jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> putting people at risk

Given that this is the only part of your comment that remotely reaches "bad for the customer" [1], can you elaborate on this? I've heard scattered reports of safety concerns but they never seem to add up to much, and I've never seen anyone try to do an apples-to-apples comparison to taxis. There's obviously inherent danger in large numbers of people getting into strangers' cars, and the question is whether Uber is less safe than taxis.

[1] I mean directly, not via "bad for everyone"
I've increasingly had reCAPTCHA refuse to give me an audio challenge.
Great article from the 'Stache. It seems like the people who benefit most from driving are those that lack the necessary documentation to get a "real job" - i.e. immigrants. If that's the target audience for Uber and Lyft's "clients" (because they are _not_ employees, right?), well, I find that somewhat immoral. I dunno. When I was between jobs I worked Postmates and Caviar (and Amazon Flex, until I was "fired by an algorithm" (no joke!) to make rent, and it was a modest success. I only ended up using the platforms for 2-3 months max, and starting off, I really enjoyed being the delivery driver and offering excellent customer service. I would go out of my way to ensure I grabbed extra napkins, utensils, sauces, etc. to go the extra mile, and when the tip reflected that, I was elated - the lizard parts of my brain that respond to video game achievements lit up - and I mentally competed myself to be better, faster, and more efficient. And this part of the brain, like the gambler's, forgets the bad times and cherishes only the good times. But I won't forget having to pace around in a pitch-black cul-de-sac, looking for a mysterious stranger who won't answer their phone, thinking that five minutes more, and these Greek fries are mine until...a college kid came out with a disposition reflecting both "hey bro" and "sorry bro" and we did the awkward exchange of "here's your food" and "here's me thanking you for it". Now I have a boring office job, and I tend to cook for myself.
Yep: https://youtu.be/HuLsrr79-Pw?t=705 (this is the previous generation)
It depends on your workload and which Xeon chips you choose — some of them don’t down-clock too much for AVX512.
Why would you not upgrade an 8-10 year old mobo? They aren't that expensive.
I will refer you to the FAQ: https://imgz.org/help/faq/
18 cores ought to be enough for anybody...
I never really give feedback. I either keep on or end contracts but I never attempt to coach them into being useful. The cost/benefit isn't there, as you pointed out.

Sometimes, it's just that the question isn't suitable for this method and I just sink the project till I can think of better.
Never.

Received a gift for Christmas (which was a gift card, then a hamper) and when I quit on good terms (which was a watch).

Never received or heard of anyone receiving a birthday gift or anniversary (of what?) gift from work. Maybe if someone has been there 50 years, or something there might be something special.

To be honest if a boss-like individual purchased a personal gift for someone's birthday I don't find that odd. If the company does it, that is a little odd. Even if technically both gifts come from the same pool of money in some cases.
I did well on the SAT and ACT, but one problem is that it's just not enough. Parents who shove their kids into piano and tennis lessons since age 4, push them to run for student government and take petitions to the city council, whatever, those parents are also going to make their kids spend every evening studying for the SAT. They've also had tutors when they need it. How does Harvard tell the difference between "this kid did well because she's brilliant" vs "this kid got $10k worth of SAT prep classes"?
At some point in the late eighties my father became disillusioned in communism (basically, seeing people fleeing east germany instead of the other way round). Then he read quite a lot on the subject, and read Orwell and everything. He never became a full-fledged pro-capitalist, but he was very skeptical of socialism. I remember stories during my childhood about how bad and un-free the USSR was, since policemen could "ask your papers" on the street, and the government could act arbitrarily against its own citizens. Thus I grew up hearing a lot of such horrifying stories. Admittedly, I didn't pay too much attention to these stories, but none of them seemed at the time so horrifying as the stuff that I read today about the U.S.A.
There is also a "no transaction" list that payment processors, banks, and money transmitters have to use.
See generally, Sumptuary Laws:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumptuary_law
That is the best way, I think. And it even has some plusses: you could have a local tables/views.

