skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wired's cheerleading style is beyond tedious at this point. They take it as a given that Dyson had designed a 'revolutionary electric vehicle,' a safe ploy as nobody has seen it. Yet, it would indeed take a LOT to be a 'revolutionary' vehicle at this point, and more likely the result was just a 'me too' electric car with some stylized Dyson plastic bits around it.
I got 30 cents off yesterday at a Pacifica gas station. So far this purchase data hasn't hurt me in any fashion. They're welcome to it.
Harold Bloom Has Died
Well, that's a very valid question.

My point is that with time, you can look back at ideas that turned out to be great and recall how they were initially received.
FWIW, I used to work at a company with a severe case of NIH syndrome, but it worked out well. From what I could tell, the difference was all about mentality: This company did it, not because of weak management, but because of strong management that was trying to push a culture of KISS and technical ownership.

So, whenever a technical team identified a need for X, there was a lot of time putting into understanding the problem, understanding the company's real needs, and figuring out the simplest thing that would get the job done. If there was an off-the-shelf product that did one thing and did it well (e.g., protocol buffers for serializing datagrams), that would get chosen. If everything out there was a confusing pile of feature creep that was trying to be all things to all people (e.g., configuration management), an in-house product would get launched.

TBH, the tech stack was a joy to work on. Especially that home-grown configuration management system. So simple, so effective.

I've never worked for Uber or anything, but I've attended a few lectures and conference sessions where Uber engineers presented things they worked on, and my sense was that that wasn't at all what was happening there. Most the projects I saw seemed to be motivated by resume-driven development. Which is absolutely the way to go if you want to end up with solutions that are complicated, hard to manage, and half-implemented.
Except the university departments that do produce technology generally are tightly integrated with industry. How many Stanford and MIT professors and graduate students launched startups? And what would happen to that system if there was no exist into the private sector?
Standards are a two-way street, and we're probably both right from different points of view. (Especially, because AS 2 also had a number of the features proposed for ES 4, so even if AS 3 was "solely" inspired to be an implementation of the ES 4 standard, ES 4 itself took inspiration from AS 2.)
> Wasn't that after re-writing the constitution?

No. "The Constitution has been amended twice. The first time, Article 13.2, Title I was altered to extend to citizens of the European Union the right to active and passive suffrage (both voting rights and eligibility as candidates) in local elections. The second time, in August/September 2011, a balanced budget amendment and debt brake was added to Article 135."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Spain
I was going go comment "it doesnt work" but I didnt want people to think I was making fun of the political ideology instead of reiterating the website not working.
And more.

Tesla didn't just make "The" electric car, they made a charging network better than pretty much anything else out there.

At this point other contenders are simply to late to the game. Tesla fundamentally changed the market and they have established themselves in a way that will be hard for competitors to topple.

After all, when Tesla pushed out the X/S, what was the competition doing? Mostly just retrofitting batteries and engines as cheap as possible on current frames. Tesla made a car that could be a universal car while everyone else was focused on short range secondary commuters.

Now, competition not only has to compete with the fact that Tesla is what people think of when they think "Next green car" they also have to find some way they can be better with a public charging network that is 10 years behind what Tesla currently has.

It isn't enough to push out a car that can go 200 miles on batteries alone anymore. You have to be better than Tesla, and that is a really high bar.

So, the real question is "What's next for tesla" can they continue to be the best in class? Will they be upstaged by the current old guard? Who knows?

One thing is for sure, car companies are going to need to evolve to compete with Tesla's offerings.
> in the case of the people who were laid off, cost to people's careers.

I fail to see how.

Considering Uber is reinventing the wheel a lot, the people who were laid off where probably working on some interesting problems. Uber is a fairly well known brand. Unless they are incredibly inapt at selling themselves, their career should do fine.
Ah thanks! You are correct! Perhaps you should also review the PR? (a tiny bit longer) :)
You might want to be getting your site back up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21252544.
Credits are available for one year. Sorry, this new credit program just seems like another customer acquisition cost and not a long-term commitment to supporting open-source projects.
I guess you haven't read the Forbes article.

The west is pretty much a monolithic bloc when it comes to foreign policy towards China, Middle-East & Africa. A great example of that is the current events in Syria.

You can also have a look at UN resolutions and try to see a pattern.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_Nations_Securit...

NATO is also pretty good definition of the west with the exception of Turkey, even though missing few countries (like Finland and Sweden).
Excerpt:

"When Costco comes across a product it likes, it often spends months working closely with the vendor and its factories to both reduce the price of an item and amp up its quality. In the 2012 CNBC doc “Costco Craze,” a Costco buyer related one tale about a toy he found that retailed for $100. The company had the option of buying the unit for $50 wholesale and selling it for around $60 — but this wasn’t good enough. Over a period of months, Costco ended up working with the vendor and its factory to redesign the toy from the ground up, analyzing every part of the process for ways to cut costs. In the end, Costco got the vendor to reduce the price by 50%, and sold it for $30."

