skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Full-scale redesigns require more than a ton of capital to build the new plane. It will cost your customers a ton of capital to buy the new plane and change their entire setup (pilots, mx) to use the new plane. The airlines want new jets even less than the manufacturers want to pay to design them.
I have much longer lists of issues for Mac, Linux, Android, iOS and Chrome but I still use all of them because the benefits outweigh the problems.

What platform is perfect?
https://ulysses.app/ does this well. Also not open-source, but still, a very well made app
> We knew that their future was purely dependent on a self-driving car fleet where they could ditch drivers (and their pay) completely.

I've never really understood this.

Their drivers do more than just drive, don't they? They also supply the cars, and deal with maintenance of those cars. If Uber switches to a self-driving fleet and ditches human drivers, who will own the cars?

If Uber owns or leases the cars, Uber will have to be dealing with maintenance. I suppose they could go to a model where people who have bought self-driving cars can let Uber use them when the owner does not need them, but then Uber has just replaced paying a zillion drivers with paying a zillion self-driving car owners.

So, assuming they go with the model where Uber is the one handling maintenance so they don't have to have a zillion pseudo-employees I don't see what would stop other companies from doing this better.

If Waymo wanted to go for that market, for instance, they have better self-driving technology, and could probably get integrated with the Google Maps app that is already on everyone's phone so they wouldn't have to convince people to download anything. Sure, Waymo doesn't currently have, as far as I know, anything set up for managing and maintaining a large fleet of cars...but neither does Uber.

Or what about the car makers? Many of them are working on self-driving, too. I could see some of them deploying self-driving taxi fleets, with maintenance handled through their dealers. This could become a new sales channel for them--new car to their taxi fleet for a couple years, then sold off as a used car which the buyer can be assured was well maintained and still has a good warranty.

Imagine your self-driving Audi/BMW/Mercedes/etc taxi dropping you off at home at the end of the day, and then presenting you with a report showing how much you used the service over the last year, how much it cost you, and how it would have been cheaper for you to have your own private self-driving car, and offering to sell you that very car. If you accept, the car drives back to the dealer, gets cleaned, inspected, tuned up, and drives back to your place to be waiting for you to take ownership the next morning.

In summary, owning and operating a fleet of self-driving taxis is sufficiently different from what Uber does now that I'm not sure that Uber has any particular advantage over anyone else who might want to do so, and might even be at a disadvantage, so I'm skeptical that this is their future.
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All evidence points to nope.
The American Society of Civil Engineers gives our water infrastructure a “D.” That’s what I mean by “doing awful.” Poisoning kids with lead is one particular problem, that’s actually fairly common: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lead-in-americas-water-systems-...

Safe Drinking Water Act violations are rampant among municipal water utilities: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/city-new-york-comply-federa... https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/12/climate/drinking-water-sa...

The trillions of gallons of water lost to leaks is another piece of the puzzle, wasting a natural resource due to poor maintenance.

Municipal sewer systems are another huge problem. They release enormous amounts of untreated sewage into waterways each year, because municipalities haven’t invested in capacity and rainwater separation: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/09/ameri...

There are isolated instances of successful municipal broadband, but hardly enough to say that the concept is “successful.” (We have some municipal cable systems on the eastern shore of Maryland. They were good at one time, but underinvestment has resulted in speeds falling behind over the years. Underinvestment is the same problem that plagues municipal water utilities.)

Most successful broadband networks around the world aren’t municipal services. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/10/uk-slips-...

Our privatized system does pretty well, doing better than France, Germany, the U.K., and Italy (which together have half the EU’s population). Most of the top countries, like Singapore and Norway, similarly rely on private companies. Part of Sweden (Stockholm) arguably has a municipal system, except it’s not like one that would ever be politically viable in the US. (The utility is publicly owned but not politically operated. They built out based on revenue potential and demand, not mandates to cover everyone. Imagine a US municipal utility that covered rich neighborhoods first and took 20 years to get around to wiring up poor neighborhoods.)
I’ve used both VSCode over RDP and VSO and in my experience VSO is smoother.
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Movies for the large audience must always entertain, but you can entertain different ways. It's hard to describe what the 'Cinema' way is but it's easy to recognize when it's absent.

Here is a short list of things that make blockbuster movies not Cinema:

1. CGI and the visuals are technically pretty, but coming from the same standard tooling or pipeline. You can recognize that it's just more of the same. Examples of something creative: The Fifth Element (1997), Immortal (2004), Sin City (2005), Tron, ..

2. Action scenes are made from standardized sequences, postures and phrases. 5 minutes of action rarely matters for the plot and it's not fun to watch.

