skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclaimer: these are highly debated things and there's no definitive answer except "what works best for you". So I'll just tell you what worked best for me.

If you know typescript I'd recommend angular (v. 7 or up). It's most likely the one with the steepest learning curve, but at the same time it offers an out-of-the-box solution, with a very complete CLI, so you can actually start right away with a full front end app that has everything you need. You can bother understanding the underlying layers well past you release your app. To accomplish the same with react and Vue you need to add libs or frameworks, so you need to be more aware of all the tech involved. So in the end there's a learning curve here as well.

Another good reason to pick angular IMHO is that you actually can ignore it. This is rarely discussed. You can basically write your app as you would do in nodejs (with TS of course) and rely on angular only for the UI. I import my non angular code in the components TS files and handle the logic of the app without nearly any angular service. The only angular services I use are those for routing and state management (redux), and to use them in non angular code (e.g. Classes) I refer the object of the service on a property of a custom constant object, and thanks to the fact that JS references objects, I simply import in my classes my custom constant.

Like

import { stateData } from ...

...

stateData.redux = this.redux

...

Somewhere else:

stateData.redux.store ...
How is having to conform to an audit performed by an external party as required by regulatory agencies or legislation "self-inflicted"?
There was nothing in the article to support the notion that self-driving cars won't address the danger of cars. Sure, as long as there are human drivers there will be accidents caused by human drivers (and obviously there will be human drivers for a long time, just as horse drawn vehicles remained around for a long time after automobiles arrived [1]), but if the only argument related to self driving cars is that they won't replace human drivers 100%, that is a weak argument.

The author completely avoids taking on the fact that self driving cars will eliminate -- for that vehicle -- the major cause of traffic deaths, human error, and the hypothesis that they will not significantly replace it with machine error. Obviously some people argue they will never get that technology right, and while I disagree with that, I'd at least appreciate it if the author even addressed it.

I'm all for getting rid of most cars, but I think the most realistic path to that is driverless taxis and small busses (i.e. vans) that are economical and efficient. The latter can be highly efficient if enough people use them, especially if they reward people with a few cents discount for scheduling a few minutes or a few hours ahead of time, and for using them at least busy times of day, and for being willing to have a couple quick stops along the way.

You'd need far fewer of these vehicles total, since many would have multiple passengers at once, they would be in near constant use, and they aren't wasting driving time and valuable space by the need to park near their endpoints.

1. and remain, especially in Amish country.
The cognitive impact of wealth has been pretty well studied, and there is already a very good population being studied for this - farmers in some places are pretty well off immediately after harvest/sale, and just before the next harvest, are usually back to a baseline state, or even struggling to pay bills again. Not only do they exhibit better long-term thinking when they are flush with cash, they tend be overall more cognitively capable.
I think the biggest benefit of physical libraries, often overlooked by students, are the professional reference librarians that staff them. I was a competent researcher in college, but if I had difficulties, if the catalog looked like it didn't hold anything I could use, I went to the reference desk, and never was disappointed.

One particular project involved correlating & comparing prison funding & criminal recidivism with education spending in the state I was in. Books held nothing on this, and the government documents section massive, dense & daunting. The reference librarian saved me many hours of work by getting me directly to what I needed, and suggesting other resources as well.

The internet has made casual research extraordinarily easy, but it's like an 80/20 split. The average person can get 80% of the way there, but these reference librarians are professionals in their field, with all the connotations that being a "professional" comes with.
There are, just not necessarily affordable: https://trl.co.uk/driving-simulator

The current UK driving test has some sort of hazard simulation test, overlaid on real world footage. I passed long before this was introduced so know little of how involving it is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazard_Perception_Test
My grandfather said something to the effect of: "the 'real' work happens on the golf course and in the secretary pool".
I have as a Fi and as a One customer, and both services had very good customer support. In the half a dozen time I've contacted them, I got someone helping me within a minute and my issue resolved in under 15. That's a normal Google customer though, I can't speak about Cloud, which is an entirely different beast.
When was the last time you tried Azure?
I think that's the wrong question because there are many arguments in favor of e2ee. However, only some against:
1) totalitarian governments (like in China) or governments who want to watch over their citizenz (and non-citizenz) because of
2) criminals, who want do their stuff in secret - you may force whatsapp to stop using e2ee but you can't stop criminals using open source software
3) convenience because it's harder to build e2ee apps in many cases than without e2ee because you can't use some services (like algolia for search etc). At least, there are couchbase and realm.io, but their hosting isn't hat cheap
Does it have typed templates?

I use Vue with Vue HTML templates + TypeScript, and all my bugs collect around the layer between the TypeScript code and the templates because the templates aren't typed.

