skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, I turned on "showdead" (thanks for the hint btw!) and the original comment I see is closer to my description of it.

I understand you calling it unsubstantive (so I guess I were right in that we're not allowed to post opinions here), but it did contain more information than that:

Obviously there's people who liked to use HotelTonight, who don't want to give money to AirBnb. These people are now in a predicament and that's the other information he was communicating.

Now, I don't want to disrespect the work you do here, but I don't see any reason why simple downvotes and a low ranking in the comments section wouldn't have sufficed for this comment.

(From your reply though I gather this isn't the first time you interacted with this individual. So, do you think it's possible you'r not judging objectively here?)
$a = 2
$b = -------$a

What does $b equal? More importantly, how is this sane? I just wrote it and I'm not quite so myself without taking my time and separating the dashes.
The definition of “put” has about two pages, with “put off” (five variants), “put up” (eight variants, including “put up with sb/st”) in those pages.

“Put out” also has a zillion variants in those two pages, but itself also is in the list of defining words.
Totally agree. The goal part isn't scientific. Our emotions lead us to decide the kind of world we want to live in. I think there is more agreement there than conventional and social media are leading us to believe.
It should gradually trend towards using the vast majority of the free space. The disk cache won't consume memory unless you're reading new, not-already-cached pages from disk; so if you're not reading enough data from disk, then it might not consume everything. (E.g., if you've rebooted recently, and just haven't read enough from disk to consume everything.)

If you work w/ removable media, IME the cache will free the pages associated w/ that media when it's removed (as the cache must be assumed invalid when/if the media is plugged back in). Playing a DVD, and then ejecting it, would often result in a large drop in disk cache. (Back before Netflix…)
I do not doubt that at all. I know almost nothing about systems programming. If I did, I would almost certainly contribute.
Well, if we're being precise, your original assertion was something different altogether.

You claimed "fewer abortions happen under Democrat presidents than under Republican presidents", but that's still not really true. Two of the top four years for abortions per live birth (1979, 1980, 1981, 1984) had a Democratic administration. Three if you look at the previous year's President. [1]

[1] According to CDC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_statistics_in_the_Uni...
Keep in mind that the APIs are still WIP. I choose an example with lots of APIs on purpose.

There's a lot that can be inferred by e.g. looking at the event type or understanding semantics. I expect this to be better when the features near completion.
There's a lot of holes in this logic. For one Asians are hit hardest by affirmative action, but we're historically victims of racism themselves.

Not to mention this had a big risk of empowering people to act in what many would probably consider a bigoted manner. Many whites feel that they face injustice due to their race [1]. Under your proposed moral framework many whites would be justified in discriminating in favor of other whites. Remember, you don't have a monopoly over other people's ideas of who is and isn't benefitting from injustice.

1. https://www.npr.org/2017/10/24/559604836/majority-of-white-a...
I love the local tech community here (general SLC area) and I've talked to enough SF -> SLC immigrants that I never want to work in Silicon Valley.
Medium Attachment Cable.
> n short, C++ is a company-driven language instead of a community-driven one like Python and Rust. Some C practices are maintained because voters from the committee agree that these practices are necessary (for their code) and it's impossible to make a completely backward-incompatible change when they have >1M LOC code base.

Well the community has more than 1 MLoC of code and is quite reluctant to break compatibility: look at how hard it has been to get Python to really migrate from v2 to v3.

If anything c++ is more willing to make breaking changes (e.g. abandoning the terrible auto_ptr) because of the better tooling (willingness of compiler vendors to put in multi-standard support and appropriate warning flags).
Why? I can get being pissed if someone's misrepresenting their identity (or annoyed if they're representing it inconsistently) as a job seeker.

But AFAICT this is about letting the candidate's performance be mentally/emotionally isolated from all the baggage that comes along with their history. It doesn't even preclude screening people out based on history before this anonymized interview.

