skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> On routes where Amtrak actually controls the underlying trackage, it operates quite well. Where everything goes to shit is when Amtrak operates on others' track.

No it doesn’t. Amtrak owns the lines between Baltimore and DC. I used to commute it every day for two years and it was awful. Amtrak struggles to adequately maintain the northeast corridor, because as a result of government-imposed mandates, its operating profits from there go to subsidizing service on lines nobody uses. Similarly, Amtrak is just shitty at logistics and operations—planning around track work, giving updates about delays, keeping trains in working order, etc. Again, they have no mandate to turn a profit (unlike government owned rail lines in Europe) so they run like the DMV, rather than a rail carrier.
Never heard of an open and blatant 'women need not apply' in the 20 years I've been in the US. Not in the universities, not in the workplace, not anywhere. Not sure about NFL policies, though there aren't that many 6 foot 250 pounds fit women out there. Pretty sure there is no VC advertising 'we will fund no women' out there, if it were there would be a huge press coverage.

And yet, the OP is openly and blatant 'men need not apply'. How is that ever OK?
You need to do this while you are young. Once you have a family and a mortgage, it becomes much more difficult to hit the beach all day.

I contracted for a year 7 years ago from Asia and I was able to travel the world during this time. It was definitely a great experience.

Now, I have been remote contracting for almost a decade and it's given me the ability to build one successful business and I'm now in the process of starting another.

Distractions and commute time really destroyed my ability to build a side-business...and working from an office was exhausting.

If you want to start a side-business, but aren't ready to take the risk (or just don't have the money), start by contracting remotely.
I can accept either point but not both.

It is illegal to discriminate based on sex.

By not discriminating based on sex to fix a ratio/percent you could be found discriminating
Most energy profit comes from externalizing the costs. Floating reactors would do that fantastically!

Love the "sink and don't leak" requirement.
My girlfriend, a nurse of 10+ years, just started learning to code on her own, built her first (basic) website (https://www.nataliepeterson.dev) and is applying to Lambda School already. I sent this to her this morning and she was elated.

Programs like this really work.
It looks like an interesting project - but I'm not sure I understand how it's better than a ram backed sqlite instance. It forces/let's you use the Redis protocol to connect rather than embedding?
I think lending environments are temporary. The current environment has a glut of reserves, but I don't think there's anything systemic about that. Wouldn't this be the best time for JPM to release a new currency, so that it has some runway to gain acceptance before the lending environment changes?
You could always do that in the town square. The difference is that people would look down on town criers as "kooks", while a video made in premier, with one or two stupid quotes or drawings seems to pass the average person's bullshit detector
Just because you’re paranoid, doesn’t mean the algorithms aren’t out to get you
> Yeah that's terrifying.

Except they're not doing anything of the sort. They've created a stablecoin backed by their balance sheet. They plan to use it for reducing the friction on payments and payment like processes.

That's it pretty much. TBH if JPM were going to attempt a major violation of their regulatory constraints, I'd expect them not to publish it on their website.
When Children Protest, Adults Should Tell Them the Truth
Actually, not really. I found out I never used the budgeting functionality other than to keep track of my previous spending.

I haven't found an existing tool to budget in beancount so you'd have to write it yourself. Other people have successfully used Ledger's virtual postings (which doesn't exist in beancount) for budgeting though[0]. It might be a way forward for you?

[0]: https://emacs.cafe/ledger/emacs/ynab/budgeting/2018/06/12/el...
Yes, I agree, it goes both ways.

'Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power'
― Benito Mussolini
I'm a white man, and sometimes I fear that the best thing I ever did for my son was give him Hispanic heritage through his mother.
Yes, I saw that ambiguity too, and replaced the subtitle with a more specific phrase from the article.
Which can also be done by adding an extra layer to a public SQL database.

It becomes a blockchain when JPM allows third-party, anonymous actors to mine the blocks and take control of the network, which JPM is certainly not going to do.
Nope you can't, unless you can convince everyone else that "thing" is just as good, and can be exchanged for USD at any time, which it can't.
I think this is a correct observation
> A popular hub for tourism, some business owners and resort owners had opposed the shut down of the island but care has been taken to deal with the opposition.

Duterte is a scary leader. The above line about dealing with opposition is not at all reassuring when extrajudicial killings are a standard part of his governance.
We should have grants for unemployed people because they are underrepresented in companies.
What? The average IQ is 100. Computer science is not a 100 IQ field. Science is not a 100 IQ endeavour.

Coding at 100 IQ level will be automated away very soon the same way anyone can have a facebook account without knowing HTML.
Two Methods to Remotely Control Android Phone from Mac
We added that to the Hacker News site guidelines a few years ago: Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Before that, I used to write about the principle of charity quite a bit: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme.... But eventually stopped using that name so much because it can be a bit confusing to people who haven't heard it before. It's shorter to just quote the guideline.
Third world country is bad (although maybe the positive racial discrimination will count them in, I don't know)

Being eastern-European myself I can confirm that while the negative stuff applies, the positive doesn't.

