skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah the other element is the definition of Jihad

It is a requirement to excise foreign invaders from Islamic lands and this is totally incompatible with the Western mentality and propaganda of "lets punish them in retaliation for that"

The US masquerades 9/11 as the start of this, more accurately that its rouge asset attacking us was the start of this. Decades of meddling in the middle east stirred a hive, and the rouge asset intentionally created a decentralized adhoc army (Al Queda) that exploits the definition of Jihad for the SOLE REASON of entrapping a large scale army in a war of attrition until its budgetary constraints tears that country apart from the inside. THATS THE LITERALLY THE POINT AND WHAT HAS HAPPENED, Bin Laden says it in his cave livestreams, watch them again because they probably never played them verbatim on your local news channel back in the early 2000s except to guess whether he was still alive or pre-recorded it. But they were relevant messages, and he played everyone like a fiddle: Corporations, nation states, and the American condition which they would both predictably exploit for support to walk right into his construct.

The US - and more specifically Europe which is now forcefully conscripted in NATO and is more easily accessible and attacked - would be safer by leaving the Middle East to regional powers. Yes, the regional powers that maintain order in a way that we disagree with.
Right but those languages compile in their own garbage collector. That's not the same as a VM provided garbage collector, and furthermore, the GC used in browsers also manages DOM allocations, and thus directly interfacing the DOM without JS is impossible until the VM GC is implemented.
I'd also look for inspiration

Reading Lolita in Tehran

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persepolis_(comics)

What are your advice on how to (figuratively and literally) survive in such hostile environments?

Focus on food security for yourself and others. Consider growing some of your own veggies, etc.

There are a lot of important things rooted in food security and good nutrition, and it tends to not draw a lot of attention. It isn't a showy form of wealth.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/13/us/politics/butina-guilty...

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/11/wikilea...

I suspect we will see more of this sort of thing as the investigation continues, but of course, the investigation isn't over yet. My point is just that it was a lot more than 4chan and facebook.
No offense, but what makes you think this would be any different if it was a zero-profit government monopoly instead of an "allowed rate of return" government monopoly?

And, to be honest, any cause less than ~1000 deaths per year (and PGE is about ~20) would barely even register as a blip on the top 50 causes of death in the state. It's a tragedy, but it's hardly the greatest threat to safety and health.
Why was it not given same <script> level usage?
'Extinction is not an option': the $1bn push to save orcas in Washington
Ask HN: What are you using for Big Data?
We have the Scala trend, R, Python and the old SQL.

A Gartner Survey for 2015 showed that more than 75% of companies were investing or were planning to invest in big data in the next years.

Where we are at?
Quick tip: you can mark stories as favourite with a link at the top of the page, and comments on their individual pages (accessed by clicking on the "x hours ago" link).

You can see your own upvoted stories and comments, as well as favourited stories and comments at the bottom of your profile page.
Very early in my working life I had the misfortune of doing data entry and cashier work where I significantly outperformed my coworkers. I was _hated_ in these jobs.

What I didn't realize was that the team's performance was dictated by the top performers and that _everyone_ was intentionally slowing down their work so that they could have a relaxed, easy job. By doing my best work, management set the expectation for everyone to work 10% better than that.

What I didn't understand at the time was that several of the folks in that job were lifers and they'd realized quickly that the compounding interest of always having to perform 10% better every month would break them. My eagerness to do good work was quite literally ruining their lives.

My take away lesson from this was to always try to work someone with people who are more skilled and more ambitious than you are or with people who want you to help pull them forward.
+1 from me as well. Well done.
What are some examples of HN dumping on junior developers?
Wait, programming=/= engineering

One is logic, the other is applied.
I was born in Russia in the late 80's, but I guess it's a similar feeling of an entire generation's childhood, lost. (I imagine this phenomenon is exacerbated by the fact that so many families basically had all the same stuff.) Can't wait to read more of Svetlana Alexievich's Secondhand Time, which covers this topic in interviews with people who survived the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Leonardo DiCaprio? Is that you?
Dupe. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18691119
Oil to fight climate change is perhaps the most insane idea I have ever heard, and that’s quite a high bar.
An implementation certainly could return memory to the OS on calls to free(), but to my knowledge none of the widely used implementations do so. (I would be interested to learn of counterexamples!)
Because it's webex ... sigh ...