You can use JSX to get typing but you run into hurdles going against the grain of how Vue is normally used.
Does this hold true if Player 1 is adversarial?

If I was the Player 1 in this case, and was trying to prevent Player 2 from guessing with a greater than 50% probability, I would use this method:

Pick a random 100 digit number N (using a random number generator to pick 100 digits in order).

Flip a coin. Heads, the second number is N - 1. Tails, it is N + 1.

I would imagine you could slightly beat 50%, but the percentage would approach 50% as you added more digits to your initial number. It would probably be close to unmeasurable at 100 digits (i.e. you couldn't tell if you were doing better than 50% or not).
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Unfortunately "Self-Driving Tech" is only in the headline and missing from the actual op-ed, aside from the one line, "So far, I’m unpersuaded."

Self-Driving technology is a broad term that also includes active safety features such as emergency braking and pedestrian detection and avoidance. The TM3 recently won a 5-star rating in AU, in main part due to their performance on self-driving safety features. [1]

Beyond the active safety measures designed to assist an attentive driver, the allure of FSD (Level 4 or 5) as a way to increase safety and reduce or eliminate fatalities is very strong.

The NHTSA estimates that the direct economic cost of car accidents is $277 billion per year, but if you include the economic harm from deaths and injuries (pain and suffering) the estimate rises to $870 billion. Per Year. [2]

What we have here is a trillion dollar cost of doing business that could conceivably be almost entirely eliminated with the right advances. That is just the benefit of eliminating the gruesome side effects of driving. With a technological solution, you don't just reduce cost but dramatically increase value, productivity, convenience, etc. That's roughly another trillion dollar proposition.

A $2 trillion dollar annuity which pays in perpetuity, at 3% discount rate, is worth $2 trillion divided by 0.03 or roughly $66 trillion dollars NPV. That's the scale of the investment that would pay off if it resulted in a mandatory-use nationwide Level 5 autonomous driving system which could eliminate 99% of traffic accidents.

By the way, if you can only eliminate 50% of accidents, and provide 50% of the productivity benefits, the annual savings are worth merely $16 trillion dollars.

I believe Level 5 autonomy is one of, if not flat out the greatest challenge for software in the 21st century, and it is no less than a moral imperative to achieve it.

IMO a significant portion of that investment is not to just somehow create AGI, but several trillion in infrastructure improvements, new standards and regulations, which allow an extremely advanced AI system circa 2025/2030 to be able to function at Level 5 nationwide on highways and local streets.

There's no question in my mind that within 50 years we will look back and wonder how it was possible people actually manually operated these 2-ton machines. It's a bet against humanity to think otherwise.

[1] - https://twitter.com/ANCAPsafety/status/1156060826404438016?s...

[2] - https://www.cooneyconway.com/blog/economic-and-societal-impa...
From reading the comments, it seems the counter-intuitive part is that a bound like (-inf, inf) is different than a bound like [0,10].
Also neglecting long distance transit. Passenger trains are pretty much not a thing in America, right?
Yep, Chinese users only. The odd part is that the internet blew up at Google for even proposing it and later cancelling it with project Dragonfly (also only for Chinese users), but Apple quietly went ahead and just did it without many people noticing.
From early convos, I'd say they saw quite a bit further than that...
"Machines are taking control of investing—not just the humdrum buying and selling of securities, but also the commanding heights of monitoring the economy and allocating capital."

I think machines investing is less than 1%;
Some people put their faith in the strangest places.
I am in MA and its Oct 4th. It doesn't feel like by tomorrow it's going to be peak foliage. As per the chart legend I'd say at most it's patchy out there at the moment.
Seems like the effect size for price was the biggest - people were getting vegetarian meals more when they cost less.

From the appendix (page 6) here: https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/suppl/2019/09/25/190720711...
"The algorithms select the best applicants by assessing their performances in the videos against about 25,000 pieces of facial and linguistic information compiled from previous interviews of those who have gone on to prove to be good at the job."

How the hell is this supposed to be even remotely unbiased or have even a decent false negative rate? The things they're screening for are pretty much guaranteed to be artifacts of socioeconomic circumstances. Also, an actor would absolutely ace this test and also be a horrible employee because they have no actual competency for the job unless the job is talking to people on camera.
Holy crap, you wrote what I was thinking, except I've done web development since 2000. I've ditched all other javascript frameworks and am now all Vue, all the time (with a little vanilla js thrown in when needed).

Coincidentally, I've built a .NET core web app as well, with Vue.js handling nearly the entire UI. It's lightening fast since I'm letting .NET handle the backend and Vue handle the frontend. I built the entire thing on my little Macbook Air. Hit me up if you want to talk shop sometime.

