skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, sure: customers are treated like children in the sense that companies correctly notice that non-tech-savvy users have no clue how to evaluate anything about a tech product (nor should they), and exploit it. Regular people can't in advance tell that a device is insecure. Regular people haven't yet learned that a device tied to an Internet service will be a paperweight in a year or two. Regular people don't understand what a botnet is, why is it a bad thing, and that their service-based IoT device is likely to be one for most of its lifetime.

My point is simple observation: vendors exploit the extreme information and understanding asymmetry on the market to sell insecure, low quality and abusive offerings. If you haven't noticed it yourself yet and need more direct evidence, follow https://twitter.com/internetofshit.
e.g. https://www.wholesaleinternet.net/dedicated/

$20/mo for 100TB metered ($0.0002/gigabyte). $120/mo for 200TB metered ($0.0006/gigabyte). $170/mo for 1gbps unmetered ($0.00085/gigabyte at 200TB, $0.00052/gigabyte at full saturation one way).

or https://client.layeronline.com/cart.php?a=confproduct&i=0

$199/mo 1 gbps unmetered.
Android App for One-on-Ones
Disney, IP, and “Returns to Marginal Affinity”
For this scenario, I've seen new lights have the left turn arrow blinks. It lets you know you can turn left if it's safe to do so.

It took a while to get used to because in the past there simply just won't be any signal, to imply you can go if you want.
Counteractual: Suppose BofA wasted $2B per year by building its own cloud. Or is BofA decided to migrate from woncloud to AWS, and wasted $2B in the process?
Would a CEO make a public statement about that? Or would they fiddle the numbers (which are impossible for an outsider to verify) to make their decision look like a winner?
This was a contest to show off what Elixir's Phoenix LiveView can do. More about the underlying tech at https://dockyard.com/blog/2018/12/12/phoenix-liveview-intera...
We are talking about a form of energy which is other than being omnipresent naturally, was studied extensively for more than 100-150 years - including health hazards when it comes to ionising radiation.

While I do think that studies should be continued for a more definitive answer, and I personally don't feel a strong need for a 5G network as of now, I am more on the defaults to safe side.
And here is the age-old response to that: by tipping you support that system.

I have no dog in this fight, and know too little to have a valid response. I just find that tips being necessary for the waiter/driver to survive a strange concept. Not being able to count on a fixed income has to be tough.

Speaking of dogs, it’s time to rewatch Reservoir Dogs.
The variety in individual state traffic light rules is fascinating, and something that certainly doesn't help for US travelers. Some states are left-turn-on-red, others are not, telling which is which is not always obvious.

(For instance, Kentucky is no left-turn-on-red [either red arrow or full red; mostly the state doesn't use red arrows because they'd be redundant in that case], but allows for left-turn-may-yield on flashing yellow/amber.)
Julius Caesar was accountable to quite a few knives, so many French were accountable to the guillotine, and generally there is always a threat to be accountable to a revolution or usurper which with absolute power are all too frequent. Those just being the most dramatic and memorable forms of accountability.

There is no such thing as absolute power even in an absolute monarch. Power is paid for in one currency or another.
Apple CEO Tim Cook Joins Influential Beijing University Board
I deleted my account with most of their library. Message received I hope.
My condo assoc. has used Glip for a few years on the free tier without any issue. You'll need to pay to get compliance exports.
Sometimes I find myself searching for something I specifically remember in the past, but I can only find one side of the story. Then I remember, "oh yeah, I have to use duckduckgo for political subjects."

Google's bias has gotten especially noticeable this past year.
So, effectively, you want to allow Amazon to offer a surcharge to "(help) minimize the risk of you buying counterfeit items"??

Also, if you are producing counterfeit items, presumably your costs are lower, so you're actually _better_ equipped to absorb the "no comingle" surcharge than the legitimate seller.

