skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, you're right. They have a hub at SFO which also does a lot of aircraft maintenance (Wikipedia says it's the principal Global MRO base for United), and they're also one of the largest employers on the peninsula. But the actual corporate headquarters is in Chicago, and supposedly the actual predecessor airlines were founded in places as diverse as Seattle, Boise ID, Washington DC, etc.
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That demonetisation was a huge negative for the Indian economy is not up for debate anymore.

Your anecdotal accounts of people getting paid in advance count for nothing against the millions of people who didn't get paid for past work and the millions of people who didn't get work that was scheduled to happen because nobody could pay. Markets were deserted, no goods were selling. This shit went on for months. Everybody who actually lived in India during the time saw this happen.
The bulk of the mass is in larger pieces, but the number of tiny pieces vastly outnumbers the large pieces.

Imagine it being like an extension of this set of plastic piece masses: (100, 80, 50, 25, 10, 5, 4, 4, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1)

One large piece (say, a Troll doll) has more mass than the pieces is breaks down into, but those pieces are more numerous than the whole doll.
Doesn't seem like there's much left to debate. All demonetisation did was serve to legitimise a lot of illegal cash that made it back into the system.
Poorly. That's topic of active current discussion.
If Albert Einstein applied for a professorship at UCLA today, would he be hired?
can't read the article as it's behind a paywall, but I've recently become very paranoid. Just a few minutes ago I was thinking about small autonomous drones that are just big enough to infiltrate a building and insert themselves into the usb port of otherwise secure machines then escape with sensitive information.

I think I'll start printing some usb port covers as a countermeasure.
If you're not already aware, I'd recommend checking out deliberative democracy. Some of its advocates are pushing for something like this, but in a structured, moderated form. There's obviously debate over what the structure and moderation should look like and plenty of debate between deliberative democracy proponents and related schools of thought, but the general thrust (my words, I'm not speaking for anyone else, so I might not do them justice) is that the process of discussion and deliberation is as fundamental to democracy as the process of voting, and should be accommodated by the government just like voting is.
> After sharing a screenshot of a tweet from Fox News host Laura Ingraham that was covered by language warning of “potentially sensitive content,” Twitter users were quick to point out that Ingraham’s tweet was covered up due to settings in McCarthy’s own Twitter account, not because of a company campaign to silence conservative voices.

It's kind of sad that the people out to regulate technology companies aren't really all that familiar with technology themselves.
One of the possibly fortuitous aspects of Mastodon is that admins tend to be devs, hence their needs prioritised.

Automoderator, like RES, is a third-party addition to Reddit.
Or......there's the $5 wrench

https://xkcd.com/538/
9575 w/4k display, SSD, i7, 16G RAM. So far so good.
Probably right. Maybe removal of black money was just a facade in order to achieve all the other actual objectives.
I used Boost Build for years, but I never figured out how to do anything but copy/paste our existing build files. I found scraps of documentation on Jam here and there, but it never made much sense when I looked at our code. I later discovered CMake and found it much, much easier to learn.

On an unrelated note, the best comment I have ever come across is related to Boost Build: https://github.com/openembedded/openembedded/blob/fabd8e6d07...
Especially storing them in a building made of flammable materials (which have not been treated to retard flames), or in a flood plain, or a tornado zone, the foot of a volcano...
Store the command to create the function in a file, and save the file in your version-control system. Make changes to the function only by first changing the file and then running the file through psql.
Have to say I completely disagree with this, especially with respect to 21st and late 20th centuries. We may be more concerned with design nowadays (although I'd argue mostly on a commercial level), but to extrapolate that to an improvement in the aesthetics of writing seems a gross error.

If we assume that reading great books and practicing writing is critical to becoming a great writer, we've never been in worse time for writing development. The average person grows up reading--if they read at all--Harry Potter, Twilight, etc., being inundated with inane advertising, steeped in piss-poor social media posts, etc. The most writing the average person does is work email. Contrast that to, e.g., Herman Melville, who grew up reading pretty much solely the King James Bible and the complete works of Shakespeare, and who probably corresponded with friends and family every day.

I even think the vast majority of 21st century writers would disagree with you.
Well, I appreciate you civilly correcting me, which you seem to have a good history of doing, so I apologize for my tone.
And was already submitted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17886827
Man, I don’t know about the damn thing itself, but all the Indian comments on the Internet have been close to conspiracy theory. Everyone is biased and telling lies, if we only listened to X y Z. Etc etc
Here's a personal note on this and how strong the mind is in relieving pain without medicine.

I have a condition that is known to cause chronic pain. For years, over 25, anyone that asked me if I had pain I would always say no. I wasn't lying. I truly thought that I had no pain. I felt very lucky.

