), but please do not make statements about me you do not really know :)

And to be clear, I believe this technology makes security researchers scale on different aspects. At least I had first hand experience with this and our goal is to make security easy for non security folks... this technology enables us to do this.

Happy to sync in private over a coffee!
But the best way to make mass transit better is often to give it exclusive use of space (aka bus lanes) and drivers moan endlessly when that happens.
Storing energy isn't exactly magical. Humans built the first dam nearly 3000 years ago. It's simply a matter of cost, and that's a combination of situation and experience. Batteries, hydro, compressed air, thermal, gravity... all of these things work, and are known quantities.

It doesn't take a breakthrough in technology to say "If we build a tank for compressed air that is volume X, to pressure Y, it can store energy Z; and thermal losses for conversion in and out are A, and it costs B to build". This is completely ordinary engineering.
> 5. Torrents are more convenient.

Some people enjoy "crazy good" less than 1Mb/s internet conexion: no way you're streaming anything. So yeah, torrent it is.
This thing is for car accidents.

In my mind, the only thing a company could do to try to prevent the scenario you're describing is doing background checks, but that assumes a correlation between a background check and a propensity for violence can be established, which may or may not be the case.

By the time an actual physical attack is happening, I don't think there's much anyone could do, brainiac or not.
Looking to chat with developer of Facebook and mobile apps
Hello - I have an idea for a Facebook app but I have no technical skills and don't know how easy or hard something like my idea would be.

Anyone on here with experience with Facebook apps or mobile apps able to jump on a 15min call to discuss?

Thanks!
Climate change is not about consuming less. It is about not taking carbon from the ground and putting it in the atmosphere.
Title is of course sensationalized, this being youtube. There have been many "mistakes" in wind turbines that really count more as experiments we've learned from: Vertical Axis Wind Turbines, high RPM/small diameter, and generator-on-the-ground, to name three. This video is about leading edge erosion, which is a problem actively being researched:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S136403211...
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First, it lets the blind see.

Then it gives the sighted a neural interface
Introducing "WeGive", controlled and operated by Neumann and family.
> Stay fit. You don’t want to get old and feel bad. You’ll also get a lot more accomplished and feel better about yourself if you stay fit. I didn’t make it to 91 by neglecting my health.

This. Many people don't realize that staying fit isn't a quest to live longer but to live physically better in the later ages.

I cringe when someone tells me stuff like "yeah but that dude smoked and never exercised and lived until 80s while the fit guy got cancer and it didn't help him" ... yes but you forgot to mention that living life in his body became a miserable experience since 45 vs. someone else who may have died in 60s of cancer but in fact spent something like 50 fulfilling years feeling great.

Staying fit may not save you from cancer or car accident, but but the life is so much better when you live in a fit body.
I want to someone to lay out for me what a solar/wind grid would look like. I WANT to be convinced. How is the intermittency gap actually bridged. Tell me. I WANT to know.

>There are numerous markets with very high % of renewables already

And what do those markets do when the sun ain't shining and wind ain't blowing?

>all can be tailored to the price of electricity, given a smart utility.

And this 'smart utility' it exists in the real world? Where?
Amazon orders 100K electric delivery trucks from Rivian
I'm pretty sure that you and kortilla are in agreement.
That still doesn't make a lot of sense.

So, you're essentially saying that the next time you apply to join a company (say Google), you should not go through whatever interview process they have because you worked at Facebook, and they should take your word for it? So you should not be going through whatever tests they subject their applicants?
Hi HN, I'm the tech-lead for the State Tool, here to hopefully get some useful feedback!

Our aim with the State Tool is to provide a tool that solves common dev tasks in a universal way. Think of how we tend to abuse the Makefile to just contain some aliases, or how we might use Gulp when using JavaScript and setupfiles when using Python. There is a large amount of tool abuse and inconsistency that makes jumping between projects hard and onboarding new people to a project harder. The State Tool aims to be the one stop shop to address these issues.

Currently we're still in beta. This mainly means features are still in flux and the general user experience is still forming. What we really need is feedback from developers on what they like, dislike and would like to see from the tool.

Happy to answer any questions you might have.
Jeff Bezos almost bought Netflix for $15M
The Model 3 has gone through several iterations of glass, and some builds actually have nearly the entire roof (including the back glass) turn orange in the rain, but I believe new builds actually have no coloration at all since they changed the glass again.
This could be fixed legislatively IMO, and should.

If you offer a show for X per view then you have to offer it to all aggregators for that cost.

Tell me the massive holes in that?

As I see it that satisfies the copyright deal, rewards creators and makes works available. Add a 20 year copyright term and I might even be happy!
Its nice that his wishlist are all software ux tweaks

I’ll be getting the Iphone 11 Pro for the camera technology and wide support, along with the dual SIM feature that I’d like to know more about
> "abc" + "def" = "abcdef" vs "abc" . "def" = "abcdef"

Would be better comparison if you would use whitespace in the other case as well. Which then makes it just as readable.

