skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tabu search thru a semi-dynamic design space.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabu_search
A visitor visa is not legal immigration.

I had to state the countries I visited for the past 10 years. Jobs I had for 10 years,purpose etc when I applied for a visa. CBSA also did background checks on me, called one of my employers for verification. I figured all these by access to information reports later on out of curiosity.

How did this guy get a pass with CBSA ?
Apollo 1 was afaik an unexpected engineering lesson. Challenger, and to a lesser extent Columbia, were failures of management not listening to engineers raising the alarm
Even if you didn't purchase all cash, with a lower house price you can more easily pay off the house early by paying extra each month. The way it works now keeps people paying monthly way longer.
> ...tax payer financed efforts are really just exploitation

Right, and the super rich cannot wait to relieve us tax payers from our plight and pay all those bills for us. Otherwise, what would be the point in never paying any taxes?
The only taxes the article says Bernie is raising on the high-wage workers is Social Security. Right now, someone making a billion dollars a year pays the same as someone making $132,900. That's a very regressive tax. All Bernie wants to do is make it a flat 12.4%.

These high wage earners are simply being asked to pay roughly the same on the dollar as every other worker.
Something something paycheck depends on not understanding something...
Thanks! The character/location illustrations are drawn by Garen Ewing. He is amazing.
Seems like these guys need to learn the concept of consent, i.e. that if you try to force someone to do something they don't want, they aren't going to stick around with you.
I used to think for reasonably everyday items, not too expensive, that the number of real reviews and answers would overwhelm the number of fakes.

But I recently asked a question about an item that I have bought before (a small appliance that I have been forced to find to be more a consumable than a durable). I asked if the vendor had fixed the flaw that made me throw out three prior ones. Within minutes there were three answers, assuring me that there was in fact no such flaw. These items were great. Perfect!

Silly of me, I guess.
Grafana´s Loki may have a lighter weight than the other examples you gave above.

For some kinds of logs there are tools for summarization and reports (like awstats for web or pflogsumm for mail servers).

And, of course, for particular queries on existing logs the standard text tools in a linux box let you generate a lot of info.
Maybe he means key travel time?

I am also baffled by that comment.
> Does it follow that a job that does not provide income is not useful to society even if you consider the thing being worked on to be worthwhile?

No, it does not follow. The most prominent example: parenting.
At my office, we have mostly only individual chats, plus a customer-crisis chat ("Who's helping XYZ?" "On it"). So if there is any activity, it is relevant, and it actually reduces interruptions, because when we're deep in something, we don't look, and somebody with a question doesn't need to hang about waiting.
Exactly my train of thought. Most people don't consider the photograph to be data where we likely would.
> it's taken Apple years to get keyboards back on track

This was a conscious decision, they could have reverted the mistake in 12 months if they had truly wanted. But it would require burning a production line and design roadmap that was supposed to last 3 years. Turned out having users buy an inherently faulty $2000+ product for 3 years and a repair program was the easier pill to swallow.

Tim Cook isn't a product person[0], he's never going to think of the actual product and its impact on the users in a way that could make that call.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AxZofbMGpM
If that ever was a dominant mantra on HN, it's certainly not these days. For better or worse, this place is not dominated by "disruptive" startup founders anymore. Nor does the community skew supportive of Facebook/Zuckerberg or their ethos.
Thank you! Good idea about the tech choices of Codecks. Maybe that would make for another good blog post.
And this time the Scarlet Pimpernel wouldn't lift a finger to save them.
Amazon did not start as a marketplace. It started to allow third party sellers in 2002, iirc.
The article is from May 2019 and says he asked for a meeting "next Wednesday". Any news about that?
4th type of chocolate (dark, milk, white, Ruby)
I Became a Social Media Influencer, and You Can Too
He famously pushed it at the expense of good engineering, reliability, build quality, battery life, performance, and all the other things people want in a device. Apple over-indulged him.
Here's a gif of the second issue from the blog post, just reproduced on my client

https://i.imgur.com/X8FZJhi.gif
A Website for Good News
This is the only feature I miss from Chrome on OSX.
Sparsely activated multitask model is a kind of Jeff Dean's hobby horse. It was published in 2017: https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.06538. My assessment is that it is an intriguing but ultimately failed experiment, like Geoffrey Hinton's capsule network.
> most of the tax hikes will be on people making high but ordinary incomes

