skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This comment strikes me as idealistic and disconnected from reality. It idealizes the mythos of risk/reward/effort for founders while minimizing the risk and effort of later employees. Founders work very hard, but I know people at Apple who work harder. Founders take financial risks, but I know people who've taken pay-cuts an order of magnitude larger than bootstrap costs to get 1% of a company that ultimately failed.

The reality is that there are no objective, consistent metrics which map risk to equity or effort to equity, all we have is cultural norms, pretending otherwise is a self-serving narrative.
How much would all this cost in 2019? I'm wondering because I see many more people turn towards solar panels, or alternatively windmills. First time I see a hydro plant of this size.
Pocket which by default suggests "pocket worthy" articles and ads on the new tab page (which after a while you get a feel for what "pocket worthy" actually means).

The other day I got one that made the case that both private schools and homeschooling should be illegal.
I probably will - given age and living habits. But that aside; are you saying that we should try and sustain inbounded population growth on this tiny globe of ours?
And if so, why/how?
I assume it happens regularly. I had a couple of flights myself on other plans than initially advertised. I always assumed that the airline canceled/delayed other flights because of it (taking plane a and crew a from flight a to do flight b with plane a).

Before the 737 Max got grounded (after the 2nd crash), I remember reports that some airlines allowed passengers to rebook their flights for free (to end up on a different plane). I doubt they will continue doing it once the 737 Max is allowed to fly again. Eg, Southwest is too dependent on it.
30 Years After Tiananmen, a Hazy Future for Protest in Hong Kong
You're assuming Google won't deprecate HTML in favour of dynamic JS in the next few years.
If you are already a criminal, you aren't worried about the lack of a permit that much. Especially when you are a cybercriminal separated from your server by multiple cryptocurrency tumblers.

Forward intelligence teams already record the faces of people taking part in peaceful and legal protests. You can bet your ass they cross-ref the feed with their Linkedin and Facebook data dumps. The same tech is now becoming available to everyone.

The USA can prevent its people from putting an M2 on their truck. Mexico can't (in some states). Syria can't (almost anywhere). The internet is closer to Mexico than the US.
There's CLEVR: http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_cvpr_2017/papers/Johnso...
How does performance compare to C/C++?
> Almost all of these examples I'd argue would be better suited for something like .map()

Roughly half of his examples take an array and return either a differently-sized array, or a different data structure altogether. I can’t imagine how one could argue for a map in these cases.
It is not useful for small time attackers - small time attackers/children/etc just use booters which at least usually output double digit gbps, often spoofed, costs a cent or pay in runescape gold or other bullshit like that. Your upstream will need to mitigate this. No small scale attacker will be launching their own attacks (from their own machines), unless they were seriously incompetent but also think they're some form of power user, which doesn't really happen...

It is not useful for straight HTML - volumetric DDoS will take it out (not l7), it's not even going to make it to your machine. It does not mitigate well against any real major l7 flood either, just by virtue of "your pipe is smaller". A formal l7 attack would at least do basic recon to find a high resource consumption page (like search.php?q=%20 or something)

I guess this would come in maybe slightly useful with someone running ab or jmeter from a single machine toward you? But I don't know a single instance of that happening in the last decade..
Why did you put the 800 in there? The 737-800 is a separate plane from the 737-MAX, and doesn't suffer from these problems (and is still operating; I just flew one cross-country last week). You might be referring to the 737-MAX 8 (not 800), which is the only variant of the 737-MAX delivered so far.
You're thinking of FDR: False discovery rate. It equals
Σ False positive/Σ Predicted condition positive.

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_and_recall for a table of different terms.
This sample

function keyByUsernameReducer(acc, person) {
return {...acc, [person.username]: person};
}
const peopleObj = peopleArr.reduce(keyByUsernameReducer, {});

has O(n*n) complexity and memory consumption of the same magnitude.

This, while being not so functional pure, is better I think:

function keyByUsernameReducer(acc, person) {
acc[person.username] = person;
return acc;
}

But still... needless function call on each iteration.
yeah, I also noticed this and this is the one reason I wont be switching to Firefox on my macbook. On other PCs I’ve been using firefox for a long time now.
"Freedom" vetting? What are they afraid of?
This is definitely a problem worth more innovations. But it should be kept in mind that the core idea of coming up with such a model is literally to design a contract. By recognizing that, it becomes evident that the contract must benefit, and be voluntarily acceptable, by both counterparties.

