skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What is stopping them from starting the business ?

Resources, obviously. If someone is screwed enough to have to reach for pay-day loans, that indicates they don't have enough resources. Likely their other credit lines are maxed out and their social support nets are either completely dissolved or just as illiquid as the prospective borrower is. So they can't invest any starting capital into the investment.

The second most important resource constraint they're going to be met with is time. Balancing commuting to work, keeping up the household, and full-time work of at least one job leaves you with an amount of time at the end of the day. Maybe they could invest that time into acquiring more marketable skills, but, hey, your lease is up in two months, and you just got the letter that inevitably tells you your rent is going up. Better start driving uber, trying to grab more hours, or doing whatever you need to to cover that new income gap that you'll be facing.

> What is the answer ?

There is no answer. You don't get conclusions when you're living in poverty in modern America. You just wake up every day and it's somehow worse than the day before.
There is Flashpoint

https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/faq/

https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/datahub/Linux_Support
Nice to see Twitter finally being used solve problems for birds themselves.
6 Disadvantages of Facial Recognition You Need to Be Aware Of
> Like the article notes, you can reuse intermediate build artifacts between developers (because it's not possible for those artifacts to accidentally depend on developer-specific state)

Note that Bazel builds still depend on the ambient system environment, like the compiler toolchain and system libraries, and it's possible to poison a shared build cache.

Shared caches are typically used with remote execution and CI servers, where the build environment is fully controlled.
Interesting, from Google trends, it seems that Haskell is very popular in China, compared to other regions. I wonder what can be the reason for this.
Borrow a stack of books/CDs/etc at once.
Tesla Model 3 prototypes with potentially longer wheelbase spotted – Electrek
Using the Archimedean Oath as Software Engineers
It's a random GUID that lets the company track how much their tool is used in deployments in Azure. It's about as noninvasive as it gets.
This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. Instagram is owned by Facebook... why would they do anything for the sole benefit of users?
> bazel works better if you have 1 library per header

What do you mean?
That might work - if you always use that pattern, and never, never deviate from it, including in all library functions that you ever call with your strings. That seems very brittle and error prone, though.

And why, when you have C++ strings that just handle all of that for you?
They have many other expenses outside R&D. Their profit dropped 23% according to article. They were never doing $37B in profit a quarter.
I kinda wish this comment focused more on bad science rather than bad pay. If bad pay implied bad science then most of science is bad!

I suppose I'd be much more interested in learning about the latter half of your comment (specific scientific failures).
This brings up a tangential question I've had lately.

When I played video games (especially RPGs), I always ended the game with a mountain of unused resources at my disposal. I rarely used items, cash, etc, unless the ROI was plainly evident. Many of my friends would just burn through cash / items as soon as they had them, and were often in a bind during tough battles / situations. I wonder if this followed us into life.

I tend to be a saver, and have always lived below my means. Many of my friends struggle to make ends meet, regardless of their salaries.

So, I'm curious. Do / did you play video games? If so, did you end the games with a huge pile of cash, or did you burn through it as you went?
These barriers are put up for sound-proofing reasons. Mostly the barriers are opaque, but one often encounters the glass ones at the points along these routes when they run through towns. Here, the glass barriers provide soundproofing without blocking one’s view of the surrounding cityscape.
It sucks that you cannot have several partner ids. Partners have to fight over who will get their partner id at the end. Hashicorp at least allow to specify a different one in their software.
Let me guess. Single male, able body, no kids. When you have kids, you'd appreciate having a car/rent a car/uber when grocery shopping for example. And the city is full of people with kids. We are not the minority here. Not everyone is interested in a scooter that is inherently unsafe at moderate speeds.
because over 18 months there's 18 chances for something to go wrong, miss a payment, and then the trap snaps shut.
What is a voice user interface?
The Internet's 'Birth Certificate' from 50 Years Ago Today
Ansible has not taken the sysadmin world completely. Google uses Puppet, many companies still use saltstack/chef or even just bash scripts via jenkins. Ansible is a very very very useful tool. Even for kubernetes management.
> Then there is literally decades of over promising on ground breaking discoveries right around the corner (super symmetry, extra dimensions, dark matter).

