skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an ingenious idea, and one I wonder if could be used for more personal modes of transit.

I live in NYC, where one of the biggest obstacles to owning a car comes down to parking. Even a bike would take up precious living space. I would love a vehicle that I could deflate and store in a closet of sorts -- all of a sudden my building would be able to offer "parking" to all of the tenants if the parking were stackable.
> iOS is a closed ecosystem in a highly competitive marketplace.

And yet, Apple's profits grow, including per-unit. Not much competition there.

Firefox compiled for iOS cannot be distributed on the store, and since there is no way to sideload apps, Apple has a literal monopoly on Browsers. Where's the choice there?
Good points :) I guess the IBM / Red Hat situation was left out because the mapping focused on FAAMG companies.
I wonder if this differs at all between the EU and the US?
Seconded. My wife has a dog who ends up being alone most of the time. My wife and I go out for dinner, we go on vacation, and of course we both go to work, and the poor dog has absolutely nothing to do. I can tell she’s sad, miserable and lonely, but my wife wanted a dog. I do my best to at least be nice to her (the dog, that is) when I’m around.
> there's significant incentive for employees to lie to the algorithm and hit "It's ready" before it's physically ready

It's the same with fast food in general. One of my first jobs was at a McDonald's where the standard practice was to hit the 'finished' button for any order that was taking 'too long', at which point the people doing food prep would have to keep track of a sequence of three or four orders in their head. As you can imagine, errors were constant, but customer satisfaction was less important to management than satisfying this imaginary metric.
The scrubbing features remind me of Microsoft 3D movie maker which was a Win 95-era product that had the same easy approach, but with 3d characters.
“” In total, the layoffs represent about 1% of the company””

That seems like a very small lay-off. From reading the article it sounds like this is full time employees, not gig workers.
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Heh, reminds me if my university period. In the students house each apartment had a phone with the round dialing physically removed as the phones were supposed to be used only for recieving calls. I tried the technique you are referring to and it worked perfectly. Too bad that after some months the administration noticed the receipts from the phone company and me and the other guys living in the same apartment had to pay part of it.
WhatsApp essentially displaced Facebook as a Social Media platform of choice whilst also spelling doom for SMS, and VoIP in one fell swoop. WhatsApp, if it was an independent company like Larry Page pleaded with them to be, would have been the next $100B tech company. I feel the founders cashed out when there was no need for them to, plus they couldn't exercise the autonomy they were promised post-acquisition.
I think the discussion surrounds two issues right now:

1) Freeing the politicians. There's plenty of examples of politicians interfering in judicial decisions [1]. Currently, 45% of the Catalan electorate have their elected politicians in jail.

2) Discuss with the central government the best way to modify the constitution to allow a mechanism for people to vote for what they want.

I wouldn't consider myself an independentist, but being surrounded by people that are, I've come to understand that the biggest issue is whether they have the right to even have a vote on how they want to govern themselves.

As for the arguments for the independence of Catalonia, as other people mentioned here, there are several and as varied as people are in Catalonia. The first step though is to be able to even have this discussion in the form of a referendum, even if the final result is staying in Spain.

[1] https://civio.es/el-indultometro/
There's a huge issue with pricing today. It used to be that drug companies were ethical about the "your money or your life" nature of medicine. Merck once even gave a drug away for free because it was the right thing to do [1].

Nowadays it's about charging what the market can bear. The trouble is that drugs have gotten way more expensive to develop for a variety of mostly scientific reasons. This means a "prize" mentality has developed where each drug is like a lottery ticket, and you best get the most out of that ticket if it wins. There's also a sense across the industry that price controls are going to come, so ramp the prices up now so when the controls arrive they won't gut the industry.

Also sometimes drugs have to cost as much as they do because they're just very hard to make (see gene therapy), but at this point the pharmaceutical industry has squandered all the public trust they had with recent rapacious practices (see insulin, opioids).

Fundamentally there are good reasons drugs cost a fair amount of money, but it's not necessarily clear that costing this much money is justifiable. I believe drug companies can do good while doing well, but that it takes a leadership interested in more than boosting the margins as high as possible. We need a code of ethics for drug and med device companies, maybe something along the lines of the hippocratic oath.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/22/world/merck-offers-free-d...
You don't see a problem with them threatening even their non-Libra business lines with "additional scrutiny"? The letter directly threatens malicious investigation.
Ordinary people don't use cron jobs.
What errors do you get if you try without sudo? I have a script that runs xrandr commands, but doesn't need sudo.
Even weirder, they are building a new HQ in Dallas and just last week, they reconfirmed and signed the contracts to build a new skyscrapper.
You can use Selenium to do the same thing in a headless browser, no need for a desktop browser with a page open.

https://www.seleniumhq.org/
Kind of funny how your link demonstrates a reasonably functioning justice system while you try using it to paint Germany as authoritarian regime.

