skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not at all. I'm just surprised that when an article says X, everyone seems to be against X. Then shortly afterwards there's an article that says (not X), and everyone seems to be against (not X).
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but don't most libraries do connection pooling on their own? Why is something like pgbouncer necessary?
There's nothing holding you back from setting up a process in which developers can approve their own pull requests.

I worked with such a workflow before and it worked like a charm. You only ask for a third-party approval when you know the feature you worked on is big and might break something. It is all about trust.

The pull request interface is very good to show you all the code you worked on and review everything before committing to master.
Maintainers Matter: The case against upstream packaging (2016)
Average life expectancy is a notoriously bad measurement because it skews way down because of childhood deaths.

For example, Roman life expectancy was only 21, but if you made it to age 5 it jumped to 42.

Even then the laws at the time was 18 to enlist -- so they already viewed child soilders the same way we do now. The big difference is age verification was a lot harder because there was little in the way of a paper trail.
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I'll only work in equal-split partnerships. But that doesn't mean every partner has an equal say in the business; I'd also be leery of working on any founder team that didn't have someone designated as President or CEO.
Cerf (Stanford) and Kahn (DARPA) designed TCP. But BBN (now a subsidiary of Raytheon) built ARPANET.
If you just need a little duct tape hack for your situation, you can setup a script to scan the folder and point some html page of links to your latest doc set. Could even as simple as a generated static html file named to appear at the top of the folder or folder tree in a known place.

Communicating and agreeing on some commonly understood system is typically a more effective factor than the tooling.
Yeah. It's still early for him, but describing Gorsuch as a socially conservative, civil libertarian might be accurate.
Augmented Reality Apps for iOS Show Little Growth, Usage
AFAIK it is not possible to use a configuration file without being able to look at it, am I missing something?
Let’s take today’s equivalent - what’s the likelihood of Amazon not offering AWS or even Microsoft walking away from Azure and pulling the rug out from under developers?

Even businesses that chose Microsoft technology in the 90s when they were the clear leader have had a relatively painless upgrade and support path. They abandoned VB6 15 years ago, but you can still wrap your VB6 code as a COM object and interact with C#.

I’m saying that it is the safer bet to go with the largest provider with the largest customer base. In the 80s that would be IBM, in the 90s, MS over SUN (and the royal claustrof%%% that Java has become under Oracle) or Borland.
>If you need to make deliveries along the whole path from NY to Chicago to Philly, the path makes sense.

Come on man seriously?
No, what makes sense if you are designing this is to make one direct connection between Ny-Philly and another NY-chicago.
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Have to remember the world population was much smaller. Maybe 150 million in Alexander's time and 400 million in Ghenghis Khan's. They'd have had to do a much more efficient butchery to reach the same raw numbers.

That said, a little googling seems to indicate that the Mongols do, in fact, win that competition. They were pretty big on genocide.
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Actually I'm not so sure if much would change (w.r.t. performance) if they switched to a more democratic regime.

In the end I were always a bit scared/reluctant about the US often touted ultimate justification for democratic capitalism that it is simply more efficient -- "Cultivate freedom -- after all, in the end it's just more efficient!". What if... it isn't?

China is turning the tables on this argument quite a bit. Heavy handed government control, aggressive state-sponsored corporate espionage, citizens surveillance and strict punishment of detractors, exploitation of workers, all combined with hand-picked aspects of market economy to lubricate the system. China is designing itself as an efficient economic machine with minimal regard for personal freedom or expression.

It's still unclear whether China will be able to achieve technological parity, but it's quite probable it will overtake the US as the foremost economy this century.
"intimacy"? What a delightful word. I am intimate with my partner. I have intimate friends.

This is the first time I've ever been told I'm intimate with someone who I've never met, who I only know about through public writings and talks, and to whom I've never communicated.

My circle of intimacy instantly expanded as it now includes Richard Feynman, Freeman Dyson, Eugene Garfield, and Donald Knuth. Though to be fair, I have communicated with the latter two.

And all those people who write critical biographies of dead people - surely we can't trust them now as they are too intimate to the person in question, and thus more likely to be biased.

Indeed, the only people we can trust are those who know nothing at all.
You can refuse the work assigned to you and not get fired? Sounds like my dream job :D.
Throughout the 20th century, the United States benefited greatly from this sort of knowledge drain, from war-torn Europe, and from the Soviet sphere of influence.

The trend is just reverting to the mean.
Ah, I see. I agree with you in that case, but in my experience the true-but-rubbish answer is generally that the decision makers had need to use a tool and “common sense” made them force it on everyone else without any consideration (a common problem whenever the justification is “common sense”).
>You can create elaborate class systems using metatables in Lua; the problem is that there are hundreds of them.

