skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's supposed to evoke these things, along with the the rest of the company's branding and messaging. Whether it does (or even can) is a different question but the idea behind this wooly-sounding stuff is not that the designs inherently have or create things like 'empathy'. It's a way to guide the design process and evaluate the designs. If a designer came up with an FB logo that uses the Doom font, the other people working on branding can look at it and ask 'Does this evoke empathy?'
> I didn't notice the A being bent outward until it was pointed out either, but i did notice a sense of informality and friendliness in the mark, and that comes from details like the A being bent.

I don't doubt that a typeface as a whole can convey an emotion (through pre-existing associations with the font), but I'm highly skeptical that the tiny tweaks in a novel context on display here can actually do that.

For the record, I didn't pick up on any feelings of "informality or friendliness" when I saw their new logo, and I still don't.

But maybe this stuff is a private design language the graphic designers and typography fans share between themselves (e.g. bent lines == friendly), which they've convinced themselves is generally understood when it's not.
I have some memories of the Cell processor, none of them fond. That beast was the hardest thing to program I ever saw. It made the first generation Xeon Phi's look like a dream.
It's not a real problem that Bitcoin solves. A single transaction costs multiple weeks wages in one of these less-functional countries (and wastes as much power as it takes to run an average American home for 20 days). They have social problems that need social solutions, not magic beans that live in their computers.
Does the JVM use assembly for this? I’d expect writing all of the VM code that handles Java objects in assembly for each platform would be a bit difficult, and I’m not sure I saw enough assembly files in the project for this…
The Gap Between Large and Small Companies Is Growing. Why?
http://archive.is/dQ4XL
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Responding to this specifically:

>We've never had communications platforms so centralized
Money is designed (by central banks) to depreciate at 2%/yr. Most erstwhile "durable" goods depreciate at a faster rate. Your house certainly does. Heck, taxes and insurance alone are almost 2%, before you even look at physical depreciation, which is generally estimated to be at least 1%/yr.
(Speculative assets like the land it sits on might appreciate far more to compensate, however.)
Nature can help solve optimization problems
US campaigns doing it is, while still bad, is vastly different. One is an issue of sleazy election campaigns. The other is a matter of foreign interference with a country's fundamental sovereignty.
Do writers memorize grammar?

Presenting memorization as "learning" is a crippling effect of the limited ways to measure results forced by the accounting needs of the school system.

Memorization is not understanding and is a very small fraction of the possibilities of learning.

So, no, of course we don't. We use the language, use the reference when needed, and little by little, use it less for the beaten paths of our particular use.
What you shouldn't use is server-side cursor, which you create with DECLARE in PosgreSQL.

That entirely depends on the DB. Oracle for example always executes with a server-side cursor; all declaring it does is give you a handle to what it was doing anyway.
’Tis the Season for Surge Robots as Holiday Hiring Finds Automation
It depends on your time frame, really. Most people I know do a dollar cost averaging for long term savings and their return over the years beats a whole lot of alternative ‘safe’ asset classes.
Where's the right to forget?

If someone takes a photo of my driver's license and posts it on their website, does their right to communicate (and remember) override my right to have that photo deleted?
GIAC Sans & OSCP certs are legit, in the security space - as much as any cert is legit in any space. OSCP shows that you are hands on, can find legit vulnerabilities and writeup findings.

Sans does some of the best security education broadly available, but it's very expensive.
HP-UX always felt old. It was like everything stopped at some point and they didn't keep going. Did they decide if they would port it (again) to x86 from Itanium. I know they ported NonStop already.
It's a matter of configuration and getting used to it. I got used to Windows from Mac OS pretty easily once I switched full time, ymmv.
Great new version of Marty which has some cool new features like the ability to do position, tilt, proximity & force, and a built in speaker. Impressed with the shaking hands too!
I agree, which is why I went with a System76 laptop. So far it's been great and I've been enjoying the 32GB of RAM.
> I’m thinking maybe of plugging the clock in at exactly midnight.

Good plan, but unfortunately you’d need to be able to set an alarm to know when it was midnight.
Just because someone disagrees with you while bringing up a pretty compelling point, they are definitely a shill.

Also, I believe your comment is in violation of the guidelines: "Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken." and "Don't be snarky. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."[0]

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
A/B tests imply that people have different opinions.
Indeed, I don't entirely disagree.
LN requires an on-chain transaction to open a channel and another to close a channel which means it'll take 70 years to open a channel for everyone on earth and then close it once, assuming the blockchain does nothing else. If an intermediate node loses power all your channel money is locked for over 48 hours. It's also not even Bitcoin and could work just as well with any other cryptocurrency or probably even dollars honestly.

