skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really depend on what you're doing. From what I'm seeing, documenting ERP customizations, developing/optimizing SQL is not a place you want to be.

Move out if you can, granted, a lot of places on these kind of things tend to be easier on the task load, but it's not true in your case. Have you tried to automate? Are you drawning in powerpoint presentation and word documents? All of these are important to know.
I got to ride on one of Lyft's self-driving taxis during last year's AWS conference.

If Lyft (and most of the other commentary on self-driving cars) is an accurate picture of the current state-of-the-art, then let's just say the tech has a long way to go before its ready for the kind of everyday use that we're being hyped up for.
A Political History of X [video]
I intend to run for office. It is a thankless, unpleasant, but necessary schlep. I’d encourage you to consider the same.

No blockchain!
PHP is, and always has been a "Personal Home Page"
Could be some fun counterfeits :zany:
Neat idea, I created something similar years ago but didn't know how to market it.

What's your strategy to get users?
These PR materials are meant to go with a press demo of some sort that Cruise will host tomorrow. It will make more sense then.
Blog post and slides: http://keithp.com/blogs/lca2020/ http://keithp.com/documents/lca2020-x-history.pdf
I've not seen any evidence that downvoting patterns have changed on HN in recent years, and the rules haven't changed either. If the community is being ruined, something else must be doing it.
I just realized that most of these UIs unfortunately redirect to a simplified mobile UI. Thanks to those who pointed this out in the comments; after Google had left the UIs in-place for 15+ years, I wasn’t expecting them to remove in the few months since I put together this extension. I’ll look into seeing if there are any user agent strings that still work in the future.
> c) take up less room on streets.

Not on a per-passenger basis, which is the metric that matters more in streets full of people traveling.
So can do Falkon :)

Having a Chrome UA is a MUST on webkit based browsers if you want Google's taxing services such as Earth/Maps/Gmail and so on being faster and smoother than ever. Seriously.

Once you open Street View on luakit/vimb with a Chrome UA, the diff is night and day.
There is a https://ddg.gg which redirects to the main domain, so I'm not sure if it's what you're looking for.
> (b) the one with the newest and safest roads.

What? You should try driving the roads around DTW. Bring your off-road tires.

Many airports across the rust belt and northeast of the US suffer the plague of under-maintained infrastructure. CLE and BWI are coming to mind as well. And driving any highway in ATL can hardly be considered safe.
I love this, I follow a similar method. One thing that immediately stood out is the Instagram ad creative is poor. The copy is overly technical and there’s no call to action. The image is a basic stock photo.

Spending 5 minutes in Biteable [1] or a similar service would kick out much better ad creative that would likely have yielded substantially better results.

Another point of contention is around the revenue model. Sure you could pay 4x to drive initial growth, but if you keep those customers longer than a month, the LTV could outpace the CAC.

Finally, all those efforts work together. Spend $20K on google ads and referrals will go up, you can test conversion funnels since you have traffic, back links will appear that will help your organic SEO in the long term, audiences for retargeting on Facebook will fill up, etc.

However, the conclusion of the author is one I agree with in the long term. Tech will solve for this. Hololens and Quest are close, the next generation will probably solve it across multiple platforms.

[1] I work for Biteable.
Waymo launched a service that does just this in December 2018:
https://www.businessinsider.com/waymo-one-driverless-car-ser...
I could not even begin to consider using PHP again until php.ini is completely eliminated. Not even optionally eliminated, I need to know I won't have to deal with a hidden php.ini with all it's configured extensions somewhere on a system before use, surprising me with missing, insecure or completely changed PHP behavior. The fact that I didn't know what features a server supported until I investigated or configured this file was a sinkhole of my productivity in any new project.
If you focus on being FUN to be around, dating won't be a problem. Are you fun? Or do you talk about serious things all the time and put that weight on everyone?

Figure out how to make people laugh, which starts with enjoying laughing yourself. Get very good at pointing out that things are funny and having a good laugh. Laugh at yourself.

That will go a long way in dating.
I don't have any recommendations for Julia, but for Rust have you tried fastobo?

- https://github.com/fastobo/fastobo
- https://github.com/fastobo/fastobo-owl

It has been tested heavily on all the ontologies on the obofoundry site.

But I agree in general that working with OWL ontologies (particularly those that use nested OWL constructs) can be difficult to work with in non-JVM languages.
Tim Cook, for one.
It adds a lot of complexity to write performant code (you basically need another middle layer), yes.

But it also has some security benefits - with that model it’s harder to have exploits (as in your request you don’t carry over any other state), session swaps, no need to care about concurrency, locks, etc.

It’s by accident, but it’s a real benefit of php.
What other devices perform all of the backup, restore, and os upgrade, functionality of iTunes.