The case was dropped and the prosecutor forced to retired. Sure, would have been better to never have happened, but I don't see any system ever not having some shitty humans.
Im not sure I follow you completely - particularly the precedent point, but ill try to explain myself:

There is a huge political context around this trial, and I believe that the fact that my parent post was arguing that we should discuss about morality, not just legality, is a way to introduce this context into the evaluation of the trial to assess - and condemn - the result. I think this is mis characterizing the quality of the trial itself. Plenty of people are decrying the trial result because they want independence, which to me is intellectually dishonest. I was thus arguing that the trial itself was right, responding to a direct ask to consider right vs wrong.
Life is a lot less interesting if you minimize CO2 output over everything else.
How can you tell how each test is bottlenecked? Is it something as simple as saying that if the processor isn't at 100% utilization then the bottleneck is somewhere else?

I read a long time ago about how the linux kernel handled incoming packets in a really inefficient way that led to the network stack being the bottleneck in high performance applications. Is that no longer true?

I'd love to learn more about this whole area if anyone has any good links.
There is no reason to believe that a shitty driver with good automated accident avoidance would be worse than a self-driving car.

Especially since no self-driving car is better than a shitty driver in 2019.
The "non-alligned" movement was pretty much a Soviet making, an effort made exactly to render Western system in bad light, and reduce Western bloc's freedom of action.

Pretty much like this — "Hey look, Americans lambasting us for boycotting Guatemala. We are not Soviets, but they still criticise us!"

On one side, they will be staunchly opposing America, on other side, they have that "not Soviets" defence — greatly reducing Western political resolve
I mean, I wouldn't go full PETA and say we should start killing dogs that are already alive. It's probably better to give them as good of a life as we can.
That sounds like it could only be a good thing, to help you free yourself from the intellectual pablum and misleading narratives they produce. I for one encourage these companies to ban all of us from everything, the sooner the better, so we can be effectively galvanized into making real alternatives instead of the Tivoized bullshit Android has become.
If you look on youtube for this event, you'll see there was a vehicle driving in front of the pack that was aiming a laser at the feet of the runners. It appears to make it easier to follow a pace very accurately by making sure your feet are following the laser.
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Future of this: computer vision detector on top of frequently-updated satellite data?
It really aligns well with the face scan initiative (and credit core system)
https://www.businessinsider.com/china-to-require-facial-id-f...

what you browse, what information you read will define you.

Basically it can make an automated prison, where you have to read Xi's commandment every morning to get +10 points...
etc..
If you buy stock in a public company which does not pay dividends, what are you if not a speculator?
I mean, peasents of the non code variety have historically been what made everything go. Peasents historically haven't been treated well, either.
Same happens at ‘struggling’ companies like Deutsche Bank fe. The media presenting massive layoffs while having first-hand information of very well paid contract gigs. Perhaps there are accounting benefits to contracting?
I’m not. However, I can’t keep going back to square one. I need problems I’ve solved to remain solved, not have to jump into X configs in Vim because my monitor layout won’t stay between sessions (random example from many years ago). I have 5 hours of work to do today, I’d like to not spend 2 of them in man files “learning” about an abstraction I can’t afford to be digging into right now.
On the store controlled by Firefox's main competitor for browsers.

It's a precarious situation, but so far Google hasn't asserted their power on that front.
They will just use new terminology to describe the next ones.
Typical of an elitist latte drinker to overlook cappuccino aficionados. Enjoy your grotesque milk over-usage, heathen!
I agree it's a poor demonstration-- he helps it the last bit of the way to the stall. But look at how much it pitches first...

Unfortunately there's two videos I found of the trim stall demonstration on youtube-- this one which shows most of it with a full cockpit view, and one which I think is a bit better technically but has the camera shaking everywhere.

See FAA AFM 4-12 for official training materials. https://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/handbooks_manuals/a...
Was it Google that was famous in its early days for using the headquarters of other companies that went bankrupt building them as its own headquarters, rather than building one itself?
My need to read PDF ebooks led me to just start using an iPad Mini as a reader. The app PDF Expert does a great job of trimming margins making almost every PDF perfectly readable on that size of device. (To really read every PDF without compromise you need at least a 13” screen.)

As a bonus I can use the app KyBook 3 for ePub files and adjust margins and so on to make better use of the screen space. My Kindle Paperwhite doesn’t display any more text per page than a phone.

Obviously an iPad Mini has drawbacks compared with an ereader in terms of battery, weight, and ability to read in sunlight. The ideal device for me is probably one of those 8” Android eink devices.

