skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Until it starts burning, or should I say smoldering. Then you can think of it as a multi-ton slow-release toxic gas grenade.
Actually, there's this really neat network called Arweave which solves this permanent data archiving problem quite elegantly. Then, you only have to pay one fee upfront and the data will be there for a very, very long time if not forever.
The minimum commission fee of $1 still takes a large byte out of that though. (Commission fees being in addition to FBA fees)

That minimum commission fee is the reason you don't see anything on Amazon for below $6 (unless there's some weird accounting going on for the seller). Above $6, the fee turns into a percentage and is easier to manage.

That fee is also the reason you'll often see packs of 3 or some item when you only want 1... it's just not profitable to sell the 1 at a reasonable price anymore.

As an aside, the SNL program doesn't get all the same benefits as FBA. In some cases you don't get the Prime badge, and in other cases you're an "Add-on Item" to get free shipping for the buyer.
I've wanted to visit Montreal my whole life but this comparison makes me want to avoid it!
"We were concerned it would further inflame this situation" feels like a really, really weak justification. It doesn't even try to claim that there was an actual problem with the post.
I'm surprised there's no mention of Kirk Sorensen. He's one of the most effective Nuclear Energy advocates of our generation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kybenSq0KPo
If you think RDBMs can't horizontally scale you have not kept up with the developments :)
Look into https://docs.citusdata.com/en/v8.3/get_started/what_is_citus...
"Everything is relative so nothing is anything" doesn't solve climate change. Everybody is wrong but some people are wronger.
Fantastic and a bit surprising considering the recent composition if the court. Wonder why this was allowed to continue so long?
https://www.holloway.com/s/syllabus-b2b-sales

Maybe this is helpful for you
It is worth noting that BART chose to do something similar for its extension into San Jose, and now the deadline has slipped from 2026 to as late as 2030.
The only people who can copy a $100 bill have "the license" to do so.

The only people who can copy a show to show it to you have "the license" to do so.

When you disregard the license put in play to govern the content, you're stealing from the people who protect their property with licenses.

Even in the open source world, respecting the terms of a license is important.
I'm pretty suspicious of the idea that most companies have data that is too big for a non-distributed environment.

I do think that most companies log lots of data in different places without much thought or structure, and as a result need a "data scientist", who spends most of their time simply aggregating and cleaning data that can then easily be processed on a single machine. ie: they spend 10% of their time doing statistics.

Maybe I'm wrong, but the above is how all the data scientists that I know describe their work.
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That sounds like the sort of thing that could be fixed by educational material.

A little methane from the back yard is still better than landfill. But the math for commercial composting vs amateur might need some scrutiny. Transport to the composting facility should also be part of the arithmetic there.
if err != nil {
panic()
} on virtually every single function call gets a bit tedious.
I'm not seeing how this recovers from the failure scenario where a worker grabbed an event and then immediately crashed.
It's interesting that movement delay rather than just movement speed is important to feeling "correct" to people interacting with it. It never really occurred to me that a humanoid thing reacting too quickly would be unnerving.
How many software engineers genuinely work on interesting problems?

How many spend their days rolling Yet Another CRUD App(tm) gilded with the latest fad?

How many "solve" the same problem, over and over and over, with only a small twist--different platforms, different languages, different architectures, different industries, etc.?
100+ levels of nesting implies nothing about the size of a JSON file, just that it's an extremely niche use case. OTOH almost all JSON files are 202+ bytes. Couple that with the title and it just leads to confusion.
In my personal experience, “Amazon-level logistics” is just about the least reliable way to get anything to show up on time.
Reverse fuel cells aren't magic, though. I agree that 80% seems rather ambitous...
The FBI and private companies have tools to track Bitcoin transactions. The FBI brags about the capability often. I'm sure that in most cases it is hard to follow up on because the malicious actors are in other countries.

https://www.chainalysis.com/
https://www.elliptic.co/
Wheres sytse? Normally he and his GitLab fake accounts are immediately jumping on every HN thread with Gitlab in the title trolling people with up-/downvotes, but today he seems to be very quiet.
tl;dr : The Kruger-Dunning effect is most visible in the upper-management circles, where politics and charismatic talents are necessary skills.

Former engineering powerhouses like HP, Boeing, and IBM slowly get hollowed-out into incompetence when it’s assumed that Engineering and technical skills don’t require a considerable depth of knowledge and experience.
Or learn a little French, which is extremely not at all hard.