I'm sure the ruby, python, rust folks are snickering...but .NET Core + Vue.js is an A-List webdev stack as fas as I'm concerned.
well, there is kinda a key is that lets anyone in - in the UK they call it 'the enforcer' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enforcer_(battering_ram)

If an officer does something that should require a court order and don't have one then they end up prosecuted in the same way a criminal would be. You put checks and balances in place to make sure that they are caught.
> Pancreatic cancer is not the most common but one of the most deadly (<10% survival) with very short times between diagnosis (it's mostly asymptomatic) and death.

All but one of the people I've known in my life that died from cancer died of this form. It's like 7 people.

A useful treatment can't come soon enough.
Half a continent? The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone[1] is 30km in diameter, Fukashima's is 20km I believe[2]. Obviously a nightmare if you happen to live in the neighborhood, but I don't think there are any nuclear power plants big enough to turn even a small country into a "nuclear wasteland".

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_Exclusion_Zone
2: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/oct/11...
Agree with above, Angular even published a way to deploy your app to firebase just by typing a simple cli command.
I spent over two days setting up OpenVPN the first time I used it and less than an hour the first time I set up Wireguard. Wg seems a bit more reliable too, sometimes my OpenVPN sessions would time out and require manual intervention, but since switching to wireguard it always seems to "just work".
The purpose of a library is not to have books people are sure to read, but to have references people might need. A (good) library is necessarily a long-tail institution.

The rarely touched book is a treasure. The study space a concession to the modern student body that lacks any meaningful silent space.

The student sleeping in said study area is a gross oversight by the librarian to ensure the sacrosanct space isn't violated (and, unfortunately for some of those sleeping at the library, another housing failure in S. California :S)
I'm still not sure how the whole process of choosing lenses seems to work quite well, despite being so far removed from actual day to day usage.
In the ~37 years I have glasses the process only failed twice.
The last time I needed to order new glasses, after wearing the glasses for a day (I know from experience that it sometimes takes time to adjust to new glasses), I returned to the store and told them that the glasses weren't good enough. To make a long story short, after going back there at least three times, and after the optometrist said something along the lines of "maybe you only think you are not seeing well with those glasses", I had to start making a ruckus till they changed both lenses.

Maybe the failure rate is low enough that it is not worth it to improve the process...
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So it was easier for you to use AWS initially because you were used to AWS. Gotcha. ;)
Old 90s Windows programs are great. Downright relaxing after the "WTF is interactive and what's content?" mess of "modern" UI. Calibre's not that. Some poster upthread got it right by comparing Calibre to some of the uglier examples of Java UIs.

(mind, I find Calibre pretty usable)
What a wonderful treatment of a particularly stressful job.

I'm a classically trained musician, but have little experience playing piano, yet I've been recruited to turn pages not infrequently. Somehow there seems to be more pressure as a page-turner than as a performer. I always felt extremely conscious of my place beside the musician, while as a performer, it is much easier to lose ones self in the muscle-memory and flow of a piece. Page-turning requires, as the essay describes, a special kind of focus.
Could you auction off private tutoring time? Or being first in line to pick the other website user you get to practice language with.
In what's-possible-land, not what's-proper.
I'm really glad they took the opportunity to change the APIs and abstractions around. Some of the ones exposed by AWS are absolutely insane.

Not to mention some of the paradigms: regionalized dashboards/endpoints, the mess that is EC2Classic/VPC, lack of projects for compartmentalization/namespacing ... a lot of those APIs also leak internal implementation details of their products, and trying to match them would be silly.

And they did follow one API that everybody else has: S3. And that one is decent only because it's basically HTTP with some auth headers sprinkled in.

My overall experience with GCloud is much better thanks to these redesigns. AWS just seems like an underdesigned mess of loosely coupled components implemented by siloed teams.
Honestly if someone doesn't like Calibre so much it would be better to contribute to it, or fork it.

And yes, electron sucks and it ruined desktop software because a bunch of business brats have to cut costs on software craftsmanship. This "modern UI" crap is a lie. Software using native widgets (or even JVM) is fine, but hey take it to extremes
Not true. Just in the past few hours:

Bank set on fire:
https://twitter.com/YuxuanMichael/status/1180140543973580800

Train with passengers on board attacked:
https://twitter.com/liamstone_19/status/1180188091312558081

Mob beat up one person:
https://twitter.com/liamstone_19/status/1180175432236195840

Undercover officer petrol bombed:
https://twitter.com/BMMRobertson/status/1180126411169894400
That gives me hope then! I'm up in Canada and all the universities I've visited / attended had the computers right near the librarian (so they could micromanage) and beside all the study desks. It always seemed sub-optimal to me.

Perhaps it's more of a small-to-mid university problem.
This article is - dare I say it? a page-turner!

