skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In many Texas honky tonks, you'll find quite a few Hispanics.

And you'll find plenty of folks like my grandparents complaining about 'the damn Mexicans.' Or a few who back up their words with tragic actions: https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article215983575...

It's easy to talk about how accepting you or your community is, but at the back of everyone else's mind is how easy it is for the aggrieved to have the last word with a bullet, how likely your kids are to be bullied with insults like 'terrorist,' or how likely your mosque is to be burnt down. Let alone the availability of grocery stores that carry your preferred foods and seasonings, live music, or recreational sports.
The irony being, of course, that California is one of the few places where your home value could rise 5-10X and your property taxes appreciate at less than inflation.

Prop 13 creates many artificial barriers to selling property and other market distortions, and folks not downsizing when they'd like to is one of the crazier ones.
China is a one party state which explicitly doesn't permit any organization, much less a government agency, to operate without political interference.
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I very much doubt the above is true, but it exactly follows the public relations strategy of the vaping industry. Vaping somehow magically helps you stop smoking but without hooking you on vaping, you just somehow lose the desire to smoke or vape at all. And it happens "WITHOUT EVEN TRYING".

This denies all logic but alas in today's world where everything is for sale, and most mass media is just a succession of well placed plugs, they may actually convince the public this is true.
"I wanted to replicate this result myself. So a few months ago, when I surveyed readers of my blog, I included some questions about perceptual illusions (including a static version of the hollow mask). I got five thousand responses, including a few from schizophrenic and autistic readers. Sure enough, the effect was there."

Self-selection, numerous predictors, 5% threshold, no correction for multiple tests etc.

Edit for the down-voters: these problems turn the whole thing into a useless exercise. Forget about it.
I can understand if you have kids. But the family life is not for everyone.
Your first point is no longer true, as mentioned in the article:

"the company also received a $12.8 billion minority investment in December from the tobacco giant Altria"
To save others a search: Stanisław Szukalski

"Zermatism, Szukalski's concept of world history, postulated that all human culture derived from post-deluge Easter Island and that in all human languages one can find traces of the original, ancient mother-tongue of mankind. In his view, humanity was locked in an eternal struggle with the Sons of Yeti ("Yetinsyny"), the offspring of Yeti and humans, who had enslaved humanity from time immemorial."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Szukalski

Apparently there's a Netflix documentary (Dec 2018) about him called, Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski.
Looks like it’s closer to becoming Turing complete
I remember discovering them when I was young and thinking how mundane it is. I also thought that satellites are a integral part of the internet just like the TV network.
lol the first couple of comments on that page say everything needed about this "study"

> sflicht says:
> June 28, 2017 at 10:29 pm ~new~
> So I assume you’ll write up your results for publication? It would be a shame if not. I understand you’re busy but… science?

> registrationisdumb says:
> June 28, 2017 at 10:52 pm ~new~
> None of Scott’s surveys are properly randomized trials and draw from a very unique userbase, which makes me hesitant that any of them should be published before replicated in a proper trial.
Sure, we could optimize the heck out of everything. But at what cost? There is a reason many developers rail against premature optimization. It would cost much more and development would progress much slower. Hardware is cheap. Developer time, not so much.
Kind of like the HP Jornada!
Firstly I want to make it clear I agree that without strong evidence otherwise this decision should be assumed to be a technical/bureaucratic one.

However, citing single a 1991 crash as evidence of something 30 years later is a bit extreme - that isn't even in the same century any more. If it was geopolitics or community attitudes, sure. But extrapolating present attitudes from a technical decisions about a thrust reverser is too far.

I couldn't find a milder way to say that while capturing the point. I'm more amused at attitudes to airline safety than anything else.
I think that a good way to estimate the benefit would be to compare how much less money HFT sucks out of the system than its predecessors.
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That is useful for reporting bugs.

I am a developer so every now and then I make a concerted effort to diagnose a bug, then fix it, then do a pull request.

However, I do admit I usually give up before getting to the point of submitting something useful...
Relevant Computerphile episode (w/ Tom Scott): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI
Your arrogance was evident in your original comment, and as such, I felt no qualms about expressing my disapproval of your attitude towards shipping software. You're right - if you had come across less cocksure, I wouldn't have left a comment.
While I worked retail during college (in a very diverse urban area), I said Merry Christmas to hundreds (probably thousands) of customers.

During that time, I never once encountered a person who was angry or even remotely offended that I wished them Merry Christmas.

I have however encountered numerous people who were very upset that someone once wished them happy holidays.
And what if it is instead stored as I felt x, which led to y, which made me think z? It is conditioning of the pattern into neuronal potentials meaning that we can experience the same thing again. This is not the storage of data, it is the conditioning to react the same way at the start of a similar cascade.