3. Dialogue and characters are extremely stereotypical. Power fantasy with some jokes and funny lines.

Some movies are just a part of a format. It requires talent to stick into format and not bore the target audience. Just provide what they want better. Changing director does not change the overall format. Directors are the to perfect the execution, not create something new.
Many (most?) consumer level machines have soldered RAM these days. They may or may not have an available expansion slot.
Many users won't know how to disable Spectre and Meltdown mitigations. They will be active by default if the user installs all the latest updates.
I object to the word "steal" being used to describe Adam Neumann's actions. He did not take anything by force or deception (as far as I know). If I take a piece of dog shit, spray paint it gold and sell it as a bar of gold, you could argue that is "stealing" (or at least fraud). If I say "this is a piece of dog shit that I spray painted gold but I am selling it for the price of gold" and an adult of otherwise sound mind accepts the deal, that is not stealing. What Neumann did is more like the latter scenario.
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I dunno, but I wouldn't read too much about employee sentiment into this.

Say you have $150k in savings and $x million in Uber stock. Any competent financial advisor is going to get you to diversify out of Uber. You'll miss upside, but prevent that $x million from potentially going to zero based on the actions of just one company.

Also... goodbye sf housing market :(
..but some are more [obviously] misleading than other.
Isn't Uber an obvious transportation company?

Isn't AirBnB an obvious hospitality company?
Also not even test cases for such simple code.
Not if you designed a benchmark for your special requirements.
Did you read the article you linked?

You have a very uncharitable interpretation of Sir Berners-Lee's comments. He's railing against walled gardens being poor stewards of user data and having nonexistent data portability (as well as telcos violating net neutrality.)

Relevant then and even more relevant now. I see nothing about him wanting Facebook to enforce publicly-published profile data.
"After President Barack Obama expanded the program, limited-service convenience stores began moving into neighborhoods where low-income people already lived, in order to get some of the $68 billion spent through SNAP every year."

https://psmag.com/social-justice/to-save-a-neighborhood-ban-...
It’s not a bad idea. A randomized IP address at each connection would break many things on quite a few networks (IP-MAC static assignments, for instance).
Does this work with OSX? Its 5 years since the last update...
Programming Windows 5th Edition by Charles Petzold, still commands a price on eBay for its Win32-centric program development strategy. IIRC 6th edition used C# .NET and 7th and 8th went all in on UWP.
...what's $631M - $621M?

I agree that they're losing money overall. But just the ridesharing part is making enough profit to cover the entire Corporate G&A line item.
They've been taking biometric samples from millions of Afghanis [0] and Iraqis [1].
Wouldn't be too surprised if those ain't the only countries where US soldiers collect that kind of data.

[0] https://www.wired.com/2010/09/afghan-biometric-dragnet-could...

[1] http://archive.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/20...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZT-wVnFn60
Weird, it works on my computeur. Maybe a network security settings ?
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“Reality distortion” mindsets are kind of important for launching a startup or doing something great. It’s sort of like Vicodin for managing the pain/stress. Good, maybe necessary, in the short term, but easy to abuse and get addicted to the delusion and go full Don Quixote.

Unfortunately, you can see large consequences when it’s not given it up.
What is "gypsy code"? I first thought you were referring to a library or some kind of platform, but that doesn't seem to be it. The only definition I find of gypsy is that of the people. Maybe you're saying that it was written by a Gypsy, but I don't know why that'd be of interest.
That’s not even close to jaywalking. Bad example
A more general learning we can take from Passivhaus building techniques is that habitable buildings should be designed to work in conjunction with the natural environment they inhabit, like they used to be before the era of cheap fossil fuels. But such site and solar-orientation aware design isn't today part of the practice of building mass produced homes, and absent forces that push that industry that way, things aren't likely to change.
Yes - a feature of the editor is that it shows a file list panel for the directory the .md file is in. I'm not seeing that as "We're a notes app"
An app I made in 2014 that scraped the entirety of information available through the Graph API (things like conversations and where your friends party), and printed it into a spooky NSA style booklet: https://github.com/some1else/Edentity
I guess we're better off with Phoronix then, as they're more independent, and benchmark with a myriad of different compilers and OSes (I'm not aware of any software on my Linux AMD64 machine which was compiled with ICC).
> For example, if it runs on the latest version of Python, tell them to install Python.

The example given here assumes that the latest version (of Python) at the time the readme was written is the same as when it is being read - I think it's far better to be explicit about what version it was developed for/with.
> In many places around this country and around the world, franchise films are now your primary choice if you want to see something on the big screen. It’s a perilous time in film exhibition, and there are fewer independent theaters than ever.

