skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Your complaint seems to be that they should have toughed it out with inappropriate regulation

That regulation had in been in place for quite some time, clearly for a reason. To suddenly relax it in the middle of a crisis where such regulation could save lives at the expense of property, it's just not the right thing to do.

> (1) That is unfair to the people they displaced.

Are you being provocative on purpose? People had already been displaced and did not go back when they raised thresholds. The change was, in all likelihood, an attempt at making "little people" go about their lives so as to reduce the inconvenience on central government. After all, the worse it could happen was that cancer rates would go up in a few years, which someone else could deal with. That is unfair.

> At some point we can't be that pessimistic about the public's ability to deal with reality.

As proven by facts, you'll be optimistic at your peril. Good leadership (and hence government) is about empathy as much as it is about truth. This goes double if you've only just attempted to minimize and downplay a catastrophe, as TEPCO and Japanese authorities did right after the tsunami. How can you ask people to trust you in matters that advantage you more than them, when you've only just lied to them?

> If the population are being superstitious

Detecting corruption is not "superstition". This comment is downright callous towards people who lost their livelihood because of greed and incompetence by TEPCO and the Japanese government.
You mean like this?
https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessm...
you didn't choose your capacity for learning. there are people that try - much harder than you'll ever be capable of knowing - who can't do as much as you can. and it's not because of any factors they chose.
Same feeling about the recruiters from Tesla.

It sounds horrible to work there, there are lots of companies that make cars.
The article makes two points. One, it presents the results of a study that shows HSR requires 10 million passengers per year to break even in terms of CO2 emissions. The second is to reiterate California’s projection that HSR will have 30-40 million riders by 2040. The former is a mathematical analysis. The latter is speculation, and completely unrealistic speculation. It is completely unreasonable to conclude that HSR will have more riders than the Northeast Corridor, which connects the densest and most transit rich corridor in the entire country. It’s completely unreasonable to assume it will have triple the passengers annually of all flights between SF and LA, given that the estimated ticket price would be just a little lower than airfare. (Transit projections are routinely completely wrong. The Silver Line projections in DC were way too high, even though that was a relatively easy calculation since Metro had existing suburban lines to base the estimate on.)
California's High Speed Rail by the Numbers
When I visited the USS Hornet museum (WWII aircraft carrier docked in Oakland), our tour guide was the guy that used to replace vacuum tubes during combat.

The targeting computer was analog, and controlled a very large anti aircraft gun using radar to to automatically track targets and compute parabolas. The gunner sat in a little control seat on the turret.

When a tube blew, the whole turret would start oscillating violently. The job of our guide was to pull refrigerator-sized banks of vacuum tubes out of the wall, replace all the ones that looked dim, slam it shut, and move from bank to bank until it stopped trying to shake the poor gunner out of his seat.

The shells had a timer inside them, and the people loading it had to set the delay between launch and detonation based on the time of flight the computer reported. The timer was actuated when the rifling of the barrel spun the shell as it was fired, so this was as precise as the clockwork in the shell allowed.

Apparently, they shot down a lot of planes with that thing.
It's not an assessment of how well you will do, it's an assessment of how well you are prepared for college.

Big difference.
> I'm wrong about what I prefer.

You're certainly in the tiny minority.

> I have a problem with the contents of the AMP pages

And more people have problems with the contents of non-AMP pages. What problems do you have with AMP pages that can't be solved by the AMP publishers?

> I still manage to get AMP links in various ways.

You were specifically talking about Google search. If you get them from other sources and have some (so far, it seems) irrational hatred of them, you can probably find a way to solve that too.
I’ve found the editor to not be as great when it comes to including code blocks, widgets, or other javascript I want to execute. Hugo is a lot more flexible in that sense. You can include graphviz and charts.js no problem, and keep your network request below 1mb.

On the other hand, Hugo’s quality is verrrry dependent on the theme you pick. Configs change from theme to theme. Hand rolling a theme from scratch is also a severe pain. I don’t think there are any paid themes for Hugo, and if there are I’m not sure it’s as good of an ecosystem as say Wordpress.
Personal anecdote: I had a job offer from Facebook and a couple other big tech companies. The Facebook offer was substantially better fiscally than the other ones and it was clear to me that they were having trouble hiring. Their initial equity grant has no cliff and the signing bonus was massive for somebody two years out of school: $75,000 cash in first paycheck.

