skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah for actual crimes not for talking shit about the Communist party or being Muslim or whatever the Chinese government is up to these days. In the U.S. you can talk all the shit you want about Trump, you're not gonna suffer legal consequences for it. Good luck protesting Xi Jinping in Shanghai.
Solution is to get some datacenters on your network as well. I'm not sure why that didn't happen before.
this might be the right place to ask: can you differentiate a recursively defined function?
You cannot put the collapse of Venezuela on US policies... The US didn't put Chavez / Maduro in power, and they didn't ask them to oppress their own people.
I meant in the sense I don't give pain killer for pain during a fever but I give it during a fever to help with the temperature. It is not to take away the pain of a fever but the temperature but often times there is something painful causing the fever so it helps. Now as for giving my kids analgesic I do give them Acetaminophen and Ibuprofen occasionally when they really need it. I encourage things like rest in a dark room and more fluids first but you get to know as a parent when they are really not well and when they just need to take a break from screen time or activity or take something like tylenol. Medicine is not my go to but I use it accordingly.
According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis at the US Department of Commerce, California is in the top ten US states for per-capita GDP growth since 2009. Not 'middling' at all, particularly considering it was the country's largest state economy to begin with. And a big reason the cost of living is high there is precisely because the economy has been so good. The middle class hasn't been hurt by taxes and regulations, it's been hurt by low wage growth as the top 1% of the population has absorbed a grossly disproportionate share of the robust economic growth. The same problem shared by the rest of the country. Taxes aren't too high, they're much too low, particularly on the wealthy.

Not sure where your numbers came from (the link at the bottom of the image, referencing a report at alec.org, is broken).
It isn't that hard to isolate a block of code that addresses a small cross section of your business rules and ask a candidate to do something meaningful with it.
One of my pet genius ideas that will never happen is to reserve prime housing areas near airports for the deaf.
How New York City Invented the Penthouse
I know the US is different and strange, in that a corporation is a person...

... But where I am, bankruptcy only lasts 3 years + 1 day, after which point, those that had shares within the entity that has failed, or the part-owners, will be required to begin paying back their debts. Bankruptcy is not a failsafe to prevent you paying all debts. It's just a timeout to give you time to be in a position to pay those debts. And yes, it can be declared multiple times, but it won't always be accepted.
That's the state of privacy protection on Android. It is difficult to believe that Google developers who are very smart people couldn't foresee it for years.

“It’s difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on him not understanding it”.
How about seeing mountains being destroyed by Nature alone over the course of hundreds of millions of years ? Nature is not so beautiful if you consider it destroyed, eradicated, 99.9% of life which ever existed (and will destroy mankind) over the course of History.
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I think there's a lot to that. I wonder if landline telephone is the best comparator for cable. It would be really interesting to dig into the history, especially around the AT&T breakup, to see if telephone at a similar stage had similar problems.
"Software methodologies are all about handling risk." Not even close. Methodologies should about creating working software with a short feedback loop between customer and engineer. That old blue cool-aid about risk doesn't fly anymore.
Does anybody know what are the major running costs involved in a university? What I found disturbing in the (public midwestern) university where I studied are the luxurious sports complexes that kept popping up, whereas many classrooms were poorly heated and ventilated. As far as the staff is concerned, I hear that teaching and tenured positions are being reduced in favour of increasing administrative staff and corporate-style bosses. The peripheral processes seem to be eating up the core, much like one of those parasites which thrive as outer shells long after their host trees are gone.
I understand that neither a purchase nor an investment will get any return if the company goes bankrupt like in this situation, but I think they're very different when deciding who to blame.

In an investment, the investor is intentionally putting money at risk in the hope that the project is successful. It's established up-front that if the project is unsuccessful, the invested money is lost. It's probably unfair for an investor to feel cheated when an investment doesn't work out.

With this purchase, Jones paid Xcor in exchange for a service that Xcor said it could provide. Xcor neither provided the service nor can provide a refund, and Jones is very right to be upset. It's probably fair to distrust the people behind Xcor for any future financial commitments, much more than if it had been presented as an investment.

