skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's just the logical evolution of tourism as a business activity. Capitalist companies must grow, and tourism companies grow by delivering more and more tourists.

That's why travelling gets cheaper: economies of scale (block-booking on planes, etc). That's why VISAs and barriers are removed: because there is yet another industry lobbying to remove friction.

Tourism companies gotta grow like any other company out there. We just notice them more because their production line is literally on our streets.
Lee Iacocca, Visionary Automaker Who Led Both Ford and Chrysler, Is Dead at 94
"In an email to employees on Thursday, CEO Sundar Pichai said the following:

"In recent years, we've made a number of changes, including taking an increasingly hard line on inappropriate conduct by people in positions of authority: in the last two years, 48 people have been terminated for sexual harassment, including 13 who were senior managers and above. None of these individuals received an exit package.""

- Well, then, sure, none of THOSE employees got an exit package. But Rubin sure did. And he got an exit package so large, that it could be divided into 13 pieces and still have all of those execs happy.
I also got the impression when reading the article that a full blown high level language JIT is overkill for a kernel. A lighter template instantiation approach os much better. The key is deriving the template fragments and comatamt patch tables etc... from the fully featured source code. Doing this in a fully automatic fashion seems computationally hard and likely requires finely tuned heuristics to figure out sections that can likely be made optional depending on parameters etc.. humans could annotate the code, but that essentially creates a new and quite weird programming language. The compiler would effectively comsiders all possible combinations compile time configuration switches at once and emit instructions on how to instantiate a certain comfiguration from machine code templates.

All of this has devils and monsters lurkimg in the details, of course. I have seen systems where this kind of runtime code specialization woukd indeed be helpful even in user space. There is a lot of code where the innermost loop has conditionals based on some user input or program setting that cannot be determined at compile time. Code like this could profit a bunch from runtime specialization, too. Mapped into a programming language, this would probably look something like generics, but with parameters that need to be passed to a comstructor at runtime to get something executable.
The first part of your post sounds like a success story to me. You got many years of use out of that server. 5 figures is cheap comparing to the cost (including the collateral damage cost) of a hotshot SWE or devops guy who insists on using the most resume-worthy, most bleeding-edge technology available.
Outlook does this too if the reading pane is turned on, and it often is in big corporate audiences. It’s a well-known issue with image-based open tracking.

IMO the people harassing you about how many times you opened their email are idiots. Image-based open tracking is notoriously unreliable and is best used to track engagement trends within a given audience, not as a microscope on one person.

This seems like a classic example of people taking some marketing feature at face value and not spending any effort to understand the actual technology under the metrics they see in a dashboard.
Iron and magnesium supplementation worked miracles for me.
I don't see any relevance to comparing him to Weinstein?
In your original comment you never mention bank bailouts. A far more appropriate comparison would be the more recent bailouts of US automakers in which the TARP loans were all repaid. Granted, the partial ownership of the companies that the government took on during the bailout resulted in a loss- but I'm not sure if it would have been more appropriate for the government to hold the stock until it recovered.

https://www.thebalance.com/auto-industry-bailout-gm-ford-chr...
This seems to have a lot of trouble when wearing glasses (large-style glasses). I was surprised of how bad it seemed for 2019 tech, then tooky glasses away and was blown away of how good it is.
The value of an attractive smile is incalculable.

If you've always had good teeth, be very grateful. It's one of the greatest natural gifts.
The complaint, including copy of the prenuptual agreement:

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6180235/Rie-Andy-...
No problem! It took me so long to realize what was going on in this conversation. I apologize for not being more clear. I ended up just posting a more blunt Ask HN here if you'd like to follow along. I appreciate your time and response!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20340953
AWS services have their own individual SLAs. Route53, in particular, has a 100% SLA: https://aws.amazon.com/route53/sla/

(To my knowledge, it's the only AWS service to promise 100%.)
Am I missing something? With numpy on my 2017 Macbook Pro, I can generate 1B random, normally distributed numbers on a CPU in ~1.3 microseconds.

