skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I highly doubt it. I don't see anything different here.

Same old song.

These airplanes run on jet fuel, and require a pair of human pilots to operate. This means that these planes have a high operational cost.

Meaning that the airline companies will eventually cram everyone into the smallest space they can. Everyone will be miserable in economy. But if you upgrade for just $100, then you can get another inch of legroom in economy-plus!

For the Boeing 787 to be bragging about better fuel efficiency.. Well.. so what? That is really irrelevant to me, because I am paying the same amount for the ticket, or more. And they still cram everyone into the maximum amount of misery possible in economy class.

And for the planes that are bragging about being able to fly 20 hours.. Can you imagine the horror of flying internationally in economy? And trying to get some sleep during the flight?

I can. Welcome to our new future of flying. Nothing but misery ahead. Unless of course, you want to splurge a little more on First Class tickets.
Try having 2" less legroom than you really need. I get his commentary, but it's physically painful.
Hi Jesse,

Tagging here onto Austen’s thread (for reasons you’ll see below). My startup’s public benefit corporation mission (separate from our product mission) is to hire people in positions such as yours. Gentrification (→ high rents where jobs are located) as well as an unequal economic system (wealth inequality, selective inheritances, etc.) have made your position a challenging one.

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Might you be interested in being added as a fully paid apprentice (remote) after you graduate? It would also entail a highly likely position as a Junior Software Engineer (also remote) with equity on successful completion of the apprenticeship.

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I think most of the time you can work with the hospital and possibly get the charge cut in half. Then pay monthly payments with zero interest. Has anyone done this?
Here is a relevant and interesting video about airline classes and pricing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzB5xtGGsTc
It is sincerely not hyperbole. My company has 12 principal engineers including me, and in the meeting where we discuss interviewing and hiring, the anecdote I described above is literally the standard of discourse.

I can’t be certain that the same would have applied to all senior engineers in other companies where I previously worked. But I did interact with dozens of other senior engineers over the years and it’s a remarkably constant phenomenon.

It’s not surprising either. We all like to tell ourselves stories about how we embody the best ideals that a broader community espouses, even when the reality of our day to day behavior is different.

That is why I chose the term myopia. I think it’s a symptom of the tech world wishing to be associated with generally progressive human values, but that where the rubber meets the road, the implied values of tech orgs are no better or no more exemplary of positive human values than any other field of business.
I wasn't arguing that you were a bigot. I wasn't denying that the average Englishman is more similar to the average Greek, than to the average Japanese.

I'm saying a belief in distinct "races" of people is bogus.
I've been to the wayback machine. But I couldn't have a look at the interface in itself. only the homepage.
thanks for the other link
Another issue: it exploded, and 113 people died.
Why Stanford Is Not the Answer
Ask HN: What is the best movie you have seen about AI?
NYT has much more context on the scam:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/04/world/asia/nepal-everest-...
I’m glad at least someone can use specific examples. These are the kinds of reasons that come to mind when explaining what a “cultural fit” rejection is about. It’s not that the candidate is an asshole or toxic. It’s that he’s not enough like the interviewers.

I once had in interviewer ask me what I thought about going to football games as team building events (this was not a job that had anything to do with sports). I knew where that job opportunity was going...
Yes. On the other hand, "I don't want to hang with this person after work" or "we choose different ways to relax" are extremely poor reasons.
> The only way that we feel happiness from these things is if we get more of whatever it is

Not sure who you mean by "we". This is certainly not the way I experience happiness. And not most of the people I know.
I don't even bother with the knee savers. I just use my knees.

I'm tall enough that in coach my knees make full contact with the seat in front. I just keep them that way for the first half of the flight, and the person in front of me assumes the seat recline is broken.

And if they manage to recline anyway, I make sure to hold my food or drink or reading material directly above their head while I eat, since they're pretty much in my lap anyway.
Should bots and A.I.s that are displacing humans be taxed?

Also what do you think of Bryan's essay - https://medium.com/future-literacy/a-plan-for-humanity-2bc04...

Specifically: "The future of the human race can be forecasted through a single metric: return on investment (ROI) of intelligence. Our current economic incentives (the engine that drives the world) are perfectly designed to put humans out of business and make us irrelevant as fast as possible."
Well, because Sun has spent millions of dollars getting it adopted, offered the tooling for free, to the point it was one of the culprits of their downfall, as they never managed to properly get the money back.

