skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a strangely angry article and seems to miss the bigger point.

America changed its trade situation with China, which either made the US better off or worse off. (I'm guessing the economic consensus for is better off).

Basically the same applies to automation.

No individual factory worker or doctor or police officer made that happen, so the benefits and/or costs should be spread around equally. UBI is one tool for doing that. People who lose their job and need to retrain automatically get cushioned, which lets your society be more ruthless about creative destruction.
They're losing money so that you can get a cheaper mattress. You can call that a subsidy or not, but the important thing is that the transaction involves them ending up with less money and you with more money than if you had bought elsewhere.
Why tiny font sizes, out of curiosity? Do you typically use those font sizes, or is that just a handy measure of readability?

I'm all for fitting a lot of content on the screen, but I don't go as far as shrinking font size to the minimum I can read.
Likewise, you can totally have sales with just the product. There is saying good product sell itself.
There was a story where someone was filming police and they mistaked someones phone for a gun.
Cool, I'm glad it's been working out for you. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed that book, even the start which wasn't focused so much on deep learning specifically.

I just don't know many computer science undergrads who'd have the background to make that book useful, as the presentation leans towards the terse.
> Which is... fascinating. Switching out upstreams is one thing, but they're switching kernels in the process

Switching kernel can actually be a pretty small thing compared to switching distribution! I remember using Debian/FreeBSD, Debian userland on top of a FreeBSD kernel. For most people, I bet switching away from BSD to GNU userland would be a bigger deal than moving from the FreeBSD to Linux kernel.
Syntax sugars are definitely a part of the app, but it does a lot more than simple 1:1 aliases. I used it to back up the running configs of around 400 Cisco devices last week. Thanks for your feedback in any case.
Yeah, honestly I don't really understand the article's point.

Is it that say McDonalds switching to electronic kiosks to order your burger is going to create as MANY tech jobs as it took away? Because that doesn't pass the smell test.
“ But Python would be slower right ? Turns out it isn't and in fact for some of my datasets (that had over 100,000 users in them) it was 17 times faster. I also made sure that the Python version doesn't pull the entire nameservice into memory when it knows it is going to be filtering it based on the -l and -g options.”

Surely you can’t say it’s 17 times faster if you’ve changed the amount of data you’re actually dealing with? It’s not a like for like comparison.
The way it should be. I once bought a computer monitor with capacitive "buttons." I'll never make that mistake again.
OK, but I guess I could argue that asymptotic theory and design of experiments are proof that statistics is a super-set of ML (for the record, I'm not sure either of those is true).
> a monitor - a product that at 45”+ is missing for consumers and your only option is commercial screens.

Here you go: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/insignia-55-class-led-1080p-hdt...
I guess we're a specific type of user that this screen is trying to target. Myself and several people I know have been looking for something like this for years. The only consumer type products like this right now are projectors, and they certainly are not suitable everywhere. Even though the more recent developments in ultra short throw laser projectors have my interest piqued.
Is Canada Broken?
This has been my experience exactly.

I used to think that the team building the product was a profit center. The more time we spend solving customer problems, the more revenue the company generates.

The reality is they view engineering teams like assembly line workers. The revenue was generated by the sales team and now they come to the engineers to get the bad news of how much that revenue is going to cost them.
Sure, but that isn't relevant to the IPO dynamics. Investors threw hundreds of millions at Zscaler, heavily subsidizing their growth, because they drew some charts saying they'd be profitable in the future. I'm sure that in 2014 you could have written an explainer about how suchandsuch Zscaler product is only competitive with Symantec because of VC money - or you could have written the reverse explainer, about how the Zscaler product isn't really competitive at all and they're duping people into using it using VC money and modern buzzwords. Both those genres are pretty popular about consumer-facing unicorns.

But it turned out the charts were right, and Zscaler is now profitable, although they still aren't making as much as investors at the all-time high expected.
The last AirBnb I stayed in was sparkling clean and totally infested with cockroaches. And they had the nerve to tell me they couldn't get me a full refund, and that I should be used to staying in lower-end places. In the end my fiance and I had to book a hotel anyway, at great inconvenience to ourselves and with no guarantee from AirBnb that they would refund anything. That was way more inconvenient than not having a kitchen for a few days.

So the flip side of it is that you're rolling the dice and AirBnb doesn't actually have a way to guarantee anything for you the way a hotel would.
No its not to the standards of a modern design. It's one of the primary reasons they grandfathered the airframe in, not having to address safety concerns like their doors.
There are different types of depression. It can be an illness caused by some brain imbalance, or it can be a normal human reaction to things being a bit depressing. For the first maybe seek medical help and for the second maybe try to improve your situation eg. go somewhere sunny, get a better job, make more friends etc. Also things like gratitude journals, DIY CBT and so on can help with the second. It the US there seems a tendency to overmedicalize and put people on antidepressant pills for life although they have no more effect than taking up exercise for example.
From the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

> How do I submit a poll?