Every statement in your diatribe would seem to be predicated by the assumption that discoveries in theoretical physics (what you're complaining about) will result in revolutionary changes to your day-to-day experience (kinda i.e. applied physics) in a short enough span of time that you can actually enjoy them with an able body.

Probably not. Flight/space and semiconductors were notable exceptions, and they were largely driven by the century of hot and cold war that we know to be the 1900s.

Bad science is science that fundamentally doesn't yield a new understanding of the world, either by falsifying theories or confirming them. What you described is:

1. failure to meet exaggerated lay expectations, and

2. poor working conditions in the nonprofit space.

#2 (and possibly #1 depending on where the theoretical discoveries take us) can largely be resolved by pouring more money into science, not less. I'll point back to our century of war if you need past precedent.

Edit: removed a line that was unnecessarily insulting. Sorry about that.
For another entertaining "This went much farther than expected" but for two people who already had full time jobs and no desire to leave them, make a start up, or start a new business in any way, see Tom Scott and Matt Gray's Emojli: an emoji-only messenger app https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsyhGHUEt-k
Most of these questions needn’t be hypothetical, since there are already regulations regarding political ads: https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/making-di...
Nah, entertainment is a necessity, but that doesn't necessarily mean that any given choice of entertainment is a cost-effective choice of entertainment.

Just focusing on TV, for starters there's free TV over the air. There's YouTube and Amazon Prime Video and Netflix and CuriosityStream and Hulu and whatever your local state-supported TV network is putting online for free, there's DVDs from your public library, etc. etc. No, these options won't let you catch the latest Game of Thrones episode as soon as it airs, but they'll keep you entertained.

If you really want to get nitty-gritty about it, there is at least an interesting thought experiment you can run where someone who's both living paycheck to paycheck and paying for a sizable cable TV package has, intentionally or not, chosen, say, ESPN over financial solvency. Because that cable TV bill could be converted into a steadily growing rainy day fund.
This to me means they're also selling more pre-packaged items with scanable bar codes rather than they are items like fresh produce which requires a lookup and weight check at checkout.
We'd be better off building our cities to encourage mass transit. Micromobility follows as a bonus.
PodRunner: communications for public safety, business continuity during outages
The Young Engineers Guide to Career Planning
Minneapolis has some of the highest percentage of Bike Commuters in the US at around 3.5% only falling after Portland at ~6% and San Francisco which is a nudge closer to 4%.

The entire west coast has weather at least as favorable to bike commuting as Amsterdam, yet the percentages of people commuting that way are still far lower than Amsterdam simply because the infrastructure isn't there.
After all.. I did like more flash than html5 .. browser APIs for videos and audios are really ruined. It's like chrome wanted build fast something to kill flash.. but now we have Totally ruined webrtc left. Thanks Google. Just what we want :)
Those are all great point, regarding portability, battery life, etc. It's easy to get caught up in the technical specs on paper and ignore the tangible differences. The Radeon RX 5500M is definitely on my watch list in addition to the next AMD mobile CPU lineup. I'm thinking, at the very least, it will be best to wait till Q1 2020 just to see what kind of improvements AMD have achieved, and if there will (hopefully) be more AMD options in the laptop market. I agree that the Surface Laptop 3 is a good sign for the future.
I went through something similar for many years. I went to physical therapy, I stopped running, I bought a StandDesk, my wife bought us a new bed, I almost stopped drinking wine. It lasted for years. None of those things worked.

Unbelievably what worked is what 3 people have already mentioned in the comments here already...

I started taking a vitamin daily.

Hard to believe, but I've been fine for a year.

