skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's simpler than that. Things and people inherit the properties of what they're called. That's why slurs are so powerful. e.g. n-word, c-word.

I don't believe I've ever seen a post on HN about how wonderful a Human Resources department has ever been, or ever treated anyone fairly. Feel free to prove me wrong here.

If you can dehumanize humans, then you can treat them like objects. It's easier to do firings or layoffs, or cut back on pay raises and benefits.
Ask HN: Privacy-first and anonymized usage analytics for iOS
Hi HN – I'm looking for anonymized usage analytics for iOS that doesn't conflict with my views around privacy.

Goal:
To understand what features in the app people are appreciating/engaging-with, and where in the app people get stuck. In gist: to facilitate accessibility and feature discovery.

The old route is Firebase analytics or Facebook events tracking – but I don't want to be part of this surveillance economy. I'd like my products to be part of the solution to our privacy problems.

Any recommendations? Thanks, y'all.
> The Fry’s in Burbank won’t even keep all their lights on during the day. I’ve had to bust out the flashlight on my phone while browsing there.

Seriously?
Not integrating encourages isolation and resentment.
>The sheer amount of fraud causes a contraction in the availability of credit with impact on the scale of the credit crunch of 08

You had me until this. You're basically describing a world where anyone can impersonate anyone else, and you think this would only cause a financial impact "on the scale of 08"?
In the US, I thought it was already either illegal or legally risky for an employer to ask a candidate about their marriage status.
Yeah that sounds like a good and useful idea!
Ingenious! The terrain looks realistic for such a simple technique, specially w/ well chosen colours (check the C13 and C16 maps on the live demo).
None of those 3 locations are SoCal.
Vulkan being around to compete with DirectX was supposed to break down the last big barrier stopping Linux from being able to game as well as Windows. I guess that only works if game companies are willing to code up the Linux version to begin with, though.
The Hyundai Kona and Kia Niro fit the bill pretty well after incentives (About $30k and $32k after federal incentive and plus destination charge and both will qualify for federal incentives in the US for quite a while... not counting California incentives). Limited availability, unfortunately, but they do exist.
I believe the one in Sunnyvale is closing. Last time we were there, maybe a couple of months ago, the shelves were being emptied out.
Corellium would have a much better argument if they weren't for profit and closed source. I'm honestly surprised it's taken this long.
In France I ordered my Tesla Model 3 SR+ on the web site August 15, 2019, delivered September 21st, could have been earlier but I asked for a saturday delivery.

This was end of a quarter where Tesla decided to deliver some volume in France. Q4 2019 they targeted mostly Netherlands in Europe. Don't know what will be Tesla priority in Q1 2020, a friend of mine ordered in december and has "probable" delivery in february.
> 8 years later and no company has managed to come up with a car that seriously competes with the 2012 Model S. Tesla was the first to market and remains the market leader.

I actually worry about this. Tesla is the scrappy underdog for now and thus they are really innovating - but what happens when traditional automakers start going bankrupt because they aren't keeping up with the change over to EV? I wouldn't want a Tesla monopoly either.
> One that is better solved with a deposit scheme

Ocado will pay 5p per bag, even other supermarkets' bags.
Uhm, I'm not sure how Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. would do that. If you mean this article, then it is rather specific where the 1st and 2nd amendments are general principles and rights that are regarded as timeless.
Please don't use emoji (especially colored ones) in titles. I didn't even think HN allowed that. It's distracting and ruins the clean text aesthetic.
Imagine if different areas of the United States still spoke the languages of first-generation immigrants.

You'd have the French, German, Dutch, English, native tribes, Spanish...
>Having to tell everyone to stop talking so you can turn the wipers on is just plain bad design.

My S and X both have "normal" wiper controls on a stick attached to the steering wheel, although I almost never use it since they are set to automatically turn on and change intensity depending on rainfall.
It's an interesting and decorative knot - I've not seen anything like it before. I'll have to give it a try. I'm trying to think of another quality bight knot that can be tied with the object in place. Not the bowline, not the butterfly.
If we're lucky we'll get better precedent from this suit.
Or even best buy (at least in canada)
The helmet isn't going to protect you from semis, unfortunately. Here in NYC most cyclist deaths are caused by being run over by larger vehicles, which can easily be fatal even at slow speeds regardless of whether you're wearing a helmet or not. No helmet is going to support the weight of a truck.

Now I do wear a bike helmet when biking for other reasons, but I give trucks wide leeway.
My 2018 Model 3 LR AWD has a range of 310 miles. That Bolt is not really competing with current Tesla models. I’m all for more EVs, but find it disheartening to know that in 2019 and 2020, existing manufacturers are barely competing with the 2012 model S on range.
Just a plug for Clifford Ashley, the god-father of knots and their tying. His book has some of my favorite knots in it and is a joy to have received as a gift when I was younger. His stopper knot is a pretty cool one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ashley_Book_of_Knots
We have a hitch on both our S and X for hauling trailers full of wood, trash, etc. Highly recommend over a pickup truck.
> Now we have natural neural networks in the control loop for some reason despite their unknown error bounds.