One day I had to start taking pain relievers for a case of intense back pain. It was so bad I had to stay in bed. After I stopped taking the back pain pills I started to notice a pain that would not go away. I found out it was due to my chronic condition. It was then that I realized that I had always had the pain. For some reason, I had blocked it in my mind and never really accepted it as pain. Now I have the pain, it's similar to unseeing something you never wanted to see. Once you know about it you can't block it. I take regular pain medicine to help me now.

For so many years the thought of not having chronic pain made it so in my mind. It's truly amazing what the mind can do if you belive.
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“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing.”

Politics does come into work with things like family leave policy, hiring, promotions, corporate giving, corporate mission, etc.

It’s inescapable. Even denying it doesn’t make it go away.

Feel free to take your own advice and shut up yourself, but it’s up to other people to decide for themselves what they will speak up about, knowing the price they may pay for, in some cases, confronting whatever they are up against.
Gentoo gives 'use' flags for configurable options, I stripped those out and posted the hard dependencies.
> causing widespread inconvenience to the people that didn't ask for it

I was one of them standing in line along with my 75 year old dad. The sentiment that I share with them is that although this was an inconvenience, we endured it gladly. Whether it worked or not, the reasoning of why we were doing it was clear & we will gladly go through it again. Not doing ANYTHINg would have been the worst thing for us.
Or anywhere in the west, really. It's just one more symptom of the horrific rising levels of wealth inequality.
> I would enthusiastically support research and testing on this solution.

This would probably be helpful to deploy at scale: http://baltimorewaterfront.com/healthy-harbor/water-wheel/

Alone it's not an entire solution, but the technical challenges are not terribly difficult if you can constrain by the rivers dumping waste into the ocean. This is more a funding/political/logistical issue (as others have mentioned/insinuated in-thread).
That's fine, but unless they're going to ban all (user generated) high bandwidth media as well, they're going to have a hard time (at least without deeply backdoored perpetually networked processors).

Finding the optimal encoding for some piece of data is extraordinarily hard (I suspect NP complete, but I don't have any resources to back myself up), so it should be comparably difficult to prove that deliberate and (relatively) low bandwidth inoptimalities are intentional - it is very hard to prove the existence of an encrypted steganographic channel within some high bandwidth data stream.

It's a game of cat and mouse in which the mouse is going to get increasingly good at turning invisible.
"I dunno, just spitballing here but...a VCR? Heh...or a TV (remotes have lots of buttons!), or a computer perhaps."

Better to consider UI in relation to the possible failure modes. VCRs can be complex, but failure generally doesn't risk death. Cars are probably the most complex widely used device use of which carries significant risk.

Critical personal medical devices, like insulin pumps, have pretty simple interfaces. Or don't have any interface, as seen in pacemakers.
Yes it did succeed in rigging the UP elections in favour of the BJP.
I find it interesting that the top three highest voted comments, and their top sibling comments don't mention any potential concerns about unintended consequences or the effects on the average and poorest people (the NYT article cites evidence such negative effects happened, including suicide).

The first sibling comment of the third highest voted comment throws out a worry, and it was downvoted.

I don't know what this means exactly, but I think it's worth the average HNer to ponder.
VXHeaven was a great site. Didn't know it was offline. Any idea what happened?

Edit: Apparently raided by police.

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/03/28/vx-heavens-virus...
is it survivorship bias? Are the ones who have "given up" just the only ones still visible online?
There's a whole slew of open p2p systems extant or emerging. You might want to look at Friendica: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendica
Well, Ocean Cleanup says "the majority of plastic by mass", so that seems to address your size distribution argument.

I am guessing, however, that their evidence shows that "the majority of plastic by mass" in the top whatever meters is in large pieces, but the distribution of small pieces goes far deeper.
Experts and anyone who understands this disagree.

If demo was any good you would see such exercises all over the world on a regular basis.

IndianBanks are in bad shape because of loans they have made and have to continue to make to politically connected individuals.

This affects state banks mind you - private banks never has that problem.

As Raghuram Rajan pointed out, the reason banks can’t make loans is because many firms have terrible credit. That’s what makes loans unaffordable to them.

And as current reports show - All of that money is back in circulation - so the banks are back to square one.

2 - if someone is telling you this, then they are confusing matters and are misunderstanding trade.

1) Volatility will always exist

2) foreign investments are something we want because trade and more resources makes our economy grow much faster

Additionally: black money is a misnomer - it’s money on which tax has not been paid.

A large portion of India’s economy is informal, and entirely cash based AND also below the taxable slabs - this is OK.

It’s a transition point for an economy as it goes from 1970 to 2030.

What people are upset about are corrupt people who cheat the system and then launder that money.

All black money is therefore not corruption.

But demo has not stopped corruption, and even during demo the corrupt found out ways to launder their money.

Not to mention none of this was free and necessitated a shut down of the entire economy - for nothing.

This move cost us billions in opportunity cost.