Seriously, I never thought an article about such an esoteric topic would be so interesting.
Looks like this farmer does it by creating a corridor for them filled with the things they want: starfruit, elephant apples, watering hole etc. If the desire path for the elephants falls outside the normal tea operation, then they won't interact with the tea farm.

Seems like a lot of land to set aside and design, hopefully he is able to make up for it in exposure and tourism.
North Carolina State actually - Hunt Library in particular (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_B._Hunt_Jr._Library)
For reference, Canada's is $20CAD/tonne currently, going up $10/year up to a cap of 50. So the US $15 is about the same to start, but ramping up a bit faster when you figure exchange rate.
The difference here being that a decent latte costs about $5 but a decent keyboard costs maybe $50.
we were only talking about spending a hundred or so for aesthetic and perceptible quality reasons, not advocating $2000 cables for objective reasons of sound quality.
Our ability to travel allowed us to do that though. Instead of living in crowded slums the poor can afford to get out a little bit, it might not be much but I see poor people with a garden in their own yard - a yard that before the car the almost rich would have instead.
They can get a warrant and have a court compel you to provide passwords already. That's equivalent to locked doors. What they want is the ability to go through peoples stuff without them knowing (via court order or not isn't even the point). Its not at all like the physical world.
There's nothing unsustainable about Las Vegas or Phoenix. The desert is a good place to put a lot of people.
Oh wow this is brilliant! I love this concept.
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> Undergraduates rarely needed to access the physical books

Spoken like someone who never took a humanities course.
What I'd really like is an iOS app that can plug directly into a Calibre library (via iCloud or Dropbox or whatever). It seems like everything that's existed in that space requires an explicit download step rather than being able to sync/cache stuff in the background.
Ask HN: What do you like most about your job?
The recent "Who wants to be fired?" thread kind of bummed me out.

Can we share something a little more positive?
What's the alternative? Forcing them to publish material that they don't want to?
Elon Musk's Starship may be more moral catastrophe
I think that personal responsibility goes both ways. I love cycling. I used to drive my daughter to school every day.

Whatever vehicle I am operating (or even if I am walking), I should be paying attention as much as I can. Yes, the stakes are much higher for pedestrians and cyclists. Yes, it is much easier to zone out when driving. Adding in texting while driving, and we get more of those short-term memory effects.

I am reminded of this:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2011/aug/1...

https://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history

In the early days, the automobile makers made a concerted effort to change the culture around "who is responsible". Yes, they standardized the rules of the road to make it safer ... but they also injected into the culture to shift the responsibility to people who are not driving on the road.

In the end, I think for most people, they don't really want to get hurt, or see other people get hurt.
I'm not a student anymore, and I would love to have access to a decent library where I could actually focus for hours at a time. Anyone have any recommendations in SF? I'm happy to pay.

I've already checked out the private Mechanics' Institute library, and I didn't like it. The best thing I've found so far is just going to fancy hotel lobbies.
I don't think the comments mattered at all. At most, they provided political cover for the move. Ajit Pai was always going to ram this through. However, the corruption of the public comment system will also give our next president the political cover to change back and, hopefully, enshrine the change in law rather than easily changeable policy.
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But I thought Google's first offerings was App Engine? If anything I think they were overambitious

(I work for Google, opinions are my own)
Ah, so apparently foreign interference in the US is fine?

I'd say your post is whataboutry, but actually, it's not even that - you don't really have any reason to believe US or Israel do anything like that.
I prefer "Ride like everyone will try to kill you"
These are Audi’s four electric car platforms for the coming years
Arguably the CDNs (Akamai, CloudFlare and friends) have made the capital investment, and are now in the cloud business.

But I don't see anybody competing with AWS/Azure/GCP anytime soon.
That's the realistic standpoint on the situation. Things are "good", mind the quotes, with trains, buses and airplanes because their volume is soooooooo much lower compared to car travel. Once you ramp up their volume, problems end up being logarithmic, not linear. For example, it was either Sweden or Norway where they tolled a major highway because it was just a giant parking lot of a traffic jam. All the toll did was lower the amount of cars by ~10%-15%. Traffic jams disappeared. Back when there were a handful of cars on the road in the early 1900s, no need for speed limits or lights and there were few to no problems. Then the volume increased and the likelihood of stupid increased. Back in the day, pilots in airlines could take whatever route they wanted. They use to go by the grand canyon, even if it was out of the way, to show passengers the view. Back when drinking some whiskey was mandatory to pilot a plane. Then the number of flights per year increased and some assholes ended up crashing in those areas and no one could find them because they took random routes. FAA is established and an end to unscheduled pilot routes.

Volume matters.

The whiskey thing was a joke, for you prudes out there.