skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a difference though, centuries before cars they didn't have trains/metros/drones/airplanes so the streets were the ONLY venue for transportation/logistics, thus necessary.

That said I don't believe a city without cars will work unless it's planned for that before building. Basically all everyday logistics would have to be underground. Obviously it would only work for very densely populated areas.

I'd like to see something like that though. Small densely populated areas connected by trains/metros and surrounded by forests.
The Public Is Clearly on the Side of Net Neutrality
If Google, Facebook, and Twitter had been smart about this, they... would have consulted deeply with lawmakers, regulators, copyright owners and other deeply entrenched parties before doing anything... move fast, and, er, what was it again ?
If someone touched me in any physical way at work I'd say it would be unwanted. It's pretty reasonable to not want other people to touch you, no matter the specific "kind" of touch it is.
Three (UK mobile network) down
I would say that yes, in some distant future, they will not use tires.
WIMPs is still the leading theory right? The catch is that no candidate P has yet to be found and most models predicting them (Supersymmetry) have fallen out of fashion. But there are still promising and not yet completely discredited ones.
Regarding Basic compilers, there were plenty to choose from, and relatively fast versus any other high level language, C only started to matter on 8 and 16 bit platforms, after UNIX started to gain market adoption.

Naturally an Amiga was much powerful as an Apple IIa, but stuff like AMOS did wonders on the demoscene.
The major difference between DoH and DoT is that DoH is a proxy while DoT is end-to-end. With DoH we assume that the client connects to the central DoH server and beyond that there is dragon. There is no such design in DoT and the resolver is set to independent create DoT connection to all other resolvers in the chain.

If we are concerned with kill switches, the end-to-end design is less fragile to malicious and legal attacks than a proxy scheme with a handful of operators.
Erasing gendered pronouns from comments: no, because that's a story I heard from former colleagues who are still there.

Arguing maybe girls find geeky stuff boring: this is what Damore did, but he wrote it much more formally and cited lots of studies. It boiled down to though, "most women find tech boring because they're women". Damore's essay is here: https://firedfortruth.com/2017/08/08/first-blog-post/

Manipulating ML models: https://developers.googleblog.com/2018/04/text-embedding-mod... with their stated example:

An example of bias in this context is if the incoming message is "Did the engineer finish the project?" and the model scores the response "Yes he did" higher than "Yes she did." These associations are learned from the data used to train the embeddings, and while they reflect the degree to which each gendered response is likely to be the actual response in the training data (and the degree to which there's a gender imbalance in these occupations in the real world), it can be a negative experience for users when the system simply assumes that the engineer is male.

This logic is broken and wouldn't have happened in the old Google. If you're predicting what response the user is most likely to type next, then "Yes he did" is a more useful prediction by any objective measure because most engineers are men. But here, Google AI Research concludes that the most likely prediction would be "a negative experience for users" and sets out to "debias" their models. Debias in this context means to bias the model away from learned reality and towards what liberal intersectionalists want the world to be, in the hope that by subtly manipulating people through AI predictions they can actually bring that world about.
In finance at least, there are often regulators that get in the way. For example, in my current company, we’d love to support our anemic Ops team, however a developer having any kind of influence on the deployment process is strictly forbidden by our regulator.
Actual harassment is harm, and harm is not politics. It should be discussed and resolved.

Salary disparities based on completely arbitrary physical characteristics is not harm, it's politics. What does gender and race have to do with your salary? Aren't you negotiating your salary based on experience and competence? Is someone actively being harmed? How so?

That's the difference.
There's a difference between suspecting something and knowing it.

E.g. a lot of country sayings might offer an interesting starting point to figure out if there's some truth to them and some interesting things to discover there but by no means they are proof of anything.
That interpretation seems to be still up in the air: http://www.astronomy.com/news/2019/09/astronomers-cant-agree...
Rejected from YC (Again)
As it works in Europe, businesses and residents can get a (usually paid) permit to enter such areas, or there're hours when traffic is permitted. The same for building sites, they get an approval for a temporary modification of the traffic regulations. Most minor deliveries (food, post) are done using lightweight transport (small trucks, scooters, bicycles, kick scooters, on foot). Usually there are parkings on the borders of the area, so it's not a problem for who arrives from afar. It's actually very nice experience.
At our company we have an "Expert in house ML team", but I don't want them wasting there time with search since it isn't our differentiating factor.
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You're right, this was an off-the-cuff generalization and wasn't well explained; here's roughly where I was coming from:

- GitLab is claiming to do business with any customer, on the basis of free trade and contribution

- GitLab is encouraging a culture where employees do not discuss or talk about those relationships

- I believe that technology is not neutral and the behaviours we as software engineers define in code, which then may affect thousands or even millions, are a result of customer influence (product decisions, feature requests, pull/merge requests, etc)

The commit[0] I read describes this as inclusion and 'efficiency' (i.e. 'yours not to question why'), but the real outcome I foresee is: "we are going to do business with shady companies and/or countries, and we want to encourage a company culture where this is seen as fine and dissent is discouraged"

This is self-interest on the part of GitLab the corporation - and ironically it also reduces liberty and freedom for GitLab employees to speak openly.

