skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It can go either way TBH. I've been stuck behind people fishing for the right bills or change or whatnot, and I've seen CC purchases go really fast.

And there are legions of time-wasting upsells regardless of how you're paying.
What Happens to Mardi Gras Beads After Festival Ends?
> C++ is a triumph in engineering

I guffawed and then threw up in my mouth a little bit at this. C++ is riddled with dozens of horrible design flaws and kludges that make me think your definition of engineering is just plain wonky. Build time is one. Because of an inherent O(n^2) build system complexity, many large C++ codebases require massive, massive compile farms to achieve even reasonable turnaround times. They produce huge build artifacts that take practically forever to link and are still only barely debuggable. E.g. a recent audit of the V8 build time revealed that it compiles at an effective overall throughput of 186 lines of code per second. How do we deal with that? Distributed build system and 50+ core workstations.

This is a travesty of engineering.
People Are Living in Illegal Steel Boxes in the World's Priciest Property Market
too bad 99% of routers drop keepalives
Yes, but name and resume work history generally is unique enough, especially at the senior levels. There are five pages of results on LinkedIn for John Carmack. I suspect that you and I have the exact same John Carmack in mind, though.
I'm not suggesting they don't have engineering challenges, but if you stack ranked the engineering challenges by difficulty across Airbnb, Uber/Lyft, Google, FB, Netflix, Amazon, Dropbox, Pinterest, etc. I don't see how Airbnb would not very easily rank last by a long shot.

Airbnb is basically just a prettier craigslist with a payment transfer mechanism and messaging. It isn't to say it isn't a great business, just that the "tech" part of it is not really much more than a web app.
This is based on a concept called price parity, for which there are exceptions - including opaque rates, packaged bookings, and last minute / mobile. HotelTonight is able to fit inside those limitations when selling rooms last minute - so they are indeed often cheaper than other aggregators or booking direct.
Ars Technica has a non-paywalled article: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/03/sorry-amazon-phi...

And notes that Massachusetts has banned cashless stores since 1978
Its amazing that not everyone is on http2 yet when its basically free speed.
I checked now and the fuses are 15 A + 15 A, but the utility company disconnects me if I go over about 4 kW (18 A), or over 3.3 kW for more than a few minutes.

My sister-in-law has an induction stove, so she gets 40 A and the stove is connected directly to a separate bigger fuse.
This argument runs counter to all the articles saying China is ahead of the U.S. in cashless transactions and that we should catch up or be left behind.
Is it just about purchasing access to certain consumer groups, or also a defensive move to preserve human cashiers jobs?
Smart isn't good? It's not difficult to come up with examples of an issues being framed in left/right terms leading to people voting contrary to their preferences.

The argument comes down to, "your preferences are your business, and understanding them makes it difficult for people to bamboozle you." That's the opposite of the elitist tone-deaf academic archetype, which would tell you've they've already done all the thinking, and they are the ones who know what you want and what is right and wrong.
Are you asking why the radio has to be on or implying there are other reason that the radio could be on for? If you have a TCP connection open but the radio is off how are you going to receive incoming packets?
> If anything c++ is more willing to make breaking changes

Slept through Python 2 vs 3.
Picasa was such a great project. Google ruined it.
>Going to be a hard lift to compete with the likes of http://strapi.io when you aren't open source.

Does anyone know how they made their demo thingee on the front page? It's super slick.
vscode has these two phenomenal plugins[1] that together convert vscode into a true journal with basic check lists and the ability to add arbitrary markdown notes to any particular entry.

It works wonderfully as a programmer journal since I generally have vscode open anyway (for gitlens even when I'm working in intellij) the friction is close to zero.

[1] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=pajoma.v... and https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Gruntfug...
> Alcohol related deaths are the 3rd highest preventable form of death in the US.

It is not your right to choose what others do with their life. When it's abortion, some people are all "her body, her choice!", and when it's alcohol or cigarettes, it's "her body, our choice!".

Why do you think the sanctity of somebody's own life is yours to weigh against the risks of alcoholism or a tobacco habit, or a taste for soda?
Words in the English language are not the same as computer code. I'm not sure you can fully define most words in terms of other words -- hence the variety. Dictionaries generally only provide rough sketches of the meaning of a word. Even synonyms can have slightly different subtexts, connotations, and histories. Hell, individual words have wildly different meanings depending on context.
No. Any Lisp you can name has more to it than just s-expressions.
Fascinating. I'm a millenial and grew up in NYC, and I didn't get any of that. But everything you've said makes sense.
A personal anecdote:

At Joe & the Juice in Palo Alto (cashless), I was buying a drink with my friend, and a clearly homeless man in front of us was trying to buy a coffee with cash. They refused and he got upset, so my friend paid for his coffee to de-escalate.

