skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is an historical fact that the United States has profoundly and repeatedly screwed over nearly every single nation south of it on the two American continents, starting coups to topple democratically elected governments, invading, supporting dictators, and destroying economies over the last century. I think claims about economic migrants and/or refugees that don't acknowledge this background are absurd.

But now I'm physically reluctant to type out this fact, because it could conceivably jeopardize my next visa application.

The values and freedoms that people picture America stands for, and that it bases its claims to legitimacy on -freedom of thought and speech, democracy, for example- aren't values that America has any interest in upholding for people outside its own borders, instead it repeatedly shows contempt for them; and in the case of dozens of minorities (ethnic, religious, gender and sexual) it shows little interest in upholding these values and freedoms for its own citizens.

It's mind-numbing to me that Americans speaking to non-Americans who might begin to encounter reasons why American foreign policy in particular is littered with atrocities will now be even less exposed to that information of that because of the chilling effect of social media screening.
It basically eliminates the "paging" abstraction, and lets the storage controller, with specific knowledge of the hardware implementation, to intelligently do the minimum necessary reads/writes with the actual hardware to express the desired changes. It makes me wonder how locking/race conditions/consistency is implemented since that's one of the features of the page abstraction that's not obviously addressed with this tech.
That may be the case but if you look at the commit history of cstore_fdw on Github, it's not that active. Also, none of the paid Citus customers were using cstore_fdw with Citusdb last year to my knowledge so that was not their focus even though this was the initial idea. The Citus engineer that I asked this question was not even sure if cstore_fdw can be used with the distributed version of Citus.

My conclusion was that most of the Citus users use it for OLTP workloads since PG doesn't really have a distributed query planner that works smoothly with the OLAP workloads.
How would less permissive software existing have helped e.g. MongoDB with their "AWS problem"?
> less time than it takes to philosophize

You will have had enough time for that before you start moving really fast. (Also, philosophizing is usually a very slow process anyway.)
I liked the little captions explaining what the cat was doing. It made it seem like the cat was a robot switching modes.

STARE

DISPLACE

VOCALISATION (GROWL)

STRIKE

It was like watching Robocat vs. Tooncinator.
You’re conflating units, I think. The long range Model 3 has a 75 kWHr battery pack, and goes about 300 miles. That equates to about 250 wh/mi. This bus has a 374 kWHr battery pack, and goes 300 kilometers. That’s 180 miles, so about 2100 whr/mi. The “energy” tab of the Model 3 is displaying watt-hours.
You could generalize that to "... we as mammals ..."
without much loss of precision.

* allowing naked mole rats & elephants as outliers
UNREALISTICALLY HIGH REAL ESTATE PRICES.

Single biggest purchase and wealth building instrument is buying REAL ESTATE / HOUSE.

Most millennials are not leaving on the streets homeless. They are paying high rent prices = money wasted = money that could have been going towards building their wealth long term, towards their homes.

High education costs prevented them from buying homes early which in turn impacted their net worth long term.

Simple example: If you buy a house in an average area when you are 30 - by 35 you have at least $50,000 that you paid towards your net worth (assuming very budget 1000/month mortgage).

Whats happening instead today? High housing costs and debt load from education prevent younger generation from bulding their wealth early through real estate. Something previous generations enjoyed.

We need more affordable housing, we need to change building codes and zoning laws to allow construction of affordable homes easily (that younger folks/families/singles can afford to buy). We need to build out infrastructure!
I learned recently that in Spanish, cats only have 7 lives.
>An employer cannot then use the information collected for any other reason. For example, if the organisation is using CCTV to monitor crime, it cannot then use it to monitor staff.

>Employers need to be aware that staff can request to see the recordings kept of them by making a subject access request

The second kind of undermines the interest sought to be protected by the first. I can imagine nefarious reasons for wanting to see the same frames of footage that you happen to be in.

What function does this access serve anyway?
The inverse also happens:

You: I want to find a solution to X.

Response: you probably don't want to solve X, but rather W. Here's a solution for W, ...

You: sigh
Booty Pics
> It’s impossible to free ride with a permissive license like the one used.

On the contrary, permissive licenses has been quietly pushed by companies, together with replacing Free Software with Open Source, in order to exploit it.
American people are wonderful and there is no better place to be IMO but the current government is not representative of this great majority. Please don't blame us all for Trump and his cretins.
If we're talking about issues that require attention to save lives of children, then adding traffic-calming infrastructure only to urban areas will put a big dent in the problem, as most of the ICD codes which correlate with young age ranges happen in urban areas.

> Can you imagine the commute of someone in a suburban or rural area, in winter, on a bike?

