skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given their business model of sifting through and selling your data this doesn't seem all that likely that they've left it in gigantic combined flatfiles.

It seems more likely to me that yes, they could do a DELETE FROM BROWSING_HISTORY WHERE USER = "%S", but that's not their business model. Instead they have to add a column to the database that flags data that will be shown to the user or not, and then go through every part of the site where the data might be visible and add a check for that flag. It's a lot more work, and worse they have to get it right the first time because people will be angry if there is a leak somewhere and their supposedly deleted data is visible.
A Close Look at Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory Modules
And what proportion of HN readers are in that situation ?

Not that where I worked wound not have built things from scratch - still whish I had had the budget to use ML for one project but with hard ware costs of £250,000 just for the hardware in early 80's it wasn't cost-effective.
I think we need a citation on money being the cost to keeping those shipping lanes open. We already spend much more than China and Russia combined, it’s not easy to imagine that could be reduced and we could still keep those countries in check. My understanding was the major draws were unending wars and country building projects in the midddle east, with large military spending projects the military didn’t ask for but senators bought them anyways as a distant second.
Yeah. source/sink would have been a more appropriate terminology IMO.
Fallacies of Reversed Moderation
Realtime Market-Data Updates with Elixir
BIND? Who still uses that? Its dnsmasq and unbound all over.
Attributing "greed is good" to Michael Douglas is like attributing "Soon the world will feel the loving grip of the Pax Bisonica!" to Raúl Juliá.
Uber loses latest legal bid over driver rights
> We are stuck in 30 years ago of "we're so much better than everyone" that we're refusing to see how our lead has quickly worsened

Those who have lived through the scares geopolitical threat of the Cold War in the 1970's, and the economic threat of Japan Inc. in the 1980's can be a little more circumspect about the growing Chinese "threat". I don't have illusions about "we're so much better", but we do have something special. Market driven economies and stable liberal democratic structures have served us quite well, from the explosion in growth in the Netherlands in the 17th century, through the expansion of Great Britain in the 18th and 19th and down to the United States in the 20th. That Western Europe would rather pay for a social safety net rather than an expansive military is a public choice.

Should the US invest more in infrastructure? Possibly. At the same time, I'm skeptical to things that have a whiff of industrial policy and central planning, it really hasn't worked as well for those who have embraced it.
> Never heard of horizontal scaling?

My SO is a soils engineer/geo-physicist, so I know a bit about the issues at play, mostly over dinner conversations. When it comes to large infrastructure projects like these, the problems are multitude and all very individual, especially in such a geologically active zone as the LA Basin [0]. Though Musk et al. should be congratulated for the incredible achievement of even trying to pursue this idea, proper study is always required. Honestly, I've no idea about the studies that they have undertaken. But in such a place like the LA basin, I'd imagine that they have taken such measures; it would be insane to do so otherwise.

When it comes to horizontal scaling, without a proper geologic survey of the bedrock, water table, oil-wells, soil dynamics, and all the many other factors, simply multiplying the structures on top of each other can only be described as a deliberate attempt to endanger the lives of all people concerned (riders, construction crew, etc). The surveys must be made with deep consideration and respect to the laws of physics and the local environment. Brady, of Practical Engineering on YouTube has a wonderful channel that goes into some depth about large scale civil engineering [1] that is well worth a binge.

That said, with proper study of the effects and dynamics of increased removal of soil and bedrock, horizontal scaling is of course a perfectly good solution to increasing ridership.

[0]https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=790

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNDppVTVUss
U.S. governments basically do have unchecked eminent domain power, see the Kelo Supreme Court decision.
and that maglev train is basically a show piece and was considered way too expensive to develop. the high-speed trains in china aren't as fast, but they are still fast, quite cheap, as smooth as the maglev, comfortable, and most importantly, convenient in terms of their stops. so the u.s. is getting destroyed in regional travel options. it's embarassing.
> approximately two-thirds of JUUL users aged 15-24 do not know that JUUL always contains nicotine.