The mint wasn’t ready or warned, highlighting how unplanned this entire move was.

People died

And in the end nothing happened

All of those goals could be achieved correctly and more effectively.
The word is"code".
That’s only half of the deal. The employer can’t take the employees for granted any more than the employees can take the job for granted. So the other half of the deal is that the employee had better be offering a worthwhile opportunity. Employee turnover is not cost-free. Yeah, it doesn’t have to be perfect. But it is a two way street.
Science in Iran languishes after Trump re-imposes sanctions
Yeah, but Kevin McCarthy isn’t out to actually regulate anyone. He’s just paying tribute to His Orangeness, and maybe offering some red meat to republican voters, before he loses his position in a few months. This is a risk free move, given that there won’t be any ability to follow through. But it is pretty much garden variety poor leadership / waste of money.
I feel like it could apply to pacemakers as well. I feel like certain qualities, features, annoyances, subtle benefits, etc could only be experienced if you actually went through having one installed, dealt with it every day, etc.
> Most US media outlets want to feed the stereotyped view of India and jump at any chance to do that.

You have no way to prove this.

> Most people who cry against demo are those who do it, just because they dislike Modi as a person (not a very charismatic personality).

You have no way to prove this. Also see No True Scotsman fallacy.

> They would not be able to substantiate how they were personally impacted.

You are implying nobody was actually impacted. And yet the economy lost a percentage point in GDP growth. The people that were the most impacted were people in blue collar jobs, and they are not on HN.
Almost nobody. But the benefits don't have to be some sort of personal gain: I'm sure most relationships are just for the "benefit" of someone who supports you emotionally rather than with money/fame/power.
I don’t presume to know what the original intention of bitcoin was, I’m only interested in it’s current viability as an investment. My goalposts are - and have always been - is it likely I can sell this later for a healthy profit?

Sounds like you’ve got a bone to pick with some ideology I’m not privy to.

And to your point - bitcoin doesn’t need to solve a crisis to be useful! It just needs to be useful to be useful.
David Sacks said in his Twitter that's one of his criteria for investment - "What’s the friction to scale? Can the team solve?"
About 10 years ago I had a severe back injury and even after it "healed" I would occasionally experience stabbing pains in my lower back. Two different doctors told me I needed surgery to fuse three of my discs.

I considered surgery to be my absolute last option. The alternative approaches I tried were

a) Acupuncture, which turned out to be a waste of time
b) Yoga, which reduced and eventually eliminated the pain

It was not any particular style of yoga. I tried several, but starting with gentle stretching and twisting things started to feel better and about a year later I was pain-free.

I don't actively practice anymore, but still do some exercises once in a while. I never had the surgery and have not had any problems with my lower back in years.
It'd be nice to see those ideas realized. I have some ideas myself but haven't started anything yet because I've been focusing on my studies. I already have one small project that I work on in my free time.

My problem with most build systems is they're general purpose tools. I need to teach them how my projects work every single time. It'd be so much nicer if I could encode my conventions on the system itself.

Starting a new project should be as easy as initializing a git repository and putting the right files in the right directories. The build system should be able to at least figure out where the sources are based on convention and determine the dependencies between files.
Are you kidding me? I do not know who refs, but if Social Media companies are your refs, god bless your children.. then need lot of luck!

Here is an interesting exercise - name 5 silicon valley conservative stalwarts.
Basecamp: Name Of Person Presenting names of people in full,familiar,abbreviated
Have you heard of ants?
AFAIK no home router you can buy does NAT66, so in practice it's not used.
The Path to Biological Numeracy
> unpleasantly pastelike.

I don't think you'd get actual paste, but yes, 8-minute space elevator rides aren't looking very physically possible.
Isaac Arthur thinks an orbital ring is a better idea:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMbI6sk-62E&index=9&list=PLI...

He has other videos on ways we could get into space more cheaply, including by space elevators (which he basically doesn't think are feasible).
I like to put all intelligence in the database, instead of the middle language (PHP, Python, Node, whatever). People argue about whether to put all your intelligence and business logic in your database, and I think you should google it and read about it for a long time. I say the moment you make a column unique or add a foreign key, you have already begun. What most people do is have part in their database and part in their middle scripts. And it's not by design so much as by how well they knew SQL at the time. People typically learn the middle language first, be it Python or PHP or what have you. They know how to write the business logic in that language, and they only have so much time and energy, and I don't blame them. Learning SQL in general and Postgres in particular takes a long time, but the more I've learned, the more I move.

