skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, reading and listening to the text at the same time doubles the focus.

I use the Alex voice on my MacBook with a bookmarklet script to both read any web page and highlight text as it is being read. Special integrations for reddit and HN to skip reading user names and chrome. I used to have a version of this script work in PDF files as well, but recently that route has been closed. A nice UX feature is to trigger reading by clicking on the desired word, so you can easily pause and resume.
Number 13 inspires a question: I wonder if there is any code review tool which will tell how many other (open) reviews a potential reviewer is on when you're about to add them to yours. I haven't seen it in any tools, and it would be a nice addition...
Actually we don’t fix stuff as a species until people start dying. How long it takes is how much bad PR is involved. Avoiding that bad PR instead of solving the problem is an art that we have become better at than solving problems.
I think it was the publicly stated strategy because saying "we want to monopolize taxi service, then raise prices" doesn't sound great to regulators.
Oh yes, very intentionally so.
My take: Google and the researcher had some issues around internal review of a paper that could be perceived as criticism of Google. Google ordered her to withdraw the paper from review at an external event. The researcher demanded to know names of the internal Google reviewers. The researcher said she will resign on a later date if her demands are not fulfilled. Google did not reveal the internal reviewers and let her go immediately.
Elevate is also gone ? Didnt read about that
In case of dragons there might also be helicopters around.

I guess the idea that cars would be around after the apocalypse comes from the diesel engine, which can basically run on vegetable oil.
> in Philadelphia ... Every time I washed my car there was a thick black layer of soot covering it within a couple days

A layer of soot in Philadelphia? I've spent plenty of time there, know plenty who live there, and never saw or heard of such a thing. Were you parking next to a chimney sweep?
Think you have what it takes to moderate a prediction market? Why it's hard
Induction hobs are better - much more precise, easier to clean, more efficient, and full power is almost as quick as gas.
Cryptocurrency Advised by Signal Founder Goes Live, Begins Trading on FTX
jQuery isn't really in the same market as the other two. jQuery is typically used on websites whereas React and Angular are used for webapps. Very few people are building complex webapps on top of jQuery these days.
On the diversity angle, foreign-born is not the only metric. DC proper is about 45% Black which is an important part of its history and identity as a city. DC almost never gets snow so the "depths of winter" is a relative term. I walked and biked 365 days a year and so did most of my co-workers. It was common to not own a car, especially for younger people. In the hotter summer months I adapted by wearing lighter clothes or shoes for my commute and changing at work. I also kept a change of clothes at work in the event of a downpour, which was rare anyway. Everyone else deals with the same thing, so it's not weird to pop into the bathroom to change from shorts to pants on a hot day. Outdoor dining does shut down for a few of the colder months, but then when the first tables go outside again it can be a thrill. I get that the bay area weather is practically perfect every day; maybe I just don't require perfection.

Metro absolutely does not serve many areas. It's a far cry from NYC or European cities, but was totally workable as long as you stuck to the city and certain suburbs.
Do you have any thoughts on how to approach the videos? I have a good OS and fuzzing background, but an 8 hour video seems like an ordeal and harder to extract value from than something written
Sure, but what about the people who will have disrupted or potentially no internet access/support while the market is sorting itself out?

If your plan is to be carried out, then there is ripe opportunity for a politician to come to these areas an say, "vote for me, I will protect your internet access" and then fight for the funding instead.
I'd be shocked if Uber is around in the next 5 years.
I posted this to see if anybody uses it for smallish projects. It seems like a lot of stuff, just under a gig, for a nimble, small creative coding environments. I like Extempore [1] for audio, but he graphics are not as capable.

[1] https://extemporelang.github.io/
Calling the British navy a battle ready fleet would be rather a positive attitude. Their submarine and surface ship captains don't know how to navigate, running aground and into other boats. And their aircraft carriers don't even have enough crew/planes and will deploy US Marine Corp units to meet their full complement. It will likely take the UK 15-20 years for the two new Carriers to be at full operating capability (2009-TBD, probably 2024 at the earliest).

That being said, the US could stand to spend less on military funding.
That might not be their internal strategy, but that's pretty much the investment thesis of every Uber bull buying their stock at $100 billion market cap.
> Although being an at-will job, the legality is rather moot.

The only interesting implication is unemployment, but if it's a termination, Google might tell the unemployment office it was for insubordination.
Thanks for your opinion. I just tend to disagree with your examples.

Programming languages are in their core something like a craft. There are about 700 languages and even if you know nothing about programming languages at all, if I explain to you the concept of how difficult it is to make one and that only about 700 of them ever got made, you will probably understand that this is not something a lot of people could do even if they try. It's also something that can be compared and gets popular and approved because of its usefulness.

