skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dont think the discourse is served by regurgitating the rhetoric from google's pr think tank. I'm going to have a look at their quarterly reports when I have time later. They're legally required to tell the truth to their shareholders, so that information is at least true enough to comply with regulations.
Harder to read/understand, especially street names. A lot of the time I have to zoom in 100% and scroll up and down a street to see what the name of the street I'm looking at is.

This is so bad, incredibly bad. The legibility of street names is also extremely sensitive to lighting conditions (at least on iOS) which is a rare accomplishment in this age of screens that adapt their brightness in response to ambient light.
This was a really really bad excuse.

There are many better ways to do this, for example why not ask users which country they are on? Or, I don't know, maybe let the app figure it out based on the phones configuration?
> good thing that the market abhors a vacuum

Indeed. I greatly prefer Apple Maps on iOS. The directions barely take any longer and the UX is just so much better.
I've been using KVM with virt-manager UI (and virsh). Simple, solid, production ready, 100% free software. PCIe and USB passthrough work fine.
Why Jeff Bezos will never be satisfied with success. An evolutionary angle
The least counterexample, nice.
As examples of reviewing in different manners, you can "review" by applying that knowledge or learning on top of it. Like you can read about an alphabet, then review by practice writing it, or review by learning words that use that alphabet. In that way, "reviewing" is not a waste, as you can gain new knowledge or experience. Spaced repetition is merely trying to improve retention by putting increasing spacing between the recollections of that knowledge.
Ah Grade inflation then :-)
What about software developers, who want the fastest possible compiles? Too small of a market to care?
> I would hardly call a dev's machine a "self-contained environment"

But a software project is.

Only that software project needs those packages.
Oh wow new to me. Had not seen that one. Even more disappointing because the tool is far from primetime. Going back to the original. A few years back when I was using pipenv it kept the tagline that it was the future of python and endorsed fully but I am pretty sure that was a stretch or perhaps the maintainer was using his clout and his own recommendation.
The goal is to categorize and organize humanity in order to achieve absolute equality.
I'm trained in physical chemistry, rather than physics, so I don't have the firmest grasp of quantum field theory, but I think the analogous "phonon field" would be the Born-Oppenheimer potential energy surface (PES). Vibrations, and hence phonons, are collective excitations on the PES.
Yes, you are absolutely correct. It was mainly a governance issue that hindered further technical development.
Do you think that any site with humorous copy has to be a "joke site?" Seems pretty belittling to the creator of this.
do you mean that 700g of that stuff can actually interact with earth's gravity in meaningful way ?

If so, (I'm no scientist at all), that sounds like a very powerful matter indeed :-)
Maxwell's demon, again?
Something I did as I did when younger that annoyed more ambitious friends: go to Wikipedia and find the incoming freshman class size for the top schools (say Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT). Add them together. Now look up the number of high schools in the US and assume there’s 1 valedictorian per school. There just aren’t enough spots to even fit them.

Now complicate things more: all the elite high schools like Groton or something are gonna be sending way more than their top 1 student to these programs.

My conclusion was that it frankly doesn’t matter how much you compete with your personal classmates unless you have some other angle.

However outcompeting your classmates might get you a full scholarship to the state flagship, which is actually massive if you don’t use it completely imprudently.
But isn't it actually the case that if you don't stay in academia, then any hopes of you contributing to mathematical research pretty much have failed?

Being in academia is the main way how people can be paid to work on research. If you're not in academia and not independently wealthy, chances are you're not doing research any more - some industries have big R&D labs doing fundamental research, but usually people going to industry would be just applying the research there and providing no research output that drives the field forward.
Lawyers Attack Doctors
By third party I mean the API. You can easily embed the database using a library in every programming language I’ve ever seen. There is no reason for another API, and there is no reason for another risk factor by trusting that this new API is correct.
Cyc was the last holdout of GOFAI in the 90's, its premise being that the traditional symbolic AI paradigm wasn't wrong, but that it was just a matter of scale.
Great! One was a soldier in Iraq and Korea, got his masters in MechE and is a process engineer in a factory now. Looking to move on.

The middle son is already employed in Silicon Valley, in some startup I can't pronounce. Getting bored, might want to move on.

The third is a trained pianist and cellist. Now is in IT in Target's national deployment center in St Paul. Definitely interested in broadening his experience, and would welcome a call to talk about other opportunities.
One thing about the public sector is every task of a public body is important or mandatory to some degree. This means that most strategies are necessarily overly broad and that they don't have the freedom to pivot away from or deprioritize anything.
If you can get the building inspectors to accept the engineer certification from another building of similar construction.

You might be able to do that on a single property with 50 identical copies of one design, but one at a time is unlikely. So you build the engineer certified designs and then lobby to get the method of construction included in the building codes.
Poetry is the solution, IMHO.

