skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in downtown Chicago and I find the lack of billboards everywhere refreshing. Michigan Avenue has very few advertisements with the exception of unintrusive storefront signs.
Keep changing out shoes - listen to your feet. I've been out for a year due to plantar fasciitis with no sign of letting up.
You'd be surprised. For example, there was a terror attack in London shortly before the recent UK elections, which our Labour party responded to by spreading a bunch of lies that tried to blame the ruling Tories for the attack. One of our legal bloggers then attacked the Tories as the liars for correctly debunking those claims, backed it up with a blog post that showed those Labour claims were false for exactly the reasons claimed - but crucially, without tying the errors it pointed out to any claims made by anyone but the Tories - and managed to successfully pass it off as proof the Tories were the lying liars.

(His objection was that the Tory claims were misleading because they didn't mention that the courts could have given the Parole Board the oversight which Labour falsely claimed they had anyway and failed to exercise by handing down a kind of sentence that Labour falsely accused the Tories of stopping them from handing down. Except carefully worded to make it sound like the Tory claims and only those claims were complete lies.)
Flagging something as "low quality" because of a few typos seems utterly absurd, even if the typos are real.
Any numbers on current consumption of F1C100s?
https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/28/a-rare-glimpse-into-the-sw...

Based on this article Cloud Kitchens is competing with Uber Eats so my guess is that's why.
> but there ought to be some sort of middle ground where publishers can agree with amazon not to publish shovel-lit, and amazon will agree to give them the benefit of the doubt.

Amazon is actively seeking to conmoditize publishing and therefore capture the share of profits (and gatekeeping power) previously captured by publishers, so the mechanism you suggest, while potentially viable as an interim measure, is ultimately contrary to their strategy.
...even no code. /s
I think the author is very explicit that they aren't blaming users:

>It’s not your fault, Amazon doesn’t exactly advertise that if you make too many notes, the system informs the author they’re pulling the book.

And:

> That’s the problem! It weaponized people’s desire to help by having a computer go “oh, this must mean the book is Bad.” It’s not your fault!

The author blames Amazon:

> Sigh. I’m sure they thought they were helping, except all that really happens is that Amazon puts flags on the sales page to tell people it’s a terrible book and the author drowns in a morass of old files in a half dozen formats trying to fix things.
> Joyeux Noël :D

Seeing as I was born on Christmas Day, I got only the one present, which I figured as cheating. My parents said the one present would have to do :]
Lyft/Uber driver here: It depends on what driver rewards they are running. Most of the time they are about the same. They are both sneaky in their own way:

Uber:
1) You drive to a surge area for an extra reward and as soon as you get there it disappears. Your presence eliminates the need for a surge reward. Chasing the surge is for rookies.
2) Most of the time I get let's say X for taking someone to the airport. On a surge I am supposed to get X + Y, however they'll pay me 75% of X + Y. Isn't that great that I made Y extra! actually no, they reduced X. It's straight up robbery.

Lyft
1) I drove out some rural roads to a scheduled pickup. The rider didn't show up. Before I had a chance to cancel the ride and get some payment, the algorithm cancelled the ride paying me nothing. This does not happen on Uber. I always get paid for cancelled rides there.
2) I got a pickup in an area I was not currently in. I went there. The pickup point was inside a cemetery at night. I'm not going to drive into a cemetery at night and get robbed. I get a message "You are in a very high demand area (the neighborhood next door) Why don't you stay there and wait for a ride?" The zombie pickup went away with no comment from Lyft. Lyft sneakily lured me into an area (an unsafe lure too)
3) There were too many drivers waiting at the airport. Lyft created a high demand reward area in a town next to the airport. It didn't make sense to me, but I went there and waited. I noticed a bunch of other Lyft drivers parked there waiting. No one getting any rides. So Lyft created a false high demand reward area to siphon excess drivers from the airport waiting lot (keeping the peace with folks that live around there)

I'd say the Uber algorithm is less dishonest than the Lyft algorithm. The odd thing to me is that they don't want to hear from techie drivers that could serve as beta testers, but neither Lyft or Uber want to hear from drivers. At all. They are losing business because good drivers (smart drivers) won't take some actual legitimate rides or cancel them because of these games.
Deep neural networks can detect sexual orientation from faces [pdf]
Ah now I feel like I was wrong to make you feel as though you are contrarian. It was the right balance to bring knowledge to the post. Thanks for your input.
They are extremely niche in a sense. There are very few other search engines (all much smaller), and there's no another Facebook.