I find this very, very difficult to believe.
That is because they are designed against you owning them. They are slaves to their corporate masters, who are their true owners. They are designed and given automatic or semiautomatic firmware updates that can and do remove features because it provides more profiteering to the corporation.
And in case anyone doesn’t realize just how far behind US trains are, consider that Japan built its first bullet trains in the 1950s, when they went 130 mph. Today, Japan’s bullet trains have top speeds as high as 250 mph.

The technology to build fast trains has existed for more than 60 years.
I've seen just about everything written in LabView -- used to work with a bunch of EEs.
Totally get that issue. It might be worth spending a day or weekend making a boot-disk for them that will wipe their current disk image, and install win10 pro with it set-up so you can remote admin it.

That way for your parents they just have to buy the pc, put the usb in and reboot it, and then call you when it's back on so you can remote in and give it a key and finish configuring it for them. I suppose even that might cause issues if you can't teach them or walk them through via facetime
how to set the device to boot from the usb instead of the harddrive.
Text auto-translation has come a long way, this is seriously impressive. It completely re-arranges sentence structure to make it read right in English.
There's already the precedent from Katko v. Briney[1] that establishes a person can't use deadly force to defend property. Since courts prioritize the avoidance of bodily injury over property it's definitely not much of a leap for a lawyer to argue that a thief who suffered any bodily injury at all from a boobytrapped package has a case.

Whether a prosecutor and/or a jury would be interested in that argument is another story.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katko_v._Briney
Yes, yes, and yes.

The rule of (sore) thumb is: never use system Python for anything. Pretend it does not exist (and RH just did). It's there for running system software that happens to use Python interpreter and packages. It should only be managed by the system package / dependency manager.

For anything you write or download as source, explicitly install the right Python version, and create a separate virtualenv / container / whatnot, without any link to system-provided Python packages. It will save you a huge amount of headache.
> Except that normal people didn't care and didn't notice?

What's IE's market share today vs 10 years ago?

How many Windows Phones are in people's pockets?

How many people opened Hotmail/Live accounts in the last year?

People do care, it just takes a long time to see the effects play out.
Saying console.log is a setter seems horrifically wrong, console.log abstracts out IO and doesn't necessarily mutate any state that is within the program. It leaves the happy confines of the program's abstraction/memory model and puts data out into The Real World.

That all said, within the model being established by the author, everything does make sense, eventually, and the difference between IO output functions and setters, for the sake of the abstractions that the author builds, is non-existent.
Helps to have millions of workers willing to work for pennies a day as well.

edit: I guess that is redundant under unchecked eminent domain power.
That's not the definition of epidemic.

The dictionary definition is: a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time.

"Infectious disease" being the key. If we limit the definition to "took off" then any new and popular software becomes an epidemic.

It's naive to assume that something like this couldn't possibly be politicized simply because it relates to health. His points absolutely could be relevant to how the Surgeon General chooses to describe the uptick in vaping.

Overall tobacco usage is still going down: https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/yout...
Ways Docker Changed the Way Software Engineers Work in Past Half Decade
Looks like their security certificate expired a few days ago.
Not anywhere near a lawyer but I think the same theory applies here as with bait cars, cops intend for them to get stolen but it's not an issue. The person is still doing something illegal.
The Absence of the U.S. At the U.N. Business and Human Rights Forum
I’m not quite sure I follow this explanation. Well more of a statement as it doesn’t explain anything.

Speed is limited by a square power law. Internal combustion engines have an rpm sweet spot for power to fuel ratio and a peak power that’s at a higher rpm.

So are they saying that the power curve for the 911 engine peaks at much, much higher rpms? So high that you can fit two gear ratios between peak power and typical cruising rpms?