We don't record the memory, we make it easier to feel and think the memory again. Like muscles adapting to exercise, our brains adapt to experience. Keep it up long enough and we get good at it.
Not the person you asked, but:

Besides possibly being a function of a provider's API; DNS server security policies can be used to limit updates to certain domains and/or record types based on preshared key. Since the DNS-01 challenge only needs to make a TXT record with a predetermined name you can configure a zone like so (using BIND syntax as an example):

key "example-key" {
algorithm hmac-sha512;
secret <KEY_HERE>;
};

zone {
...
update-policy {
grant "example-key" name _acme-challenge.example.com TXT;
};
};

another option is to have a CNAME from _acme-challenge.example.com to a dedicated challenge zone like challenges.example.com that has similar restrictions. This coupled with something like acme.sh makes it easy and relatively secure for machines to generate their own certificates.
Ceteris paribus, less open cultures will be less able to create entrepreneurial environments, especially cosmopolitan ones.

Patriotism and cosmopolitanism can be good friends.
Nationalism and cosmopolitanism, not so much.

The "American paraphernalia" as described seems to have a high level of nationalism versus patriotism, which is very uncomfortable for outsiders.

My current definitions of patriotism and nationalism:

Patriotism -- love of country that most benevolent outsiders could approve of and admire.

Nationalism -- love of country (or tribe, "nation") that most benevolent outsiders would disapprove of and could not admire.

They need improvement, but the examples we're discussing seem to uphold these definitions.

They also fit with Macron's claim that nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism. For example, using the flag to divide instead of unite. Or using love of country to pick fights, start wars and bring destruction upon all involved.

"We say Christmas here and if you don't like it, fuck you" is clearly not a patriotic statement. It debases itself, its speakers and its object. It picks a fight and intends to create division, but it has damaged itself from the start by morally degrading itself. That's nationalism, tribalism, chauvinism. It betrays patriotism because it debases the spirit of the country which it claims to love.

A widespread "pay it forward" attitude will be exceedingly difficult in such a society, it seems.
Well, the "violence" that took place was perhaps provoked by and certainly facilitated through law enforcement. I use quotes because it appears he primarily got extorted. Those same federal agents also sought to enrich themselves at various points throughout the case. Mr. Ulbricht did illegal things and paid a price for it, but the whole case reeks and the agents that played in the dirt should be made an example of just the same as he was.
The lion air pilots had 15 mins to disable the automatic trim system and simply set the trim manually. It's turning off a switch and spinning a wheel. Manually setting trim is second nature to student pilots.

To put it bluntly only a fool is going to start flipping switches willy nilly. Boeing has a procedure out to handle runaway stabilizer trim, and that's to flip the switches, but the Lion Air pilots did not encounter a runaway stabilizer so why would they go down that checklist and potentially add to their troubles? In the case of the cutout switches, those switches do different things on the NG and MAX (and are thus labeled differently) which potentially adds to the confusion and reduces the incentive to experiment. You're talking about counteracting a system that Boeing hid from pilots — hardly pilot error.

In fact if you look at the FDR data you'll see that the pilots were able to temporarily disable MCAS with the trim buttons on the yoke. Every time MCAS trimmed down, the pilot trimmed up and was able to maintain appropriate trim. That worked, and it seemed like the plane was largely under control (until it wasn't).

Meanwhile the unreliable airspeed indicators were illuminated and one of the stick shakers was going off, and there was probably an EICAS message about the elevator feel system but no actual indication of the underlying problem with AoA was given because Boeing charges extra for that. So, with the assumption that you had the stabilizer trim under control, why would you add to the significant workload by disabling the electrical control of the stabilizer?
A suspension can always be lifted. If something appears like it may be beyond a coincidence, it doesn't seem like a bad move to suspend until more is known.
Do you think the Airbus 330 should be grounded?

It has 11 hull losses with 1447 built. That's a rate of 2.67 per 350 built by the way -- higher than the MAX
$300 in 2004. I expect prices have gone up, like everything else.
The actual option is going to be flying on a Max vs. choosing a different airline or flight number that uses a different model of plane.
> But the family life is not for everyone.

And yet it's the reality for the vast majority of the people out there. Something to keep in mind when throwing around 'eww, driving's.
I’m glad to see someone interested in feedback during development. I’m sure it will turn out well.
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This is so true for me. I'm an ant.
Yet it's the only thing I've found that helped me permanently quit a 32 year smoking habit.

My family is deeply grateful for that "garbage".
Related map of submarine cables on the globe (with clickable links for the cables): https://www.submarinecablemap.com
100% this. It also can't be emphasized enough that these property tax breaks have disproportionately benefited older, white Californians (due to both historic property ownership rates and demographics).

Edit: For the folks downvoting, well, here are a few links:

* https://www.census.gov/hhes/www/housing/census/historic/owne...