Now that doesn't mean PL/PGSQL, because I like to use the simplest tool that does the job. From simplest to most complex, you can:

1. Put it in the table definition, things like: data type, null or not null, unique, foreign key, and check constraints:

create table orders (
id serial PRIMARY KEY,
item int NOT NULL REFERENCES items,
qty int NOT NULL CHECK (qty > 0),
...
);

2. Put it in a database view definition. If your SQL is getting long and complex, save it to a view, so your application doesn't have a tower of SQL in its source code. Views can also warn you when you're changing tables in a way that will break something ("You can't drop this column because this view depends on it, you can't change this column's type to that because a view depends on it, etc."). Of course you can drop and recreate the view after changing the table, but at least it warns you. Other times, like if you rename a column, I think the view updates automatically. None of this would happen automatically if the SQL is hardcoded in your Python script.

3. Put it in an SQL function (SQL, not PL/PGSQL).

4. Put it in a PL/PGSQL function.

That's the order I take, from smallest hammer to largest.
That is one of the criticisms of project's research. They only looked at the water column to a depth of 5m, while other studies have seen that the plastics disperse to depths of at least 100m.
This story is true.

I was diagnosed about 15 years ago.
Eyes (mostly right eye) were getting progressively worse. Reached the point where soft (toric xr) lenses were no longer working. I was going to get fitted for hard lenses in the coming week.

I stayed at a friend's house.
I had an allergic reaction to her cat.
My eyes got severely swollen.

The next day, I could see with my soft lenses again. Optometrist didn't believe me. Until I went in and she tested.

My eyes had been 'relatively' stable since that...but have recently started to get worse again.

I always thought it was something to explore scientifically. I had another eye doc say it was all in my head. (If only one could will themselves to see better...).
The best treatment when I was diagnosed was the implantation of plastic rings into the eye to change its shape. I always suspected that there could have been a shape change. Or maybe just fortunately-placed deterioration of my corneas from the reaction.
because wifi is reasonably secure by default these days?
Step 1: Loose weight
5g devices will be everywhere and bandwidth will be unlimited as opposed to the metered version we have now. It won't be tomorrow but 20 years from now is a good bet.
I imagine it would depend a lot on what type of service you are offering and whether sales and marketing is something you can automate digitally for your business.

Jordan Belfort's straight line persuasion sales training video series offer an interesting analysis of how to perform direct to consumer telephone sales:
http://jordanbelfort.com/order-straight-line-persuasion/
> About reading the classics too early, I've experienced it, but I also had the opposite feeling. I had little pleasure reading Homer when I was a teenager, but was enthusiastic about the "Odyssey" twenty years later. The translation played a big part in that change of heart, going from prose to rimes, but I believe my age and my larger culture was necessary to fully enjoy it.
On the other side, I read quite a few of Balzac's novels when in high school, and my favorites were "Eugénie Grandet" and "La peau de chagrin". Somewhere in my thirties, I reread the latter and thought it was awful, so pretentious and pseudo-philosophical that I dropped it before the end

That's interesting to me, I hated Balzac when I had to read it in school but I loved the Odyssey as a kid. Most of the classics I read and enjoyed as a kid (Voltaire's Contes Philosophiques, To kill a mocking bird, all the books from Maupassant, etc...) I read them for fun by myself without the school asking me to read them, on the other had I hated the books that I was forced to read (Rousseau's confessions, Balzac, Les Allumettes suédoises by Robert Sabatier)

It does show that being forced to read something does color your perception of it. I sometimes wonder what the best way to introduce literature without shoving it down student's throat but still getting them to read good classics.
The base tether point would need to be far away from anything! In the book Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson, one is placed in Trinidad and Tobago.

The most dangerous part would be slowly dropping the cable; lower it to the point where it could be pulled into a magnetic clamp -- without destroying everything in its path.
I dislike meson, it mixes configuration with generation when a separate project (if even really needed as sh is fine) for configuration could exist.
I have 2 x Dell P2715Q 4k monitors
Big ISPs don't want to become copyright enforcers; it costs them a lot of money already and enabling IPv6 would cost them even more. (ISPs that could cheaply deploy IPv6 have already done it, so the ones that haven't generally can't afford to.) They're greedy but they're not proactively evil.
Unfortunately one of these jurisdictions is America. Publishing detailed models for a hundred-year-old firearm can earn you threatening letters from the State Department. Many people in power today have little respect for truth and liberty. I imagine they'd control who has access to physics textbooks if it weren't still facially absurd to the public.
Bringing some order to chaos.
Yeah, very good :)
> and that pretty much requires a genetic study only available from one source right now.

What is the source?

I forgot to mention that both daughters had blood in the stools after eating allergens. This is commonly connected with cow's milk protein intolerance but can happen with other allergens.
I'm happy about this, and hope NNW becomes as good as it once was.

I've been pretty frustrated with Black Pixel, especially their lack of communication about roadmaps. When a year had passed with no news on the supposedly upcoming iOS app (2013 timeframe, when they moved to a new code base and broke sync), I gave up on them as vaporware and moved to Reeder with Inoreader as a syncing back end.

I'd love to have a reason to go back.