skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In a statement, U.S. State Department deputy spokesman Robert Palladino faulted Venezuela for the latest incident.

>“The Venezuelan Navy aggressively stopped ExxonMob‎il contracted vessels operating under an oil exploration agreement with the Cooperative Republic of Guyana in its Exclusive Economic Zone,” he said, saying Guyana had the right to explore there and urging Venezuela to respect international law and its neighbors’ rights.[0]

[0]https://www.reuters.com/article/us-guyana-venezuela-oil/vene...

Two months later Donald Trump is trying to oust Maduro for being 'undemocratically elected' while simultaneously praising communist Dictators in South East/East Asia.

Yeah, has nothing to do with American oil interests.
We are speaking of userspace generated between 1992 and 1995. At that time, linux was installed from floppy disks. Do you think there is someone who still has a floppy drive, who needs recent versions of linux and who has so old programms still working ?
I'm not sure I want to, because I vaguely remember being downvoted for similar comments in the past.

But what I am referring to with "nature vs. nurture" is that you can't separate them. Take away the physical basis of a person, all the DNA, and there would be no person. Put a newborn in a box, i.e. no nurture, a person would also not develop. So you can't assign a fraction to either one.

Similarly, there is no separating randomness from selection/merit, in my opinion, because the latter acts on the former and both pervade everyone's life.

That is what I mean by a false dichotomy. It's not just that life involves both randomness and selection, but that they are not opposed things.
As a society, we've chosen to prioritize financial interests above all else; thereby, robbing future generations of the richness and majesty that makes the world a beautiful place.

When propagandists successfully politicized environmental protection, they set us on a path that not only ensured the mass extinction of thousands of species of plants and animals, but also jeopardized the survival of our own species.

No one has a full picture of what the impacts of the impending extinctions and climate events will be, but I believe characterizing them as an existential crisis for the human race is accurate.

Money doesn't do much good when the food and water are poisoned, the air is toxic to breathe, and vast portions of the continents are under water. Unfortunately, we're not well adapted to dealing with slow moving threats such as these, so addressing the situation while there's still time seems dubious at best.
The actual drilling is not the real issue. The drills are indeed a negligible footprint. But every drilling site has a road. Every road has bridges. Then, should oil be pumped, pipelines and other support infrastructure. Surrounding all of this is then the local risk of spills, and the non-local implications of burning yet more oil. So to stop all that nasty stuff later, we need to stop the preliminary drilling today.

Canada is struggling with abandoned oil infrastructure, tar sand developments that companies do not want to clean up. (There was a recent supreme court case about this.) For all the pre-planning and taxation, everyone knows that some day in the future it will be the government saddled with cleanup costs.
What are your stack for your project?
The salary in the parent comment it's out off the charts. What do you think of Parisian salaries? Most devs make 2618 per month after taxes which is barely enough for a very modest life. I would like to hear your thoughts on that.
Generational wealth helps too ;)

I should know my family's company was just purchased by DOW Chemical

lol so let me get this straight, how is a young person supposed to get work experience if they can't get a job without a degree?

you're no worse than my grandfather saying that he pulled himself up by his bootstraps when he inherited his chemical company from his grandfather lol

J3W3 did wtc
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Although extinction is a natural phenomenon, it occurs at a natural “background” rate of about one to five species per year. Scientists estimate we're now losing species at 1,000 to 10,000 times the background rate, with literally dozens going extinct every day.
So if a very capable, a hard working, effective person is able to increase their wealth by 20x, and in so doing increases my wealth by 2x without my doing anything, you'd be in favor of using the power of the state to prevent this from happening because it would increase inequality?
at my university, You're required to take 2 semesters of english and for senior design 1 you're basically writing a 100 page book on your proposal.
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Is prediabetes a medical condition that needs attention?
I thought business just became first and premium economy became business class so airlines could get around blind booking restrictions against first class.

The apartment/suite class is a relatively new marketing gimmick that has nothing to do with traditional first class.
You make the implicit assumption that there is no option of using less oil. And while that might be true this week, there is no reason why we can not use much less oil in a year or a decade.
the oil needs to be left in the ground. the fact that we can save some nice animals by doing so is a bonus.

the reality of climate change means that by proxy, greed is an existential threat that we need to be taking an aggressive disposition against.
I lost around 60 pounds nine years ago and the main way I keep it off is by eating roughly the same thing every weekday. I've "tuned" it over time to keep me full and avoid overeating and snacking.
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Because the sets of decimal and binary digits are:

{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}
{0,1}

respectively. Any subsequence of digits of Pi, such as {1,1,3,9,3,5}, is equal to the subsequence {7,9,3,5,3,3} under the proposed function. They have the same image. That completely mucks with your probability because you've eliminated so much uncertainty.