Meanwhile I can understand the top-level comment's description of why this might in some sense be a good business strategy. There's not a whole lot of discussion around the negative externalities of being successful in a way that compromises values though.

[0] - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/commit/b5a35716...
I don,t I trust the devs and pay them on time
> It's basically a complete support of the status quo.

I've seen many people spout this off as if it's self-evident, and I can't for the life of me understand why.

The status quo isn't some neutral, natural resting state that will continue on until otherwise affected, it needs to be _constantly_ maintained.

Being non-political doesn't maintain the status quo, because maintaining the status quo is an _active_ endeavour, in the same way a plane doesn't keep flying forever just because its engines turn off.
Ask the same programmer to write an invoicing & payments system, then coupon creation and track its claims, then something where users can recharge their phone, and their usage is tracked and balance is computed -- and each one of them will be a set of ad-hoc tables and custom code.

But most transactional systems where things move from one entity to another and has the notion of "balance value" is best represented by the double-entry system.

When a customer purchases pre-paid balance, the phone company can record it as a "credit", and every call they make becomes a "debit". This is an immutable log - one of the earliest application of immutable data structures in human history.

In this post authors used positive and negative values to represent debit and credit - we could call it yin and yang for all it mattered. The core principle is just that every transaction has a source and destination and the ledger is an append-only table.
Is there a new license in use that allows fairly open use but not as a for-profit SAAS?

Is that what SSPL tried to do?

For years I hoped the LAGPL (Lesser Affero GPL) would turn popular. [1] But I guess it needs a bigger organisation behind to get real lawyers to write it and promote it.

In essence I'd just want MIT+NOSAAS or Apache+NOSAAS.

[1] http://mo.morsi.org/blog/2009/08/13/Lesser_Affero_GPLv3/
> I am curious, why System Verilog isn’t mentioned in this article. It is much much better than Verilog and is used in industrial applications.

Probably because it has very limited support in open source tooling, same as VHDL.
The accents are sometimes tagged in the metadata csv files. So it’s possible to filter some of them out.

Mozilla DeepSpeech used to release checkpoints trained on Common Voice along with a few others (LibriSpeech etc). But they’ve dropped CV in the latest releases and just rely on the others.

I think the others are more standardised in terms of accents.

It’s likely possible to fine tune a model with different accents — so long as the language is the same then the model can up date the phonemes it recognises.

But accents are definitely a live issue.
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There is plenty of hunters in NZ, there is even a wikipedia page on hunting in NZ I just discovered.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunting_in_New_Zealand
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Experiments that ask people to fill out surveys as themselves, or as they imagine a liberal would, or as they imagine a conservative would, in equal proportion.

Jonathan Haidt did one of these experiments with about 2000 participants. It's social science so it should come with all the usual disclaimers, but the results can be found here and have apparently been replicated since (though I'm having trouble rapidly re-locating a study I found that replicated it, for some reason I can't find the right keywords to surface it).

You can find a writeup here: https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/sympathy-for-the...
Actually, Docker can now deploy stacks as a k8s “stack” resource: https://www.docker.com/blog/simplifying-kubernetes-with-dock...

This makes it especially easy for anyone transitioning from Docker Swarm to Kubernetes.
It looks from the outside like the opposite - you changed the policy explicitly so you can refuse to deal with organisations whose ideas and opinions you're not receptive to.

Worse, it looks like you just reversed direction because the Register made fun of you. You went from being willing to work with all organisations to reserving the right to drop any organisation on a whim. I wonder, what does Gitlab believe exactly?

You aren't the CEO but apparently the actual CEO lets you set global sales policy, so perhaps you can illustrate with some examples how your new-new policy will work.

I ask because the edited policy looks more like a personal speech code than something designed for companies. Do software development organisations routinely "encourage violence towards protected groups"? They don't, in my experience. So which organisations did you have in mind when writing it? Who exactly will you refuse to do business with now who would have been served before? You list some categorisations that look quite vague and state it's not a full list.

For example, in recent times certain political factions have argued that immigration control is violence against protected groups: can you clarify if you do/would sell Gitlab to ICE?
I don't care about stress. I personally want to stimulate my brain to the maximum as much as I can. I don't know whether this would lower my life span.
it is possible if you choose to use a third party.

