skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's easier to discuss this notion mapped to other nations, because the set of assumptions and stigma around these issues specifically in the US makes it very difficult to talk about. The US has also always been ethnically diverse, but diversity is not the same thing as to be devoid of an identity. Suffice it to say that US demographics are changing rapidly and many who see that as a good thing are going from acknowledging the change as a fact to actually openly celebrating it and predicting their own near-future cultural/political dominance based on the decline of whites to a minority status on national and state levels. Trying to point out how ... uncouth and toxic at best, this sort of rhetoric is, and the way it's heard in much of the country - simply trying to point out this interplay from an anthropologist on mars perspective - itself becomes almost impossible because accusations of racism fly immediately upon even bringing up that some people may be offended and angered when others celebrate the impending decline of their race and culture.

Let's take a hypothetic Japan, or Ghana say, facing low native birth rates and a huge influx of white northwest European immigrants rapidly changing the demographics, culture and politics in their country. You can have whatever perspective you want on whether that new diversity and demographic replacement would be a beneficial thing in a given context, but regardless can you not see how elites celebrating that cultural/ethnic change in the faces of those confronting newfound minority status would often not be taken well? If you wanted to bring about a minority-Japanese nation of Japan, a minority-Ghanaian nation of Ghana, would you do it while also high-fiving over the decline of ethnically Japanese/Ghanaian people and their culture? Would you say "The reality is, it’s all over for the Japanese" and that their complaints about said fact is "poking a bear with a stick"? Might, just might, that serve to ratchet up tensions?

Trump is sitting in office, and those of us on the left who try to point any of this utterly toxic dynamic playing out out are just routinely attacked as racist. It's a truly disheartening own-goal by those who claim to want this whole project to work out. You're not changing anyone's minds, just convincing them to keep their mouths shut and vote Trump.
You mean like the "old school leftist leanings" that was winning primaries with the Sanders campaign? That cared quite deeply for persons of color, coming from that well known urban upper/middle class enclave known as Vermont?
IMAP does that as well, you just don't have to delete it from the server to do so.
A fifth of the entirety of humanity is a heck of a lot. If you want to claim that Denisovan or Neanderthal ancestry is just as crucial as the basal homo sapiens, you are writing off a good chunk of humanity. Combine this with the purging of Neanderthal DNA (and the likely purging of the little bit of Denisovan introgression), it's clear that one of these things is not like the others. Let's not overstate the implications of these things.
Tesla has to grow fast or go home (as do Amazon, Uber, etc'). But as you said, you can choose which company to start, you don't have to start Tesla or Amazon.

I think your employees will face bigger and more interesting challenges, and learn more from smarter coworkers, and will be retained better, if you keep it a 10 person team for years and years and years. As 37signals proved more than maybe any other company.

Of course, they also proved (5)...

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While I find Eastlink's behavior in this situation reprehensible, I have to note that the final statement in the article is quite true:

"your email address may not be your own"

If you entrust your email to a third party, you are taking a risk. IMO that risk is a lot bigger if the third party is your ISP, because they know they are in a very strong negotiating position with respect to you. That's why I have never relied on my ISP for my email service (even though they offer it, I don't use it). It's very cheap nowadays to get ownership of your own domain and full control of the email addresses under that domain. Yes, you still have to depend on your hosting company for those services, but you are in a much stronger position with them than with your ISP, because hosting is so much more competitive.
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Right -- you also have to consider left-turn cycles when the cross traffic is stopped but pedestrian signals will still be indicating "Don't Walk", and right-turn-on-red where you're counting on drivers seeing you in the crosswalk.

Having one cycle exclusively for pedestrians, where there's no confusion, seems safer.
What I learnt getting challenged to a music competition by my son
Searle's note applies equally to an "ordinary" brain, which is just a collection of ordinary physical objects (atoms).
>Well, in the case of bread (read: gluten) it's really the effects on glycemic index that's harmful.

That's extremely true, although it was corn that was the real eye-opener for me. Corn based products have an even higher GI, and once again, they slip in all over the place, and this is in europe. It must be a nightmare to avoid it in the US.
Do you run a website where those are significant traffic? It's been a long time since not-Google search has been more than a rounding error in my experience, with the exception of Yandex for Russia and Baidu for China if you have content for those audiences.

Vimeo and Firefox are trying but the trajectory has not been good.
Releases are a double edged sword though. Regular releases can drive more interest, but that also means more time spent answering queries and a faster accumulation of technical debt.

By iterating on ideas away from user demands, you can more quickly make progress with less concern about breaking changes. However, this period is only really useful whilst the fundamental parts of the software are getting implemented. Some would argue that package management is a fundamental part of an OS, others would not.