However I ultimately turned it down because of ethical concerns about working there combined with a sense that people would not approve of my job choice. I.e. even if I don't find what they're doing ethically questionable (and I do, although I don't think they're so bad), I didn't want to have to explain myself or defend them to everybody when I mentioned where I worked. Just my two cents as somebody who was one of the 50% of candidates who turned down the job.
Etsy needs an Amazon prime equivalent to convert customers like you
I think they had subscriptions but they were certainly far less in your face than Medium's paid content ads. I think tiered services are fine if they don't spam you about them.
There's no evidence for this -- from what the parent poster said, he probably lived in a well-off neighborhood and went to a well-off school. The article specifically says race is not a variable, so you seem to have a factual inaccuracy in your statement. Since poverty level within zip code is one of the few variables specified, and the parent poster would show less rather than more adversity in this respect, how do you justify your argument?
Would you prefer that they didn't?
I wonder if better PID tuning would help, maybe adding stuff like ambient outside temperature or weather prediction as a system input.

I know the nest thermostat does a lot of systemic learning and understands the outside temperature. (I'm not recommending that system, just that a little modern control theory might make things workable)
Because if they didn't, they'd get criticism about not doing so right away. Also...GDPR?
On a related note I always thought that US college admissions are very sketchy. Why should children of alumni have have a higher chance of getting into an ivy school. Same goes for extra cirricular activities. Who gives a shit about your exceptional cello playing skills?
If people try to crush speech they don’t like, and fringe groups are the only ones saying they support freedom, otherwise neutral people who are concerned about their rights are going to side with one of those groups.

The number of people siding with those groups will be more than zero. Support will grow and they’ll push their message farther and farther into extremism.

It’s not the first time this has happened. But each generation thinks they’re enlightened and extremism won’t take over again. Political extremists work with a grain of truth (“Look! They really ARE oppressing us”). If they were absolutely false nobody would support them.
> Perhaps, but there is also a cultural trend of alt-right/far right groups clamoring about free speech in response to de-platforming and being disinvited to speak at college campuses.

For public universities, this is a breach of the first amendment no matter how heinous the speakers' viewpoints are. And for private universities it's a big blow to the institution's reputations for all but the most objectionable speakers.

> Most contemporary American free speech protests aren't apolitical affairs where nonsectarian activists are just "standing up for their rights because they legitimately care about freedom" for the sake of free speech as an ideal- they view freedom as a means to promote their ideology.

I don't disagree with you. But you're drawing the wrong conclusions from this observation. If the concerns over free speech is more prevalent on one end of the political spectrum, it could easily be due to the fact that said end of the political spectrum is being censored more frequently and more aggressively. And I can't argue with that, I've seen very stark disparities in enforcement over the past several years.
I think this belief that personally run software is more secure than professionally run software is a bit optimistic.
REM is "light sleep", one 3 hour-ish sleep cycle is "NREM stage I -> NREM stage II -> NREM stage III -> REM" where REM is considered "pretty close to awake" and NREM stage numbers are "progressively deeper". Deeper basically means lower body temperature, less movement, and slower breathing.

This is on the basis of clustering/pattern matching body movement, body temperature, and some brain wave/MRI crap.

VERY broadly speaking, "deep" NREM stages are important for "body health" while REM is important for maintenence of memories and "mental health".

As with anything in neurobiology, it's "emerging evidence suggests that..." and nobody really knows what's going on. Except all evidence suggests sleeping less is bad for pretty much everything.

The dynamics of sleep state transitions are also pretty meaningful, e.g. time it takes to move from one stage to the next, whether there's "backwards" transitions, etc. For example, sleep deprivation lengthens deep NREM time, lowers latency from wake -> NREM I, and shortens the entire sleep cycle.
I hear you. But I worry that that's not enough. I trust Syncthing and the (many) Keepass (X/C)++ developers, but how hard really would it be to slip something in unnoticed. All it requires is some minuscule bug somewhere. It doesn't need to be in the software itself! It can be in the compiler, or in the crypto or in the machine running it.

If the OpenSSL debacle taught us, open source and the fact that many people can look at the code does not mean it's actually being looked at. Don't get me wrong, still loads better than non-open source, but you're still face a huge risk. I'm slightly competent as a developer (not that much, just enough to barely get by) and still looking at the code base of the many apps, services and platforms I use, I'm astounded by the fact that I have no clue how they actually work, and if there is any obvious attack vector there. MOST people have even less of an understanding of all these than I do.
Plus, both are great software. KeePass2Android is the best Android password manager, bar none.
Mind posting a source on the serious bugs?
A Google search didn’t bring up any major issue for me.
That's not true about the second driver behind me, because people are not pulling into his gap, because his lane is going 5 mph slower than the other lanes. So he establishes it once and is fine.