> . http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll .

You need 200 karma to use it.
Denstitutionalization had a significant impact on the demographic composition of the homeless population. But urban renewal in the years following the Second World War reduced the stock of cheap housing. Single room occupancy and boarding houses became rare. In many places they became extinct.

The quality of housing at the left of a price histogram became higher. But so did its minimum cost. There's less transient and temporary housing. The overall population is larger. Hope VI continued the removal of the least expensive housing under the rubric of urban renewal policy right up to the twenty-first century.
What book are you reading?
It also relied on a the pilot as a critical control - which is why there was no real automated backup or redundancy.

Not unreasonable, doing stab trim cutout is a memory item for most operating manuals - pilots were already the circuit breaker for other stab trim issues.

Automation working - great. Maintenance failures? Provide error messages (which occured here). Maintenance issues not resolved and automation misbehevior? Stab trim cutout memory item.

Despite all the claims that the stab trim cutout did not work all real evidence is that it did. Other issues around pressure on flight surfaces not explored properly making recovery in overspeed and other conditions very hard.

Badly designed system? Definitely. Brittle when facing poor maintenance? Clearly! Not taking into account broad pilot population. Of course. Definitely should be fixed, and frankly automation probably will be increased to decrease assumptions around pilot behavior which can be variable.

This accident was the result not only of this bug but a chain of issues. That's why flying in the US is pretty safe, the chain from procurement to maintenance to pilot training is strong so compensates for poor elements.

If you follow SAA technical for example there is evidence overseas that bogus parts are making it into plane repairs, with predictably bad results. We are not seeing that in the US (yet), though if inspections get soft I'm sure it would show up here too. Those bogus repairs will mean that some automation will break and the plane may not behave properly in ways that could have been designed around with better assumptions.

My prediction? We are going to get iphone style authentication / serial number chips in key plane parts with electrical connections and the plane will eventually refuse to fly without the right parts - just like your coffee maker and iphone. Right now it is trust based.
From Chop Suey to Fine Dining: Pushing to overturn cuisine’s image
Exactly right. Not to mention it's the most common job in most states. That's a lot of people losing what quality of life they had.
Those last mile delivery jobs also already exist. That market isn’t going to grow, necessarily, because long distance becomes autonomous.
The $329 iPad supports pens too.
The very first monospace font I ever saw, Courier, was a serif font.
Larger or smaller weight?
I have a Dell Precision 5520 running linux that I got when I rejected the 2018 MBP touchbar that I returned to our tech team in disgust (keyboard sucks)

Some observations of the 5520:

- con: really really stupid web cam position: it is at the bottom left of the screen so in any video calls it is basically looking up your nose and if you are typing there are GIANT fingers on screen obscuring your face.

- pro&con: feels well built (metal frame), but it is bulky and feels very heavy

- pro: keyboard is nice to type on

- con: trackpad is nice but sometimes the clicks get "stuck" and you end up inadvertently "dragging" things (e.g. tabs) when you try to click. This might be drivers - who knows.

- pro: It has a little button on the side you can press which shows the rough battery charge level (5 LEDs light up for 20/40/60/80/100%)

- con: there is no "scoop" to make opening the lid easy, so you need to use two hands.

- con: fan is loud and seems to be on almost all the time

It is ok but I have not been particularly pleased with it - the webcam position, the trackpad, and the sheer bulk are the killers. I wont opt for one of these again - probably go for a thinkpad carbon next.
Cool, but:

- only 1080p, which might still be fine

- Insignia is exclusive to the US and north American market.
And you’re kind of demonstrating my point - the difference between people who think it’s an easy problem and the proportion who have experience.

Enterprise mobile apps aren’t about the apps you download from the App Store. Usually they are distributed using an on-site mobile device management system.

1st use case: I worked for s company that wrote field service applications for ruggedized Windows mobile devices. Some had cellular, some had WiFi, and some had neither. You had to actually dock the device. The field service techs had to have all of the information they needed on the device to do service calls including routes whether or not they had connectivity. They would record the information and it would sync back to the server whenever they had a connection.

2nd use case: worked for a company that wrote software for railroad car repair billing. Repairs are governed by Raillinc (https://www.railinc.com/rportal/documents/18/260737/CRB_Proc...) all of the rules and audits had to be on the device and the record of the repair had to be available whether or not they had connectivity. It had to sync back with the server whenever a connection was available.

3rd case: software for doctors. Hospitals are notorious for having poor connections.