In other words, I'd expect that you'll see more regular releases after the first beta is out.
How Atlassian's Kubernetes team designed our infrastructure on AWS
In my experience, drivers turning right on red (and across my active cross-walk) are frequently looking left for on-coming vehicular traffic (at the expense of being completely oblivious to the cross-walk).

Part of me wishes we'd just ban right-on-red outright in the US.
This is using "ping", i.e. ICMP echoes. That's easy to implement, but problematic in more ways than you might at first think. Firstly, some network elements may be configured to give ICMP echo request/response packets a different delivery priority, which could invalidate results for your probably-not-ping-based application. Secondly, a virtual machine may have more jitter in scheduling the transmission and the response. Thirdly, you don't get a picture of how congested the route is - is it good for a gigabit blast, or only a trickle of data?

But there's a deeper problem: ping measures round-trip time.

Interesting fact about IP routing: quite often, route out != route back. There's no requirement that paths in the Internet be symmetric, and very often, they aren't. What's more, congestion is often one-way.

So let's say you have a 92ms RTT between two sites; you can't know, from the ping alone, if that's an even 46ms each way, or 53ms one way and 39ms the other, or perhaps even 83ms + 9ms. If your application is sensitive enough to latency that this tool might be interesting, then it's quite possible that such asymmetric results are also relevant.

(obviously the speed of light can give you lower bounds on the split, if you have knowledge of DC locations).

There have been substantial projects to accurately measure one-way latency. For example, the RIPE Test Traffic project from the RIPE NCC (https://www.ripe.net/analyse/archived-projects/ttm) was a large-scale and long-running observatory that kept more statistics besides, such as packet loss. Sadly the successor to this service appears not to measure one-way latency. For precision, it required both an appliance and a GPS antenna to be installed, so major cloud providers were unlikely to cooperate.
I once signed up for a new service and got a welcome email from the CEO wanting to make sure I was having a good experience. Guess what the reply to address was?
That's a very neutral way of phrasing the fact that 3 generations of women where enslaved and raped by their owners, who then kept the children so produced as slaves for the pattern to repeat as they sold them on.
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Columnar database does not mean data in columns - it's just a badly used name to describe what are effectively advanced key/value databases, usually because they supported ordering, nested levels of values and collections.
that's the worst name possible for that.
I use POP3 for some services. I have one mailbox that I share with my wife as a joint household e-mail address (we both also have personal addresses). Having syncing between devices would be a nightmare as things would get marked read by the other person. Yes, I could set it up to forward to our personal mailboxes, but it's been working fine for 20 years, so why change.

More importantly with POP - you mail gets downloaded to your device and then that's it. It's yours, secure, for you to manage. With IMAP there's always the possibility of the ISPs server hiccuping and deleting mail off your machine that you thought you had safely downloaded.
I use both Uber and TaxiPhone app in Geneva Switzerland. The taxi phone app is better because it is more honest, no fake cars in the TaxiPhone app driving "in the middle of lake geneva (along the pedestrian ferry routes)" while the Uber app has dubious arrival times and while payment is straightforward nothing about the app is really better.

While the taxiphone app is branded Geneva it also works in other cities. Basically, it is a locally branded app but the infra is in 42 cities/regions and works in the "foreign" ones.

Uber is a bit cheaper during the night, but not always during the day and certainly not during rush hours in the city center.

Address search could be a bit better but otherwise it is as good as the uber one. At least it doesn't have this annoying inbuilt Dev recruitment tool, that stupidity almost ruined the day of a blind developer I know.

When booking a ride ahead of time e.g. to the airport with family the taxiphone website is best. You can arrange child seats etc.. and they will have them and arrive on time.
This looks great, the visual representation may be a killer feature, but the website could use a little more color.

Also, it seems to be written in Java (run in the JVM?), so I will not touch it, but I hope others will.
> despite all of the advantages of regulated taxi services that people are citing, rideshare services are still winning in the marketplace. Have you ever thought about possible reasons for that?

It's pretty simple why they win in the marketplace: They're cheaper and easier to use.

There are a number of problems that riders aren't likely to think about though:

- Uber drivers can earn less than minimum wage

- They don't have to pass the same tests and adhere to the same regulations as taxis

- Their vehicles aren't built with the same safety features as taxis (for example the screen protecting the driver or the camera in the back)

It's the role of government to act in the people's best interest and that will often mean acting against the market.

Uber could likely operate without breaking the law by simply calling taxis with their app (and from memory it actually did exactly that in Germany once) but that wouldn't make them nearly as much money.
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Do you think that "All men are created equal, ..." is invalidated because Jefferson owned slaves?

Do you think the Lewis & Clark expedition was valueless because Jefferson owned slaves?