But I say let them - I'm honestly curious what the end result of such policies will be.
http://missingmiddlehousing.com/building-types/bungalow-cour...

Bungalows are basically small houses, not trailers.
> Acknowledging the huge amount of work that needs to be done for an alternative to be adopted is not defeatism, it's realism.

Realism is often just a mask over defeatism.
The examples the tweeter gave like 'reading' as just really poor substitutes for travel, especially if you're a white, English-speaking, west-coast person like the tweeter.
Reading the opinion column of the New York Times will probably close their minds further than open it up.

Hanging out with other people who are wealthy/liberal enough to make it to and live in San Francisco will also do the same. Amplify the echo chamber rather than break it down.

I grew up in India and the Middle East in a very different sociocultural background with different values than the west coast, liberal, tech-elite culture I live in now and I find many of the people around me now have a much narrower world-view despite their education and 'reading'.
Microsoft also released a similar powershell module:
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-check-if-your-pc-still-vu...
This amounts to saying that you don't need a debugger if you don't make mistakes.

If your mental model of how the code that you're interfacing with works is wrong, then it won't help you. Your data validation will error out and you might find that it was too much too early. Not only do you have logic based on flawed assumptions but check code as well.

Understanding the code base you're programming against, that's a skill that can be improved but hoping to guard against all misunderstandings is probably unrealistic. Given that, following a trace may help you identify disagreements with your model more quickly.
Streams are kinda cool but they have a distinctly different feel than the other data-types in Redis. They've got this invisible statefulness. Last ids, consumer group state, etc. I've tried implementing a couple little things with streams, and it's not necessary to use the consumer group stuff or whatever of course. I wonder why streams weren't made using the modules API, though? They seem just weird/different enough to warrant exclusion from the core data types, in my thinking. Anyways, just reading the title referring to streams as "pure" made me go wtf? Because there's a lot of hidden state in there.
> We use inclusive definitions of “women” and “female” and welcome trans women, genderqueer women, and non-binary people who are female-identified.

If you are interested in the program, it seems like you could identify yourself as female and apply. Especially if there's no in-person interview.

Cynically, if enough [biological males who identify as] men elect to identify as women for this application, the selection team will have some very difficult decisions to make.
It's a decision making framework that places the "Anything is fine. You choose" option at the bottom in terms of value.

By the way, weakly is not a synonym of loosely in this context. Weakly/strongly here is having no opinion vs having one. Loosely means "ability to be convinced is high".

Weak: I don't care where we eat tonight.

Strong, non loose: I'll only go if we'll eat at Tadich.

Strong, loose:

- I want to go eat at Tadich.

- That's mostly sea food and I have an allergy. How about Hakkasan?

- Sure, let's go eat at Hakkasan.
I'd say the parent comment's use of quotes should obviate the fact that they're referring to FUD, not _factual_, _accurate_, or _logical_ data.
I've seen even more against Asian men (not that it makes discrimination again white men any more okay). After all, if we are going to strive for for equal representation - which seems to be the goal - Asian are going to have to go down from 30-40% of many large companies down to a fraction of that. Asians are 14% of California and 5.2% of the US population.
Part of becoming a great engineer, in my limited experience, is developing a sense of taste for what problems are worth solving and which approaches to consider.

The software we build ends up baking in those opinions: into the frameworks and libraries, into our philosophies, into the algorithms themselves, and ultimately into our culture. We end up with Rails whose claim to fame is being based, unabashedly, on its strong opinions. We end up with the LKML being what it is. We end up with ML algorithms with our biases built in. That's why our opinions are rather important.

Our opinions signal our status to other groups. If you're an opinionated statically-typed functional programming aficionado it's quite likely you're not going to fit in with people who are serious adherents to object oriented programming. And you will find many people without any opinions or whose opinions lie somewhere in between.

We can't avoid having them and it's important to be able to work with other programmers and so being able to set those things aside to focus on the customers' needs, the business context, and the well-being of your team takes precedence!
> Mosler concludes by saying that the government is not constrained in how much debt it can take on

It seems to me that’s kind of half-a-loaf MMT. Or, to borrow from The Matrix trilogy, it's the spoon-bending level.