The same can be applied to technology, the best technology will may not be the most adaptive one but we can compare them and if they would get the same possibilities (exposure, marketing, timing etc) people would probably agree which one is the better one to some extend (ebay vs amazon)
I don't see the component in art. There is just to many of it and if we would show 10.000 people 20 artworks and let them rank them from best to worst I would imagine the list would be different from the ranking of art critics.
Do you do this for a company or any specific projects? I’m just trying to understand because I’m also a big fan of ZCASH but your statements are so bold and matter-of-fact, so I want to learn more about you and see what experiences you have that qualify those statements.

Thanks in advance!
Its not too fast (from bank account to bank account takes 1-3 days or so). Venmo is also arguably not free, since it contains ads now.
The things that I believe are real social justice have no hint of becoming mainstream anytime in the next 20 years. SJW, in the connotation, is a term reserved for extremists, and there's no shortage of them, and they deserve the same scrutiny as any other political extremist.
> folks can choose where to live.

This is absolutely not true in practice, even for rich people fortunate/lucky enough to be born in a place where they receive a passport with lots of options.

For the 99% of the other humans, it's even worse.
Google wasn't silent externally however. Jeff Dean wrote an article on the subject on Google's blog.
Stencil to build WebComponents ?
You may be interested in https://www.gamingonlinux.com/index.php?module=statistics&vi... — AMD is on the rise (40% vs 56% NVIDIA), Arch based on the rise (39% vs 39% Ubuntu based), Pop!_OS among Ubuntu based, though I do not think there would be much difference among distributions.

I am not gamer anymore. I've had NVIDIA GPU, binary drivers were not pleasant experience, so bad that I've switched to Intel GPU. Today open source AMD GPU driver is a clear path forward, and it would improve with each release.
You're describing a 21st century bicycle. A 19th century bicycle wasn't so complicated a machine. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_bicycle
SF has a phenomenal climate though in comparison. The public transportation is lacking but I mind walking or bike a lot less in SF winters as opposed to NYC winters.
"An economic boom should not be a bad thing"

You're right, but the reality is it has been a bad thing for many people. As long as they're being outmaneuvered by homeowners and landlords, having the boom simply end would work just as well as winning the housing supply fight. Few people are going to miss tech elites if they leave.
What makes you think it was a bluff?

The debate about her being fired or resigning is a debate about who to believe about what led up to it. People who think she resigned see her saying she was fired as evidence of a victim complex and publicity seeking. People who think she was fired see Google saying she resigned as evidence of unfair treatment and dishonesty.
Maybe if those contractors are VP level or DINK; a senior IC working for a Beltway bandit might possibly, with a tailwind, clear 200k total compensation, but that's very much the high end of their pay scale despite the hourly rates they charge the government.
> I think you need to read a little more about X, and about how Y works.

Can be read with a denigrating undertone.
> pretty hard to recommend a service that has admitted to building tools for LE

As opposed to the ones that build and won't admit/can't admit?
Tokyo at least, has one of the best urban public transportation systems in the world. I'd rank it at least one of the top 3 cities.
I would openly welcome this. As a data Scientist who’s seen some dodgy shit happen within the various companies I’ve consulted with, I think this would go a long way in preventing dangerous models reaching production.

I think a better comparison should be with how the actuarial industry conducts itself. They have been doing “data science” for decades but equally so are bound by professional standards and expectations.
https://archive.is/FagiG
Were these deployed on prem on Windows servers?
I don't have a terrible issue with this, it's actually not very much money and could have good benefits that have an economic impact much larger than $886M. I am against wasteful spending, but I believe on an economic/GDP basis this will more than pay for itself in the long run.
why are bicycles nonexistant on post-apocalyptic stories?

Bikes are present (and maybe even integral to) some post-apocalyptic films like, Testament, Turbo Kid, The Stand. There are some media with no gas powered cars, like Adventure Time, and probably more.

However, for better or worse, Mad Max set the trope that the fight for fuel is often an interesting conflict. It's easy for a gas hungry viewing public to understand, at least!
It matters a lot to me that several of the interesting parts of vscode are proprietary and not free or open source. In particular the liveshare and remote features are proprietary. Many extensions contain proprietary parts, like the c# debugger.
Stadia is really sensitive to lag. In my urban home, with a reliable high-speed broadband connection, it works pretty well when physically connected by Ethernet, but the stuttering is intolerable on wifi.
I want that in a desktop Electron app.
The well-used argument that only government is responsible is, if you think about it for 30 seconds (try it - stop now and think about it) absurd, has never been true, is not how anything has gotten done, and never will be true.

It's a meme, a cover story for not doing your part. It's our community, our society. It depends on each person, every one of us, every day.
They also are selling their "flying taxi" group to Joby.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/2/22086597/uber-sells-flyin...