You'd never think that a retailer could or would do that, but Costco apparently does!
What a dumb idea. We just wised up and took away the battery API because it was being used for fingerprinting, and now they want to add more permissionless hardware info back in.

You just know the argument being made is "Light sensor input changes frequently enough that it isn't useful for fingerprinting." But history tells us that literally everything will be used for fingerprinting.

Provides a tiny amount of differentiation to maybe identify particular devices? Scoop it up!

Or if you're already able to identify a particular person, how about keeping a persistent log of whether they're indoors or outdoors and aggregating that from as many different sites as possible? Collect all the data and store it forever! Maybe it will help sell ads 0.004% more effectively, and there's no downside!

IMO, whatever amount of risk this carries clearly outweighs the benefit of websites being able to access my light sensor without asking for permission, because the value of that is 0.
Perhaps you should consider investigating some other cultures. So far in your responses to me, to gird your argument that the West is unique, you compared America to...the UK. Which is, last I checked, also part of the West.

Are you not aware that anime for boys in Japan is frequently censored when it comes stateside? Like the infamous 'finger guns' from Yugioh? Is Japan another culture that uniquely indoctrinates its children with violence then? A whole lot of those 80's and 90's violent video games were from Japan, after all. I blew up a lot of people and/or robots playing Megaman and Contra.
For that $1 off/gallon gasoline, you need to have spent $1000 on groceries. So if your fillup is 10 gallons and gas costs $3/gallon, you will have spent $1000 to save $10. You aren't likely to spend $1000 between each fillup.
To be fair, bees doing cute little dance moves to talk to each other does sound pretty crazy.
I managed to do adaptive streaming as a 14 year old (in 2014) and it worked for 10 000 people. It didnt cost me that much, given I made profit of 80$ off of adsense before being banned and almost sued but thats a different thing.

The point is with HLS or DASH and CloudFlare you can provide the exact same experience to all your users. You can easily automate the process, which I've done. All other problems are already solved by player software like Clappr, JWPlayer, VideoJS, etc. They all use HLS.js and Dash.js in the background...
My understanding (from Steve Yegge's famous 2000s Amazon vs Google memo) is that Amazon teams can use any programming language/platform they want, as long as there is no way for other internal Amazon projects to access it except via public (internal) API. Thus lots of languages and platforms are used internally, including Ruby.
The Fragility of American Citizenship
Academia also isn't a great home for large-scale trials, especially long ones.

Most academic "things" (grants, hiring/promotion/graduation criteria) expect people to produce first-author papers, so projects are usually set up to involve 1-3 people over 1-3 years.

A trial, on the other hand, needs lots of people, ideally at many different sites, and will hopefully produce a single, well-defined outcome. Somebody's also got to make the drug--and under conditions where the end product can be given to humans (i.g., GMP). None of this is cheap either, and the NIH budget wouldn't stretch to too many large Phase III trials.
What I'm trying to understand is: do large numbers of people believe the work that goes on to the Nobel Prize should be recognized as such when it is originally published?

Put another way: could you train a binary classifier (NOBEL/NOTBEL) that predicted prizewinning status at journal submission time based on the information bits available in the article? (personally I really doubt it)
A copyright notice is not required for copyright; by default in the US, everything copyrightable is copyrighted unless it comes with a public domain notice.

If there's no license attached, or no agreement somewhere, then you do not have legal right to redistribute someone else's work, even if they gave it to you freely.

Gosling was perfectly within his rights to sell gosemacs to Unipress (though note that Gosling never explicitly says in the interview that he sold it to them; he may have given it to them for free). RMS was not within his rights to grab Gosling's sources and change the copyright notices to suit his fancy.

You are quoting Gosling in a selective manner in order to paint him in a bad light. Please don't do that. The bit about a bed to sleep in was a direct response to the conversation veering into how RMS at the time didn't have his own residence, and slept in his office, so there was little legal recourse against RMS since RMS had nothing to lose in a suit.

Nor is your comment even relevant: Gosling had not yet made millions at Sun back in the 80s. He was a grad student, and, presumably, like most grad students I know, was not exactly flush with cash.

I really don't get how you're coming at Gosling so hard; after listening to the interview, he's clearly uncomfortable talking about the topic, tries to avoid pointing the finger at anyone unless appropriate, and it was the interviewer who makes a quip about RMS's hygiene, not Gosling.
Or it's a fantastic bridge once fully assembled, but every piece is some special snowflake shape and has to be fitted precisely so it would be much harder to build than a traditional bridge.
Not always true. It depends on the price demand elasticity curve and margins.