In finance, we already have a lot of innovations, thanks to the significant reduction of the transaction/contract-enforcement costs. I guess that is why it has not happened in other fields like employment contracts or partnership agreements. The designing and enforcement costs of any innovative contracts are just too high (considering you have to hire a layer to confirm all those changes and when you have to sue someone for violations).
Same, but to be fair that accurately matches my feelins towards Go.
There’s no indication they are capable of this.
Ignoring the fact that pocket is a company with dozens of employees who curate content and calling it just an extension to save pages is deeply disingenuous. If you're right, why lie? Pocket suggests articles and lets you save them.
It's not about culture alone, rather also about the weather patterns. In India, monsoon is the major climactic event around then. So it's not spring-summer-autumn-winter in India (in most part of the country), rather, it is summer-monsoon-winter
You're assuming I care about what Google does ;)
That's kind of interesting and I can see that being a good halfway point, to prove you weren't disenfranchised, at least.
You’d need something like the GDPR I imagine.

While tracking and anti-trust are only loosely coupled, both are symptoms of an anti-social company.
Not just download, but write yourself in a short time. And the code could be shared, and I’d guess you can build a decent system to do this in a few hundred lines.

It’s a ridiculous proposition to restrict software access, akin to making it illegal to write on paper.
> specially for new devs that come from more object oriented approaches

Could this be solved by accepting in the team only those devs who are comfortable with functional programming? :-)
Lettings fee ban brings cheer to tenants
Odin is comparable with C and C++ in terms of performance and capabilities. It currently uses LLVM as its backend.
Yes, absolutely. First criminal would be governments, who spy and track their own citizens with impunity.
The "Hexwave" one is bogus - they show a single person walking through the disguised scanners. Anyone that has been to a sporting event can say that crowds at the gates are the norm, and if the system goes off (it false positives, most likely) security now has to identify which of 8-10 people it alerted on. You've just increased the number of people you annoyed by an order of magnitude.
The camera is a prop there. No policeman is going to do more than smile and nod at the crazy lady accusing a mechanic of stealing tires from a rental car.
You're being provincial.
An extreme waste of resources from an anti terrorism perspective. But, occasionally useful when looking for people lying about their reasons to enter the US.
I didn't realize the effect would be so immediate. I thought it may affect next year's model but this current gen was fine.

If it affects current gen smartphones could it also affect current gen 5g equipment?

This would mean hauwei is essentially dead in the water.
Laravel's Factory Method but for JavaScript
>Not in a market with perfect competition.

I'm sorry, but it reminds me of a joke about a physicist tasked to optimize a dairy - "for a perfectly spherical cow in frictionless vacuum..."

>While we will never get to perfect competition, even moderately competitive markets avoid most of the problems of rent seeking and monopoly abuse.

Well, at the core of capitalism lies a positive feedback loop that allows people with a lot of capital to more freely invest long term than those with less capital, and forces people who barely get by to accept worse deals in order to survive. As I see it, the more people own capital, the more likely an average person is to be on both sides of asshole deals, which is slightly better. Unlike fixing competition by legislation, it doesn't put so much power in the hands of people who get to decide where "honest competition" ends and "underhanded tactics" begin (for example where just being better than competition and protecting your trade secrets ends, and vendor lock-in begins).

I'm aware that it's also a "spherical cow" solution and I'm not sure if that would actually fly in real life (coops seem to pop up here and there from time to time, and none has revolutionized the world) and perhaps your solution is more robust in that it targets the market forces that shape companies, instead of trying to build something against them. I guess that if I ever get around to trying my wet dream of staring a tech coop, I'll be sure to post it here.
I'm not entirely sure, that why I put a question mark on it. Some of the users I surveyed are devs themselves and to my surprise, they think Electron is good. I've just read this article[1] and I think it's best to describe the situation of being a JS dev

[1]: https://medium.com/@s_27669/i-am-definitely-maybe-suffering-...
Those automated machine guns already exist, a Korean company was developing them over a decade ago for the DMZ.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGR-A1
I wonder if Huawei could sell their mobile business to BBK Electronics and avoid sanctions. BBK is already the second largest smartphone manufacturer after Samsung.
Much easier to assassinate the messenger than to argue a counterpoint.
The defining charteristic of humanity is that we refuse to accept natural population dynamics and don't let ourselves be governed by them.
I've got a shirt that the millimeter scanners don't like. I get patted down every time I wear it on a flight. No metallic lining needed.
I won’t argue the challenges of the school district, but Lockport, NY is most certainly the county seat of Niagara County, NY.

https://data.ny.gov/widgets/4xc7-bukh
The electoral college is, by original design, intended to keep the few large (population-wise) states from dominating the federal government. In other words, not much about it works as originally designed, but the one thing that does is what it did in 2016, which was to guarantee that you cannot dominate federal government if you ignore rural and small states.

Which, given the Democrats urban emphasis, means it is biased against them, not as an accident or via a loophole, but by original design. I don't know that the Republicans deserve a lot of credit for seeing this, it was no secret, it was the original stated intention of giving each state 2 senators, and making electoral college votes equal senators plus representatives.