I’m sure poetry has bugs and it could have other problems (not sure), but if you look into how it works, from a software design / philosophy perspective, it’s absolutely amazing. It might be worth waiting a bit longer before you use it in a large production project. Once Heroku adds native support to the Python buildpack, and some other mainstream avenues add support, Poetry usage will increase enough to create the necessary scrutiny that will bring it up to true production-grade quality.

When you add a package in Poetry it will add the latest version of that package’s dependencies that also satisfy all the other packages (and their dependencies’ dependencies).

If you remove a package, Poetry will remove any dependencies of that package (actually uninstall them, rather than just leaving junk behind like pipenv), and will reestablish the latest versions of any other dependencies who’s versions were held back by the package you just removed or any of its dependencies...

Also, when you add a package with Poetry it doesn’t need to completely lock and install everything from scratch; only what you have just added and whatever its dependencies dictate; nothing more.

Also, you can tell Poetry to list off all the versions of your packages and the latest versions available (in case you’re like me and you pin all of your top level packages, having to Google “pypi django”, “pypi requests”, etc., to see if there are any newer versionS worth upgrading to, is a pain in the ass.
I have no memory of when this was but it was on the order of 9 months to a year ago.

"up to 60 days before" includes "five minutes after". What it excludes is the renewal starting 61 days before the cert expires, and, as documented, it sure didn't do that.

Stuff went wrong and we had no observability. That is the AWS way.
I know it's kind of a tangent, but I want to point out that Google is serviced by an army of workers that wear special uniforms, are not included in the major perks, are trained not to fraternize with the rest of Google's employees, and are of a markedly different racial and cultural makeup than the rest of Google's employees.

Also, remember that time that Google, Apple, and "dozens" of other companies colluded to prevent each other from hiring talent from each other, in large part to defraud their own employees of opportunities (to the tune of an estimated $8,000,000,000)?

So it seems like there's a small group at the top that does whatever the hell they think they can get away with, then a large group in the middle that is more-or-less exploited by the top group, and another large group on the bottom that are more-or-less totally fungible and who are almost completely ignored by design by the other two groups.

Most of the people in the "middle" group are either clueless about their exploitation, or complacent, and what we're seeing in TFA is a fraction of the former becoming the latter. I suppose a tiny fraction of people might actually quit Google over this.

(I worked at the Google-plex for a couple of years as a TVA, a kind of half-life role in between a normal Googler and a service staff. It was a very weird experience, and afterward it felt like I had been kidnapped by aliens and returned to Earth.)
I doubt it's specifically a Dem play, I think more likely they had a couple of negative pieces, it established a trend, and more and more journo's are jumping on it
Would you please remove the weird "emoticon key" thing at the bottom? You could almost certainly fit single-letter keywords (the values of the emoticons) in similar space, without forcing everyone to go to a new page and cross-reference. I guessed computer meant programming, and that the palette represented art, but couldn't figure the rest out. There's no point in using short symbols everyone knows.
If only we were paying for it, then we could legitimately complain.
It is not the pineapple fund, although it has been a lovely time working with them. Regardless of the cryptocurrency discussion, the fact that someone who feels some sort of windfall would immediately have an urge to share it with organizations that need it is laudable.
Predicting Customer Lifetime Value with Unified Customer Data
Yes, and this even happens with major highways! I'll be trying to pick a ~200-mile route, and I have to play zooming gymnastics just to see the difference between I-84 and I-95!

Okay, I should just know the difference with roads that big. And okay, generally East/West interstates use even numbers representing what % of the country lies to the South while North/South use odd numbers representing what % lies to the West. But I shouldn't have to know that when I'm wondering how to avoid the accident on "that big yellow stripe that passes through D.C."

Sometimes I'll use a mapping app designed for outdoors activities, because it is so much easier to read than Google Maps.
As horrible as this is, note that this one is mostly on Google.

In particular, they force this on Android in order to map MAC address from any Bluetooth devices to physical locations. This allows then to track people even when they turn off GPS.

(If you work for Samsung etc and are wondering why I don't buy your wireless headphones, this is the reason. Feel free to show this to your boss)
> "Roads that don't exist, buildings in random places with roads going through them"

This is unfortunate and surprising. In my experience (mostly UK/Europe) the quality of street data in OSM matches, and in some cases exceeds that of Google Maps. (Points-of-interest data does not, however).

If you do notice errors and omissions, fixes can be made in seconds by getting an OSM account and clicking the "edit" button on OpenStreetMap.org. In recent years the development of the "ID" editor has significantly lowered the barriers to entry of editing OSM.