Indeed I can, because there are areas of the US, and even more of Western Europe, where a mixed transit and bike trip can be achieved all year long. I suggest that you try out a commute-like trip from outside Portland or Amsterdam into the cities centers to see what I mean.

> It would just make driving more annoying

Boo hoo. Annoyance is a small price to pay for the power that comes with controlling a machine that kills 3,000 children in the USA alone.

> ...and expensive for them.

I'm not sure that's true.
Have you considered that you might have ADHD or some other cause for your writing difficulties besides just anxiety? If so, it may help to work with an occupational therapist to come up with specific strategies to work better (e.g., setting up an environment conducive to writing, scheduling time to write, outlining before beginning).
I asked you three specific questions:

1. What do you make of the many reputable, accomplished scientists, physicists, etc. who do not believe that it is soundly supported by basic science?

2. What do you make of the former IPCC scientists who have whistleblown on the IPCC scientists' political bias and resigned in protest?

3. What do you make of Cook, et al's fraudulent "97% consensus" paper?

You then replied with 1,100 words that do not answer any of the three questions I asked. Instead you offered generic, verbose opinion about science and scientists and politics.

I don't know who you are trying to convince, but if it's me, you didn't, because you did not answer my serious, specific questions.

Science is advanced by specific answers to specific questions. If you are as serious about this issue as you ostensibly are, you ought to have specific answers for these specific questions.

If you don't have them, and if you won't get them, then do us both a favor and just admit that you don't know the answers and aren't willing to find them. It is rude to offer verbose bullshit to someone attempting to engage you in serious discussion.
That's why you need 5 sensors or so on something this mission-critical. Enough that you can have a clear democratic majority if one or two goes on the fritz.
All felids sleep a lot. Lions are known to nap for 2/3 of the day. This becomes understandable when you realize they live or die based on the success of a few chases and pounces, for which they must conserve their energy.

But yeah, a cat sleeping near you or "ignoring" you means he likes you enough that he thinks he can afford to chill out in your presence. He really likes you if he takes over your bed to sleep in. The highest compliments a cat gives are often understated.
Yes, I think we are in agreement. Except that MIT is not as well understood as most people think it is (Kyle Mitchell wrote about it, can't find the link right now), so you might want to lawyer up for opensource too. :)

I just think a solution that better aligns incentives of users, businesses and developers is needed, because opensource doesn't do its job good enough. But time will tell which licenwe will get enough backing to succeed in dethroning it.
> (b) no deceleration at the end

That kills it for me.
Yeah, this strikes me as someone trying to legislate a business model into working: engage open source contributors for all features but also have an exclusive rights to sell them in an Enterprise offering without competing with Amazon.

The stronger part of the argument is that Amazon is being anticompetitive by using their privileged role as AWS' hardware operator to compete with app providers in on higher layers. Maybe in a few years we will have a lawsuit related to the one Apple is facing now about ios apps.
Not a surprise when you consider that more people are spending money to go to college, where they are mostly taught to be poor (spend money on school, rely on a job for income, spend your money on a house, do what you love, etc.)
SHH!! DON'T TELL THEM THE PLOT!

We have to let them think that they're in control... That their languages are "just happening" to slowly evolve into shitty variants of Haskell.
It handles differently, yes. That could be handled with a bit of training.
But are targeted ads worth more? Yes, if I'm shopping for a BMW then Mercedes definitely wants to advertise to me. However, targeted ads don't seem to work as well as Google/Facebook would like advertisers to think. Mercedes can just advertise if I'm searching duckduckgo for BMW, rather than pay to advertise to me for 2 months after I bought a BMW.

Note that this is how targeted advertising currently works, I see ads for products I have already purchased, which is just wasted money.
I haven't heard of it ever activating except in the incident/accident flights. It's required for certification, but you would either have to be mishandling the plane or get in some extreme weather for MCAS to activate.

Think about it like the Antilock brakes on your car. Suppose the wheel position sensor fails. It's fine if the car puts up a warning light and says that you don't have antilock brakes anymore. You can drive fine without them until you can get them fixed with a minor safety impact. It's not fine if the wheel position sensor fails and this causes the car to slam on the brakes going 65mph down the highway.
This cat had 7 at the time of filming.
Our disagreement about the spirit of open source is fundamental.
This gets reposted now, a day (ish) after I saw someone comment "is this an instance of the XY problem?"

I suspect that people are mining data from ("paying attention to") certain posted keywords and then re-posting.

