skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One difference: large swaths of Python developers grew up using the system-provided version of Python.

Most Node developers grew up with

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.11/install.sh | bash

or

brew install node

or using one of the dozen other ways to install node. Distinct versions and per-project packages were the norm from day one. That was not true with Python.
Geostationary orbits are definitely a thing. Haven't done the math but two should take care of it, one east and one west of the area you're trying to illuminate and one should come out of the umbra before the other one enters.

edit: One might also take care of it if it could be far enough east. Would need to do the trig though.
I love the fact that there's an OS-in-OS. It makes writing cross platform applications with easy distribution and access to rich APIs very easy.
I guess it would have to be placed in geosynchronous orbit. I didn't see any size comments, but that puppy would have to be quiet large I'd think. To light 14,300-square-meters from 35,786 km seems like you'd need a BIG reflector.
Colour me moonglow sceptical blue. At an altitude of 500km these 'moons' would cross the sky in a few minutes. Geosynchronous orbit is about 35,000km, but at that distance any artificial satellite would need to be vast to cast any significant light. Regular satellites at that distance aren't naked-eye visible.

This report is, at best, seriously garbled.
The algorithm seems to be weighted to boost new subscriptions - looking at the Chartable top US-all there is one at #20 which recently launched (has 6 episodes) which is above This American Life at #28
Nit: it's spelled "fantastic". With the "ph", it made me think of "phantasm", which is a kind of ghost or illusion.
Is there some legal issue at play here that the article isn't drawing attention to? Why is it a better idea to leave a property vacant than to have a short-term tenant?
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I think there are many factors on tech. side it's pretty modular and has very detailed comments in the source code, on the ecosystem side there is no single entity behind PG so it created an ecosystem where multiple entities can contribute and build products and services around PostgreSQL.
The US military is not really "winning" in Afghanistan but I don't think it's for lack of lethality, so clearly you can improve the military without changing its lethality. Wouldn't a perfect war (or "action") result in all your political objectives being achieved with zero deaths in either side?
GPS satellites are not in geosynchronous orbits. In fact, they would be close to useless if they were (all in one line orbiting over equator).

https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/10837/why-are-the-...
How is it different? They are both a group of people providing you with added value for a specific price.
"That's no moon...."
If it works as intended it should be mostly focused over the city so the effects will be a lot lower than if they were illuminating a random patch of forest. I doubt they're particularly concerned with the environmental impacts though.
There is no “how” in the article other than “click farms”. It should be “Spammers are gaming podcast charts”.
And a reflective one: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2013/10/using-giant-mirror...
This is true. And this is why the TSA is ostensibly restricted by the bill that of rights.
I'm constantly met with "you can get a just as good PC for half the price", and when i ask them to prove it they usually come up short. They either find some inferior model, or a similarly specced model which ends up costing the same or more.

Apple also actively works to improve OS X performance on older hardware. They did with Snow Leopard, and they recently did with Mojave. What other operation systems does that ? for free ?

Their support is also seriously great. I have a 27" iMac from 2008 at home, and somewhere around 2012 a manufacturing problem was found in the Seagate drives they originally shipped with, so _4_ years later i could get my harddrive replaced for free. Name me any other hardware manufacturer that does that.

The attention to details with Mac builds are out of this world. Or at least it used to be (haven't bought new a mac in 4 years)

* Every MacBook can be opened with 1 hand. The counterbalance of the metal body vs the resistance of the hinges is matched. This goes for the 15" as well as the 11" Air.

* The sleep light is matched to the frequency of the breath of a sleeping human. Not particularly useful, just fun fact.
Hey there, I'm Chris, one of the thoughtbotters who helped build Upcase over the years. We're all super excited to take this step and share Upcase with the world, and I'm more than happy to answer any questions you all might have.
I don't know if I can say I've ever seen affirmative action work in my favor.
Imagine I’m just getting started with Python, and I see this article. I think to myself, “Awesome, a primer!”

Then I start reading (these comments)... mayyybe I should try Julia... or anything else, at least while I’m still getting started.
And that's fine. People should be held responsible for their actions. But my point is this; when the default is to use a machete when a scalpel would have sufficed then the net result is not going to pleasant.
I actually think that we no longer live in a capitalistic system. A lot of firms continue to behave in ways that capitalism should punish, but doesn’t. My current running theory is that our economy is more based around rent extraction, largely from land and companies that wield effective monopolies or oligopolies, rather than competition. This explains why we keep seeing things that make no sense from a capitalist point of view.
> I don't think anyone sensible would fault China for taking advantage

But everyone faults the US for taking advantage. /petpeeve
Not American, what's the link between ICE and the Holocaust?
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I'm not sure I understand the "open source" part - it's not as if we do it for free. I'd say for most of the senior PostgreSQL engineers / contributors it's part of their paid jobs. We either work for companies providing various PostgreSQL services, or for companies using PostgreSQL.