I have done quite a few Lua projects, and I can tell you've not quite gotten it right.

The Class system you use is the one you take with you on the project. This is a strength, not a weakness; your patterns are a base file in the project.
You don’t need to take it every day, though some do, you can also take it only at the onset of an outbreak.
The semantics are chosen to be as close to identical as is feasible given data.
I can't help but feel like there's some missing information here. One piece of information that's missing from the headline but not the article is that the jogger was not a Canadian citizen, which may have complicated things, but doesn't seem like it should have complicated things so much that she needed to be detained for two weeks.

One possibility is that the jogger not only wasn't a Canadian citizen, but may not have been a fluent english-speaker either.

This still seems screwed up though.
We should bring back Comrade as the gender-neutral pronoun.
this? https://github.com/golang/go/issues/25936
IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival
I left a small fraction of a bitcoin in my mtgox account years ago, because I couldn't be bothered to look up the exact decimal value when I transferred it out. I bought at I believe $8. At the time, it was worth a few cents. Today I think it's worth something like $3k.
Isn’t Google the obvious counter to this? IIRC Larry and Sergei were equal and possibly co-CEOs until Eric Schmidt was brought in.

One of the biggest companies in history is a major counterexample to Gil’s argument and deserves more than a footnote about equity split at IPO.
In case anyone was perplexed about the end of Neuromancer, this is the answer about what was meant below from William Gibson.

> three
notes, high and pure.
A true name.

http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/archive/2003_03_13_archive...
McKinsey's Gary Pinkus on the Future of Work (Bloomberg) [video]
OT, but why are immigrants called expats when they're from anglophone nations?
Technically it is a solution, but it sounds like you don't like it for cultural reasons.

This gets into the purpose of governments in general. Culturally, let's say you don't want pollution. How do you solve that? You can try and convince your neighbors piecemeal, or you can create a governmental solution. Governments have a relatively limited set of options for creating change. Taxes are one of the least invasive options, and significantly lighter weight than regulation and police enforcement.
The big problem is the manual pollination and harvesting. Growing the vanilla can be done with a suitable climate in many tropical locales, but pollination requires a lot of care--you need to balance getting deep enough to actually pollinate the plant with being gentle enough to not destroy the plant. Most vanilla farmers have special tools they use to cut away parts of the flower and quickly pollinate it.
We really need to figure out how to get to a stateless, borderless society, and end this kind of absurdity. There is NO justification, none, zero, zilch, nada, for somebody being detained for two weeks for crossing an imaginary line while running on a beach. It's not just absurd, it's beyond absurd.
True... However, 38% of Americans still hold a Creationist View of Humans

https://news.gallup.com/poll/210956/belief-creationist-view-... [2017]
The fund of funds index that Ted Seides put in already takes into account management fees -- it's what the investor will actually return.

And I do think it's necessary to put this bet into context, because the ultimate question it is trying to ask is "are managers adding any value?" Any sort of bet is going to be an artificial way to measure that, so the caveats to the bet that: this was during the longest bull market of all time; S&P 500 is USA weighted, which out-performed international counterparts; hedge funds still provided lower volatility are important.

I think the fact that Ted challenged Warren to another 10 year bet (which he refused) does speak to something.
No, not really. It's more similar to the way Plan 9 handles graphical programs. The run command lets you pass arguments to programs and it doesn't remove the power of shell autocompletion, unlike something like dmenu_run or rofi. There's also the benefit of running programs that aren't in your PATH, without the conventional annoyance having a terminal attached to it. Honestly, I'm surprised a tool like this didn't exist earlier.
and about 1000x more expensive than an equivalent weight of vanilla
>>Roman, a citizen of France who had travelled to Canada to visit her mother in B.C. and work on her English, didn't have any government-issued ID or travel permits on her.

Ok. Free legal advice: If you a citizen of country A visiting relatives in country B, don't go anywhere near country C without your passport. US authorities acted very reasonably here. Two weeks is not a long time considering she needed confirmation from multiple countries.
Madagascar isn't the smallest island on Earth, you know.
Both parties presumably had lawyers writing ass-covering contracts, so who loses? This isn't the usual "Wells Fargo screws you over then forces arbitration where you lose again" imbalance, there's no particular reason to think Smyte could have swung a favorable contract with e.g. ZenDesk.
> 1. The check on [CEO's] power prevented us from being wildly successful because there was too much consensus needed for risky, but potentially rewarding, decisions.