4th case: home health care nurses had to record lots of information for Medicare billing. Again you can’t count on having mobile connections.
Sure, the Lansing State Journal might be behind. But it sounds like stories were reported on before all of the facts came out and just so happened to be correct...which shouldn't be confused with good journalism.

I find that smaller newspapers don't have the money to perform real investigations and will push stories out based on rumor and speculation.
Hm helped me to realize that they don't help. For example: even if there is an Afterlife there is no point investing into it now.
Even if 9/11 was a false flag operation, there is nothing I can do about it except for living my life. Etc.
That’s not quite true. You can certainly index null values, and you can filtered indexes to remove nulls. What sql server cannot do is index functions themselves, and use those indexes to satisfy queries with nonsargable expressions.
> A lot of the code that is loaded supports features that are used by a long tail of users

Bounce rate 53% according to alexa. So, majority of imgur users don't appreciate it, do hit cold load, etc. A user probably has to be dozens of interactions deep for initial loading cost to not be so high, but more likely there is no way to ever offset overhead of all that bloat for any user.

Personally, I use an extension to fix imgur brokenness and extract images from imgur pages without loading anything else.
It's probably fine, but then you have to trust both TCL and Roku. I'd rather just trust Roku. And not just for privacy, but for timely software updates, spare remotes, etc.
Seems like a totally unbiased source. /s

I mean, do you really not understand how that sort of thing is done? They ask 100 people and then edit it down to the 5 most extreme responses.
So, language develops due to the environment it is in, which also affects people's perception? That still doesn't sound biological
I have the same experience: My T470 always goes at least 10 hours, and the battery estimate shows 16+ from a full charge. My work Macbook might get 5 on a good day?
How to send emails through a docker container with a flask API
I'm looking for HN to provide me some perspective outside of my little bubble here.

I've only ever lived in states that have had bottle deposits. I've been feeding these cans/bottles back into the redemption machines since I was a kid. I can genuinely stay that I've recycled nearly every eligible container I've ever used.

However for most of my adult live I've also had recycling available at curbside - including cans/bottles. It was originally paper, glass and metal separated, but has since gone single stream.

We recycle everything we can that is eligible, but I don't put cans/bottles in there because I'd lose the deposit. I wish the deposit was gone so that I could put these items in there and gain this little efficiency in life.

At the same time I see these studies where the data clearly shows the deposit has a significantly higher effective recycling rate. I'm struggling to understand this. Do the places without deposits also not have curbside single stream recycling that processes these containers?

Can someone with experience in a location with no deposit but with curbside single stream recycling available for these items explain why people aren't recycling them there?

Is really as simple as "people won't put things into a different trash receptacle in their home"?
Get yourself a clutch :) https://github.com/alevchuk/vim-clutch
If tech companies reach their holy grail of what they want to do with self-driving, last-mile delivery jobs won't exist. And as I already said, yes, that's a big if. But it's something the tech companies are aiming to achieve. And besides that, I am highly doubtful that proactive public policy would enable last-mile delivery jobs to have higher wages and better working conditions. The public policy isn't there today, I'm not confident it would be there in the future. Most public policy trusts macro economic theory's invisible hand to naturally raise wages if there are truly more jobs than there are people. And if it's true, that's what will happen, then there's no need for proactive public policy. So... /shrug

All of this ignores Yang's other point that all of the roadside diners and other hospitality industry on the highways that depend on the trucking industry would be affected.

I'm not saying that the tech companies will achieve what they are aiming to do. Again, I'm a short-term self-driving skeptic. But I think it's dangerous to not have the conversation.
I find it unfortunately that most of the advice here is good. That said, contrary to what the author claims, the result of rolling a d100 falls within the range [1, 100], not [0, 99].
They grandfathered the frame--and added MCAS-- to avoid a new certificate and added cost/time to their customers. What you point out is one of many consequences, not the reason.

(Aircraft doors are interesting on their own as well, due to the assumptions that drive design, testing, and certification.)
> The stack they are using seems to be the first thing hiring managers look at.

I try to avoid companies that hire in this manner; it shows a lack of vision and planning. It's unlikely that a given developer will be working on the same stack in five years; the stack will have evolved or the developer will have moved on.
So the article is probably correct that trade has been a bigger issue than automation. Well let’s assume that’s true, to be charitable to the mentally challenged Slate authors.

So what happens after you put the screws to trade? That certainly isn’t going to decrease automation as an alternative. What happened from 2000-2010 doesn’t really matter, they should save their breath.
I can't speak for anyone else, but I also read the title as suggesting that Coca-Cola was generically opposed to plastic recycling. That's not what the title means formally, but that's what I took away. I suspect this was intentional.