We might do the same type of work on a proprietary database, but that would lack the community/cooperation aspect of the project.

Of course, enjoying the craft is somewhat natural in both cases. And yes, it's a bit scary how smart some of the contributors are.
Depends on the methods used to promote fewer children. Education, great. Sterilization without consent, bad. The right to procreate is a fundamental human right, so we can't lose track of that.
Anything PyPI-related has recently gone into the (terrible) habit of recommending very recent (and often half-baked) tools that live entirely outside of stdlib. It seems pretty silly to me, considering Python core developers made significant efforts to bundle and support pip and virtualenv (venv) in the stdlib precisely to avoid having a lot of de-facto essential libraries outside the core distribution.

If the problem is that stdlib cannot move as fast as PyPI-related development requires, maybe that should be fixed, rather than trying to bypass all quality checks and then relying on obscure shared knowledge to navigate the ecosystem. Maybe there should be a system where specific network-sensitive stdlib modules could be updated faster than the rest.
Jeri is a national treasure, future robot overlord savior or not. I am, and know so many who have been inspired by her. I am sure just her enthusiasm for electronics helped arm a generation of techno warriors against possible automatron subjugation.
Geostationary orbit also requires the sattelite to take on an equatorial orbit. I doubt a geostationary orbit will be used in this case.
Notification permissions are widely (mis)used because many sites already have a legitimate use-case for that permission; keeping users updated on new articles posted on the site.

It's not at all clear that a similar widely applicable use-case exists for Bluetooth.
We don’t disagree, my point is to treat lunch as a complete break (even if it’s just to read at your desk) rather than powering through every day to try and leave a few minutes earlier.
We Need to Work Harder to Make Software Engineering More Ethical
A company where "I worked with this person in the past and they were good" coming from a run-of-the-mill employee isn't enough to get someone an interview is a company with stupid recruiting practices.

Finding good candidates is expensive and time-consuming. If someone is serving up qualified leads to you on a silver platter, you take them.

Referrals from existing employees are the single highest quality source of candidates for most companies. Many companies even incentivize employees to refer candidates by giving them bonuses if they refer someone who ends up being hired.
I fly frequently in the US, if you pay for TSA pre they don't check fluids below the limit, don't take anything out of your bag and you keep your shoes on. My average time in line is about 6 minutes (mostly driven up by a time where I left water in my bottle at Denver airport).

No one has to show a passport as long as your ticket is going somewhere in the US. Even the state licenses that don't meet the federal standard have been grandfathered into it for a few years, so they can fix it at the state level rather than pissing off voters.
I never said that crime as a whole increased, but the violence reached a whole different quality. You (deliberately?) misinterpret comments you don't agree with.

Stabbing people -which was never a big issue- has become very common, for example. Kicking people when they're down and out etc. Hurting people for fun. Someone I knew was stabbed and murdered for no reason at all. Not even a robbery. Just killed.

Even in fights, there used to be some unwritten rules of respect and common sense, but they're gone. The people who are responsible for most of these violent crimes brought this crap with them.

It's gotten to the point where knives are forbidden in certain areas and knife bans are under consideration.

I'm talking about Germany, by the way. How about you are a bit more open-minded and stop assuming other users' nationalities?
This argument conflates a number of issues and frankly loses steam on that basis. The running list of demands so far: Don’t sell facial recognition, don’t work with the government, kick a paying customer off of your system because of who they provide services to and while we are at it you shouldn’t be working with anyone I don’t like. Is that it? For now, but check back with me cause I might want to add greedy investment firms to the list or any other villain of the moment.

I really find it odd that all of a sudden tech employees are resistant to supporting their own government. If it’s about the current administration - they are gonna be gone in a couple years and you want another admin to be years behind in capability?

The reason the internet and the tech industry as a whole exists at this point is because of the defense technology complex.

If this really bothered people they would leave the nice paycheck and the perks and go work for a co-op or a non profit or some other organization untouched by anything unsavory.
Only in some cases of churn plus there are plenty of workarounds where you sacrifice some performance and/or usability to avoid the bloat so I would still recommend PostgreSQL since few databases consist only, or almost only, of the bad cases for bloat.

I used to work in online gambling where we had plenty of row churn and not much bloat at all without having to use any of the workarounds.
Bulldozer assault
Huh, I didn't realize that was a thing.