I spent a few days there and by the end of my time was conducting the entirety of my simple shop purchases in French, despite not having studied it before.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21482975. That one was posted later, but got a lot more comments and is still on the front page, so I guess we'll treat it as the main thread. It seems like the Reddit post adds more information, too, though I can't tell for sure.
That really depends on the neighbourhood.

Some typically french lower class neighbourhoods have xenophobic francophones, but in the last 15 years they have moved off the main island or in the far east boroughs (Riviere des Prairies, etc.).

If you're on the actual island of Montreal, it's unlikely you'll face any problems for not speaking French. I've known dozens of people immigrate here speaking only one language and adapt fine.
I'd argue this is a pitfall that languages can and should solve. There's no reason why writing a naive recursive descent parser should cause this problem. The fix, using a separate stack data structure, is telling, since it's the same algorithm, with the same space complexity, you're just saying "my language's call stack isn't a usable implementation, so I need a different stack." Why not just fix the call stack?

In languages like rust/c/c++, this might be hard, since you can't grow the stack by moving them (since you'd need to update pointers, which are too visible in those languages, and even identifying a pointer at runtime is undecidable), and segmented stacks cause the "hot-split" problem.

But most languages could just make this problem go away by growing the call stack when needed. A few of them (incl. Haskell) do. I'm following suit in a language I'm working on.
Superbly researched and written article, looking forward to reading book with some trepidation. Makers & Takers is a terrific sobering read too
> driving prices to rock-bottom

No. They've been driving cost to rock-bottom - not price. It's margin they're after.

Their 'dynamic pricing' is the biggest issue. It's completely opaque to everyone except Amazon's algorithms that want to maximize margins/profit.

E.g. frequently items will be at some discount level one moment, but then based on some trigger (e.g. increased views) it leaps up. I've have many cases where I found an item on sale - sent the link a friend and by the time they go look (sometimes just minutes later) the price has jumped.

Look at camelcamelcamel and see the wild price graphs - and then understand that Amazon doesn't even share many of the intraday price changes with 3rd party services.
Granted, SQL is an extremely useful skill for programmers, but there are use cases (e.g. front-end dev) where it's not required.
There's nothing cool even in an abstract way if you're discrimminating people based on race and heritage in a public way. It's called racism and bigotry and the more public it is the more disgusting it is.
You're not wrong. Especially since, http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2019/10/31/th... "The Ghost of Libet Returns"
Facebook’s financial and publicly given business info is available online. One of the most valuable and profitable companies in the world that is still growing revenue in the double digits per year (and unlikely to end in the next two years) is anything but dead.

FB did $40B, $55B, and ~$68B in revenue for 2017-2019. Instagram has done ~$4B, $7B, and ~$15B for 2017-2019. Almost all of that revenue are from ads or other services via Facebook.com itself. And then Instagram.

FB barely monetizes two of the three most dominant chat/messenger apps in the world - FBM and WhatsApp. WhatsApp is closing in on 1.75B monthly active users. FBM is closing in on 1.5B monthly active users. Both targets should be met in 2020. FBM has Facebook in its name. Not to mention the billions of active users Facebook and Instagram (well 1B+) each have.
> That result is pretty weak statistically and the phenotype is vague.

As one would be expected from GWASes with current sizes and noisy measurements. Yet, that's very different from 'never'.

> Yes it passes GWAS threshold but a lot of associations do that are later found to be false positives

That's not true. Genome-wide statistically-significant hits have excellent replication rates, when calculated properly.
Moby Dick can be read aloud in 24 hours (well, at least experimentally closer to 26 -- we just did it! it's super fun: https://maritime.org/events/mobydick/ ). I've read it (silently) in 12. However, I don't agree with the assertion that reading a novel requires that rapid pace to fully enjoy it, though I've personally found that I'm unable to resume reading a novel on my Kindle the way I am with a physical text.
There's a small portion of chronically homeless that don't want to be in any systems though; whether it's because they are paranoid, have a criminal history, have a debt or potential of, etc.
So he keeps a list of the "dumb stuff" he has said... and yet continues to make disingenuous and provocative statements to rile people up and then make a big show of people getting riled up. There are conservative commentators, writers, and philosophers who offer genuine dialogue and substance. Yet, Ben Shapiro is lauded by the right as a thought leader for inciting outrage, and profiting from outrage. It seems to me that the problem is that we hear mostly from vacuous outrage inciters. The irony of Ben Shapiro is that he deliberately provokes emotional reactions, and then with a straight face claims that he reveres facts above all else. Spare me the bullshit.
China builds all of it's large infrastructure projects like high speed rail for about a third of what it costs in the States. It might be regulations and bureaucracy accounting for that difference, but it's not specific to nuclear.
The Valentine’s Day Text Message Mystery
People are not only powering up their "macbook pros" to watch netflix. Try to run steel mill or any factory on batteries, solar or molten salt, even decent size server farm is not going to run well on solar or wind.
I know several companies, including one I've worked for before, with very strict no company property laptop or phone policy for entering China.