Talk about perverse incentives and enabling.
That's not a correct inference. It might be that all textiles produced make it to people's homes, but people also throw away lots of old clothes. Another reason might be that some textiles are not made into clothes, and are used only briefly for the purpose they were created before being tossed.
Repricers often go awry. If you bought it FBA then they could have repricing software set to match lowest FBA price, but the available repricing API only returns 20 lowest. If there aren't any FBA then you'll get the MF. The whole system is a mess.
Mark Zuckerberg says the real threat is TikTok and China
A good chunk of the internet is already running just because Bezos alows it that way. The prices will go up substantially the day Lauren Sanchez walks away with his billions.
Economics Nobel goes to poverty-fighting science
Trajectory for adding automatic differentiation to Swift
Flagging for misleading headline. Passengers, of course, still get to see what they paid. It’s the driver who no longer gets to see it after the trip has completed; but they do get an aggregate report.
according to the media...not necessarily on purely objective terms
I spent my money on blizzard products. I had most of their library. I had just bought the last hearthstone expansion.

I deleted the account and I urge you to do the same. Just not spending does nothing.
The China Connection: How One DEA Agent Cracked a Global Fentanyl Ring
s/employee/engineer/2

(Note the 2.)
For those who were unaware, Canada is having its federal election today. Its no-fuss nature is an interesting contrast to the shenanigans of our southern neighbour.
Tipping also supports tipping culture. Tipping should be abolished in favor of decent living wages which can not be done if you will guilt trip people who oppose tipping.

Also why tip someone for a job I'm capable of doing myself? I can deliver food. I can drive a taxi. I can, and do, cut my own hair. I did however, tip my urologist, because I am unable to pulverize my own kidney stones..
> sadly we live in a society that caters to the lowest common denominator rather than demanding and rewarding excellence.

I find that an odd perspective on successful public safety rules and policies with the aim of reducing serious injury and death during a dangerous activity.
That takes up more warehouse space, which is what Amazon is trying to avoid. Much easier to put it all into one big bin, and if you want, they can charge you to have your own bin.
This is not a book (youtube lectures), but I add it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaAvVNWvi4A&list=PLm3J0oaFux...
Ecologically speaking maybe Steve Jobs/Star Trek respectively were onto something. A high quality minimal personal style that involves orders of magnitude less garment churn and waste with the added benefit of just not having to spend time on what to wear each day (insert pithy Jobs quote).

But seriously if I was to explore finding a personal style that I could wear as my day to day work/life “uniform”, where to look, where to source from. Are there any companies focussed around this?
That is impressive given that most container ships seemed to be powered by burning investor's money.
I was more referring to energy density and total energy density over time. Also absorption patterns and penetration depth.

We know these pretty well, but they are not trivial (due to non-linearity creeping in).
It was a hassle. If you didn't have two factor set your sucked.
Tautological for some values of 'most'. Statistical innumerracy.
Would a wealth tax in America work?
I do the same thing. It's very comforting to be using that font.
What's easier to use than holding your hand up while on the street? Or going to a taxi rank at the airport?

Don't get me wrong, these apps have made arranging a ride a lot easier. But they're not a requirement in 100% of cases.
If I remember correctly Uber made a thing of "You don't need to tip!" in the start, right?
Exactly. Those of you that are hung up on toy meaning a literal toy or video game with no intrinsic value can replace the word toy with "gimmick" or "novelty" or even "a serious idea that won't scale" (http://paulgraham.com/ds.html).

Early Air Bed and Breakfast charging people for couch surfing and selling Obama O's (https://www.airbnb.com/obamaos) to fund their startup definitely feels toy like to me.