You might say that this particular purchase was obviously risky enough that any reasonable person should have seen it as an investment, but I'd be hesitant to assume that the full risks were clear to everyone who paid the money, and the burden is on the company to not make commitments it can't keep. (That said, I certainly don't know if or how the risks were communicated to buyers.)
This is a nice idea but not practical, although there may be a temporary positive outcome from providing a basic income to everyone, in a capatalist system eventually inflation will negate this effect. Landlords would raise rents almost immediately and the wealthy would pressure governments to raise interest rates to protect their in equal wealth, which would in fact cause more people to fall from middle class to poor. That being said I am very much in favor of having a social safety net which provides the necessities of life to anyone or any group of people that have fallen on hard times. This should and does come in the form of public services such as public healthcare, public education, public broadcasting as well as countless other charitable organizations and non profits, which are subsidized by taxes and or tax deductions.
I think everyone will be a programmer in the future. It's the new literacy.

We won't be programming using text files, and we likely won't use a keyboard, a mouse, or even a screen.

The difference between using software and creating software will disappear. You'll use the exact same interface for both.

Programming by example will be a big part of it. You'll do things manually, and the system will generalize your actions and generate algorithms for you. You'll be able to fix any error by providing more examples or by fixing the incorrect output. Basically TDD as you use the software in real life.

We likely won't be limited to 2D screens. We'll be using AR and physical user interfaces (https://dynamicland.org).

AI will help a lot overall.
Goalposts have been moved the other way too. Model S was supposed to start at $50,000 (they discontinued the option, and never actually produced it, instead software locking the 60 kwh to 40 to meet the claim on paper), and Model 3 has long been billed as a $35,000 car.

One of the cars was supposed to drive itself across the country with no driver intervention, including navigating off highway, by the end of tomorrow.
Native Texan. Austin and not Austin all my life. Never heard "on balance". Some family in the industry. They know they are seeing the last boom before the bust. I was surprised to hear so few of the wind over there is with any of the big energy companies.
the ratio is shifting dramatically toward admin side
Preserving access to the open Internet with circumvention technology
1) Seattle, WA, USA

2) 2 ISPs are available

3 & 4) 1Gbps ($75/month via Centurylink) or 1Gbps/35Mbps ($90/month plus fees and 2yr contract with Comcast, 1TB cap)

5) 15Mbps is $30/month via Comcast (1TB cap) or 40Mbps at $45/month via Centurylink

6) I go 6 months between outages on Centurylink, compared to Comcast (when we used them) its much much better.

7) No municipal option, though City Light runs fiber with every project over the past couple decades. Politics has killed actually using any of it though :c

8) Centurylink is sufficent, especially on the lower tiers you can drive a hard bargain (got a family member 40Mbps for $27 a month for 2 years, no contract or bundling).

Unasked questions:

Whats done for entertainment?

I don't do fixed format TV, but for those that do we've gotten by with Sling TV Blue and some addon packs to add specific channels. OTA is also crystal clear, it pulls in dozens of channels surprisingly!

What about phone service?

We're smartphone only, its okay-ish, but I may pick up some Grandstream DP720's eventually, as a non-cellphone can be quite handy. Maybe someone will craft a way to tie that into Signal?
As usual an unpopular yet sound argument from adventured. The real losers are people downvoting because of their shallow mental models.

West Texas oil is making US more secure and access to cheap energy will not only make things better in Texas, but Mexico is going build on this supply of NG.

West Texas is extraction colony, for America. The rest of the world is buying because it is sweet as hell and produced in most stable region on the planet.
Using a Lithuanian E-Money License to expand Google Payments
Ask HN: Do you drink alcohol?
There's a wonderful mechanism we've invented for this purpose. It's called tenure.

Imagine a candidate who came in and said, "I'm really great at this computer stuff, just trust me!" but refused to show a resume, prior work, to even talk about it.

"Push back, it's fine, trust us!"

This ends up filtering for people who can deal with your bullshit,(as in: have other options) and don't mind doing so. So, good for you, I guess, but you could get better people by fixing your culture and being straight with people.
To be fair a lot of West Texas if you're not looking at a bunch of windmills you're looking at about as many derricks - neither are very pleasing to the eye.
I'm just a few pages in to the tutorial and I already want to try it out myself... but how? Where's the link?

Is this not available to the public yet?
What's your strategy for handling possible filesystem failure/corruption scenarios without a team that understands the underlying technology?
It’s not a “take home test”. Half the purpose of live pair coding is to see how the candidate thinks.