I've never claimed anything about any other functions of iTunes. I just said it was a problem that Apple devices make it difficult to get your data off using only local transfer.

The iPhone doesn’t use the standard “usb mass storage” protocol to allow you to download pictures. It uses the picture transfer protocol.

Yes, exactly like your camera, as I said.
Back in the mid-90s to the turn of the century I was fond of and used Bolt.com, which might be described as "Facebook 10 years ahead of its time". Users had a profile page with their own username, picture(s), and related information, as well as access to mid-90s era style forums to live-chat with other users. It died around or just after 2000.
Would you please not be a jerk on HN? This was gratuitous.

We've had to ask you many times about this kind of thing—for years already. Continuing to break the site guidelines is eventually going to get you banned. I'd rather not have to do that, so if you'd review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
> How did matchmaking for music lessons get into the discussion as a billion dollar idea?

This is a near perfect example of how "big business" can kill the spirit of entrepreneurship.

The idea (or VC cocaine induced fever dream) that every idea should be a billion dollar idea is exactly whats wrong with the current tech climate.
It works with two and not with one, so pretty much required. The effect is far from marginal in my setup. Also far cheaper then the post link, less than half.
My Firefox install has seven search engines by default in the "one-click search engine" options. By contrast, DuckDuckGo has 13000 bang shortcuts. Sure, you don't need all of them, but I use dozens: some of them almost daily (like !w for Wikipedia and !wt for Wiktionary), some sporadically (like !tw for Twitter or !a for Amazon) and some of them only rarely (e.g. I picked up a Pokémon game recently and consequently have used !bulba to quickly search Bulbapedia, a Pokémon fan wiki.) Of course I can add all those to Firefox, but DuckDuckGo already has them set up, and has many more that I can use without thinking about them. I think that still counts as a killer feature.
> I am really split by wanting to use full graph databases vs. RDF/RDFS/OWL

I think having an alternative OWL->graph mapping that utilized the features of property graphs would help a lot with using non-RDF graph databases. The RDF layering is sub-optimal.

I wrote about this here: https://douroucouli.wordpress.com/2019/07/11/proposed-strate...
fvwm was always faster than TWM, even if at a first TWM runs faster. Also, TCL would be faster than Java :)
Why is it that something as malleable as a user-agent string trips these kinds of sensors?

If I were to write a bot, copying current browsers' user-agents is literally the first thing I'd do
I think they missed the opportunity to add some value to the market, by doing some kind of background checks to ensure the teachers are safe to let into your kids home.

Trust is an element people always look for above all else.
True, but I read a big distinction between "encrypted at rest" and "encrypted on the server". Encrypted at rest has the implications that you state, being there to prevent somebody from walking off with a hard drive. Encrypted on the server implies that it is never unencrypted while on the server, and that any server-side computation is done solely through homomorphic encryption.
In the early aughts, fresh out of college, one of my first projects was to take semi-structured text from database blobs and convert it to XML. I quickly realized it was not a task to be fully automated, too many edge cases that really required human judgement because the it was only very loosely semi-structured. I turned to sed, awk, and pico. Sed & awk did the 99%, and dumped into pico when it didn't know what to do and I would resolve the issue. Doing it semi-supervised in this way was 100 times faster than doing it all manually, and 10 times faster than full automation, and probably more accurate.

But it was the ability to string together these types of command line tools that made it possible.
For gaming, as long as you're not playing a Microsoft-exclusive game, Lutris seems to work pretty well for most stuff.
I used to contribute to Stack Overflow (from around 2014-2017). I did it because it was fun — answering questions was like solving programming puzzles, and moderation tasks were rewarding as well. Eventually, I joined a couple teams of users (called SOBotics and Charcoal [1]) where we wrote bots that used the Stack Exchange API to automate moderation tasks. This was an awesome hobby, and my teammates were a group of really awesome people I considered friends.

At that time, even though I knew SO was a for-profit corporation, it really didn’t feel like one. Nearly all of the staff (including the CEO) were regular users (often since long before they were hired) who were well-respected and made great decisions, and a lot of them hung out on Meta and in chat and were a lot of fun to interact with. (That’s why Shog9 and Robert Catarino’s firing is such a big deal: they were among the few remaining staff members who were from this era and still had this level of trust, respect, and friendship with the community).

My participation tapered off in 2018 because I became busy with school, but I still dropped by every now and then, and I kept up with Meta. Around this time was when the company started deteriorating — at first, we started to notice that they had pretty much stalled on improving moderator tooling (leading to serious growing pains and a lot of the “unfriendliness”). Then, they started making a series of bad decisions [2] which hinted that the company no longer understood or cared about their community. For the most part, everyone wrote these off as just mistakes or unfortunate business decisions, but our patience wore thin after repeated violations. The firing of Monica Cellio was the straw that broke the camel’s back — we realized SO was no longer the lightweight, friendly company it used to be, and a lot of high-profile users left as a result [3].

