skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you know the first one that sat around already had bad cellular health and that's why he was less active?

Likewise, maybe the latter had great cellular health and it enabled him to be more active without feeling awful.
Yeah so changing capabilities at runtime is essentially dynamic typing, and here I'm suggesting a (IMHO safer–you don't have to deal with mutation and its weird effects) statically-typed alternative to that.
My favorite, Jack says people can just re-tweet articles and news from popular accounts. Then twitter bans these popular accounts. Wait a min....
> The best terrible option

Well sure, but build systems are hard, so that's still success in my book.

> And this managing build file tooling is public

No, but neither is the language analysis stuff you suggest I build instead, and claim I'm incompetent if I don't do.

Yes, I get it, you have complaints about the tool. That doesn't make what I'm saying less correct.
No it's not. It's because people like to just pipe it into same request framework, get a json object and then later do base64_decode(json["binaryobject"])
instead of a separate http request to do binary transport which it can already do.
Seems like the right move. Personally, I think we are reaching the edges of what we can reasonably expect from social media companies. If a politician is lying in their ads, is it up to a social media company to decide the truth or well informed citizens to decide fact from fiction? In some cases the easiest way to win is not to play. Hope Zuck gets the message.
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I've thought a lot about this, having worked at some of these companies with both good and bad quality. The best conclusion I can come to is whether or not the executives use the technology on a regular basis.

At eBay, the execs didn't use the platform much. In fact, when I worked there, they had to give us a $10 credit just to get us to use it (and then stopped when the users said it wasn't fair that employees were bidding with someone else's money).

At Facebook/IG, the execs use the platform often. At Netflix the execs use it pretty much every day. At Twitter, you don't see a lot of executive use.

You can even see it at Apple. The quality on MacOs has been falling, quite possibly because all the execs are using iPads and iPhones as their daily drivers, and rarely using laptops.

I think in the end it boils down to visibility to people who can affect change. Either your execs need to use the product often, or the engineers need to be empowered to make changes without exec approval (or both, like at Netflix or Facebook/IG).
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What radical changes would you like to see?

I don't live in Paris but I may be living there in the years to come.
If everyone kept their free dynos up the maximum amount of time, that limit would probably be a lot lower.
ok and what does all of this looks like when you're not comparing it against a race drone?
Parent comment makes a good point I think, in that the Mavic line has never been geared towards "race drones" so comparing/judging those models based on a certain category that they qualify themselves out of is kind of moot.

I'm in the market for a drone at the moment (eyeing the mavic air over the mini to be honest) for holiday type shots, all this racing stuff is pointless as far as I'm concerned.
I can't figure out based on your comment whether the wind will screw a wide shot or not, it might not make it through a circle, but i'll never get this drone through this sort of activity anyway.....
Maybe the idea is that as soon as you're detected to be sleep, a driver from some company gets alerted and takes over your driving until you wake up.
We don't have to "miss it". Let's just share it. There are many corners of the internet away from the spotlights. Let's just share some links, what are they ?
What defines a political ad? For example are prolife ads political, even if they mention no laws or politics? What about ads that do not mention politics but are targeted to influence policy? Seems like an ambiguous category except for outright promoting particular candidates and laws.
I generally agree. I've taken to appending "reddit" to many of my search queries, because flawed though it is, reddit is one of the few places you can read an actual human thought. It feels like nearly all content on the internet is some de-personalized corporate "content marketing" blog at this point. Just give us your email address and we'll send you a PDF (and a drip marketing campaign.)

I think the old internet went away because it was more profitable to create a walled garden distribution channel than it was to develop a syndication protocol like email or rss. I honestly don't see any way around this.
He has a few videos on Numberphile:

On the Fields Medal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp3sgYKULp0

On his wearing of decorative lapel spiders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq4REVI30Qc

Beauty vs Utility: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xopM9BFjcNo

On his office: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeLpkCZkWfc
> I would've liked it better if it forced tabs, that way you'd have one tab for one indentation level, and everyone could choose their own preference of indentation.

The problem with this is that in many code bases, you occasionally need spaces to align code/data in different lines to make them more readable and easily inspectable, e.g. within a long parenthesized expression spanning multiple lines. In that case, indentation tabs require nontrivial gymnastics, whereas spaces are consistent.