One does have to ask, though, why the Democrats have resolutely refused to acknowledge that this is how the electoral college works, and pay more attention to winning in rural and small states.
C extensions are a pretty common thing in the Python ecosystem, you're making this sound a lot more drastic than it is
This is both frightening and disheartening.

We've not been the home of the brave for a while now and I think we're pretty far from the land of the free to the outside world. This is the next level of "papers please" and I bet if this remains and is enforced will be used against citzens as well. May or may not be as bad as China's social credit system.

I want to say this feels "un-American" but I'm not sure we'll ever come back from over-reaching moves like this and TSA.
$95,000 to fix up a NYC studio apartment, but it was all a scam, officials say
Theresa May Should Have Listened to John Adams
I did an ESTA application a few weeks ago and was wondering why anyone in their right mind would fill in the section where you can optionally provide social media details. Guess this answers that question.
Which will come at the cost of billions of tourist dollars when people stop coming in because the entry lines are so long dealing with all of this nonsense.

So I’m not sure it’s much of a win.
> Pumped hydro.

Yes, I did some beer-matt calculations on this. I believe it is 10J to raise 1kg by 1m. So to raise 2000lt of water (2000kg) by 10m it would need 10J * 2000 * 10 = 200,000J. Call it 0.5MJ to take possible losses into account. A kWh is 3.6MJ. Which basically means I would get 0.14kWh storage as a reward for building a 10m high tower which can support 2 tonnes.

When my batteries can store 10kWh (in theory), it just doesn't seem to make sense to me.

Of course if I had a lake on the top of a hill that could be a different matter. It would also be a different matter if I didn't need 10m head (1bar). Sprinklers do require pressure though.

> Or... Just don't water the grass?

A good point. There are two reasons I do this: 1) I'm from the UK, green grass feels homely to me, 2) forest fires are an actual part of life here, and stopping the area around one's house being flamable is important. Paving, gravelling, tarmacking, and watering are all ways to deal with this.
The question is not whether the author made a fortune, but whether they were upset that tremendous more value was captured by others. I’m sure Amazon has made way more money on AWS last year by leveraging Linux than Linus has in his entire life. Now the analogy is exactly 1-to-1 compatible: Amazon offers Linux as a service, Amazon offers MongoDB as a service. If you want another analogy: more value was captured by Github (and Microsoft) from Git than Linus. Again, from offering the software as a service.

It is fine to try to leverage the properties of open source to make profits, just don’t be surprised when it doesn’t, on its own, do so. That is what is meant by my first statement: “open source will absolutely help you gain traction, it will not necessarily help you capture value”. As such, if you use open source, the goal best served is gaining users. Don’t be surprised when it doesn’t make you a ton of money.
I don't blame the townies. The results seem to be the same whether it's East Lansing MI or State College PA. There is a culture in the Big 10, of tolerating exploitation in service of dubious collegiate athletic achievement. Does the school administration spend a fraction of the time thinking about lifesaving drugs that they spend thinking about football? If legislatures had any regard for their states, they would shut down such rotten institutions.
> On a related note, I would like to postulate that monopolies are inherently anti-consumer because they are anti competitive by design.

Monopolies are the fact of absence of competition by definition, but not necessarily anti-competitive by design.

But the absence of competition in a market isn't always bad for consumers.

First, a market may not be a consumer market, and more importantly monopolies may be bad for customers because they may improve the product that can be offered. (Netflix acquiring competition had made each streaming services worse, with smaller and less stable libraries and rising prices; it's been a bonanza for content owners, but not consumers.) One factor in why monopolies can be better for consumers is that they tend also to be monopsonies.
I see this term used a lot in Korean dramas by 'Chaebol' type characters, always wondered what exactly they meant.
That will happen, once. People who sue want all information forever. People who get sued want to keep nothing.
Do you have examples off the top of your head of really great names that have come as a result of this process?
Horse is optional - I think the critical item is "A Gabriel"
At least in my experience the summer solstice is called midsummer, but is not (any more?) regarded as the middle of summer. According to [1] summer is commonly seen as beginning in June, with the exact date varying between the first, the 21st, the day of the summer solstice (20th/21st) or the end of May. [2] gives some insight into the mechanism causing this definition of the seasons.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer#Summer_timing

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_lag
This I can understand. I have a friend who travels to the US semi regularly on a tourist reason (has family there) but then works informally, selling handicrafts / jewellery at markets and posts all over his facebook about what he is selling and when he will be selling it and where.
i only use firefox for development -- i actually prefer its dev tools to chrome's.

also, since i'm the only one on my team that does it, i often get CSS issues that only appear on firefox because the frontend people are using chrome specific hacks.
They don't want to sit on inventory, liquidity is important to them in this situation
Muslims, wikileaks employees, and corporate espionage, I’d guess.
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Or in my case just add the US to the do-not-travel list.