You can then put it back together with the other information you have about them once you've formed an opinion of their technical abilities without preconceptions about them.
I went to a school where they did try to introduce these subjects to us from a young age. I'm talking the age of 10 onward and it really was pointless.

Of course you can teach things about Roman Legions, or Athenian ships etc, but if you want to debate and discuss the ideas and foundations of these civilizations (and any philosophy) I honestly think you are fighting an uphill battle until at least 17-18.

Your mind is just not developed enough to handle the kind of ambiguitiy and complexity needed to analyse and judge these ideas. Many people never even reach this ability during university and just parrot ideas that are told to them.

There is a reason teaching children to adhere to a religion from a young age is so controversial in some circles.
This just looks like Twitter acquiring vine 2.0.

A big player acquiring an orthogonal product...most likely meaning they'll just kill it. I doubt hotels will partner with AirBnB on a booking service.
> there’s surprising depth in its ancient code

Uh, no there isn't, because the version they've released is a complete modern rewrite. It's not the ancient 'calc.exe' that came with Windows all those years.
As a German I want to see my tax money spent in education, health service, hell, even development assistance, but not warfare. For some reason "neutral countries" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral_country) understood that. What a pity that Germany doesn't make this step.
For what it's worth, Amazon is the same size as Google now (technically a little bit larger by market cap).
Category theory isn't quite the correct formalism.
Up until reading this thread I wasn't even aware that there were different UAC colours.
If you haul a sofa to the top of a cliff and then throw it off, it’s in free fall even if it started at the base.

It’s great to clarify that prices are still higher than previously, though. I wouldn’t have known that otherwise.
Total comp in Bay Area is often around $300-400K. That includes generous equity though, so may not be relevant when talking about startup salary affordability.
Science doesn't justify current Social Justice (capitalized) beliefs and methods, so science gets tossed aside.
What is considered "insanely expensive"? Hotel prices widely vary depending on the city and time of year, and within a market there's 1* to 5* hotels.

I'm looking at hotels in Manhattan for this weekend and there's 4* hotels for $150/night. Is that expensive? That is equivalent to what some people pay in rent for a 1-bedroom apartment in SF or NY.
See Banksy's "Love is in the Bin". People are still excited when artists break convention, even if it gets harder and harder to do something unexpected.
Saying "not everyone can give their children better opportunities, so no one can give their children better opportunities" is one of the crappiest arguments against charter schools. It's pure and simple envy and a desire to hurt those more fortunate.
> I wonder what’s the point of the PGP key then.

Trust on First Use. Once the key is imported it stays the same.

People working for that organization can sign the key to attest it's real (Web of Trust). Although I wonder how would they check it. Organization (non-individual) keys are weird because ultimately it's just an individual behind it.
This is probably by design on Amazon’s part, in which case the lopsided outrage is entirely justified.
I've worked in offices with full grown adults that are bullies, on a few occasions. I don't mean physical. But small minded people talking and sneering in groups, or managers taking credit or lying or blaming staff. Can take months of dropping positive metaphors, analogies, idioms like "I don't care who did it I just want it fixed" etc.. while turning the cheek or forgiving their ignorance/stupidity until they're reprogrammed to have more decency or be nice. Also takes a lot out of you. But worth it in the end. Especially if you join an office where it's coming from the top down and it's miserable and full of blame, then months later people are smiling and working together. I agree with you here, why extrapolate specifically from chickens?. There are many types of abuse; discriminatory, psychological, financial, hierarchical, neglect, sexual, modern slavery, domestic, physical, verbal. Chickens are not complex enough to understand much more than the obvious. Any threat to our needs will be fought off however we instinctively know how or have learned. Sounds strange but many people are unaware they are bullying and if you call out the behavior they will feel bad and amend it. I doubt you could do that with a chicken.
I don't know if this saying applies here.

In the crisis, the finance industry was able to pillage the wealth of the citizenry, then foreclose on all the property when it blew up, then rent the property back to the citizens.

