skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would love discussing the literate ray tracer I have been working on and the literate programming workflow I have made for it. Couldn't find your email in the profile, mine is abhirag@outlook.com, would be great to discuss if I can improve my workflow further :)
This is absolutely wrong, as many passengers do not make it to a flight, without being bumped.

Based on personal experience, I doubt this is true. Ask yourself how many times have you done this? I've flown hundreds of times, but have only missed a handful of flights. So the collision rate should be very close to the actual overbooking rate.

I haven't been able to find any figures on the actual rate of overbooking. But I did see a statement that 11% of bumps are involuntary. And the overall rate for involuntary denial is 0.09% according to this article, for instance: https://www.ft.com/content/e4cb5744-1e9d-11e7-a454-ab0442897....

That suggests that the overall rate of overbooking collisions is around 0.9%, which is close to my overbooking estimate of 1%. Even if I'm off by an order of magnitude, the impact on fares would be no more than 10%.
A minor point, I'm not sure "first carpenter" is justified here

"How experimental archaeology is showing that Europe's first farmers were also its first carpenters."

There is the possibility that either Neanderthal or Erectus made it to the island of Cyprus, as early as 170,000 years ago:

https://phys.org/news/2012-11-anthropologist-mediterranean-i...

Elsewhere in the world, we know of Erectus making it islands far from the mainland, islands which are believed to have been far from the mainland even with exaggerated assumptions about the low sea levels of the Ice Age.

At a stretch, you could make the case that sea levels got so low during the Ice Age that an early human could simply walk from Africa to Cyprus, or perhaps Anatolia to Cyprus -- that is, you could argue that Cyprus was part of the mainland. But I don't know of anyone serious ever making that argument.

The more likely alternative is that Neanderthal or Erectus built a boat and got to Cyprus over the water. If so, you'd have to consider them the first carpenters in Europe. Boats take some sophistication. You have to at least take a good axe and shape the trees you are working with.
Why they was in war against US forces then?
The best package for graph analysis in Python is NetworkX: http://networkx.github.io/
No, they objectively aren’t. That’s the entire reason they are categorizing the houses are blighted:

>on their properties. Many brought pictures. “We spent our life savings on this thing, and now we gotta move,” said Alfredo Ortiz, an 18-year resident. “It’s an insult,” he added, reflecting the general mood of the testimonies. It was extremely personal for these residents; having your carefully maintained residence, or in at least one case, recently built dream home, designated as blighted.

It’s weird though because republicans are normally the defenders of propert rights, but I guess they always do default to favoring the rich over the poor so this is still consistent. Just compare the quality of life and wages from Wisconsin (republican stronghold) to Minnesota (democrat controlled) and it’s obvious which is better run...
Ask HN: Which hardware careers can be high-paying?
Last weekend there was an "Ask HN" question about engineering careers [1], mainly in CA, that reaches 300k+ salary. All the answers were by software engineers and the like, which is expected here at HN.

So, the question is: is there a highly profitable career (150k+) in your region (specially CA) or company for hardware-focused?

Which are these careers and what skills are in demand for them?

To give a more concrete situation (and avoid the XY problem): I feel a bit like the top answer of this thread[2]: I fell I'm wasting my skills and the prime earning ears in a not-so-high-paying industry (scientific facility) in a low-wage region (not EU or USA).

So, I'm planning to both relocate to US or EU, maybe China or Japan; and probably also change market so I can get my career in a better-paying track. I consider myself very broadly skilled, having designed high-performance electronics (board level, never IC level),done FPGA development, including DSP, and programming from embedded up in a few programming languages, even occasionally contributing to some open-source projects. I also oversaw several short-run manufacturing and deployment, which is a skill set by itself.

However, I have some anxiety on which path to follow. Should I focus on:

* learning a particular set of board-level design tools for getting my foot in SV consumer electronics companies?

* try to get a PhD and learn analog IC design?

* using my current experience to get a decent paying job in a FAANG (all of them seem to be doing HW now, except maybe Netflix) and set foot on the door?

As you see, I have some anxiety and maybe people here could help. Maybe my software skills could put me in a better track, but I first want to check if I can make better use of my 10+ hardware-focused career.

Thank you.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16811454
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16811968
> Unfortunately, Gnome Maps does not provide distances in miles. Yes, I could do the math to convert these, but graphhopper already does that for me. So, it's a nice app, but one missing feature makes it practically useless for me.

