skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’re calling one dimension special because if you remove it you don’t get to use the special words you use for that dimension.

If updown was a special named dimension and you took a single 2-space+1-time slice of the universe at fixed radius from the Earth, your argument wouldn’t really be different, only words and phrases like “sitting still”, which is inherently about the dimension being removed, because it’s convenient for us.

And that’s ignoring questions like “can particles have momentum if there is no time?” which might actually be important in the unlikely event that I understand what a black hole’s singularly does to time.
This perspective on the bible and Latin is not a good analogy. Most people could not read any language long ago, and priests in general serve several other purposes before reading/expounding upon the bible. From the standpoint of a believer, the bible was not expanded by human decision as laws are (canonical vs. apocryphal discussions aside). The bible was compiled in Latin by Jerome because it was the common ('vulgar') language of the people.

Of course, there's plenty to discuss and argue about in all of the above, but your comparison makes it seem like a done deal.
I don't think his expectations were unreasonable and I don't blame him for not wanting to spend years of his life slowly trying to fix a dysfunctional team/process. I know it's not easy, but companies should do a better job at hiring so that both parties time isn't wasted.
> But not all laws should expire. Having, say, the crime of murder expire would be quite unhelpful.

I'm pretty sure that laws like that one would be renewed before expiration anyway -- and the current context would allow re-evaluation of penalty as well, which might be something useful to reconsider every couple of decades.
Although we decided to start using Scala specifically because PySpark was not as performant (2.0 is not so far ago), a reasonable use case I keep always in mind is aggregation (and in general any API which is still not solid/experimental/under work). Python bindings are always the last to be available (because all groundwork is being done in Scala). We have a relatively large scale process that takes advantage of custom-built aggregation methods on top of groupedDatasets, where we can pack a good deal of logic in the merge and reduce steps of aggregation. We could replicate this in Python using reducers, but aggregating makes more sense semantically, which makes the code is easier to understand. Also, the testing facilities for Spark code under Scala are a bit more advanced than under Python (they are not super-great, but are better), even without considering that being strongly typed makes a whole kind of errors impossible, right out of the compiler.

I very, very rarely think of using PySpark (and I have way more experience with Python than with Scala) when working with Spark. In a kitchen setting, it would be like having to prepare a cake and having to choose between a fork and a whisker. I can get it done with the fork, but I'll do a better and faster job with the whisker.
And yet if you look at your own behavior and that of others you know, I bet you will find you are motivated at least considerably by the sorts of needs that Maslow described. And when you have to choose between them, I bet you tend to do so roughly according to the set of priorities that his hierarchy presents. Unless, of course, you are a really odd person.
That sounds like a ton of administrative work. Imagine 100,000 bookmarks!
Good point, I hadn't even thought of checksums!
Only hobby websites would host jquery off a cdn
I didn’t refer to Germany as lawless. In fact they have gone the other direction - they have laws on the books that are so broadly written that any foreign corporation can be caught up in them without intent to violate them. It’s also rather convenient that with GDPR, Europe has created a sweeping regulation that happens to disproportionately affect and is sure to generate massive fines from deep-pocketed corporations based outside of Europe. Do you think that is a coincidence?
Zuckerberg admitted as much.
My understanding is the current crop of machine learning algorithms depend heavily on good training data ("gold data"). If they're training a model to recognize my face, they need accurate training data for my face.
Right? I would be so happy to hire someone smarter than me who can teach me how to be better. Sure if someone was telling me my code was shitty, but their solutions weren't any better or smarter, I would get pissed. I suppose some people aren't smart enough to know when they are wrong?
This is one of the many baffling details of the GDPR, a TOS should be understandable for average humans (plain english), but at the same time it has to pass the scrutiny of a court? That is just impossible.
I think it depends a lot on the country you are in. In many European countries, the SMS is practically dead: in Germany or Switzerland it's all WhatsApp these days, with a bit of Telegram or Signal mixed in. Given this, I was surprised to discover how many people are still sending SMS here in Canada.

I think it has a lot do with mobile carrier pricing: here in Canada, mobile fees are enormously expensive, but SMS are almost always included for free. In Germany/Switzerland, many people use prepaid cards where SMS are (still) charged per message.
Ageism was just a side effect, I don't think IBM committed it intentionally. IBM's business changed and some of their employees failed to change with it. That the employees who failed to change were generally older is just a coincidence.