But, if you already have a lot of packages and a lot of schemas, separating your packages into schemas seems a bit daunting. Even more so if they have a lot of dependencies.
Help me reconcile this:

1. Asking for voter id is racist because it disproportionately effects black voters.

2. Making this move that disproportionately effects Asian students is not racist?
I'm in my 30s and I can't think of a single time I have ever received a phone call that I didn't expect. I get several spam calls every day. I would make the trade (and recently have, I block all unknown numbers now).
I know the test prep industry is bigger today than it used to be- but I assume you can still just buy a test prep book(s) and study like I did.
Pretty much every GenX, GenY and GenZ has been told to put their savings in the stock market, "it's a sure bet", "it will be up by the time you retire", "just put it and forget it".
I am not saying this advice is wrong. But considering that everyone literally does the same thing, it is not surprising that we see such behavior.
I'd like to point out that there's an egalitarian approach to college admissions that I found interesting. Every single time I've brought it up with people, no matter their politics, they got angry about it, but I think it would be interesting to see it implemented and then compare the outcomes.

A lottery system of admissions, with a guarantee of admission to at least some universities. It's described here: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/03/admit-everybody/
Does that work? Under what conditions would a flash card still be recoverable?
I'm sorry this is a duplicate of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1434064
I stumbled across this paper a while ago on HN and found it interesting:

http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~wbl/biblio/gp-html/Dempster_2000_Q...
Indeed. And it's doubtful he'd have to use troops and cut power lines; if it really was a observable national emergency, his request would be enough. People grant amazing deference to putative leaders in uncertain/dangerous times, and the people in private organizations who run various systems aren't antigovernment ideologues, idiots, or malicious foreign agents. It's only requests that are wildly unreasonable, open-ended, or based-on-secret-evidence that they'd resist. So there's no need to formalize this sort of Presidential power.
That's why I said conventions. Java has many years in this area. There is nothing like Joshua Bloch's "Effective Java" for Scala.
What a heartwarming story. Just what I needed to read right now. Thanks for sharing.

BTW, I couldn't help but be reminded of Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers and his 10,000-Hour Rule (where success or expertise in a field requires about 10,000 hours).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliers_(book)
Not exactly what you asked for, but I find this thread inspiring:

"Ask HN: Cool Things You've Done (Brag Thread)"
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1200959
> There should be restraints on the power of even an elected government.

It's times like these that I'm glad Singapore has an open and mostly uncensored internet access policy.

As the dominant party in Singapore controls more than two-thirds of parliament [1], they have been able to push through constitutional changes without much consultation [2] — a recent example was the increase in the private-sector requirement for candidates of our Presidency (head of state), and it being reserved for people from a specific ethnic group [3].

Mainstream media in Singapore is highly regulated and mainly spreads the government angle, which leaves the internet as one of the few open platforms for dissenting perspectives to be spread.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_Parliament_of_Singapore

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Singapore#Amen...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_elections_in_Sing...
NASA's big project for launch is a disposable rocket using Space Shuttle technology. It will cost at least a billion dollars per launch.

SpaceX's project is a fully reusable rocket, with rapid turnaround because it uses methane fuel in the world's first clean-burning full-flow engine. They expect to be able to launch three times per day. On top of that the rocket is built of cheap stainless steel instead of carbon fiber.

With that amount of reuse, each launch basically pays for fuel and ground support, each of which costs about a million dollars per launch. Given their payload of at least 100 tonnes, that's $20/kg. They've already done a single-engine hop test, and hope to reach orbit within six months.

Here's a great video on what makes the new SpaceX engine revolutionary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbH1ZDImaI8
> "Pedestrian outside crosswalk not assigned goal of crossing street", "Tracking history not considered when classification changes", "Predicted path depended on object’s goal"

To be fair, I could see myself implementing these sort of heuristics to get a working prototype. On the other hand, I deliberately avoid working on life-critical software because of how easily it can go wrong.
That’s cheating their company (and/or setting up for tax evasion), which in my experience is far more common than cheating the customer with a detour, at least when the customer is local (you can show your localness through verbal cues implying or simply indicating you know the route).
What are you on about? Even if both "sides" use anecdotes how does that in any way justify you conflating them with the overall business?