Without having ever used Gnome Maps or looked at the code, it seems to me that adding this could be a reasonably straight-forward pull request. I'm not necessarily suggesting you yourself should do it, but a quick bug report to this effect would get picked up quickly, I'd hope.
Dear Mark,

I hate you because you’re rich and I’m not. Also, it’s the cool thing to do right now, and I have to make money somehow, after all.

Sincerely,

The Bandwagon
There's no need for device to be made secure. Just configure your network so that the device can only talk through a specific virtual private network, or even better a separate physical network. It's not difficult, but it might be more costly. Car manufacturers do this. The entertainment system usually cannot talk directly to the engine control unit. There is a bridge device between the two that controls the conversation. Safety critical stuff is on the ECU side of the bridge not the entertainment side and the ECU side is not public.

I don't mean cars are perfect, just that the concept is well known and manufacturers do try to implement it (with varying degrees of success of course).
> The only way one can learn the technique of Vipassana is to take a 10-day course

Is this really true? I agree that a large amount of people may not be able to learn the techniques outside of a retreat setting, but I think it comes down to the individual and is different for each person
Magic Leap’s CEO Rony Abovitz Responds KGOnTech and Dodges Questions
"...when the sensations get too much we [can] turn them down..."

I can only speak for myself but a) realizing this and b) actually figuring out the real noise sources were a (first) breakthrough for me. Not too obvious to figure out when I think back some time.
While I was reading this article I was wondering whether things are different in the United States. Most of the articles I've run across talking about poor Apple support seem to all be outside of the United States.
> I see a lot of complaints about tracking but has anyone proposed an alternative?

Traditional advertising sold based on the audience you provide. It works well.
A state can’t go bankrupt. The pensions will end up being paid by the federal government.
Bing Maps aren't recommended for use in OSM.

Microsoft has generously provided permission and server resources for use of Bing Aerial Imagery since 2010, but that's different than their map product.

Lately there's a bunch more imagery providers that give permission for use in OSM. Mapbox, Digital Globe and ESRI all provide imagery layers with global coverage. There's also quite some government imagery available, OSM editors will show them as an option in the areas they cover, so be sure to check when editing.
Indeed. See my reply to @tetrazine below: it appears that 90% of bumps are voluntary. But per my original comment, the rate of overbooking is quite low, and legally eliminating it should not have a big impact on fares.
Are there any limitations to who can do what in the secondary markets? (Thanks for your answers to my questions - it's not easy to find information on this and I don't know anybody at a company like this to ask.)
You would need to do that with every service though. Have air tight EULAs with every service, audit every service, sue every service... I still wouldn't trust it, malicious actors, acquisitions and more all could compromise your data eventually.
Is there any reason why is this shared as link to github page?

While opening on desktop Firefox (Linux) first the tab froze, then whole browser, and now the PC is completely unresponsive, with the disk in full write, i guess the swap is getting filled.
If the concern is them tracking you for advertising purposes, why not simply train yourself to reject all ads (blocking the most intrusive ones with adblock)?

And then when you really decide that you need something, use all that privacy contraptions you are using currently to try and find what you are looking for without fear of being manipulated.

That's what I've opted for anyway. Am I missing something? Perhaps spam calls are a problem in this case, but I've never gotten it yet thankfully.
It seems possible that mathematical breakthroughs are no longer being published, as they are now trade secrets/matters of national security. I wasn't surprised when Tao was beaten by a hedge funder.
Police Use Experian Marketing Data for AI Custody Decisions
Bacteria grow at an exponential rate :) What at an incredible equilibrium. In optimal conditions E. coli can double every twenty minutes! These organisms live on a completely different time scale.
My wife (a critical care RN) asks “how did you get heavy metal poisoning?”
And also “approximately how old were you when you started therapy?”
If you're familiar with "YYZ" by Rush you know two more letters!
Hot Reload is not unique to webpack. Hugo for example, provides hot reload. At the same time it's an insanely fast static site generator, which you install by simply downloading a binary. No tools, no dependencies, no hundreds of thousands of node modules.
If I had a penny for each time I used the wrong word I'd be riff.
"Not computable" is itself a strong claim that's never been proven.

What is true is that nobody has done it yet. The process is a mystery in the sense that it's not understood, which means that we don't know if it's computable or not.
Reproducing at a higher rate?
The lucky ones exponentially conquer the freed up space, then some lucky virus gets to them, rinse, repeat.
Would Wiremax be keen to sponsor visa?
> Pushing/pulling directly to someone else's local repository (ie, if a remote goes down). This is always harder to do than I expect.