Issues were mainly related to IP and data sovereignty.
> fewer than 25% arrived within two days; more than half arrived in about three days and more than 15% arrived in four days

Those numbers are for delivery speed. Not percentage of deliveries that are late relative to the date promised to customers when they made the purchase
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Very likely the image was taken using only one MVIC filter (it has seven according to Wikipedia) [1] and is hence monochromatic.

Since this is near sunset and hence very dark, maybe they chose one of the panchromatic filters to admit as much light to the detector as possible.

Another possibility is that researchers didn't think there was any scientific value in capturing the image through multiple filters and rather saved the limited on-board memory for some other data.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_(New_Horizons)#Specifica...
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It's really interesting to have seen a language launch, develop and evolve over the last 10 years. Back in 2009 I'd just started my career, and while I've been mostly doing Java development professionally, I do a lot of Go stuff in my side projects.

Long may it continue!
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I'm not entirely sure why you're being downvoted, at the very least downvotes prove your original point... A lot of console games do this intentionally, and various console SDKs have special reboot modes to support it. It's falling out of favor in support of games that are architected for streaming, but they still kind of do the same thing internally (free a large chunk and start loading a new one from disk). It actually seems like a valid approach for back end services, especially if those services are mostly short lived and have quick start up times. It's a hard thing to do with a lot of the runtimes most web applications arr built with, but might be a valid approach with Rust or Go. I've heard people doing similar things with Erlang/OTP.
> Homelessness is not going to be fixed till it is addressed at the federal level.

lol - it can't even be fixed at local levels where there is very close and local pressure and you expect it to be fixed at the totally remote and abstracted federal level?

Want to fix homelessness and many other problems? Let go of this "two party" BS and stop voting people back in who change nothing or allow problems to continually worsen.

It's really that simple. Until politicians are going to be held accountable and know that just because they have a D or R behind their name they can't take your vote for granted, why should they worry or care about opinions expressed in threads like this one?

People might actually have to pay attention to what's going on around them, though. People currently not in "the game" might have to get out of their comfort zone and get involved. Perish the thought.

Insanity - doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different result. As the old comic strip Pogo once opined: "We have met the enemy and He is Us".

Enough blaming other people or expecting some other fair godmother in the sky (ie. "federal level") to wave a magic wand and solve all our problems. It isn't going to happen and to expect otherwise is truly irrational.
Nothing is Beyond Their Reach
No, it's not true in general, but in this case Xcode 11.2 had a bug that would cause crashes in apps built with it. 11.2.1 fixes the issue.
Without a doubt, C has "lost" nothing, because it barely changed. And most of the modern code written in it still has mostly the same style as in the nineties.

I guess about C++ you are comparing pre-C++11 era to post-C++11 era (because C++14 and C++17 were more minor, and even for the most part a kind of finalization of the C++11 spirit). And I consider you thinking C++ has lost an "opinion" is merely _your_ opinion (how meta :p ), which I don't share at all: C++ was always kind of multiparadigm and like it or not but people attempted to do all the modern stuff even with pre-C++11 core language. It sometimes did not end well (first smart pointers...), and/or it was just annoying to miss some features, like variadic templates, or again there was missed optimizations (now permitted with rvalue references and move semantics). SFINAE was abused and let us write great things at compile time at the cost of truly insane syntax, but now there is some work to let write that kind of thing less insanely. The core language basically evolved to let what people were already trying to do actually doable with somehow sound results and/or less boilerplate/hacks (not statically nor dynamically checked in tons of cases, though, but that is another story).

Very old C++ was also very often POO heavy, in the Java/GoF sense/spirit. Some people detest that (myself kind of included), so I'm glad there is something else to do in modern C++ than creating SingletonFactory classes, that kind of insanity.
> They may have to restructure their pricing and penalties, to avoid the perception of bias.

They don't need to avoid the perception of bias because they're free to run their marketplace however they want. They have absolutely no obligation to look out for anybody's interest except for their own.

But, FWIW, it totally makes sense for them to have different rules when the third party merchant fulfills orders. Amazon and merchants selling on their platform have different incentives. Amazon cares a lot about their customer experience and has an extremely long-term perspective on customer satisfaction. Many third party sellers are either 1) incompetent, or 2) actively malicious. As a result, Amazon has to structure incentives accordingly whenever they let a third party seller handle part of the customer interaction.
I disagree. If it can be built, it can be known, top to bottom.