Same can be said about the tfl note. Uber is basically a franchise company, locations rarely have strong interactions with eachother. Not to mention the reaction from tfl is in the end minor. Uber doesn't even need to stop operations.
The Unix philosophy of air handling.
It depends greatly on your climate. I didn't need one in the midwest, where air quality is pretty good and there's a lot of humidity in the air, but when I moved westward I definitely noticed the difference in air quality (my asthmatic symptoms came back which I haven't had since I was a child).

Especially in autumn when the wildfires start up - even if it's many miles away there is a very noticeable degradation in air quality.
How is this a good thing? No parent would want their gifted child to be held back because there are other less gifted children in the class who will hold their child back. It is easy to understand their point of view. When you say ‘just seems like a good thing’...it begs the question.. ‘for whom’
I dunno man, Patrick Stewart has always been mostly bald and is he any less attractive for it? It has the extra added benefit that you can't tell someone's age, so in his case he's been in his 40's throughout his career.
Thanks for kind words. Visualization was made with https://obsidian.md
I remember (aged about 17) going to see Chris Curry demonstrate the BBC computer at the South Yorkshire Personal Computer Group which met in a Sheffield University lecture theatre.

He was just nonchalantly smoking at the front of the lecture theatre, demonstating what it was capable of.

There was a mass stampede down to the front when he ended his demonstration, with nearly everybody wanting to place pre-orders.
This article makes me feel misled. Doesn't niche as applied here apply to everything from the wheel to soap?

Fake examples:
The general needed a wheel to move his cargo, so when he had the wheel invented, now the wheel was from an army niche.
The king didn't want poop on his hands like a pleb, so he got someone to invent soap for him. Boom, the soap came from the niche of kings. Someone who needed to walk far, invented shoes. Boom, the niche for shoes was far walkers.
Are you booking camping sites for the summer now? How do you handle unforeseen changes like inclement weather? I've been trying to get more into camping in recent years, but haven't found a way to balance booking early enough and not having plans fall through
Is that supposed to be egregious? I liked McDonalds as a kid too. You get a toy, after all.

This is hardly going to harm a child:

https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/meal/4-piece-chicken-mcnu...
As a guy who's been shaving my head since I realized my hair wasn't getting any thicker when I was ~20 (13 years ago), I'm curious what other "bald looks" there are besides shaving the whole thing?
This seems like a terrible use of helium from a sustainability perspective. There are some things that helium is truly essential for, like low temperature cryogenics and neutron detection. Our supply is finite and largely tied to natural gas reserves. When helium leaks out it floats into space and is gone forever. Why does the atmosphere in the drive absolutely have to be helium? Why not any other mix of inert gases at optimal pressure for a thin air cushion?

Helium is also literally the leakiest thing you can try to contain. It will even diffuse out through the metal itself given enough time. Not trying to go full tinfoil hat here, but filling equipment with helium in this way seems like an effective way to cap drive life by time elapsed rather than amount of actual use.
Yeah, I basically used pg_trgm to completely replace an old, non-supported version of ElasticSearch at a previous company. We basically needed to match on similar team names (e.g. Bayern München vs Bayern Munich as a simple example) and it turns out Postgres could handle all the matching requirements with ease.
And TX wind power projections are dropping to 500MW out of 24,000 MW wind system. http://www.ercot.com/content/cdr/html/CURRENT_DAYCOP_HSL.htm...
Isn't that what asm.js did?
Sure, that's what it is for :) We also run cron jobs, Postgres, and Traefik.
Responding to my own comment: I think he does deserve a lawyer. But he's obviously different.
In one case, Spotify is paying me a locally-relevant market wage and I quit Spotify when I find working there mentally exhausting, easily matching my income from my choice of other local employers. Because that market wage is lower than SF, I experience lesser lifestyle inflation and still FIRE in 10 years or I choose to have a more luxe retirement and retire in 16 years.