Do you think the Louisiana Purchase is of no consequence because Jefferson owned slaves?

Given his accomplishments and contributions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson

which would you say are invalidated because he owned slaves?
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Korea already does this for their games as well. In a mmo game like Maplestory they also always show your real life gender (since a ID is required to register) and even have 18+ restricted areas within the game
Stockholm has dozens of taxi companies and strict regulations (special training required etc, safety and insurance regulations, etc).

All the major companies, perhaps the top 10 - have apps with pre-paying and hailing or pre-booking in the app.

I haven't called a taxi by phone or hailed one on the street for years. I can't find when the first company launched their app, but I'm pretty sure I hadn't heard the name Uber when they did (which doesn't mean Uber weren't first - just that I hadn't heard of them because they didn't exist in Sweden then).

There are obviously no taxi medallions or similar, so anyone is free to start a taxi service and the cost for doing so is low. Usually you'd join one of the bigger players to be connected to a booking central and app service but you can just get a license and start driving.

So the bottom line is - in ANY city where there isn't a US-style medallion bureaucracy surrounding taxis I just don't see the point of Uber. Uber is Taxi. If there are 100 taxi companies with apps, then with Uber they are 101.

US cities (and others worldwide) should just buy back all medallions at the last transfer price and then allow free competition.
> This is easily visible in the mobile sector
Uglify has been doing it for years too - just do a quick env var string substitution and it’s trivial, Webpack or not.
But Neanderthal and Denisovan people are usually called humans, aren't they?

As far as I know, all Homo are humans. Homo sapiens is just one of the human species, the only one that is still extant, usually called "modern humans".

The only controversy I've heard on how to define humans is whether chimpanzees should be part of the Homo genus as well (making them humans, although a different species from us) or not.
"Ah the irony. Yelp is the same website that bullied small businesses to pay for positive reviews"

No, Yelp is accused of this. Nobody has ever shown it to be true.

(I can also tell you, as someone who worked there, that it definitely is not true, but you don't have to take my word for it. You just have to not confuse accusations with facts.)
Downtown Nashville, Tennessee has these on Broadway where there is a lot of pedestrian traffic in and out of "honky tonks" and other attractions.
A "macro", in the sense we are using (i.e. not "C preprocessor macro" or "Excel macro"), is basically a function or procedure that "spits out" (returns) source code. It is writen in the programming language you use, and outputs source in the programming language you use.

In other words, a macro is a program that writes programs.

In languages that make heavy use of macros (like Lisp), a macro is compiled almost transparently, so you can use it as if it were a function. It behaves like a function but can do a lot more.

One simple use is to eliminate having to write repetitive or "boilerplate" code, since you can just program a macro to write generate code for you. This generation occurs on the fly and transparently, so the code is more maintainable as well.
Because individuals won't make decisions that benefit society as a whole. They'll make decisions that benefit themselves and themselves alone.

People will simply use whatever's cheapest and easiest without much thought into anything else.
Ask HN: Those in Europe making €100K+ annually, what is your job like?
For those who make €100K+ annually in Europe, where are you based? Where do you work? What is your position? And what is your job like?
Agreed that columnar description is completely false in this chart but what is so special about AgensGraph?

JanusGraph is another graph database engine that uses more pluggable storage and indexing backends.

There's also DGraph which is a new focused distributed graph database designed to be faster and more scalable.
My understanding was that, at least for this example, is that the DNA runtime is loading raw IL, not webasm, and the interesting site specific stuff will be in IL. I do not doubt what you're saying about webasm.
My guess that immigration is positive in the long run (I mean over timespans greater than a human life) isn't something to take seriously, I certainly don't ;-).

But the argument goes as follows:

- Long term immigration tends to happen where the it's supportable. People don't usually go somewhere they're likely to starve. (So there's generally going to be some feedback loop that prevents really crazy immigration excesses - at least usually, I'd guess).

- Countries/regions/whatever with greater population tend to in the long run have more influence and greater development that those with less.

- Diversity is a strength to a society (but not necessarily it's citizens!) for various reasons, but e.g. creativity and resilience in the face of a changing world are likely higher simply because you've got a better shot of finding the right person(s) at the right time for the right task. This is a bit speculative; but there are parallels in evolutionary biology and business, so it appears plausible to me.

- Choosing to migrate is a non-trivial affair. Migrants tend to therefore be more enterprising. At the very least, the ability to successfully migrate, stay, and raise the next generation is a kind of test of capacity. This is the converse of a brain-drain if you will. Having said that, just because somebody is "smart" doesn't mean they'll achieve much in their new life; after all, needing to adapt just isn't that easy, and the deck is stacked against them. But over generations at least you'd hope for sufficient integration to overcome that.