You're selecting from a space of 10 digits for inputs, but the computer only has to guess from a space of 2 digits for outputs.
There is a case for splitting Amazon and AWS.

The point of anti-trust laws is to break up monopolies because they represent a massive and dangerous concentration of market and political power in the hands of the few. You don't need evidence of any specific crime to do it.

You can say you'd prefer it not be that way. But it's a provision of existing law, with precedents. To really argue for your preference you'd need to show how those applications didn't turn out well.
That's my thinking. They have the regular Dragon to develop on first?
Regarding the first class floor in Dubai, it's not that empty, it's just designed to seem spacious and quiet in order to differentiate from the crowded business floor. But you need to keep in mind that the vast majority of passengers there are just platinum card holders like myself, not actually flying first class. Indeed first class is slowly dying out, I think one thing they miss is that business class has become more and more comfortable across nearly all airlines (especially Emirates on the 380).

One thing they don't mention is the proliferation of private terminals/lounges for commercial flights. There's a lot of these in LHR. They have their own security checkpoints, and you're ferried by limo straight to the plane, to board first. So you get some of the advantages of flying private, but at a much lower cost (still upwards of 10k a year to get a membership I believe)
The easiest target would be for Amazon to spin out AWS.
I think you're getting downvoted because the "AWS has plenty of viable competitors" is not really material - it's just that Amazon gets anticompetitive advantages as a combined entity.

And that's really a shame, because you're also dead on about the logistics/product point. I almost mentioned that, but it's complicated by competition from Walmart, Target, et al. Upvoted you on that basis. That similar to my point of "ad distribution / ad sourcing" split on FB and Google.
No true scotsman?
I have 5 bottles of soylent a day, I absolutely love it and don't see myself stopping. I dislike preparing, eating, and cleaning up so I just avoid it. Every month I get a shipment of soylent and that is all my food related chores done for the month once I bring the boxes up to my room.
I work for oil & gas in the Canadian oil sands. If you want to us to stop drilling and mining, you should stop demanding that we do it. It’s no different than ivory from Africa or drugs from South America. In Canada we pay $1.20 per litre of gasoline ($4.50 per gallon) - love to see the US try that.
I had never heard of this guy before your comment. After reading about him, he's certainly an interesting person who has well-thought out policy ideas. He doesn't match all my political ideas, but he's certainly not a Democrat party-line guy.
I don't know why you're being downvoted. I used to work in an oil and gas firm earlier. And I agree with everything that you have just said.
They have scale-invariant feature transforms (SIFTs[1]). I wonder if they could do rotation-invariant ones that wouldn't have a different answer depending on rotation?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale-invariant_feature_transf...
I spent six months living in a rural New Zealand town when I was 11. About 95% of people there (including me) were barefoot everywhere—in the home, at school, at the grocery store, at the doctor's office. Some sports were predominantly barefoot too (I was on my school's cross-country team and everyone ran barefoot, but I was also on a soccer team where we used cleats). There was no stigma against wearing shoes anywhere, but the majority of people still chose not to.

Did I ever get thorns or glass in my foot? Yes. Did I ever regret going barefoot? No. It was completely liberating in a way that's hard to describe.
TLDR; First-class is disappearing in favor of business-class (which is good enough for many of the previous first-class fliers) or private flights (which are becoming more affordable).
> Charles Piller, a contributing correspondent for Science, has published a news article in the journal questioning the medical soundness of referring to prediabetes as a condition that needs treatment. In his article, he points out that there is little to no scientific evidence linking prediabetes to diabetes. He also notes that prediabetes has not been found to cause health problems in people who have been so diagnosed.

> Piller also suggests another problem. The ADA is a nonprofit organization and relies on donations to survive. Much of those funds, he found, come from pharmaceutical companies that sell drugs such as metformin, which have been developed to reduce the damage that diabetes does to the body. He concludes by suggesting that coinage of the term has led to classifying many healthy people as having an illness, which has led to negative consequences for them such as financial losses due to having to pay for care, and unnecessary anxiety.
Prudhoe Bay oil spill was in 2006. Also exploratory drilling has a huge footprint; they do 4D seismic which means a big grid of tracks. This leaves long lasting scars on sensitive landscapes.
My pairing interview for RC was with the author of this blog post :). Also happy to answer questions other people might have!
Thank you for your reply, hrktb.

As I implied in the first paragraph of my previous comment, even if we supposed that no pay gap existed, I don't think that it would solve the problem. Studies have shown what would happen: single women would improve their careers, thereby reducing the amount of men that are doing better than them, thereby reducing the pool of potential spouses they would even consider. Ultimately this would not result in those women picking men that are doing worse than them and have them take care of the household and children, instead they would stay single. So the situation for women that have started a family would not change much, because those are mostly the women who have found somebody at their level of success or above.