The files should always contain spaces - because behaving as if spaces are tabs is round-trippable even when every user uses a different setting. An editor could en-tab on load, de-tab on save, and everyone is happy (though I'm not aware of any editor that does this). If the file only has tabs, the converse "de-tab on load and en-tab on save" does not give you the same alignment flexibility.
Wouldn't Trump's tweets fall in the category of "political advertising"?
Twitter can just follow Facebook here and let public/journalists evaluate the truthfulness of the campaigns vs. doing it themselves (as that is open to interpretation). If print media and TV channels can do that, why can't social media?
I'd argue that in this case, intention is far less important than the outcome.
Yeah but is 1:1? Or do batteries really require more care, relatively?
If politics works like it is said in "The Prince" (ie. Machiavelli), then I do not see any easily transferable skill set from renowned mathematician to politician.

Except for game theory maybe?
That article doesn’t prove your point. It faults PG&E (and other utilities by the way) for delaying replacing steel towers and instead upgrading substations. Why is it picking? Both are capital investments, and doing both at the same time would result in a larger base of invested capital and thus a larger profit. Why didn’t it do the thing that would make it more money?

There is a real irony to denouncing a company as being profit motivated, but then articulating a theory of what they did wrong that is premised in them leaving money on the table.
IF google and microsoft came to an agreement over what people where allowed to email, it would be pretty interesting to see if most people just accepted censorship on private communication. To an extent they already do so, in that they block spam at their discretion. Do you respect that same right for google and microsoft to ban the propagation of pro-political-opinion-you-dont-agree-with from their platforms?
The UK is infamous for its ruinous libel lawsuits against people who dare to say true things about the rich and powerful. It was so widely abused that the US ended up having to introduce a law blocking our libel suits fronm being enforced over there.
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A NLP text interface basically for everything I interact with either on a computer or my mobile. I doubt I'll ever use a voice based tool like Siri or its' equivalents, but I'd really like to type in commands I'd like to issue rather than click around an UI.

It feels error prone and isn't always very accessible as I'm motorically a bit challenged although definitely not disabled.

I simply adore applications that let me invoke commands through text like the command palette in vscode or Sketch Runner in Sketch. This is also why I'm a heavy CLI user and spend a lot of time customising my aliases and work flows. I'd like to extend this outside of the terminal.
I'm totally fine banning all political ads, let's do it!
> GPL is transitive, so does that mean all software in the Tesla becomes GPL?

Not necessarily.

> If not, please explain. GPL has no linkage/classpath exception

It does exclude aggregation; not all software delivered in a lump with GPL code is necessarily part of the same work for copyright purposes, and therefore for GPL purposes.
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The actual article title is…

UK ads watchdog slaps Amazon for UX dark arts after folk bought Prime subs they didn't want

… which was too long for the submission page.
When I think of the old internet, I think of Usenet before the Green Card Lawyers spammers.
This can be very bad globally. In countries with totalitarian regimes like Russia advertising on Twitter was one of few ways to reach politically active audience in order to make people go and vote. It's literally impossible to buy political advertising anywhere since government will put pressure on anyone who make business with opposition.
creativity in ideas, not in representation
What about retired men?
well the vilification in the media certainly does not help, the amount men are bombarded with the message that they are source of so much wrong has to be overwhelming to many.

anecdotal nonsense, a few years back we went through a wave of new HR videos about harassment and intimidation and not one had a non male aggressor. it was so bad the women attending the sessions were mocking the presentation.

fortunately they canned that approach not long after after the poor reception.
Its an extremely large company, so that matches up :)
An interesting comment that I've seen repeated and voted to the top of any post on reddit regarding the Gates-Epstein association is something along the lines of 'Gates is too aloof and nerdy to be interested in the wares that Epstein was peddling.'

I've seen it many times and it has always struck me as the kind of spin that PR firm would write and disseminate.
HR policies are often most influenced by consideration of salary size.
This sort of post is a recurring theme here on HN, and in some ways I do sympathize with the sentiment. But I seriously believe that today that "independent" web is actually much bigger than it was in the olden days. It only seems small because of the illusion created by the hugeness of the non-independent web. And of course it is not clean binary option of independent or not, instead it really is more of a spectrum of independence, which further confuses the matters.
On older DJI Phantom drones you could ssh into the drone and pump the video into ffmpeg or wherever. I think they became more proprietary and locked down so I don't know how easy this is to do nowadays.
So you agreed pricing and licensing is not clear? If still not, here is the source https://upperedge.com/knowledge-center/documents/oracle-podc...
As for the patents I don't have a source quickly available.
Pricing and licensing are already bad enough.
If I sell java based software, customers have to worry about licensing from Oracle. If I sell SaS I have to worry for what and how to pay. Those factors are big risks.
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Convicted terrorists have said that Gitmo and warzones are better than this place. It's also very used to "high profile" prisoners, like El Chapo and accused terrorists picked up in Somalia and transferred back here.
Software that isn't linked with GPL sources probably isn't GPL. If it's just the linux kernel and busybox, then probably all the interesting userspace software isn't GPL since it wouldn't be linked.
Poll HN: Which tech bro “gets” you?
Glad to help. Which one was it you wanted to know?
I think OP probably means the stuff going on at StackExchange and Gitlab. It's not companies that want you to be outraged to increase profits, but rather community members that want to gather support for change in the platforms they frequent.
This is funny, because as I recall only weeks ago AAA had lackluster reviews about these same features, likely with the same cars. Consumer Reports seems neutral, which is to say having the feature is probably better than no feature but not a silver bullet.