My wife and I continue to buy unassembled products because:

- price
- we like assembling stuff
- our sedan is enough to buy furniture
- cheaper, unassembled furniture presents less commitment

We've replaced Ikea furniture without any attachment issues that I can detect other than the sunk cost fallacy, but that seems to be more prevalent in our more expensive purchases. I didn't realize that so many people because attached to Ikea stuff.
Kinda exactly what went through my mind, I've dabbled in python, but only to use other ppl's projects, which sometimes required setting up pip, etc. So I was looking forward to reading about how it'd been simplified :(
> It's still something many users will blindly click through

I don't think this is true in this particular case. The user can't just click "accept", they have to explicitly choose a device to connect to.
I think the simple answer is philosophy of Kaizen(改善)- continuous improvement. I started working with postgresql when it was just postgres95. Recently found that my earliest question on postgresql-users was 13th October 1998, 20 years ago (https://postgrespro.com/list/id/3.0.2.32.19981013214318.0069...).

I still use PostgreSQL in my startup for almost all critical production workload. This in itself a testament to its improvements. I remember I starting with c libraries of msql and postgres95 and continued to work with them as they evolved into postgreSQL and a new kid on the block mysql. I liked postgreSQL due to its adherence to SQL. Since I like working with relational algebra. So even though MySQL was more popular in later years, I still used PostgreSQL more often, except for building qmail servers with mySQL backend.
ClustrixDB aquired by MariaDB
As was pointed out in another thread once which I don't recall, almost all aspects of assembly programming in x86 aren't really low level anymore. It's just another abstracted high-level language, although one that still mirrors/is tied to the fundamental idea of an x86 machine.

As detailed in the article, x86 opcodes are translated/compiled on the fly to micro-ops.

The registers are renamed as needed to squeeze data.

Memory locations are actually fulfilled by any of three to five levels of cache, RAM, or swap.

Cores are variable in their number of issues, and can share the same instruction pipelines in hyperthreading.
I'll take this opportunity to advertise one of my favourite science podcasts, Fronteiras da Ciência:

http://www.ufrgs.br/frontdaciencia/

It is in portuguese, but one of the older episodes from season 5 is a very fun and informative interview with prof Heinrich about these burrows.
The partition by hash is a good example in this release. I wondered by it wasn’t done when ranges were done, but patience is a virtue.
Paying per hour is a great way to increase hours on something. If your really into the free market you should understand the incentive structure. Many workers have different intensities of working.
On the topic of phone sysadmin, I agree it's unreasonable to expect a large proportion of people to sysadmin their phones directly. But what if we advocated for a world where we tech-savvy folk volunteer to be sysadmins for our family and close friends? They would trust our motives more than they can trust the motives of platform and device vendors.
80,000 hours appeals to a particular type of person, and I think this is good but vague advice for that sort of person.

Reputation and social standing matters, you have to network, be humble and learn from people older and wiser than you, don’t try to go it alone, be willing to work on smaller challenges — these are all things I think people in this specific subculture probably would benefit from hearing.
Scientists in Chile find proto-supercluster of galaxies from the early universe
Probably something to do with contract lengths? I can't imagine many businesses wanting to rent a place for less than 2 years (to the point that there may be legal requirements for longer contracts?) and landlords might turn down offers for leases that long that are below what they perceive the value of the place being.
I thought the problem was almost the opposite of what the article discussed. I thought that commercial real estate almost always used long term leases and that owners are reluctant to sign them in a fast rising market. If your building is vacant, there is the possibility of selling to a developer with plans for a big development in the short term.

That would argue for being pretty happy about short-term leases, since they maintain that flexibility. But I don't really know much about this, I'd like to understand it better.
Genes linked to being gay may help straight people get more sex
Contemporary accounts suggest that it was an almost intentional ignorance. People were addicted to the idea that heavy-bombers were strategically useful in Europe (when they just flattened civilian parts of cities, all the manufacturing was hardened); and that valiant gunners were doing something useful for their comrades (when data showed that stripping out the turrets + guns + gunners, and flying higher and faster would decrease losses).

Freeman Dyson complains that operational-research was intentionally nobbled in bomber-command, even after great successes had been shown in the navy + coastal command:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLBBI8Wnrfk&index=38&list=PL...
"If you are a hedge fund manager running a portfolio you leave it empty and take a write-off.”

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/dec/24/new-york-re...
Might look into https://gun.eco/
Apple cares about privacy so much, they let Google do the dirty part of the business and just take the checks.
"Secure Contexts" just means you're visiting the site over HTTPS. It has nothing to do with restricting the ability of JS to communicate with the internet.
> I get the feeling this article is conflating birth rate with actual population growth.

It's not. Fertility rate for the US and the developed world is below replacement. And in the developing world, it has been dropping consistently.

> One reason why people have less children is that more of them survive.