I haven’t looked much into non-profit alternatives, but a bunch of high-profile users have launched a project called Codidact [4]. We’ll see if it takes off — that’s a pretty lofty goal, but they are some pretty impressive people. I don’t plan to go back to SO, but I might join the Codidact project — after all, I was ok SO because of the community, not the corporation.

[0]: https://sobotics.org/

[1]: https://charcoal-se.org

[2]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/331513/258777

[3]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/333965/258777

[4]: https://codidact.org/
Watch some of the videos on youtube, it's quite interesting. You can see that the predator is able to target and track automatically so the pilot basically just has to hit the button to fire the weapons and a hit is almost guaranteed. No need to have good reflexes or low latency. The pilots are in Nevada so the best case scenario is probably 100ms pings anyway.
Chrome OS devices will get 8 years of updates starting this year
Has there been any weakness found in Telegram's encryption?
How Did Americans Lose Faith in Everything?
> It is useful to think of technical change as having come in four waves since the 1800s

> steam engine, electric power, information technology (IT), and artificial intelligence (AI).

Just no. AI has not come, it hasn't even started. What people call AI today is literally faster IT infrastructure in implementing math. The proper term for what we see today is machine learning and it is based purely on statistics.
Yeah, I made binds for CTRL+Z/A/C/V/X with the lower modifier so I can use my left thumb + ASDF for them.
Show HN: Twelve Simple Algorithms to Compute Fibonacci Numbers
There are three value props in B2B: increase revenue, decrease cost and mitigate risks. Pick one or more and find a way to demonstrate in plain language how they can help a company accomplish them. Be a startup of one: what is the one-liner, what's the 30 second pitch, how does it make me money/save me money/reduce my risk of losing my money? Why does it require the fancy knowledge?
I don't think it is. Their hard-earned reputation for canceling services is really hurting them now. They never accounted for the effect of all the users they've been continually pissing off moving up in the ranks in companies and deciding never to use Google services. The leaked communication that suggests that they could actually cancel GCP doomed any chance that that would be a big player next to AWS and Azure.
There's something you should know about AirPods
Google releases 3 new experimental apps to help cut down your phone usage
I love all the other commands for Go. I love the pprof, it’s so powerful. https://golang.org/pkg/net/http/pprof/ and all their other commands are great https://golang.org/cmd/go/
The most interesting unknown book I've read was Plato and the Creation of the Hebrew Bible by Russell E. Gmirkin. It'a an academic thesis and not really written for readability by the general public, but the ideas it presents are mind blowing. The gist is a theory that the Hebrew Bible was written by pre-Jewish scholars and politicians who studied Plato's works at the Library at Alexandria with the goal of uniting (12) disparate pre-Jewish tribes into one nation modeled after Plato's Republic. It's interesting both as a challenge to the mainstream theory that Plato's works were inspired by the Hebrew Bible, and as a look at an ancient social engineering project that still has huge implications thousands of years later. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32183185-plato-and-the-c...
To test out how this "ad" looks like - via Mach2 tool
back in my day we had Snapchat
If your threat model includes pointed requested from law enforcement, then you probably shouldn’t be using any consumer internet products wholesale.
Can you expand on that? One of the main use cases for GO is statistical enrichment analyses. Of course, there are definitely problems here, from choice of appropriate way to correct for multiple hypotheses to appropriateness of frequentist vs Bayesian methods (e.g. Ontologizer). Is this what you are getting at?
> AutoML will perform most of the model development [ This will occur within the next 5 years or even less].

Similar to how languages that are 'designed for non-programmers' fared?
I think its for the cool and fun factor and to hear google text-to-speech voice talking to you. It must feel cool one way or another, its usually how kids and teenagers spread things.
Anecdote: I recently purchased a laptop which came preinstalled with Windows 10. After trying 6 different Linux distributions -- Ubuntu, Fedora, Mint, Manjaro, Suse, MX Linux -- and none of them working (issues ranging from the installer not working to being totally unable to boot after the install to frequent freezing), I gave up and have gone back to Windows. I think I could've made Gentoo work with enough effort, but I don't have the patience for Gentoo that I used to.

I mean, maybe my experience would've been different with a different laptop, or maybe I could've put more effort in, but this is what stops Linux from being a daily driver for me. I don't want to spend all of that time just trying to find a distribution that works, followed by even more time trying to keep it working.

