skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The question I always have is, who asked for all of this?

Do AI assistants actually make anyone's life easier? Serious question. I understand the novelty of shouting at your lightbulbs to turn them on and off, but it feels like that remains the epitome of the life-improvement that these systems can provide. I've never gotten a good recommendation from software outside of Pandora, which last I checked doesn't even use AI. I've never found a real use for Siri or Google Assistant. I briefly considered getting some Phillips Hues to go with an Alexa that I got for free, before stuffing the latter in a closet.

Please, for real, weigh in if voice assistants/AI suggestions have meaningfully improved your life. I'm genuinely curious.
Taking too much slack out of the rubber band
Reference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act
I imagine you don't live in the city. More and more of the merchandise at Safeway is behind lock and key (shampoo, toothbrushes, etc), and incidents with security detaining someone (who is often making a very loud scene) are not at all uncommon.

Regardless, I don't agree with your theory. It might work for a while, but as soon as people see other people getting things for free, and the prices they pay go up to compensate, they tend to decide not to be the suckers anymore.

I mean, look how quickly looting can start. Look at all the people willing to exploit loopholes in the system to cheat people out of money. Look at corruption in countries where it isn't effectively policed against. Look at how crime is celebrated in a significant amount of American culture (especially music).

And especially, look at how hard it is to make a buck by offering your software or music or what-have-you as "donation ware."

The reason people don't want to steal is that they have been in environments where, if they are dishonest, people eventually are onto them and don't trust them and otherwise "punish" them, even if just by social pressure and shaming and such. If they are in environments where this isn't the case, especially if they have been in such environments for a long time, they adapt to those environments.

Do you really think a grocery store would stay in business long if there was absolutely no tangible downside to just walking out without paying?
Eh, I thought it's about the Hundred Years' War where the kings of England claimed the throne of French and succeeded in taking half of France including Paris at one time.
That doesn't mean startups are meaningful.
I think that's because we're in the very early stages of a transitional period. The end goal is something like the Star Trek computer, free-form natural language queries ending in desired actions. I think this approach of filing off all the rough edges (namely, handling every possible unique way of phrasing a specific intent) is a dead end.

What we have nowadays is more like a voice-input command line, with all of the stiltedness and attention to detail when crafting your input that requires.
The author has been writing for the New Yorker for almost 20 years. He's probably pretty good on his own at this point, concussion or not :)

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/labourday/audio/20...
We will be adding a PWA and IOS app.
Its not so much difficult to build it ...

We just need some funds and Investment ! and copy the screens already in the android app.

In lot of developing countries android is dominant platform so we though we would start with android.
> I love math, but this is a programming class.

Sometimes you actually have to do arithmetic when programming. It's useful to teach people these sort of things so they don't cook up half baked solutions in the future.
CentOS / RHEL has UID and GID mapping backported from the 4.x Linux kernel which podman supports. You can run as root in the container and still be remapped to a non-root user outside of it. If you want a locked desktop combine that with Guacamole docker images.
>for privacy reasons

Passing just the subnet is not revealing your IP. IP reveal would have much bigger privacy implications.

Cloudflare's conflict of interest is what Archive.is is really protesting. More here: https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/135222/why-does-...
This is a joke with a real history—the Mulford Act was passed in California in the 1960s as a response to the Black Panthers arming themselves and patrolling the streets.

I would imagine this isn't the only example.
Wow so that course closely followed what happens in real life software development!
You are generalizing, but that general reasoning doesn't make any sense when applied to specific people and laws.

First of all, why are they not bound by the same magazine capacity limits? If more than 10 rounds are needed for self defense, shouldn't everyone in the state have that tool at their disposal (per Heller)?

Similar question about buying a newer model of pistol. Why would the 2019 model be crucial to keep a retired cop from getting gunned down, but forbidden to others? There isn't even a major functional difference between a 2013 glock and a 2019 glock.

And generalizations about how retired police somehow need their special guns and nobody else does are just not compatible with the notion of individual rights. I bet a lot of abused women are in much greater danger than an average retired cop. Who decides who the special groups are that get special privileges?

Fundamentally, a police officer is a citizen. It happens that their job is dangerous, and I respect and admire their courage. But it's also a position of power, and we need to keep that under some control so that we maintain trust. Arbitrary privileges erode that trust.
A lot of these regulations are at democracies because of citizens demanding data protections. I founded the company InCountry that's mentioned in the article. What you're seeing here is that countries are starting to regulate the Internet like they regulate everything else. McDonald's has to comply with a ton of regulations on food, employees, tax, etc. everywhere they are. But for the longest time, not how they treated consumer data.
This was a common occurrence in Sweden a few years ago, they would target small businesses by changing their address by sending in an address change, then take over the phones and then order a ton of stuff online for which they are never cought. It could go up to millions of SEK in debt before it was discovered by the victim, because invoice time is usually 30 days and credit score will be perfect until after the scam.