https://www.consumerreports.org/car-safety/pedestrian-detect...

https://www.consumerreports.org/car-safety/cars-make-progres...
Precisely that.

A more relevant example might be something like my web-facing software, `bitcoin-top`, which I release under the AGPL.

https://bitcoin.esotericnonsense.com

You are free to copy the source code and run it on your website, as a part of your website (e.g. link to it on a subdomain), etc.

In that case the matter of whether you have to offer the source is kind of immaterial - it's the same source I'm offering and have mirrored at least 4 times, and in this year 2019 we don't need to be shipping CDROMs about.

I don't believe that your statement:
* If you don't modify the AGPL program, you don't have to offer source.
is strictly correct, rather that it's simply the case that if you don't modify it, you're already offering source, you can just point people to my github or whatever.

If you modify it and serve a different version, say a litecoin node monitor or you tweak and improve it or whatever, you must release the source code because our software would be licenced under the AGPL.
> Because they are not outside of, they are part of. The rest is a made up fantasy which a bunch of nationalists have used to rile people up, create a "common enemy" and a "them vs us" narrative and gain power for themselves.

No, it's just because they can. They are strong enough to do it.

Pro independence movements are orthogonal to nationalism.

> This process is absolutely not new and has caused terrible harm throughout history, yet here we are in the 21st Century, seeing Trumps and Brexits and all this bullshit again because we don't fucking learn.

I am sure Norway is hating that they split from Sweeden.

> The democratic means for eventual independence are HARD and SLOW because they HAVE to be. You should need a lot more than a loud voice and a molotov cocktail in your hand to push more than half of your presumed co-citizens out of their country against their will.

That's exactly why pro-independence Catalan movement has been asking for a referendum.
> the best way to find them is through links from similar small websites

That's also a property of the "Old Internet" though. Discoverability has always been a problem for smaller entities. It's why every fan/personal site in the 90's/00's belonged to a half-dozen web-rings or link-list sites.

> it's getting increasingly harder to find them

It's getting harder to find them because most content creators have moved to platforms. They don't want to deal with all the complexities and annoyance of running their own site and dealing with the discoverability problem -- they want to focus on creating their content. I'm also a fan of the personality small self-created/run sites can have, but it's not what most creators want to do.
According to levels.fyi, the highest paying job at eBay is about the same as a slightly-above-mid-level engineer at FAANG, so yeah, you're probably right.
Huh, similar story here. The nuclear department on my carrier needed to produce this monthly report for training hours that would take them a ton of manual effort. There was no budget at all for any kind of automation but Access was on every machine.

I know what I'm doing with databases. I never want to use Access if I don't have to. But it has the enviable property of "no server administration required" which meant that we could backup the DB to a shared drive and people after me could modify the thing without being a DBA.

The amount of time that database saved really is mind-boggling.
and stay-at-home Dads?
CI configs should be documentation
Will Complexity Kill Kubernetes?
At a least keep up with inflation in order to have future value?

I'm almost didn't write this because I didn't want to deal with the "why do we have to grow" responses.

If you are a single proprietorship then go nuts. Do what you want. If you take investor money you are an investment, and you are legally obligated (at top levels, via fiduciary obligations) to operate things to generate return. That's also why you have other corporate structures like B/public interest corps, mutuals, credit unions out there that don't obligate growth.

Apple has to grow because it's public Delaware C corp. Or they have to return cash so owners can invest it elsewhere. Or the owners will fire the executives, or shareholder groups might vote for takeovers that offer greater returns. I'm not defending it, but explaining it.
>No, it isn't wrong; guilt by association is not a civilised concept.

When it comes to courts, absolutely.

