skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Highly recommend "Hard Landing" by Thomas Petzinger Jr. if you're interested in this sort of subject.

Unit economics for commercial aviation have changed substantially since the industry's inception.
The usual west coast problem of Californians moving to other cities and bringing their bad habits with them will probably extend to Austin as well over time.
He said you need to be extremely precise with your finger to have a double tap register. This sounds like a legitimate usability complaint and reasonable feedback.

Having UI feedback doesn't mean you don't appreciate what was done well. If the reply to a bug report is "but look at all I've done for you!" you're not going to fix many bugs and no one improves. (I have definitely been there, though.)
> However, all of that goes over Comcast’s network because that’s my only viable choice for Internet service.

An antitrust breakup of Comcast would be one or both of:

1. splitting off different lines of business, such as the content production parts from the physical cable service part, or

2. splitting them into different companies geographically.

Neither of these would do much to increase your ISP options.
My understanding is that it's unclear exactly what crimes the journalist is being investigated for. There are supposedly some First Amendment issues at play here, and it's reasonable to wonder why the prosecutors have worked so hard at avoiding any exposure to the best disinfectant.

Which, it's worth pointing out, Manning has also said that she's willing to testify, but only by light of day, not behind closed doors.
Especially coming immediately after Manafort got off easy, this is an absolute travesty.
If they cut me in on the savings, I’d be willing to deal with a lot. +$100/hr to sit with reduced leg room on any non-overnight flight? Sign me up.

The same for flights requiring a connection. Want me to sit in an airport reading HN for +$20/hr? Ok.
Opensecrets.org will let you search public companies lobbying spend (and other info).

Or you can un-ironically google “google lobbying” and find more detailed articles about Google’s lobbying published by time, fortune, Bloomberg, etc...
But you know what, we don't take our shoes off in the office, do we? Why is that different?

My mother would say: I clean this house, someone else does it in your office!
I'm not sure recommending to delete the original/local copy is a good idea. Better to have more copies than less, otherwise data loss is a huge risk
Even if the people doing the hiring, managing the people doing the hiring or even running the company being hired for don't personally care they still have a strong incentive to discriminate because they know that that's what the party wants and that it is best for them if they do that.
I mean, if you have even a small amount of experience with programming, you can learn big-O in a couple hours or less.

Now, if we talk about memory optimization or the intricacies of concurrency, that's a much different story. Though, both of those things can't really be taught in the basic sense. They require a lot of experience to really understand.
At a higher level, Minesweeper, Solitaire, and Reversi weren't games. They were educational tools.

This was how Microsoft taught people to do things like double-click, click-and-drag, and a number of other things that we take for granted today but were completely foreign back then.
> has the worst traffic I've ever seen

I really can't understand this common trope of "Austin traffic is bad" (much less the worst you've ever seen, wow!). If you've lived anywhere like LA or NYC, that's bad traffic. Traffic during rush hour is expected. I've never seen a midnight traffic jam in Austin in my 6 years of living here. That was a daily occurrence in LA.

> is geographically lame (you don't get to claim the hill country, and no, barton springs doesn't count either)

Why does the Hill Country not count as amazing geography? It's gorgeous, by any definition.

> It's hot as hell

As for the heat, I grew up in Miami. Austin has nothing on Miami summers. Even NYC, for that matter, is less comfortable in the summer than Austin is.
I recommend listening to Planet money's series on antitrust. You'll see why your statement was indeed the rationale behind not enforcing the monopoly regulations. Spoiler: it wasn't the care for the welfare of the consumer.

https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor...
> homogeneous groups, allows one to make useful scientific findings and generalizations. On the other hand, if everything was very heterogeneous, down to each individual, it would be very hard to find a general statement applicable to any appreciable number of individuals.

and yet it is possible we will need to end up where individual advice is the only one working
You're right, I should have checked the facts before speculating on which company spent more on lobbying. However, the things they are lobbying for/against also matter. As a recent example, Net Neutrality involved massive amounts of lobbing and had very clear "pro-consumer" and "anti-consumer" sides.

From https://www.opensecrets.org/news/issues/net_neutrality/

> Not only was Google the pro-net neutrality organization that spent the most on lobbying in 2014 — $16.8 million in 2014 — it was the 10th biggest spender on federal lobbying that year. Impressive as that sounds, however, it still ranked behind both Comcast and the National Cable and Telecommunications Association.

And it seems like every dollar that Comcast spends lobbying is directed towards efforts that will have a negative impact on my life, and the lives of everyone not on Comcast's board of directors. At least with Google, sometimes our incentives align, so that's another point in favor of attempting to break up the Comcast monopoly before the Google one.
I am an engineer and to me, Instagram is a mystery.