We were outside when the cashier ran up to us in the street, explaining "Please don't buy drinks for these guys, they come in here and get a drink and use that to stay all day. It's not the look we're going for, and it's one of the reasons why we have this cashless policy."

Cashless stores are convenient and I understand the arguments for them (as well as the arguments for not buying homeless people free stuff), but as long as cashless can be used to disenfranchise lower income people, I'm opposed to it.
FWIW, I'm a Redux maintainer, and I built this specifically in response to how I've seen people _want_ to use Redux, and the concerns they've raised about using Redux. [0]

Almost everyone uses `redux-thunk` [1]. Adding that to a plain Redux store takes a few steps. Adding middleware _and_ setting up the Redux DevTools Extension adds another couple steps [2] So, RSK's `configureStore()` does that by default [3].

Accidental mutation is the #1 mistake folks make when writing Redux apps [4]. So, `configureStore()` adds a middleware by default that warns about that mistake [5].

Writing immutable update logic can be difficult, and especially painful if the updates are nested [6]. Also, many folks don't want to use switch statements for some reason [7]. So, we ship a `createReducer()` utility that lets you write "mutative" immutable updates, and define the reducers as a lookup table [8].

Many people don't like writing action types and action creators by hand. So, RSK includes a `createSlice` utility that generates those automatically. [9]

None of these are incredibly ground-breaking. There's lots of existing Redux addons that do similar things. But, we're including all these utilities in an "official" package, and recommending that folks use it.

No one's being forced to use RSK. But, I can say that just about everyone who's seen this has said something similar to "this looks awesome, I can't wait to use this!".

[0] https://github.com/reduxjs/redux/issues/2295

[1] https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/presentations/2017-09-migh...

[2] https://redux.js.org/recipes/configuring-your-store#integrat...

[3] https://redux-starter-kit.js.org/api/configureStore

[4] https://redux.js.org/faq/react-redux#why-isnt-my-component-r...

[5] https://redux-starter-kit.js.org/api/getDefaultMiddleware

[6] https://redux.js.org/recipes/structuring-reducers/immutable-...

[7] https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2017/05/idiomatic-redux-ta...

[8] https://redux-starter-kit.js.org/api/createReducer

[9] https://redux-starter-kit.js.org/api/createSlice
>I would expect any system that manages cache data to fill most of your RAM.

>I'm not sure exactly what you are saying

> This is visible on all systems I work with (mac, win, linux), either attributed to the process, or to OS read cache.

My response was directed at your part of the comment:

>I would expect any system that manages cache data to fill most of your RAM.

All systems do that, but they don't look "used" (eg. on the windows memory graph, the dark region excludes os cached memory). Unless using free[1], no reasonable person would think 99% of their ram's being used.

[1] https://www.linuxatemyram.com/
Either people agree with you or they're Nazis? Maybe you should rethink why you are getting downvotes. It may be more due to people thinking that companies acting as gate keepers or moral compasses can very much be a slippery slope and you simply saying it's not does not change that people think that.
> while Google's similar one endlessly pisses people off.

Maybe it's because we know Google is profiting off of our private information, and we don't make a stink about that because they're giving us free stuff. But why shouldn't we be upset when they stop giving us the free stuff we like? They're still profiting off of our private information aren't they?

Amazon just isn't in the same boat.
Ontario's now-canceled basic income was helping people
Deprecating is as simple as emitting a diagnostic whenever it occurs, rate-limited to once per translation unit, say.
In NYC I have had the exact opposite experience. Cashiers routinely process 2 or 3 card payments while they politely ask the odd person rummaging around their wallet for cash to step to the side. Plus they have to mess around with change once the person does finally get the correct bills together. In the morning when I'm in a rush I get anxious if I notice someone start reaching for cash and I'm behind them in the line.
I thought the primary use case for this is you could load all of your websites resources on a single connection so you can make 100 file requests at the start and it only makes one connection.
Because I've done my research. I generally quote salary requirements in terms of living in a modest house in a pretty good school district, on a single salary (since my wife wants to stay at home and raise the kids).

Not surprisingly, this makes recruiter jaws drop. We're not even on the same page.

In most parts of the country, though, those requirements work just fine.
How is this legally handled considering amd owns x86-64 and Intel owns x86?

As long as it's not used in commercial settings, will they pretend not to see it while users are in a legally gray area?
When Google will be shutting down Google Photos?

Of course, it is going to happen eventually.