At least it's not Google Hangouts. That crap platform will kill any laptop battery in ~30-45 min flat and make it seem like you're rendering some 8K video.
In big cities, the sight of horses was not common at all and horses were actually banned in Warsaw (except for tourist carriages). Overall, the cities were fairly modern, but gray and in constant state of mild disrepair. On one hand most big cities had electrified suburban trains, trams and very extensive bus network, while on the other hand, small towns and villages operated steam locomotives and people commonly used horse carriages. Also, the country side was quite diverse. Most small village farms operated with 19th century technology, even into the 1990s (in a style that we would today call organic). However, the large collectivized govt owned farms were fully mechanized. Overall, it was quite a 2nd world experience - we had a bit of the 1st and a bit of the 3rd world all crammed into one!
30 is the mean between infants and 60-year-olds. There has never been a society in which dying at 30 was typical.
When Saudi Arabia finally blows up, and it will blow up, it is going to be the most messy thing we’ve seen in a century.
Well, PGE a pubic company (currently worth about $400/Californian).

It's a free country. If you are a shareholder, or affected by their gross negligence, feel free to sue them to force a staff turnover.
"How do you stop mediocre programmers from working on advanced tasks"

Competent project lead/management

Assigning the right person for the right job. But yes, nobody ever said that is easy.

But in general: by definition there can be only some excellent programmers and lots of mediocre ones. So it simply would not work if every company only would hire excellence.

And it is also not neccesary nor useful, since there are so many boring, mediocre task around, meaning the excellent programmers can focus their time and energy on the complex, interesting problems.
How about not recommending people some algorithm thinks you should be "friends" with? If you can't bother to remember or type a person's name in and manually make that connection, chances are you're just fine without it anyway. I used Facebook in college back in 2004-2008 before they had any kind of suggestions and I had no problem amassing over 1,000 "friends." On a side note the whole site is totally different now and I don't use it anymore.
The problems with PG&E were caused by the government giving it a monopoly. Making it non-profit won't help. The only thing that will help is competition.

Until there is competition people will have no alternative but to pay PG&E for power every month, so PG&E has no incentive to improve. If they get fined they'll just make that money back from their captive customers.
You don't know how significant the performance difference was. You're just believing the commenter who thought it was without hearing from the company who obviously didn't think it was a priority.
Earlier submission of same article (on different URL):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18690873
A history of UCSD Pascal, which compiled to a portable VM called a p-machine. Doesn't mention the infinitely more successful product inspired by UCSD Pascal--Turbo Pascal, which was insanely fast but which completely ignored portability, as it was written in 8088 assembly and generated machine code directly to memory. Turbo Pascal then become Delphi. Its creator, Anders Hejlsberg, moved to Microsoft and created C# among other things.
All Hail Our New Digital Gods
Some of us don't care so much about the karma. Reactions to my posts are either extremely polarized (one way or the other) or basically neutral. I've even gotten the occasional ban threat from dang when I say something particular unpopular. Occasionally there's still some worthwhile discussion that happens here.
All right, ya beautiful bastards. I stand happily corrected. My karma actually went up 2 points.
I don't understand what the dilemma is here. Also I'm a little unsure of who the establishment is here, do you mean shareholders or something?
The Perl doc mostly refers back to suggestions from UAX#31, along with specific notes from UTR#36 and UTS#39.

The suggestion it cares most about from UAX#31 is to restrict to scripts that actually are in use (i.e., don't let people name variables using Linear B characters). If you want to layer that on top of a base pool of identifier characters taken from XID_Start/XID_Continue, you can, and that's not the same as "invent your own base pool of identifier characters".

The big thing you get from reading UTR#36 and UTS#39 is learning how to detect or prevent homoglyph attacks (like people registering "paypal.com" but with Cyrillic "a").

And UTS#39 takes the ideas from UAX#31 all the way and gives you an example of defining profiles on top of the base set of identifier characters to deal with specific issues. It's OK to do that!

Finally, the things that, in a programming language's allowed identifier syntax, would be prevented by going to a more restrictive profile on top of XID_Start/XID_Continue, are vanishingly rare and tend to be exploitable only if you're already completely owned. For example, if someone can slip a mixed-script confusable identifier into your source, they can already slip things into your source; you're owned in so many ways at that point that it starts seeming silly to focus with laser intensity on just this one issue. Which means that if you just want an easy-ish to implement baseline recommendation, XID_Start/XID_Continue isn't that bad.
UCSD Pascal has a byte code interpreter, sure. And I will grant that it may have been the first or at least among the first popular ones. But the idea of a byte code interpreter was already old by then. I worked on a byte code interpreter in a code base that predated UCSD Pascal. It ran on a CDC 170-series peripheral processor and was used for peripheral diagnostics. I am sure other byte code interpreters existed in that time frame.

Not to take anything away from UCSD Pascal, it was a great system and very fun.
> I wasn't sure if the person above was generically referring to all ETFs and ETNs as "index funds", when I was specifically responding to someone who was suggesting that they were using Robinhood for buy-and-hold index investing, buying things like S&P 500 etfs (eg. SPY, VOO, IVV).