Why would I zap into this flood of images? I am already bombarded by images all the f...... time. If anything I could need a service to remove images from the web.

Why would I want to look at even more images of beautiful people at beautiful places eating beatifully photographed food? Is it intended for some kind of mental masturbation? Looking at it and imagining being in that place, being that person, eating that food?

Why am I so totally uninterested in it, while millions seem to like it?

How about other HN readers?
Ok, but please don't post unsubstantive comments here.
What US law would dictate that? Google isn't a common carrier, and there are no laws dictating that a privately created platform must give equal weight and promotion to everyone...
"Comments are bad" is the "fake news!" of programming. Yes, it's reasonable to point out that there are comments that are either inherently bad or become counterproductive as the code moves on without them being updated. OTOH, using those minority examples to cast the whole idea into disrepute is just cherry-picking to rationalize one's own faults. Good commenting complements good code structure, naming, etc. to make code easier to maintain/extend.
We just hired a guy who worked the last few years at HP, and they had him traveling internationally once a week (out and back) on flights routinely 10 hours or more. And they would only pay for coach. He has a crazy number of frequent flier miles, but damn, I wouldn't have lasted nearly that long before finding another place to work. Even premium economy, while much better than plain coach, is cramped and terrible when you're stuck in it for more than half a day.
This has nothing to do with double jeopardy. Being convicted of a crime does not grant you immunity from prosecution for future charges of a similar nature.

(And in any case, refusing to testify in front of a grand jury is not a remotely similar charge to espionage; the fact that they're both "Wikileaks-related" is irrelevant.)
Anything you fly over is going to be simultaneously blasted and cooked.
Life is anything but random. It is nothing but a collection of actions and outcomes, both of which are tightly coupled and definitely connected.

Let's take a simple example: you had an important meeting at 9 am but since you were stuck in traffic, you were late by 10 mins.

The final outcome can be clearly explained by actions that directly or indirectly led to them. May be there was an accident causing the traffic jam. May be you woke up 10 mins late than usual thereby getting caught in rush hour traffic. May be the cab you took to work, arrived late at your destination cause he woke up late.

All of the above are totally controllable actions, albeit not in your direct control. Hence the feeling that life is random. Because none of us have any control over the outcomes of the actions of others, who subtly influence our lives on a daily basis.

Think of it this way: our life is intertwined with the lives of others in one way or the other. From the cab driver who drives us to work to our loved ones who shatter our hearts, their actions influence us, some more than the others, but influence us nonetheless.

It's a complex equation, with a whole lot of variables, most of which are beyond our control and unknown and the solution to this equation is the outcome of an event.

I believe that if one knew the values to all the variables at any given point of time, then one would be able to solve the equation with precision
pretty straightforward, given immunity for testimony and still refuses to testify. If this were Mueller prosecuting, everyone would be cheering.
Because this isn't for those, this is for contempt of court.
That is kind of the point. She is not answering questions in protest of the grand jury system.
To be fair, I think there is some argument that some of the larger tech giants would benefit consumer welfare by being broken up. Facebook probably less so since people already have choice.

It's only kinda choice. They have such a dominance over the social graph, most people who "leave" them don't actually completely leave. Most of them keep Facebook around as an address-book+messaging. People who "leave" by actually deleting their account then turn around and create obvious dummy accounts.
1k-Year-Old Pristine Mayan Artifacts Found in Sealed 'Jaguar God' Cave
> what I'd find suspicious and don't understand is why cashless would be the method.

It eliminates the confrontation at the end of the 15/40 minute grace limit.
An lower orbit is faster than a higher orbit (orbits trade speed for height a bit like pendulums). So on long enough timescales your neighbors change as every solar system is on a slightly different orbit.

> That still requires a monstrous amount of technology and energy, doesn't it?