I know that I might face that same reckoning when I get older - out of date skills pushing me out of the market - so I'm actively taking steps now to set up habits that keep me on top.
I have never heard of ORNL. In general I would assume national labs are low paying and run by PHD researchers, so less upward mobility with my BS. I would rather make more money in an engineering led company. And I personally try to avoid companies with more than 200 employees, since they tend to have too much bureaucracy.
USDS fixed VA's cloud architecture and saved $100Ms
A service that could look up every online account I've ever created, probably by email address, and allow me to completely delete it and all associated data. Like Unroll.me, but for user accounts. Oh yeah and without the sketchy data re-selling practices.
You didn't even mention when cards didn't work for three days for "maintenance"

Surprisingly I grinned and bared it until I decided the world wasn't ready for life without checks, unfortunately.
I’d have called that a medium to large house with 3k being huge - what is typical?
Looking where I live, we are typical for 1960s, and just over half the current average of 205 square metres. Guess my idea of large is actually small.
That's very true now that you mention it, equities are not open source or decentralized. I'm liquidating my portfolio and going all in
we certainly don't need to police everything...but there is a middle ground between that and no policing at all! And that will be hard to do in decentralized networks.
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I don't know how to say this without sounding condescending, but you basically just need to think harder or perhaps more critically. This is like saying you can't wrap your head around global warming because it's cold un your backyard or that you can't believe the earth is round because the ground in front of you seems so flat.

We must open our minds to larger concepts. This sort of small-mindedness is responsible for the worst part of the human condition.
Where are the proceeds of the fine going?

This "fine" should be returned to the American people and not used to fund obscure government programs
Oh nice, it's cool to get access to dependency info without having to implement a full distributed tracing mechanism that is invasive to the service components.

Breaking down service success rate by inbound dependency is great for debugging many typical fault conditions.
Producer and DJ Known as Avicii Has Been Found Dead
What is the company line that you're referring to that Rob Pike contradicts?
That happens to a lot of college graduates I know. They stopped for me around a year or so after graduating.
I work for a large bank and can offer a tip. When you find yourself in this situation -- please create an incident report by lodging a complaint with the branch manager or online . Tweet if you must : your goal is to make sure that an incident shows up in the CRM. Branch managers bonus is tied to customer satisfaction parameters. This will not make you situation more bearable but it will force the branch to be more responsive in the future.
xz has substantially better compression than gz or bz2, especially if using the flags -9e. You can use all your cores with -T0 or set how many cores to use. I find it to be on par with 7-zip.

Perhaps folks are trying to stick with packages that are in their base repo. p7zip is usually outside of the standard base repos.
5G would need to increase capacity by at least 2 orders of magnitude over 4G to compete with wireline service. That's not going happen, radio spectrum is a finite resource.
Yes. There are two separate issues here, I think.

1. When corporations "negotiate" with consumers, this is an abuse of the legal system. Contract law was conceived for situations where both parties have at least some amount of negotiating power. Handing a consumer some long contract written by a set of well-paid lawyers, and asking them to sign it or walk away from any benefit from a product, is not the kind of contract we want in our society. In the past, we've used group association - collective bargaining, class action lawsuits, etc. - to solve this problem of many consumers, each with almost no power, negotiating with a big corporation with all the power. Arbitration clauses, and non-competes, are often examples of abuse of this power imbalance.
This situation is the kind of thing government exists to do - solve problems for its citizens by working collectively. So perhaps regulation is also a remedy.

2. Informed consent, vs. terms-and-conditions consent. Click-through agreements with many pages, written by a legal team, in which the alternative for the consumer is to walk away, cannot be seen as informed consent by the consumer. When Facebook asks users to click "yes" for disclaiming privacy rights, that's not informed consent. We already have a definition of informed consent in scientific experiments, and it requires understanding every word of the consent and no penalties for saying no. (If a scientist offers subjects $10 for participating, the scientist must pay that $10 to anyone who declines the consent form.) Consent forms must evolve to match informed consent in science.

If as a society we deal with these two issues, we'll be in a much better place, and we'll be dealing with wealth concentration (into the hands of corporations), a key issue for our time.
MEPs back report urging break-up of Google services
The practices the author describes are actually horrible, and objectively bad practices though. Truly, obviously, inescapably bad practices.

Do you just go along with it? What do you do? I personally try and avoid places like that like the plague because it will mean my technical skills will vanish with the wind the more time I spend working in such a code base.
One question then, is whether laws are generally more like murder, or more like the chicken tax. I don't know, but I suspect there are more chicken-tax-like laws by a considerable margin.
> There needs to be a massive restructuring of our system to allow smaller banks to thrive and provide actual competition.

Hmm... does there really need to be any restructuring though? It sounds like you "opened up an account next door at a small local bank" without any problem, so the choices are there, and your choices in banking really aren't that limited.

Your frustration with bigger banks seems to be related to the fact that as banks become bigger, their clientele also tends to be represented by more and more corporations and high net worth individuals. Those clients undoubtedly contribute a larger percentage to the bank's bottom line, so their focus naturally shifts to serving those types more than the average person with a personal checking account.

