skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've worked in a company before where all R&D teams need to be sponsored by other product teams. I don't have any opinions for or against this approach. Just my observations

Pros:

* R&D teams don't veer off into random tangents and are focused on delivering something useful

* More accountability and a closer connection to their end customer (internal or external)

Cons:

* you end up with more management layers and a lot more meetings to convince teams to fund you

* getting budget to maintain stuff is difficult to sponsor

* Empire building and a lot of infighting between competing teams

* product teams won't fund longer-term projects and moonshot experiments so you have to create a separate product team just for that
Those examples don't fit because they are contracts not made in good faith. They aren't things you can control.

In this case, it was rules that the public data is available. It was a good faith contract on the part of HiQ to assume they could collect public data from a public website.

It would not be a good faith contract to assume you could control the paint colors on a property you don't own.

It seems to me that the interference ruling was wholly independent on deciding that what hiq was doing is legal.
I built a chatbot to fight loneliness and social isolation for seniors. It started with my grandma. She doesn't have a smartphone and internet, so it basically transforms photos into real postcards. She receives it directly in her mailbox, and it makes her really happy. The chatbot also reminds me to send when I did not, so she keeps updated regularly.
I released it to the public last week. you can find it here https://postcard.im (the link open a fb messenger conversation with the chatbot)
Let us not stop at medical advertising...
I don't have the answer to why they stopped supporting this, but I don't think it's because the resolution is too high for a single Thunderbolt connection. I have an LG 5k that works over a single thunderbolt3 connection -- and I believe even thew new Pro Display XDR connects with a single TB3 cable.
I work at a construction company where they may have 15-30 projects active at any time ranging from 1 month to 3 years. On these projects the site superintendent is responsible for taking a minimum of 10 photos a day.

It was my job to take all their photos and rename them based on the date taken, resize them and store them by week ending date. I am working with construction guys and not computer experts so I set up a system with their phones/shared folders to easily allow them to drag/drop new photos into our file-server.

I do not know how to program directly, but found a nice utility called DropIt.

http://www.dropitproject.com/

This utility allows me to take a batch/folder of photos and automatically rename them based on metadata I choose and output the results to another folder. I chose date taken. This can rename 500 photos at once to the date taken fast and easy.

I then take the files that have been renamed and reduce them in size using another software called Caesium.

https://saerasoft.com/caesium/

This one allows me to take a folder of photos, specify a new output and I can typically get 90-95% reduction in file size while retaining the quality needed.

Taking it one step further using the folder replication in DropIT, I have it set so when a Superintendent drops photos into the shared folder on the network, it locally replicates those files into a folder on my computer - then drop it scans once and hour - if it finds photos in said folders it will then automatically rename it to the output for me.

The only thing I manually have to do is run Caesium, which is auto configured to scan/pull from the output folders of drop it and place back on the file-server.

My Mondays used to literally be photos all day, doing this manually with the way they showed me - now I can do all photos on all jobs in about 30 minutes (after the initial configuration).
What specifically are you replying to? I'm not sure I recognize something in the article this applies to (but that could just be me interpreting what was presented differently than you).
Surely that music library is important and cost you money? Why would you give your money to another service to listen to the same music again, that you already own?

I ask this because I have about 900 albums on CD that I ripped and then stored away in the loft/under the stairs and could never envisage actually paying a streaming service to listen to stuff I actually have already bought.

I mean, I have an iPod Classic that has all this music on it, and my MacBook too.

It seems odd the general acceptance of streaming services and rent-everything approach these days. Seems very odd to me (but yes I do have a Netflix account, just don't rent everything else under the sun - the worst is Grammarly - why subscribe to a spell check???? Mind blown).
I’ve been working on merging statistical deep learning with a knowledge graph like representation of the data. I run a consumer site focused on privacy and build nlp secret sauce underneath to serve users. Ping me at hn username @doerhub.com if you want to chat.
A trapped-ion pair may help scale up quantum computers
The link between r/Android and r/iamverysmart seems legit.
Does this mean someone can scrape a restaurant directory website and create their own website with this same data?
How is this too hard for you get? The examples show how different languages implement each of C#'s 101 LINQ Examples.

You shouldn't need any charitable explanation or imagination to be able to read the title and purpose of each project that's clearly explained in the docs.

Your criticism tantamounts to:

> Your 6-7 year old "C#'s 101 LINQ comparisons" series is using the actual "C#'s 101 LINQ Examples", Unfair!