It’s been a while since I owned a manual but it used to be common to shift down one gear to pass, for more torque and more power. Sounds like on this car you might have to go for two.
Ensuring that the poor and impoverished (those who go into service in the U.S.) rebrand their identity to 'patriotic troop' is a very crucial function of military training and propaganda.
The parent was saying that specifying dependencies with rpm wasn't possible because they deploy with git but surely they must have something to specify/install deps since a RHEL base likely doesn't have everything they need especially if they're using the system python.
Whenever people talk about failures of government to build infrastructure I can't help but look back at the brilliant Wired documentary on Shenzhen.

It depicts a boundary line between the city and urban village. And government had the power to relocate 150k in a snap to get the development going [1]

How many countries can actually do that? Sure, couple of hundreds of people can be moved but 100k people, I am sure that cause a riot of sorts and project shut down very quickly.

[1] https://youtu.be/SGJ5cZnoodY?t=3586
Not sure I buy the insane bit. Airbnb, Facebook, Uber, drugs on the net and ICOs were proceeded by traditional B&Bs[0], showing holiday snaps, taxis, traditional drug dealing and traditional iffy investments. It's just new tech either did things better or allowed skirting of regulations, licences and the like.

I think there may be a future in security token offerings, a more regulated less scammy version of ICOs, kind of like traditional stock listings but cheaper and less Sarbanes–Oxleyed.

[0] https://www.streetdirectory.com/travel_guide/212726/travel_a...
He's right, but I don't see what Jack Ma has to do with it.
PSA = public service announcement ?
Gezond ontbijten zonder suiker met deze natuurlijke voedingsmiddelen
As a reminder, PostgreSQL is distributable under a license that's basically BSD/MIT: https://www.postgresql.org/about/licence/

MongoDB, on the other hand, recently changed their license to an abomination that many people think is no longer Free: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18301116
I played with JITs in Nim recently I found it quite enjoyable.

Here is my mandatory Brainfuck VM[1] and this is my opcode tables and probably what I like best about Nim metaprogramming[2]

[1]: https://github.com/numforge/laser/blob/9fbb8d2a/examples/ex0...

[2]: https://github.com/numforge/laser/blob/9fbb8d2a/laser/photon...
The more logic we push out of band into sidecars, the harder application issues become to debug. For example, let's say an Envoy config change is made centrally and all of sudden my app breaks because an HTTP header has stopped being set. Before I would easily be able to write a unit test to fix such a thing. Now I would need to replicate the envoy config in a test environment etc.
Let Google do the patching with new managed base images
I see. I'm not very familiar with their product. I would think that their product is good for weening "adult smokers" off of nicotine through tapered usage (e.g. reducing nicotine intake over a timeline by using specific dosage cartridges). Which of course go against a sustainable business?
I would call "Comma-Separated Trees" a subtype of Tree Notation (https://github.com/breck7/jtree). The first time this style of notation appeared was in Egil Möller's SRFI from 2005 (https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-49/srfi-49.html).

I really enjoy this style of format. It makes reading and writing structured data a breeze, and can handle any format with no escaping save indentation. You can embed csvs,tsvs,psvs, et cetera, right in the tree, like in these Comma-Separated Trees. You can write a grammar file to ensure strong type checking. Finally, you can easily do conversions "fromCsv/toCsv, fromJson/toJson, fromXml/toXml, fromSql/toSql" et cetera...

Here's another example showing an embedded PSV (and also same type later expressed as a tree) and some source code embedded showing how you don't need escaping.

cobol
books
title|year|author|id|rating|ratings|reviews
Cobol Programming|1983|M.K. Roy|4944251|4.11|9|1
Structured Cobol Programming|1979|Nancy B. Stern|9030220|4.33|15|0
fileType text
year 1960
lua
fileType text
books
book
title Programming in Lua
year 2001
author Roberto Ierusalimschy
id 1321894
rating 3.97
example
function factorial(n)
local x = 1
for i = 2, n do
x = x * i
end
return x
end
Either the data is deleted or it's not. If I send you a GDPR request, you reply "it's all deleted" then at a later date, data magically appears, that's an obvious per se violation.
American consumers need to find a backbone.
It's impossible to imagine Der Spiegel or any mainstream publication not doing a thorough explanation (and investigation) into allegations this egregious. Even in today's reality of eviscerated local journalism budgets, regional/local outlets still finance and publish investigations when a journalist has confessed to being a fabricator or plagiarist.