Then of course there's the features people actually want like dispute resolution, the ability to charge back, and so on.
Detecting Gmail spam is a wildly different problem than detecting paid shills on a forum.
>The personal transportation industry will go through the biggest change it ever has in the next decade. Bigger than horse + buggy -> automobiles.

I'll take your bet on that one. The difference between having to keep an animal alive and in useful physical condition and maintaining a model T or A in roadworthy condition is far, far greater than the difference between one source of motive power and another.

I think your overall predictions are generally right but your timeline is too aggressive by at least half an order of magnitude.
Design in 2019: CAPSLOCK
Museum of the Future: The Building Designed by an Algorithm – BBC Future
Don't you only have like a 1% chance of getting into YC? Not knocking what you're saying, just pointing out that getting into a solid MBA program != getting through YC. I feel like getting through YC means you're already good enough at the business side of things to at least come up with a viable business model.
No you don't. No one is pushing to break up Basecamp, or LinkedIn, or even companies that have actual documented histories of anticompetitive practices, like Oracle. I haven't even heard much chatter about breaking up Apple, altho that might ramp up as they move farther away from hardware into services and other areas. The conversation centers around FB, Google, and Amazon, for reasons that are unique to each of them.
I'd like developer laptops to max out at 2 GB of RAM and have really slow single-core processors. Then I wouldn't be subjected to software written for machines with 64 GB of RAM and the latest high-end Intel processor.
I suspect that part of Uber/Lime/et.al’s pitch to municipalities is to provide them greater visibility how people move through the city to help inform long-term planning.

Which would necessitate this data exchange is price they pay to operate in the city.

I also trust that cities are getting more sophisticated and if LA said that data exchange is their price for doing business, then good on LA for knowing how the dataset could benefit them.
Before non-Linux people jump to conclusions from your reply: Intel GPUs work just as good (if not better) as in Windows. They are the best solution for a non-gaming laptop.
Electric vehicles have been around for over 100 years: https://www.energy.gov/articles/history-electric-car
Aha, you're right!

Is the desktop version of chrome not in the app store? Maybe not.
the nature of capitalist competition means that in the long-term markets will consolidate.
Lightning network is limited to the liquidity offered by channel operators. What is the current situation like?
No I mean it is an option available to avoid undefined behaviour, not that this is what the JVM does.

But moving more of the implementation of the JVM (or all of it!) to Java is the real solution to all this in my opinion.
Let they whom has never purchased something on the internet while intoxicated throw the first stone.
The issuer and arbitrator are, if not the same entity outright, are so far in bed together they should be common-law spouses. Let me explain one of 2 possible outcomes based on socioeconomic factors.

A) you have money to keep a lawyer on it; No problem.

B) you don't have money for a lawyer; Tough shit.

Nothing beyond real unilateral enforcement of the system already in place is required.
I've heard of experimental classes before, where instead of a normal grading rubric that includes tests and homework and grades out of 100%, you effectively start at 0% and you do rpg like quests/tasks to gain experience points and "level up" to your final grade.

I think if one has a statistics class that's aimed at giving people better statistics literacy it would be a remarkably good fit for a gamified interactive curriculum using an in class currency to make bets/predictions!

You could earn currency the same way you do in games, completing mundane tasks you really don't want to do, like having every homework problem you successfully complete give you a few gold. This incentivizes studying and the effort adds some real emotional value to the currency you wager later.

You could have a whole final fantasy style rpg underlayer where currency is used to buy armor/weapons to make you stronger and help you fight bigger monsters for more currency and advancing in the "game" with the ultimate goal of amassing enough currency through your activities to "buy" your A in the class or whatever.

Then you could have the meat of the class be in lecture scenarios where everyone is presented with a situation that's implicitly meant to test your knowledge of a common gotcha in statistical literacy like base rate neglect in a live statistical simulation. You get to watch as your characters are subjected to "rolls" of the dice that determine their fate based on if you chose A or B. Do you believe the wizard with the diagnosing spell with a x rate of false positive/negative who says you have disease such and such with a y incidence rate?

It's just the basic base rate neglect fallacy scenario, but putting people in a situation where they're incentivized to care about it and rewarded for getting it right.

And by doing these simulations live in class it makes for a lot of spectacle and fun with everyone getting to gamble on these scenarios and then get to see the results play out in real time with all the suspense that gambling normally entails.

You could even have group scenarios where the entire class has to pick option a or b as a whole with everyone's money collectively on the line, and have a heated discussion period where different parties are trying to explain why the class should choose a or b. Imagine being the sole voice of reason trying to valiantly explain to your class how base rate neglect works with everything on the line!