I would challenge people to leave their affluent bubbles and recognize that $250k/year is actually not an "ordinary income".
PDF is a publishing, rather than an editing format. It belongs in the same bucket as .mp3 and .jpg, rather than the .doc and .psd bucket.

This is not about how easy or how hard it is to modify a pdf, it's about the intended purpose. The fact that it's meant for publishing means we get to optimise it as such, both in terms of simplicity of the format itself, and in terms of the tools that interact with it. This makes consistent-ish rendering much easier. The features that would enable the format to be "editable" are also the sort of features that make consistency hard.
Tangential but for a splendid Victorian ghost story I recommend Bulwer-lytton's 'The Haunters and the Haunted'
which you can read for free at
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/17953/17953-h/17953-h.htm#VI
This raises an interesting question for me, can we use biometric data to establish country (ie geographic region) of origin, in the general case?

Hair composition, dental treatments, inoculation marks, fingernails, faeces, blood .. obviously some of these are short term indicators.

How good of a probability can we get to, how tightly can we pinpoint someone geographically?
PDFs specifically support the form use case (I remember using this a few times for things like applying for credit cards etc). That was on Ubuntu too!

Inserting a scanned signature is also not a problem at all these days, and even fits the PDF model quite well.
I tried YAML for another game prototype in the meantime. I like it as well but I feel the whitespace syntax can be very error prone if not all your team members come from a technical background and know about whitespace settings in the editor.
The best time to build affordable housing is 20 years ago. The second best time is now. Unfortunately zoning rules mean you cannot build in places where there is demand, so supply and demand result in high prices. However if you already have a house this works in your favor: when you do sell out your house has gone up in value a lot more than inflation, while if your neighbor had built a large apartment next door your house value wouldn't be as high.
We shouldn't fetishize control as much.

In >15 years what I have seen is that OSS comes with a huge cost of attention - that you'd be better off focusing on your business need.

Running most of these OSS even at a medium employee count scale is a full-team-commit-nightmare. It essentially means your it department now needs a specialist who will be able to handle your org quirks, remember the tweaks and keep baby sitting it. Not to mention many OSS teams (I don't know about the above listed) are ever so sneakily introducing enterprise clauses about usage in their EULA.

I don't want to name names, but even with paid software we are seeing this problem everywhere in trying to host: But at least here, we got the actual developers and experts on a call who can walk us through why x employees are fine and x+1 nukes their system.
After Climate Despair
I expressed my discontent to them as well and just received this reply:

"I'm afraid there is no way to disable this at the moment, and it's not in the roadmap to roll back on this feature. That said, we're still in the initial stages here, so our focus right now is listening to feedback as we consider certain changes for improvement as we move forward. You've raised some fair points here, so I've shared your feedback with my team for consideration in the future."
> It sounds like fact checked news, but is it?

Um... which bit do you think is wrong?
And later on still blowing up far to many things.
The iPhone 11 Pro was the first indication. Physically bigger, heavier, and with a larger battery than the outgoing model. I am very pleased to see them finally making a commitment to their "Pro" lines. A lot more could be done, and based on what we have seen, hopefully it will be.
Isn’t the main problem with XPS just software support, though?
Looks like it's unlikely that any more news will be forthcoming: https://ottawacitizen.com/news/bizarre-case-of-unknown-perso...
IMO the list confuses a number of different dialectical oddities and makes it seem more of a labyrinth than it really is.