In [3]: %timeit np.random.normal(1000000000)

1.3 µs ± 26.2 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1000000 loops each)

Edit: and 2.5e17 in ~7.95 microseconds

In [5]: %timeit np.random.normal((500000000, 500000000))

7.95 µs ± 90.7 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 100000 loops each)
In Java land checked exceptions are considered to be an anti pattern for sometime. If I remember correctly one of the major change in Hibernate ORM 3.0 was converting checked exceptions to runtime equivalents (ie, caller is free to disregard the exception) (this happened 10-12 yrs ago). Coming back to Golang, you get the same behaviour if you are not checking `error is nil` condition
I was kind of surprised to read that CBD wasn’t studied that much in the firzt place.
That's a pretty vague statement though. vector and unique_ptr are class templates (generic classes). To understand them you need at least a basic idea of how that works, which you probably do. After that, you just need to understand their API, which includes copy/move constructors, and destructors, which encompasses RAII. There are tons of blog points explaining RAII.
Weinstein got away with building a multibillion dollar business while being, according to accusations, an incredible sexual predator - all while evading detection.

It appears Rubin has done the exact same thing. Instead of the movie business, the phone business.
Not until version 3 in 2008, after which it became Apache Flex. Maybe you should try to get both your facts and attitude straight.
Are there even any allegations of illegal behaviour? And what is a "sex ring" anyway? Is it like a swingers club, or something more sinister?
Sounds like you're starting to swap heavily. Adjusting swappiness to 0 may help there.
Teaching AI to Journalism Students
Read the article:

"As a complaint, the document is only an allegation and has not been confirmed by the court. Still, it echoes a number of details reported by the New York Times in October, including the allegation that Andy supported a string of mistresses, who would often be loaned to other men in what he described as “an ownership relationship.” The complaint alleges Andy had at least five such mistresses, including one (dubbed “M”) who was “complicit with Rubin in running what appeared to be a sex ring.”

The complaint also alleges that Andy diverted joint funds in order to make personal payouts to a number of women, payouts consistent with the Times’ reporting. According to the complaint, he stopped depositing his Google paychecks in the couple’s joint account in February 2014, shortly after he left the company amid allegations of sexual misconduct. But Andy continued to be paid by the company, subject to his severance agreement, and simply had the deposits diverted to an individual account, which made hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments to other women."
I'm a heavy user of Google Play for the last 6 years, I never had a single outage since I use the service ( multiple hours a day, 5 days a week )
Why, exactly do you need “quantum random numbers”?

For any conceivable application, you just need 256 bits of entropy and a good CSPRNG.
https://blog.cr.yp.to/20170723-random.html
I am the same way. I can tell when my main job gets boring because I start to tinker with emacs more and it provides that intellectual stimulus I need. Not to mention helping optimize away some of the more rote parts of my job.
This throws me though. Because if a service center can process one unit per minute, and the average arrival rate is also one unit per minute, I'd assume the utilization was 1 (or 100%). In that scenario I wouldn't expect the queue to be infinitely long. What insight am I missing?
Which makes sense. The homebuilders never replaced any of the soil and just left it as clay. I didn't really put down much before planting anything but it seems that the soil quality is getting better. The wild berries love it at least.
> The error messages are slightly misleading, [...]

A common strategy is to use a self-describing variable name like `static_assertion_failed`.
> React, however, has reached a popularity many times larger than RoR ever did.

> https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=r...

I'm not sure this chart is very good evidence of this claim. There are so many other things named "react" -- Nike React shoes, Kids React videos, reactionary politics, and so on -- that it's a bit like claiming Trump.js is the most popular JavaScript library in the world because of this chart: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=r...
How can I improve my file/class name recall?
The User class, that's easy to remember. It's tied to a concrete thing. But for most files and classes, trying to remember the name is like trying to remember a word in a foreign language I haven't studied since high school. I have to stop and think about it, and if I rush it I might just come up with the wrong word entirely. It makes it harder to communicate, look up the files I need, and even think about what I need to code. Have you experienced the same thing? Any suggestions?
Seems that those books were added to the store by a company that didn't have the rights. I'm not sure that's a widespread problem.
Basically, consensual, but with possible manipulation (thus the sexual misconduct allegations), possible violations of higher position cannot date lower position rules, possible financial malfeasance, yeah.

Also, financial malfeasance seems to go hand-in-hand with sexual misconduct. Not everyone is guilty of one or the other, but the two show up together pretty frequently.
> http://www.oldcarbrochures.com/static/NA/Ford/1924_Ford/1924...

Funny how this Ford was marketed only as a "summer and fall" car... Forget about the winter...

Also - interesting to note that I see no car model years between 1941 and 1945. WWII I suppose...
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The View Through a Wormhole
Before reading the article, you can have fun doing a rough quantitative estimate. A Fermi question.

How many squirrels live in NYC's Central Park?