Also. "0" + "42" would that be "042" or 42? It may be better readable, but the semantics are unclear.
I thought it was interesting to that the report said no correlation was found between cameras and crime. But you dig a little deeper and it's "numbeo.com survey responses about crime". It also doesn't seem like they compared crime rates over time to see if the introduction of cameras did anything.
Ads don't have to be paid. Promo-for-product is still an ad - sometimes called an advertorial.

It's unprofessional at best and dishonest at worst to pretend that this isn't just corporate PR.

And ironically, the image quality really isn't all that amazing. It's +/- other phone cams - better in some conditions, not as good in others. And in absolute terms, these photos are nowhere close to the sharpness, dynamic range, and saturation of professional equipment. Night mode is good, but the daylight shots are okay but not awesome.

You could argue it's unfair to expect anything better from a (relatively) cheap phone cam - but it's a (relatively) cheap phone cam with a "pro" tag being marketed as a "pro" product.

In photographic terms, it simply isn't - except maybe for the fairly forgiving social media photo niche.
Then why do ad networks spend so much time, energy, and money to track individuals?
I'm speaking from the provider's point of view: they don't care about privacy. In fact, in the US there is a federal law that requires them to be able to associate network activity with a subscriber at the request of law enforcement.
Not legal in Europe.
Huawei phone's bootloader can't be unlocked since last year, so you'll have to look elsewhere.
Growing it to feed humans is fine. But that's a tiny sliver of the overall market. Then some if it gets made into HFCS, which is not good. Even more of it gets fed to cows, which is not good (they should be eating grass), and which have (not good) climate impacts of its own. And some of it even gets converted into fuel, which is downright dumb. Basically it's a massively subsidized crop which would never be grown at this scale without tremendous market distortion by the government. (To say nothing of the fact that it destroyed an entire ecosystem in the midwest.)
I didn't say the G3 couldn't take good pictures. However saying "my G3 once took a good picture, therefore it's equivalent to this" isn't reasonable. Those are difficult scenes and unless you have a G3 to take a picture in the same lighting and conditions, your claim is baseless. Taking even current, top of the line smartphones and taking photos in perfectly equal conditions often yields significant differences in outcomes, yet you're seriously arguing that a five year old smartphone would be equal, with zero proof.

"Well, you're certainly very defensive for no apparent reason."

You stated that they wouldn't look good printed out which is a claim I didn't even want to argue (despite it being very wrong), instead pointing out that people generally don't print out often anyways, so... That isn't defensive, it's factual, as you say. No need to get defensive about it.

Feel free to get a G3 and an iPhone 11 and take comparable photos and show everyone, including the entire industry that recognizes the advances, how wrong they are -- it will surely see a lot of hits and attention.
The short answer is no. The long answer is much more interesting.

The premise of your question is a bit misleading. Quantum computers do not run classical algorithms faster, rather they run algorithms specifically designed to take advantage of the quantum coherence. For many tasks this does not provide an advantage. For some very special (and occasionally useful) tasks, the advantage seems to be exponential. Simulating quantum mechanics (as in chemistry, material design, drug design) is one of these tasks. Some linear algebra tasks are also faster. Lastly, some researchers are hopeful that novel gradient-free optimizations algorithms exist for quantum hardware, but this is a bit more controversial.
I am not an expert, but I doubt that this is an accurate characterisation of the reasons for the ban. Isn’t this more about intellectual property issues and economic disagreements?
Our choices are adapt and survive or don't. If a modern economy can't give up on using fossil fuels then a modern economy is not a survivable one.
Remember dilution compounds into future funding rounds. I agree with point of this article intuitively - just take a month or two to run an accelerated process.

It’s not just about the money, it’s also entering into a partnership. So you shouldn’t take the first offer, you should at least shop it to know your options (quant and qual).
This is the same case regardless of being in a container or not, $app v0.1 and $app v0.2 will have different filters
To refine my statement... in a representative democracy, our choice of candidates for representatives is purely identity politics. Better?

This doesn't get into details of issues. Our candidates that match our identities have their political inclinations that we probably agree with most of the time, due to our mutual identity.
I worked at an ad network company for years (we basically put crappy add-ons on poeple's machines that generate search revenue). All of these AV companies basically extort money from crapware companies. if you pay them, you can get unblocked.
we have been trying desperately but most of the liberty crowd are still fighting back with climate change is a hoax argument
In my case I kind of fell into functional programming for similar reasons.

FP has been academic for most of its life, but until semi-recently they didn't teach it much in undergrad. My interest in it more or less coincided with the advent of MapReduce and as a result suddenly FP is all the rage, which worked out well for me.

I guess that would be the advice I could caveat my previous comment with; if you decide to not go to school, try and find a current blind-spot in the current education system and fill that.
> The survival rates for collisions on highway speeds are in single digits no matter what you do.

As in what, a head-on collision between vehicles traveling at 70mph? Yeah, that's not likely to end well. It's also a highly uncommon event and not what the safety ratings are testing for, nor is it what anyone is realistically expecting their car to protect them from.

The small overlap front test is reasonable. It's a 40mph along the outer edges of the vehicle, like if a passing truck on a local road drifts over the center line.
Sounds cool. Screenshots of the app being used would be nice.