Specifically, I have a boring investment strategy of SP500 and AGG. I'm just seeking the lowest cost means of investing in those two indices. When I opened the brokerage account RH was mostly top of mind. Things have gotten more competitive lately, with Fidelity's 0 expense ratio funds and maybe I should look at Vanguard more carefully. Although 'Vanguard is more established' isn't particularly resonant personally, so to my mind they seem relatively equivalent.

I completely recognize that RH's platform enables a lot of unsophisticated traders to make unwise trades, and leaves sophisticated traders wanting.
My father grew up in Oshawa, Ontario where there was a big GM factory making cars. Hard work with decent pay but good pensions- if you lived long enough to enjoy them.

As the stories went, a lot of guys, they put in their 25 years at the plant, retire, and drop dead within 2 years. The only thing worse for you than two and a half decades of hard labor is suddenly stopping.
This is probably my prejudice but 'social hostel' to me suggests under 30yrs old. I find at my age while I have no trouble hanging out with people in their 20s there are issues. For example having to eat at the cheapest places because none of them are financially secure yet. Or listening to their 20 something issues and feeling far outside of that time. There's also probably getting use to more comfort as in the comfort of a nice private room with a nice bed and nice private bathroom instead of a cot and shared bathroom. You could say that's being spoiled but the older you get the more likely you have back problems or bathroom problems that the comfort helps with.
Almost impossible to do when the markets are rigged.

I believe for a while Bitfinex would let you wash trade with your own account, that’s how poorly run these markets were.
"Stay the hell out of other people's code."

Great advice if you want a miserable 40 year career as a team player in mind numbing corporate work prevention departments.

Bad advice if you want anything more out of your programming career.

Horrible advice if you want to make a difference by sharing your gifts with those who need them.

You don't get that many chances to do what OP did by jumping in and making dramatic improvements.

The only reason I have ever avoided staying the hell out of legacy code was when opening that can of worms was just the wrong thing to do for everyone.

Otherwise, I got the hell in there.

Sometimes I was thanked.

Sometimes I was reprimanded.

Sometimes I was fired.

Always I learned something, usually the best learning I ever had.

(And as for getting fired, I wouldn't have changed a thing. This is actually a good thing. Better to push the limits, find out who you're dealing with, and move on quickly rather than being miserable for years without ever understanding why.)

The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got? ... Always Do the Right Thing. (Even if it takes a lifetime to figure out what that is.)
I'm sure someone in management came up with the idea and said it will make a lot of money or get lots of customers. Anyone who said otherwise is a debbie downer and shunned. It also reveals their culture of speaking up.

I don't see how such a new bold product can pass legal, even if it passes management. Their legal team probably sit around nodding their head as they collect their paychecks. They deserve to be fired before getting Robinhood into much bigger trouble.
Corporate liability protection is what you run into when you go up the management chain. When you go down the management chain, you end up at the "fall guy".

The person who signed the falsified reports is likely in the second-lowest level of employees (the lowest level of management), who was ordered by the guy above him, who was pressured by the guy above him, who was incentivized by the guy above him, who was winked at by the guy above him, who concocted the scheme to please the guy above him, etc. Nobody really wants to see some low level employee's life ruined and his kids starve simply for being the dummy who accepted a promotion to sign the reports.
Yelzin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Russian_presidential_elec...

It ain't even close.
That is a paywalled source.
The Automation of Policing: Challenges and Opportunities
Submission with non-paywalled version

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18691119#18691536
I'm going to put it out there that when two (now three) non-experts discuss the relative costs everyone gets to be wrong about everything, so why bother? Nevertheless...

Firstly, relative costs will be region specific. Secondly, prices are always in a state of flux over the medium term. Thirdly, there are probably tax and subsidy implications. Fourthly, I suspect the rooftop solar is going to be a poor choice compared to utility-scale centralised solar and a grid so your specific arguments may be academic (I certainly hope so, those industrial solar towers look amazing vs. rooftop panels). Fifthly, the failure modes of the two systems are different making a comparison challenging.

For example, how reliable is a solar system in the face of three days of cloud cover? Vandalism? Do these panels actually last 20 years, given that manufacturing techniques are presumably changing and we haven't had 20 years to test them out? What are the actual fire risks posed by house-powering batteries?

Putting together a similar list for generators is easy but I know the answers to a lot of those questions because I'm quite familiar with fossil fuels, as we all are.

Anyone who says either is going to be more suitable for purpose without an opinion sourced from an engineer or a couple of case studies is just making stuff up. You can't first-principles this sort of thing, it is very context sensitive. Even case studies I mistrust, because solar can look very good if the grid is mismanaged by environmentalists to the point people opt-out.
Well we already started, so I guess here we go...
It looks like this one was posted before that one. Two hours ago vs three hours.
Please finish your thought. What should it be considered?
You can use lambda within an Aurora (AWS version of MySQL) trigger also.

