skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like they were both acting in bad faith. He blamed his alcoholism and depression, AA blamed the speculative purchases, there’s more to the story on both sides.

I completely sympathize with him emotionally. But at the same time, he had a golden ticket with rules, he broke the rules for a long time and it took AA and an army of investigators to prove it and a court that agreed. You can say they should’ve warned him, but that’s business, the court found him in breach of contract, a contract that was costing AA $millions, it’s no wonder they sued him for breach instead of warning him when his booked seats were empty most of the time. You don’t get to play the victim when you’re in breach of contract and costing the counter party millions. Again, I sympathize with him emotionally. It sucks. Life isn’t always roses. It would have been nice of AA to warn him, yes. But they weren’t obligated to, and he was a smart finance guy who understood contracts. Even he seems more upset that they were “mean” about it than surprised it happened at all.
>>How do people put up with it?

Humor, Modesty and Compassion!

I am a member of Mensa and read ca. 2000 books in the last 30 years. Sometimes I think just like you, although I know it is wrong (and I would never talk about it).

I often meet people who say things like "I find that anyone who isn't a PhD ... might as well be a paper shell." are too shallow and stupid for my taste, and I am one of them. Overconfident, not nearly as clever as they think they are, boring idiots, arrogant. They just think they know, but actually don't know shit about quantum mechanics, general relativity, cohomology, lisp or russian novels and Debussy.

Conclusion: Thinking that other people are stupid, shallow and boring is only allowed if you are a genius - and you aren't. Nobody is. A good life has kids, sports, wine, sex and vodka in it :-)

I prescribe 25 short stories by Chekov and falling in love immediately.
Paul Nicholls made an excellent visualisation of the sequence after the Christchurch (New Zealand) quakes https://www.christchurchquakemap.co.nz/all . The https://geonet.org.nz site also got an update at that time and is fantastic for live data.
Back around 2012 I was an intern at BlackBerry. My team had some test BlackBerry 10 devices, one of which I was using for my work. One day, I left for a late lunch or something and when I returned my test phone was gone. I looked everywhere wondering if I had misplaced it somehow or a team member took it. But asking around no one knew. A brief aside on our office layout: imagine a few closed door offices and meeting rooms along the walls with a large space in the middle. In that large space was a bunch of cubicles. I worked in one of those cubicles and the office right behind me was my director's office.

In any case, I told my manager what happened and things moved on. A couple years later I got a call from a police officer who wanted me to give a statement and possibly testify in court; they had a suspect. Eventually, I think they took a plea deal or just pleaded guilty and so I didn't end up going to court.
Not the parent, but I am interested in a good list of libraries that might be non obvious to find.
I wish it worked on linux
People would misspell it all the time, though.
Sharing this because I said it the other day and it seemed to resonate.

Happiness is overvalued. Meaning or purpose is undervalued.

Happiness is based on a transition: something new, a change of circumstances, and is by its nature temporary. Meaning and purpose are long term.

Seek meaning, not happiness.
So people had less time to "wear the heart out", they moved significantly more and their diet probably was better then our average as long as they could eat regularly.
Azure will happily provide 10 mailboxes on your own domain, they just brand it as Exchange Online.
Problems with BitBucket? Trying to sign on to BB after downloading and keep getting the error "Could not parse error json data".
I doubt if you need any new language construct to introduce this. Could you not simply pass an error handling function/object with all your functions/methods, which is called when an error occurs? This function/object could then resolve the error or throw an exception if it cannot resolve the error. It is possible, and relatively easy, to chain such error handling functions/methods to implement complex error handling methods.
Aged urine or "chamber lye" was also used for cleaning clothes (as a soak before washing with soap) until detergents took over.
Ask HN: If the European Union were to dissolve, would that help or hurt Bitcoin?
Chinese military can be deployed at Hong Kong’s request, Beijing says
Vertical integration more than political. Like Samsung phones using Samsung DRAM and storage.
From my experience people learning Rust are not people who are learning a language to get a job. They are usually experienced developers with jobs who know at least couple of languages, and learn Rust to expand their toolbox.
Yuval Noah Harari under fire for removing Putin criticism from Russian version
Ask HN: On Sexual Harassment
On the way home on Uber, I had a chat with a friend about sexual harassment and how to get rid of it.

In no particular order:

1. Sexual harassment is essentially a power imbalance.

2. Eliminating sexual harassment is not by policing the dominant gender, but by stripping the power away from the ‘harassement’ part.

3. When will harassment disappear? Would it be true to state that harassment will cease to exist in the absence of an aggrieved party?

4. How can one not feel victimized and not aggrieved? I feel like it’a mostly because of the shame associated with sexuality and sex.