Not in any automatic control loops. All control loops that do this have a human as the final piece of the pipeline, and that human is legally responsible for the outcome of the control loop. That defeats the point of automatic control.

> To give another example: is there a sensor for vehicle placement relative to road edges with known upper error bound, which is less than width of the road?

No, which is why these control pieplines have a human in control. For the experimental pipelines that do not have a human in the end of the control loop, they do have other control pipelines to avoid collisions, and the only that their control algorithms guarantee is a lack of collisions, not the ability for the car to stay on a lane. That is, the car might leave the lane under some conditions, but if it does, it will detect other objects and avoid crashing into them (although those objects might crash into it).

> All in all, we already have unreliable human part in the control loop of a vehicle. A control system that is provably robust in all real world situations will be the ultimate achievement and not a prerequirement for wide use of self-driving cars.

Right now, control loops without proven error bounds are not allowed by certification bodies on any control-loop in charge of preserving human lives in the aerospace, automotive, medical, and industrial robotics industries.

Allowing control-loops without known error bounds to be in charge of human lives would lower the current standards of these industries. Could be done (the government would need to create a new kind of regulation for this), but at this point it is unclear how that would look like.
> that suck money out of local stores and diverts all the money to Seattle, except for the local warehouses where minimum wage workers are being worked like robots

Fry's is not paying better than Amazon and Amazon's workers do not earn the minimum wage. Show me where Fry's has a national $15 minimum wage policy (they don't), ie nearly 100% higher than the Federal minimum wage.
There is zero causal linkage between CO2 and drought. In fact, rain forests have very high CO2 levels and they get tons of rain.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0028825X.1994.10...

Drought is caused by variable patterns in ocean and atmospheric currents.
Love the readme, maybe that is the star of the show
If you look at Tucker he proudly called himself a socialist in the Prouhdon tradition. The socialist community, however, diverged from the Tuckerite path, even during his lifetime (by the end Tucker was vehemently criticizing socialism, which was by then understood to mean implicitly state socialism)
SF Bay Area folks: for buying new your options (depending on what you are trying to buy) are now https://www.centralcomputers.com/ for enterprise/personal computers, https://www.bestbuy.com/ for consumer electronics, https://anchor-electronics.com/ for electronic components.

Central computers just opened a store almost right across the road from the Sunnyvale Fry's.
Here's how Volument works: https://volument.com/learn/volument-data-model

A/B testing in Volument is quite different from, say Optimizely. You can compare a lot of things in apples-to-apples fashion: landing pages, inner pages, market segments, campaigns, site versions, etc. And you can compare both how much traction something generates, or how engaging a page is.

The causation thing is just something we measure. We measure how people behave on their first visit, how intensively they return, and how much they convert. It's not about the statistical validity, it's about choosing metrics that are essential for conversion optimization.
Next time you're at a supermarket count the number of people using cotton bags.

Cotton bags are completely irrelevant but are often cherrypicked by those with an agenda to push.
Yes, I agree. This move makes me much less likely to use U-Haul. I don't like supporting companies that abuse their employees.
CO-related effects persist in smokers for some time after smoking (a few days for red blood cell weirdness to go away, IIRC). Not sure how easy to test it is, though.
I don't know if this policy is chain wide, but I was very unhappy with the weird shakedown when you leave. There's a person there that stops you and matches your receipt to your purchased items. No attempt to be friendly about it either.
Depends on how you measure it, of course. However, stackoverflow survey, google trends, and github octoverse all show PyTorch is on a steep upward trajectory that recently reached effective parity with TensorFlow and has not yet started slowing down.
A bit of self-promo, but for those interested I also am using a variation of this algorithm powered by compute shaders. See https://twitter.com/voxelquest. If you scroll down a bit, you can even see versions using the maps from Comanche shown in this demo. :)

(Also, thank you @s-macke, your github page taught me the fundamentals of the algorithm - previously I had only seen Ken Silverman's post on wave surfing, which was not nearly as clear).
I wish I understood better how anti-cheat works. When anti-cheat software gets flagged while running on linux, is the cause of the flag a viable route for other cheats? I'm so unfamiliar with the mechanics of anti-cheat that I'm not even sure if I'm asking a proper question.
Strongly disagree. I am very allergic to smoke, cigarette smoke in particular. Its not just the smoker that's being affected. I've had numerous run ins with HR about second hand smoke on the job and how it affects my health. I wish my company had a policy like this.
Any context would be nice. This is a modified/wrapped client, right?

edit: any forums software I ever write is going to use a 'fallback to static rendering' circuit breaker setup in the case of slashdotting.
What do you mean? Knot theory is a field.
> An individual with a disability is defined by the ADA as a person who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities, a person who has a history or record of such an impairment, or a person who is perceived by others as having such an impairment.