> "map data that seems manipulated for game advantage"

Perhaps OSM needs some sort of Wikipedia-style spam detection/prevention if this is happening on a wide scale.
It doesn't support shell scripts which kind of sucks, but could be reasonable if it is expected to run on windows as well as posix. This is the scripts section from one project I used Poetry in. It seems to be fine for most things, even though the focus on managing a python module for publication is a little bit annoying. Once or twice I've run into version resolution troubles, but generally it's stable and much more ergonomic+easier to explain than pip+venv. One can of course use `poetry run pip freeze` to generate the standard `requirements.txt` file

[tool.poetry.scripts]
# NB: Poetry won't run arbitrary callables, so these are wrapped in a python script.
# Poetry needs the root dir to be a package (e.g. module `my_repo` must exist) in order to run scripts
# So they are just shoved into a dummy "my_repo.py" instead of going in e.g. "scripts.py"
# Adds Git hooks from `git_hooks` path (overwrites existing!)
hookup = "my_repo:hookup"
# Run formatter+linter, does not modify anything, errors if fail
lint = "my_repo:lint"
# runs `black` (formatter), modifies stuff
format = "my_repo:format"
# A list of files which failed linting. Most helpful with flake8 vim integration https://github.com/nvie/vim-flake8
lintyfiles = "my_repo:lintyfiles"
# unit tests
utest = "my_repo:utest"
# unit + integration tests in container
citest = "my_repo:citest"
cutest = "my_repo:cutest"
Virt-manager is basically the same UI as VirtualBox with the same dead-easy, wizard-based VM setup. Plus the virt-manager running on my desktop can simultaneously drive KVM running locally and on many different servers.
>the clients know how to do load balancing

that is of course true, but they won't be able to ommit not working/failed/overloaded nodes whereas a load balancer might be able to do so. On the other hand the client might be programmed to just use another IP from the list and resend request if one node fails to answer, but this would increase the total time required by the client to do a successful connection.
I also realise that non-responsing nodes might be rare enough for this to be a negligible problem - just playing devils advocate here.
>The law - sensibly enough - didn't allow politicians to interfere in the running of the companies so they were basically unaccountable.

I'm not sure how that's sensible. Are you being sarcastic?

Sure, there are problems with political intervention in state-owned companies (near term bias, etc.), but if it's the only means of holding state-owned companies accountable, and if a competitive market is untenable, then yes, voter-accountable politicians should be able to intervene in state-owned companies.

As it stands, with a company like PG&E, you have a half-solution, where it's a privately-owned monopoly but isn't directly accountable to its customers because they can't vote with their wallet, so it gets metric tons of regulation dumped on it instead as a half-measure that (obviously) doesn't work.
The new voice prompts on Apple Maps are great. “Turn right at the next stop sign” is way more helpful than “In 1000 feet, turn right”
HyperV is different virtualization technologoy compared to Virtuakbox and most others. It actually virtualizes everything, whereas others typically are a level higher up. It seems both at the same time often doesn't work that well.
Is it possible that the inherent context dependent ambiguities of human language make knowledge-based inference so difficult since most current knowledge is stored in human language ?

tangential question: is there a standard language for "knowledge", like how we describe math for "computation" ?

Are a part of our brains essentially compilers from human language to an internal definition of "knowledge" that leads to consciousness ?
> I can't be the only person who reads stories like this and wonders how they arrived at that solution in the first place?

No you are not. I wonder which CTO would allow this; like everyone here, the exact case is not really clear (or at least why this solution is a great solution for it), but this sounds like a weird solution (and expensive) to some issue. I really don't understand these 'solutions' and I am almost 100% sure I (with a team! but the point that this is not the best solution for the problem) can whip up something far simpler and more efficient for this problem. But ofcourse there are problems that might fit?
This person is describing their own experience; what you're saying is that you haven't had that. Which is great for you, but it's not universal.

Hopefully your experience is more common. But if this person's is, then the "dystopia" isn't that fictional.
VMWare. I know, I know, proprietary bad and all that, but for just getting stuff done with minimal fuss and not yak-shaving (like, say, vagrant), vmware is good.
Echoing this, even just a year or so ago, I'd follow five or six different subreddits and check in on them multiple times a day.

In the past few months, I've found that I only check "Today I Learned", and even that only once every day or so.

I find the discussion here to be much more mature and insightful than any of the tech related subreddits. I had written it off as reddit being a young-persons domain and me getting old, but it could just be that reddit is losing it's edge.
> Out of curiosity, are you proud of Google’s ad business today and its impact on the world?

No. I'm pretty horrified at what it has become actually.

> If you could go back knowing what you know now, would you do it again?