This is more of a thought experiment to show that you never have to keep slowing down to zero even if for some reason people continually enter your gap. I barely observe people entering my gap at all in practice, because all lanes are generally going the same speed so there's no benefit to it.
It doesn't have to be more secure, it just has to be less likely to get hacked.
That's true about Racket, but it has a quite original way of dealing with it with their futures[1].

To be honest, I'm not sure about the details, but it should let other threads run truly in parallel as long as it's "safe" to do on the VM implementation level. So, if the code inside the future doesn't perform any "future unsafe" operations, it can execute within a separate OS thread without worrying about the main thread.

Examples of "future unsafe" actions were given as memory allocation, and JIT compilation. Further, it's mentioned that some simple (for the language users, at least) operations may be too complex internally to be "future safe". An example of this is using a generic number comparison operators - `<`, `>`, etc. Apparently, these have to handle the full numeric tower of Racket and in the process perform some future unsafe operations.

In the Mandelbrot function given as an example in the guide, simply replacing the generic comparisons with the ones specialized for work on floats specifically (and assuming that contract is not broken, which would immediately stop the future) allows the future to execute fully in parallel.

What is important to note here is that `set!` and friends, and so mutation of shared memory, is considered "future safe", ie. it's permitted to use them! (although then it's you who deals with the usual problems that brings).

I think it's worth mentioning here, because it's a novel strategy that seems to be between the two usual solutions (1. we've got GIL, live with it; 2. spawn more processes and get them to work - well, now you have many GILs...) and is showing some promising results. Plus they have a neat visualization tool!

Currently, it's limited and works best for purely numerical computations (which is also where you'd need it 99% of the time), but in some cases, it appears to work: the programmers of the language (not the implementation of the language) are given a tool to work outside the GIL in a structured manner plus a tool for closely inspecting low-level operations that happen in their code which would suspend or stop the future.

I'm not aware of any other dynamic or not language which has both the GIL and a nice, language-level tool for freeing it and running in parallel. Because what is considered "future unsafe" depends on the details of the implementation, I'm full of hopes for Racket-on-Chez, although I think I read somewhere that work on futures is not a priority at this time.

Also, to confirm the sibling comment, SBCL is happy to spawn truly parallel threads. There are other Scheme implementations (I think Chicken at least, but not sure right now) who allow the same.

[1] https://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/parallelism.html#%28part....

https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/futures.html
Cool assumptions.
* KeePass2Android Offline :)
So true. I felt like this in my supposedly stable investment banking job. The stability is a farce - I've seen lifers get let go abruptly in an afternoon.

Ultimately, the instability drove me to set up my own business, and while it was tough initially, I'm so glad I did.
People also need to get over the fact that on a business platform like Facebook Google, Reddit -- you have no rights (except those spelled out in their editable tos/privacy policy/etc...), None of these entities has ANY legal requirement to give you a platform for hate speech, and has EVERY right to ban said speech. Unless we'd rather the government take over Facebook and have full on communism, and make all these businesses public entities, etc...
> Does anyone do Socratic dialogue in comment threads anymore?

Not since "begging the question" became an acceptable way to enforce "official" modes of thought in places like this.
Thank you for the advice, friend!
>my opinion that those that produce waste must have a plan to deal with it.

Any plan to deal with waste is going to be entirely thwarted by people who choose to litter. The lifecycle of Coca Cola packaging could become 100% waste free, but litter would still be created any time somebody chooses the throw the packaging on the ground. People have an individual responsibility to not litter, and it really doesn’t have to do much with the discussion on sustainable packaging. If your starting premise to solving any problem is ‘people are 100% not responsible for their choices’, then you’re never going to solve anything.
Technically, Coca-Cola consumers are the most common source of packaging pollution on UK beaches. That's a lot different than what the title states. Since Coca-cola is the largest seller of beverages in containers, it only is common sense that would be true. But hey, blame Coke. Let's blame the ocean for people drowning as well, or the local utilities for people being electrocuted or gravity for people falling to their death.
The Fear and Startups (2013)
Progress and the Randomized Time Machine
Most Asians I know are very well educated and doing well. I bet they are probably much better off compared to other minorities in the US. When I was doing PhD 90% of my classmates were Chinese. I think it is a bit of a stretch to to say Asians are completely getting screwed in the US.
Fallacious whatabout'ism.
The main difference is that the low-budget in EU is much more aggressive, to the point where IMO there's not much sense in racing to the bottom with them; you'd never beat them on cost. And European consumers are more willing to put up with crappier flights because (Western) Europe is so much smaller; Lisbon to Berlin is under 4h. Plus the high speed rail is available as an additional competitor, so national airlines have to differentiate there as well.