Not everyone may want to know all the gory details, and nobody wants to get called on to explain it, but it can be, and should be done as a matter of course.

The issue is that the industry will kick and scream to keep from being held accountable to providing the customer with a way to be able to parse that information, and no one wants to hire people to document, because that isn't seen as positive value creation in today's corporate climate. It won't ever be short of a legal requirement to do so. That legal requirement will be fought tooth and nail on the basis of wanting to continue to protect trade secrets.

Nothing keeps a device from having it's actions fully elucidated except an unwillingness to abolish information asymmetry.
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The threat of getting broken up has certainly limited Microsoft's options back then. They could have bought Apple outright if it hadn't been for that threat. So no, it wasn't just some media player thing that stopped them.

But I actually used Microsoft as an example for a situation that resolved itself largely without government intervention, because I don't think the threat of breakup was decisive for their failure to capture the mobile space (or the web).

It did take an awfully long time for Microsoft to lose its suffocating dominance though. Many entrepreneurs and inventors who tried to compete on merit were crushed by Microsoft or never got started. Lots of consumers paid far more than they would have if there hadn't been this near monopoly.

Facebook's funding early on is not the point. The point is that MySpace couldn't have used the strategy that Facebook is using today to rid itself of competition, because MySpace was a financial dwarf whereas Facebook is a financial giant.

>If Facebook does “monopolize” social media, it is both because people chose to congregate there and if Facebook doesn’t meet the need of people, they will go somewhere else...

Yes, and that other place will then be bought up by Facebook.

>The last thing we need is more government power.

I agree that we don't need more government power in general. But we do need governments to play the part that only governments can play and play it effectively. Markets sometimes become dysfunctional and governments need to fix that using the powers they already have.
Much of the speed of stenography comes from using macros, and macros should be available in any decent editor without needing the use of a steno keyboard.

For example, both vim and emacs have snippet or template plugins (ex: yastnippet, snipmate, ultisnips, xptemplate, etc) that can be activated with a short keystroke and which then expand to whatever code or text the user desires. Then, depending on the features of the snippet/templating plugin in question lots of other advanced behavior (such as selecting items from a menu, activating sub-snippets/sub-templates, etc) can be activated. No need to use a steno keyboard for any of this.
> But it is ultimately a dualistic concept. In whatever context we happen to be talking about, either the will is free or it's not [...] where is the line along that spectrum? And there has to be a line - either the will is free in a given context or it's not.

I disagree. This is a very... I want to empirical... view of things. Everything must be black or white with no grey in between? Lines are drawn by the human mind, which we must always remember is highly biased, limited, and fallible. We should strive to remember that extremes and hard lines are very rarely actually useful.

> I think these systems that supposedly influence our every behavior are situated somewhere in between the two extreme contexts you mentioned; they are not quite elemental forces of the universe, but they are also not quite part of the everyday immediate human experience.

So I think from this we actually agree.
The best practice would be to replace it with something simpler and more elegant.
I can tell you I know a number of people who pay for Netflix/Amazon Prime/Apple TV+/Hulu/HBO/etc and then turn around and pirate the same content because watching it though Plex/other is simply a better experience.

And frankly, I 100% understand where they are coming from:

1. What platform was I watching show X on?

2. Oh Platform X removed show Y? Well it's also on Platform Z but now I can't remember where I was in that show.

3. Oh, every Platform has a different UI/UX? Great...

4. Internet slow today? DDOS against Platform? Guess I'm not watching anything

5. Oh that's right, Platform X only work on Set Top Box A or B but not C... Guess I'll just watch this on my Phone since I can't get it on the TV

6. Going on a flight? Going to be without internet? Don't want to stream it on cellular? I hope Show X is on a Platform that supports offline watching.

7. Paid service != No Ads, you've got to deal with Hulu's BS and/or pre-roll or self-promotion crap

I know Apple TV is trying to address some of these issues and so is Amazon Prime Channels but it's all a Russian nesting doll of terrible.

All of this stands in rather stark comparison to using Plex/Emby/Jellyfin/etc:

1. All my content in 1 place

2. Content never removed except by owner, track show progress across all clients easily

3. Constant UI/UX even across platforms

4. If you are local there is no lag, remote will depend on your own internet

5. Apps for almost every platform (Phone, Web, TV, Tablet, Gaming Console, Roku/Chromecast/Fire stick, etc)

6. Offline sync options

7. No ads, no pre-roll (unless you set a custom one yourself)