This is the vitamin (I am not affiliated with this company):

Nature's Way Alive! Premium Max3 Daily Multi-Vitamin
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0009F3RO2
The first fungi-based “steaks” just announced
Yes, sorry, I had an extra bit in there that I removed before posting the comment, and in the process made it a bit harder to read. This is definitely what I was intending.
Not surprising when science has become a tool for political and industrial purposes.
Just that small building causes 4-5 bird deaths per day? Good lord.

The picture in the article reminds me of an old youtube video that suggests painting thin white vertical stripes on your windows. Supposedly the birds avoid flying between the vertical gaps. Horizontal lines aren't as effective. I wonder who first discovered this method.
I'm really curious how any of these cloud providers can guarantee SLAs in times of war. How is the government vetting their ability to fulfill said SLAs?

Sure, they can have backup power. But will they also need to harden their buildings against bombs? Or have bunker data centers as a certain percentage of the available supply?

Basically, whatever WWIII looks like will have unexpected aspects to it that will likely result in a rapid deterioration of these services. Planning for such events seems very difficult.
Yep, salt has the best of all elements. You want simple remote execution? Got it. Agentless? Sure, use salt-ssh. Event bus? ZeroMQ and RAET included. Automation? Sure, reactors cover that. Integration with other systems? Got that too, state, pillar, mine, external events, all included. Even a REST interface.

There isn't much of a point any more to use bare SSH, heck, you can even use proxy minions to control systems that only have telnet or outdated SSH (like SSH1 or SSH2 with unsupported ciphers), or plain web interfaces with no API.
The Full-Stack Data Scientist
Unfortunately it also sometimes gives stupid answers to sensible queries but Google removed most knobs that let power users tune results. Instead they should leverage that expertise to better inform non-tweaked queries and results.
> ProPilot is terrible compared to AutoPilot

I second this - recently rented a fully-loaded Nissan Rouge and drove for around 700 highway miles - the lane centering feature was just awful compared to my Model 3's. It would often times give up on even slight curves, or fight me when I would try to regain control after it misjudged a curve. After a while I gave up on it and just used the automatic cruise control, which worked fairly well.
"At first glance, Emergy appears to be another company jumping on the plant-based bandwagon. Across the food sector, well-financed companies are racing to replicate the taste and texture of animal protein without actually using meat. But this new offering is fundamentally different from Beyond Beef and the Impossible Burger. While most alt-meat products, from veggie patties to fake-chicken nuggets, approximate the finely minced texture of ground meat, Emergy's Meati steaks strive to emulate whole animal muscle. The result is geared more toward the steakhouse than the drive-thru."
File? No. Get worked/dealt with at all? Yeah. Developers can't feed their children with good vibes.
It's Kingston DDR4-2666 (8x4) and I was just trying to run as is. I'm in the Philippines and limited in what I could get my hands on. No boot with 4 slots filled. I could only boot with 2 slots filled. I had to do 2 things. I set the RAM to 2400 and I ran CPUZ, took down the timings from the SPD tab and then set the lowest common manually in the BIOS. I'm now able to boot normally most of the time and the system is solid. Occasionally the system won't POST, but a restart solves that.

Motherboard is TUF B450M-PLUS gaming.
You can use a raspberry pi or a configurable router to grab telemetry packets and kill them. Also you honestly want to take the quality updates (security and minor bug fixes) every day someone figures out a new intel exploit and you really want to get the patches to fix those. The feature updates take forever but Microsoft announced they will only push a feature update once your OS is approaching EOS.
I own one and it's ok. The overall size is nice for portability, but the only thing it has over my iPad is a keyboard. For actual laptop use cases (doing work), I much prefer my 13" MBP (and when I was a developer, it was a 15" MBP).
You are supposed to design your UI based on general principles ("three vertical blocks", "list of elements with a label", "text with paragraphs", etc.) and let the user agent lay it out as it wants and accept whatever result happens, and not attempt to test or micromanage it to get a preconceived result.