In the other case, Spotify is dumping cash on me by the bucketload, we drive new cars, live in an amazing house, I regularly take amazing vacations with my family, kids go to private schools, and I still plan to FIRE in 10 years and be able to maintain that lifestyle. 3 years in, I realize that I'm miserable and the thought of grinding out 7 more years of this is difficult to bear, but I can't bear asking my family to curtail their standard of living to accommodate my unwillingness to keep bearing the burden of the daily grind.

Am I as a person happier in scenario 1 or scenario 2? There's no question that you're richer in scenario 2, but life isn't all about money.
We write profiles to DB with 10 second resolution, so 1 profile with approximately 1000 samples per 10 seconds. When we later read this data, if we're talking about 1 minute of data, we need to merge 6 profiles (1 per 10 seconds). However, if we're talking about an hour of profiling data, that turns into 360 merges. Each merge is expensive, so this whole process becomes somewhat impractical.

That's where segment trees come into play. On each write we "pre-aggregate" data for wider time ranges so that next time there's a wide read we can use a "wider" profile and thus reduce the total number of merges we need to make. Hope this helps visualize it: https://pyroscope-public.s3.amazonaws.com/slides-segment-tre...

Let me know if you have any other questions, happy to answer here or in our Slack.
This of course is a lightning rod, but I'll give me perspective.

At a high level, Marxism is not the antithesis of Fascism, it is more so the antithesis of Capitalism. As such we might expect there to be plenty of influence in higher education for Capitalistic and Marxist thought given they are at least partially grounded in the economics of allocation of scarce resources.

Fascism has little grounding in economic theory nor in fostering discussions on how to allocate scarce resources. At some level Fascism offers no room for enlighten discussion at all. Fascism is a form of authoritarian ultra-nationalism that is inconsistent with contemporary higher education.

As such, we might reasonably expect that we might find Marxist and Capitalistic "societies" but not Fascist ones at universities. Even then, I imagine that many who would join a Marxist society actually believe and advocate for a form of cooperative socialism not a revolutionary one and stop well short of Communism.
The First Amendment does not prohibit the private sector from restricting speech. Parler is free to (and did) find another vendor in the free market. If this option isn't realistic, bust up the monopoly that prevents it.

If 1A was extended to private individuals and entities, should the NFL be forced to keep Colin Kaepernick employed after taking a knee?
> But learning that consumption of processed meat causes an additional 34,000 worldwide cancer deaths a year is much more chilling. According to Cancer Research UK, if no one ate processed or red meat in Britain, there would be 8,800 fewer cases of cancer. (That is four times the number of people killed annually on Britain’s roads.)

Is this trying to say that 23% of worldwide cancer deaths due to meat eating are in the UK?

Or is this just shitty writing?
Others I've came across on HN are Caprover, Flynn and Apollo.
It is truly remarkable that Damon Albarn is doing a Gorillaz-branded album entirely (or even mostly) on an iPad; he has ready access to every conceivable piece of studio technology, and is instead using the $1-$50 recording apps on the app store.
Interestingly one of the big cinema chains in Australia uses bluetooth to send deals to phones when people are at the cinema. Seems to be a decent way to bypass location based stuff altogether, of course you have to authorize the bluetooth connection to your phone.
> add("foo".to_string(), "bar")

> It's a pretty radical design choice, to force you to be aware that, yeah, since you're creating a new value (out of the two parameters), you will have to allocate. And so it forces you to allocate outside of the Add operation itself.

Forcing you to think about allocation is good for many situations.