I disagree with Windows' direction more and more. I very much want to like Linux and use it as a daily driver -- I tried 6 popular distributions trying to get just one to work! -- but the reality of it stops me. If this is what someone who wants to use Linux experiences, how will it ever be able to catch on for regular desktop use?

(The best experience was with MX Linux. The hardware compatibility wasn't ideal; installing proprietary nvidia drivers broke the boot; power usage was kinda poor relative to Windows; but overall, I was able to at least use it.)
It's possible. Should not be done for safety reasons (and not the safety of the passengers).
Medium post that goes with this: https://medium.com/cruise/the-cruise-origin-story-b6e9ad4b47...
Hulu seems to be doing OK
How would a neverending stream of self-driving vehicles competing for access to riders free up right-of-way. If these work (which they won’t), the will only worsen traffic.
Yarrabubba crater in WA outback world's oldest recognised impact structure
You can have low level autonomy features but high level overrides and route planning by a person, including protected rights, jaywalkers, and some emergency manual driving for construction zones, etc.
The car has a pretty easy acceptance test:

1) Board the CEO and the CTO (with their families)

2) Drive from downtown LA to Lax.

Until than...
Before we had cellphones, we used to use the windows terminal “net send” command to send each other messages in classes we had computers.
I used to work for a data-scraping firm and very often we would accidentally knock many web sites offline when we pointed our crawlers at them.

I'd love to agree with you, but the crawler problem is 100x worse today than it was a decade ago
I like Perl regexes more though, especially aliases. Using \d is a lot neater than [0-9] or [[:digit:]].
No release date or price or anything? I honestly don't even know what this is. Is it for the city or for the individual? What are its capabilities? I sure would love ANY concrete details. This is all just tech marketing speak, same old bullshit.
Why not run phpinfo()?

Lists all loaded configuration as well as extensions and their configuration. Basically everything about the runtime environment your in.

Beginner level stuff.
I expected a section about testing and benchmarking since it comes out of the box with Go. Are there other popular languages offering it?
Communities that ignore them apparently do well.
For intense technical detail I recommend the satcom.guru blog.
> like TOR

From my understanding, TOR was created with the intent of hiding US intelligence communications[0]. From my naive understanding, this only works if 1) no one else can back door it (which is critical since it is presumed you're using it to hide from highly technical state actors) 2) there are a sufficient number of users that are not intelligence actors (so you can hide among them. Otherwise you get "Oh, that person connected to a TOR node, let's go pick them up and grab their computer").

Maybe I'm naive, but it seems like the crypto people and the US government have aligned interests here.

> The stated goal of the fund is to promote democracy in developing countries

With an additional alignment of interests, I think many believe that being able to "talk shit" on your leaders is a key part to democracy. And if you're able to do this without fear of your government coming after you (aka: backdoors), then you will freely acknowledge your dissent, find support, and democracy is the likely outcome. I'm not sure if that's true, but I've definitely heard intelligence people suggest that.

So even if it was controlled by the CIA, would this be an issue? It seems like it is actively in their best interest to use real encryption and no backdoors. You don't want all your potential rebels to get caught. You want them to be able to organize out of the eyes of the government that the CIA is trying to overthrow. Having a backdoor just puts a timebomb on it, and one that isn't going to last very long.

Or I guess there's another answer to this. The CIA is pretty fucking dumb. Which is a reasonable answer that I'll accept too, but I think the people working on this stuff would be well aware (since they're probably experts in hacking similarly encrypted systems)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_routing
> Microsoft is clearly doing a lot right in terms of UX, but I lament that it feels like one step forward and two steps back.

I disagree, they should have stuck with XP and just made incremental improvements like Apple have done with OS X. But no, every few years they have to change everything.

On a few people want that, most people what the OS to get out of the way.
For anyone who missed the announcement, here is the MacBook Wheel:

https://www.theonion.com/apple-introduces-revolutionary-new-...

I wouldn't say it is "decades" ahead, though. Lenovo just announced the competing ThinkPad X1 Fold:

https://news.lenovo.com/pressroom/press-releases/worlds-firs...
People not wanting to write Cold Fusion isn't "contempt culture", it's an objectively terrible platform.
Embrace the power of “and.” Public transit can coexist with whatever this future thing will be called.
Microlens arrays seem very interesting! I haven't seen any that are very high resolution... Is that because they kill the resolution of the display they're placed upon (as well as technical problems with very small microlenses)? So, we'd need extremely high resolution displays for microlens array displays to look reasonable by modern standards?

Perhaps actual phased array optics wouldn't have that issue?

For those just entering this thread, [1] is an example of a rudimentary microlens array display.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGJe0AdszJg
Read the blog entry on disengagement. This is exactly it: there are remote operator that can disengage the AI and take over in some situation for caution.