* http://www.nahbclassic.org/generic.aspx?genericContentID=261...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3407298/?report...
Depends on the context. As part of a team (code already exists that I can reference), and simply "useful"? Less than that, probably about one week at most.

I wouldn't be doing anything large or complex in that short a period, but absolutely can become useful with smaller stuff in that period.

And I say this with experience, thought in a different context: Years ago my manager introduced me to a new codebase by giving me a bug to fix. It was in a Django site, and I'd never done any python before. Took about half a day to figure out what was going on (for comparison, nowadays it would maybe have been 20-30 minutes), and a bit more to fix.

But I did figure it out on my own, taking some work off of another developer who was focusing on more complex work. I would call that "useful".
What annoys me is the consistent blaming on the 'industry' and 'profit' when industries only make thins people buy.

So why do people use single-use plastic? Because they are lazy, and it's convenient.
Yep, that's the one. If memory serves, most or all planes with the engines under the wing will pitch up when you apply thrust. Most planes will have an effective enough elevator to counteract this... but it seems like the 737 does not.
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To me, that's the equivalent of not doing anything about global warming because future technology may be able to trivially solve the issue. Sure, that may be a possibility, but what happens to humanity if that's not the case?
The current democratic structure clearly doesn't work here. Western democracies are starting to look more and more inefficient these days. They're overwhelmed with complexity and are stuck on short-term egoism.
This was good motivation. I've been editing a book that I've been working on for over a year. I submitted it to a literary agent just now. It took less than an hour. I'll probably fail. But I'm living in the now.

I also made the website first ;) - https://www.burnfastburnbright.com/
"Dissociation is a vague psychiatric symptom where you feel like you’re not real, or the world isn’t real, or you’re detached from the world, or something like that. It sounds weird, but if you explain it to someone who’s had it, they’ll say “Oh yeah, that thing!” It’s usually unpleasant, and tends to occur in PTSD, borderline personality, and extreme stress."

That really spoke to me. I have very bad allergies and as the doctor was trying things to help me out I spent about 3 months on Singulair. I had severe disassociation. It was very unpleasant and I stopped it. But yeah, that thing.
Frequent air travelers are becoming self-selected for less planning/foresight than the average person wrt global warming concerns, I wonder if this changes the accident risk aversion of the average flyer.
So, didn't really pay attention to the article, but wow, that spinning mask[0] in interesting!

Somehow, the effect doesn't work looking at only the forehead[1] which I would have assumed means because my brain doesn't recognize it as a "face". However, the effect does work for me still only looking at the neck[2] which I can't explain other than something with the shading?

Cool stuff!

[0] https://i1.wp.com/slatestarcodex.com/blog_images/spinning_ma...

[1] https://www.dropbox.com/s/io9nsrpp52waxq5/spinning_mask_uppe...

[2] https://www.dropbox.com/s/te0s3wgf6rilf4a/spinning_mask_lowe...
Mine too :(
SV culturally has a "white male" broculture problem. When people think of tech startups, that is the image they think of.

On a different note, there are two major reasons why you might consider Asians and Jews overrepresented in SV. Jews have historically had major populations in NY, California, Florida and Massachusetts and Chicago[1]. Similarly, Asians have historically clustered in California, NY, Seattle. Asian populations have historically been much more spread out across the US, but some of the largest populations are in California, NY and Boston[2]. Additionally, Asians and Jews have high proportions of individuals working in STEM fields (doctors, engineers, etc) because if you're being discriminated against, in math/science you are either right or you are wrong whereas if you choose a liberal art field like english, there's much more room for teachers/professors to discriminate intentionally or not.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_urban_areas_by_Jewish_...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Asian_American...
That's a rate of 2.67 per 350 built by the way -- higher than the MAX

How many of those hull loses resulted in fatalities? How many of the hull loses were due to pilot error (e.g. AF 447)? How many flights have those A330s flown? So far Boeing's lost two MAX8s that were quite new with many signs pointing to a design flaw rather than pilot error. That's a worse record than the A330.
> motivating you to execute

The article is discussing fantasizing that does not result in action
Why don't we just sit around a campfire and sing koombayah and hopefully everybody's problems will go away?

If you don't care about money, then just give it all to me. If you do, then these people do too, which is why it's about profit and loss.
Any aircraft can be stalled fairly easily. I think the problem may be between the yoke and the chair (PBYAC).

Especially when it's a new aircraft, perhaps pilots need time to adjust, same as when you and I get in to a new car, it may have different response when you hit the gas, different mirrors, different sounds, different steering wheel sensitivity, etc.
> I’ve only written 4 blog posts and they get decent traffic.

Do you mind me asking how you are getting traffic? Are you writing on your own personal website or on something like Medium?
> Go has no platform where certain well-written libraries can be recommended and get more exposure.

Godoc.org is that platform, it serves the purpose. Others in the module universe are under development.