If we wanted we could spend ~10 years R&D on a practical nuclear pulse drive and send a probe at 10% the speed of light to the nearest solar system. That makes 40 years travel time for the probe and 4 years communication delay. Add some time for acceleration , deceleration and exploration and we might be able to send a colony ship 60 years after the probe left. Another 40 years travel time and we have a colony on another solar system 110 years from now, at a price point attainable for a large corporation or a medium sized country (after all most of the cost is research spread over half a century)

Now imagine what a more advanced civilization with more incentives for colonisation could do.
Isn't swiping inherently faster? With sweeping you need 1 angle (corner) for letter. Typical letter uses much more than 1 corner.
Some games still do give you the full game, and even for free but still have microtransactions to support. With them using the microtransactions for only cosmetic stuff and not to change the game itself. That's a model that's appearing for some games now.
San Antonio is pretty much like an hour away. The small retirement towns between them are now over-fucking-run by mommy vans. Crazy traffic. I was seriously considering putting down a rental in that area until I got there. I thought tailgating was pretty much a western thing, but Texas is no different it seems. Why is everyone in this damn country in a rush? How can we get back.
Yeah. I like flying business but with the exception of the rare tight schedule I’m almost always going to travel on a long trip a day or two early to adjust to time zones and otherwise acclimate anyway.
Immunity was already granted for the testimony, this is not a trial for Chelsea in any way.
Yesterday's discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19328547
Every single slightly habitable planet in the galaxy could harbor a species that has gone to it's nearest moons and planets, and we wouldn't be able to tell. Every transmission our species has made is indistinguishable from quantum noise at the distance of Alpha Centauri.

In the sense of the Fermi Paradox, zero species on this star have "made it to space".
Double? I would guess triple or quadruple.
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Why do i have to scroll down a full page to see any text and then when I do, why do I have to zoom out to read it properly?
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Please send me the link of the job you're interested in and your resume.
Know of that book, don't think highly about it because I don't want to befriend said people. I act humane all the time.
FAANG are outlobbying most other industries, they're just doing it to influence issues that aren't currently gathering much scrutiny or media attention.

> Google said it lobbied on dozens of issues, reflecting how integral its services have become to American lives and commerce. The filing cited privacy, data security, antitrust, taxes, tariffs, trade, the opioid crisis, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, autonomous vehicles, immigration, the future of work, encryption and national security.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-22/google-se...
Was flying Business class 20 years ago. It was somewhere between premium economy and business today. Better food, better seats than current premium economy. No lie flats iirc. Upgrades were easier though.

A friend compared first class today to having a handler for the duration of the trip.
> Tech companies don’t deal with that, so it’s amazing they manage to spend more.

It's not really that surprising, because they're not only affected by it but on multiple fronts.

There was a time when Google spent hardly anything on lobbying. Meanwhile Hollywood was promoting things like SOPA, Microsoft was at one point operating a major anti-Google lobbying campaign, ISPs want to violate network neutrality, etc.

It's one thing to not want to fight, something else to not respond when provoked.
Why do you think that's a strange hill?

This is someone who thinks the system is trying to protect itself, and they would like to expose that at all costs.

to use 2019 parlance, it seems really "on-brand".
Ask HN: How `private` will the Oculus Quest be?
So Facebook is launching its Oculus Quest this spring.

I absolutely loathe Facebook, its leadership (or lack thereof), and its products. But I'm absolutely thrilled to get a Quest when they're released.

Question is: Do you think the Quest will just be another Facebook personal data-hogging tool? Or will this product be different?

Obviously if it's the former, I plan to abstain from buying.
There is no one in Philadelphia who does not have access to the banking system, or have the ability to pay cash for a prepaid debit card. After dealing with people in Philadelphia who are "unbanked" it was never because they couldn't get access, it was a choice they made to avoid having assets in the regulated banking system
It's slowed down for several reasons:

1) We hit a brick wall with silicon clock speeds. Silicon apparently can only go 3-4GHz; after that, there's too many switching losses, too much power used, etc.

2) Because of #1, we jumped on the multi-core bandwagon. This worked OK for a while, but most tasks can only be broken up and run in parallel so much. You can't just throw 1000 cores at every problem and expect it to scale. For anything with user interaction, this is especially true, so there's no point in having more than 4-8 cores on a single-user machine.

3) For the stuff normal people do, there just isn't much demand for more speed any more. How much faster do you need MS Excel to calculate your spreadsheet, or PowerPoint to show you slides?
Journalists don't wait to release a dump of emails to hurt a political candidate, in concert with the opposing candidate.
True, but also the Swiss have a direct tax on corporate capital, a VAT, a policy of taxing capital gains as regular old income for professional investors, plus many other subtleties and differences that don't fit on a bumper sticker. I think my point stands.
Grand juries are secret for a number of reasons, not least of which is to protect people who are not indicted. And, also, to protect people who are indicted from reputational harm that may result from Grand jury testimony, which unlike trial testimony, is not subject to cross examination because it is not an adversarial proceeding, but a gatekeeping function ahead of serious criminal charges.

