skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
11% seems incredibly unlikely. How is a single car going to get 10ppl (on average!) to work during rush hour. Add in destroying transit, and the kind of sprawl that "Futurama" fantasies tend to come with, and I doubt this is going to work. Many roads are already fully congested during rush, where could a 10x capacity increase possibly come from...

The last studies I heard about talked about reducing the required vehicle Fleet by 3 vor 4, while actually _increasing_ VMT.
I can't comment on cheese slices, but as somebody who lives alone and has an appetite resembling a small rodent, I very much appreciate individually wrapped perishables, especially when said wrapping is recyclable/compostable.

I throw out a lot less when I can buy large quantities of smaller "perishable units" at once, vesus shopping little and often.
The biggest difference is that China can actually deliver. They built their own top supercomputer on a new architecture.
Elliptic orbits explained by Albert Baez (1959) [video]
I'm actually surprised you haven't been banned.
It doesn't seem to be that every bank is doing it at the same time. Outside of Bank of America, nobody seems to be doing this. There are also options to do it sanely, without immediately freezing someone's assets.

The point is that a bank can randomly freeze your money, and they don't need a regulatory reason to do it.
> So unless you know of a way to force site operators to act against their best interests to service yours, I would much rather that we at least have this option available.

You seem confused about this proposal. This doesn't provide the end user any more options, and isn't meant to.

This is a proposal designed to allow site operators to embed dangerous content without vetting that content. Nothing more, nothing less.
For reference:

https://sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov/
What Chase thing specifically?
"However, he has been a Bank of America customer for 20 years and was born a U.S. citizen, so he figured it could be a scam and that the bank would follow up if it was legitimate."

There is a lot of scamming going on. Just last week my mother got a recorded message with a computer generated voice saying they were from the IRS and they're filing a lawsuit and that she should call them back. I looked the number up online and just 30 minutes ago it seemed someone else got a similar phone call so I reported it to the government.

Companies and institutions who need information from people that could be used for identity theft really need to reach people in a way that they won't confuse it for a scam.
Lol....man the world we live in. I remember growing up thinking superman was the most American thing you can think of and now a days its about immigration. In that sense all Americans other than natives are illegal immigrants :)
Turboprops don't use piston engines.
I was actually more interested in a reference making an explicit construction of a probability theory using linear logic, or if that's unavailable, then some more on the LL -> games -> probability route.

Edit: I found this comment [1] by you 29 days ago. Would you mind expanding on the "more connections" you mention? Thanks.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17432612
"...as a last resort.." obviously means, "we sent one dodgy letter and it wasn't replied to" to BoA!
>Are those not solutions?

No, they're not. Details below.

>With lower daycare costs, you don't need to take a long maternity leave

Sure, you can make it shorter by taking away the freedom of the parents to take care of their own child instead of leaving that to daycare. I believe that above you were strongly against taking away parents' freedom.

>just enough for recovery.

And while it's shorter, it's still there, so there's inequality, unless (again) both parents are forced to take the exact same leave.

>And the re-introduction programs don't have to come from the employing company, it can be driven by the government so companies don't feel they are impacted by pregnancies. Maybe a tax write-off for post-pregnancy job training?

This would never average out to equality, it'd just add an annoying layer of complexity. A company will just hire a male just to not have to deal with any of this.
Hylan Appoints Industry Veteran Joe Cecin as COO
http://abc7chicago.com/finance/dead-womans-bank-account-over...
Gedit, the one program I have used in the past, in the small list of set a tab-stop correctly programs:

My original Gedit plugin (no longer compatible with Gedit's changed API)

This seems broken, not because it's not a good idea. A lot of things that I don't use and don't want are already installed (and somewhat broken.) If I use the 'cat' command on a source code file formatted this way, how is that going to work? A new shell or new Terminal program that will set a tab-stop correctly, or a set a tab-stop correctly plug-in for bash or the Terminal program? The default eight spaces in the shell for tabs isn't very pretty, so maybe you're onto something.

As I mostly blindly click "Install", libraries that had vulnerabilities are updated or maybe newly installed. I didn't ask for these libraries, I try to remove them and the package manager reports that they are not installed. I guess I've got bigger problems to deal with, and will bump along using tabs and/or spaces. There must be a better way.
> the idea behind letting "scholarship students" in is that if the children of the elite are going to run the world (and they always have in the past) it's really in everyone's best interest if we set them up so that they build relationships with some people who are competent

This has always been the reason I'm not as eager as lots of people to smash universities and elitist admissions. The children of the rich and powerful took the reins without trouble before widespread university attendance, and they'll probably keep doing so after it declines.