If Java was sold for the same price as lets say Delphi, most devs and university students would never have cared.
How big tech companies are colonizing Africa
> Explaining what Mapistry does and the problem we solve to investors is not easy. Customers get it because they have the problem, but investors never have the problem we’re addressing, so this paragraph was a tough one.

Explaining the problem is only half the battle. You also have to prove that a large number of potential customers actually have said problem and are willing to pay money for a solution, and you need more than an clear elevator story to do that - you need hard data.
You ignore completely how is invested the time gained by the developer. Sure you can shave seconds over a few tasks, but a new feature or a new software altogether could save hours on others process. That's how the time of the developer is invested. It's to get a process that takes HOURS to a few minutes versus getting a page that takes SECONDS to a few microseconds.

Same goes for the hardware resource. Changing to a bigger server cost less than than my time. That way again my time can save more time on useful stuff.

There's billions of hours wasted in business and government in long and meaningless tasks. Optimize that first please before micro optimizing your software.
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I agree but I also think that the competition makes sense when you look at the incentives for being recognized by society as unfortunate.
Debugging 101: Locating the Problem
The slow part was mostly syntax highlighting and that was at least 3 years ago. Looking at https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/issues/1326 it seems live reload as I mean it (without hard-refresh of the page) is only available through a plugin.

> On the other hand, would love to take a peek at your static site generator, if there is such a difference :)

Sure: https://github.com/Keats/gutenberg
It is going to change name this week or next week though, gutenberg was not original enough :(
It's not. The shock wave is present as long as the plane is in super-sonic flight.

I grew up in fly-over land, and military training flights based out of the Dakotas used to go overhead; we would get the occasional boom.

(Also, once in a while doing my farm-kid chores driving a noisy piece of machinery across a hay field I would get buzzed by a jet sneaking up from behind me flying at a very low altitude. It was always startling because I never heard them coming over the noise of the tractor. I'm sure I made a pretty good surrogate for an enemy tank...)
I mean, no one is going to come right out and say, "We don't hire the Irish" in such a survey.
Incredible news. What's the main challenge for you atm that you don't know exactly how to approach yet? How can we help?
The largest piece of the puzzle is air travel has progressively gotten worse over the last few decades since the deregulation of the airline industry, it really doesn't matter than new planes have more space or are more fuel efficient. Airline companies will still pack more people in like sardines and charge for more and more for baggage since their stockholders want it.
My post was a historical contextualization about the thrust and focus of Orwell's criticism of Socialism, as the parent seemed to be trying to object to the premise with an anecdote from a "socialist" with whimsical predilections. The implicit point there, being that there was a categorical error being made.

I do not claim to say anything about possible or theoretical corollaries that Orwell may or may not have drawn around hierarchical structures more broadly.

To your last point, conflicts around self-organizing groups and spontaneous formation of oppressive hierarchies is an ongoing debate within Anarchistic philosophy itself, so no new ground tread there simply by stating it.

See: Proudhoun, Bakunin, Kropotkin etc...
In my experience, it seems to be 'is this person cool or not, given what I think is cool?' or 'does he have the same political inclinations as I do?'

WeWork has banned meat from their meals - you can't even submit an invoice for a meal containing meat. This is not so obvious discrimination for the 'type of person' they want at the company; 'Veganism' is pretty strongly correlated with a bunch of values, including political.

'Cultural fit' is a very slippery slope and though I guess WeWork has the right to make such assertions ... I think it's unfair and wrong. I could easily live with that kind of rule, but I just wouldn't want to work for a company that had such a rule.
People 100 years back probably would’ve paid a small fortune to be able to fly in any uncomfortable plane of today.

I, too, think about the Louis C K quote every time I fly.
No wonder nobody went with troff. Checking out the Troff homepage, wikipedia page, the GNU page for troff and scanning the manual, I still haven't come across example code (markup?) of troff, but it sounds like something closer to latex than a markup language.

While markdown lacks good formal definition, it is easy to read and easy to write. I picked up markdown faster than it took me to give up looking for example code for troff.
I'm not really sure of what you mean by false positives.