Where the full loaf (“there is no spoon”) is: Government is not constrained to take on debt at all to finance an excess of spending the over revenue. The idea that, if the State chooses to create net new tokens in the economy (remember, the key points of MMT is that fiat money is created by the issuing government spending and destroyed by the issuing government recovering it), it must seek the permission of someone with a surplus of existing tokens willing to sacrifice them for a greater number of future tokens, after which the government's pet (but “independent”) token-issuing body will see to the issuance of additional tokens is kind of bonkers, but that seems to be how MMT would view the current relation between fiscal and monetary policy.
Because men have many other options. If it was just 1 or 2 places saying 'we won't fund women', then those places don't substantially affect womens' ability to get funded. But that isn't the case.
The amount of vitriol against Tesla here is insane. Just the fact that incumbent car manufacturers are now seriously considering electric cars after decades of ignorance because of Tesla is a great win for humanity.

Virtually all tech companies have missteps and Tesla is no exception. Let's look at the big picture here in what Tesla is trying to do.

We had Solar panels installed with a Tesla powerwall and did home efficiency improvements and are now pretty much self sufficient (includes charging our vehicles). Think about that for a second.

Meanwhile. We have Facebook, Google, Netflix, Amazon and even Apple just cater to our desires for consumerism and endless distraction with some of them even trampling user privacy. But hey, let's all trash everything about Tesla because it's the hip thing to do right?
This seems pretty simple when events are logged as they happen with little or no latency and you can let the stream set the timestamp. I wonder, though, about the case where events may be buffered, perhaps due to an unreliable network? The time that the event occurred might be significantly earlier than the time it's inserted, and furthermore events are arriving out of order. It seems like things get much more complicated?

Let's say tennis games are recorded on a piece of paper and entered into the computer later. What is different?
Or just a person saving the data for a rainy day
The reason that companies become unicorns is that VCs invest in them at a certain valuation. You have cause and effect reversed. If VCs are underinvesting in female-founded companies, it's entirely expected that fewer of those companies will become unicorns.
Yeah - those robotics company do exactly that stuff which is too dangerous or too repetitive for humans. There's also the issue of strength. Robots are a good candidate for handling materials when people literally can't. But, yeah, those robots don't look like people.

Here's an interesting fact. Most people think of forklifts as being stronger than people, and that we use them to lift stuff that people can't. That's true. But, what most people don't think about is why it can lift stuff like that. Hydraulic multiplication provides the power to actually do the lifting, but, a human shaped robot with the same hydraulics couldn't. Most forklifts weight about 3x the weight of a car and are mostly filled with lead. The same will go for robots. the form factor of improving human strength doesn't really benefit from changing the strength to weight ratio, it benefits from scaling both.

edit: as context, the average forklift is so heavy that when put on a trailer they exceed the tow rating of 1500-class pickup.
This is confusing and not true. The RTX is specifically referred to as "ray tracing" but no one does forward ray tracing which is what you are referring to. Both general Ray Tracing and Path Tracing involve "backwards ray tracing", starting from the camera. The distinction is not where the ray originates, its the algorithm for generating and following those rays.
> There's also functionality in PHP that shouldn't have been removed (register_globals) but should have been defaulted to disabled.

It was for years! They deprecated the feature. It was default disabled in php.ini. And now, as you said, if you really still need it you can code it yourself (I had to).

> And don't get me started about the annoyance that was removing mysql_* support.

I'm pretty sure that library isn't supported by MySQL server anymore (it's their library) so that's why it was removed. You can even use it to connect to newer versions of MySQL as the protocol changed.
When you know you have a backdoor you may take some steps, small as they may be, to protect yourself. For example in some cases you can remove the ME blob from the BIOS, effectively disabling the ME. You can choose to drop the product entirely. You definitely can't protect yourself from something you don't know exists.

Considering nation state actors have been consistently backdooring everything they can get their hands on (network equipment, CPUs, software, storage devices, you name it - and they've done it without the manufacturer ever knowing sometimes) the assumption that such an open source project would not have it and it's "a lot better" is based purely on wishful thinking.
There's no such thing as a benign disease. That's kind of inherent to the definition.

Some diseases are more acute than others, but if we can eliminate even non-acute diseases, why wouldn't we? And to be clear: we know we can eliminate measles because we already did it once.
If it's an online programming class, then why not extent the offer to people based outside the US? This US protectionism thing is driving me crazy.

I'll offer my services to Lambda School and/or YC for free if that means I can extent this offer to EU people, provided that my living expenses are covered. I'm in between jobs so I have the perfect schedule for it.