However, I do have a dozen of photos there with no easy way to export hiqh quality photos in one go that worries me.
Charter schools are first and foremost a tactic for weakening unions.

If those unions are presiding over schools that are catastrophically failing, I don't see what's wrong with that.

There's nothing stopping experimental “sub-schools,” using public school teachers from developing within an existing public school. That's in fact how my kids' aforementioned school started. It was just a couple of classrooms within a larger K-8 public school. Eventually its program became so popular that it took over the building.

Also sounds good to me.

That does fit a certain limited notion of school choice, but it's not in my experience what most people have in mind when they talk about voucher programs. Choosing between two neighborhood schools isn't a marked improvement over being assigned to one. This is especially the case since demographic factors strongly tied to geography are prevailing influences in school success.

If one school can exclude troublemakers, then this is one tool to help create a positive learning environment in spite of geographic and demographic factors. Some choice may well be better than none. It's the situations where there's no choices, where corruption comes in.
The reason that makes it imposible to avoid the dispersion even of a single photon is not technological, it's a theoretical reason. You can't solve it with more advanced technology, you must change the laws of Physics.

It is sure that the current laws of Physics are incomplete, and some may even be wrong, but this effect is so fundamental and the proof is so simple that I doubt it will change.
That's what I've heard too, but the Federal Reserve site's statement doesn't make that distinction:

https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12772.htm
Author of VisiData here, how did you try to find it (what did you search for)? I'd like to make it easier to find but I'm not sure how.
Which is likely why they have gone out of their way to not kill off AWS services.
Apache Maven Javadoc Plugin 3.1.0 Released
All those articles about "digitizing commerce" are pushed by parties (fintech startups, banks, you name it) that have a vested interest in getting between you and the vendor.

That said, I won't be surprised if a growth sector of tomorrow's job market is in literally digitizing what didn't need to be digitized, so that Big Tech has an even bigger data pie to gorge upon.
Already mentioned, but prisons.
(2018). Seen this before. It's good, though.
> You're just as likely to get a "good" room with HotelTonight as you would with Priceline, Hotwire, etc.

Can't speak for every hotel (obviously), but I know for a fact this isn't true for several.

Hotels always have better and worse rooms - it's very rare to have a building where there isn't a loud/dark/musty room or two.

In most hotels where I know a member of staff, they freely admit to having several 'worse' rooms which are given to booking.com/priceline etc guests first, regardless of availability.

They purposefully save a few 'better' rooms in case valued customers show up last minute. For some reason, HT customers get lumped into this category - maybe because it's assumed they have the purchasing power to become a 'real' customer in the future (but that's just a guess).
Uber Not Criminally Liable in Death of Woman Hit by Self-Driving Car
But this is also not entirely true. Banks did not know they were taking a huge risk. They did not understand how leveraged they actually were because securitized mortgages were being misrepresented by credit rating agencies[0].

The entire purpose of TARP was to prevent a depression. It was meant to be a stopgap.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_rating_agencies_and_the...
Centmin website can really use a easy to find “what is centmin?” section.
Not wanting to subsidize a wealthy parent's child's tuition is a desire to hurt them?

Not wanting to subsidize a poor parent's child's education just because a wealthy parent's child might exploit it seems either spiteful, or desiring of too much perfection in a complex system.
I am by no means an expert in digital design (I have only worked with them as a SWE), but it seems to me that the use cases for a high performance soft processor are pretty few and far between. After all, if you want a fast processor you can get a hard processor with excellent performance/support for less than the FPGA fabric likely cost.

Still a cool piece of tech though.
Instagram prototypes video co-watching
If it's this late, is there much point in booking?

I would just turn up. If it's possible it's going to be very busy, I might phone ahead first.
>> "1) Education is not a good with the kinds of features which allow approximating rational choice"

Sure it is, and it's well exemplified at the post-secondary level.

>> "advocates would instead simply reduce central control and increase local (district and even site-level) control of traditional public schools."

Intellectually, sure, but pragmatically, it's a canard; big, complex systems generally do not re-organize themselves. The IRS will not 'simplify the tax code'. Bureaucracies do not trim themselves, rather, they get replaced.

While I'm a big fan of public schools, the fact remains that there are legitimate 'libertarian' arguments to be made here. Decent charter schools might offer an opportunity to shake off some of the cruft and allow entrepreneurial thinking to lead the way.

Almost all of the arguments on this thread ignore the libertarian arguments at face value, and instead imply some kind of nefarious 'dark motivation' behind everything. It's not entirely unreasonable to bring up such factors, but it's intellectually a little shifty.