Imagine Acme Inc selling Widgets at $100.

If taxes go up, the company's first instinct would be to increase the price. This works for some markets and products. However, if the customers and market are sensitive to price, they will lower or stop their consumption from Acme Inc. or move to competitors or substitute products e.g cooking at home instead of restaurants. In that case, Acme Inc has to pay the taxes out of their profits, assuming their profit was high enough, which results in lower profits, or takes losses and go out of business eventually.
I can't fathom why someone would go to a school that takes 17% of your paycheck for 2 years. I went to Western Governors University to get my undergrad, it costed 6k for 2 terms and I breezed through and got a paper that will help me for life, and I'm planning on heading to Georgia Tech for a Masters. There are better options out there, there is no need to go to a shady school such as this, even if they promise 0 tuition up-front. Additionally, as tech companies become more lax on their degree requirements, there is less and less value you gain from having a degree in Silicon Valley versus spending a few months grinding leetcode, which definitely pays off.

On a side note: it took literally 1 minute to hide the modal window and find the div containing the actual content and expand it, and turn the overflow back on. Did they design it this way on purpose? Otherwise, I think they have to find some new UI developers..
Xerox PARC alum, main designer of the sequel to the Xerox Alto computer, the Xerox Star, which is the the first modern personal computer (GUI, mouse, Ethernet, print & file servers, etc).
Status in Debian:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-14287

Ubuntu:
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2019/CVE-2...

RHEL:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-14287
I agree with this observation.
The XPS is alright. Its touchpad hasn't been as big a transition as I'd feared -- although the loss of kinetic scrolling is certainly lamented.

My main issues with the XPS are:

- Only slightly quieter than a vacuum cleaner.

- Unless you want to use the fancy GPU in Linux, in which case it's louder than a vacuum cleaner and has a very short battery life. (I keep the GPU disabled)

- Camera is placed at the bottom of the bezel, which is an ideal location for observing your fingers on the keyboard, or if you give the screen a jaunty tilt, peering far up your nostrils. Serves no other purpose. I really can't fathom the process by which that camera got greenlit. I use an external clip-on camera instead.

A Mac would certainly be better. For the same amount of power and storage, it would also be 3x the price, and (in recent years) probaly less robust.
Beef jerky in coffee sounds awful, but coffee in beef jerky sounds great.
OP, if you're bootstrapping this thing at a tiny scale it looks like you've just been hit with the 'HN hug of death' as the wide readership of the website often yields a huge surge of incoming traffic to anything which lands on the front page.

While someone else sorts this problem out (or you just wait for it to subside) perhaps you could explain the concept and goals here in the meantime. Don't feel bad, this happens to lots of people.
You can. That's how you can download private videos
It seems like I'm trolling but within the rules of gender identity what I am doing is absolutely valid. Unless you can prove that I'm trolling definitively you can't accuse me of anything. The fact that you believe I'm trolling puts the whole argument of gender identity into question. If I'm trolling, how do you know the whole movement isn't trolling? The ambiguity possibly illustrates the absurdity of the whole argument.

Maybe a better way of thinking of productivity is thinking about the pointlessness of this debate. You are more productive if you don't care for this trivial stuff. But I wouldn't know, I'm too busy getting offended when people don't address me by my made up gender.
Code Quality Matters
I can't envision a remotely plausible scenario that could even come close to Chernobyl in terms of impact. Chernobyl had no containment structure at all and was running at full power (infact, beyond full power once the steam inside the reactor increased the rate of fission) at the time of the incident. The steam explosion was so powerful that it launched the 4 million pound reactor lid through the roof scattering bits of fuel all over the countryside and then letting the radioactive graphite from the reactor burn and send highly radioactive smoke up into the jetstream.

Chernobyl consisted of an unsafe reactor design with a positive void coefficient and a control rod design that locally increased power output as it was being inserted combined with terrible management and operators who did not understand why the reactors power output was low and a complete lack of a containment structure to top it all off.

I genuinely can't envision a scenario like that happening with other non-RBMK reactors. Even if the operators were intentionally trying to just do the most devastation physically possible, it's not like they're going to be able to do anywhere near the damage that Chernobyl did. Trying to compromise the containment structure is not a reasonable goal, they are just far too massive and at least in the U.S. they are designed to take a direct hit by a fully loaded passenger jet without rupturing. Let alone rupturing the massive thick hunk of steel that is the reactor vessel inside of it.