The market just naturally gravitates to the biggest player.
> That the author in question can't be bothered to keep a current copy of their manuscript ...

Why should the author, rather than the publisher, be expected to produce a public-upload-ready file on demand? (If the deadlines other authors are reporting in the thread are accurate, I wouldn't even reasonably expect a full-time major publisher to hit them - and during the last week of the year?!)
Remember, I was asking this as a lead-up to:

> As a point of pedantry, should Perl 6 (the programming language of 4 months ago) be considered a Raku dialect? Or vice versa?

My point was that "Lisp", the original implementation line, died in the 1960s. We have a bunch of implementations now in the greater Lisp family. And we call them "Lisp"s.

So, what is the greater family name which includes Perl 6 and Raku? Is it "a Perl 6"?

The "Family of Lisp" definition in the broad sense you refer to has also been used to include Python, so I know what you mean. However, I think that's excessively broad.

In https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21873228 I wrote '"Family" and "superfamily" aren't well defined'. I cannot offer a better definition. However, given my description that the "Perl" family may extend to include Ruby, I think my further request for a "family name for Raku and Perl 6 which excludes the more distant members of the family, like Perl 5" is understandable.
I think that's true but a good number of my coworkers at Apple got offers from Google as well and Apple outbid them
Thanks.

I am a little confused by the defensiveness exhibited by people when asked to explain skepticism towards astrology.

If someone asked you to explain why you don’t think quantum computing will deliver solutions in the near term, there would be a barrage of responses from people who have a thread-like tenuous grasp on the subject. And yet, there is no intellectual curiosity about astrology.

I found your response a tad defensive and hollow. But I do appreciate that you took the time to share your opinion.
According to the spec sheet, the CPU supports H264 decoding at that price. And MJPEG encoding. And has full-fat DACs for audio playback too.

https://linux-sunxi.org/images/b/ba/F1C100s_Datasheet_V1.0.p...
Oh now i know what marshall you are talking about.Yea, that's just dumb
Awesome. And yep, that's the idea, just get it moving and as you go through the project and learn more you'll find things you can (or want to) refactor to make better. But at least you moved forward.

You aren't alone, we all need a little nudge in a specific direction sometimes. :)
Much like a codebase, some of the brilliant engineers I've met relish the video games that lets them scour around the universe, think about strategy, and get into action. It's like watching someone attempting an Olympic weight-lift move.
How I Use Notion
The way OP worded it, it sounded like they (Apple) were saying, “you agree not to ‘give’ this card to someone who is a scammer”
Israeli spooks, I'm reasonably sure, have better things to do than sell toys in shopping malls, despite this crazy article in the "Telegraph."
This time it is different.^{tm}

More seriously, we are almost about to

i) Generate a good book using a short intro.

ii) Generate a meaningful video using a few photos and a basic text scenario.

Which makes us closer to generate movies on demand (say in 2025) and then good luck to people claiming that the current progress in AI is a bubble.
Commercial kitchens are more rare then empty office space because they require a lot of certifications and special equipment. Also if you are cooking food for the public then it has to be done in a commercial kitchen where for WeWork the alternative is to work from home...
What makes you believe his name is not Pall? I have other information.
If China got OPM, they could easily get most of Twitter's DBs. Most likely through Nationals passing vulns back to home state intelligence agency, who can exfil data but not finger the moles.
It sounds like you're under abusive management. If it's within your power, you should probably start looking for a new job. If you want, you should use some of those vacation days you have saved up to go on the job hunt.
You could probably save as much or more going to an AWS Serverless stack (S3 and Cloudfront CDN for the front end, lambda on the backend. Shoot me an email if you like.)
The author clearly blames Amazon multiple times for not making clear the connection between action (reader marks typos) and outcome (book gets "low quality" label and makes busywork for author).

As I reader I would not expect that to be the outcome and if I knew that's what would happen, I would just try to contact the author directly.
This comment is really funny. The way we (TimescaleDB) try to convince people (and investors) is with our product, not blog posts. But we write blog posts to transparently share our learnings with the rest of the world. That's just the open-source way. :-)

Btw for others who are reading - contributing to open-source is still very much a way to build your career, travel the world, etc. I personally know people who are living their best lives because of this. It doesn't happen for everyone, but if you are early in your career then I very much recommend it.
> another language is an entire other way of thinking about the world

This has been exactly my experience (with Korean first, then Spanish)
In this case, the author is the publisher.