Time for Uber to actually try and make a profit off of their core business, perhaps?? Good luck!
`bytes` is the name of a stdlib package. `string` is the name of a built in type. `template` is technically available, but only because it’s the name of this package, so it can’t refer to itself.
I think the article glosses over a few critical points. Pedals and cranks break today on cheap bicycles. The cost of good steel decreased by a factor of 6 between about 1855 and 1875.
Just because it works with VS2015 doesn't mean it's old tech. The source files have been updated within a few days and weeks.
And with Quake 1, 2 , 3 and Doom 3
I suspect Qualcomm focuses far more on their modems and integrating their modems into the CPUs because that is where their IP is. Fundamentally the reason Qualcomm can charge what they charge for their CPUs revolves around bundling their modems.

Nvidia is the most likely company to build a higher end ARM CPU to compete with the M1. With the ARM core and their GPU expertise, they could conceivably crank out something which performs much better than Qualcomm.
Uber don't need to invent self-driving themselves so long as whoever does invent self-driving cars sells them on the free market. Uber has a strong brand and loyal customers, and they could make out like bandits even if they have to buy the tech from someone else.

Their real problem is if some other company perfects self-driving cars and doesn't sell them. Perhaps Uber have decided that's unlikely, either because no one will or because a company that isn't looking at ride-sharing will.
I always considered that a dubious business model. It's outside of Uber's core competence, and it won't lead to superprofits/a moat for very long, since they'll have competitors. Sure, it lowers their costs, but once a second (third, etc) competitor has SDCs, Uber will be able to charge a lot less as well, because competitors will have lower costs too. It's not the golden ticket to profitability.

I've been long hoping, for their own sake, that they'd sell off the SDC division, since it was hurting their balance sheet anyway. Glad they've seen the light.
If the null check silently ignores the attempt to remove a non-existent item from the list, then the null check did not prevent a bug, it merely hid it.

IMO, even though this is C, the Zen of Python still applies, which states:

> Errors should never pass silently unless explicitly silenced.

Its the caller with the bug, not the library code.
For an interesting, similar idea, see also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickCheck
There is some similar thing that happens with ski resorts. Something like 3 bankruptcies and debt buyouts before they are successful.
Can you point to some sources to back that up? I have always been under the impression that self driving was the end goal that they were all working towards.
> Can't have bicycles without either a railroad

I know this isn’t where you’re going, but it would be awesome to have a system of bikes on rails with steel wheels.

About a quarter of the rolling resistance, but it is only ~11% of all resistance.

Braking and accelerating would become really fun, but wheels would last forever.
It is not. Sorry, I really love Jeremy Keith’s design sensibility. But I think I might need to change it up a bit more if there’s any confusion.
The following (machine-translated) paragraph clears that up:

This should not change anything for the other users, their mails should continue to be encrypted by default. Nevertheless, Tutanota considers a one-time circumvention of the encryption to be a data protection and security risk for all customers.

[Update, 30.11., 12 o'clock] As Tutanota emphasized, the monitoring measure only affects newly incoming unencrypted e-mails. Already encrypted data as well as end-to-end encrypted e-mails in Tutanota cannot be decrypted by the company. [Update]
Thank you for that link. I remember the disappearance of the Project Pronto money in the 90s, and it's bothered me ever since. It's nice to know I didn't dream the whole thing.
People will absolutely not get that and take the advice to heart.
You can use Proton even if you're not using Steam.
The article says ATG is a separate company. I'm not very knowledgeable about this kind of stuff so I could be wrong.
>I don’t know what a China embargo would look like, but I know that any first world government who tried it would find themselves promptly removed from power and a newer Chinese friendly government installed amongst rabid cries for new iPhones and gadgets.

Bingo.

I mean, right this minute we're all ignoring a literal concentration camp in China in the name of not upsetting our supply of cheap gadgets. Good luck getting support over something less tangible.
Excellent post.

>The depravity of a platform where HR Managers are the rockstars speaks for itself.

That about sums it up!
It's worse when you generalize it to countries, because "can't afford to move" becomes "is not allowed by law to move".
They managed to keep things like the F117 secret for years, and those nifty helicopters used in the bin laden raid. If (and that's a huge if) this were true they could hitch a ride with ET, no need to use human tech. OTOH why meet in secret on mars? That seems silly.

But large numbers of people successfully keeping secrets from the public is common.
No, you got that right. It's about a single mailbox and only for new mails. As they can't decrypt old mails themselves without a backdoor.

Still, once they have this function, all it takes is a court order to start collecting for other mailboxes.

Tutanota will take this to the next higher court but as it says in the article, they have to start implementing the backdoor right away.
How to Escape a Sinking Ship
Ctrl+Alt+ESC and click the window of the game
Assuming that ever happens, they will likely just license it from Waymo. I don't think Waymo intends to run a full stack taxi service, easier to just sell the self driving tech itself and let other's doing the work on real world applications.