There's still a couple of retrofitted RBMK style reactors operating in Russia but supposedly those don't have the same void coefficient problem, have better management and operational practices, and have better safety systems than the original design. Even if you count those against the safety of new nuclear power plants we're still not as bad off as Chernobyl was.
This article is pay-walled.
Someone else was supposed to pick up the bandwidth tab.
There's just something about Tesla's continually promising incredible things, and delivering most of it a little late that really irritates people. Yet no one else is doing anything remotely like it. My 2012 tesla model s85 has better range than a 180k first gen porsche taycan. It's beyond tedious now how people keep thinking they are doomed because of some reason...
Do you think top down strategy and control is important for large organizations? Most people idealize organizations that are grassroots drive so it's interesting to see how it didn't work in this case.

Also it sounds like Uber needs to fire it's CTO.
GitLab offers free security checks for opensource projects (https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2018/06/05/gitlab-ultimate-and...). Enabling these checks is as simple as this one-liner (https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/application_security/sast/in...):

include:
template: SAST.gitlab-ci.yml

Now do the same with Dependency Scanning, Container Scanning, DAST and License Compliance if needed.

Note that Auto-DevOps enables this automatically.

On a general note, I agree with you, Security should be available out of the box for everyone. I created last month this issue for this purpose, feel free to comment or watch it.
ahhh, yeah that is certainly quite distinct. Thanks for pointing that out.

HiQ v Linkedin kind of hinges on the implicit authorization given by making an API public. Here Safeway gave explicit authorization so I suppose it might come down to the TOS. Then again all Safeway has to do is revoke your account and you're gone, so I don't really know why anyone would be to worried about them coming after you with the CFAA. Cant be worth the effort.
Why are all these rich people for Brexit I wonder? Do they think they'll pay less taxes or something? That's sad that he is for it.
Not only does socialism suffer from a "No True Scotsman" problem (there is a wide disparity, from within and without, regarding what the term means), I dare say that's true of just about every -ism under the sun. (TODO: invent a political ideology that includes a formal specification.) :)
I'm not done with the article yet ;) (BTW I just updated my comment, not sure if you saw the first "another comment" addendum but I got it wrong and rewrote it)

If I have the time tonight I'll try to look over the PR. No promises though.
This saves you only if you delete directories. Better start with `ls`. The one with git force push is spot on though. This is one of the reasons to prefer tools that let you write options at the end of the argument list instead of after the command name.
We make ice cream the old way with a ton of ice, some water, and rock salt. Plunging your hand into that ice bath is something everybody should do at least once. You'll get a new appreciation for the survivors of the Titanic at the very least. It's shocking just how stiff it gets, and how fast. The pain is quite severe after only a few seconds as well. It's hard to imagine anybody surviving when their entire body is submerged in something like that.
This is a really interesting phenomenon we noticed as started doing some research into esports: There's a ton of interest in organized game teams as perhaps an alternative to traditional sports for students with different proclivities.

This is just one example, but I suppose what I'm trying to say is that this will likely become the norm not the exception.
Drawn by the Salary, Women Flock to Trucking
College admissions offices rank prospects before they apply
Enforcing their own regulations?

It's always been an open secret that companies love to mis-categorize workers in order to avoid paying taxes.
The usual poll is drafted in a way that almost everyone answers yes (usually by pro independence newspapers). Something like: "would you approve the vote on a referendum agreed with Spain?"

Otherwise, it's pretty obvious people voting for Cs and PP will never answer "Yes" and that's already way more than 20%
This reminds me of a very similar case a decade ago I never figured out.

Anyone remember Coupon Guy from 4chan in the 2009/2010 timeframe? You could make your own "Buy 1 Get 1 Free" or variant (for both N, "buy 1 get 10", or for kind of coupon, like "buy 1 get half off") Tv, Xbox 360, near anything etc. For Walmart, Best Buy, other chains etc. The tools were passed around stegonographically in the instruction images. Since coupons weren't properly accounted for until they hit a place in Texas, whole threads full of Anons over the course of weeks fabricating working coupons.

Until they stopped working, and of course rumors of "the FBI" apparently grabbing the guy.

I never did figure out what happened tech wise under the hood there.
Pfizer also spends $14 billion/year on marketing, which patients have to pay for.
Long life to you and your kids :-)
The questions and issues you pose are real, but they apply equally regardless of whether the decisions about research funding are made by for-profit pharmaceutical corporations or a panel of government experts. I posit that the latter is preferable because they are accountable to the public, whereas the former are accountable only to their shareholders and profitability metrics.
What are you talking about? English is verifiably not as gendered as Spanish, at the very least.

All nouns in Spanish require a gender article (el/la or los/las). In English, you do not have to figure out whether "día" should be prefixed with el or la -- and in the case of "día" despite it ending in "a" which usually implies feminine and la, it's actually masculine and is properly "el día."

That doesn't even bring into it examples like ellos/ellas ("they" or "them" in English) referring to a male group or a female group where the standard rule is to use ellos if referring to an unknown group or even a group of 100 women and one man, the only application of ellas should be when you can verify every single member of the group is female.