There are reasonable grounds for charter schools. Most of the 'possible dark patterns' might even be mitigated by decent regulation, for example, maybe they have to hire union teachers, or maybe schools have to have open enrolment for local kids, maybe tuition has to be graduated etc. etc..
The apocryphal story here is as that of the successful plumber. He works hard, learns his trade, and eventually starts his own plumbing business. This business employs two other plumbers. He also has a wife and three children. As they age, his business grows. By the time his children are 17, he employs twelve other plumbers and is worth over two million dollars.

He speaks to his sons about joining his business. All three decline. They want to go to the fancy, expensive college that will wipe out a substantial chunk of the two million dollars their father has worked for. He offers to give them paying jobs, right away, and promises they will eventually take over the business and help grow it to make more money. The four of them, he tells them, can grow the business to the point where they can all easily make an excellent living. The three sons persist.

So he gives in, and his three sons attend college. The first majors in poetry, the second in art history, and the third in dance. They go on to make a spotty living, as compared to the steady income of their father.

The father, as he grows older, wishes to pass some of his responsibility to a subordinate. By this point, his business employs fifty plumbers. With no son to inherit his business, he chooses his most loyal employee.

He dies some years later, leaving his sons each five hundred thousand dollars. All three spend it on an increased standard of living; it lasts each around seven years. After which they are again broke.

The plumber's subordinate, meanwhile, has grown the business to over one hundred employees. He was worth over fifteen million dollars, and was exploring the sale of the company to another, a deal that would likely net him roughly twenty million dollars personally. He lived happily ever after.
Listen. Fuck you. Fuck this bullshit. I’d rather be dead than live another minute eating the shit out of yet another asshole.

I’m not doing it anymore. I don’t fucking care.

Love,

A Coyote

P.S. https://pics.me.me/what-are-you-running-from-apex-predator-j...
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Interesting read. A lot has changed in the almost 15 years since he published it. Has he done any followups?
The part you're missing is that your delaware company burner phone certificate investments can be invalidated in two seconds by the certificate's trust getting revoked.
Researchers turn to AI in a bid to improve weather forecasts
Could you name some of these companies with prices competitive with building yourself? I'm in the market for a new PC when Zen 2 comes out. I would prefer to buy the computer instead of assemble it myself, but I've never found the prices to be competitive.
> In fact, just today, The New York Times announced that it’s going to commit to publishing an equal number of letters from men and women, even though 75 percent of the letter writers are men. Men like to put themselves out in public and show off. But The New York Times has committed to this equal outcomes social justice, which says we’re gonna treat people unequally in order to attain equal outcomes.

> That I think is unfair.

Um, no, it's not unfair. The very idea is that you have a group that is used to getting its ideas out there, and there is another group that won't open its mouth because to do so would be a nail sticking out. From a strictly statistical standpoint, the NYTimes is trying to sample more effectively.

> Most Americans think it’s unfair.

Source?

And, this is not an acceptable standard of good conduct.
Qu Yuan
I really enjoyed the trilogy, some clever and original stuff there. I didn't enjoy the third book so much, but don't want to spoil anything.
What Violent Acts Get Defined as Terrorism
Exporting is easy. On desktop you can select photos and download a zip. You can also download them with Google Backup and Sync if you enable the option to show photos in Google Drive.
> failed by society too many times

Well yes, it is a big problem when kids don’t have adequate food, shelter, healthcare; live in violent, polluted, socially broken neighborhoods with hostile public authorities; are raised by overworked (often single) parents; etc.

Policy changes to reduce poverty would go a long way toward improving schools.
Provocation in search of a reason ...
Wow, that is an absolutely disgusting justification for that policy. What's next, a button that raises spikes on cafe chairs if you pay with cash?
my favorite part about Booking is that it will tell me how many other people are currently looking at the last available room i'm looking it. Let's me know if i have to swoop it up quickly!
If putting everyone together means that no one has an opportunity, then that's obviously not going to help.
If you are then re-using the same React code on the client side (and you generally are), then of course it does. This is the enticement of "universal" frameworks — you use the same code (perhaps with occasional slight modifications here and there) to run on the server side and on the client side. Imagine your Symfony, Django or Rails app that runs not only on your server, but in your browser as well. That’s roughly the luxury that server-side React (or Angular Universal, or Vue, etc.) gives you.
A common mistake I see when people use libcurl is to create a new handle for each request, which pretty much guarantees no connection reuse. Reuse your handles for profit.
Well if I'm travelling on business in a major western city realistically I'm only going to consider a handful of major brands, but yeah or look at aggregators then book directly, or at least check the price.