Then go ahead and produce your own series, instead of wasting your time and energy on criticizing others efforts.
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I suppose they could be trimming and composting/bio-charring excess plant material, but given the lack of information I kind of doubt that a serious CO2 life-cycle and residence analysis has been done.
When I converted a CPU-intensive program from OCaml to MLton-compiled SML, without changing any of the algorithms, I got a 30% speedup. That was more than 10 years ago though, and both compilers have seen some improvement since.
Apple really needs to start using the stick more with respect to the inferior-to-native cross-platform frameworks. I hope that's the strategy after SwiftUI matures.
Very interesting read, but I strongly disagree with it. I could mention several technical issues, but I do not think it would lead do a fruitful discussion.

Instead, think about this: why would people not behaving ethically? The point of the essay seems to be that they are either not aware of what is the best thing to do, or what the consequences of certain actions would be.

I would argue that no, (most) people do know, but for some reason would still behave unethically. Who needs a reminder that driving while drunk puts lives in danger? Nobody. It is well known that more elaborate/advanced ethical reasoning does not lead to more ethical behavior.

And most ethical dilemmas are not that simple, consider:

> If the output of the computer ever contradicts with the human’s own intuitions, the human would be provided with an example of how and why the moral framework they have chosen does not match up with what they consider to be moral.

A human could as well come up with several arguments for why their intuition is better than the computer's advice. Because that's how ethics is, there is not a single right answer, there are many good possibilities and many bad ones. Humans do not need help in identifying the bad ones, and only an oracle can say which alternative is the "best".

In fact, this seems to be the main purpose of such an ethical assistant, to "remove important epistemic limitations", i.e. predict the future.

> Suppose every driver had access to a good estimate for how likely they were to be involved in a traffic accident, every time they decided to go out.

This seems utterly impossible. Most accidents are caused by random events, and the only reasonable estimate for this probability is between zero and a number so tiny that it would not make any practical difference.

TLDR:

- I am not going to argue whether computers might be able to perform decent moral reasoning

- But if they can, it cannot be much better than what humans can already do

- And even if it was better, humans would likely not follow this advice

- Simply because people sometimes do not want to behave rationally
Seems consistent with your comment, IMO, given that "the future" is by definition something which never arrives.

It's much less exciting, however, to say "React Native Is What's Next at Shopify".
Sorry that’s not what I meant... it was a joke of course but I was saying if you suggest any course of treatment to a doctor you’re going to get a hairy eyeball in response. I wasn’t saying anything at all about the places where ads are allowed.
Ya know, therapy is actually relatively cheap now a days.
My immediate answer to this question is/was, "The Samba team!". Messing around with Samba 3 beta and OpenLDAP back in the day was the reason I bought and read "Sams Teach Yourself TCL/Tk". I really enjoyed how easy it was to get results. All of my GUI programming until that point had been Borland Delphi and Visual Basic. So this felt so fresh and close to the metal. (No dragging and dropping and having 300 lines of code being generated behind the scenes) I have no idea when or why I stopped playing with it.
Salary, Role and responsibilities, Trajectory for the company, Perks, Culture, Leadership vision, Special projects, Team composition, Ability to do a 'reverse interview' - meet with your new team and interview them.

Just to name a few.
> ... or a way of unlocking hidden information(ideally legally).

One example of which is hedge funds using satellite imagery:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20243810

* https://newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/how-hedge-funds-use-satel...

* https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/05/stock-v...
They want to imply that, but they are wrong.

LinkedIn can't prevent HiQ from attempting to scrape their site through force of law.

LinkedIn can rate limit requests, make their site hard to scrape, change their format, whatever. LinkedIn is in no way responsible for how HiQ fulfills its contract to its customers. HiQ is attempting to say that if I sign a contract to provide you with a Tesla, then it would be illegal for Tesla to stop me from just taking one from them to give to you. If that sounds stupid, that's because it is.
I always heard it as the "hairy arms" trick at Disney:

https://www.npr.org/2014/11/17/364760847/whats-with-all-of-t...
If you layer credit into the wormhole it seems like you don't even need "losses" in the sucker funds. In essence Medallion establishes that it is "low risk", it is then able to borrow money more cheaply than other parties. Through the wormhole it can then indirectly "reloan" that money to higher risk sucker funds at higher rates. The sucker fund can still win, but it pays Medallion back more in interest than Medallion pays to the original source of money. Medallion's capacity is constrained by the amount borrowed by the sucker funds and the margin between what it can borrow vs lend at.
Now there's the real question
You left out where the chart is negative:

Mar 2019: -.3

Apr 2019: -.2

Oct 2019: -.2

Dec 2019, -.1 (noted as a .1 lift but a .2 CPI increase to offset to -.1)

Other sources do show a low growth rate vs a flat line, but it is still much slower than before the 2008 crisis: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/realer.nr0.htm

"From December 2018 to December 2019, real average hourly earnings increased 0.7 percent, seasonally adjusted. The change in real average hourly earnings combined with a 0.6-percent decrease in the average workweek resulted in a 0.1-percent increase in real average weekly earnings over this period."