You're absolutely correct that I'm detailing the behaviors of women. I do so because I recognize the problem you're trying to solve with your suggestion to solve things with policy regarding pay (I assume), but I think the cause is not rooted in policy but in culture, specifically women's ideas of an ideal mate.
That's pretty much accurate. Except that they've really devalued domestic economy in a lot of cases, with crammed together seats and so on.
Sluggish?
Have you tried zoom? It works well for the video conferencing, screen sharing and chat (to send links that are annoying to read out aloud and retype).
As the article mentions, business class today often offers a comfort which was not long ago not even available in first class. Which also unfortuantely means that business class becomes less and less accessible for business travellers as companies are watching "costs" for most but upper management.
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problem? this is a feature imo. it uses the rotation I give it to help deduce ambiguous content, which is helpful.
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It's not ridiculous. It just means that they are not ready to provide regular long-term technical support for Firefox users yet, even if it technically works in the current version of Firefox.

The reason can be anything - lack of resources, ongoing work on edge cases, licensing issues, etc.
IIRC there was a study how reading fiction corelates with more emphaty.
I would agree with you if she were ostensibly paying attention and just didn't react in time. But she was watching a TV show on her phone. This is not the situation you're describing.
I'll just leave this here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_Rebellion
This view misunderstands the nature of modern science and R&D. Interesting R&D is shockingly expensive, and you need mega-corps to do it. The cost of a new fab is $10 billion now, and it's been increasing exponentially. The 747 cost $7.5 billion in inflation-adjusted dollars to develop. The 787 cost almost $30 billion. The future of science and technology is not Edison inventing the lightbulb in his private lab. It's mega-corps doing mega-R&D.

This used to be less true in CS, but that's changing due to machine learning. Google has a huge leg-up in self-driving-car R&D because of the enormous amount of data it has from Google services. In "hard" R&D, even "startups" are spending the kind of capital that previously used to only be in the province of established conglomerates.
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That's what is exemplified by the submitted page as representing the paradigm.
Meanwhile, in Boca Chica...

https://twitter.com/TheFavoritist/status/1104023515630571531

"Starhopper is being moved right now! Most likely going to the launch pad in Boca Chica."
Depends on where you go to school. I've interviewed seniors and recent grads who have worked on a whopping 1-2 projects and most of them were super simple web stuff. Like one page projects that had one query.
I’ve been using Linux since Debian Slink (1999). I’ve never seen an a.out binary in the wild (although I seem to remember that various HOWTOs commonly mentioned them at the time).
Planet Money looks prescient again, with a three-part series on how antitrust rules evolved in the US, and how they are changing in response to Big Tech:

* https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/02/15/695131832/anti...

* https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/02/20/696342011/anti...

* https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/02/22/697170790/anti...
No, transportation costs are not a function of linear distance. It's cheaper to use a developed site than to build new pipelines.
None of this has anything to do with helping people. Instead it is about big soul less companies looking for more ways to get cheap labor. Things like family etc. are a distraction from that goal.
If it's really First Class, I'd expect private terminal (or at least entrance), straight into lounge while someone checks you in/deals with baggage etc, personalized security at your convenience, then collect from the lounge and private car to the plane at your convienience (between boarding and doors close).

For Business class I'd expect the normal 'dedicated' security and checking, lounge, and 'fast' boarding, and a flat bed but that's about it.
You have the option as an Android provider to use android and provide your own services OR ship the device with Google Play services. Amazon for example does the former.

I actually think Android is a really bad example precisely because all the useful google apps ARE separate from the OS. Its just that what people think of as android is actually mostly Play Services now.
As mentioned by others, the photography technique looks like (and apparently is a software enabled variant of) Schlieren photography. This(1) is a neat example of an old school Schlieren set up capturing shockwave formation during whip cracks. I highly recommend it.

(1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnaASTBn_K4
Super interesting, @lihaoyi do you think mill will stick around as an alternative tool or could you see it becoming a front end to bazel?

Were there any SBT plugins they found themselves really missing?
Can I ask what you do and how to get into your line of work?
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What userspace applications will it break? I suppose that there may be some setups using a.out yet, but I have a hard time imagining that operators of such systems are holding their breath for the next version of the kernel.
Would highly recommend the YouTube video below [0] from Wendover, which went pretty in-depth on the economics of airline classes a while ago, and how first-class was the least profitable for the airlines. :)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzB5xtGGsTc
Would it be a substantively different talk if Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Larry Elison, Mark Zuckerberg, etc, etc had said something similar?
> As a society, we've chosen to prioritize financial interests above all else;

As a government*

While the government is supposed to be for the people, by the people, they often act against the desires and interests of the population.
>My contention would be: It's pretty rare for both person A and person B to be able to earn so much under the second configuration so as to break even with the first configuration (as measured by hosehold disposable income, i.e. after taxes and everything).