Two more points—you can process PDFs for a Kindle pretty well with the k2pdfopt program. Closed-source and conmand line, but it works.

Also popsockets on the back of small tablets and readers are great.
1) This is not a constructive comment. Author did not minimize PRC's conduct, or justify it. Rather he negated it from the equation. If PRC's de-desertification strategies were reliant on the prison camps, or in any way contingent, you might have a point.

2) There is no right side of history; there is only what gets remembered and how that memory is portrayed. Consider that America is quite accurately describes as a White Nationalist government for the duration of WWII. One could then frame the war as Nazis and Imperialists being defeated by Communards and White Nationalists with the assistance of Colonizers.
However, there are times when supplements can be beneficial and you can find actual reports in the NCBI and legitimate references and supporting information on Wikipedia.

Parent is not busting the chops of Whole Foods for carrying vitamins and supplements that arguably have some minor benefit for a subset of the population. No, parent is busting their chops for carrying magic water that, AFAICT, has zero supporting evidence.

In the worst case, at least your garlic supplement has garlic in it.
Yes that is the physiology barrier that you describe that will be difficult to overcome.

The flaw is everyone thinks they will be a better driver than an AI, even though very few actually will be.

So if I had to choose my children driving with an "average joe" / friend / etc vs an AI, I would say: the data says the AI will crash 25% less, therefore it is safer.
ah well, if they said so we should just believe them.
I clone the project into a temp directory, then inject the version number into the source.
Congressional group told it will get PRC visas only if it cancels Taiwan visit
Any ideas what Dallas office will be doing?

And what does it mean to build an entire skyscraper for themselves? I thought these things were leased out by floor to multiple companies.
My understanding of that PR is it relates to how the Go compiler does code generation. Rust takes a different approach and is about to ship `async / await` which is a different strategy.

Preemption is out of scope for Tokio as we are focusing on a runtime to power Rust async functions. So, for the foreseeable, Tokio will using "cooperative preemption" via `await` points.
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> It's just a cultural artifact of the west's love and expectation of violent solutions to conflict that we glorify this activity over others.

The implication to this sentence is that the west is unique in this regard. The only non-violent exemplar game you presented being a non-western game strengthens this implication.

The point of my post was to make an argument against that suggestion. If you didn't mean to imply that, then it really has no point.

However, if that was the case why mention the west at all? Particularly when the OP gave a non-western example (Mario) in the first place.
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This dynamic already exists in diagnostics. There's a huge second mover advantage in diagnostics because it's relatively hard to patent a diagnostic effectively. I know a few people in diagnostic companies that have very much soured on the industry as a result.
IllogicalLogic, these discussions have more value when we focus on the topic at hand, not devolve into whataboutism. Your comparison is both a mischaracterization and off-topic.
Looks like they got a fat incentive for that development ($36M) so it makes sense as a capital investment they can resell/lease later even if they don't actually end up filling it up with employees.
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> I used to tinker around with my OSs but now I want them out of the way to a large extent.

This might seem counter intuitive, but configuring your own desktop kinda achieves "out of the way" on Linux... it gives you something persistent and reliable, it's a worthwhile investment. Like the parent, I use i3wm, it might seem a bit too spartan at first, but that's part of the beauty... less to configure, less gui in the way, less opinions, config a single text file, defaults are sane! I have hardly changed anything beyond my initial dot file setup about 5 years ago, yet have taken them through many desktop installs without any messing around.

Also configuring your desktop is not the same as Linux in 2000, you don't need to sift through thousands of lines of x11 config. Just pick the bits of desktop you like and stick it in a shell script, copy some config files here and there that you deem worthwhile configuring (smaller DEs or WM make this a far more minimal tasks than the big all signing all dancing KDEs and Gnomes).

... it's a small investment in time to pay for sanity and persistent experience over many years, the macOS days I could not bear the random changes pushed on users which became more and more heavy handed towards later versions.

TL:DR I like my custom configured linux desktop... because of how it prevents me from having to continually configure my desktop.
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Karl von Frisch's Nobel-winning biology paper was rejected everywhere he submitted it also.
1) No FTE associated taxes (payroll, unemployment, etc.)

2) No FTE associated benefits (health insurance, 401K, etc.)

3) Easier to terminate

4) (Arguably) Can grind harder

Hopefully, some of the recently laid-off employees can get re-hired as 1099-contractors. Sometimes working as a 1099 can actually be more lucrative (sometimes much more) than being a FTE.
Out of curiosity, why do you feel (a) is not the case? Are the profits going to salaries instead?
An aircraft might be stable and able to be flown just fine, yet not pass certification requirements.
Announcing Human Moderation and why you shouldn't code chat from scratch
Desk treadmills for office-style work are fairly common (the main downside is the extra background noise from the belt), but I'm not sure how well they work with the twitchier focus of gaming stuff.
I always thought MySpace ruined itself by allowing so much customization.