Is it more like 1, 10, 100, 1000, 10k, 100k, 1M, 10M, or 100M? What hard "no way is it more/less than" lower and upper bounds are you comfortable with and why? What about soft "I'd be surprised if it was more/less than" bounds and why? Doing iterative bounding and discussion, is a far more fruitful way to use the common estimation problems of education, than the traditional point estimates.
I wouldn't like to see a change to error handling, I would like to see generics added (in the form that was described in the Sydney talk).

Maybe a stack trace would be nice in the errors, though
How to write stuff that gets on the front page of Hacker News
This Wordsworth poem has stuck with me for years. It's from ~1807 and still rings true about humanity and nature:

The World Is Too Much with Us

The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending we lay waste our powers;
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon,
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers,
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not. --Great God! I'd rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Is_Too_Much_with_Us
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20340998
My wife and I identify thrift stores, in part, by the number of copies of "Iacocca" (his autobiography) that are on the shelf. ("This one has a high Iacocca coefficient...") I suppose I should actually read it at some point. Maybe this is a good occasion to do so.

(I tried reading "Future Shock", our other perennial thrift store classic, and couldn't make it thru.)
Minneapolis allows beekeeping in the city as long as your adjacent neighbors sign off on it and you notify the city (there might be fees, but I don’t recall). There isn’t any exemption that I know of but I’m on board with the city allowing residents to keep them. Good on you, Texas (and any place else with friendly bee keeping laws)
Stupid question but I’ve always wondered this - I hear Cannabis is used for anxiety relief but doesn’t smoking marijuana induce anxiety? Everyone I know who has smoked weed agrees with my experience - they’ve encountered some level of anxiety and paranoia. So, how exactly does weed help in reducing anxiety?

Edit: Follow up question -> Is weed used to treat anxiety during the high or when you are normal (and have general anxiety when not smoking pot)?
According to the complaint:

Complaint For:
- Fraud, Misrepresentation, Fraudulent Concealment
- Breach of Fiduciary Duty
- Aiding and Abetting Breach of Fiduciary Duty
- Breach of Contract
- Negligent misrepresentation
- Constructive fraud
- Professional negligence
TARP, i.e. the bank bailouts, was profitable for the government, to the tune of over $100Bn.

https://projects.propublica.org/bailout/

Of course, the government should have gotten a much better return for the risk they took, but for a program that has been reviled as $600bn giveaway, and is remembered that way, a $100bn profit is an incredible gain.
Bobby Baker, who was one of Lyndon Johnson's closest aides, had this to say about Robert McNamara (who was Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War):

"The biggest disaster in the history of this country was [Robert] McNamara. Henry Ford was my good friend and he said, “The best thing that ever happened to me was getting rid of that bastard.” He almost wrecked Ford back then, and he really wrecked the Defense Department. The Vietnam War - President Johnson did not know how to get out - that was the greatest tragedy of his Presidency."

Source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/836424-baker-text.ht...

(The whole interview is really worth reading and is full of sordid tales about the Senate in the 1960s).
Spearfishing family members using a pic and/or some audio of you to generate a fake "help me" video? (I mean, that probably won't happen, just trying to think of something an attacker could do with it.)
In the case of the bank bailouts of 2008, didn't they all get repaid, with interest, and the government made money on it?
Best Kubernetes Provider?
What is the best Kubernetes cloud provided?
GKE, AWS or other?
Go here, and go to Slide 10. Pretty damning.

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6180235/Rie-Andy-...
> Java is kind of a compromised Scheme-style language, or two of them (C and Smalltalk) rammed into each other at high speed, which also goes for Objective-C.

Not much to add to the conversation here, but for some reason every time I read this it gets funnier and funnier.

But I do like your breakdown, it’s what I’ve been thinking whenever I see discussions like this.
Bank bailouts were mostly repaid, turning a profit for taxpayers.

https://www.politifact.com/new-hampshire/statements/2012/oct...
I haven't tried just CBD for sleep, but a few years back I couldn't fall asleep to save my life. A friend suggested smoking cannabis to help, and when I would I had the best sleep of my life.
No one has mentioned it here, but what is on the above ground side of these caverns? Is it national parkland or is it urban?
Look into readwise. There's no API access to highlights, do they scrape it from an open tab.
Anecdotally, it depends on the person.

Marijuana makes it easy for my over-worrying brain to relax and trust that things will turn out okay. Other people I know find the opposite.