Just because McDonalds is the easy choice, that doesn't mean it's the only choice. McDonalds' existence (or that of the big banks) doesn't mean the system is broken - only that our collective preferences probably need to change.
Head on over to Europe, and:

> Ik steur je wel even een appje

(I'll send you an message on WhatsApp)

is the norm in The Netherlands. My entire family, extended family, and everyone around them is all on WhatsApp. While I communicate with iMessage/SMS with friends in the US, that's not the case outside of the US. Everyone seems to have WhatsApp, most people don't use Google hangouts or other services alongside that, let alone SMS.
I mean if you write something like:

(for {
x <- List(1, 1, 1)
y <- Set(x)
z <- List(y, y)
} yield z).length

the answer will be rather surprising, because in Scala for/yield is not necessarily monadic.
Some of my biggest stressors in the past came from trying to change people or believing that I was entitled to have people act and react the way I wanted them too.

I don't give that privilege to others and I don't expect anybody else to.

I say guys because my developers and analysts and quality managers are all men. The only women I work with are two secretaries, and they're not even in my department.

What's too bad, friend, is that you have deluded yourself into believing you have the right of way over another person, for any reason whatsoever.

Bless your heart!
The only problem here is that Amazon is so big that it's newsworthy what they choose to sell or not.

We should have healthy competition, so that when Amazon chooses not to sell some product, it's merely Amazon's loss, not an assault on a manufacturer.
> Do you think that is a coincidence?

Facebook broke laws, was fined by courts and regulators in multiple countries, kept breaking laws, made a mess on both sides of the Atlantic, lied about what happened and then tried to throw it under the rug. Meanwhile, leaks from inside show zero repentance or even cognizance among employees of something having gone wrong.

The EU is addressing this failure with regulation; we'll solve it more decisively by breaking Facebook up.
I am trying to understand your post. Is it cheaper per yard to hire a concrete truck than to mix concrete (with free aggregate/sand) yourself?
Rule of law is a really good thing in most societies.
>It is [nearly?] impossible to predict all the consequences of your regulation ahead of time.

Yes but why is the burden asymmetric? It is similarly impossible to predict the consequences of deregulation ahead of time yet proponents of deregulation are never held to the total unpredictability of the outcomes of their position.
That blew my mind but it still sounds like it would generalize, wouldn't it?
Given the subsequent actions of the company, there is no evidence to suggest his views have changed. Or if they have changed, he has certainly taken no steps to right the ship.
>I'm not sure what their rates are like

Very opaque and very expensive ($500 / mo+)

Also, they will shut down your account if you don't use your free edition enough.
Why Paying for Fast Shipping Could Get You Flagged as a Fraudster
They change the source of the sugar based on tariffs and subsidies.
& the discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16648000 which has 348 comments.
Two parents working have more income counted in GDP than one parent. Higher GDP is thus correlated with more parents working. More parents working means less parent hours available. In the table the bottom countries have highest number of parents working and the top countries, lowest.
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Monopoly control, or near-monopoly-control, of many markets is hurting consumers and average citizens at the expense of a small number of CEOs.

Some good thinking on this:
In context of amazon https://newrepublic.com/article/119769/amazons-monopoly-must...
In context of tech firms, Google, Facebook
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/interrogation/2017/...
Most of the HN community despises regulations against tech companies, but it seems like nothing short of strong regulations and severe financial penalties will rein in the bad actors. We can't expect the companies and their CEOs to act out of the goodness of anything save for their pocketbooks. We've lost the presumption of good faith
Wow, thank you for making me feel like I'm not alone...

I can't even count how many times I ask myself "but they hired me on the premise that I'm an expert in this, so why are they not allowing me to work and make changes to improve things for them?"
Reminds me of the movie 3 idiots (https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1187043/). I guess the story is still valid nowdays. Great inspirational movie btw...
ZFS can do multiple copies of a file on a single hard drive. It is not adding parity.

ZFSOnLinux is developed outside Linux’ tree for 2 reasons. One, it is easier that way and two, Linus does not want it in the main tree. Consequently, you need to install it in addition to the kernel as if it were entirely userspace software. That does not add anymore difficulty than say, installing Google Chrome. :/
Yes. And so does every single other blog with any sort of popularity.
At least there’s less chance of a hurricane there, though I wonder how they protect the wooden structure from the year-round damp climate.
the beehive has been disturbed, true, all flying around like crazy looking for someone to bite...
I doubt anyone - it's not useful for anything apart from creating an identical clone of Circle CI.

They didn't open source it for other people to use, they open sources it for other people to learn.
> When a communication system silently drops messages, this is unacceptable. But people are ok with it because they're accustomed to it being shit.

Or they are OK with it because they have never had their SMS messages dropped, like me (that I know of).