I’m not sure nicotine addiction fits the bill, what major life activities does it substantially inhibit?

https://www.ada.gov/cguide.htm#anchor62335
I know some of these are obviously backed by winks, but I got a smile from this because they're only a hair away from being rather plausible. You should be writing sci-fi!

> Potemkin jobs abound in a world that doesn't require humans to work to produce anything but needs to keep them busy to stop them complaining about stuff.

"There is another theory which states that this has already happened." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
Is there any more details than a couple people being banned complaining in a forum post? Cause this looks like textbook posts by people who were caught cheating.
What’s the downside of copying the good stuff? I think the examples aren’t confusing at all and are perfectly readable by anybody.

Honestly I’ll be deeply ashamed as a Python programmer writing cascading ifs when even C++ gets pattern matching. (Yeah, I know all the arguments against it.)
You might enjoy these speculative articles about proton beams:

"Particle Beams and Saucer Dreams" https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/area-51-and-other-strang...

"So ya don’t believe it was a proton beam, eh?" https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/area-51-and-other-strang...
Wow. The MARAUDER sounds like the kind of weapon you would only find in a modern installment of Command & Conquer in an alternate timeline of history.
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I've been to a Micro center once in my life, in Sunnyvale, in Mercado. The prices were worse than Staples for computer equipment so I never went back. I don't even know if it's still there anymore.

I have no idea which part of the country you live in, but I would be shocked if in the Bay Area, Micro Center would be considered a "success". I can see how some stores, depending on their business agreements, might be able to stay alive through support, etc.

But for example, last year I ordered a graphics card on Amazon and it arrived on a Friday. I tried installing it on Saturday, and discovered it was broken, so I ordered a new one on Saturday afternoon. It arrived on a Sunday, before 9am. It was the most amazing experience.
It's in a different category. I'd think of it more like comparing a TV to a monitor. The latter is more expensive.
Yes. It also takes an obscene amount of energy to get something as heavy as an invasion force as far as another planet in a reasonable timeframe. There’s also the energy you gain (or have to dissipate) from the final descent.
That is not how it works from what little I know. Neither the spaceship, nor the outside observers will EVER see it hit the speed of light. That is the only constant thing they agree on. All of relativity hinges on this point. The Lorentz transformation is based on the fact that the speed of light is constant for all observers whether they're "stationary" or moving at 0.999999999c . So even at very high fractions of light speed, you know for a fact that you haven't hit light speed because when you turn on your spaceship's lights, the photons will look like they're travelling away from you at the speed of light (due to the own time dilation and length contraction you experience).

This is why when you're calculating the actual value of time dilation, it considers what fraction of speed of light you're traveling. Because if you were the traveler, time dilates and length contracts EXACTLY enough to make light appear to travel at 1c (regardless of your own speed).
take more adderal - you can't
I believe they were talking about Microcenter.
Making an offer to buy the company can actually help apple if their suit continues.
I get less variety at microcenter than Frys. I use to frequent both, fora long time I just put up with bad customer service and atmosphere (hostile at times!) At both establishments but somehow, microcenter just changed last year, and now I either get it at microcenter or order online and wait, fry's is my last option. Part of me wants to feel sorry for retail workers but I think it's a management issue.

One time I had to get a laptop last minute, they (fry's) tried to get me to buy one laptop, told them I will look around first, which I did and foud what I wanted, asked them to help me get that model after which they basically ignored me and refused to interact with me for like half an hour to 45 minutes where finally a manager stepped in and personally helped me.

Another time, I wanted to buy some game I think as a gift. I declined to give my name/address since I was paying cash and suddenly I needed to show my id and a credit card or else I'm committig fraud or some ridiculous thing.

I've seen them make nasty comments about a customer's appearance to the customer's face too.

And this is at different locations. Microcenter started to get their way,but I was so shocked how they turned around. It's hard to explain,like the sales people will helpfully just ...help you find things without being rude. The cashiers will ask for an address (and get pushy at times) but they are fine without one.

I will just buy online if I have to give up my name anyways. Cash gift cards and deliver it to a trusted person. All the variety I want too. The one advantage aside from accessibility retailers had was privacy and that's outthe door now. Amazon/newegg does not do facial recognition,gait analysis and track my phone in order to buy something in their site.
Abuse? Second hand smoking is a thing, it's the smokers who are doing the abuse, both to themselves and others.
There used to be a Micro Center in the Mercado shopping center. There's no Micro Center in Northern California any more.
none of this is helpful.

You cant just navigate to a random address by knowing which way is north.
Actually you are right. It does make sense, I just always interpreted decade as a different abstraction.