How might I disprove the null hypothesis that people are just repackaging highly voted comments? How might I convince myself that I am wrong or right? Please show your work or cite sources.
Kids growing up in poverty just have to grow up faster and those outcomes are a strain on their mental health. Consider they are born with a mission to “save the whole family” early on without the tools to do it. That is much more pressure than just going to school every day if they are even privileged enough to go to school. That may sound shocking but with technology (online correspondence classes) and looser “home schooling” laws you now have a generation of kids which just didn’t receive education at all. Schools are more strict towards social behavior and I have met more young people that tell me they were expelled from school at the age of 13 than ever before. So, how do you “save the family” now? I truly wish these kids got the second chances I received growing up to redeem themselves but they don’t. The resulting survival mechanisms they are forced into really blur the lines of wrong and right. It’s really more than I can sum up in a single comment but something is going to need to be done here in the US about this.
Likewise, I don't understand your position. Just because something is legal doesn't mean we're not allowed to complain. Besides the legal contract, the social contract can be just as important.

For example, my country has freedom of speech and assembly and so forth, and it's easy to see cases where someone exercises their legal rights in ways that are supremely annoying to others, and not in any way productive for society. When we see people abusing the system, we speak out about it. The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.

What's the alternative? Disallow freedom of speech? Sometimes we might feel tempted, but it turns out that that has all kinds of terrible problems. As they say: this is the worst form of government, except for all the others that have been tried.

There are many cases where doing the minimum that the law allows is fine and accepted. (Most people don't intentionally overpay their income tax.) There are other cases where doing something that's merely not technically illegal is frowned upon by social convention. What we're seeing is the corporate world (legal minimum) and the individual world (social contract) colliding. Who wins? So far, the corporations are.

It's easy to say "You should have picked a different license, then!" after the fact, but maybe there isn't a license which would have worked better. Maybe this is the best of several bad options. (Maybe using a more restrictive license would have caused the company to ignore the software entirely and write their own completely proprietary alternative, for example.) Maybe using the internet soapbox to plead for leadership is actually the optimal strategy.

The GNU GPL was an amazingly clever hack to use the legal system to assist enforcing a social contract, but I don't think we can expect to find solutions like that in every case.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20065142.
Outlaw Country
Ah, just another reason this example was not very good. It’s a complicated one.
No, that would be AGPL, and freeloaders hate it.
Can't wait for the next evil-mode happening
> However, identity politics is specifically when the tribal motivations exceed and dominate all other motivations.

Then the term "identity politics" shouldn't be applied. But even if we accept that extremely narrow view: there are numerous political segments that are notorious for doing what you describe across the political spectrum. Most notable the rural Scotch-Irish, often criticized for routinely voting against their self-interest and instead choosing to vote for pols who simply provide them cultural validation and do nothing to address their material concerns.
A home is not necessarily an asset or wealth. For the vast majority of homeowners their home is their largest liability (it costs them money).

The idea that spending money to buy a home is “building wealth” is incredibly stupid. It’s bad advice for everyone but a real estate agent.
From what I have seen, very few people prioritize paying off their student loans. But in any case, I would expect that the net worth of most in the 18-35 age bracket is negative, except maybe for those people in their late 20s that haven't yet bought a home and are still saving up for a down payment. On the front end, you have student loan debt, plus they haven't worked long enough to generate any savings, while on the back end, they might have some 401k savings invested, but they would have mortgages with little equity that would dominate the calculation.
This whole plane sounds like any ugly hack. They slapped very different engines on an existing airframe. Then, when it inevitability exhibited undesirable behaviour, they tried to paper over the cracks. Then they hid this information from their customers, regulatory agencies and the pilots.

It makes me wonder if there are other issues with the Max that the public doesn't know about yet.

I hope a thorough review of Boeing's internal communications is already underway. If there is proof that these decisions were made for financial gain, they should face criminal charges.

IMO, whether it was greed or just general incompetence, Boeing has demonstrated that they are not responsible enough to self-certify their aircraft.
This article, as usual, has no idea what it's talking about.

The first issue is that ad auctions are 2nd price, meaning that if an advertiser bids really high, they still only pay the 2nd-highest bid + $0.01. Of course the publishers wouldn't realize much from this. Second major issue is cookies and scale. You can't get high-value bids if advertisers can't recognize those users.

The industry is slowly moving toward quais-first-price but scale is a fundamental problem, which is again why Facebook, Google, and now Amazon get all the money and do really well with behavior targeting while even big publishers struggle. Add in the new privacy regulations and this will only further widen that gap.
Until they can sell their service profitably, whether it is truly “worth” billions is questionable.
Which is good, otherwise web pages might look like lisp.
This engine appears to have neither an interesting evaluation of positions, nor any of the performance tweaks that make traditional engines powerful. You're likely to learn more in an afternoon on https://www.chessprogramming.org, but all chess engines are beautiful in their own way, and I have certainly created nothing better.
The polticians have destroyed California. This is your case study for social programs, socialism, unlimited immigration, social justice policy and now they are testing UBI?