Of course. But I would use my foreknowledge to try to steer things in a better direction.
They are particles of an effective field theory which approximates the quantum phenomena in a piece of matter at a particular energy and length scale.
We're in the middle of a big cultural reckoning with the "business friendly" or "win/win economics" ethos of management consulting having been the guiding star for most large public service and non-profit organizations for the past few decades.

Anand G's "Winners Take All" summarizes the problems with this approach and his arguments in that book are slowly becoming more mainstream. On top of that, Pete Buttigieg's status as a McKinsey alum running for President makes it particularly salient.
I agree. You see the same mindset in politics where people fanatically stick to one party or the other but barely can formulate an own opinion on issues.
This is just another tail function department wanting to enhance its role, very common for HR, Building services etc.
That's an overly idealized view of unions. In practice union leaders are often going to bat for themselves rather than the members. The level of corruption in larger unions is off the charts.

In principle I do support the right of workers to unionize. But the current implementation of unions in the US has a lot of problems.
> is there a methodology to assign "dark" colors based on the existing "light" ones? Or should I do the design twice, one for the light and one for the dark mode version?

You can try inverting the colors used for the light theme to obtain a decent starting point for the dark theme design.

If you use SASS you can use `invert` for that, or `invert` from the CSS-in-JS library "polished"

For anyone curious how the inverse of a color is calculated, read this answer on StackExchange: https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/a/95100
Providing an embeddable map solution with developer friendly API used to be a great product. The fact Google disrupted the market with a free solution doesn't mean the product wasn't great up until that point, it just means someone also saw that product idea and undercut them on price.

Source: I was using mapping tools before Google Maps came to market.
U.S. and China Reach Initial Trade Deal
Interesting! I've had too many bad experiences over the years with Elasticsearch and ELK stack so I usually avoid Elasticsearch based products like the plague. Maybe if someone else runs it for me though...

Do you know what they are doing differently with async_hooks in Elastic APM?
The color design of their iOS application is also terrible.

So many elements in the navigation UX are a similar color.

The worst is the Current route (light blue) and alternate routes (grey). Both of these colors are fairly similar and have very little contrast compared to the background. I have a hard time picking out the difference between a road (grey) and an alternate route (grey, slightly thicker line).

At night, when it switches to a dark color scheme, everything is a shade of dark blueish grey, with very little contrast.
Comeuppance.
I don't know actually. 507 was introduced in rfc 4918 alongside WebDAV, so my naive assumption is that its main use case was for something more associated with authoring or general file manipulation.

I'm surprised that it has much use for a normal GET request, but I guess anything can be a bottleneck!
On Linux, I’ve entirely replaced Vbox with virt-manager and QEMU.

As a bonus, virt-manager can connect to remote libvirt/QEMU instanced over SSH, making it easier to manage a small “farm”.

On Windows I find myself happy enough with Hyper-V too.

I really don’t miss virtualbox at all.
KVM and libvirt also support GPU pass through.
VirtualBox itself is released under the GPL version 2. It is the "Extension Pack" that has the license, not to be confused by the the Guest Additions, which are community.

So, steer clear of the Extension Pack.
United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)
How is it impossible? Plenty of big companies — including tech companies — have been driven out of the market by competitors.
To me, that seems like a case against Javascript. Invalid or broken content should return an error, the parser shouldn't try to "fix" it.

And things like data types should be strictly enforced, otherwise you can get unpredictable results, which is especially bad when you're dealing with money transfers.
The banking information of 29,000 Facebook employees was stolen
I'm writing up some docs with info. I'll send you a link.
Here is a definition from dictionary.com

"websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking."

So having a user account doesn't make it social media.

Stackoverflow seems like a "no" but you can definitely promote yourself and there is a "community" there.

LinkedIn is virtually all about social networking, so yes.
AI has bested chess and Go, but it struggles to find a diamond in Minecraft
You're also making a lot of assumptions about me but I'd rather not make this anecdotal. I would have probably agreed with OP when I was 18 after watching Fight Club a hundred times that was what modern business life was like. But I've had a large variety of jobs in my life from working outdoors, brutal factory floor jobs in an auto factory and a wood flooring plant, to office-space style boring corporate HQ jobs for a big brand, to tech companies for the last decade and it's hardly the standard. Especially once you get past lower level drudgery work.

I already mentioned it'd be stupid to put that level of sacrifice into a company unless you were adequately compensated or given enough power/time to accomplish actual culture change. And of course there are modern bigcos who are borderline dystopian where it's impossible or SMBs with sociopath leadership who doesn't want change. Which is when you leave if you can't tolerate the environment, assuming you can, but attempting to change it is a whole different beast.
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I had no idea about the interstate numbering system. This is awesome to know, thanks.
It's 5.88m long! You can't drive it in inner cities of Europe and expect to fit in a parking garage or spot.