Too many people I knew had profiles with white text on a yellow background and autoplaying music. It was just horrible visiting their profiles.
When I see access to private API's like this, I wonder how judges would interpret these actions as they relate to the CFAA. By accessing "private" API's like this, are you knowingly accessing a computer without authorization? Are you exceeding your authorized access?

The fact that Aaron's Law never went through has disturbed me...
>Oh my gosh, I was in my local Fry's last week, and the store was in such bad shape.

The one in Las Vegas has been going downhill for a while, but the last six months were really staggering. Last August I got a good deal on a Garmin dash cam there. Saturday I was in looking for some other stuff and passed by that section and they didn't have one dash cam anywhere. Not even one! In one isle of car stereo components I guess one enterprising employee had spread out single bags of the same components up and down the isle to fill it in, but the general state of the store was beyond pathetic. There were only Samsung TV's and monitors in the store - no other brand (probably because Samsung is paying them).

Oh how the mighty have fallen. Sadly Vegas doesn't have a Microcenter. There are a few local stores like outletpc.com - but those guys aren't open on the weekend.
I don't disagree, but this romanticized view of the selfless visionary engineer/designer/founder is counterproductive.

the truth is that moderation is important. you need both. do both. be flexible. pay attention. know when to shift focus. getting stuck on one thing at the wrong moment is how you go out of business. don't go out of business.

going out of business is decidedly the most anti-user thing your company can do.
1135 employees total across three waves. They say they have approximately 19,000 actual employees. So about 6% total laid off.
Please explain for those of us who fail to see the connection.
It's time to talk about, improving the code quality
Trading activity was never about value creation to begin with.

Non-finance people seem to think the stock market only exists for investing, which isn’t true at all. In fact outside of an IPO you are not investing into a company, but just trading a piece of a pie that already existed. The stock market has always been primarily about trading, and informational arbitrage is simply more efficient when you have computers calculating it
That is actually a really good argument to interconnect the grids better. Less wasted power, with old sources limited, but useful. Not everyone needs nuclear as long as someone has it for off hours.
This looks like fun. It'd be really nice if there was an option to just type the commands in instead of using the GUI, though I guess that would defeat the purpose a bit.
Bonus points if you implement it with your own remote controlled drone.
There are over 1000 times more "not Model 3"s in the US than Model 3s. That was my only point about "this has been solved". It's not a knock against the Model 3.
For me the thought of my dog dying is so much more upsetting than thinking of a person's death. I am not sure why, but I think it's because of how innocent and guileless animals are.
This is cool but I'm not sure the purpose. I use the Safeway app every time I go to Safeway. I scan all the offers and just add the ones I want, which builds a shopping list for me.

This gives me a list of things to buy but more importantly I know what's on sale. If I just added all the coupons

I'd still have to scan the list of things to find what I want to buy, but then I'd have to track them elsewhere, because the built in list would be useless.

Safeway actually made a decent app that helps me shop faster. This feels like it would ruin that.
About 80% of the population of Catalonia is in favor of a referèndum (to vote yes or no) meanwhile Spain represes any atempt to make it.
You have to take into account that this is not a military uprising of a few people, its a pacific protest from politicians who represent almost half of the Catalan votes.

There are plenty of examples where people have been pardoned in Spain for more ethically questionable reasons [1]. This, in contrast, is a clear case where it should be resolved politically, not through the legal system.

[1] https://civio.es/el-indultometro/2013/05/06/saenz/
IIRC: one of the issues with the original Rust stdlib greenthread implementation was that it's extremely difficult to preempt execution in a systems language. It's also quite difficult to add userland execution preemption without incurring significant performance penalties.

How do you preempt syscalls or FFI calls? (Go will almost certainly also have this issue with cgo modules)

I would be very surprised if preemptible Futures are something Tokio can or would implement.
> modifying keyboard shortcuts is extremely difficult; I really wish linux had a karabiner equivalent

This had been a headache for me as well, but I've had great luck with AutoKey. Obviously it would be better if there was a native solution, but at least this works IME.
I’d really like to see the details of the “proceeding slowly with painstaking care” looks like.

Airplanes never had airbags, crumple zones, etc. The odds of surviving a car crash are much higher than odds of surviving a plane crash. It seems therefore that testing in cars can be done with lower risk of loss of life. Yes, there will be fender benders and some deaths.
I suspect they're very heavy
Is jamming GPS necessary? Wouldn't it be easier to jam the cellular signal that they use to report the GPS coordinates back to the owners?