After my understanding of the stacking technique as used in other contexts in astrophysics and without going into too much details :

The problem they were facing is that the signal to noise of the images of the filaments was too low to say that they had detected anything in any individual images. However by stacking (adding) images they were able to detect it because the signal grows roughly with N (N being the number of images) and the noise grows with sqrt(N). So by stacking enough images you'll get the signal to noise necessary to say you've detected sth.
Somewhere, underneath all the spreadsheets for moving money around, and underneath the middle managers writing memos in Word, are the actual workers that read the memos and do the work that goes in to the spreadsheets. The workstation market was the first big application of one-user computers, and will probably be their last foothold.
I really liked Ex Machina.
Well there was this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_C1 but production has stopped.
This is why you invest outside of retirement accounts.
Your on-demand cash isn't getting much, if any, return.
Your home equity and retirement funds are expensive to access.
The Acela takes about 1:45 hours between PHL and DC and costs as low as $39, while driving a car takes anywhere from 40min to 2 hours longer than that[0]. It's not EU 'high-speed', but it moves at roughly double highway speeds at times. Granted, on that section it averages like 96-112kmh (60-70MPH) I think, as it makes a couple stops (Wilmington, DE and Baltimore, MD at least).

[0]https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Philadelphia,+Pennsylvania/W...
It appears to me that a lot of people have shifted their trust to private corporations from government entities. Namely because we've stopped holding our elected officials accountable. There should be and always will be a struggle between for-profit ventures and the general welfare but if we don't have trust in democratic institutions, we'll continue ceding power to for-profit ventures.
It's not just the 7 years on your credit score, it's having collection agencies hound you incessantly. It's having people constantly trying to scam your bank to drain your account. It is legal threats against you, your family, your friends, your employer, etc...

You're basically dropping you bloody name to a pool of sharks who have little respect for what is legal or ethical.
> What does learning mean outside the context of any problem to be solved?

What did it mean for Darvin to explore evolution theory? What immediate problem was Einstein solving with the relativity theory?
The people "faking" it in this way likely actually know much less than someone who honestly struggles to come up with a poorly performing brute force solution

My office scores the people with the brute force solution higher than the others, so long as they know the time/space complexity.

they practice the soft skills necessary to prevent the interview from ever getting to the point where you're asking questions about where the implementation can go wrong that aren't also on their script

Oh yeah. That sounds familiar. Not getting to the part where they can answer questions about where the implementation can go wrong counts against them.
The 2707 died in 1971. The Concorde died in 2003.
So, if you're writing in Rust, why not box everything, most of the time? Pay the cost of dereferencing to make it easier to reason about closures? Save unboxed values for situations where they're either trivial to reason about or you're sure there's a performance problem? Is this regarded as bad form?

(I don't really know Rust, but I'm watching with interest. As my comment may suggest, I'm more familiar with C and Python.)
There's also a pretty active subreddit at https://www.reddit.com/r/glitch_art if you like these sorts of images. I think most of the time you end up with something that's cool, but mostly just "wallpaper". Occasionally you'll get something really cool and evocative that can stand on its own.
Sometimes it's unavoidable. In your anecdote's scenario, I would perform a credit card chargeback.
The Quantity Theory of Credit and Some of Its Applications [pdf]
This looks a lot like a Make rule to me.

%.html: %.md
generatehtml $^ >$@
Hehe... maybe the Uber parallel is they were afraid to hire a non asshole due to fear of diluting their asshole culture.
> The rectifiers lit the whole room up with a beautiful purple glow. Beautiful.

I wonder what other EM ranges it emits. Glowing purple makes me think of UV but maybe also some X-Rays?
Getting a $250k bill cut in half doesn't help so much when you used to make $40k/year before you lost your job because of the medical emergency.
> For the love of all that is decent with humanity, use push to talk.

I’d love Zoom, WebEx, GoToMeeting, et al., to implement push-to-talk, and give an option for mandatory use to conference call organizers.
Presto Starburst distro (which has been upgraded to 203e since the benchmark) - also with hourly pricing https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B07DKV5659?qid=1536609...
Well, the article says:

> the SpaceBees have shown themselves to be easily trackable by the Space Surveillance Network, as well as by LeoLabs, a California-based company that provides orbital data to commercial-satellite operators and others in an effort to prevent collisions.

I'm not sure if "Space Surveillance Network" is the same thing as "Space Situational Awareness", but it does sound like the US Government is capable of tracking these things.
... and there's ample evidence that this is a reasonable assumption, so let's do closures based on it, too! :)
I've got 27 points on the first comment of this article [0] talking somewhat about the title and 8 points on my follow up about how the title is misleading so some people including myself definitely think the title is important.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17941804
just the mercury vapor being dangerous.
My buddies and I use Discord as an easy conference call group chat while playing games (no push to talk, mic is always on).