This just seems like such a natural fit to me, and I'm really excited thinking about it.
Breaking up Microsoft absolutely helped their competitors, but not in the PC software market. There was a time when Windows tightly integrated Internet Explorer throughout the operating system to the point that using a different browser was a hassle (and would never be done by their general audience). Microsoft subverted and contorted as many industry standards as they felt like it as they attempted to turn the internet into their own walled garden right from the start. The antitrust rulings that were made undid the clamped down version of the internet that Microsoft was trying to build. I highly doubt consumers would have somehow been better off the last two decades if this ruling wasn't made.
> The real conclusion he fails to make is that between Android, Chrome, and Google Search, there is a total monopoly on navigation for the vast majority of the Internet.

I thought that was his conclusion (basically).
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Thanks
Like cannabis?
Is there debate about this on the Chinese net? I'm curious because I don't know, but I imagine having a debate where people can genuinely criticize China would be difficult to conduct in the face of censorship and legal risk.

I ask because my experience across the Western net has been seeing lots of debate. This thread is a good example. I only see Chinese netizens appear in huge angry voting brigades, spamming threads with proclamations, denunciations and flimsy claims.

So I genuinely wonder; does vibrant and open debate take place somewhere? How/where could I see what such debates look like?
This may be the wrong answer.

That feeling of empty pointlessness is because SOME drive is not being satisfied, but it might be completely unrelated to having children.
And fees are significantly lower.
I love it when the mass media cry because they are no longer the only ones who can manipulate people.
Why Music Makes Us Feel, According to AI – USC Viterbi – School of Engineering
"Setting aside that these are not the CO2 emissions from "burning ethanol", do any of these "machines required for harvesting/producing ethanol" require a "non-ethanol fuel", or do they use that fuel for now just because it's convenient."

You can't set that aside. Consider the whole chain of production and usage or be consigned to a disingenuous selective argument upon the level of quack doctors. Plain and simple.
And where has that gotten them? Slow release cycles, unable to compete in mobile and now Apple alone sells more iOS devices than all Windows manufacturers combined. You create a compelling platform for users and developers will come along.

That’s what happens when you focus on developers instead of users. How much smaller would Windows be if they didn’t have all of these backwards compstible hacks? Hell, they had a half dozen different ways to define a string that you actively had to convert back and forth between just to call various APIs and that was back in the early 2000s. I’m sure it’s gotten worse since then.

You don’t have to make developers happy. Developers will go to where the users are. Where is all of the development energy these days? It’s definitely not on Windows. What makes developers “happy” are paying customers.

Microsoft has been trying and failing for years to produce a viable ARM laptops. Partially because of an insistence on backwards compatibility and all of the code bloat that entails. Apple transitioned the Mac platform four times since 1984 and created four successful ARM based platforms in the last decade.
University researchers develop computer model to design drugs for sickle cell
>They say that a broken clock is correct twice a day. This one can’t even manage that.

It's hilarious, but also sad.
Lots. Depends on where your interests are :)

* Do you like to really understand customer needs? Start focusing on UX/Interaction design

* Do you like to help the dev team to avoid critical bugs and you're feeling confident to delve deep into the domain of some product? Approach a quality assurance career or go into test automation

* Do you like to directly interact with customers, helping them overcome technical or product obstacles etc.? What about trying a customer support role?

I guess the main point is: find the thing you like, and sell it! :)
I'd be fine with a clock with a wi-fi chip, provided that it have a hardware firewall that blocks everything but Network Time Protocol, and include a USB port for business such as updating firmware, updating zoneinfo, or changing IP addresses.

Also, it might have been a gift from a well-meaning friend or family member.
Also the gift cards are likely obtained via illegal activity so a harder-to-trace transaction process is beneficial to the seller.
Pedantic but the wording would be, "The right to be forgotten".
I can't even read the article with the half missing "m"s and "n"s.
Yeah, we store PBs on https://omniosce.org/ and it's rock solid.
And humans are 1-3% microbes. Nothing stands alone in nature.
Do they? Retail is definitely subject to fairly predictable rush periods. All the while I was working at an electronics retailer, where my job was as much to educate or guide as sell, I wondered why we didn't have "sales hours" that were fully-staffed, and in between, some sort of remote assistance, where we would be on-call to help people out through video calls. When half your job is simply pointing people to items, why actually be there? And for the people who want to know about products, like the gentleman who wants to buy a full home theater set-up, shouldn't we be fresh and ready for them, not dragging after 8 hours of telling people where power cords are?

And, of course, we're paid the same or more, as we're making the company the same amount of money, if not more.