The advantage of DynamoDB when using lambda is that it is API based instead of based on database connections and pooling and it doesn’t run inside of a VPC - meaning a network interface doesn’t need to be created inside your VPC every time a new lambda process comes online.

But now Aurora Serverless has the Data API that doesn’t use traditional database connections so there is even less of a need for DynamoDB for lambda performance reasons.
You should be able to open the article in a private browsing window. Bloomberg provides ten free articles a month normally, and of course, that number is based on cookies.
It's also possible your solution wasn't as elegant, maintainable, or as performant in all cases as you thought.

If you're going to approach upper management with such a hostile attitude, you need to run it by some peers first to have them poke holes in the idea and get onboard.

Why I called your approach hostile: you phrased it as "challenging their intellect". That's not how good engineers pitch changes.
A good CEO of a company is considered to be one that provides the best return on investment for the companies shareholders (this is often defended as a morally upstanding attitude, especially in a US context).

If someone is a CEO, and they care about society and about doing a good job, this will almost always mean passing up opportunities to maximise company profits. For example, in this case a diligent CEO would ensure that the company is paying for the maintenance of its equipment.

However, this isn't necessary to maintain revenue given the monopoly position that the company is in. And thus a company board looking to maximise its return on investment may choose to replace this CEO with someone who will prioritise profit over things like societal good and doing a good job.

It is these shareholders that our legal/economic system gives power to. And a majority of shareholders are amoral entities like pension funds who are not concerned with ethics, but are simply looking to maximise profit.

Thus our society also takes on these values.
The Data API was announced less than a month ago.

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/aurora-se...
Making sensational news out of nothing. NYT just lost all my remaining respect for them.
Would you mind sharing what kind of job you're doing that's enabling you to do this? What would it take someone let's say with 0 background in what you do to get to the point of doing this?
An easy reason that often gets left out of these stories is that someone spent weeks on a rewrite without authorization rather than working on burning priorities.
These are extraordinary and remarkable claims. Source?
Depends on your model. In a small business where you have a couple experts in different domains it makes perfect sense to talk about individual ownership. It's not toxic: it's forced practicality. In larger environments with close skill parity it doesn't make sense and hurts morale.
I was waiting for the newspeak argument. If we were talking about Toki-Pona I would agree, but Esperanto doesn't dumb you down and Sapir-Whorf isn't proved either.

Also, I'd certainly talk to a whole lot more international folks if I could speak with them. I know a lot of people who travel places where the natives don't speak English. That alone would be helpful.
"If you come at the king, you best not miss."

If you criticize a seniors ideas, and they interpret it as you coming after them, you better destroy their reputation, or they'll destroy you. It's hard to destroy someones reputation within an organization, and most people get defensive when newcomers (especially juniors) come in with suggestions, so it's typically not worth kicking the nest.
Do Artifacts Have Ethics? (2014)
This blog post is related to Robin Hanson's recent post, "Can Foundational Physics Be Saved?"[0] Hanson has also posted a follow-up in response to the HN-linked post by Hossenfelder. That is "Response to Hossenfelder"[1].

[0] https://www.overcomingbias.com/2018/12/can-foundational-phys...

[1] http://www.overcomingbias.com/2018/12/hossenfelder.html
One argument in favor of such an interpretation is that anytime somebody posts such an anecdote, and in various contexts that happens not infrequently, there is one giant thing all those story tellers forget: That everybody else only sees their side of the story, and that posting something that looks so one-sided "everybody was being stupid but me" is better not posted at all because of how unbelievable it looks, even if it indeed is true. If they had any good level of people-understanding they would in my humble opinion be much wiser to not tell the story here, or at least not make it look so one-sided, or add some disclaimers showing some self-awareness that shows they at least considered that they themselves are a key part of the problem. It reminds me of that joke of the guy who is driving a car on the autobahn and hears a warning on traffic radio about a wrong-way driver right where he is driving. "Only one?" he says to himself, "Hundreds!"
What was the course you're referencing in GA? Was it free?
And you don’t even have those in many cases.
It's not a free enough country that PGE customers can get their electricity and gas from other vendors.
Firefox 64 built with GCC and Clang
>> It cites the lack of economic success

> It describes the lack of economic success. I'm not sure what thesis you think the article is "citing" in support of.

Nothing wrong with "cites" in this context. From the OED:

"4. To bring forward an instance, to adduce or allege (anything) by way of example, proof, etc."
Setting up a luxury company retreat miles from a literal concentration camp isn’t “nothing”
The dilemma is that progressives insist that you can increase diversity (e.g more queers/colored people/self-proclaimed victims) without making compromises on competency.

To blame the CEO's incompetency could give rational people some evidence with which to question the merit of diversity hires.