(Well, technically Amazon is the publisher, but in Amazon's lexicon it's self-published.)
It sounds like your management is pushing you to give more than it's reasonable for you to give. You need to really understand that it's more than is reasonable. (You yourself described it as "unreasonable deadline".)

And, based on that, you need to become comfortable saying "no" without feeling guilty.

I mean, in a crunch, sure. For a couple of weeks, sure. For six months? That's a management failure. It's not your fault, and you can't fix it. You may be able, by heroic effort, to temporarily prevent catastrophe, at great cost to yourself. But it's actually OK to not do so. It is not reasonable for you to pay the price for management's failures.
Existing code.

Existing expertise.

Existing tooling.
The Curious Absence of Uncertainty from Many (Most?) Visualizations
I guess Crystal itself deserve some credit as well :)
>'Advertising breaks your spirit'

Anyone who has taken the NYC Subway understands this sentiment. The only way to avoid them is to completely close your eyes and wish you were somewhere else.
tbh there is nothing ethical or legal about this, actually has to have legal consequences and maybe prison time.
I think the ”original idea” behind open source was to enable collaboration. If two companies both need accounting system and they don’t see accounting system as something that would bring them competitive advantage, why not build the system together.

In many other fields this collaboration is enabled through government. Companies pay taxes, taxes are used to fund infrastructure such as roads and railways.

If I remember right for example Apache Software Foundation had a requirement that core team for project should not come from just single company.

One way to categorize open source projects is to check how many companies really collaborate on the project. Is it a true joint effort or is it in practise dependent on one entity.
Not such a bright idea: why your phone's ‘night mode’ may be keeping you awake
"India[...] where education is much more demanding and less accommodating not mean you ended up with better (more robust, more independent, better at working without assistance) engineers from the Indian group that the other group?"

I've never heard anyone ever online or in person praise Indian universities or describe Indian workers on average as more independent. The descriptions that I'm aware of are far less flattering, including from Indians themselves.

What are the above statements based on? Is there any university ranking or study you can reference?

"I'm just saying, there are plenty of great people in every country. The quick path to improve home is to get them to come here."

The wise thing to do is support local workers and train them to become better instead of stealing the "brains" of another country. Western Europe already did this with Eastern Europe, and those countries are significantly poorer for it, because a huge chunk of their intellectual elites have left their respective countries.
Bingo.

Look at Microsoft. Used to charge an arm and leg for software. Then ran up against competition from Apple and Google.

2000s were not good for Microsoft.

They’re getting their act together now. But for a while they were very much old tech.
How much did you manage to raise your rates?
>The problem is the automated Amazon system that processes your report and the obviously fucked up way it operates.

There should be a button available to authors and publishers that says "i dispute these flags" and when the button is pushed, the flags are put into a temporary status and the reviewer's/submitter's real name and address is provided to the author so the author can take them to court for damages. If the flagged items are just low quality then the author would lose in court and the submitted flagged items could then be assessed against the work. If the flagged items are not legitimate, then the person who submitted the bad reports can write a nice check to the author and amazon can then drop the bad reports from their system. The idea that everything can, or should, be handled within a platform (facebook, twitter, amazon, apple, google, etc.) is idiotic. There is a legal system for a reason and it's so that we can get a consistent and fair adjudication of our disputes.
This, so much.
With rare exceptions (mostly help-wanted signs and signs for candidates for local offices before elections) the only outdoor advertising in Marin County, CA, is on the buses, the bus shelters -- but only the shelters near highway 101 -- and retail locations advertising stuff sold there. I.e., vastly less outdoor advertising than most of the US.
That is unfair. I finally have the time and luxury to pursue whatever I want. Should my childhood influences be held against me for the subjects I find fascinating?

The internet also tells me that I can lose 20 lbs in a week and reptilian life forms live amongst us. I don’t believe everything I read but I also can’t pursue every claim. ‘I don’t know’ is something I utter often.

But here with astrology there is an opportunity to pursue the workings of it and confirm or deny.

I am not trying to discredit you. You haven’t said anything for me to ‘debunk’. Thanks again for your time.
>Consistent with the prenatal hormone theory of sexual
40 orientation, gay men and women tended to have gender-atypical facial morphology, expression,
41 and grooming styles

Only a matter of time before these conclusions are hand waved away as some sort of bias the same way that talk of ML showing race based trends is taboo without a dismissive disclaimer.