California should be our wake up call to change, instead, we double down on the same policies.
Because they can fix the computer and the sensors but if they have to toss out the whole airframe they're going to be out billions.
Discussion from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19956878
Ask HN: When designing an algorithm, how can the maths be coded?
I'm a little bit confused with how the maths can be coded into an algorithm..
Not only that, enough time without food can free you of all the worries that are common to mere mortals :)
Reinventing the Small Wind Turbine
Do you think it will really impact them significantly? I mean, some areas will become less hospitable, while others will probably improve. Food may become a little bit more expensive because of draughts, but we spend so little on food now that even 50% rise won’t be too terrible. All in all, I don’t see global warming having a dramatic impact on people’s lives, perhaps with the exception of people having to move because of it - but then again, even that’s not huge, as people move all the time.

The biggest risk is probably when a lot of people in a given place will want to move at the same time (and/or into the same destination), as it can cause political instability.
The latter is a hell of of a task, given the complexity of the current web standards. I'm not sure if it's possible to do this decently without some kind of serious financial backing.
It's not unlikely because it happened repeatedly:

https://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/558483-iced-aoa-sensors-...

http://avherald.com/h?article=410c9cec/0015
David Cameron Hired by Artificial Intelligence Firm
Their long-term plan has been to replace human drivers with autonomous vehicles, which actually would reduce marginal costs. Whether that ever actually happens we don't know yet, but the fact that they've been pouring money into it with no returns as yet is a major source of their losses.

> They absolutely do sell below unit costs, just with one level of indirection between drivers and company because at the end of the day they have to subsidize rides if they want to compete with other business.

They don't pay the drivers more than the riders pay them. That's the unit cost. What the drivers do as independent actors is something else, but I doubt the drivers are losing money on purpose.
You could say the same about Facebook when there were a hundred clones available after it was made. Everyone was building social networks back then.

Being able to repeat the technology part is a tiny percentage of the business. Which demonstrates a lack of understanding of tech businesses, or business in general.
I think it depends on the subreddit and topic. For cases where most people already have a strongly-held opinion (say, when discussing any culture-war topics on a one-sided sub), sure, giving a witty or rousing restatement of the predominant opinion is a cheap way to score points. For cases where strong pre-existing opinions are rare, a high-quality turns-out style refutation of the existing narrative can do just as well as an affirmation would.

Not everything on reddit is culture war, though. there are plenty of peaceful subs out there where there's no narrative to echo.
And while we are on this topic, please kill fusion power research and spend those $billions elsewhere.

The brain power is better used elsewhere too!
When 2 sensors disagree the data are considered invalid and the software is supposed to handle the case.

Usually it means showing an alarm, putting the system relying on it on degraded mode and letting the pilot manually select the sensor he thinks is correct.

Reacting to such failures is a big part of an equipment certification process.
It does vary - but where I am even part timers are included. https://cca.hawaii.gov/ins/faqs-2/hawaii-employers-faqs/
Depends on the country the cat lives in, I think. ;-)
There is no "ad tech tax". It's called a supply chain. The end product costs more than the raw parts in every industry.

The issue for publishers here is lack of scale, no cookies, and 2nd-price auctions, meaning they don't get enough high bids and don't get the full price for those bids when they do happen.
... or two sensors and a pilot who is in control.
Lazy social-signaling drives the over-application of the "XY Problem".

In a private medium, Questioner and Answerer can delve into the wider context and arrive at a well-informed solution.

In public however, any line-of-inquiry is corrupted by its presentation. In the specific context of public Q&A, this means that the motivation of the average answerer is often just to _present_ themselves as knowledgeable without actually being helpful.

In most difficult questions I've seen posted on SO, most answerers have neither an understanding of the context nor the basis with which to compose the "right" answer. Compounding this ignorance is that the Answerer fears losing face and also that he or she is not not personally or deeply invested in the question itself. Thus, a clueless Answerer who accidentally or foolishly interjects in the thread, will eventually default to a simple strategy: negotiating the question.

Less "digging" and more "dumbing", the question is simplified or distorted beyond its original intent so the Answerer can "answer" or rather discount it. They thereby "resolve" their stake in the question posed:
giving them (or at least not hurting) the esteem they crave in the larger group. At the very least, they'll have said something and appeared, in their minds, to be just as smart or smarter than the questioner.

StackOverflow's basic design weights against this kind of child's play, since only the Questioner can award the Answerer the checkmark. But I think the more popular Questions still suffer from the transients desperately seeking their ego-fix.