A saying for this situation would be more like "A pack of wolves won't be satisfied with eating just one sheep"

If the citizenry isn't able to defend itself by electing good representation, it's defenseless to this type of predation.
>50 cockerels

You recreated the chicken version of an American prison, no where in nature would you find a gathering of 50 male chickens in tight living quarters. They, and humans, aren't built for that sort of living situation and it is unsurprising that behavioral problems materialize.

My favorite flock composition was a base of all female birds, add in a cockerel and see how he and the hens interact. If you find a good match leave him there and then as new male chickens are born watch how they interact with the current cockerel. Sometimes they get along fine with each other and you can leave them, other times they go at each other like mad and then I'd usually kill the younger male. I never liked broilers because _all_ they liked was food, they were just so boring! I like curious chickens!
and word2vec
Rajatsharma/NPM-scope: Checks if the NPM scope is taken or available
UI Design Best Practices for Better Scannability
As a counter to that, I don't know the last time I stayed in an AirBNB and it was cheaper than a local hotel. Rather I was forced into it by people I was traveling with.
Too Clever by Half (2018)
I'm certainly stereotyping and assuming (and we know what they say about assuming)

But I'd be willing to put money down you're in the demographic who tends not to fall victim to negative biases. I'll put $50 on that.
> You really think the "law" is something that is deployed equally? I can think of several other notable people with security clearances who shouldn't have them.

The solution to that isn't to normalize deviance [1].

[1] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Professionalism/Diane_Vaughan_...
I don't know about op, but airbnb is crap for accessibility so I've learned my lesson and always choose hotels.
I do think we need to agree to disagree. That being said according to the README for the Redux Starter Kit these are listed as problems it wants to solve:

• "Configuring a Redux store is too complicated"

• "I have to add a lot of packages to get Redux to do anything useful"

• "Redux requires too much boilerplate code"

I can't help but point out that all of these concerns can also be solved by not using any extra libraries and just doing what I suggested.

Configuration: createStore()

Lot of packages: Not needed, just pass dispatch around.

Boilerplate code: Pretty much just combineReducers calls.
Interesting! Out of curiosity, how integrated were the Japanese students into Peruvian society? Did they fluently speak Spanish? Did they consider themselves Hispanic (though I think "Hispanic" is more of a term North Americans apply to South and Central Americas, so apologies if this last question is hard to answer)?
Ah, I misread the question. Thanks.
It isn't an argument against action. It is an argument against exaggeration and hyperbole though.

What studies are you referring to? In any case, a small change in suicide rates would affect a dozen people. A small change in heart disease, cancer and diabetes would affect tens of thousands of people.

It would be great to cure cancer, but we don't have to cure cancer to affect change. We can't cure suicide either. There will always be suicide.

But we know that less processed food, less sugary drinks, etc leads to less heart disease, cancer, diabetes, etc. Even a slight reduction in heart disease, cancer and diabetes would save more people than all the people who die of suicide. Simple things like less soda, less microwave dinners and more walking could mean hundreds of thousands of less deaths, but I guess we can focus on the few thousand suicides and the possibility of saving dozens of lives.

I'm sorry that facts, stats and reality made you lose a few brain cells.
The mind distracted: technology's battle for our attention
I've used it a bunch in UK and Northern Europe... absolutely loved it. Most of my travel tends to be last-minute and I've always found the selection and pricing to be great. I've never had a hotel that wasn't at least "ok" and several times I've gotten ones that have been stellar. Having the whole thing integrate with Apple Pay made it so fast, too.

This news is devastating. My least favorite lodging company just bought my most favorite.

My question would be -- what other apps provide an experience close to what HT did?
Why was the Volt a mistake? I was genuinely looking forward to purchasing one until they decided to discontinue it. It seems to me like series hybrids could be the fastest way to drastic reduction of emissions short of massive government intervention. Judging by the way things have gone with the EPA under Trump, I'm doubting that's going to be happening soon.
Nobody is 'romanticizing a time before identity' and it's frankly absurd to suggest so.