At least here (Finland) SMS is used for a lot of stuff like bank transfer verification and postal package pickup notifications, having many dropped messages would seemingly make it unsuitable for those purposes.

Of course, MMS is a completely different story and I've seen issues left and right on various phones and carriers. I don't think anybody really even uses MMS group chats here.
I object to most of the roughly 50% of my income that is taken from me and can't say I've ever been called a freeloader... That's an interesting point of view you have there; "either don't be a US citizen or never complain about tax policy".
Perl 6 removes very few language features. About the only notable ones I can think of is fork and format. Since Perl 6 has built-in multithreading, fork is not needed. And hardly anyone uses format anymore (it is great for directly printing to a line printer).

What Perl 6 did is change the syntax for various features of Perl 5; while adding a lot of new features.
The author of this piece has his own Wikipedia biography, which may provide some useful context. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Gordon_Edwards_(entomologis...

Also the publication, which I'd never heard of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_Energy_Foundation#21st_...

> 21st Century Science and Technology is a quarterly magazine established in 1988 following the federal government's closing down of its predecessor Fusion Magazine (1977 to 1987). It has the same editor and material as Fusion.[67] The last hard copy issue of the magazine published was the Winter 2005-2006 issue. Subsequent issues are available in electronic PDF format only. The magazine deals with a variety of issues, including criticism of claims of anthropogenic global warming, promotion of the use of DDT[68] and support for an alternative to the standard atomic theory, based on the "Moon model" of Robert James Moon.[69] Notable writers include: J. Gordon Edwards, Zbigniew Jaworowski and Paul Marmet. According to Science and other sources, it is published by supporters of Lyndon LaRouche.[70]
> there is a banner advertising a trashy "college" on every corner.

Right. In the computer field, for example, private "institutes" offering "post-graduate diplomas" are a dime a dozen, in every city, in the downtown as well as suburban areas. The standard signboards or ads for them show that they teach "C/C++, Java, .NET, web design, ASP.NET, Oracle, AutoCAD, HTML/CSS/JavaScript, ...". And it's mostly former "graduates" of the institutes that do the teaching, with no real life experience. As for the virtual version of these, I regularly get contacted by training companies (middlemen) for conducting courses for clients on Python, Linux or other skills I have. Many of them turn out to be shady in their practices and I have to fob them off.
> The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers.

I know things have changed, but in the early '00s good luck getting hired to Google without a PhD, masters minimum.

4.0 dual major in CS and psychology from Georgia Tech, graduated in 4 years with both of those degrees. Yeah, no thanks. [Not me, a friend of mine who wanted to work for them]

They always insisted, at every hiring event I attended through around 2008, that they only hired the "best of the best" and things like that. If that's true, then this:

> They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language

Isn't true.

So Rob has it right and Google is hiring really mediocre people. Or Rob has it wrong but only saw the mediocre hires.

EDIT: Cleaned up the grammar a bit.
Really? Musk started with $200M from PayPal, invested half in each, according to reports. There is nothing left to invest after doing that.
Use a backlink checker

https://ahrefs.com/

And find where your competitors are being linked from. If possible message the people who own those pages to get your link besides your competitors.
Houses aren't being built anymore? No wonder there's a housing shortage.
AMD and Intel Had a Baby and It's a Beast
You can still use jammers to prevent backscatter from being readable but your jamming signal will just power the sensor more. :)
I got the impression that the dogcow was essentially a mistake, like stretching 4:3 to 16:9. The changes were intentionally (and manually) done to better fit with Page Setup, but it not intended to look like a cow or dogcow hybrid. I don't have any sources though, just something I think I read many years ago.
I can't tell if this was satire or serious.
The existence of even cheaper computers does not make my point irrelevant. A larger proportion of the population can afford a Mac today than in 1984, and an even larger proportion still can afford a computer of any sort.
You know, I think that's awesome, but gradualism has it's disadvantages, primarily, as you stated, all those millions of people, mostly black underprivileged people, who have had their ENTIRE LIVES DESTROYED.

So excuse me, if I don't hold the same love affair with the liars in chief, both current and former.
>Especially since you are setting up a constant storm of users trying to reconnect.

The network isn't that dumb. The technical details are far beyond the scope of a HN comment, but the network can gracefully deny service to users. Think about what happens if you run out of data allowance or prepaid credit - your phone doesn't frantically spam the network, it just asks for service and is politely told to try again later. If all else fails, you can just de-register all the devices connected to a given cell site and revert them to emergency calls only.
You can import transactions manually into NYNAB (the new web version).

One problem I have with relying on OFX is that I have a nagging suspicion that it's not as 'official' as the statements. If there were a discrepancy between the two, I'd worry that I wouldn't be able to resolve it in my favor without having reviewed (and thus downloaded and reconciled against) the statements.