Wait, so equity share dictates consensus? In my 20 years of working in startups, I haven't seen a relationship between share ownership and board control (other than chairman) and the company executives.

The CEO dictates what happens, period. He can either be a consensus builder -- to his benefit or detriment as the case may be -- or a dictator ala Jobs. Just because everyone has an equal share doesn't mean the CEO needs to build consensus. And he doesn't need a check & balance on power. He is in the position of CEO because the rest of the folks trust his leadership, not because he has 1/5 + 1 shares.

It sounds like you had poor corporate governance, unrelated to equity sharing.

EDIT: TFA states this directly, as well.

> Unequal co-founder relationships are a way to dampen future co-founder issues. By making it clear how decisions are made and who is in charge early, you decrease the likelihood of a founder blow up. This is separate from how you divide equity ...
Really? I’d never heard that.

To be fair I’m only vaguely aware of APNG. I thought it was called PNGA before I looked it up to see what browsers supported it for my comment.
JSON5: JSON for humans
Most wouldn't consider starting a farm or a ranch a "startup" in the usual sense. There are many people starting farms every year the US. Things are very different compared to a tech startup, with much higher capital costs (land, rent, equipment). There are special USDA loans available: https://newfarmers.usda.gov
This statement is wrong. He has always been fair and lawful, to say otherwise shows ignorance of his breadth of work, not only at the Supreme Court, but his entire career. Roberts is an honorable man, regardless of who put him in.
How many people to send to Proxima Centauri to ensure someone actually arrives
Are we sure that the religious texts themselves make the claims about reality. Is it instead incorrect physical interpretations by followers of the religion of the religious text?
In my experience, people have come to use expat to describe someone who is temporarily or provisionally living elsewhere (e.g. Gone to London to work for a few years). Immigrant is often used for people who have moved with a permanent intention.
IRC lives on!
> The obligation is to speak with the person who is most appropriate for what you want to do

What is the objective criteria of who is the most appropriate? I.e. if I think person A is the most appropriate and somebody thinks it's person B, is my opinion sexist if A is male and B is female? I.e., is there a place for reasonable disagreement which is not sexist? I mean, if the sole reason he prefers Kuhn to Sandler is because of her gender, this is obviously sexist, by definition, but why the assumption is it's the sole reason? Is there anything indicating it is so?

> An organization depends on a long-term continuity of structure. If that structure is undermined by doing whatever is necessary for the short-term gain of a single donation, then it risks the organization as whole.

How donating after speaking with her employee undermines the organization? From my experience, that's how a lot of donations happen - people speak to the employees of the NGO, understand that the mission of the org is the one they want to support and donate. Many times it's not the CEO - the CEO can't possibly meet with all donors. And sometimes donors meet with specific people doing things, just to understand that things that are being done are those they indeed want to support.

> suppose I were to offer $10M to the Conservancy, but gate it on having a date with Kuhn, then one view is that Sandler should pressure Kuhn to go on a date with me, because it will result in a donation.

"Pressuring" anyone might be a wrong move, no doubt, but even if it happened - which I don't see any indication it did - how it is sexist?

> Also, regarding "that is his job" - how do you know that private meeting with a potential donor is part of Kuhn's job?

I didn't know. I assumed it is since otherwise it'd be very weird from the side of the donor to request it and I prefer not to assume bad behavior without evidence. And since he has the CEO job before, which means he met with a lot of people and had established old relationships. In case it is not his job, it's indeed weird, but still doesn't answer why it is sexist.
What exactly are you arguing for?

I'm arguing that lamenting "mechanization" of social interaction - whether between corporate employee and client as in this example, or even between individuals - is akin to appealing to ether as a virtue of the universe.

If interactions between actors can be measured (which they can to some level of specificity in certain contexts), and the desires of the actors can be understood to such a degree (which we're starting to be able to do), then we can model actions which increase or reduce the likelihood of desired outcome, and following from that can produce and optimize decision support systems that nudge users toward some mutually beneficial state that may have otherwise been opaque to both actors.

People seem to hate this idea because it basically puts hard determinism right in their face - in that your past behaviors if known well enough should be predictive of future actions ceterus paribus.

It's often argued that, such a granularity of measurement in social dimensions is impossible technically, or the fact of being measured changes their behavior. I wouldn't argue either of those to be untrue, only that it need not be perfect to increase the overall optimization of the system.