Which to be fair they put themselves on quite a while ago with other shit.
Rethinking Files
Not free (actually, quite expensive imo), but one of my clients used Qrator. Don't know if it is any better or worse than CF.
As odd as it sounds, the US has seen a significant uptick in tourism despite similar policies.

https://travel.trade.gov/view/m-2017-I-001/documents/US%20Vi...

So, while their is likely some backlash, people seem to just accept with things.
Uhh i3 has had a scratchpad forever and I use it in tabbed mode with as many tabs as I want
On host mitigation usually works. Most attacks are small.

Iptables definetly can help with real ddos attacks.
Why not just hit up the social media companies secretly? Guess this just makes things easier on the spooks.
OVH servers include a pretty efficient DDoS protection. It was the only option for hosting my online game servers that didn't cost tens of thousands.
Will I be considered suspicious because I don't have a Facebook/Twitter/Instagram account?
That is very interesting to me, thank you!
You missed the but the legacy code is going to be a big, big problem. part. If, as other posters point out, those C extensions are not designed to work without the the GIL, then its going to be a 2->3 situation.

Frankly, I honor the Python folks and all their achievements, but I really dislike the language. I mostly am researching another paradigm.
One of the features of Spectacle.app that I really like is its ability to overload the same key macro to cycle through multiple variations of splits. Like if you press the left-half macro multiple times, it cycles between left-half, left-two-thirds, left-third. That way I don't need to assign or remember nearly so many key combinations.

Can any of the other macOS window controllers do that? Spectacle hasn't been maintained in years and the bug reports are piling up.
Climate change refugees are already common.

For instance, climate change played some role in the current Venezuelan refugee crisis (the one that has Trump separating families and housing people in camps under overpasses, or bussing them to sanctuary cities).

Today, the main problem is that their government started to collapse in 2017, so they are unable to supply food to their population.

Why did the government start to collapse? Well, they have seen lower crop yields in recent years, which means more food imports, which means they are more vulnerable to embargoes, etc.

It only has data to 2016, but this site shows across the board agricultural production collapses in 2015 and 2016.

https://www.ceicdata.com/en/venezuela/agricultural-productio...

The government went into disarray in 2017.

In 2018 (and maybe earlier; tldr) US sanctions cut off oil revenue. The sanctions are due to terrorism, corruption, human trafficking, and human rights violations, which are, again symptoms of a collapsing government:

https://fas.org/sgp/crs/row/IF10715.pdf

You may also remember tortilla riots a few years back when the price of corn spiked. That probably led to some migration.

Arguably, and famines that led to refugees in the last 10-20 years are due to climate change.

The issue is that we’re at a tipping point where they will become more common.
Tourism-wise, US has been dead to me since 9-11, so I don't mind posting this comment.
Consider a fast food business. Should the manager be satisfied with making 10% profit on french fries?
Lenovo X220 was the best laptop ever produced. But after 8 years non-stop use they often need fan and thermal paste replaced.
From the abstract: https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13423-019-01598-6

>Recent work has argued that curiosity can improve learning. However, these studies also leave open the possibility that being on the verge of knowing can itself induce curiosity. We investigate how prior knowledge relates to curiosity and subsequent learning using a trivia question task. Curiosity in our task is best predicted by a learner’s estimate of their current knowledge, more so than an objective measure of what they actually know. Learning is best predicted by both curiosity and an objective measure of knowledge. These results suggest that while curiosity is correlated with knowledge, there is only a small boost in learning from being curious. The implication is that the mechanisms that drive curiosity are not identical to those that drive learning outcomes.
Queue other countries responding in kind to US citizens.
I’d argue that thriving tourism has more to do with a booming global economy than anything else.
Correct, but that is exactly how the people talking about the self-publishing route are thinking: in terms of return on investment. The ROI in a standard publisher is small, and that is how it is supposed to be for something that is just a side project where you don't want to spend additional time. I am not saying that self-publishing doesn't have use cases: if you want to publish a book for which it is difficult to find a publisher, or if you're considering to do this as a full time job or a big part of your business, then self-publishing might be the right thing to do.
Thinking cap on, Why?

NSA and by extension CIA already have this data as its unencrypted and flowing through the telecom taps they do.

I think it implies that certain tech solutions by a certain founder are not performing as gov was led to expect.

So basically visitors basically being told legally hey out yourself as far as public social messages because we the US gov have some tech problems with tracking dow3n that social message keyword stuff.
Rajasthan is a desert. The city mentioned in the article, Churu, currently has a humidity of 11%. I mentioned Tempe because it's nearly an identical climate. I've spent time in Ajmer, India, which is pretty close to Churu. It was only about 45C/113F when I was there.

Obviously this is all anecdotal, but my anecdote here isn't off base.
Not to mention foreigners lookin’ to steal ‘merican jawbs!
> We've not been the home of the brave for a while now

No more nor no less than any other country, who all have their own cultural stories why they are brave as well