A .1% real average weekly earnings increase YoY is hardly worth writing home about and more a sign that something isn't working for most Americans. It's basically flat.
Doubtful. If linkedin had completely taken down their site, or put it all behind a login account, them this case would not have turned out the same.

Maybe if leftpad somehow tried to block only some users from using their publically available plugin.
I'm enamored by the aesthetics of it but it really leaves me quite curious as to the practical considerations of doing it or what might prevent it from being done more often.
"We cannot respond to you personally [...] we will contact you directly."
Why/how is this better than existing IP solutions (e.g. https://www.maxmind.com/en/home or https://www.digitalelement.com/)?
This is a fantastic resource, thank you. I really enjoy these old hand-drawn maps. I've collected a few myself, including a German map of the north coast of BC, Alaska and eastern Russia, including Kamchatka, unfortunately undated but I believe it's pre-sale of Alaska to the US. It's primarily an ethnographic map made for the "Zeitschrift fur Ethnologie", or Journal of Ethnology, which I guess was a German anthropological journal. The various Inuit groups are represented in different colours.

Another nice one is labeled "Polar Regions of British Nth America" and is principally of Canada. It dates from 1839 and shows Devon Island connected to Greenland, amongst other inaccuracies. It's beautifully drawn and quite small, perhaps 20 cm a side.
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> People want their data to be public and all of the benefits that comes with public data but then they want to chose who gets to see it

Can you really not imagine a world where a person accidentally or in poor judgment uploads something private to their own site (their real name, home address, credit card#, or any piece of highly damaging information that could cost them their careers) and wishes for it to be removed? (but can't because many of these scraping sites never respond to takedown requests)

People make mistakes and post things they shouldn't. A mistake from someone many years in the past that they've made amends for shouldn't haunt someone for the rest of their lives.

But it does when we decide that every single line of text ever uttered online must be preserved and easily accessible by anyone for all eternity.

Blocking scrapers is an arms-race escalation because these sites refuse to remove content, and it's used as a tool for character assassination by bad actors. It's a proactive defense.
Apple Music has both a web and an Android client. It’s also supported by Amazon Alexa.
It's also worth noting that while most of the Baby Boomers are around typical retirement age, Buffet was actually born in 1930, over a decade before the "Baby Boom" after WWII ended. His children are boomers, however.
I follow the logic of the comment this way, there is many studies that favor both sides of the argument. In this age of information abundance you can find a study for anything.

I would not agree that posting links to studies is a bad thing, and I actually appreciate it as it brings value to
the discussion, and all information has benifits.

All information has benifits which aligns with my argument that labeling GMOs has benifits.
Yes, companies pay taxes. Company owners also pay taxes on dividends, capital gains or distributions. Most taxes are paid by minority of relatively well off people.

My point is that SEMATECH shows you can have a voluntary consortium where different parties fund an organization and then collectively benefit from it.

Government does that, but on a more general level and it's not based on voluntary interaction (you must pay taxes, otherwise if you resist arrest you will be murdered).

I'm responding to people who complain how companies are ripping the public off, when in reality it's the government that takes almost half of GDP in developed nations.

If the government took less in taxes, then companies would have more left over to fund a voluntary consortium which would do similar things that NIH and NSF do.
When is a video game too difficult?
I for one find it absolutely hilarious to watch people take these ‘essays’ seriously. I have nothing but respect for PG in regards to his work with startups, but when he wrote this essay [1] on the field of philosophy, it should have been a sign to everyone to stop and question the author when he talks about anything other than startups or computer science.

1. http://www.paulgraham.com/philosophy.html
Not to be mean about it or anything, but I really dislike TCL.

Granted, you could do much worse. Unlike shell scripts you at least have access to sensible data structures like lists, dictionaries, and so on. And unlike shell scripts or Makefiles, you can actually handle spaces in your data, so that's at least not horrible.

But when everything is a string, there is no type safety anywhere. So many things that should just be compile errors blow up on you at run-time instead. God help you if you're using code that other people are updating and silently changing.

The syntax is also pretty annoying at times. For instance, you can use unbalanced {} characters within comments, but not if those comments are within a proc. You can nicely write long lists over many lines with {...}, but you can't put comments in those.