Like any jury, one of the functions of a grand jury is to evaluate the credibility of witnesses, so the fact that questions were asked in other forums does not make it unnecessary or inappropriate for them to be asked of a witness before a grand jury.
It takes a bot to know one?
In addition:

We had 27 large banks in the early 90's. These have merged into four enormous ones today [0].

We had 50 media corporations in the early 80's. They have merged into six today [1].

[0] https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-banking-oligopoly-in-on...

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/these-6-corporations-control...
Honestly agree. I've spent some time there, because my SO has family there and they've been trying to convince us to move from NYC. You pretty much listed all the things I can't stand about it. It gets so hot you can't go outside in the summer. You're basically accepting that a non trivial percentage of your life will be consumed by being stuck in traffic. Plus, having lived in Kansas City as well, I think the Texas BBQ is sub par compared to that.
A few of the local library systems I've used have the same Adobe Editions lending scheme, and it's terrible in so many ways that I just gave up on e-books from the library.

On those rare occasions I want a an e-book these days, I go to iBooks or Nook because the library programs (including Bibliowhatsits) are so bad.

Mostly I just buy the physical book, or order a physical copy from the library. It might take a few weeks to get from the other side of the country, but that's less hassle than dealing with the current state of library lending DRM.
Catching a Unicorn with GLTR: A tool to detect automatically generated text
Sure, thinks are worse in other places. That doesn't make this right or make it less newsworthy.
Show HN: OOP Excel Library
How is banning shoes taking a practice of hygiene to a “new level”? You can’t take off your feet when you get home, can you?
Wait an hour til someone can deliver the news in person? This seems not that hard
I was training as a paramedic in a hospital. A doctor needed to give this kind of news to a family. He took me aside and told me to come in the room 3 minutes after he went in and say that he was needed elsewhere. Apparently this was used quite often and the staff there called it a "save". Dealing with this sort of thing day after day the staff becomes numb to a lot of things.

Later in the week I was with someone who knew she was gonna die soon. I was talking to her and was trying to be with her. It was very difficult and I could feel part of myself slipping elsewhere. I was messed up the rest of the day. My preceptor had come into the room and left quickly, he didn't want to go there.

Anyway it does go both ways. Hospital staff need to do things to protect themselves so they can keep functioning. Ideally someone needs to be empathetic but they are also human. I don't feel delivering this sort of news via a video screen is appropriate though.
Sen. Warren pushes to break up big tech companies like Amazon and Facebook
Everything that gives you calories for fuel is healthy in moderation.
Ok and...? Seems like a valid line of conversation to me.
When visiting a site you have the choice to visit or not. Site owners have the choice of what to put up and how to host it.

That's like asking the government to break up the react framework because more sites are using it and you have no jquery option.
Double jeopardy doesn't cover "related matters," it covers charges for the same conduct. In this case, the conduct charged is refusing to testify. Also, this is civil contempt not criminal contempt so it's not really a charge at all, it doesn't leave a criminal record.
The first class lounge is the same size as the business class lounge below it, and I ran the numbers at some point. If I recall, based on the number of daily departures and seat distributions the business section caters to 1000 business class seats at any given time, where the first floor caters to 100. Yeah, it’s as designed.
"How about going after Comcast and Verizon first, the actual tech monopolies?"

Haha, the actual "but no, because" is that Comcast and Verizon said "why not the platforms first" in response to net neutrality.

Regulating one of these industries isn't at all in any way whatsoever in a first-second relationship with doing the same to the other industry.
you have really nailed it on the head. this whole thing is just propaganda by tim cook and apple to continue to exert influence over university and high school education in order to outsource training and commoditize software engineers. in their mind, they just want universities, and now high schools, to start pumping out people ready to start writing software for them without any investment on apple's part. the more of these people, the more they can skim the cream off the top and keep wages low or lower.

as you say, there are very few companies left that are willing to properly train smart employees who may not have the background they need. it is very disappointing. this furthers the STEM myth, and it negatively affects other fields. let's say someone is interested in history. how are they supposed to feel comfortable with their decision to study history in university, if they are basically unhirable (in today's climate and for no good reason) afterwards? there is even pressure on actual STEM fields to learn software as well. the number one suggestion for mathematicians looking for a job is "learn to code". companies won't even hire mathematicians who don't already know how to code. it's so silly that companies can't say, oh, this person dedicated a lot of time to learning something i would probably struggle to or not be able to learn, but i won't hire them because they don't already know how to code, and i don't want to train them. that is the STEM myth.

universities should not be job mills, but u.s. corporations are doing everything they can to make them into that. university should be about exploration and learning and doing and not about how to land your future company's ideal job for you.
I think he was talking about domestic first class. Tech was even more americentric back then.