Since BankID (identity verification) became a norm, this has essentially stopped.
Scaling symbolic evaluation for automated verification of systems code
The biggest falsehood I believed is that companies care about writing quality code, and you will get to apply the rigor on the job that you learn at uni. On the whole, they don't really care, with some exceptions.
Here's a list of past/future times for this transit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_of_Mercury#Past_and_fu...

It looks like the next one visible from anywhere (but presumably not in the US) will be in 2032
Cashier apparently is here because is the substantial amount of people, who will steal if not watched, but won't take a risk of cashier will confront them or will call a police.
We are considering forming cooperative's of local vendors who will do all the management.

There will be multiple local market instance each managed by a separate cooperative.

There is no central management ... its a distributed platform !
Dear Franceso and others,
please stop writing "X is broken" when it is clearly not.

I don't see any point in reading an article stating something that is untrue, in this case Confluence which if it was broken would not have hundreds of thousands daily users nor a developer raking in cash from new licenses.

If you want my interest or click, say "How to make Confluence 2x better", "A better alternative to Confluence" and so on.

Because if you want me to invest in you or your product, don't start by lying to me. It'll only makes me question what else you are not honest about.
Hey could you give it another read? I've added a bunch more detail about what the product actually does to try and tackle these problems. Thanks for the feedback, I somehow completely overlooked the fact I didn't tell you what it did haha
If you have credit cards, you’re already building credit so you won’t need it.
> When seconds count, police are only minutes away

... to shoot you in your home.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-police-officer-sh...

But really, I never comprehend why police support civilians having guns since it just makes their job more dangerous.
Architecturally there's no binding between phone number and subscriber identity except at the very edge of the network, for the very smallest retail customers. There is a design to federate this binding throughout the ecosystem using a PKI called STIR/SHAKEN [0], but it's absolutely a hard technical problem to get that rolled out 100% without breaking things.

[0] https://transnexus.com/whitepapers/shaken-as/
> On Windows double clicking an exe file feels natural.

Isn't that just because the system is less structured in general, so you've been beaten into submission?

After spending years on Linux pretty much everything on Windows feels like it's potentially spewing ick all over the place (registry, arbitrary folders, etc, not to mention the lack of reproducibility)!
In Sweden you now require hardware identity verification which can only be issued by a bank or similar authority. (It also work similar to Venmo but without the fees)

It's odd that Canada don't have this?
Card is a Mormon. Not surprised that his fiction is dystopian.
Why do you need to know the decimal length of a number if not for display purposes? If you have one then make that the problem.

I wonder what would happen if you implemented itoa and then counted digits. It’s pretty much the same thing.
So your scenario there is a separate thread that doesn't generate or free garbage? Because if it does, there will be synchronization inside malloc/free and your thread will pause. Also the Swift compiler is unpredictable about when it will use the heap instead of stack, allocations are not explicit. So it might be hard to accomplish in practice.

I agree that this special case could be more realtime with ARC, but on other GCs such an isolated worker can be implemented as a separate program instance (separate process or separate VM instance in same process) that has memory allocation and GC disabled after init.

In the other cases where you keep whe GC on, I think the low-pause GCs of today should be suitable for tasks like computer vision in cars because the pause times are so short (sub-millisecond) vs the processing time for a frame. And the generally higher performance of non-rc GC should more than make up for it.
Yes its pretty much like that only ... there are multiple local market each self-hosted has their own server ...

And they connect with Central API for user login purposes !
> Hospitals still use fax because it is a much more punishable crime to tap phone lines which requires physical access

Punishable, sure, but that's CYA thinking. It's less secure, because there's no way to encrypt fax like you can encrypt email. Punishment doesn't help anyone except the CEOs, unless, of course, it was the CEO's information that got leaked.

Also, yes, phone calls are sent over the Internet just like emails. The big difference is, yes, that phone audio isn't encrypted.
Some of the comments here are surprising. Imo people who come to library to read books want to be a good member of the library. By assuming they will stop returning books due to no fees is just assuming worst of them. I was surprised when my county in California decided to get rid of all the fees. I had 5 books due and all my fees were forgiven. I donated way more to the library just because of this change. I was worried that how will they now afford to run the library effectively without fees. I guess people who can afford to give donations should do that and take the financial load out of the people who cannot afford. There is something freeing about this. Education and knowledge should really be free for all.
That a good point ... we will surely be providing a web app in future ...