Making you do an extra allocation is a bad way to do that. And the only way I can think of to avoid that would give up having the function be generic.
Prohibition never had widespread support. People were able to stock up prior to enactment, there were allowances for religious and medicinal use. People made their own alcohol before prohibition and did so after enactment. Enforcement was mostly the “big busts” but it petered out pretty quickly.

So not surprisingly something being illegal or not isn’t the critical factor, it’s the willingness to enforce the law (e.g. marijuana was essentially legal in SF well before the law was changed - you could smoke on the street and the cops wouldn’t do anything).
Nvidia also has a long track record of anti-competitive behavior. So it's a good thing they didn't get ARM.
> I am surprised news outlets are still trying to give life to this manufactured crisis.

The purpose of this particular manufactured crisis is to take out Joe Rogan, who does not kowtow to the COVID-19 zeitgeist.

> who abuse their voice and power to silence those who don’t share their ideology.

Reminds me of the quote, 'First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win' [0]. This is the 'fight you' phase of Humanity's rebellion against the charlatans (you used zealot [1], but I think charlatan [2] is more appropriate).

Two tweets about the attempted cancellation of Joe Rogan:

"This is a professional political attack. Three waves one right after the other is not a coincidence. Good spacing, good timing, so it's absolutely professional." - https://twitter.com/wokal_distance/status/149022042327069900... (thread ties the Rogan hatcheting to a Super PAC)

"This is not organic. It's a political hatchet job" - https://twitter.com/esaagar/status/1490773485056057344 (this one credits @wokal_distance)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Klein#Address_to_the_...

[1] "Zealot ... means one who is zealous on behalf of God" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zealots

[2] "A charlatan is a trickster or con artist" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlatan_(disambiguation)
Indeed I spend a significant amount of time undoing whatever I accidentally clicked.
I think you might be responding to the wrong comment? I didn't say anything about proprietary software, or about one being better or worse than another.
That's not a correct response to Heartbleed... It could have been easily exploited to get your private key and certificate, and not revoking it leaves it valid.
I was imagining something like Lens in Haskell :)
Maybe in the future it will, but it uses Have I Been Pwned. From the FAQ[0]:

How does Firefox Monitor know I was involved in these breaches?

Firefox Monitor gets its data breach information from a publicly searchable source, Have I Been Pwned. If you don’t want your email address to show up in this database, visit the opt-out page.

[0] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-monitor-faq#w_h...
> First off, that's not what he said.

Can you elaborate on the divide between his claim and my interpretation, operating under the extremely obvious assumption that the world is not switching to universal basic income tomorrow? I honestly don't see it.

For the record, I also advocate strongly for basic income. But I don't think that robots taking jobs leads to particularly poor outcomes. For example! Driving a car 17 hours a day (or at all!), as described in the Uber article, is a needlessly dangerous activity for a human to be performing.
The authors of this paper also have other amazing image processing/optimization algorithms. Eg: Deblurring, Optimizing Color Consistency, Content-aware Automatic Photo Enhancement, Object Discovery and Segmentation in Internet Images and more:

Dani Lischinski's page: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~danix/

Johannes Kopf page: http://johanneskopf.de/
Interesting- I have the opposite reaction. I would (and have) refused to work for a company that doesn't ask me to code in an interview. It may be nice for me, but it means they probably didn't ask my potential coworkers to code either, and I don't want to work on a team picked like that.
Yes exactly. The exchange that just flamed out was incredibly poorly run, and deserved to go out of business. Now there is space in the market for more competent companies to take over the market share. I'd love to see the entire financial system operate under a meritocracy such as this.
Also, in wireless communication, classroom behavior, etc... Hearing disruptive as a good thing in startup-land always confuses me.
Sometimes the Vector Magic results are truly magical; striking poses become even more striking when the figure is reduced to a collection of simpler shapes.
On that note, can you think of more people quite like RMS? In other fields, perhaps?
It sure will happen in Europe because people here are not really ashamed to admit they are sick and tired of that American 'justice' bullying. The only hope for America is when slightly more intelligent character than Trump suppress their political gains to put end to this madness.