In this narrative, the breakthrough of the last ~70 years is running a whole bunch of highly-qualified non-elites through what are effectively elite finishing schools, introducing them to the existing elite and in many cases giving them the shared experiences and cultural habits to enter the halls of power. It's not a great system, it leaves people trying to hide their lack of a Vineyard summer home from their classmates, but it's far better than a lot of older systems like "anyone who has to work for their money can't be an elite" or "if you don't learn Latin you can't go to college".

I certainly think this is a major flaw in the grand hopes for MOOCs; the aspirational Ivy League and top 20 experiences are the part of college they're least capable of replacing.
Well, I suppose the answer is the same that for the game of the '20 questions in its “surprise” version' that the article mention.

Where was the word before the first question is asked?
> It’s a regulatory requirement.

Really? Do you have a citation to that regulation?
I ended up using lamda for several things ad hoc and I have to say the experience is great to quickly add functionality to specific niche things you don't necessarily want to run on your API servers because of weight or simply that having a trigger built in makes the whole flow simpler. However, the downside is if you do something stupid like create an infinite trigger accidentally your bill will exponentially increase. Always remember that part. On a $5 digital ocean instance, they will never charge you $3000 a month for accidentally doing something stupid but AWS will forgive you one time at least and I have my one time now. The most hilarious part of this whole thing...and this is really one of the main points, the $5 digital ocean kuejs (nodel.js) server instance that my AWS lamda was smashing the shit out of with millions of requests did not go down the entire time although had some intermittent slow downs of course. $5 goes a long way apparently.
Author here, I think that’s a great approach. We surface our guidelines for every PR by including a link to them in the description template. This acts as a reminder for people to be thoughtful about their review. I think the fact that our guidelines were based on input from the most senior to the most junior engineers says a lot about how much we value everyone’s opinions and perspective, not just the loudest voices.
> I always thought that historically, the elite schools were for the children of the elite;

Parents of means sent their children to College so they'd have a leg up on the under-class. The Screwing Of The Average Man [0] pointed this out to me. It additionally pointed out that college was subsidized for returning WWII soldiers so they'd have something to do that didn't involve fighting, via the GI Bill [1]. This had the effect of causing college costs to spiral out of control.

My dad's parents both went to college before WWII. My grandfather's mother had played Prohibition well (legally), and sent all four of her children to college. My grandmother was an only child, and her parents had the means to pay for college for her.

My mom's father was relatively old by the time he was released from the army, and didn't take advantage of the GI bill. My grandmother said he really should have - that they probably would have greatly benefited financially from it.

Education is an industry whose purpose is mostly to keep people out of the workforce for as long as possible. Some people get a lot out of their degree programs, but mostly school is just a distraction.

I wonder if there's a way to gracefully reform K-12 & post-secondary education so that it better serves the needs of the students.

[0] https://books.google.com/books?id=-PJ0DLVOIXcC
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Bill
Tyre noise sounds like the more likely source of car noise, at least that's how I previously heard this statement being made.
Writes "This post isn’t really about Java vs. PHP" then spent three quarters of the article doing just that.
Hmm, I'd recognise the change in slang as form of code-switching, but the change in tone/accent I didn't think was part of that specifically as it's within the same language.

If using a different accent (different range of frequency, different speed, different tone) isn't changing one's voice then I'm not sure what really counts? At this point it sounds like you're trying to use a non-physics based concept for voice [the parameters of sound produced by vocalisation].
Not sure why this is being down voted. This is exactly the number one thing I have experienced happening with code reviews, especially peer reviews.

This attitude often completely breaks the effectiveness of the whole process, making it a deal breaker for quick iterations and agile projects.
I mean technically it was a "new" release but they fixed 4 minor bugs in a codebase that was otherwise not touched in 20+ years.

If you want the most modern AmigaOS to run on classic hardware that's obviously 3.9 which was released in 2000.
What's the point of screenshotting CLI tools? I'd much rather have an example command line that I can copy/paste than some image of a terminal...
Fighting stereotypical prejudice with...a stereotype? Dartmouth is around the mean in Asian-American student body according to https://blog.collegevine.com/the-demographics-of-the-ivy-lea... .
> computer generated voice saying they were from the IRS

Looks like someone is doing something about that.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/23/business/irs-phone-scams-...
Just do a random lottery, assign points for objective achievements, whether academic or extracurricular. Pick some low (say 5%) percentage of admissions subject to discretion.

The legacy/z-list stuff demonstrates that the curation/engineering of the student body aspect of the process is bullshit. Kids who are marginally qualified and have rich parents seem to be able to make it.

Introducing a lottery system would eliminate the injustice and resentment where some admission officer is applying a "cool filter" to determine whether chinese/korean/indian people are worthy, or creating the assumption that other minorities were somehow unworthy of their opportunity.