We just are waiting for raising some funds !
The lasting power of an East Village war memorial
Looks like Yeager's site is rate limited, but Google Cache came through for me. I went to an AOPA dinner about 30 years ago where Bill Weaver talked about his F104 Starfighter flight experience. (At that time, the SR71 stuff was probably still classified BYEMAN.) He had many interesting tales to tell and I'm glad that he survived this terrible accident.
It still baffles me that these things have taken off. I suspect that the people buying them are purchasing the spectacle of having a virtual assistant rather than any sort of useful functionality.

The last time I interacted with one was at a friend's place. We were talking over coffee and somehow Brad Pitt's age came up. Neither of us knew how old he was. My friend paused, and then yelled out across the room "OK Google, how old is Brad Pitt?" The answer came back almost immediately. "103 years old".
I wonder if the exit strategy of this company is to be a big enough nuisance to Pharma that one of them buys the company in order to absorb and nullify it.
That sounds too positive. It isn’t doomsday enough for the culture here. An opt-in device you need to purchase, set up, and interact with: the horrors!
Both are ridiculously huge and have the money and manpower to do it.

Indie game developers though, which Steam have a sizable amount of, likely do not have the same resources.
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I couldn't possibly predict how Chase would act with that portfolio if ML failed to recover after this loan, but if past performance/decisions are any indication we'll probably find out very quickly. Important to note that this includes the series of ODG patents they acquired which cover a lot of early industrial AR applications. Wish I knew anywhere close to enough to hypothesize.
this comment has been a rollecoaster. I've been downvoted I think 6 times and had an equal amount of upvotes. Speaks volume about the composition of this forum.
yes that was the original intent ... we want the platform to be open and welcoming to everyone !
Sorry, but I think that's a flippant and lazy reply. The reality is that no other major power had a navy that could rival Britain and France. The Dutch and Spanish might have still helped America, but without French opposition the British navy would have wiped them out.
What if there was an open source EMR? *nix backend with browser interface. The huge amount of money saved could pay for support, customisation and implementation. Perhaps I’m being naive, but a system where the institution has more ownership would go down well I think. We are about to get an Epic EMR and all the clinical staff are basically expecting a catastrophe.
“How Confluence is subjectively broken by my definition (and hyperbole) of the word”
Yes! It would not have lasted long.

> a British naval attack on French Navy ships at the naval base at Mers El Kébir on the coast of French Algeria. The bombardment killed 1,297 French servicemen, sank a battleship and damaged five other ships, for a British loss of five aircraft shot down and two crewmen killed.
I don’t think the technology is there yet, but at least the goal is for AI assistants to make lives easier. Maybe not in 2020, but perhaps 2030?
Siri is really useful for when I'm in the bath and asking for what time it is.
Someone needs to come up with an agile method that helps teams operate in nightmarishly bureaucratic orgs, wherr 3/4ths of your work is spent just clearing the way to build something of value.
Does anyone know the history behind the Pokemon green translation (or maybe pocket monster green). I remember that there were some roms with pretty funny translations. Was that the unofficial English port before Pokemon Blue was released?
This isolates steam games from the rest of the things running on the machine, which dramatically reduces the number of variables Valve has to consider for supporting a Linux game. This means they can support more games with fewer resources, or give better support to more games.

With namespaces and cgroups and chroot and bind mounts you can cobble together an isolated linux distro running on the same kernel as yours. So for example, Steam can target having a game run on Ubuntu 16.04, and ensure that it runs well there, while you can go ahead and use Arch, or Fedora 31 or whatever. It's like virtualization except that it doesn't translate every instruction, it only adds some overhead to certain syscalls.
The student would not understand they can name the arguments whatever they like.
Valid point, I've probably been reading a bit too much marketing focused material, figured the title would get more attention (which to be fair it did get you to comment). However I really do believe that tools like Confluence become terrible user experiences as your team grows. The wiki quickly becomes a black hole, documentation becomes hard to find, you have no idea if anyone read or found your content useful and outdated documentation becomes the norm. You could attribute this to the team or the company culture but I think it's more to do with the tool not giving you the primitives you need to do the job well.
A third school that does both, based on the circumstances.
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Especially on a brand new aircraft during the maiden flight.
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Content Reuse – The art of not writing the same shit over and over again
Will a welding mask work?
> You casually slandered my entire country

I made an observation about the state and its governance, not the inhabitants. These are two quite different things.
> the systemic failure of large construction projects in the US

I would love to hear any theories or speculation you have on why this is the case.
This is concerning, but the examples they gave were all from couples where the man contributed most of their combined wealth, AFAIK, might that not be the reason?