I can't agree more with this. 5 years back I remember taking a chance with little known movies that was playing at the theatre near me, like Mr.Turner, watching it with my wife and walking out of the theatre completely moved by them. There is magic in that big screen format. But now all that runs at the theatres near me are one Marvel movie after another. They're not bad; but none of them are truly memorable. None of them leaves you with a sense of profundity that Scorsese or Clint Eastwood movie does.
You can sell your company and still retain an ownership interest. If you owned a company and data access was critical to profitability then Facebook has a lot of leverage to "encourage" you to sell: you can either own 100% of the company without access to the data or own 10% of the company (or whatever percent Zuckerberg was generous enough to allow you to retain) with access to the data.
Threat analysis is an important, but it's really a small part of Symantec's operations as a whole. (and that tech can be relatively easily licensed and/or purchased)

Sales, marketing, strategy, partnerships, product development, support, legal and compliance -- much of the rest of the company, will be vastly different for B2B vs B2C.
Depends what field you want to do - some universities have a particular reputation in particular fields.

Cambridge for astronomy would be one example.

And I recall back when I started work there where only four or so good UK Uni's to do Compute related degrees at.
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> It’s not as though he hurt anybody.

He didn't? He didn't hurt his employees, his investors, his contractors, and so forth? He didn't hurt the the tech space (WeWork is not a tech company, but they're widely perceived to be) by reducing even further what little trust it still has?
> Building a tool to manage data labeling and training for finetuning object detection models would be very valuable.

Something like recaptcha?
fraud and stealing are different things
If it is as your say why would you object to Mark Zuck being personally liable for all content posted on Facebook? If anyone slanders anyone else and his platform publishes and disseminates it, why should he not be considered responsible?
Exactly my sentiments. Every time I use a different OS - any of those that you mentioned - I find tons of things to complain about that Windows does not suffer from. At the end of the day, most of these operating systems are awesome. But they each have different strengths and weaknesses.
That’s why I said this has been an issue for decades.
Can any light be shed on why Firefox support is lagging behind?

Releases like this, even in the preview phase, hurt Firefox adoption because people will go to try it out, see it doesn’t work, and think “welp, that’s another website that won’t load. Might as well just switch to Google Chrome”.
I was thinking on buying a land in the UK and buy a prefab/kit house that cost about £2000-£3200/sqm . Did you consider that option? Why did you reject it?
Maximizing ‘bang per bit’ to achieve state of the art results
There's often a long lead time between writing up benchmarks/white papers and publication. At my last employer it could take well over a month to let everyone have their 2 cents and get through Legal for approval. This is a long enough interval to explain the old/new GROMACS usage.

As the saying goes, don't attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity (including corporate bureaucracy).
> I'm going to bet that he has several months of hard reflection about life

I really, seriously doubt this. He's laughing all the way to the bank.
Does Gab embrace bigots, or simply not remove any legally permissible content? I was under the impression that it was the latter. If it's the only place where unsavory content is not removed, then of course that stuff will be over-represented.
Volume is extremely important.

The 90-day average volume for Uber is ~10-million shares per day. Lets pretend you knew that Uber was going to drop today (last week). How many shares do you sell short?

That 10-million average is ALL market trades, buying, selling, etc. etc. If 10-million shares were short-sold, it'd take a full day to cover all of those shares (based on average volume). There's only so much trading activity that happens at any given moment in time.

Well, what happened today? Uber is now up to... (check's Yahoo finance...) 95-million volume, and counting.

Huh. Well, I guess you could have sold more shares short last week. But given the 10-million share 90-day average volume, there was basically no way to predict 95-million shares traded before noon come Wednesday.
In the US, we already have a two-stage voting system for many contests. It's inelegant, and requires people to show up twice, but it's not entirely unlike an alternative-choice system already. So I suspect that people who have pinned a lot of hopes on a different voting scheme will be disappointed.

I believe that New York's local elections tend to be dominated by one party, and thus there is only one "real" election that occurs back during the primaries. It will be interesting to see what effects, if any, it has there.

But at the larger levels, where we have primary and general elections, it seems to me that it might increase rancor. Instead of hammering out inter-factional differences at the primary and coming together for the general, you end up fighting both your main opponent and somebody with whom you have substantial overlap. Both of them have substantial incentive to be negative: despite voter complaints about negativity, it often wins elections.

In the end there will be only one winner, and it may end up being the one who is best capable of keeping allies in line rather than reaching out.
User should not use IP addresses. This is what we have DNS and mDNS for. In special cases, like local router if mDNS is unavailable, IPv6 address is even easier than IPv4 (compare "FE80::1" to "192.168.0.1").