For example, last month, the Houston Chronicle hired an outside journalist to review 744 stories spanning 4 years after a reporter resigned in response to allegations: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/article/Following-inv...
How Effective Is Your Board Fundraising Committee?
"Moments after the vote passed, President Trump tweeted: "America is the greatest Country in the world and my job is to fight for ALL citizens, even those who have made mistakes.""

- President Trump's account, presumably not President Trump himself. By now, we can spot the difference.
A rise from 0.6% to 4.9%.. 0.5->5 would be 1000%. I think you misread the CDC numbers.
Someone on HN explained the problem to me like so:

Assume Facebook brings in $10/user/month in ad revenue.

But the distribution is uneven; $50/user/month for rich westerners, $6/user/month for poor people in poor countries who outnumber westerners 10:1.

If you offer everyone the chance to go ad-free for $10/month, your income from rich westerners drops from $50 to $10 and your total revenue drops to $6.36/user/month.
Going to Canada. I can't remember the exact locations, but the two that gave me the most headaches were the one in northern Minnesota and the one in Montana. The one in North Dakota did look through all my stuff, opened bags, but let me be on my way in an hour or so. That was my best experience so far.

Every time I went from Canada to America, they looked in my trunk, moved some stuff around back there, and said I could leave.

I still haven't been given any reasons why that happens to me, but my name must be somewhere important.

I just learned to get used to video chatting instead of seeing relatives up there. Much less of a headache.
"Ship with" is a bit too ambiguous for my taste. F28/F29 "ship with" Python 2 in the sense that the packages are there, just not installed with a default install. If you `dnf install python2` (or something that depends on Python 2.7) it will get installed. They've also gone through the effort and moved the system stuff line dnf to Python 3.
> dispose of them before I die

That is my plan. My parents had so much stuff they had saved and I hated to throw any of it away after they died because most of it triggered specific fond memories. Yet the stuff they did get rid of, I never missed.
I've heard people say this but it's never even been water vapor. It's vegetable glycerin and/or propylene glycol even if there were no other flavorings or nicotine.
They meant Russian Roulette:

https://docs.redshift3d.com/display/RSDOCS/Optimizations?pro...
I tend to be wary of semantic white space. It is so easy for some tool or function to screw up your white space and you have a huge change in meaning that may or may not be visually apparent. I tend to prefer having characters like braces or parentheses (s expressions) denote the tree level and white space purely as non-semantic pretty printing.
I know it's hard, but I wouldn't worry about such comments. Those are clearly not about you, and about some other suffering that person is going through. It doesn't relate to your site at all.

I've gotten some angry comments on my blog but I've ignored them, and they go away. When you reach a large audience, there's always going to be some portion that is disturbed. That's just how the world is.
And there in lies the problem. HN extrapolates its skill set to be the need of ALL companies. And companies should only test for that.

I do systems for a living. There is no way I would be successful if all I knew were frameworks.
It is the guilt we feel for sending poor people to die for the interests of the rich, and then abandoning the ones that did survive to subpar healthcare and broken promises, only to use them as political pawns every 2-4 years.

If we all just say "Thank you!!" over and over again, we are absolved.
Yup! You're right.
who has the "truth set" that compares the results ?
> that might be difficult for somebody that hasn't thought about anything interesting in 10 years.

Coming from doing research for the past 10 years and now looking for a dev job, I have the opposite feeling: all these interview questions (even the hard ones) are way too boring.
The process is simple, but not absent.
I think the bubble is ending. They want to convert their phantasy money into cold hard cash from retail investors (aka "suckers") before it's too late.
Seems sensible to me. To hit the top speed you need the engine revved right to the redline to generate enough power to overcome the wind resistance. The two higher gears are for fuel economy and the engine doesn't have the torque to rev up to the max in those gears.