So instead of saying, yes lets use measurement to optimize our system of interactions across commerce and relations, people bristle at the mere concept of social engineering in the Popperian sense of the term because it feels restrictive to our sense of "free will." I argue the opposite, that doing such would simply make us more aware of our predilections and much more likely to be able to align them across groups.
far worse asymmetry: The Government can spy on citizens, but citizens can't spy on their government.

This is precisely backwards of a free society.

The Snowden episode both comically and tragically exemplifies this: He is an outlaw for giving the citizens visibility into the government's surveillance of those citizens.

National security justifies government secrecy? I believe the opposite. Government secrecy jeopardizes the security of a free nation, turning it into an unfree one. It protects and enables corruption and hypocrisy. And it is used FAR more often in government acts the violate the principles of freedom, fairness and justice.
Meanwhile I could ask of you: why do you want to keep these people as extremely low-paid wage slaves, producing goods for the well to do, for something that can be automated? (I find it likely that automation would cause real vanilla to become so cheap that most people could enjoy it, not just the 10% richest.)

The big picture is complex and it's hard to do forecasts, but I'm not entirely convinced that this kind of change would screw these farmers in the long run.
I've usually seen "expat" used when it's more relevant where the person came from than where they emmigrated to. "Immigrant" being used for the reverse.

E.g. If you were born in Madagascar and moved to Belgium: You're a Madagascan expat because we're talking about Madagascar, but you might be referred to as an immigrant to Belgium if we're talking about Belgium.
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I had money in mtgox. I tried checking for proof of claim a few months ago and their website was broken.
If that approach truly had broad support among conservatives, it likely would have been implemented by now. (I consider myself very liberal and am a strong supporter of such an approach.) But the reality is that a plurality of US conservatives still (as of 2015) believe that the impacts of climate change will never materialize. https://news.gallup.com/poll/182807/conservative-republicans...
I was going by the title, which said it's PCIe 4.
The idea of flying a plane whose power depends on shooting it with a space-based death-ray is not very attractive. The plane still has to land safely in case power is lost.
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Republicans today and at least since Bush aren't conservatives. They are plutocrats.

Real conservatives abandoned Bush when he increased the debt by hundreds of billions for that illegal and immoral Iraq war that broke the world. Real conservatives believe in smaller government and less government intervention. Republicans politicians these days are anything but that, they are disgusting.
If we’re going to extend JSON I don’t see the point unless we decide on a standard date interchange format that can be validated.

Not a strong with some format in it but an actual date format.

I know this is probably a problem because there are no date literals in JS, but it’s my #1 complaint about JSON.

I don’t care about trailing commas. Identifiers for names instead of quoted strings would be nice.

But I want a date format.
> and people often respond when they see the opposing view (this is why conservatives and liberals in the US so often take the most extreme statements on the other side, and critique/retweet them; better engagement and an easier way to caricature the opposing side)

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2013-04-07
We have lync as the corporate rubbish system (all corporate systems are rubbish)

From what I can see
It's pot luck which machine a message will go on
The ios client is terrible
There's no channels
There's no history half the time (if it pops up in webmail for example), if there is, it's client based not server based

We also use irccloud and slack, they are actually useful - irccloud from a standards base, slack from an ease of use. I don't understand why people have so many problems with them.
This has been my experience.
Just my personal anecdote but a vast majority of the Chinese students I've known do not want to stay after their degree. A couple have rattled off the statistics on the huge advantage they have in the job market back home with a degree from the US.

Not that I'm arguing against immigration reform, though. Just playing devil's advocate.
The problem with the code in question is a problem of alignment, not indentation.

Edit: Ah, no, there are some indentation problems too. But it's the alignment that I first noticed because it's so jarring.
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The case was about whether physical shipments using common carriers constituted a local nexus and required collecting local sales tax. SaaS and other services without a common carrier would not meet that standard.
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Meanwhile, in the United States, we can figure out how to send a robot to kill a family on the other side of the world, but we can't figure out how to supply drinking water in Flint.

Human welfare is always a priority that competes with 'national interests'.
For pollination, a hummingbird-sized drone is not as far-fetched as it might sound.
Ask HN: Friendly help vs. Getting paid
Hi HN,

Pretty simple: where do you draw the line between when you are doing a friendly favor for someone (possibly doing free valuable work), and when you should be getting paid for your help (possibly being greedy or unfriendly)? Why?
I guess it's not _entirely_ unprecedented (apparently there is exactly one example in each direction), but yeah, I think they will not be arrested any time soon.

https://www.chinalawblog.com/2014/03/enforcing-china-court-j...
https://blogs.law.nyu.edu/transnational/2018/04/the-chinese-...
"IRC is a transcended level of humanity"

Just how high are these folks on their own supply?