Uber's competitive advantage now is their mindshare, app experience, and subsidized pricing. With or without self driving doesn't really change that.
https://archive.is/MjX9y
Teams is the biggest crap I’ve seen in the recent years. Unbelievable.
Feels condescendingly manipulative ("I know your ego/self-esteem are low, let me throw you a bone"), and would just be more work for everyone; for them to articulate the problem they find, and regardless of whether they catch it or not, you have to now remember to go back and fix it before merging.
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I don't understand the current state of self driving cars.

First we have tesla which already has a self driving car. They were the first to build one and now everyone is playing catch up, or are they?

Waymo has been building something for a really long time too but I have no idea how close they are to an actual product.

Now there is this new company that gets a bunch of money to build something.

It feels to me like the self driving car market will go to the first player who can make a self driving car -- which is tesla.

Or maybe no one is close to making a really good self driving car yet, and even if they did, they would have to convince people like me that I can sleep at the wheel while surrounded by massholes.
your FAQ is very funny.
Google workers reject company's account of AI researcher's exit
>You would need control of 51% of the nodes to submit a block with arbitrary data and override consensus

This is only true for corrupted miners. That is not an issue in this case because the company controls 100% of miners (and therefore, you are trusting them not to write bad data).

It is completely irrelevant to the question of corrupted clients, which no blockchain can guarantee against. All you have to do is attach some bypassing wires to the input and output of your "blockchain-enabled smart meter" to write completely fraudulent entries to the history that can never be fixed.
Ain't a theory, it's by design: Robert Moses was the architect of this suburban vision of America. Not only did they pave the way out of the city, the highways also paved over the homes of millions of existing residents in the city, displacing them further out. Furthermore, highways were often used as barriers between rich and poor neighborhoods. You should read The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York.
I understand that often subtleties of language, particularly when it comes to irony or sarcasm, can be lost in textual content (particularly supposedly-formal content like educational materials), and that generally this is something to be avoided.

However, after reading that chapter, I really can't help thinking that you simply weren't paying any attention.

It's not just written in sarcastic tone (something that yes, could be easy to miss for many), but it's also littered with active dissuasion and explicit explanations of the pitfalls of using this style.

Examples:

> If you write like that, a developer who comes across this line and tries to understand what is the value of i is going to have a merry time. Then come to you, seeking for an answer.

> A quick read of such code becomes impossible. And when there’s a typo… Ummm… We’re stuck for long

> A fellow programmer who wants to work with elem in the second half of the function will be surprised… Only during the debugging, after examining the code they will find out that they’re working with a clone!

> First, the code becomes longer and less readable, and the second, a fellow developer may spend a long time trying to figure out what the underscores mean.

You can argue that the chapter is inappropriate, but I don't think you can reasonably argue that it's misleading.
An interpreter for the parliamentary assembly language
And rent is sky-high, tax is insane, homeless with needles are everywhere, the city is one of the dirtiest in the country, and bleeding-heart citizens have passed propositions increasing crime and tying the hands of police. If there’s one thing I remember about the BART it’s the overwhelming noise and the constant smell of urine. The public transport situation is archaic and pales in comparison to other cities.

You can’t park anything other than a beater in the city or it’ll get broken into, and owning an apartment is a toss of a coin with regards to whether you’ll be forced to smell weed all day or not. For some reason air conditioning isn’t a thing in California either, and I’ve never experienced as many power outages anywhere else in the US as I have here. Owning a nice house here is a pipe dream, so if you want to settle, this area was never in the cards to begin with.

Maybe it’s no surprise that the only reason most of us are here is because of the pay. I miss the quiet idyll of the suburbs, those slow and peaceful days. I miss the clean air, the scent of my lawn in the morning, and having the room to stretch. The feeling of safety. I miss being able to live life at my own languid, relaxed pace.

At least we both seem to agree on one thing - the sooner I can move out of here, the better.
I was riding a horse the other day and wondered to myself, why was there never a bicycle era between the horse and automobile eras?

Now I realize I only wondered this because I've only lived in a world with really good bicycles!
You know what would be a great goodwill-building move from Github and Microsoft? Them running a Matrix server instance and provide a chat room for each Github repo. This is what Gitter used to offer. Federation allows even competitors to interoperate.
I don't think you are giving much credit to ancient roads. The Appian way was built in 312 BC and you can tour it on a regular old bike today. Major ancient cities and trade routes were paved pretty well to accommodate cargo transported on carts. No one likes a broken wheel along the way when they have a buyer at the other end expecting goods. I think a crude bike wouldn't have had trouble like a cart, plus unlike a cart you could hop it up over a bad spot like you do over a curb today or dismount entirely for particularly hairy stretches.