I'd argue there are entire categories that are currently considered toys, but eventually with the right business model, tech improvements and cultural changes will make the serious billion dollar tech companies we have now look like toys.
Why Elon Musk is wrong about Lidar technology
MoonScript isn't too obscure. It's to Lua as CoffeeScript is to JavaScript. I personally think it's a nice improvement over Lua. (Except for the use of backslashes...)
Obviously 2008 Zimbabwean dollar.
Small advice: if you are lucky enough to work with FOSS, just read the source code. Most of SO questions can be answered either by looking at concrete implementation details or by skimming through the code to get general concept. It gives more accurate answers more quickly than people on SO ever could, because

1) it doesn't require waiting for someone to read and answer your question
2) it doesn't require lossy conversion to natural language and back
3) "live" source code is probably more tested and more optimized than synthetic examples that someone came up with in 5 minutes and never ran

As soon as you develop the skill of finding relevant functions in large code bases, SO becomes mostly unnecessary. I never registered there, never asked a question, and don't browse it that often. I clone source code of my most commonly used tools locally just for quick grepping, and use full-text github search for more exotic staff.

P.S. Funny how the article keeps calling SO "totalitarian", while it is, in fact, a painfully precise model of democracy.
Use AWS/GCP/Azure
Does the UK have something similar to Section 508? Light blue text on a white background is...problematic.

Is there a definition of "safe to stop"? I would imagine a screeching halt wouldn't qualify.
Liberals are funny
I don't think that the V in SPIR-V has anything to do with the number 5. I think it's just that SPIR was renamed to SPIR-V with the major version that was introduced alongside the Vulkan graphics API and made SPIR usable for more than just OpenCL.
Brain Science (our newest podcast)
Blitzscaling Author Reid Hoffman Reflects on WeWork
afaik Uber/Lyft don't tell drivers if a single passenger leaves a tip, they only see an aggregate on their pay stubs. If they did then passenger ratings would become pretty useless.
Every waiter I know says that they need tips to survive in order to justify asking for tips. Those same people also fight with tooth and nails any argument that perhaps we can abolish tips and give them a living wage.

Real truth: most likely than not, they are making a killing with tips, much more than they would make with a fair salary.

Especially considering that the employer is obliged to pay them minimum wage anyways if they don’t receive enough tips.

The myth of the waiter not meeting ends is hard to believe when a decent waiter can pull in $200-500 (minimum) per night in a decent restaurant.
Most taxation can't be considered because it depends on things unrelated to the job. Income taxes vary according to how many children you have, how much interest you pay on a mortgage, how much money a spouse earns, and many other things. There is no VAT. Sales tax depends on what you buy, with food often being untaxed. There are various taxes for vehicle and property ownership, but again that depends on what you buy.

There are a few taxes that would be subtracted out. The employer part of social security taxes is probably such a tax; this would not normally be considered income in the USA.
My company was getting massive bills on AWS S3 egress. It was one of the reasons we moved to Wasabi for bucket storage; we then had to deal with a huge one time hit for egress, but in the long run the short term cost was worth it.
Yes and no :) "On-demand" clothing manufacturing is practiced today, in that fashions change rapidly, and in response, retailers produce what can only be described as "shitty quality, fast".

(Exacerbated by Chinese clothing manufacturers + social media - they're extremely effective at churning out extremely glossy pictures for what's about the lowest possible bar of quality)

That - "fast fashion" - is what gets discarded.

That's not the way forward. On-demand manufacturing that's more along the lines of traditional high-quality bespoke clothing could be an answer, but it would mean that the vast majority of people likely can't afford to wear the latest fashion all the time. And even if we can sidestep that problem through technology, wearing "the latest" itself is a huge part of the problem. If you have clothes that are only meant for a season, you'll dump large amounts of textiles.

So what's needed is both a move to higher quality, and a move away from "fast fashion". Given that the entire industry makes money mostly on "what's new and hot", this would require a significant cultural change.
If you do not have the time to appropriately respond to the question, then don't respond. Your phrasing makes it seem as though SO moderators are battling an onslaught of poor questions and the site will collapse if those questions are not deleted as soon as possible. It is the over-zealousness to close questions that is part of the problem.