Anyway, haters gonna hate. I hope other folks like it more than I do.
* Wii to Wii U
* Limited original Xbox to Xbox 360
* Less limited Xbox 360 to Xbox one
* Early sega consoles
Don't forget cost of living and lack of other benefits.
I assume there is a lot of pointer indirection as is the norm in FP languages that hurts performance quite a bit
React Native is widely used in both Instagram and the main Facebook app (market places). It’s also used in a number of other apps they make (oculus, ads manager).
> for example changing a name brand to a generic

In most states, the law explicitly requires the pharmacist to fill a prescription with a generic (if available) unless the doctor specifically writes "dispense as written". Not allows - requires.

The purpose of these laws is to protect patients - in the overwhelming majority of cases, the generic and brand name drugs are equivalent for patients, so patients save money by purchasing the generic medication even if the physician prescribed the drug using its more well-known name (the brand name).
You're assuming that this "first step" has no impact. It does, and a company that receives one of these letters must undertake measures to correct the problem ($$$) or else face worse sanctions.

Getting a warning letter can also hit a company's stock price, cause a reshuffling of management, and other results.
This is an ideological claim, not a normative one. I will similarly claim with st least as much validity that humans can cooperate more then compete in the right context and dont need to be physically changed to do so.
More clickbait, and certainly not a vegan option. Duckweed is the future, Google up Parabel, it's an amazing product, it's grows so well it's actually an invasive species, it has been used to clean up toxic sites, sewage, etc.

Over 200 billion locusts estimated right now in the Kenyan locust swarm, over 930 square miles, that's a lot of protein that could be utilized . . .
I don't disagree but by far the largest amount of marketing is spent targeting doctors not patients. Every few years they get caught sending them on junkets, paying them kickbacks disguised as fake speaking gigs, hiring cheerleaders or strippers as "sales associates", etc
There's no reason why a web app can't work with push notifications. Won't? ya. Can't? no.
You are correct my friend.
One thing I like about btrfs is offline deduplication. So whenever you want you can search for duplications and then tell the filesystem about what you find. This avoids many of the performance and ram impacts of ZFS deduplication.
I have a lot of serious long term health issues and quickly found out you have to be the champion for your own health and research everything. But that doesn't mean just asking for the latest drug in the market. Its about asking the right questions. Unless you have a common well understood health issues, you will quickly reach a roadblock.
There was a recent post about essentially the same topic here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22004515
I have a question about the company in the article, HiQ. Their website says they identify flight risks. Does that mean if your company has a contract with them, then they will notify your boss if your LinkedIn looks like you are job hunting? Haters.
I have done it as a sanity check and so far have beat SPY. Its kinda hard to calculate though. In TD Ameritrade, it doesn't give you that metric for you (that I know if, if you know how please let us know!). I have to look at the day I bought each stock and compare it against the price of SPY the same day.

It's not 100% because I don't compare against SPY the same exact time I bought the stock (too much work) and I don't bother calculating dividends. I just assume I am doing better there since I have a higher yield than SPY.

I do better than the market, but I don't recommend people trying to do so for money. I do it as a hobby, its fun for me. Otherwise a person's time is worth putting elsewhere, except in one area. While a person might not be able to beat the market, by being engaged they are more likely to invest more and avoid fruitless spending.

When someone spends 1000$+ on a handbag, I think gee, I'd rather have a share of google instead
It's not that hard to give it some styling to make it look modern-ish enough to get things done with it.
Sounds like you have your mvp and have an incremental plan going forward. Good. The thing is out in the world - that is something a lot of folks don't do.
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Shopify is right to use React Native.

I build an app with React Native Web and we produce Android/iOS/web from the same code base with 3 developers.

No, it's not perfect. Yes, JS can be awkward and confusing. Yes, a truly native app built by expert platform-specific developers would be better.

But I'm able to ship this product with less than half the team size I would need for native development. JavaScript developers are cheap to hire, and they don't need to know any objc/swift/java/kotlin to build the product.

Our product is consistent, because it's the same code across platforms. The business people paying us to build the app are thrilled at how quickly we can turn around features.

We've been shipping this way for 2 years and I would strongly recommend it to everyone.

Also, before people jump in with "But RN is slow and bloated!", it's actually not. The performance is just as good as truly native and the binary is small. The real downside is having the app not feel native, but only developers seem to notice. Pragmatically, most apps are so bad that if your Android app has an iOS look-and-feel nobody seems to care.
At the same time, the UX has gotten dramatically worse for people who do manage their own music libraries as well. The entire UI has been restructured around music discovery... which is appropriate for Apple Music, but really gets in the way when trying to find a specific album or track (e.g., I need to click through about three screens just to get to the album list, and there's no way to set the default). It's trying to do too many things at the same time.
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Thanks Larry Ellison.
The fact that there is a commercial motivation doesn't make it less creepy.
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