The 20th century is full of identitarian issues such as women's suffrage, desegregation, a holocaust, racial issues galore etc.. I mean, the most traumatic event in American history, a civil war which nearly broke the Republic and in which more died that in any other war was about slavery after all.

Also, the attempt to lump the book in 'with Trump' is an indication right off the bat that the critique might be playing ideology. (I suggest Trump is utterly oblivious to even the least nuanced of the issues at hand anyhow)

And: "How are college teachers supposed to confidently court controversy when so many of them have zero security in jobs that barely pay above poverty wages?" - this isn't related to the argument at hand. It's an attempt to 'wedge in' another possibly important issue, but it's rhetorical smoke as it's applied.
IME, it's not so much the amount of memory¹, as the pressure it places on the GC to keep up w/ these (often small, but numerous) allocations. Other languages can allocate and deallocate these types of structures with just a stack pointer move in both cases, since nothing ever leaves the stack. (I think Java's allocator is typically approximately or exactly as cheap as a pointer-move on allocation, but deallocation is another story.)

¹but I don't want to downplay this concern entirely; in the parent's case of an int needing boxing, that effectively doubles the cost: the int, and now the pointer to that int. (Plus any hidden requirements of the allocator, but even if we assume that's free, the story might still be plenty grim.)
I would think circular definitions would be just as unacceptable with words.
Verizon FiOS disabling MAC address filtering?
I got a strange email from Verizon today and curious if anyone else has received this, or use the mac filtering function on the routers:

"We periodically update our routers with the latest firmware to ensure it has the latest security enhancements, support tools, and bug fixes. During our most recent upgrade, we discovered a problem with your device Wi-Fi connectivity that we attributed to a feature called MAC filtering, which some customers use to identify which devices connect to their Wi-Fi network.

To correct the issue, we will remotely disable MAC filtering on your Fios™ Quantum Gateway on or after March 8, 2019. After we disable this feature, any device Wi-Fi connectivity issues related to MAC filtering will be eliminated, and MAC filtering will no longer be supported."
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"My experience using other booking sites for 'cheap deals' has been that you're often treated as a lower-tier customer, for example being given worse rooms (ground floor, no windows etc). The HotelTonight experience is the opposite. ~25% of the time, I receive a room upgrade without asking"

They're all OTAs. You're just as likely to get a "good" room with HotelTonight as you would with Priceline, Hotwire, etc. The quality of room you receive is mostly dependent on room availability and the check-in agent.
If it goes heavy on examples and pictures, then it can probably give a more relaxed definition for words, knowing the context will be picked up from the pics and examples. Do you find that true?
No, this was my biggest gripe. You can't book a room at 2AM and expect to get it that same night.
I read it through to completion. The article spends a lot of time associating Haidt and Lukianoff with Milo Yiannopoulos, Jordan Peterson, and various members of the Alt-Right:

"If there is a new right-liberal dispensation, the two-step from shame to rage about shame may be what brings it closest to the Trumpists. Hints of elective affinities between elite liberalism and the “alt-right” have been evident for a while now. The famous essay that Allum Bokhari and Milo Yiannopoulos wrote in 2016, “An Establishment Conservative’s Guide to the Alt-Right”, cites Haidt approvingly. At one point Lukianoff and Haidt rehearse a narrative about Herbert Marcuse that has been a staple of white nationalist conspiracy theories about “cultural Marxism” for decades. Nassim Taleb, whose book Antifragile Haidt and Lukianoff credit with one of their core beliefs and cite repeatedly as inspiration, is a fixture of the far right “manosphere” that gathers on Reddit/pol and returnofkings.com.