5. This seems to be a function of religious morality. Segregation on the basis of gender seems to have religious roots. It’s mostly an offshoot of Abrahamic religions.(original sin) As they spread, other organized religions also seemed to adopt this.

Example: Indian Hindu temples are full of erotic sculptures and entire treatises that see sexuality as pleasure and not guilt/shame. Somewhere down the centuries, as it became streamlined as an organized religion, it became a prudish as the new religions.

6. I only got to this point. I couldn’t figure out the rest as I felt blocked going down that thought rabbit hole.

My gut feeling is that the root of sexual segregation and shame and harassment is perceived and imposed morality and adoption of mass values.

This seems to have developed along with religion all around the world. Almost parallels..

Are atheistic ‘godless heathen’ societies that are sexually liberated less likely to witness sexual harassment?

The Bible and Koran and many other religions’ books have awful things written about women. Are there any religions that treat men and women equally?

Women check out men too and desire them..but why don’t they ‘harass’ them?

Why cannot we live by our personal moral codes? Is there an evolutionary advantage to sexual segregation and discrimination and harassment?

If there wasn’t, it wouldn’t have survived for so long. Thoughts?
I agree 100%. However, people like us are the minority somehow.
This is ultimately bad for people.
It gives too much power to the government. It is same as saying government can disable all guns remotely.

And also no matter how much regulation and monitoring there is a big risk from government employees. It will be exploited by others.

And at the end of day, criminals are going to find a solution for themselves when they have to and this will only leave people vulnerable. And usually government itself will use a different tech for obvious reasons and leaves this for citizens only.
>which he was fully entitled to do.

And AA was entitled to sue for breach without warning. The blade cuts both ways.
Math Songs: Finite Simple Group (Of Order Two) et al.
Couple of them here:

Finite Simple Group (of order two !!!) :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BipvGD-LCjU

Fundamental Matrix Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgGV3l82NTk

RANSAC Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YNjMxxXO-E

e Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPGHuuk2bKw
Haskell is definitely another language that comes to mind when discussing research and innovation
I believe a study on a tribe in Peru/Amazon found that they were in outstanding cardiovascular condition despite having an extremely high meat/high animal fat diet.

They walk about 20km a day, every day, though, like our ancestors probably did.
Sounds like an echo chamber of thoughts. Also spending time reading a book at the very least is spending time with another person because it is written BY another person.
You’re unlikely to feel a tick bite while they’re attached, their saliva provides local pain relief.
The examples provided in the article aren't especially compelling.

These are capable of among other things, Prolog style nondeterministic choice and backtracking.

A more in depth introduction is here: https://www.eff-lang.org/handlers-tutorial.pdf (not really for 'the rest of us' - I struggled to understand this one, but found it interesting).
Does it run precommits that have keyboard interactions? We use that a lot and Sublime Merge does not work.
C# has threads but async/await does not use them. If you think that `async` in C# does the same thing as `@spawn` in Julia and `go` in Go, you are mistaken. It does not. There is also an `@async` macro in Julia that does what the `async` keyword in C# does (which, again, does not involve threads).

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37419572/if-async-await-...

https://blog.stephencleary.com/2013/11/there-is-no-thread.ht...

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/benwilli/2015/09/10/tasks-a...
It depends, of Course on aws stuff is a little Bit easier, especially zero downtime deployments. But thats not the case in on premise Environments
Are you sure? I've been AirPass before and we book through different agents. Same when ConciergeKey wasn't a published benefit.
Quick feedback to whoever maintains the web-page.

I'm looking at the introduction, the screenshots and all looks nice. Then at the bottom of the screen I get the text "Download Fork for Mac", and nothing else. No Windows-download.

Had the headline on HN not been explicit about there being a Windows-version, I wouldn't have gone looking... And therefore not found the tiny "For for Windows" navigation item on top of the page. I would have assume this was Mac only and left.

Any reason you different pages, and particularly why you don't show both download links on the bottom of the screen?

I'm pretty sure you're at risk of missing 99% of the potential Windows-users skimming by this page.
Should the caller, callee, or somebody in between be allowed to decide what the handling function should be? How an error is handled depends highly on what context is available at the site of the error or in the stack frames above it.
> Decoherence is a superposition effect, is it not? Entanglement with the environment, i.e. a superposition of system-environment states.

The point I'm trying to make is that "splitting", while sometimes identified with decoherence, isn't superposition (or any other well defined traditional QM phenomenon). It's a term peculiar to MWI and it importantly has no clear canonical technical definition. It generally refers to something just considered abstractly: the branching of a single _universe_ into multiple. If you use "split" and "entanglement" or "superposition" or any other QM term interchangeably, you are bound to invite misunderstanding.

> ...illuminate their question about superpositions propagating...

Agreed... if that was their question. But their question didn't reference superposition at all, it was about a split propagating:

> ...a quantum event occurs here and the universes split, that split propagates out at the speed of light...