To be explicit: This is mere speculation; and even as far as that it only suggests general patterns. Not all migration might be positive; and it might take a long time for the benefits to materialize, and even if society is better off doesn't mean that those that lived through the integration process are better off; and even then it doesn't mean the old population is better off either (though you'd hope so). And of course it's all a little hypothetical since you won't be able to stop migration no matter what, so the interesting question is whether the way you manage it (or not) matters, and what those choices might be.

You brought up the interesting question of whether immigration is good (at least, I hadn't considered it quite like that before), so this is just my best guess.

Caveat lector and all ;-).
In Wei Dai's "nightmare scenario", what of value is lost?

If "consciousness", whatever that is, is completely undetectable by external means and has no effect on human behavior, I think we can safely ignore it.
I had to have a large toenail removed as it grew back weirdly after it was broken at the quick. The surgeon said that there are no side-effects unless you're an elite athlete, in which case you'd lose a tiny bit of burst power.

I'm far from an elite athlete; so if I was a hobbit, these days you'd call me Vacri Nine-Toenails.
Just checked. So glad Zombo.com is still there.
They publish some code, but the app itself is distributed in a form where you have to trust a whole bunch of third parties not to implement a backdoor to spy on you, and at least one of the parties benefits from both cooperating with the government and spying on you.
I'm certain the terms of service he agreed to allow the service provider to discontinue service with some amount of notice (30 days seems likely since that's what they gave him here). I've never signed up for any service that I can recall that didn't explicitly allow either party to discontinue it.

While I'm pretty on board with the notion of some kind of internet access as a modern human right, I can't really see an argument for a right to a specific email address with a specific email provider. It's shitty that they've only given him 30 days. And, it's shitty that they didn't do something about it much, much sooner (noreply has been around for a long time as a common address for customer service emails, though maybe not 20 years), before his life became so entangled in this specific email address.

But, I don't think the law is on his side. I doubt he'd find a lawyer to take the case without paying a lot for the service. And, I really doubt he'd win such a lawsuit.
Near my house is an intersection with an above-ground pedestrian bridge that goes diagonally across the intersection.

The funny part is that I've seen multiple pedestrians try to use the intersection diagonally at ground level, even though it is in no way meant to be used that way
To my knowledge there is one of these in Chicago on State street and (I believe) Jackson. It is near a college campus which I think is the reason for the special treatment for that intersection.
First saw scrambles in Ireland in the 90s. Definitely a time saver for pedestrians. And if they can get on their way faster, so can drivers.

When traffic lights start broadcasting their schedules, vehicles will slow down to accommodate scrambles and cross traffic.

Traffic lights may even see pedestrians coming (maybe they will wave or something) and schedule things accordingly.
Yes! And this makes it tremendously easy to phish comcast employees in case you need to do CPE lookups or such.
The new versions of Safari in iOS 11 and High Sierra have a similar feature by default to prevent tracking. First party cookies work, but third-party cookies are put in a virtual container, so tracking networks that are on NYT and Washington Post can't correlate the cookie. It's a bit more complicated than that in practice, but that's the idea.
Over time Kotlin's performance numbers will improve. For most applications though the small performance cost will be outweighed by the increased time to market and improved null handling.
AgensGraph is PostgreSQL based , that's what make it exciting.
Both. It was loss of faith in the Python BDFL and core dev team, and also an examination of performance and reliability. Running on V8 and having type safety is a sweet spot that I haven't found elsewhere. Primary motivator was that Python has been creaking along for a while now, with a precarious future and there was finally a clear spot of greener grass to move to.
The question was about alternatives to Google services (which do exist in almost every category), not about the share of traffic that websites receive from various search engines. If websites want to avoid being overly dependent on Google then they're going to have to get creative and figure out ways to drive traffic other than search.
It seems strange that Google would have trouble with EU VAT rules for developer products. They seem to handle it fine for consumer-facing products like the Play Store.
You haven't worked in a govt department have you. In one meeting the BA Ministry lead fell asleep and actually started snoring. In another, the ministry infrastructure architect said, "oh, that thing, I've lost the word, what is it?" - "a server?".

As an ex antipodean govt contractor, I'm not even kidding. Many other stories of complete fuckwits who had no right to touch a keyboard, never mind run things. My conclusion was anyone with any smarts was completely bamboozled by the abject incompetence and left to the private sector, leaving behind the above characters. Unbelievable, but true. Saying that, don't believe me, get a job there and I see for yourself :)
That seems like a misreading of the scenario. Consciousness certainly affects behavior, like making me say "I'm conscious". The question is whether the same behavior could be reproduced by a more efficient program that isn't conscious, and if yes, how do we make sure uploads are conscious.