When it comes to making a judgement call (and also associating with people), it's expected.

You make a choice who you maintain relationships with. You can, and will be judged by the choices you make.
I would, simply because he had attempted once prior to the completed attempt. That said, it is super fishy case.
>>What defines a political as?

It's like porn: hard to define precisely, but you know it when you see it.
yep, the whole "who decides on the truth?" thing is extremely irritating. Do we throw out every court case now because apparently it's impossible to determine what is fact and what is fiction, or to establish common rules or guidelines for conduct? We've been doing nothing else for thousands of years.
This is interesting. I haven't experienced the type of performance reviews you mention, but I can see how it might happen.
In my experience OSS teams can do a great deal. I think it's impressive too.
Some of these issues extend beyond such narrow groups. Office hours as a concept are easily one of the weirdest and most confusing things ever because they simultaneously encompass at least two entirely different disharmonious concepts. Are they (a) time set aside so those who need significant help can get it without disrupting class, or (b) time aside so students can chat and schmooze with their professors?

The reality is that they're portrayed as (a) while really being significantly (b).

And this can be very confusing, unless you come from a self-centered elite worldview where (a) and (b) aren't highly differentiated.

"Why does everyone both tell me to go to office hours like it's it club, but then make it sound like it's for people who don't understand the assignment? If I go and understand the assignment won't it just be awkward?"

You definitely don't have to come from a poor or disadvantaged background to find the whole thing difficult to figure out.

The whole concept of "discussing your grade" is another overlap. People from a certain strata do this constantly and it's a perfect example of something bluring (a) and (b).
That would be a big problem for religion and indeed science. Religion is largely based on faith so cannot be 'true' or 'false'. Science is based on theory. Scientists may disagree as to what is true.
Thats hilarious. I did something similar with comms equipment on my first deployment to Iraq, because as a lowly little E-3 I wasn't going to let some $80k piece gear I signed for disappear, and then pay for myself (although that was extremely unlikely anyway).

It ended up being useful enough that some folks up at division copied it and used it for tracking all of the laptops they were signing out, along with the paperwork, which you can't escape regardless of where you are.
> As a partial defense of the Ivies, a substantial part of their admins are trying to do that, and there are signs of progress: admission at most of them is now "need-blind" and they have fantastic financial aid.

And it's feel-good. By the time you're at the point of applying, it's too late.

The damage was done with bad elementary schooling regarding the fundamentals.

The damage was perpetrated during middle school. At-home school projects was just a selector for how much the parents made.

The damage was revealed with "You're a bad student", or "You should consider vocational programs".
I find people don't want to share these. I can understand to a degree as I've seen good communities go to hell once the "normies" show up.
You gotta be shitting me...
Telemarketers who fake their phone number are just practicing free speech. /s
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Facebook has a public database where all political ads are visible to anyone. Media is free to report on them.
Yes, we need to clear certain streets for primarily bus usage. This recently happened on 14th street to humongous success. The hope is this can extend to other heavily-trafficked routes in the near future.
While currently Catalan separatism is a non-starter there are issues in the areas that they claim as theirs as the Valencians consider themselves separate to the Catalans.

It is the nesting doll situation of splinter separatist groups.

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

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

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

Ultimately reminds me of the Monty Python skit from the Life of Brian - The People's Front of Judea:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WboggjN_G-4
It looks like the developer tool you see in the browser. Strangely retro futuristic.
- The verbosity is easily addressed by using an IDE which providing smart folding, highlighting, etc...

- Editing XML is actually a lot easier than JSON. Thanks to XML schemas, completion works really well in XML and very poorly (if at all) in JSON.

- Also, XML allows comments, which JSON doesn't.

- You don't need `findViewById()` in 2019 and haven't in a while, really: there are plenty of alternatives available (synthetic accessors, Kotlin, ButterKnife, etc...).
Oh I realize that they wouldn't ban my ad. I'm saying that the heuristic you suggested isn't quite nuanced enough. It seems like this move will create lots of controversy and actually make political advertising on twitter more fraught (because it will still happen, but just not above-board). This may end up being a net negative for society if it pushes things into the seedier underbelly (gaming twitter's algorithms so your tweet pops up in the ICYMI section, buying followers in order to appear more influential, etc.).
It's not that hard. The UK (and I believe most of Europe) has heavily regulated political advertising. Politicians can't advertise on billboards here, and TV slots are strictly regulated (and time-limited). I'm not entirely sure what criteria are used, but it seems to work reasonably well.