The good thing is that you don't have too! You are not forced. If I send money to a friend or familiy, I don't need a third party.

A third party could be either a bigger financial company or just a trusted third party in a specific domain both people trust (and make a 2 out of 3 multi-sig with it, and if I get delivered what I want and the other side receives the payment, the payment processor has nothing to do, but could in case there is a dispute)
This is what happens when people carry out counter-productive actions and alienate the very people that they should keep on side. This one is especially ill-advised: What can possibly be the point of disrupting electric public transport at rush hour?

Unfortunately, "Extinction Rebellion" has roots in radical
and left-wing movements, which are not known for trying to influence and be constructive, but rather for taking 'direct action' in the 'struggle against capitalism'...
But that would be a wrong analogy. Cool thing about a balloon surface is that it expands distances between fixed points on it (ants if you want). But that doesn’t happen exactly the same way to a space inside of a balloon, it just grows at its border without dragging any reference frames.
Some of the most highly paid people at my office take public transport. This despite having their "VIP" parking place, living in suburbs, etc.

Your example seems to be pretty unique in that it's really close to car industry. Some of your assumptions are completely off though.

In Netherlands our Prime minister takes a bicycle to work. He has way more influence than the top paid people in my office.

If you look at the history in The Netherlands it wasn't always a bicycle friendly country. Even in the last 10 years there's been many changes to make things different. For e.g. Utrecht a lot of work only happened in the last 2 years, see e.g. https://vimeo.com/344373585.

Other changes are to reduce the speed for cars. Basically: road near a lot of other houses? 30km/h, then 50km/h for inner city roads. Outside of the city 80km/h. Safer for pedestrians, nicer for the people living there (the road is way less dangerous), plus immediately makes some alternative forms of transport a better alternative.
Explanatory mechanism of causticity in public discourse: Moral Grandstanding
I don't mind at all that matter isn't so important. I just mind that we can't account for most of the stuff that's out there. We have no knowledge of it; does that mean that science is a failure?
Ah, so how many percent of the network are currently using this second layer? If it sounds so good, everyone must be using it already!
They cut trees back as standard maintenance. What I have read is that they reduced these maintenance programs as cost savings measure and this is the result.

Since the company is being held liable for huge amounts due to fires caused by their lack of maintenance the logical business decision for them is to just not provide power when the risk of sparking a fire is too high.

It is better for the shareholders to just not provide power than to pay the fines.
Not everything has to be a lesson. Also I think it focused more on philosophical questions rather than implementation side.
The fact that they're isomorphic to machine partly misses the point. Yaml is immensely more friendly on the human to write (and read). Yaml is used when people need to write declarative instructions to machines, and it does a good job of that. XML is much more of a pain to read and write by hand.
To say that "anyone can learn to read, it's not that hard" because a 5-year-old can do it is disingenuous. It's been well established that children learn language and reading skills exponentially easier than adults due to the "flexibility" of children's minds that is lost with age. It can be nearly impossible for some adults, especially ones with no reading experience when they were young, to ever learn to read.
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Seattle, LA, New York
Normally buses don't go on every road. Delivery vans are usually restricted which hours of the day they're allowed to deliver.

I highly suggest to read up on what actually is allowed and what's not in a "car free" city. It isn't as black and white as you might think.
That is the definition of brainwashing. If people believe economic growth comes from CCP and not opening up China to international trade then their view of the world is massively skewed.
I think the point of the comment is that by playing the game, you broadcast pretty sensitive data. It would be like if you were constantly uploading geotagged photos for everyone to see, and being surprised about people learning your location.

I really hate that this sounds like 'victim blaming', but if a threat vector for you is being stalked by a creep, and you don't want people to know where you are, then maybe voluntarily constantly broadcasting your location to the public isn't the best idea?
Said the man living one of the most privileged lives possible on this planet. Bitcoin has a very clear use to the oppressed people of the world, and for that exact reason it’s popular among criminals.
It'll get unbundled into AirPods + Watch + Glasses and maybe further down the line Brain Implants will come into the mix.

It won't be going away for a long time though. It's here to stay a while.
It sucks to be rejected from anything, especially YC, but as a catalyst to push you forwards and move from 'interesting tech project' to 'actual business making money' it sounds like your interview was exactly what you needed. Well done.
True. However the fact remains that k8s doesn't have a primitive here - so the toolsets (helm, docker stacks) have to manage it on a beat effort basis.

In Swarm, the stack is an atomic unit.

That's what Microsoft is trying to fix - the atomicity of an abstraction level that is higher than K8s Services.