That's a reason why women don't have 5 or 6 children, but that's not a reason why women has less than 2 on average.
We've reverted the title from “Chrome 70 supports Web Bluetooth on Windows 10”, which breaks the guidelines by editorializing.
I don't personally have a problem with Amazon selling tech to police or militaries. I would, however have a problem working for Amazon while not realizing that my work is being directly utilized by the military.

If I'm gonna sell out to the war machine, I want to at least make that decision myself ahead of time.
Doesn't do anything on my Chrome @ MBP 2015, but then again I use all kind of extensions.
They can be visible its just relatively rare and only happens at certain times of the year depending on altitude when the solar panels line up. Flares like these are pretty much just a tiny accidental version of this already, something intentionally designed and controlled to produce them would in theory be pretty easy.

My main thought is how well will this deal with the thrust that large of a mirror will be producing. It will essentially be a solar sail. Maybe they plan to rotate it during the day to provide the thrust to put it back into position?

https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/530024-geostationary-sate...
You seem to be thinking that nobody considered black holes as dark matter candidates, but that's not the case. The two big theories around the origin of dark matter are called WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles) and MACHOs (massive compact halo objects), and MACHOs include black holes. The reason MACHOs aren't widely accepted is because the evidence (e.g. lensing measurements) doesn't suggest there are nearly enough massive invisible objects to account for a significant portion of the dark matter.
I wonder how much of this is directly related to Google’s game streaming ambitions. Chrome, the browser, is pretty much it’s own os at this point
This title is extremely misleading.

If you actually read the article, he is sentenced for insider trading. Sure, he designed the breach portal but that information only allowed him to gain the information that there was a security breach announcement imminent.
Yes, a satellite can appear to cross the sky as slowly as you want it to if the altitude is correct. This is how geostationary satellites (like the GPS and many communications ones) work - they are at the right altitude so that they are orbiting the earth at the same speed it rotates.
Syspatch working out of the box! That’s really big news, in my book.

Guess I should give OBSD another chance...
> The JS ecosystem manages to have two tools, both of which can do all of this. I don't know how we keep messing up when we have good prior work to look at.

Agreed. You know you really blew it when even PHP does it better, and composer is unquestionably better than anything we've got in Python.
I'd say it's like a gambler's addiction. They want to hold the property open because "Someday <SomeBigCo> is going to call me and say they need 30,000 sq ft of retail space by next Tuesday, and I can't afford to lose that deal because there's a Halloween store using 500 sq ft this week and a Christmas tree shop in the parking lot next month"
Anecdotally, that doesn't really seem to be the problem with New York and definitely not the problem the article is talking about.

Ground-level stores don't seem to be suffering from staffing issues, largely because in New York it's not uncommon to work in Manhattan but live in Staten Island or Jersey.

Instead, ground-level stores seem to be disappearing because commercial lease agreements are just insanely expensive and onerous. Landlords refuse to reduce rents (for several purported reasons) in an increasingly buyer-friendly real estate market.
OK, invite the shareholders to Seattle to sit down and start working on AWS.
New in Kotlin 1.3: inline classes
Ask HN: Help, I am stuck in another pointless weekly meeting
what can I do to help either make these meetings useful?

spend 15-20 minutes discussing things not related to work whatsoever before anything of value has been said.
You might want clustered indexes.
I was thinking the same thing. I don't know how much light they will emit, but as someone who grew up in a village with very little light pollution; even something like a "satellite light" results in some pollution.

I used to be able to see many constellations with the naked eye, until they put up 3 lights that are about 20m tall. My astronomy interest has waned as I can't see much with the lights. Now cue the "moons"
> US tipping is not complicated.

I think this thread (and similar threads every time the topic comes up) kid of puts that claim to sleep.
Tamilrockers
There is a Linux version of VS Code.
Incredibly selfish opinion. If you want more money for yourself, become a better asset to an employer and learn to negotiate. You don't move up by holding down the rest of the world.
Here's my opinion on what will happen on a longer time scale:

Eventually the tourists will stop coming, because there are other parts of town with more atmosphere. Businesses will start moving out to other parts of town because of the cost of rent and lack of customers (due to no residents or tourists), and eventually the "city center" will defacto move. The only people who will lose out are the people who used it to park their money!
Sounds like you're discovering Marx independently?
At a certain point, this is about exercising all but the power of life and death over your employees. There’s no rational economic reason to force your janitors into non-competes, the only reason is to have power over your employees for the sake of power.

I maintain that our system is trending in a neofeufal direction, with corporations replacing the lords of old. A noncompete which effectively leaves you unemployed should you quit is not quite serfdom, but it’s getting pretty close.
>Had the Air Force?

There was no Air Force in WW2. This is probably an editing error, Capra or biographer likely referring to the USAAF (Army Air Force).

Pedantry Officer concludes report.
I’ve found MySQL far better in replication arrangements, with postgresql wal being termpermental.