> To the second point about per-thread caching, Go does not expose threads to end-users. So, there's no concept of thread-local. What you're describing results in lock striping, which has contention issues as described in the post.

In Go you'd have to orchestrate this locality yourself, i.e. a fixed worker (goroutine) pool each with its own cache. This is probably less work than it sounds.

Generally, Go does encourage you to author solutions to your specific problem, rather than adapting a general-purpose library. This is almost as much a part of the ethos of Go as implicitly-satisfied interfaces, or "share memory by communicating", or any of the other proverbs. Maybe Go takes it too far. But effectively no other language exists at this point on the spectrum, and I'm happy that we have at least some representation over here; I think lots of programmers live here, too, and appreciate the tradeoffs.
Funnily enough iPhone/iOS itself is trying to do as much locally as it can.
"if e-cigs turn out to be safe, or can be made safe, what is the problem?"

This is weasle-wording.

"Just a bunch of puritan's with their underwear in a knot."

Reframing the debate in moralistic terms is not useful here. It's a public health issue, plain and simple. If there is research that you are privy to that shows nicotine to be harmless, please share it with us; don't keep it to yourself.
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Oh, come on, this is a terrible argument.

Those A330 hull losses are over more than 25 years. The Max went into production in 2017. The correct metric to use here is hull losses per hour of flight. I can see some total number of flights data, but not total hours. The Max has probably made fewer than 100k flights total, the A330 has made at least 7 million flights.

Therefore, multiply the two Max hull losses by 70 to get your first ballpark guess at a comparable number. It is as if the Max was an A330 with 140 hull losses instead of 11.
Also, banks can react to observed attacks quickly, but changes to voting systems has to go through slow political processes (for good reason).
Ok. Take care. I have nothing more to contribute.
Hardware isn't cheap, certainly not multiplied by millions of instances. It's just that you don't have to pay for it. But someone down the road will, be it other people or future generations.

You're also confusing premature optimization with skillfull use of resources. Not driving a car with the handbrake on isn't premature optimization.
"Is the Microsoft All In One any better?"

Its even worst in my experience... both are trash. I reverted to a regular wireless keyboard & trackball for sofa use.
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do you think CpaaS should be build on FreeSWITCH with Golang?
https://tobacco.ucsf.edu/cellular-evidence-how-nicotine-and-...
Depends on what the other aircraft is.
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Of course, it's not the only one. But in practice, the FAA (along with its European equivalent, the EASA) are widely "trusted" by the rest of the world, meaning other countries will usually adapt their directives -- especially where safety is concerned.
> It's quite possible to get lost in the weeds planning stuff with no forwards motion. It's also possible to make really, really expensive mistakes by plowing forwards.

An excellent point which is often omitted in such articles. Finding the right balance between careful planning and plowing forwards is of great pertinence. I look at planning as a risk minimization exercise. Once risks associated with failure are minimized, I can then forge ahead. Hence, the time planning is a function of the project's risk profile, which can vary drastically.
15 years inflation would make a difference too.
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I need to book a flight. Does anybody know whether Google Flight differentiates Boeing 737s from the 737 Max in its listings (where it lists the type of plane for a flight). I haven't seen any that say max..
While I think this is a valid critique of many of the comments in this thread (including the current top one about SF being "dystopian"), I think you're being uncharitable to the author. Nowhere does he say he hates SF and is desperate to leave; though he is predicting decline if the housing and COL issues don't eventually get addressed.

Hopefully if you believe that the solutions to SF's problems are folks being positive, committed, and pitching in, you'll also agree that we need more inclusive land use policies (zoning and tax) that aren't aggressively pro-incumbent.
(co-author here) Thanks for sharing this post! We've elaborated the various issues we encountered trying to use a concurrent LRU cache in Dgraph and our dissatisfaction at existing choices which fail to provide memory management, high concurrency and hit ratios.

With guidance from Ben Manes, we're planning to work on a new concurrent Go cache based on Caffeine (Java). If you're interested in helping (or already have something similar), do reach out to us!

Meanwhile, check out Dgraph, our distributed graph database which is what keeps us busy: https://github.com/dgraph-io/dgraph
The original cigarette epidemic led to a massive public campaign demonizing ciagerettes (justifiably so). This campaign (like all succesful PR compaigns) was very much conducted on moralistic terms [0].

Now, there is a public health discussion to be had about e-cigarettes, however they have inherited much of the moral baggage that we attached to traditional cigarettes (as well as much of the public perception of safety we have attached to traditional cigarettes).

If you are reading something in the opinion section of a general purpose news paper, odds are you are reading a moralistic piece. That is not the place where technical discussions of public policy occur.

[0] This is not to say the motivations of those conducting it were moralistic, but many of the compagns themselves were, and cigarettes are now widely viewed as a moral failing.