I'm just an idiot who went to a SUNY school. In the 90s, if you met an SAT threshold and were a B-ish student you were in. We used to joke that we were the 13th grade of Massapequa high school -- there was no curation of the social skills of the student body. That said, we had a fine social life, and in rigorous subjects the dopiest idiots were filtered out. Computer Science 201 was a lecture hall with 800 students, and about 40-50% of the population was culled each year. About 40-50 students graduated. It was no Harvard, but we seemed to muddle though.
I am not going to even click that. "superposition of probabilities" is not a real thing, merely a mathematical tool. The definition of probability still involves something that is going to happen. Hey that's amazing, it's the probe-ability.

edit: It's very hard for people to admit we really don't know, is what I am trying to say. I mean that's the real definition of chance, we don't know for certain. Whereas, if there is more to the field theories, more than ether, I'd really like to know, but I'm not holding my breath. Between measurement uncertainty and observer uncertainty, the models will remain just that.
With DaaS Windows coming, say goodbye to your PC as you know it
> still have to find something to gripe about because I have 20 years on this kid

I wish I had someone with decades more experience than me taking the time to find areas where my code could improve. Regardless of their motivation, this sounds like an amazing resource that you're lucky to have.
Nature optimized them for hunting and gathering. I don't know about you, but I don't do much of that these days.
They should try to give the books away for free before chucking them out, no?

The word "free" eliminates an irrational roadblock (13c is basically free but still offers a hurdle) and if one person reads something interesting as a result, then it's a win.

Also, they could box them up and offer each box off for 25c, thus offloading the responsibility of discarding the books onto individuals and preserving the notion of a library as a sanctuary for books.
One (extremely minor) advantage of putting the closing paren on the next line (in languages that allow trailing commas, like Python) is that when adding or deleting an argument, the diff only touches that one line (you never have to move the paren)
One application for super capacitors that I always think about is electric planes. These small planes represent a drop in the total fuel consumption of air travel. The majority of it is consumed by commercial passenger airlines and shipping.

The second most important metric batteries have to meet is charging time. The lower the time the plane spends on the ground, the better return on investment. Having to wait for a plane to charge is not ideal for airlines. A super capacitor power bank can be charged much faster than a lithium ion battery bank.

The third is power delivery. I haven't calculated the power required to take off, but given the usual 30s "sprint" (not sure what the technical term is here) to take off the rest can be calculated from that. I haven't calculated it yet, but lithium battery packs usually are restricted to Capacity == Power i.e. 1Wh == 1W. With super capacitors that ratio is sometimes 100x that

The downside to super capacitors is even the best ones created so far (in research not commercial) are the graphene ones that loose their power in 12h.

This isn't a deal breaker but it does probably limit a capacitor powered electric plane to 6hour rides max

Hope someone else finds this rambling interesting :)
Here's a crazy idea I just had. What if there were multiple kinds of tab characters so that you could encode your intent more explicitly? i.e. a "one level of indent" tab, an "align with with the first instance of this character on preceding line" tab, "indent to one more level than previous" tab, "indent to one less level than previous" tabl, etc.
I agree, it sucks. I definitely would rather have worked with the rest of the team rather than leave as the core idea behind the company was pretty awesome.

Are you in this position currently? Are you trying anything different?
Most public libraries would be better off without books. All of the books in the average public library exist in digital form.

However, go to a college library, and you’ll find tens of thousands of books which are not only not available in digital form, they may be the only remaining copies in existence.

Every time I go to the local college library I’m blown away by the number of obscure books on programming and computer science that simply don’t exist in ebook form, and likely never will (thanks copyright laws!)
The community in clojure has been friendly in my experience.

Unfortunately they’ve moved to slack for their communication. The clojure group on google is pretty stagnant which is too bad. Topic threads are the exception in a chat room.

Conversations in a forum like groups can serve as their own documentation. Chat logs have to be deciphered.
> I think it's due to the fact that the terminology seems intentionally misleading at worst, and like a marketing buzzword at best.

Originally it was a marketing buzzowrd designed to make Amazon's FaaS offering seem like a bigger deal than it was, and somewhat misleading in that role because FaaS of the type it was applied to aren't any more serverless (even from the perspective of what the customer needs to manage) than common PaaS offerings.

OTOH, I kind of like the way Google seems to have adopted it as a blanket term for cloud services where the customer is not concerned with physical or virtual servers as such; it seems the term.is being wrestled into being descriptive and non-deceptive.

> Every technical person understands there's still a server there. So it seems like a marketing tactic intent on misleading clueless CEOs.