2019 could be the end of "my decade" only if there was a year zero, which does not exist in gregorian calendar. The second millenium ended in year 2000, so the 202 decade ends in 2020.
Helmets are for any activity that has an impact risk to your head which includes cycling not just sports.

I live in Austria where few cyclists wear helmets yet my girlfriend who works in the local hospital sees patients coming in with serious head injuries on a daily basis from biking accidents that could have easily been prevented by wearing a helmet. Since then we both wear our helmets religiously.

You don't even have to get hit by a car. An unfortunate collision with a texting pedestrian, some dog on a leash jumping in front of you or another cyclist could be enough to smack your melon on the asphalt.

Just because you hear Europeans aren't wearing helmets doesn't mean it's the model to follow. I see wearing a helmet the same as wearing a seatbelt.
Sure I never needed it since I never had an accident and it feels slightly uncomfortable but I know it could save my life.

It's up to you how much you value your head.

I highly doubt ebikes have a 50% share in Belgium. Do you have any references on that claim? Last year I visited Belgium's 4 major cities and almost every cyclist I saw was on some old half broken bicycle.
I'm pretty sure the mechanics of the anti-cheat are kept obscure to prevent cheat makers from adding anti-anti-cheat tech to their product.
Do you not believe someone can begin to gain coding experience at age 12?
You must not have heard from an actual Tesla owner.

In the most recent update (last week) virtually everything can be done by voice. You can literally say, “my butt is cold” and it will turn on the seat heater. You can say, “turn up the heat” and it will turn up the heat.

The volume and whatnot can be controlled via the tactile roller knobs on the right and left side of the steering wheel.
OTA updates certainly present risks, but we shouldn't pretend there is no downside to the old approach. For example, both Tesla and Toyota have had similar problems with the brake software on their vehicles. Tesla had a software fix in a few days which immediately began automatically fixing vehicles [1]. Toyota also had a fix quickly, but they had to recall 185,000 vehicles so a technician could manually apply the update [2]. Were all those impacted Toyota's updated, how quickly were they updated, and how many accidents occurred because they weren't updated quick enough? This is especially important when it comes to self driving or driver assistance software. What happens if there is a bug discovered in Toyota's version of that software?

I think in the end we need some type of regulation or oversight on this because a company being either carelessly aggressive or anti-consumer with OTA updates is a serious risk, but that doesn't mean the potential of OTA updates should be thrown out with the bath water.

[1] - https://www.consumerreports.org/car-safety/tesla-model-3-get...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%9311_Toyota_vehicle...
>In the US in particular, eyballing the number of cars and the number of pedestrians in images of places like New York etc that I've seen

You sound like a non-American. Let me give you some advice: take everything you've ever seen about NYC, and file that in a different place in your brain's filing system away from your file labeled "America". It does not represent America in any way when talking about cars, walkability, culture, or really anything else really. It's a place that's totally unique in the world. For some reason, too many non-Americans see movies set in NYC and think that all of America is just like this, and it isn't at all.

(Personally, I wish it was more representative of America in terms of walkability, but it just isn't.)
I hope he sings more than just opera.
Good start. Hopefully more companies and work places follow with similar policies.
Yeah, I was in there about a month ago, needed a few long ethernet cables while at a datacenter.

Same thing everyone else reports: it was dark with a few bored employees wondering around aimlessly. Alternating messy and bare shelves. Absurd amounts of floor space compared to the trade they were doing.

They did have 50' ethernet cables, though.
16“ MacBook Pro: True Tone Broken with Scaled Resolution
When using True Tone on new 16" MBP, blue shadow/anti aliasing is displayed around things rendered on screen (both native retina display and external displays). This only occurs when using "scaled" resolution above the default.

Apple discussion thread: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250963040

For those without AppleID: https://superuser.com/questions/1511128/16-macbook-pro-blue-pixel-aliasing-on-external-display
Affordable probably being the key word there.
More than not coding up a Linux version, some games will actively refuse to run under Wine.
It sure is supported. The NHS will delay or deny surgery to people if they are tobacco users or above a specific BMI. This was a pretty big debate in the UK a couple years ago. Crazy thing is this was motivated by cost cutting, not concerns about the success of the surgery.
Mainly because Europe has caught up, as evidenced by many peoples' waistlines this side of the pond.
Zero and the entire decimal system is an invention of the Indian / Vedic / Hindu civilization. Unfortunately the name Arabic has come to be added to that. These are through & through Hindu numeral system, including 0
So sad to see this. The Thunderbird store used to be about midway between work and home when I lived in AZ, 20 years ago. I'd often stop in just to walk around and see what was new.

Now, the nearest Fry's is 45-60 minutes away from me, so I've only been in about 3 times in the last decade. The most recent was equally depressing. We didn't find what we were looking for and it probably would have been damaged even if we had.