At any rate, HTML layout is determined by the spec barring rare bugs, so you can design something that lays out exactly how you want regardless of browser, except that you must decide and specify the layout for any possible width/height combination.
Since real dollar wages are stagnant or declining for decades, with recent changes in minimum wage laws either barely correcting or not correcting this disparity, how can this be nonsense? How can decreasing real dollar operational costs (wages) be an increased cost?
To block noise, without blocking light. See for example [0] (in Budapest, Hungary), where the house would not get much light during the day with a solid barrier and it's also kinda depressing to stare at a wall immediately in front of your window (even a busy road is a better view). (Note also the bird stickers.)

[0] http://iho.hu/img/kozut/111004_kaotikuskoki/zajfal.jpg
Is that in the "anti-facebook list"?
Rising Seas Will Erase More Cities by 2050, New Research Shows
A suburban area that likely expanded because of 1950's highways that bored through the downtowns of cities, displacing thousands. Streetcar Suburbs, predating car oriented development, are way more walkable and not car dependent.
I constantly tack "-pinterest" on to the end of Google searches...
This "experiment" might be somehow related with https://tsunamidemocratic.github.io ?
"Fake" accounts still allow behavior tracking.
In the era of static linking (golang, rust), sure, why not.

These days getting dependencies and the right version of the runtime is considered a harder problem.

I personally feel like the world is wasting a huge amount of memory because of this, but have to agree that distributing apps is hard.
By thermal noise, they don't mean the temperature going up and down with CPU load. Thermal noise comes from atoms jiggling, where the average kinetic energy of an atom is proportional to absolute temperature. If you put a sensitive-enough amplifier across a resistor passing current, it will detect individual electrons emerging from the maze of charges they just went through. It is very, very random.
From my very, very brief reading on the subject, I would look up discussions of the historical accuracy of the battles (particularly the more ancient ones). It seems that in real life, battles would typically take _much_ longer (an entire day), with breaks, small skirmishes, etc. The idea that each unit could be directed in coordinated, rapid, precise, and decisive movement with one unit throwing itself wholesale into the other and either obiterating or being obliterated does not really reflect reality.

I hate to give such an uninformed perspective on here (where expertise is valued so highly), and I hope people will correct me if I am wrong. But skepticism, assuming it's not blind and unchangeable but to ensure accuracy, is usually a good thing.

Still some fantastic games, though. Wonderful, very satisfying and engaging tactical strategy.
ctrl+f "capitalism" 0 results.

Come on now, your cognitive dissonance is showing. A few comments mention it without explicitly implicating it. We all know damn well this is exactly what can be expected, and predicted, with (modern) capitalism in the drivers seat.
I'm a little confused by the delivery only cars like Nuro. Logistically how would the package be delivered once it arrives at my apartment...? Would I have to be home and physically grab my package from the vehicle? If there's a human assistant who needs to drop off my package to my doorstep then is there really any cost savings over a regular driver?
Yes, but being feminine seen as something “bad” for women (which I thing was mlang23’s point) is much, much more recent. (I understand that women were seen as “inferior” due to some of those “feminine” traits. But I think they were insulted if they were not feminine enough, more than for being too feminine.)
Nobody forces academics to work for low pay. I mean, that's what I'm doing right now and I certainly don't feel exploited.

> Then there is literally decades of over promising on ground breaking discoveries right around the corner (super symmetry, extra dimensions, dark matter).

Suppose all TeV-scale colliders had been defunded in the 90s, including the LHC. Then we would have forever been stuck with the strong suspicion that a Higgs is there, but no proof, along with untested but plausible-sounding well-motivated speculation over what else could be. Is that not worse than actually knowing?
> get to inherit the experience of the 70-year-old they're replacing

A lot of 70 year olds should not be driving.
> Does the general public appreciate this or is it just the case that people get into their cars or board planes, etc, thinking "nah, it won't happen to me"?