It's a way for Porsche to have a fast car that isn't necessarily atrocious on fuel economy.
Erdely wasn't accused of fabricating stories/sources, AFAIK. She was found to have been too trusting and sloppy in her reporting about someone who herself was fabricating stories.
The Wheels Come Off Ofo as Another Tech Megatrend Stumbles
> US spent $14 trillion upholding a world order of free trade and international maritime law

I am a huge supporter of the U.S. Navy's freedom of navigation duties. It's expensive, and it's worth it. But carpet bombing Baghdad does nothing for our trade routes.
I wouldn't really say that the Shanghai transrapid maglev train is a great example to use, since it was a one-off showpiece thing. Transrapid (the german company) is now pretty much defunct and its test track is demolished. Traditional high speed rail is booming in China.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_China
Okay, yeah, agreed, I didn't understand that's what you were talking about.
Comparing attributing “greed is good” to Michael Douglas to attributing “Soon the world will feel the loving grip of the Pax Bisonica!” to Raul Julia is like comparing attributing “I get no respect” to Rodney Dangerfield to attributing “git er done” to Larry the Cable Guy.
No need to symlink manually, the `alternatives` mechanism will handle that for you.
you mean waiters in the US?
To give you some context on this, after the Vietnam war many protestors attacked the troops coming home. Many in the US, later regretted this, considering that many of these troops were drafted into the war, and came from some of the most vulnerable communities.

After the first Gulf War, there was a deliberate effort to thank the troops when they got home, which has persisted after 9/11.
As far as SharePoint goes, the current versions should work just as well (usually better) in Chrome. Should be mostly on par since the 2013 release.

The biggest feature difference for SharePoint cross-browser has historically been with the ActiveX controls. Say you had Word installed, there was a control to open documents with Word. As in, you could click save/view/edit rather than just whatever the browser default was. Or with Skype, to see a user's available/busy/away status next to their name on a SharePoint page. So if you're looking at a wiki or calendar for something, you might go "oh, the author is free, I can just ask." Chrome's plug-in model was much stricter than ActiveX. That's why you'd see some features in IE but not Chrome.
Just my personal take but as an adult who just quite smoking a few weeks ago the availability of vaps has been tremendously helpful. I feel night and day better in terms of health despite consuming probably similar levels of nicotine.

And while I don't view nicotine (or vaporized VG, PG) as particularly harmful it probably should be reserved for those 18+. What doesn't seem to be helpful is that vaping comes in all sorts of flavors (beyond synthetic tobacco flavor)that would probably appeal to people minors (mango, cotton-candy, etc). In contrast any flavorings of those types in cigarettes was banned a decade ago (with the notable exception of menthol).

> Currently, no flavors are banned from other tobacco products, although research suggests flavors may also make these products more enticing to youth and young adults. Data from FDA’s Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health found that nearly 80 percent of youth ages 12-17 and nearly 75 percent of young adults ages 18-25 who were current tobacco users in 2014 reported that the first tobacco product they ever used was flavored.25 Alternatively, FDA is aware of self-reported information suggesting that the availability of flavors in some noncombusted tobacco products such as e-cigarettes and other ENDS may help some adult users reduce cigarette use or switch to potentially less harmful products.

https://www.fda.gov/TobaccoProducts/Labeling/ProductsIngredi...
Just like a good tool reduces parenthetical mistakes, so goes for this.

Also, like S-expressions, even without a good tool, mistakes drop once you use it enough.
Amazing -- they get a Maglev train for $1.2B, and in only 2.5 years of construction[1]. Meanwhile, in San Francisco, we get a [flawed] bridge for $6+B that took 11 years to build[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_maglev_train#Construc...

[2] https://www.citylab.com/equity/2015/10/from-250-million-to-6...
http://omniorthogonal.blogspot.com/2013/02/hostile-ai-youre-...
I just switched to Standardnote recently and have been liking it so far - they are privacy centric as well, making all notes encrypted. What is the main benefit of this over Standardnote? I only have a few notes in there so if I do switch now is the time to do it...