Which is why I responded as I did. It is understandably confusing to wonder what it means for propagating split universes to meet years later, if you start talking about splits in this way. Propagating superposed particles? Much easier to make sense of.
Cuba 'sonic attacks' changed people's brains, MRIs show
Hmmm, what about social contact with family members? How long does the interaction need to be to count? Would coffee qualify or chatting to other parents for five minutes each day on the school run? Once a month does feel like a very low threshold to me - but I can see how a lot of people's social contact could be dominated by family. It'd be interesting to distinguish between that and no social contact at all.
You Might Want to Uninstall VLC. – Immediately
Google doesn't pose more threat than any other big recognized brands that people trust.

It's all about trust. If people trust more Google or Apple than the legacy system, then maybe these brands earned people trust by also doing good things (sometime) ? Of course they have now a great responsability.
I use Fork on work and also private. Great software. One of the main reasons to switch is the merge/conflict view, which is, at least in my opinion, one of the best out there.

Previously I've used Sourcetree and SmartGit, and even some Git integration in PHPStorm/WebStorm. But for now, Fork is just lit.

If I could I just wish for one thing: mark branches which are only local and have no remote, so you can easily purge old branches after they're merged.
dynamic languages still have strong typing. the given example of type conversion is one of weak typing. it has nothing to do with strict typing that enforces type declarations.

in python this is an error:

>>> i = 10
>>> s = "20"
>>> s+=i;
TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'int' objects
>>> i+=s;
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +=: 'int' and 'str'
Oh another couch biologist,there's one in every thread.. thanks for all the observations, we really hadn't thought of any of that, you single-handedly salvaged modern biological research !!
> was sufficiently frustrated with its limitations that it drove me to a career in writing compilers.

I'm genuinely interested!

> FORTRAN II with its three-number if statements

The IBM FORTRAN for 704 (from 1956) had them already, as in the link already posted. Yes, all these labels were definitely annoying, the researchers did work on ALGOL already two years later. FORTRAN itself also improved over time, but for most of the decades the sources were indeed ugly compared to the printed ALGOL in the papers (the implementations were often something else) and all the languages inspired by that. The problem with the numerical labels was recognized even in 1958. Sadly the first standard that allowed not writing them was Fortran 8x (later know as 90):

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0010465587...

"Since 1979, the Fortran standardization committee, X3J3, has been labouring over a draft for the next version of the standard. Its initial intention of publishing this draft in 1982 was hopelessly optimistic, and at best it may be ready this year" (1987)

It eventually became ISO in 1991.

At that time, on the microcomputers, Turbo Pascal was already 8 years old. It was the fastest to develop and really convenient. But if you wanted really heavy numerics, you also had to buy additional hardware and... probably use FORTRAN.

http://www.classiccmp.org/transputer/documentation/microway/...
I dont think there is anything problematic in simply encouraging people to vote, even if you tend to reach certain groups better. A higher voter turnout should be something to strive for, its a sign for a healthier democracy. The current approach to discourage more voters of the opposite party to not go voting then your own get discouraged seems more then just a bit problematic.

Differently put, what harm is done by getting people to go vote when you are not influencing them to vote in a certain fashion? I would argue that only the opposite is problematic, to discourage people to vote.

Googles motivation shouldnt matter as long as they are not influencing who you are going to vote for.

But thats another topic on its own, I find it hard to argue why google should be singled out in a country where even news organizations endorse candidates. If they are to powerful dismember them instead of making a lex google.
What does that even mean? Do these people think you can just walk around the metal detectors in an airport if you’re pregnant?
IME dynamic typing is super easy and fast until it suddenly isn't. Then you're going through ten layers of functions to check if None is a valid value for some parameter because some intern three years ago figured that would be the easiest way to do it.

I'd say that while there's certainly a ton of purely dynamically-typed code out there, there's also a current reversal of the trend, with static and gradual typing coming back in vogue. Python has fully-supported type annotations, and Typescript is the trendy new way of writing JS. Facebook has ReasonML and Hack/PHP 7. Go and Rust, the current "cool kid" languages, are fully statically typed.

I think that the bad taste left in people's mouths by "enterprise" Java and its 30-character type names is fading, and that we'll see a few years of static types. Then of course the cycle will repeat itself, as is tradition.
> wear uniforms with the only pockets on the knees. The goal is to minimize the perception of inappropriate touching during pat downs

What about underwear?
Changing/cancelling a 2-day-old reservation 6 months out -- not "last minute" -- has a negligible cost. However, AA will still charge a non-elite customer $200. If you could prove that the majority of Mr. Rothstein's cancellations were made within a week, even a month, of the actual flight, perhaps I'd agree with you, but that data is not available to us, and his daughter inferred that many tickets were cancelled within a day or two.