Is there an example where the wife contributed most of the combined wealth? What would their credit allowance balance look like?

Or what would happen if you just remove the gender variable from the algorithms?
Why wouldn't there be failures only under a complete network partition? So long as one node in one partition may communicate with another node in another partition, then writes may still be performed.

Availability would be what is sacrificed in the advent that a node is partitioned away from the main network.
Sigh... “10. Compiler warnings can be ignored, as they'd be errors otherwise.“
Benjamin Button
FHIR Subscriptions do exist.
Depends on the errors!
I am quickly learning I need to spend more time wording things appropriately haha. To be clear it doesn't integrate with Confluence in any way, shape or form. Scribe is really a direct competitor to Confluence. But it will fix all the deficiencies that Confluence has.
What happened to previous reports claiming vaping cartridges were tainted with hydrogen cyanide? https://www.nbcnews.com/health/vaping/tests-show-bootleg-mar...
About five or six years ago, my local library eliminated fines for overdue books. I suspect it paid for itself pretty quickly based on my use. Prior to eliminating fines, I'd renew by email. Staff would process the email into the system.

Or I wouldn't renew by email, and then staff would handle my payment next time I checked out. At ten cents a day, odds were staff would break a bill. Staff would write a receipt and enter stuff in the computer system.

Manual work for a few cents. Manual work that didn't help anyone use the library. Manual work that didn't make the library better. Manual work that wasn't worth doing.

It was petty work involving petty cash. Paying fines didn't make anyone happy. Collecting fines didn't make staff happy. The fines were just inertia. Fines never motivated me to return books on time. What motivated me to return books on time was believing that returning books on time was good for the library. That didn't change when fines went away.
I can understand the Star Trek dream of truly intelligent assistants, but we've been at it for nearly ten years and it hardly feels like the needle has moved. Despite the enormous advances in machine learning as a field over the past few years, AI assistants have mostly just gotten better speech-to-text and text-to-speech, and more developer support. I wouldn't expect a Star Trek "Computer" within the next 50 years at least.

The alternate (much more banal) explanation for the current prevalence is 1) a cynical data-grab on the part of companies, and 2) the devices are cheap and novel for consumers. In other words, it's not that they're creating such great value, but that companies have learned to embed their data-vacuums in what amount to toys.
You wouldn't know it from interviews, which is why the falsehood persists.
Can you define material properties without consciousness observation? How would you quantify with out observation?

Not only empirically but personally?
Expectation: everybody I work with should be competent and should want to achieve as much as possible every day

Reality: moodiness, ego, lack of effort
I respect your decision to be completely and utterly wrong. The progressive movement was the movement of eugenics. We were going to improve the human race through science, technology, and industrialization. Rockefeller Foundation funded eugenics research. Carnegie and Stanford created the scientific studies that would help support hundreds of new eugenics laws. UC Berkeley, Harvard, Columbia, etc would teach eugenics to students. We wiped the history clean of all this during WWII, but if you do some keen wikipedia'ing, or go oldschool and read some books, it's all there for you.

And no, there was no group of white people saying white people are all great, stick together, etc. That wouldnt happen until the 60's and 70's, after eugenics was taboo.
The VA's old system (VistA) is that open source solution - but other hospitals didn't want to use or buy it.

I think the EMR industry is driven more by safety, liability, and revenue for hospitals (in that order) than by patient/physician desired features or security.

It's also difficult to build tooling that interconnects across all of the medical specialties - and with the amount of customization that some providers want.
There is no alternative to nationalism. There will always be centralized political power, and that power manifests in nations. We can have smaller nations, or we can have larger nations. Both scenarios involve nations.

Nations are the only bulwark against corporate savagery. Without nations, corporations run rampant (more than they do today).

A one world government is impossible. In a democratic framework such a structure would quickly fall apart. Rebellion would be the inevitable outcome for a one world dictatorship as well.
I would assume that the downvotes are because you're asking for a thread on the atrocities happening in Chile be hijacked to talk about something else. It's extremely insensitive.
That's just MBA canon.
His pieces are usually entertaining. He had a recent one about the Masters golf tournament that was hilarious.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/06/24/inside-the-cul...
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