This depends on your timescale. If you look at the tax returns of years 0-5, your contention will look spot on. If you compare the tax returns of two couples -- with double income in all years vs single income for years 0-5, you may find that in the long run, given the sacrifice involved in taking a career break for 5 years, it is in the favor of the couple to shell out in big in those 5 years.
I don't understand why so many people downvote this. He didn't say nothing wrong. "I opened in my browser" is not a proper testing, there are a lot might going on.

In recent year MS have showed itself in many good ways and I don't think that they will do such shady move without proper reason.
Premium economy isn’t really business class. The seats are the same width as economy and you don’t get the extra level of service you get in business. Just some extra legroom which I appreciate.

You do sometimes get meals but they’re the old standard inedible coach meals I mostly pass on.

Added: Wasn’t aware of mostly recent premium economy additions on some airlines. I was taking it as a synonym for Economy Plus.
My point is that you're describing what makes the market so terrible. It's a commodity product that's stamped out in high volume. The capex is high but marginal cost is low.

So you get whipsawed by price swings, plus when prices are high, someone with cheap access to capital (either through government support or simply a period of secular low rates, as today) can build a factory and demolish whatever pricing you're getting on your chips.

This is precisely what made Micron a basket case.

If you look at the history of the DRAM business it's been a continuous, expensive string of collapse and recovery. Where are the Japanese giants who used to dominate the business? Where are the US titans that used to exist (Micron itself was a late entry thanks to Simplot's capital). Etc. Think of the steel business; DRAM is no different except its cycles are faster.

25 years from now we'll all be running cheap East African DRAM from factories funded with oil money and built in regions of low cost land and lax safety & environmental standards.
I use it all day every day. They are definitely doing a terrible job with it, but just based on the fact of all my contacts having it (work and personal), it's the best thing to use.
Amazon and Google do operate in several of the same markets. Amazon sells Kindle/Fire devices. Google sells Android phones. Amazon does product search. Google has a product search engine.
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FB's average revenue per user is $7.37.

Unless they move into fully subscription based service (good luck), I don't see any way for them to make that kind of money without using carefully targeted ads.
So your point is that reducing humans to a contentious number (IQ) and sorting them thus should immediately translate into their social/financial positions in reality, and if not then it's all politics and isms? That is laughable.

> It's a common practice in medicine or law... to take on cases that they can actually win. Do you live under a rock?

Of course. Common practice for some. But then the hard cases are still there and someone needs to take them, right? And those who do, gain respect. That's merit.
> If you're fighting economic inequality, you have to say "Let's have universal health care. And Larry, please don't start Google." Otherwise Larry's going to mess up your numbers big time.

That's fucking idiocy. Or more accurately, propaganda from a billionaire with extreme vested interest in this topic.

It's pretty straightforward to say "Go ahead and start Google, and if it succeeds we're going to have some basic rules about worker's rights and compensation you'll have to follow, and we're going to tax a much larger percentage of your personal gains, but you'll still be very, very rich". At which point you're also fighting economic inequality.
So if first class is empty, and economy class is packed, who is paying for the flight? If 1/3 of the aircraft is dedicated to first class, are they paying 1/3 of the total cost? If not, aren't economy-class passengers effectively subsidizing first class?

On individual flights this no doubt happens, one class being full the other empty[1]. But if first-class travel is down across the board, and prices are not adjusted accordingly, we might be in a situation where the poor are indeed subsidizing the rich.

[1] Let's not kid ourselves. Economy cabins are always packed.
Facebook should be treated the same way and spit up vertically then, not horizontally. Datacenter and infrastructure and all their low level services should be split from client apps, NOT messenger split from whatsapp.
I believe it's no longer the case. The maintainer of Cppyy was cautioning that the Python 3 support was somewhat experimental at the time, but I believe it's officially supported now. Either way, it could have been solved by building from source, but I was feeling lazy :)
Reminds me of when I tried to give someone a fake social security number. I changed out the last four digits to something "random" but later noticed I had chosen the last four digits of my credit card. Being random is hard.
Probably, and I do hate being the cynic in the room, it's due to the huge salaries and interesting, specific use-case work that NN-based AI is generating these days.
I always pick the worst seat on a plane
Dunno where you are, but in the States somewhere between forty-five and fifty-five percent of the voting public will vote for just about anything if it's good "for the economy".

(That is the charitable reading of their voting record, anyway.)