It makes some rather sveamål-centric assumptions, even then for some subset of sveamål, which is rather notorious for joining long stretches of consonants ending with an "sj" phoneme into just "sj". For example any of the variants that start in "r" only happen in dialects where the "r" is barely pronounced. In most of Sweden, it is distinct; guttural or rolling. Others only occur when consonants that are distinct in other dialects are dropped, and definitely not only the ones marked as "sloppy pronunciation".

Others occur only when crossing words in compound words with distinct "sj" sounds (again, in some dialects), where pronouncing them as a single phoneme again may happen in some sveamål. Some of them seem really forced.
But she doesn’t consider reviews while browsing: “When I see an off-brand product that’s Amazon’s Choice, [that label] doesn’t mean anything to me anymore,” she said.

Well I learned something new today. I didn't realize it was so easy to game that Amazon's Choice label.
No, it means she gets paid post-review, which means she tends to have an accounts receivable balance.
I am in America and have yet to get screwed by a counterfeit. I wonder if you might be on to something though. Maybe the counterfeits are all stored in specific states and ship from there more frequently since I assume Amazon wants to ship from the closest warehouse to you. Would be good to know what state most of these people live in to see if thats just the pattern. I say this cause I have always heard you can buy counterfeits in NY of any major clothing brand or even electronics.
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I'd hardly call that a discussion...
> inefficiencies

Think that while this person is looking at the iPhone on the subway, it's also probably unaware that there is (in this very moment, in the world) people starving to dead or dying from deceases that already have a cure, or that there is people beheading others with machetes in tribal-like wars.

The paradigm of progress is relative.
"When you frame it as working together to create wealth for both parties"

But it isn't. Especially not Google, who cut the wealth of their employees at the knees via non-poaching agreements.
Kant and Why You Should Flush Your Smartphone Down the Toilet
Gordon Sondland Accuses the President of Bribery
But then it wouldn't be theirs, and that's clearly more important than success now.
That is true. However, now apple controls the pairing process and is able to introduce features such as share audio that lets you use multiple airpods on the same device, and is probably working on a feature to make airpods work on all your apple products simultaneously.
The State of European Tech 2019
> Jason mentioned it on his podcast, but I didn’t see it in the article. The iPhone 11 Pros are also moving into the right direction. They are heavier, slightly thicker and have better battery life.

Yet, they completely squander the opportunity to go with square PCB design and single cell battery. They would've done so if they were really concerned about that.

Split cell design doesn't give net boost to battery capacity with such small cells and only 2 of them. It's more of a compromise to packaging and cost, than about battery capacity. Foxconn bills them per-part and per operation for assembly, so they put as much as they can on single PCB, and order as much of pre-assembled modules as possible. This may well cost them more than a two-pieces PCB, but tell that to MBA types.
Oh, is Ive a person? Okay, I just googled it. Thanks. I didn't know about Jony Ive. (if it isn't already obvious, I'm not an apple follower)
Anyone can accept risk. Accurately evaluating and effectively mitigating it is the skill, plus predicting a profitable direction and setting it in motion, maintaining accountability, negotiation and fundraising; the list goes on and looks very different from dev skillsets.

Maybe this site should add a CEO skill map!
The brand reimburse the purchases, but only after the review. So this is money that is still due.
Canadians are so nice
In England here. I wouldn't say the buses work pretty well - journeying on them tends to make me sick fairly consistently, unlike trains which do not.

I think it is due to the bumpy roads, terrible suspension and polluted air.

The difference is stark enough that I'm happy to go to work at the end of a train, underground, cycle and/or substantial walking (even in the rain), but I'm severely put off any job that requires a daily bus. After all, who wants to feel sick every day.
Creating a Resizable HTML Element
I stopped buying important things from Amazon for this reason. I don't want to risk getting counterfeit products.

We just got an email from Amazon that they identified that the water filter refills I bought 6 months ago were fake, so they issued a refund. But I hate the idea that they allowed it in the first place itself. And this is something that's affecting the health of my family. (Thankfully our unfiltered tap water won't kill us but still...)