It’s a relatively simple project with a skeleton of a class and failing unit tests. They have to fix the code to make the unit tests pass.

If they get through that, I give them a second set of failing unit tests that they have to make pass by fixing the class without breaking the unit tests.
> Ever since Neolithic times, people have kept the average time spent per day for travel the same, even though the distance may increase due to the advancements in the means of transportation.

I wonder how they deduced this. There isn’t a citation, and it seems pretty extraordinary to be able to figure out the mean travel time of people in the Neolithic era.
This happened to me. When I first moved to Boston I went to a new dentist who kept remarking how great my dental insurance coverage was. It turned out I had a cavity which was fully covered by my insurance so I went to his office, got the novocaine shot and spent an hour with the guy supposedly drilling in my mouth. I saw the dentist for about a year and had three cavities. The only three I'd ever had in my life.

A year or so later I switched to a dentist who was closer to my office. I told him I had had three cavities but they weren't showing up on the x-rays he took. We did two or three sets of x-rays before we figured out they were never going to show up because he had just been billing my great insurance for work he didn't actually do.
Interesting article, but why single out cosmetology?

Artists, writers, musicians, etc. all pay hefty fees for school and most don't make great salaries. This is true for public schools, many have 4 year programs that end up costing much more than $21k.
Origin of virus that hobbled US newspapers still unclear
had the same epiphany driving from CA to WA through OR. Oregon allows logging to clear-cut - meaning they don't pluck 1 tree among 5 to cut but instead just lop entire mountainsides down like someone getting a buzz cut.
I worked in a state university's accounting IT department, and one (not the only) factor is that most of the money in the budget was not money the president of the university had any say in spending. Most money, whether donations or from the state or the feds or anybody else, came in with strings attached. If I give you money on the condition you build a new stadium with it, you have to use it for that, you can't decide instead to renovate the building where Literature is taught, even though it is falling down. Any grant, government corporate or private, came with strings attached on what you were allowed to spend it on. And people like paying for new buildings, including sports, more than they like paying for upkeep.
> Sats have wild accuracy shifts and depend heavily on the plane being fully operational.

Who is routinely flying planes that aren't fully operational?
> Yes, that's true. But good luck recovering damages from a bankrupt defendant.

Fraud can pierce the veil, so it's not just the company that they can go after, but also anyone responsible for the fraud.
Isn't 'lying' a bit strong here? When ALittleLight said

> I always preface these sections of the interview with a moment to explain that I expect them to push back and disagree if I say something they think is wrong so that we can talk about it.

I interpreted that as, at least implicitly, flagging to the interviewee that not everything the interviewer says will accurately represent his/her views. Perhaps it could be made clearer, but it doesn't seem like the intent is to deceive.
Athletics facilities are normally paid for by donors, and their operational costs are budgeted out of athletics revenue which is separate from the overall University budget. Tuition dollars normally do not fund athletics in any way.
Watched many of the paths in the movie. I seriously doubt this will change anything just like choose your own adventure books didn't change how the majority of books are written.

The format actually annoyed me. It just felt pretentious somehow. I want to be told a story passively, not wonder if I missed half of a TV show.
We absolutely cannot all agree on that. As you point out - the fact of the matter is that an undergraduate degree in business, engineering or medicine costs the same as a degree in art, social work or childhood education and pays about 3-4 times as much. So it's individually quite stupid to major in anything _other_ than engineering, business or premed. Do you really think a society is going to function without teachers, psychologists, lawyers and artists? So in that case can we all agree that arranging the incentives so that the only thing Universities produce are engineers, MBA's and medical professionals is an awful idea societally and for the individuals involved?
Of course nature is destructive. But there's nothing we can really do about that. There is something we can do about humans being destructive. The difference between humans and the rest of nature is that we have the ability to choose our actions, these choices are not made for us already.

I've never understood the argument that since [bad thing] happens, [more bad things] are justified. But judge, since nature kills humans all the time you can't possibly charge me with murder...
The problem is IMHO not the airplane noise. As many others have written, the actual noise has gone down over the decades.

The real problem is a perceived lack of democratic participation / a government that cares about its people. The interviewed people actually said so: "It makes you feel like you can make a difference", compared to manually filling out complex forms.