This is similar to how some people think it's clever to answer "yes" when asked an "X or Y" question where both X and Y are true. Technically, it's a correct answer, but it is not a response designed to engender a correct understanding of the situation in the listener's mind. I think the title would be just as punchy and less likely to mislead if it were "How Coca-Cola Undermines Bottle Deposit Efforts".
> Has anyone considered that the MCAS bug was just simply nasty and difficult to detect in their simulator?

That was the assumption a year ago. Investigation has turned up tons of evidence against your null hypothesis. Crucially, this behavior was observed in the simulator and reported up the line.

> ... and a lack of backup sensors to offset the risk.

Not when multiple red flags were raised internally, and the backup sensors were sold as a premium upgrade.

> There will always be limits to how effective regulatory oversight can be.

Especially when we allow corporations to do their own regulatory "oversight"
Including BBJs, which are 737s. Note there's a BBJ MAX.
> To this day, industry insiders still joke, “McDonnell Douglas bought Boeing with Boeing’s money.”

That's commonly said about the Apple-NeXT acquisition too — NeXT paid a negative $429 million to take over Apple.

Obviously the results were much different there...
Not an answer to your question, but I’m of the opinion that Apple should have a product recall for all butterfly keyboard equipped MacBooks.

My own MBP (late 2018) also just went in for its 3rd repair to the keyboard, it’s ridiculous.

I absolutely love everything about the MacBook and Apple ecosystem but god the keyboards are such an embarrassment.

All anecdotal of course but at the office many of our MacBooks have keyboard issues. And quite some people I know also have issues with the keyboard. Just from my observations the problem is gigantic and I wonder if Apple knows this; almost everyone I talked to about the issue is not willing to have it repaired and just live with the shitty keyboard, because they don’t want to wait 2+ weeks for Apple to repair it.

I’m nowhere near the point of switching to something else because I don’t want Windows or Linux, but I cannot wait for Apple to get their shit together with their keyboards.
I don’t know how postgresql does it, but I’m interpreting it as yes, their engine has a way to actually replace nonsargable expressions in the query plan itself, with some other operation that performs a seek against the index on the filter. Otherwise you’re right, you’d still need an RBAR evaluation, which is really the crux of the issue. I wish they’d reframe this discussion as RBAR instead of sargability, because it covers so many more sins...
I found it terribly incomplete. $40 and it can’t cover all four standard weights: regular, bold, italic, and bold italic. I believe it was last one, bold italic, that it was missing and the website is careful to obscure that fact.
”Harvey picks the example of 314 multiplied by 159”

Nice way to pick an example :-) I guess his second example would be 271 multiplied by 828.

Paper at https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02070778/document
Sony needs to become a software platform company. They have all the parts and they need to tie them together. Their speakers, phones, headphones, playstation, tv, camera, laptops, and vue need full integration. Sony would be very wise to drop VueOS/Shell that runs on all its devices. Sony is in the best position of any company in the world, probably even ahead of Samsung, to outplay Apple and Microsoft at the hardware/software integration game.
General aviation (private jets included) has a higher fatality rate than commercial aviation [1]. Even after backing out amateur general aviation, it is still more dangerous [2], though not egregiously so like personal planes, and helicopters make a sizeable chunk of fatality rate that is lumped into the same category as private jets.

But it is still poor optics to rarely dog food your own products.

[1] https://qz.com/work/1169517/executives-are-dying-in-private-...

[2] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/corporate-jets-commerci...
Did you see the article where pilots testing the MCAS software said it was a mess? Years before they shipped it?
Looked at my local best buy's ads on the site.
Imgur removed most of those features from the mobile site, apparently.[1]

[1] https://twitter.com/martinbean/status/1185605846933352450
>but rather the current MBP series. That keyboard is atrocious, and there is no alternative to it.

To that I agree. I simply resorted to using an external keyboard with the laptop 90% of the time (at home or at work) -- until I can upgrade in 1-2 years in a new model with hopefully improved keyboard.
> When shown a wheel of similarly colored squares, people identify the offbeat shade more quickly if it comes from a different color category (as shown in the wheel on the left) than if it comes from the same category (as shown on the right). This effect suggests that the words we use to describe colors influences how we perceive them.

Or much more obviously that we name colours based on how we perceive them?
Since I like Yang and have Googled him before, Google thinks I should know about every article written about him and keeps prompting me about them as they come up.

This one, like so many lately, all have been hammering me with this idea that Yang is predicting a dystopian horrible future.

On the contrary, I think Yang is fundamentally optimistic about the future and technology. He predicts that we will lose a lot of our current jobs and that we need to put in place a government safety net in the form of UBI, but I don't think he considers it a dystopia.

I'm frustrated by all the editorializing in the headlines that I'm seeing. If all you saw were all these headlines of late, you'd think Yang were some kind of "sky is falling" candidate. But actually I like him because I feel like he has a quite hopeful vision of the country and our future.