We've been trying to avoid Amazon as much as possible and it's been hard. But not impossible. They've got such a head start over everyone else on their solid logistics operation.

They're actually open to competition... from ex-Amazonians. It's like all the ex-googlers that left and took those ideas to make open source versions because Google was so far ahead.

1) Retail return policies are mostly liberal. It's the smaller stores that tend to be more stingy.
2) Price Matching solves any issues with regard to lower prices
3) Returning is actually easier since you get the instant gratification of a refund, not 5 days later. Anyway with amazon we've always had to drop it off to UPS, so we don't save time making the trip.

The bigger issue is that since Amazon is so large and pervasive everywhere, it's very tough to actually boycott the company. Brands like Whole Foods, Ring, AWS etc are still important parts of our lives and careers.
I’ve always wondered if the world would benefit from a “Freeport” type city/country. No borders, minimal government, no identity documents. Places like this existed in the past; America itself was essentially a “fresh start” country for a good portion of its existence. If such a place existed today, the Canadian government could just put him on a one-way flight there.

But I feel like today, it would probably just end up as a crime haven. I can see far-flung space colonies fulfilling this role if/once space travel really kicks off. An interesting thought experiment, at least.
The fingerprints could be matched, but when he was picked up be gave false IDs that were recorded against those prints.

Some quirk meant they weren't initially matched (they took prints, but didn't run a match at that point in time).
> Cook’s being savvy. Cook is crushing it.

This isn't being savvy. This is realizing you were on the receiving end of another "I'd like you to do a favor for us though".
NSA Publishes Advisory Addressing Encrypted Traffic Inspection Risks
It was the Six Day, offered by Landmark Education, formerly est. At a beautiful retreat center in the Catskills. There was also a ropes course, which involved repelling down a 50 foot cliff, a transverse across a 20 foot gap, and a long zip line (maybe as much as a mile, but I could be wrong).

Prerequisites included a complete physical, and assessment by a professional trainer. As I recall, you had to be able to run a mile in decent time.

They videotaped each participant at the beginning, making a five minute presentation about themself. And then, near the end. The final session was devoted to watching clips from each participant's presentations. The changes were profound.

It was one of the most transformative experiences of my life. Along with hundreds of LSD trips, of course. And spending a few years as an itinerant hippie LSD dealer. And a few years of Aikido. And earning a PhD.

It was probably a lot like basic military training. But without the bits about killing people.

The New Warrior training included some of that. And it also included one on one interactions in a ring, which included unrestricted verbal abuse, which could escalate to wrestling. But no hitting, joint locks, throwing, etc.

As I said, I doubt that it would be doable today. Given how emotionally fragile many have become. And how out of shape. Not to mention how litigious.

But I do emphasize that these were all adults who participated voluntarily, with full disclosure. And you could leave, at any time. As I recall, you got your money back if you left during the first day or two.
Okay, friendly jab here: which one is responsible for putting USB ports in the back of iMacs, in such a position that I either strike luck and bent my wrist but get something plugged or I must stand up, move the keyboard and stuff on my desktop to grab the screen and move it around so I can plug something in and then turn the screen around again :-) ?
Can't you avoid this issue by buying products that are shipped and sold by Amazon in the same way you buy directly from Target and Walmart?

I wish Costco would up their online presence. I always feel safe buying from them.
> I like to call this Jobs’s Law, though it could just as easily be called the Ive Doctrine: Always strive for the next version of your product to be thinner and lighter than the current one.

Then hopefully somebody will start making "reasonable-sized" phones again. Something like iPhone4/5 size with full-size displays.
Selecting 'All Hackers' produces https://www.hackerslist.co/find-a-hacker/?rating=0 and does not show anyone :)
Randomization and the reality gap: how to transfer policies from sim to real [pdf]
I would be interested in this, too. I use Amazon in France (mostly) and the UK and Germany (ocassionally) and haven’t had the problems that people speak of in relation to counterfiet goods in the US.
By clicking the Agree button, you authorize our field crews to harvest the organs of your first born child...
I cannot wait to pick one of these up. In despair I caved last year and got a 2018mbp for work, so we either have to sell it or how somebody and pass it down.