One thing I've found on the app is when a person/voice is far away from the mic it often glitches and doesn't send all of the audio data over like, for a example, a normal FaceTime Audio call would.

Not sure why this happens, but just thought I'd put that out in the ether.
US west coast <-> East Asia, and US east coast <-> Western Europe (especially London/Paris) already covers a sizeable fraction of business travel, doesn't it?

Not necessarily.

For example, Southwest Airlines got its start by moving businesspeople around Texas. It only started leaning on tourists later.
The joy of hearing sick people coughing or sneezing. Or raging people. Or their family. Their barking dogs.

The best being when they use speakers so you get some echo. That's usually when they get muted because fuck their lazy-ass.
I guess there are two problems:

1/ Usually through an evolutionary process the whole CMS structure for a paper becomes rather cumbersome with many patches and suboptimal services that nobody really knows about in details. Especially if the tech team rotates. And this leads to the next point.

2/ Bad administrative control of who put what on a page--sales, marketing, editors etc., and this results in a crappy experience with 50-100 different tracking garbage on every page.

As a result, almost every paper becomes a pretty ugly monster that nobody wants to touch not to ruin everything. Any potential change could lead to the whole system collapse.
Any ideas why this page has the date "Tue, 09 Oct 2018"?
I’m hoping that the new stuff in Mojave and beyond that brings iOS apps to MacOS will eventually do that. One app with both iOS and macOS interfaces.

iOS interface by default, but connect your phone to a screen and hook up a keyboard & mouse and it switches to desktop mode. Mojave’s dock even works the same as the iPad dock (or vice versa).
IBM won't sue you.

In this day and age, x86 hardware is good enough to run many IBM mainframe apps through the Hercules emulator. But if you do this, you run the risk of running afoul of IBM's patents and being threatened by their lawyers. IBM has made a promise not to enforce patents against open source software, but is only willing to uphold that promise as long as you don't cut into their bread and butter which is mainframe support.
People with < 6000$ on their savings account? Most of the population? Very very unlikely.
You’re not wrong, but C has __auto_type (at least GCC and clang support it, no idea about MSVC): https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Typeof.html
Yes, JBP does have quite a persuasive song and dance that bedevils his detractors - he is a slippery one! Even so, his research is widely cited as GP stated:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wL1F22UAAAAJ&hl=en

It is an inconvenient fact that scientific and scholarly study does occur whose conclusions will not agree with our deeply-held ideologies. Just take it all in and try not to take any offense when you get rude surprises. If your preconceived notions are any good, they'll survive and you can save the cheap potshots.
RAID-like memory: tolerates one - or more, IIRC - failed memory modules without stopping the process using that memory.

Failure prediction and recovery: if a core presents correctable errors, it's workload is moved to a different one. The process never needs to know what happened. In the case of mainframes that have spare cores, an inactive spare is brought online automatically.

Bunches of smaller computers to offload everything away from the CPUs - the main processor rarely bothers to do any IO - it's all done from separated computers with their own memory, IO channels and so on. Even powering up the machine is, sometimes, accomplished by a secondary computer that sets everything up before the actual machine is powered up.

There are a lot more nice things mainframes do that x86 boxes simply can't.
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Right. But I'd wager that index fund investors are more interested in profits than GDP, at least as it relates to their investments and the proposition at the top of this thread that index funds will be "ripped" (presumably disproportionately) in the next downturn.
Asshole is mainly just a word for someone who doesn't fit your culture though. Being direct is seen as being an asshole in some cultures and being indirect is seen as being an asshole in others.

Despite the vagueness of it, "culture fit" is making sure that you won't be considered an asshole by the existing team.
Discord started as a gaming app, so most likely a "guild" was their first "grouping unit" and the name is now just legacy.
Wondering if anybody here has ever used the Y-combinator in practice (and not as an academic exercise) ...

(though I get that it can be a useful intermediate construct inside a compiler)
Subtext: You primitives aren't mature enough to communicate in groups without supervision.

Don't you find that an offensively paternalistic thing to tell whole societies?
Here's an arbitrary example from mutopiaproject.org: https://www.hacklily.org/?edit=jnetterf/sheet-music/BWV857BW...
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