There is a massive dissonance growing between western society's utopian clean slate-ism and the reality that physical characteristics are strong statistical priors for a range of predictions at an individual and group level.

Now, whether or not it is ethical to make use of such priors is the real question - but the trend in tech seems to be focusing on the wrong discussion and potentially holding back beneficial research.
Boeing reveals new 'disturbing' documents on 737 Max jetliner
> many of them around the type system, as this article points out, but also a lot around the language APIs.

I think there's a lot not to love about gRPC/protobufs (used them at Google and again now at a startup) but I don't feel like this did a good job highlighting those issues.
Identify the niche influencers for your market using Google data studio
"chickenshit minimalism"

https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm#minimalism
I think it shows up in the "ask" tab based on not having a URL in the submission. At least, there are entries in there that do not begin with "Ask HN".

I agree that it is customary, and helpful.
Against Railway-Oriented Programming
How do you think we hunted prey in the past? I thought human's biggest skill was our endurance running, out-performing almost all other animals?
I'd be really interested in hearing why it wasn't faster! I expect the answer is along the lines of: "Well theoretically the zero-copy design should be faster, but in practice factors X and Y dominate performance and Protobuf wins on those." I'd love to know exactly what X and Y are...

(I'm the original author of proto2/c++, but I'm mostly interested for any lessons that might apply to my work on Cap'n Proto...)
There's embedded devices with an order of magnitude more CPU and two orders more RAM, if you're being strict about what counts as "embedded". If you're not, probably another order of magnitude on each.
Protect Yourself with Password Recipes
Educating the Chinese for Security
Open source is enabling large corporations to establish monopolies.

Open source powers google and amazon yet the authors get little return from it.

Open source has killed indie development.
Flask is a pretty simple REST API to setup that is relatively performant
"So I will educate any Chinese visitors on this domestic humanitarian issue, probably soon get banned by the Great Chinese Firewall, and as such also improve my website’s security, since I will be banned for Chinese hackers too."

Using geolocation and Google Translate for protest and security.
They are already convicted and awaiting sentencing, so I don’t think this is similar to Belgium case you’re talking about.
If the attacker has Meltdown/Specter-style access to your stack, register spills (especially but exclusively if not overwritten when you're done) can compromise your keys, but you need to have a rather weird threat model to avoid having them just read the actual keys out whatever storage you got them from in the first place.
The book consists of interviews with people who experienced the events. It's oral history, it even says so explicitly in the title.

You have yet to address question: why is an oral history compiled by someone with a vested interest in selling copies of her book more (and thus, an incentive to produce a more sensational narrative) more authoritative than the multiple studies conducted by experts in radioactive contamination and it's health effects?

And from what I've been able to determine, this book is responsible for several fabrications promulgated by HBO's Chernobyl, which used this book as one of it's main sources. Among others, the "bridge of death" where supposedly everyone who watched the reactor fire from said bridge died from contamination. In reality, people who were on that bridge are still alive today, and have even been interviewed. Oral history is notoriously unreliable for events steeped in folklore like Chernobyl.
I would imagine that tax enforcement would be one of those things with diminishing returns.

Obviously we can afford to diminish a 20.0 BCA and still make tons of money, but I wonder what the actual limit of this would be.
Because businesses are too greedy and noticed that they can import cheaper workers or outsourcing and the politicians are letting them get away with it.

The US should absolutely improve its education and social safety net. :-/ The average American Joe is getting screwed so much by the politicians and businessmen that it makes even people like me which have never set foot in the US sad.
Christmas code in 140 characters of JavaScript
I mean, even if we were to get nothing else out of the current AI boom, it'd e hard to call it a bubble as much as the 80s crash.
You’re unironically right.
Reuters has a similar article at https://www.reuters.com/article/us-boeing-737max/new-boeing-...

The Reuters article, however, contained a paragraph that was news to me:

> Boeing had earlier turned over the documents to the Justice Department, which has an active criminal investigation underway into matters related to the 737 MAX plane.

An active criminal investigation? Wow. Boeing's in a lot hotter water than I knew.
And we all get a better product because of it, moving the ship of humanity a little bit further along.
Dude, there are tons of packages for doing Protobuf in C#, I've been writing systems in C# that used proto for over three years I think at this point. Here's one for starters: https://www.nuget.org/packages/protobuf-net