I think the average person recognizes the risk tradeoff. Though I suspect a lot more people worry about planes than worry about cars, even though planes are statistically safer. Guessing that is probably due to a combination of speed, gravity, and lack of direct control over the plane.
The part where a human driver would have hit them. The dark video I just googled myself isn't any proof of that, it was on a road with at least sparse overhead lights and the car had headlights. The poor quality video is not equivalent to human eyes or something adequate for driving a car. There was no reason to downvote me.
PG&E’s Aging Equipment Puts California at Risk
>Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural.

This is absurd. Man in nature has no house, no car, no money, no tools, no storehouse, he can eat only what he can catch, kill or forage for. Everything we have in civilisation was built by people working hard to escape the poverty and brutality of nature.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Bill_of_Rights

These ideas aren’t new. The idea of taxing the wealth even more is ALSO not new, and we already have tried it and had it fail. (France has tried this, as well as other European countries, with usually disastrous results).
The card is still under your name, the application will pull your credit report, and you're personally liable for the debt.

However most major banks (with some exceptions) do not report business cards to the credit bureaus unless you're in default, so it's possible to carry large balances without any impact to your credit.
original comment said "why would I prefer a driverless taxi if an electric car with a human driver costs no more?" Which would not seem to be talking about a scooter.
The brain-dead obvious response to this is that Jeff Bezos isn’t hiding his money under a mattress. He’s (directly or indirectly) investing in ventures that employ people anyway, and the mechanisms that allocate his investment funds are possibly better at producing productivity returns than e.g. having several thousand people eat out one extra time per month.

There are reasonable responses to the above but nothing about these discussions appear brain-dead obvious to me.
Yeah but then you have different problems.

Hundreds of authors on each publication. Whose contributions are real and who is just cruising?
I was going to say the same: I've used clusterssh and similar in the past, but these day I am using Ansible for doing those tasks. Primarily, the task I used it for was doing OS updates across the fleet.

Now I do "ansible-playbook dist-upgrade.yml --tags prod" and it takes care of:

- Running on a subset of hosts at a time.
- Pinning my own application packages so only the OS packages are updated.
- Removing from the load balancer.
- Doing the updates.
- Adding back into the load balancer.
- Waiting for the server to go healthy in the LB.
- Unpinning the application packages.

I'll say: I use Ansible a lot, so I've become more comfortable with the "using YAML as a programming language", but I don't disagree with you there. It works, and you can become comfortable with it, and it isn't as bad a fit for configuration management as the base statement would make it seem, but there are things that it's a bad fit for. In particular, the looping, especially with notifications.
Well keep in mind, to a cash strapped individual that "minimum required payment" line is very attractive. a $3k loan can turn into a decade of "minimum required payments" that sum to well over $3k without even touching the principle owed.
I didn't read to the bottom, but just in case this wasn't mentioned: UGG was funded by a government grant, Film Victoria, specifically for game companies to "produce a prototype or full game, and marketing and related expenses"

https://www.film.vic.gov.au/showcase/untitled-goose-game

edit: I mention this as interesting trivia, not as in, "Watch out, Untitled Goose Game is a front for the (Australian) feds"
in the limited set of universes where time travel (of at least information) is possible, would you agree that in such a universe at least the optimization step could be centralized? the goal setting step should of course still derive from the public (with or without also utilizing future information, say comparisons by the public)
That was my first thought too but seems the dates are between 18 and 21 november. If they wanted to track the current widespread protests in Spain, they would have done it right now.
Micromobility is dangerous. Want go check injuries per mile stats?
Indeed, flight and space have applications, which is why they (completely justifiably) get more funding. People seem to forget this, but the space shuttle alone was funded over 15x more than the LHC was, and by a single country rather than many.
I guess it's like hotels. Any cheap roadside hotel will give you free Wi-Fi, but the expensive luxury hotel will charge you $10/night for the pleasure (not sure how true that is anymore, it was a couple years ago)