The commonality raises questions about the proximity of their enthusiasm for CBT to the vogue for “Stoic” self-help in the Red Pill community, founded on the principle that it is men, rather than women, who are oppressed by society. So, too, does it raise questions about the discipline of psychology – how cognitive and data-driven turns in that field formed Haidt and his colleagues Pinker and Jordan Peterson. Lilla admits to envying the effectiveness of the “right-wing media complex”. It is hard to imagine that Haidt does not feel some such stirrings about Peterson, who is, after all, selling more copies of self-help books marketed as civilisational critique. Lukianoff and Haidt quote Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago as an epigraph and key inspiration; Peterson, who frequently lectures on the book, wrote the introduction to the 50th-anniversary edition Penguin will publish in November."

This is very clearly a guilt by association argument.
(a) break the power of teachers’ unions (and organized labor more generally), so that they can reduce teacher pay, benefits, social respect, and job security

Wouldn't an education market that worked do precisely that for schools that are failing catastrophically?

(b) reduce overall education spending as a means to cut taxes on the wealthy

As far as I know, no one outside of libertarian absolutists actually has a goal like this. As far as I can tell, this is a strawman, a fiction.

(c) give resources to schools which are less publicly accountable and can more easily kick out struggling or problematic students

If "publicly accountable" means less micromanaged by a centralized bureaucracy, I don't see how this is necessarily bad. The point is to diversify the education market. Also, isn't the whole point to be able to easily kick out struggling or problematic students? If the social climate in a school makes it a disaster, but you can put some of the kids in a "lifeboat" with a better climate for learning, why wouldn't you?

(d) personally profit off the partial privatization of the education industry and outsourcing of education functions

If the results are good, then they should profit.

(e) for some wealthy people, use donations to charter schools as a massive tax dodge which also brings them positive publicity.

I think that wealthy people donating to schools is one of the best ways any society can do wealth redistribution. Again, I see nothing wrong with that.
>Although, ironically, the hoax itself makes it a valid form of performance art anyway.

This is the bullshit that makes people weary of modern art. If you disagree, you fail to realize that this post, and indeed hacker news itself, is postmodern performance/interactivity art. Your opinion is wrong and invalid if you disagree.
If you have any kind of workload with IO patterns that are not embarassingly parallel you want your files to be in the page caches, i.e. RAM, to minimize the access latencies and thus the walltime of your workload.

For that to work applications shouldn't be gobbling up all the ram, instead they should leave it to the OS to cache data.

Sure, NVMe drives help, but loading things from RAM is snappier still.

Also, those huge memory footprints themselves can also cause issues. E.g. they can increase GC pauses in GCed languages or decrease cache hit rates when allocations are scattered all over the place.
> In 2019, inequality is propagated through differences in access to effective educational environments. It's the Democratic party which opposes school vouchers and funding increased choice in education

Because both exacerbate educational inequality and reinforce the degree to which traditionally disadvantaged groups remain consistently on the disadvantaged side of that inequality, which, as you note, is an important problem.

School choice (at best, but real programs, particularly voucher programs, tend to be far worse than “at best”) amounts to accepting failure and abandoning systematic efforts to root it out in the public school system but maximizing the degree to which parental skill, attained largely through the education, determines whether or not students are subjected to that failure.
But doesn't the government have a responsibility to help ensure jobs are available to it's citizens? That there is a food supply that is stable and won't collapse with disruptions? That you have the industry to make tanks and planes in the event of a war? Turning everything over to the free market is not a stable solution.
In even more modern systems, with NVMe NAND storage, even swapping is ok.
OT: I got curious, and this also works:

PAGER="wc -l" man xargs

(although my man page for xargs is just 211 lines)
I'd encourage you to read through the RSK docs further to see what all it actually does, then :)
Why This 3D Light Printer Is a Game Changer
In this case it's more useful to think of Cloudflare as a compute platform than a CDN. There are many other places where you can take JavaScript you write to run on Cloudflare and get it running (Lambda, App Engine, your own server). It won't be globally distributed or as fast, but it could be made to run.