You are using AA's chosen nomenclature against Mr. Rothstein. Was he truly "cancelling" or just changing the date/time/stopover most of these times (which AA would call a cancel/re-issue)? What about changing his seat at the gate -- the agent rips up the boarding pass and issues a new one. Is that considered a cancellation? If I was in court trying to amplify percentages to disparage someone, I'd probably say it was.
MPI is the HPC horizontal scaling strategy, for when you need to go from 1 core to 500k.
Same here, I worked in a computational biophysics department with lots of python/bash/R and I was the only one who wrote lots of high-performance code in Julia. People were curious about the language but it was still very much unknown. Hope we will see a broader adoption of Julia in the future - it's just that much better for the stuff we do on a daily basis.
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Closely related - instead of looking for something that will make you happy, look for something that will engage your interest or excite you.
I think the question you are asking is ...

Given::
1. You have an idea
2. You register a domain
3. You setup email
4. You setup your build your app
5. You deploy your app

... why don’t AWS and Azure compete with GoDaddy to capture these leads?

Google App Engine used to offer this and it’s didn’t result in a viable business.

I’m sure AWS and Azure have considered the same and concluded the quantity and/or quality of leads was determined too low to justify the investment.
I think the next major crash in video games will be e-sports. And I love e-sports (three time TI attendee). As Peter Dager (ppd), ex-CEO of Evil Genius and industry professional says best:

>Esports is a phenomenon brought on by the introduction of the internet, it does not have to be run the same way that professional sports operate. Many professional sports do not expect to fill a stadium. 99% of our audience is online and prefer to sit in their rooms on their PCs so lets please focus our resources on improving the broadcast and player/talent treatment. Too many irresponsible “businessmen” have latched on to esports over the past couple of years and have convinced billionaires that they are sitting on top of a golden egg. Yes esports is new, yes it is exciting to be at the front of an emerging industry but you are setting everyone else who is to follow up for failure by creating unrealistic standards and expectations.

>The [e-sports] audience is not going to grow immensely, let’s build sustainable events so we can continue to enjoy the game we love so much.

I think if investor expectations are not well-managed, this is going to cause an e-sports 'winter' if you will. If this happens, it's definitely going to affect some major game-changing genres like MOBAs and some FPSs. I genuinely feel like it could cause a huge stumble for AAA companies.
He can be biased as well as having a good point :-) However, I think there is more to be said here. In the past, the companies that most controlled public opinion were media companies. Could we not make the same argument that Rupert Murdoch is a danger to democracy? Or for that matter could we include companies like MSNBC who have been shown in studies to favour certain political personalities? CNN? Fox News?

Historically can we complain that newspapers controlled personal opinion? Even now, we famously have a political figure criticising a news paper for it's less than favourable coverage ;-). But in seriousness, how much has democracy been eroded by the ability of large corporations to send pretty much any message they wish unchecked?

We could certainly argue that Google has a longer reach and a considerable higher degree of ability to actually extract data about the population. But why single out Google? Facebook is still around ;-) Surely we need to be concerned not just about a single entity, but a class of "attacks" against democracy -- many of which we have tolerated in the past. Perhaps we technology is getting to the point where it's a big problem. Or perhaps it's been a big problem for a long time and we haven't really realised (since the arrival of radio and TV or perhaps even the advent of ubiquitous literacy, widespread newspapers).

So, I appreciate the point that pointing the microscope at Google is probably misguided, but I think we need to be more and more cautious about how the dissemination of information allows small numbers of people to effectively measure and control public opinion.
Will this be worked to scale to multiple machines?
However, much of the training data is likely to be of Japanese origin.
People with Power at Amazon Web Services
> It's really convenient that you picked your start date to be right after the Video Game Crash of 1983.

The examples given were UK companies who had a thriving industry at the time, the video game crash was mostly an American thing. The globalization of the industry has been important to it's success.
> If you are pregnant and still concerned, you can opt out of going through screening technology altogether and requesting a pat down. The pat-down will be conducted by a female Transportation Security Officer, who will advise you about the pat-down details.

https://www.tsa.gov/blog/2014/07/22/tsa-travel-tips-pregnant...
Nobody bought it because it was unavailable.
Per the article, he very much knew all the personnel by name, to the point of sending them gifts and calling his "friends" to talk about anything and everything when feeling depressed.
The Business Executive's Guide to Kubernetes
It probably doesn’t help that for the vast majority of America the only feasible way to get home from the bar is to drive. Even in the biggest cities, overnight transit dries up.
Also:

> and on the very first day that I showed up as 17-year-old particle-physics-paper-writing undergraduate, I ran into him

Almost every blog post mentions that he was a child prodigy.

I liked this post though. Well written