This can be done by specifying the URL that points to their repository's .git directory in the git push or fetch command (instead of origin). IIRC, the only complication is if you try to push a branch that's currently checked out on the remote.
I guess it depends on how you define "heavy use". According to their policy, you should not distribute any application that uses their tile server.

https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/tiles/
Gnome Maps looks great.

I wish they would add a local tile cache, like Marble. Not everyone are online all the time.
> What I wonder is why are Jupyter notebooks so popular?

I often wonder the same. I'm now kinda forced to use them, since they're the tool of choice in my team, but it's a major pain. I think that they're "easy" (in the way Rich Hickey describes "easy" vs "simple") to get started with (just as python, btw), but their lack of flexibility comes back to bite you sooner or later.

For me, I've resorted to using a mix of EIN and ob-ipython, and then copy/pasting as needed to keep the stuff in synch with Jupyter. I'm now considering writing a simple ox-jupyter exporter, and maybe some import functionality, to avoid dealing with Jupyter directly.

John Kitchin has written a basic exporter (http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2017/01/21/Exporting-...), but it doesn't support inline images (it should be simple to fix this), and it doesn't really adhere to the ox- style of exports, so I think I'll probably do my own instead of adapting his (it'll be a good learning experience, for sure).
The Blue Brain project managed something “as big and complex as half of a mouse brain” in 2007, so I think your claims of not-even-insect-level are outdated.
What about becoming an e-resident of Estonia?
I'd genuinely want to be euthanised in this situation. But that's a whole other debate.
Somewhat related is Thomas Metzinger’s The ego tunnel.
Metzinger is an applied philosopher, directly examining what is consciousness as can be determined and backed up with neuroscience.
I loved Antonio Damasio’s the feeling of what happens, and the ego tunnel is like that on steroids, with years extra work from scientists making progress on teasing out distinctions you didn’t realize were there.
There is zero ‘woo woo’, and instead a fascinating set of theories on what exactly consciousness is, why it feels the way it does, what science can tell us now, and what remains unknown.
For me it is super fascinating from the point of view of why Vipassana works.
I Agree with all those points. I've used org mode for a few things, but not for python notebooks. I remember seeing a great video a few years back on using python in org mode to make a research notebook. It really made me want to try org mode for literate / notebook style programming. I think it was this one: https://youtu.be/1-dUkyn_fZA

It sounds like org mode does not store images inline, since you don't like the b64 images in Jupyter? I imagine that could go both ways depending on what you want. Even for diffing, you might like to see that the image changed (though I generally agree that diffing images is not ideal). If you have to package images separately when sharing, then wouldn't inline images score a point for easier sharing?

> use other languages that python

Agreed, and that is powerful, but this also goes to my point. Jupyter is made for python and org mode isn't. Jupyter comes with python and libraries, where with Emacs you're on your own to figure out how to install and use different languages, and setup your environment so Emacs can see them. You're on your own to bring in images and plots, where Jupyter already understands commands that output images.

> Plus, you get to use a proper text editor instead of editing on a browser textarea.

Yes, but the editor is Emacs. :) For a lot of people the browser textarea is a bonus because it's the same thing you use everywhere. It's uncomplicated and non-technical and utterly consistent, even if lacking any power.
Sure. The OP is talking about individuals directly using the website as a map though.

(I've added "for individuals" to my first comment)
The bigger question is why have we created a society where cynical ruthlessness is not only adaptive, but also the object of repeated and widespread praise.
Silicon Valley's Dangerous Political Blind Spots
Did they switch from Mongo to Postgres? This open-source repo makes me think so:

https://github.com/stripe/mosql
Amazing traffic sources for website
Astroturf from who? Europe shows that car manufacturers wouldn’t overengineer cars for safety if they didn’t have to. Who else would be responsible for it if not consumer groups?
The Four Types of Leaders
The only thing that is passed "efficiently" between processes are large binary blobs. Everything[0] else is copied. Up to a point, this is efficient, as a copy decouples sharing and this is really good for modern caches, and it is good for the garbage collection.

However, when the data becomes too large, Erlang programmers often choose to bring the computation to the data rather than the other way around. Passing a function is efficient. Keeping data cache-local in a process is efficient.

[0] Except literal data.
You don't think money or favors change hands under the table frequently? It would elsewhere in the world, I have trouble believing US politicians are so honest as to not be on the take.
A note on the social media fallout
New forensic tests can identify drug use from fingerprints
What are the best Chrome/Firefox tracker blockers for Facebook? I've been using Facebook Disconnect:

Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disconnect-faceboo...

For Firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-disc...

Safari:
https://disconnect.me/disconnect
There is no such thing as "public money." There is only money that the government has taken from people via taxes. So, if the government takes money from me, under threat of force, and then spends it on a candidate with whose views I disagree, it has forced me to support a candidate that I do not want elected.

That sounds extremely un-democratic to me.
It always goes like this.

The initial solutions may be proprietary, and financed by investors. They have a business model so of course they don’t give everything away for free.

With time, enough people get together to build an open source alternative. And then like a snowball it eclipses everything proprietary that went before it.

What would a world look like that didn’t apply Capitalism to ideas?

One where companies couldn’t sue one another for Intellectual Property infringements. Like Waymo suing Uber.

One where self driving cars can incorporate improvements made by any other self driving car instead of putting people at risk reinventing the wheel.

Where the long tail of drug research leads to something.

Why would people release their findings? Because if they don’t, others will. And then they won’t get that small measure of input and control and attach their name to it. Jonas Salk is an exception in the biomedical field. Albert Einstein is the norm in physics.

The alternatives to Capitalism do not have to be Socialism. They can be SCIENCE. OPEN SOURCE. WIKI.

Collaboration instead of Competition.

I would like to see the same in web browser engines. WebKit instead of IE. And so on. When that happens, we all win.

Yes free software is good. Software, like knowledge, does not have to be scarce.
I tried https://www.freetaxusa.com this year since I dislike Intuit so much for their lobbying. The site works very well and has a pretty similar flow to TurboTax except no auto import of financial account info.

I'm not sure the trustworthiness of the company/site. I didn't see any red flags in the privacy policy but would love to hear from others if they've used this.
Appalachia is Dying. Pikeville is Not. (2016)
As some consolation, I'll note that the article is completely readable with JS disabled.
Do you have experience with Vue?
Do they really? The compensation for Software Engineers at least seems to be ridiculously low compared to those in the US, moreso in SFBA. I get that the social safety nets are very good but I don’t agree that social mobility is any easier in Europe.
> How about we base our views on something substantive, not YouTube propaganda?

YT may host content from any number of sources of varying quality. It would be more useful to address why the video itself is propaganda.
I don't have three off the top of my head, but running through the entirety of farbrausch's releases starting with "The Polular Demo" [1] will give you a sense of awe.

1: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=9450
- Set up “if-then” plans [such as] “If I catch myself agreeing with everything a dominant, charismatic person is saying in a meeting, then I will privately ask a third person (not the presenter or the loudest person) to repeat the information, shortly after the meeting, to see if I still agree.”

- Get explicit, and get it in writing. Document how decisions are made and conclusions reached.

- Incentivize awareness. Reward people who point out systematic issues. Tom Brady pays defenders who intercept his passes in practice.

- Set up buffers. Take a walk before making a decisions or to jostle loose unconsidered issues. Use “pre-mortems” to see how the yet to be made decision could go wrong, and work backward from there to mitigate and give insight into the best decision.

- Cut the cues. Set up blind decisions that mask potential biases such as gender, ethnicity, background, hometown, and so on.
It would make no sense for GCC to automatically add early-exit: that requires a judgement call about the vectors the function is intended to run on. A priori, the function might be intended to run on vectors that are almost always sorted, in which case the extra branch would be severely suboptimal.
Yes, it was a good run. Now I remember specifically:

Started using the DOS version in 1990 in college.

Bought version 3.1 in ~1992, Windows version running it under OS/2. Could afford to buy it then, even as a student. Ah, OS/2 was also good.

It was < $100 for each version upgrade until 2000, when they switched to maintenance based licensing, soon bumping the price to $495.

I had a home license which I dropped. I still had a work license, but then some sales twerp said I was using a pirated license at work, and wanted to speak to my IT department. This is a >100k employee company, so serious consequences for software piracy. I faxed them my valid license certificate, and told them to stuff it, dropping my renewal, and buying Mathematica.

Now I see it's Mathcad Prime, a subscription based license, for $800 year. They were purchsed by PTC several years ago, which only made things worse.

This is textbook case of screwing over your user base, cha$ing corporate accounts. I don't know anyone who uses it now. Many people used it back in the day.

Sad thing is I don't even use Mathematica much. Too painfull most of the time. I don't like the interface, but it's better than browser based Jupyter. Just forget trying to install Jupyter and dependancies on a corporate managed Windows computer. I just use papaer and calculator. I swear things have regressed from 20 years ago. At least I can still buy a new RPN calculator.