There is certainly room for innovation that makes sense for productivity AND for worker morale. But the people making the decisions are risk-averse and don't have to deal with the downsides of their heel-dragging.
It's a head shaker. My guess would be that people sincerely and carefully design one particular consumer-facing item put so much effort into that design that they expect other consumer-facing items to also be worthwhile. I wonder if the people who actually design this crap would buy it?
Game Programming Patterns happens to have a good summary of the command pattern which also deals with undo/redo:

http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/command.html
Lightning is worthless because it requires an on-chain transaction to open and close, so it inherits all the same scaling issues as Bitcoin.
I enjoy reading comments about Bitcoin on this site because the valuation of this 11 year old decentralized startup has a bigger than all of Y Combinator companies COMBINED, and people are still doubting if it's useful.

If you still think Bitcoin is a fad or toy, just wait until summer 2020 when the supply shock makes 2017 look like a blip.
>A PR person hired to promote ULA promoting ULA on reddit under 10 different pseudonyms: Completely unacceptable, this should probably be made outright illegal. The only purpose of using pseudonyms like this is to trick people into thinking you have support that you do not.

Isn't this how Reddit itself became a platform? I understand they had no traffic/users and the Reddit Platform was seeded with bots to post, comment, upvote, etc... This false illusion of a user base and community gave the platform the credibility it needed to gain real users.
Now do cars.
That's not true. More homes require more/better infrastructure (e.g. water, sewage, roadways). Infrastructure improvements cost massive amounts of money meaning tax increases.
Municipalities need to comply with state law. In this case, CalECPA gives California residents a number of protections with respect to location data collection by government agencies. Generally speaking, collection is allowed when either a warrant is used or a user explicitly consents. Trip data reveals information about your relationships, life style, and medical status, so getting this right is an important issue for user privacy and safety.

To read more about this, the nonpartisan CA Office of Legislative Counsel has published an analysis of how the law applies, which found that this type of collection does in fact violate CalECPA in its current form [1]. The debate will likely come down to what steps need to be taken to make the collection scheme compliant.

[1] https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/files/calecpa_dockl...
I agree. The alphabet-google structure was much more convincing (Though they maintained the GOOG and GOOGL stock ticker symbol) I think at this point, they should be distancing themselves from the "facebook" brand since its popularity is in steep decline, and instead should have re-branded their larger business and software development infrastructure under a new name.
> Any project with CI should recreate the environment a lot.

That's a very inefficient way to run your CI, with conda and pip alike.

Instead, you could build your environment once in a Docker image and use that as your build image.

Saves a lot of time on your builds, guarantees reproducibility, and will work even when package servers are unavailable.
How about "Users have the right to not use software that forces [...]"? I have a hard time agreeing with the idea that people agree to a ToS and then have a right to abuse the platform. Seems like that could lead to an inconsiderate/unsafe/unfair place for other people and stakeholders in that platform. I understand that anyone can do whatever they want whenever they wish and that it's up to the platform to battle "subversion" and misuse – but I don't believe it should be an indoctrinated imperative.

Ads are war. Just as a user has a right to avoid them, a content publisher has a right to try and push them on people. Cat and mouse game. It's not "abuse" when ads that cost users to view (bandwidth costs; attention-cost) are blocked or pushed on people.
Where I work all remote work was recently outright banned. Because one single person was found to be neglecting their work for years in favor of their second job, collecting two pay checks. Pretty absurd, considering that issue was at least as much the result of poor managerial supervision as it was unethical employee activity. I used to work from home frequently when my kids were home sick from school, it allowed me to put in at least a half day of work. Now, the work just has to wait, because unless there's an emergency I won't let myself be taken advantage of.
At one point, Roam supported importing org-mode files (my team actually asked them to implement it back in spring of 2018). The product vision has changed a lot since then and I'm not sure if they still support it, but if there's interest I wouldn't be surprised if they brought it back.
I tried to take a screenshot using Shift-Prtsc and I got:

double free or corruption (!prev)
Aborted (core dumped)

I will give you more details when I get the time!
It's absurd to me that this "Developer Edition" laptop can be purchased with, at most, half of the 32 GB of RAM that my 6.5 year old ThinkPad has had since day one.
#1 reason why people leave their jobs is because of their managers. A good IC will stay with a good manager, a good IC will leave instantly with a bad manager, and easily find another job (because they're a good IC, duh). So if all your good people leave, and all the not as good are left, then your team is gonna be in a "rut", and nothing you can do will stop that until you fix what was the real problem, replacing the manager that forced good people to leave. I've been on teams where all the good people leave, and the people who either hate change or don't have as many oppurtunities stay, but just do the bare minimum.