If you are unable to offer constructive feedback to the user who asked the question then you are really just acting as a stop-gap and not really fixing the root of the problem. People ask "bad" questions for a lot of reasons but it you are unable to steer them in a direction that allows them to understand what makes a question "good", they will continue to ask "bad" questions.
I could only hope.
FIFA hasn't done anything like this, have they? Only thing I can remember recently is when Shaqiri and Xhaka had political celebrations after a World Cup game, and they both escaped punishment:

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/jun/25/swiss-xhaka...

Even then, the potential punishment was a 2-match ban. They wouldn't have stripped Switzerland of the victory,banned them for a year, and taken away all the money they earned throughout the entire season (all things that Blizzard did)
Cynically, their response will be to grow offices elsewhere.
Tipping isn't charity, though. There is literally a legal loophole that lets employers pay less than minimum wage on the basis that the employee will receive enough in tips to make up the difference.

Don't get me wrong, I hate tipping too. But it's disingenuous to describe it as charity when our legal system has made it legal to deprive workers of a wage because of an assumption that people will tip. So we should. And should support all efforts to remove the absurd loophole from the law.
That could be dangerous and confusing, the sequence needs to be unambiguous. The way it works in those european countries is that red+yellow always anticipates the green light, and yellow on its own indicates an imminent red.
Where I live some traffic lights also have a blinking green that precedes the yellow.
I used to work at a very large financial publishing company.

I joined just at the point where they were moving from VMware to AWS.

It was never a cost saving exercise. It was a way to completely change the culture of the IT department. As they were one of the very first news websites, they had at the time ~18 years of cruft to deal with.

The drive to the cloud was about flexibility, and if we are honest, shaking the staffing tree to get rid of the ossified staff.

They went from three data centres (mixture of SUN and Intel blades all backed by FC) to pure AWS/heroku. The running costs went up significantly, the opex was close to £3mil in AWS bills alone, all to put text on a web page.

It will continue to rise because it offers flexibility, and as each product now has its own account, standards are difficult to enforce. This means lots of snowflake installs of X that are now critical to Y.

The cloud is more expensive for large companies, for most workloads. For SMEs its the total opposite.
Note that Linux on dex was an experiment that never made it out of beta.

dex itself will continue to live on.
In Austria the green light blinks four times before going to yellow. Having grown up there I was actually kind of surprized to find out that this is not the standard elsewhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyxVhSZsA7M
> From what US people say it seems instead that members of a union live in a separate world.

Not really. Because of the way labor laws work in the US, the unions seek exclusive representation over members within a bargaining unit, which means that all employees within the bargaining unit are members of the union as soon as 51% of the bargaining unit votes in favor of the union. That precludes the possibility of employees having the choice between two different unions to represent them (or none at all), which is common in most European countries.

It's pretty rare to have union and non-union members working in the same role (as opposed to at the same company, or at the same jobsite but under different employers), and even less common to have two people in the same role represented by two different unions.
In support of your comment:

We only hear about the abuses that happen to the white collar workers at these companies. However, the VAST majority of their workers are the voiceless blue collar drivers.

Uber or Lyft could have a culture of handling driver-abuse that is beneficial or detrimental to hundreds of thousands, and we'd almost never hear about it.
Gross. Probably 20-35% effective tax rate combined federal and state. State income taxes vary from state to state.
Speaking of red lights, I have been wondering for a while now if they wouldn't be an ideal platform to experiment with image recognition for self driving vehicles? I can elaborate more, but you also get the benefit of fairer traffic lights.

I'm saying this as I commute by bike, and often have to wait at a red light, with no car in sight. Some have detectors, but they often don't work on bikes (even when putting my bike on the ground, in case of inductive sensors).
Right. I got very sick once, and was 2 days late shipping an item (a camera lens). That one complaint was enough to get me banned forever. I had offered in my response to say I was willing to be "required to use FBA" for all sales from the future forward, and they weren't interested. There was no complaint about the product, just that it arrived 2 days late (and I -had- messaged the buyer before that to advise).
> What's easier to use than holding your hand up while on the street?