Edit: this is also a study of CBD specifically, not of weed as a whole.
have you tried to get help from a doctor?
This is for CBD. Anxiety from cannabis is typically attributed to the THC content.
Interesting to see an actual study, even if it’s a small test group.

I’m usually getting maybe 4-5 hours of sleep a night, so about 6 months ago I started taking CBD oil at night (500mg and then 1500mg hemplucid). My experiences are pretty consistent with the study results here - I’d get about 1-1.5 hours more a night for the first month, but by month two I was already graduating to the 1500mg strength because my body was adapting to it so fast.

By the fourth month I was taking double the dosage of the prior month, and by month six I stopped taking it altogether… the effects were severely diminished and at $200 a bottle for the 1500mg strength, it would be more cost effective to just smoke the real thing as it is now legal where I live.
The logic is that CBD is different than THC, the anxiety provoking, psychoactive chemical.
Well, because externalities, I guess. I'm originally from California. In my neighborhood, every 4th of July, someone's overgrown grass catches fires by some errant bottle-rocket. That's no joke, especially in a drought.

I know some homeowners hate dandelions with a passion. I don't, and I let them grow. But there's no way my dandelions aren't invading my neighbors' yards (fortunately they don't give a fig). And if they sprayed pesticides to get rid of those dandelions, no way those pesticides aren't blowin into my yard. So both of us would be unhappy.

I had a family friend who inherited an old olive orchard in California. He let it go wild, and it became a little wild-life park. It was fantastic. But the neighbor farmers didn't like it, because they believed that it harbored pests that would eat up their crops, and weeds that would compete with their crops. So the farmers complained, and the county forced him to mow it all down.

Of course, all of this is about which externalities matter, and when, and to whom they matter. In a fair society, that requires examining the public purpose, what priorities we set as a people. In an unfair society, it means who has the power to get their way.
I don't know if it's such a hard problem as you suggest; it's pretty close to what a linker does, really. Have you looked at `C?
Let's not get dramatic.

> 80% of [Channel4] staff are leaving rather than moving up North.

80% of staff are threatening to leave, they are not resigning en-masse. This is the same stuff that happened to the BBC a few years ago when they relocated a big chunk of activity to Manchester (or rather Salford, to be precise). Lots of people moaned, some people resigned, others started living on commuter trains, others just moved (and found out there are no White Walkers in the North after all), others were just hired here. Now the sector in Manchester is booming.

It could well turn out that Channel 4 made a mistake in choosing Leeds (it's badly connected, much smaller than Manchester, and without a local tradition like the Granada legacy), but it has nothing to do with London being some sort of quintessential centre of all TV activity in the land.
Interestingly marijuana does make me feel anxious, but at the same time completely alleviates my social anxiety.
I wouldn't trust an amateur citizen hobbyist to tag an animal population in a humane manner. There's no accounting for how the tagging is performed, or when the tags get removed and by whom.

If one person does it, others will justify their own efforts to apply tags to wildlife, and then we get into the legalities of animal cruelty, poaching on conservancy land, and on and on.

It's one thing to crowd source passive eyes spotting for squirrels. It's entirely another to invite people to try and handle them, and even interfere with instruments applied to their body.
It is - but all companies I’ve ever worked for are. I’m not convinced the letter of the policy is much different.
Probably depends on the person, strain, and frequency of usage... for me it melted away stress and helped me sleep.

I used it pretty sparingly though.
The truly eternal Empire of the Sun is a wargame
IIRC next version of iOS is adding in automatic stripping of these when sharing. If not iOS, some other big player.
Any phrase that succeeds at transferring an idea out of your head into mine is good enough for me.
Because it's a duplicate which I had submitted 3 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20315905
have you tried clicking on that link?
No student loans?
You won't find much neolithic civilization outside of North Sentinel Island and the deep Amazon.
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I am not a Go programmer, but:

The article suggests that try() isn’t solving a big problem. If I were a Go programmer, I think I would want a bigger change, specifically, a proper sum type for errors. In Go, the convention is to return a result and an error despite the fact that essentially every function that can return an error wants to return a result or an error. This results in complexities in the proposal about what the result should be when try() causes an error return. The sensible answer is that there should not be a result.

The way that Rust (and Haskell and many other languages) do so much better than Go has little to do with fancy ? operators. It’s that the return type makes sense.

Of course, sum types without genetics would be odd, but I don’t see how this would stop Go — a special case specifically for “such-and-such type or error” seems consistent with the Go typing philosophy.
Omg so many letters why can't they just summarize in a few paragraphs
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