The non-existence of servers isn't what it communicates, only technical people who also lack any sense of what matters to business world think that. (It's also targeted more to CTOs/CIOs than CEOs).
I don't know, it's a poor metaphor.
A credit union would still do the same thing if you were on an OFAC watchlist. The KYC rules still apply.
Why? It's not exactly "survival of the fittest" but more like "survival of the good enoughs". If there is no pressure, it probably will not be improved.
I agree with the article but the given recommendation is not practical for most people. Yes, there are so many things fundamentally wrong with our lives but people need to be practical.

There is nothing wrong with gyms and high intensity exercise. They are indeed worse than the recommended form of exercise but implying that they are unnecessary is a bad advice for many.

I think before giving this kind of general advice one needs to remember that not everybody has the luxury of adopting a lifestyle like the world's centenarians. "Quit your gyms!" advice won't be helpful at all for many.

This somehow reminds me of the "the right thing" vs "worse is better" duality in software development.

Note: I'm a health geek and hate gyms myself but for other reasons.
Hi, thank you for taking the time. I have a couple questions:
* Why is the DB scrape written as json instead of directly proto/avro/parquet? Isn't it a lot more costly to store and to handle?
* How many events can aws lambda scale to in this kind of architecture?
Edited to respond to the edit:

1) Where is this magical context you keep pointing towards? 2) How is his ethnicity related to the article he wrote? 3) How is this not judging this reporter solely on the basis of his ethnicity?

I understand you may have a preference for not calling anyone or anything racist regardless of the circumstances, but I work differently. I’m more than willing to reevaluate the context if given more information, but you seem to be telling me that it’s fine to judge reporters work by their ethnicity, irregardless of whether that ethnicity is related to the subject matter at hand.
This reminds me of the first bullet point here: https://assets.donaldjtrump.com/Pay_for_the_Wall.pdf

In what is known as the most heartless plan imaginable for paying for "the wall."

> On day 2 Mexico will immediately protest. They receive approximately $24 billion a year in remittances from Mexican nationals working in the United States. The majority of that amount comes from illegal aliens. It serves as de facto welfare for poor families in Mexico. There is no significant social safety net provided by the state in Mexico.
It sounds like he's saying "he's Jewish and engaged with the issue of antisemitism.", but in a snarky dismissive way. Meh.
You don't need to be a U.S. citizen to have a U.S. Bank Account, you can open a U.S. bank account with a foreign passport and a second form of ID.

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/060415/can-foreign-...
I think there are a few limitations with this:

1. It assumes you're operating on a single instance cloud service. If you're operating with many instances, you could end up sending the challenge information to one instance and another could serve the request to obtain the challenge. A distributed storage (redis cache, sql db, etc.) is where the challenge should be stored.

2. All of the steps to obtain a certificate and have it used by the cloud service should be automated. You shouldn't have to update thumbprints or re-deploy your site.
The full sentence is "But he’s jewish and engaged with the ((()))) issue." -- without further context, this says nothing, and those brackets weren't "used" anymore than you or I just did.

That is, unless you're referring to something else, but with accusations as serious as this, and antisemitism being as sadly pervasive and serious as it is, I would like to see a source. If you actually are referring to the DM's on that page, just no, and wtf, since it's only time "(((" appears in all of it, the only other time Jewishness is mentioned seems not to be by Wikileaks.

So, where's the meat?
You read the article. Hopefully you’ll send over a micropayment to support the author. Otherwise, how are content creators supposed to keep creating content? I found the article interesting despite not having an interest in buying a book. It wasn’t trying to “sell” me anything or get me to sign up for anything. It was an unobtrusive experience. Do we criticize news articles because they are tracking our every move or dismiss news articles as just a host for tracking and advertising? That’s what journalism and broadcasting is— the writers and producers trade content in exchange for you seeing an advertisement.

I appreciate the author’s work and, if I were in the market for a book about the history of salt, I would have been glad to click his link. I am sure the more financially blessed among us would love to live in a world that wasn’t so gauche as to require people actually making money from their work, but that isn’t reality. Not everyone has the privilege of just giving away work for free. The funny thing is that if the author had a paywall, people would complain about that. I don’t understand the resistance to people trying to make money with content, especially when done in an unobtrusive way.
I thought you were making a quip about the evils of unbalanced parantheses, but TIL punctuation can be considered racist.
> "Like all financial institutions, we’re required by law to maintain complete and accurate records for all of our customers and may periodically request information, such as country of citizenship and proof of US residency. This is not unique to Bank of America. This type of outreach is nothing new and the information must be up to date. Therefore we periodically reach out to customers, which is what we did in this case.

It sounds like the process is mandated, but they screwed up the customer service piece.