A smartphone app that essentially guarantees that the car will show up, and having shown up, won't listen to where you want to go and then refuse to take you there.

> these apps have made arranging a ride a lot easier. But they're not a requirement in 100% of cases.

When they are a requirement in cases as common as "it's raining", they might as well be a requirement in all cases.
"Also, checking behind you has minimal value for drivers..."

...unless you are entering a situation where you may need to decide if stopping is preferable to some other option.
If the drivers are paid by distance and time, why doesn't it matter how much the customer paid? It might have mattered when they were taking a cut of the original fare, but now that it's fixed to time and distance, it really is none of their concern.
Only 1/3rd of russians can speak english, supposedly -- and most of Russian language media online is controlled from moscow.
I've definitely noticed this behaviour. It's excruciating.

There's a ZFS driver for Windows now. I haven't tried it yet, but I think I will. Can't be any worse.
There's nothing in the article that implies they're going to be making audio recordings of customer conversations. They're using existing surveillance cameras, so even if that were possible, it's already been the status quo.

Do you have an expectation of privacy in regard to whether your drink got refilled when you're at a restaurant? I should hope not.
KS-15676 horns

https://www.google.com/search?q=ks-15676+horn+antenna&oq=ks-...

There really isn't anything magical about that building, somewhat smaller versions or larger versions are in every city in the USA and Canada. It's a CO (central office). If you see a building in a central location with a suspicious lack of windows, lots of air handlers and generators and a few local telephone company trucks parked outside, that's what it is.

Back in the day those were the central points for switching of all analog dialtone POTS phone lines. Now they are of course major fiber sites for whoever is the ILEC (incumbent local exchange carrier) in the city, which in this case is Centurylink.

Other local examples would be:

Bellingham, intersection of Chestnut street and Forest (centurylink)

Everett, 2604 Rockefeller Ave (frontier)

East Wenatchee: on Eastmont Ave, between 10th St NE and 11st St NE (frontier)

Olympia: Corner of Washington St NE and 8th ave SE, northeast side (centurylink)
>I imagine you also keep an eye on the manager everywhere you dine to ensure they aren't actively monitoring the patrons or staff?

Surely you're not suggesting that human managers and a 24/7 machine learning-powered surveillance system are the same? We expect managers to do their rounds through the kitchen and the dining room to check on both customers and employees, and to speak with people directly so that they can understand the many nuances of why things are the way they are that come with running a restaurant. Cameras placed above diners feeding raw data to management at the end of the day not only A.) Doesn't allow issues to be resolved as they're happening, and B.) Does not take into account the variety of nuances that occur in a restaurant on a nightly basis.

Managers can be sent texts in real-time if, say, the number of people waiting for a table exceeds a certain threshold, but c'mon, is it truly cost-effective? Why implement costly machine learning software, and place the extra stress of 24/7 job performance surveillance on your employees, for something like this if your waitlist is managed digitally and you can easily look at the total number of people waiting? Even if it's not managed digitally, it's easy to look at a sheet of paper or a crowd in front of you and know that you've got a problem.
Most likely Samsung got tired to keep their fork, as regular Android doesn't expose Linux in such way that DeX is possible.

For regular Android, the fact that Linux is being used is mostly transparent for userspace.
Rust does not force you to use channels, and lets you use stuff like https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/sync/atomic/fn.fence.html if you'd like.
Where is the article getting these numbers from? Did they say and I missed it?
Yes, like raising wages. Big piles of money tend to turn into surprisingly small ones when spread out across big piles of people.

You'll have to pardon me if I'm reluctant to take my economics lessons from a linguist.
I'd happily wear a DS9 or First Contact era Starfleet uniform all day. They look great! :).

Regarding your serious point, I'd like to know too. I'd pay for a service that would help me find a style that looks good on me, with associated supply of quality clothes in this style. My current clothing choice pattern is "random, with a pre-filtering done by my wife".