The major American carriers mostly compete with each other and Southwest.
I don't buy the curation argument. I see a lot of Medium articles published on Hacker Noon/Free Code Camp and then posted to Hacker News which remind me of the PHP tutorials that we always complain about.
Yup, that's probably why it will mostly be a hobby project supporting a limited number of great writers/publications so that I don't have to think about funding/growth and all the things that are associated with that!
This neural net would like to deliver these petitions
SO is a good company and this is what good companies do
Less likely to have targeted attacks but you are still at risk of someone finding an exploit in the software and sending a bot to scan the internet for the software
Why offline? (And how do you sync?)
Well yes...the person you're replying to is saying that those schools should get enough funding (and whatever else) so that they can offer those benefits.
In order to be truly immortal one needs to be indestructible. The chance to die in an accident essentially limits the average human life span to around 200 years.

(Ironically, indestructibility, on the other hand, can lead to situations that are worse than death.)
> frankly the SAT and the whole college admissions process are bullshit anyway

What's crazy about this whole controversy is that HN is usually skeptical towards college anyway. Even beyond the pro-Peter Thiel arguments back in the day about how college is a waste of time, nowadays there are plenty of allegations on HN about how higher ed is a bubble. About how CS, or at least programming, can be self-taught. So I don't understand why so many people here are giving College Board and the college industry any credence here.
One of these two groups of people is regularly beheading people on camera and blowing up innocent civilians

The other is trolls on 4chan and SS LARPers.
The biggest thing stopping me is the worry I might misconfigure something after making some change in 6 months when I’m busy.
I'm saying that if one supports policies with the intended effect of excluding people from moving into one's neighborhood, it's hypocrisy to call oneself inclusive.

> If you want more housing, hoping that prices will go down, say so. If you favor a SF Bay area looking progressively more like NY City, say so. Many people are very happy in NYC.

Yes, absolutely. Build more housing and build denser housing. This is what pro-housing people have been saying for years.

> And prices are also very high there.

There's 8 million people in NYC instead of 800,000 in San Francisco.

> Just expect some people to frankly disagree with that proposed evolution, and don't attack them by being non inclusive: this is not the question. Misrepresenting their arguments is not helping further your point of view.

Pointing out the contradiction of one's purported values with their actions is not an attack. When people support exclusory policies like rent control and curbing housing development with the goal of reducing the ability of people to move there, they are being exclusive. This is not a misrepresentation. People who support said policies while simultaneously purporting to foster an inclusive community are indeed being hypocritical. This is not an attack, this is a factually correct observation.
> I know that promoting affirmative action is tantamount to blasphemy on this site, but let's be honest here.

Yes, let's be honest! I was from one of those locations where "adversity" would have benefited me. Worst school district in the state, low income, etc.

I am and I suspect will continue to be upset that the harder I work, the less benefit I receive. I pulled myself out of that situation. People in similar situations don't. I don't think everyone can, but they have an equal opportunity to. All they have to do is study or even just work hard or join the army / navy and do their 20 years.

I understand equal opportunity, but at this point we are forgoing equal opportunity and have been for a long time. By setting limits, calculating scores based on hardship, etc. We are doing the opposite of making it equal opportunity by definition.

> additional context to the scores students receive

Most people lack motivation to get out of their situation and improve, because either they are happy with it or they don't have drive. If they don't have drive, they likely wouldn't succeed anyway and they are taking the spot of someone with said drive. If they are happy - good for them. I’m sure they’d be happy to take a hand out, but they are taking someone else’s spot more deserving.
No, they shouldn't be. Censorship is not the answer.
Wouldn't this really just turn into a database as a service?
Why make a new program to submit large files over tcp when rsync already exists?

https://rsync.samba.org/