Not sure why they didnt do this as part of the k8s core committee process.
Which is negligible compared to the number of credit card transactions in the US (> 300 times as many per month) or bank transfers in Germany alone (50 times as many per month). And that's not even counting other ways or countries.
>In the mobile space, there’s really no competition as the A13 posts almost double the performance of the next best non-Apple SoC. The difference is a little bit less in the floating-point suite, but again we’re not expecting any proper competition for at least another 2-3 years, and Apple isn’t standing still either.

Last year I’ve noted that the A12 was margins off the best desktop CPU cores. This year, the A13 has essentially matched best that AMD and Intel have to offer – in SPECint2006 at least. In SPECfp2006 the A13 is still roughly 15% behind.

That's pretty astonishing.

>In the face-off against a Cortex-A55 implementation such as on the Snapdragon 855, the new Thunder cores represent a 2.5-3x performance lead while at the same time using less than half the energy.

It seems Apple's little cores are no longer so little.
The vast majority of Santa Clara County is rural or open space. Only the Valley north of Coyote, and the 101 corridor, are populated to any semblance of density.
I completely agree with you. But what if these terms we're giving names to are just flat out just nonsense in the equations? Just a term to assign to the error to make the numbers work out?
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I didn’t understand the XML hate either. It was just a bit annoying to parse, depending on the language and ecosystem you used. It was a little verbose, but so what?
> Facebook control ~90% of social media.

Source? That doesn't really match the numbers I've seen. Especially not for younger people.
The market cap of Bitcoin is above 120bn USD, less than Apple and Facebook but more than Netflix. But that is still only about 0.1 to 1 % of its potential. So, big but in its infancy.
"EXTREMELY tight"

Telescope mirrors need to be polished to an accuracy of a quarter-wavelength of whatever radiation you want to capture - so for an optical telescope, that's a quarter-wavelength of visible light. Any greater precision than that is spurious, and won't get you better imaging. Less precision than that == bad mirror.

The techniques for polishing and testing small mirrors (up to say 12") are amusingly low-tech, almost steampunk. You can get to 1/4 wavelength of visible light with a homemade grinding/polishing rig, and a homemade optical bench that consists of little more than a jig to hold the mirror, a lamp and a couple of razor blades.

I'm sure the challenges in building accurate 30m optical mirrors are massively bigger, not least because very big mirrors warp under their own weight. But I imagine the principles are just the same.

Incidentally, I had no idea people were building 30m ground-based optical telescopes; that's just insane. I mean, my house is only 8m high.
This really sounds like when you start just leveling criminal charges at the board because neither of these options are acceptable.
Such a system exists, it is sold in Canada, best I recall last time the subject came up on HN. Looked at a few options, then lost interest along with any memory of the details. If you’re seriously interested, specifics should be a minor query challenge.
They meant a screenshot of the output file.
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I used to think YAML was friendly for humans to read. Then I wrote a parser for it, and discovered all the weird corners, edge cases, etc. I now consider it to be a fairly user-hostile format, which should be avoided in favor of just about everything else (XML, JSON, TOML, text protobuf, etc are all more friendly).

For example, consider this map of regions in YAML:

regions:
northamerica: [ca, us, mx]
scandinavia: [dk, no, se, ax, fi, fo, gl, is, sj]

Spot the error!

Writing a parser is also a bit of a nightmare, because there are a bunch of features which can turn a bit dangerous if you’re not careful—things like cyclic graphs or declaring types of objects. These are complete non-issues for the other formats I listed above—they’re all trees, and it’s very unusual for parsers to let you instantiate unintended types with those formats.
> To my entirely untrained eye, dark matter and dark energy always looked wrong.

Wouldn't things like "gravity", "light", "magnetism", "electricity" look wrong if you weren't experiencing it daily ?

Science is moving all the time, see "dark matter" as a placeholder word for something we don't understand, it might be one things, or multiple things, or nothing and we just got something wrong before, it doesn't matter, what matters is that we're observing something we can't fully explain and we're trying to find a solution to the problem. Most high level science look "wrong", there is no intuition for these kind of things, that's why the scientific method was developed after all.
> Having to walk 1300m or 15' worth of shopping can't be good for the local businesses.

The answer is you shop differently, and the shops are set up differently. I remember one residential area in a Spanish city where there were huge numbers of small fruit and vegetables shops, almost kiosks, which popped up during the morning, there was one just round the corner from where I was staying, and probably 5 within a 5 minute walk. You can literally just go downstairs and pick something up, so that’s probably a third or a half of the shopping weight on your doorstep. Then there were small supermarkets dotted around, and you’d just pick things up on the way back from the bus stop. The whole concept of a huge fortnightly shop is based on a car culture.