This actually is valid also for other countries: in Munich, there is a constant battle for the expansion of the airport with a new runway. For now, the project is set on hold, but who knows how the situation will look like in 5 years w/ the then-new government in Bavaria. This was also decided above the heads of the affected population (who would have lost their homes or be affected by massive increases in noise) without including them, and politicians didn't do flying f..k and tell the affected people that the state cares for them, their well-being or whatever. For new rail tracks or those where usage exploded over decades, people had to sue the rail company for installation of noise-protection.

Personal bet: Complaints about "NIMBY", endless and expensive judicial battles (as are hinted in the article), noise, playing kids, anything would go down to decent manageable levels if governments would care to meaningfully involve affected residents and give them the feeling that their voice matters for the government. The other way is to continue as usual and watch them fall to various radicals and their "the state doesn't care about you, only about <insert minority/marginalized group here>" message.
FlightAware on mobile isn’t letting me zoom in to see which island you’re on. There’s a few pilots on HN; we can help you look it up. It’s probably not on purpose as in “haha let’s fly over this guy’s house” but more likely to that it keeps traffic in the busy Seattle area flowing smoothly. You can certainly write to the local Flight Standards District Office and ask them to consider using new waypoints and procedures, or ask them for an official explanation.
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel

https://www.amazon.com/Zero-One-Notes-Startups-Future/dp/080...
Fascinating article. A question I ponder is: given that, as I believe is true, the student loan bubble is going to burst in a messy way sometime in the next few years, what happens to the college industry at that point? The last time it happened they made it illegal to discharge student loan debt in bankruptcy, but the rates of people unable to make payments is going up again, and at some point it will cause a financial problem, I would think. Does any of this calculus change if the student loan industry goes bust?
A good video on the subject:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOvAbjfJ0x0
Yes. Administrative staff, and spending on dubious things such as e-textbooks, LMS systems, online learning and IT in general is out of control.
Yeah, balloon rides to the edge of space seem way cooler to me. Granted, you don't briefly experience zero-g, but the sensation of zero g doesn't seem very appealing anyway...
No, they do realize exactly that, which is why quite often the paths didn't change as much as they could and why aviation community tends to rebuke ideas like "remove SSR and PSR because GPS and Mode S + ADS-B is enough".

Sats provide good "happy path" when everything is ok and allow greater density. But approach and departure routes are going to be designed for safety as well, including when those features fail.
> Yes, but is it not also bias to leap to a conclusion someone is bias because they don't agree with the status quo?

I don't think "tu quoque" is a civil way of having a discussion. I didn't use bias as a slur, I was trying to help you argue better (and I explained why you or the mothers you talked to might have a bias -- and it wasn't because you "didn't agree with the status quo"). You appear to be using it as a slur towards me (in a way, saying "tu quoque"), for no real reason.

> Well, I've heard too many stories about mom's taking their children to get vaccinated and describing the effects as "It's like the very next day or two their lights just went out".

And this is exactly the reason why studies are better than anecdotal evidence. There are countless studies by many independent sources that show beyond any reasonable doubt that vaccines are an unmitigated good (one of the greatest medical marvels in history, alongside penicillin or the understanding of germ theory). But that's apparently not sufficient because some mothers of autistic children think that it was vaccines that caused their child's condition.

You know what can really make your child's "lights go out"? Dying. That's what whooping cough, measles, rubella, retrovirus, polio, and any other number of diseases did to countless children before we started vaccinating them. I think that pretending that autism (which is incredibly likely to not be caused by vaccines) is much worse than death (which we _know_ can be a direct outcome of many serious childhood illnesses) is a quite unethical viewpoint.

> that alone provides more than enough reason to avoid concrete statements like "there is absolutely no link" and doing so is most certainly proof of bias.

Would you say that belief in evolution or climate change or gravity is a proof of bias? My view is based on the overwhelming scientific evidence, where studies were carried out in response to a bunch of baseless fearmongering that has without a doubt directly killed children.

You're right that we can't know anything, but entertaining an incredibly improbable outcome (that all of those studies were wrong) and allowing it to affect your life (and the life of your children) is just playing to the fearmongers. It's like saying that you can technically win the lottery -- you can technically win, but the likelihood is so low that you shouldn't base any of your life decisions on that fact.

If there was a study tomorrow that showed that there was a concrete link, and it was good science, then I would accept it and would happily eat crow. But the likelihood is so infinitesimally small that it's not worth entertaining the idea in a normal conversation.