I'm from the EU.
I suspect it'll end when people aren't surprised to hear things like this:

https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/minorities-who-whiten-job-resumes...
Do you live in the US? If so, I think this is a bit exaggerated. There are still a lot of white men from the US at all major tech companies.
In my experience most humans fall into category number one.
I saw the small homes with satellites in a Nepali village in the hills. It was very confusing at first to see people enjoying Indian TV shows in their homes (described above) and playing on their smartphones. I think they had a village latrine though.
New code sure? But existing code? Especially large projects? No.
It allow you to access the same dataset from different processes (possible also with SQLite) and machines.
Can't be concerned if you die from a preventable disease
From what I remember of Black Mesa, it felt more like Half-Life 2, control wise, than Half-Life. So for people who played Half-Life 2 first, Black Mesa probably feels more natural.
Thanks! Any feedback is welcome!
Do you have a reference you can cite for that?
Yes, but that by itself won't solve the problem. You need some way of auditing the TTP to insure that they don't cheat by, say, censoring transactions, or printing money for themselves. And this auditing process has to preserve user privacy. You don't want the world to know what your bank balance is. Making this work is not trivial.
"So your fuel and clad[ding] stay intact in almost all scenarios."

With that much "no problem", it seems like something may have been overlooked in your summary above.
Vaccines with Thimerosal is given to babies all over the world to this date. Formaldehyde is a known carcinogen (Cancer causing substance in human tissue) is one of the vaccine ingredients present in most vaccines.
Purdue hires 5 year old to write headlines
I'd love to see the criteria for determining whether someone is actually a Nazi, white supremacist and/or troll.
I have several female friends who find Affirmative Action campaigns so off-putting, they decide against joining the industry.

One friend recently complained to me that all the AA enthusiasts just want to talk about feminism and women in the workplace, and not about actually writing code. She was incensed because she was invited to a 'Girls Code' meetup, where women would learn about algorithms by modelling their own menstrual cycles[0]. She was (understandably) frustrated, saying that her interests extend beyond what comes out of her genitals.

This is anecdotal, sure, but amongst my social circle, this seems to be the rule rather than the exception.

I sense a bazillion downvotes coming my way. You may think these opinions I am passing along are incredibly incorrect, but they are the opinions of women.

[0]: https://imgur.com/a/jFLU0C8

EDIT: It took no time at all for the downvotes to arrive, as expected. There is no such thing as the sisterhood. Feminists will immediately cast out any woman who doesn't hold the "right" opinions.
I spent exactly zero nights in a homeless shelter in my years on the street. They were generally pretty revolting, for a very long list of reasons.

I don't use recreational drugs and never have. I have no criminal record. I carried no weapons while homeless.

I am not really for expanding the current shelter system. I am for improving supply of the right kind of housing, as well as providing adequate healthcare. Health issues and cost of healthcare are major factors in the equation here.
I have already demonstrated my value during the interview. Negotiation occurs after I have passed the interview.
Discontinuing Wedeploy
For whatever reason this website feels so personal. Instant flashbacks to the 2000s. I love it.

Hint for picking a random image when clicking on the image: The currently shown image should be excluded from the list of images to draw from. This prevents the problem that sometimes clicks appear to do nothing, although in reality the same image was randomly picked again.
Well, not to be too pedantic, but it's more career-focused hypermasculinity. Machismo is an Iberian-originating concept which isn't solely negative properties. When immature people don't get taught what machismo or other gender-focused values systems are actually about, they end up with just the negative values. But you can have someone who's "macho" or "manly" regarding their career and also not a dick.
Not everyone is capable of getting vaccinated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity
Company: "All our competitors are fraudulent. We're on the level, we promise"
With two op amps you can build a neural network. (Or at least a single perceptron)

https://www.nutsvolts.com/magazine/article/the_perceptron_ci...
I'm not sure I like this metaphor, but here's a version of how it can fail (perhaps only in a dysfunctional org).

PE: Sits down "We're driving to 123 Main St."

Manager: Sits down "We want to be there within 9 months. We'll first try and get to a similar street, 456 Blue St., within 3 months."

SE: "Uh, this is a Wendy's, not a car."

When people spend all their time in meetings and not enough time in the product (or the product's technical architecture) they're going to lose track of what has actually been built and what its capabilities are. Similarly even with seemingly infinite meetings to address all sorts of interesting issues from stakeholders, roadmap destinations can only be so accurate for each distance in the future. I'm not even digging on the manager for having an intermediary destination; experience tells there's a reason to go to 456 Blue St. first (agile philosophies might help with even tighter midway reevaluation points) because maybe once we're there, we'll learn something and decide we wanted 125 Main St. instead of 123. No meeting can tell us that ahead of time.
I agree: there are degrees, and yours was far from as bad as it gets. But still.
Tinyexpr: parser, compiler, and evaluation engine in C for math expressions
I'm pretty sure most people don't have short enough usernames to get constantly spammed, so your experience is probably pretty unique.
> unless JPM changes the terms of issuance

Is there any visibility/transparency on how JPM might change the terms of issuance in the future? If not, then the expected value of 1 JPM coin going forward doesn't always match the current face value of 1 JPM coin/1 U.S. dollar, no?

I'm interested to know what percentage in fees/opportunity costs JPM saves when shaving off settlement times by using JPM Coin; if it's the big real reason behind its conception or if there are other plans.