Next they need to phase out lightning now that usb-c is here.
This is explicitly a call to reject creating and using technology as a filter to prevent the spread of bad information.

I thought that the liberal ideology had finally figured out the necessity of filters after the last election. Fact checking sites, auto-hiding of conspiracy theory videos, etc are all precisely the opposite of what the author calls for.
I can’t see how anyone could conclude that Amazon is the bigger crook from that quote. She gamed their system, as criminals do, and now they must improve.
A.I. and Unemployment: Which Cities Face the Biggest Impact?
Yeah, that label is entirely gamed.

https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2019/6/14/18679637/amazon-choi...
Watch out, those have been known to explode. I think this was posted here maybe a month ago: https://onezero.medium.com/unraveling-the-secret-supply-chai...
I had a comment in 2016 that hints at this. Perhaps, it was true?

> There was an interesting idea floating around Designer News—Without Steve Jobs nobody can contain Johnny Ive.

> Jobs was a champion of the user. Tim Cook's specialty is in logistics, and probably defaults to Ive on many product decisions. In the mean time Ive continues designing beautiful products that focus on beauty and compromise on function.

> I doubt that's the case, but I like the theory.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13010358
Just want to throw in my $0.02 as a Canadian, but I haven't had any issues with counterfeit goods in the 4 years I've been buying things (mainly electronics) from Amazon. I also haven't heard anything (first hand) about others receiving counterfeit goods either.

On that note, while I have no idea how Amazon.com works, on .ca it is pretty clear on a product page whether or not the item is sold/shipped by Amazon or a 3rd party. Whether or not this has any bearing re. counterfeit goods, I generally recommended people buy the "Sold and Shipped by Amazon.ca" option even if a 3rd party's listing is cheaper.
Another Swede-ism I've noticed is the lack of distinction between e.g. "chip" and "ship" or "choose" and "shoes". Probably because so many similar spellings are bunched up under /ɧ/
We need the state to take over all aspects of our life. We need to create mega cities like Judge Dredd. Each of us gets an 11 by 11 square cell. Children should be raise by the State as per the Republic. All meals should be provided in communal settings derived from bugs. We cannot continue down the line of personal freedoms. We have shown ourselves to be poor stewards.

Edit: As I age, this seems to be the only course. I've been told that we shouldn't eat meat. Inhalers are just as bad (https://news.sky.com/story/asthma-inhalers-as-bad-for-the-en...). I've been told that the government should regulate what vehicles we're allowed to drive. I've been told the government should be allowed to mandate all buildings must be upgraded to be maximally efficient (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_New_Deal). This is just a short list of "musts". There are more. As a result, the only logical end possible to meet all these requirements is the dissolution of freedoms to be replaced by living in megacities where the State can control everything (house, food, etc.).
But even a lawyer specialised in criminal law will have gotten a broad education in contract law, property , civil procedure.

In my engineering school, mechanical engineers were taught the basics of electrical engineering.

There is a lot of value in gaining a good amount of breadth before specialising, even if just to ease communication with specialists of adjacent fields.
That only works if upstream wants your fixes.
Couldn’t you just buy from manufacturers directly on amazon?
The vuln industry just got another player: the media
The Economist website uses dark patterns and gray/black SEO practices.

Here is a URL so you do not have to support them:

https://web.archive.org/web/20191121135004/http://www.econom...
"Toss it" is not an option when it is a product your company uses.

Annoyances like this is not enough to make me toss it but it is still an annoyance that could have been fixed by giving user an option
Ehhh for Skype it's mostly a Skype thing. Pretty much every decision made about Skype be it platform, features, ... Is wrong. I'm convinced Skype within Microsoft is now some middle step they put their product managers through for a year or two without paying much attention to them, and each tries to implement his "own mark" on it as some sort of achievement. The alternatives to that theory are too scary.