Anyway, it's not like it's a choice unless you want to restrict who deserves public IP and who doesn't, because we do not have enough IPv4 for everyone.
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Masayoshi San I assume is not a fool but I also know that people have weak spots and can be manipulated.
Can we buy a list of colleges who are buying these names? Only seems fair. It'd be an interesting data point to know which schools aren't so desperate.
Help me ask why you didn't just
Like Hertz and Avis and Budget aren’t already established brands in the fleet financing, servicing, and dispatch business.
> 600 mph

Probably better to use km/h, especially for space related coverage.
Communication platforms are absolutely as important as electricity and roads in today's world. And like it or not, Facebook has a near monopoly on certain classes of communications.
> If you were in his shoes, would you go back and do things any differently?

I wouldn't have been in his shoes, because I have a shred of decency.
> No effort to make other chips perform [...] worse is expended.

I don't know about nowadays, but it used to be that the intel libs and compiler would specifically disable SIMD instructions if they found that the CPUid returned a non-"Genuine Intel" string. Doing nothing - and just relying on the CPU feature flags - would have been more fair.
To statistically show skill in investment it takes a whole lot more data than the human mind assumes, so this is a common occurrence in the world of finance. John Paulson, who became famous as one of the fund managers to make a killing shorting mortgage backed securities, lost 50% in a year (much of it to Sino Forrest, a Chinese fraud) a couple years later.
Taiwan is the exiled government of China. Taiwan doesn't call themselves Taiwan but Republic of China. For mainland China I prefer communist occupied China
I literally looked this up last night for personal interest. Allegedly Texas A&M will do it for $800. A whole genome sequence for a human. https://www.txgen.tamu.edu/new-novaseq-pricing-25feb2019/
>If this very comment had been about some unrelated topic...it would be right for the comment to be censored from this discussion

By that same logic, we should censor your comment, because this article is not about filtering bot/adspam from small niche forums; It's about mass censorship and manipulation of organic political opinions on platforms with billions of users.
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I feel like you both have good points. Yes, a lot of the variables are very ML specific and often called that way. However, I feel like that encourages the same researchers (who are obviously not software engineers) to give the rest of their variables sub-par names as well. Why would you give any variable a name longer than a word even, if so many you regularly encounter are just `w`, `u`, `x`, `hparam` ... and so on.

I'm a software engineer with a background in ML, so even though I somewhat know the domain language I still get mad at the blatant disrespect for PEP-8. That being said, this one is definitely one of the better codebases I have come across. This feels like it could be fairly easily worked with and understood. I have seen far, far worse code to go along research papers.
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> Most people out here are sweating medical bills in the low $10,000's, while the news is talking about billions being gained and lost in the span of a few weeks - so fast it makes you wonder if that amount of wealth really even existed in the first place.

If people lose confidence in the system because of that it’s because they can’t multiply. Billionaires are very rich compared to middle class people, but there are very few of them, and lots of middle class people. Elizabeth Warren’s new health plan will cost $50 trillion over ten years. Middle class Americans make $8 trillion a year, compared to about $130 billion for America’s too 400 taxpayers.[1] Confiscating the total wealth of every billionaire in America (about $3-3.5 trillion) would pay for Warren’s health plan for well under a year.[2]

We spend way too much time worrying about the wealth of a small group of people that, in the end, doesn’t add up to that large a fraction of total wealth or income. This is, in my view, the biggest reason why America can’t have nice things. Over on the other side of the pond, they don’t worry as much about figuring out how to tax billionaires. Because they know that, in the aggregate, it’s the middle class that has most of the money.

[1] https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/returns-taxpayers.... Rough proxy for billionaires.

[2] https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/10/03/forbes-400-a.... Top 400 billionaire have $3 trillion. Another 220 billionaires not included, but due to the cut off they have at most another $600 billion.
I think you're referring to private valuations
This is a debatable topic. The generated code could check cpuid and use whatever instructions are available but AFAIK it would check the vendor instead and not use SSE/AVX on non-Intel processors that support those instructions.
On OpenBSD:

# echo "lladdr random" >> /etc/hostname.athn0
How is it possible to make that determination after the crash ...?
Whatever the companies/brands are, we'll still see app-dispatched taxis, at least until such time as door-to-door self-driving shows up--which IMO is going to be a very long time.

It's true that prices probably go up relative to where they are today which presumably reduces the demand and makes these services less viable in less dense locations.
Uber is taxis without regulation, nothing more.

There are other apps comings, and there is regulation coming as well.