skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's debatable whether I am in a suburb or not at the moment - I am barely technically within the city limits, about 3.5 miles from the middle. But anyway, per Google Maps, I'm about 8 minutes drive from work, 54 minutes bus ride, and 62 minutes walk! Bicycling is estimated at barely over 20 minutes.

When I lived 10 minutes walk from work, the bus took about the same time, but waiting for its schedule meant practically speaking it was more like 30 minutes. It felt a little safer than scrambling across three highways, but after a bit, I couldn't stand the wait, so I went back to walking, and then to driving.

If I lived in a popular suburb further to the north, then I wouldn't be able to ride the bus at all (although that's too far of a commute for me by car)

So, across the whole range of commute distances, I can't see any situation where riding the bus makes sense. It either takes essentially as long as walking, or isn't available at all.
Yeah, this is true. Without this kind of attribution, you can make up anything.

“Frogs are made of soup juice.” -Confucius

...doesn’t count.
This is as much racial profiling as it would be if the airline employee accused them of being bad at math because they were Asian.
uMatrix can be used to block 3rd party resources from loading (like Facebook and Google, usually blockable with no ill effects).
It's definitely not a single team in charge of the UX. UX is a centralized department but each team can get UX Managers, UX Designers, and UX Researchers. The headcount for those roles come from each individual organization.

Nowadays there's a workflow to ship new consoles and big features that require UI changes but there are still many consoles built on the legacy design system and designing or improving those is pretty hard. The right decision is to migrate those consoles to the design system but that is a painful process.
At that point the first person to write good unit tests gets to specify how that part of the program is going to run. Though, really it sounds like you guys need a design pattern to address everyone's needs that everyone can agree to.

People can change unit tests. The benefit of this, is it's a kind of documentation. People can see the tests and know how it _should_ work, or they can not read them and if they create errors, they'll find out the hard way. Unit tests don't make a specification static, but they do reduce chaos.
Tapping into the pulse of the global Telco cloud transformation
> I've never had a problem determining what a reasonable project length or level of difficulty should be. I don't adjust it if I have a particularly apt group of students. Students who really shine are given direction to support that ability but that is case by case, not baked into the overall difficulty of the course. These things can be rubric driven based on what material should be learned and not just improvised based on perceived class characteristics.

first of all, I don't mean to criticize you personally.

I'm not talking about adding or removing topics/depth to or from a course semester to semester based on the group of kids. in aggregate though, I think you'll definitely notice that the topics covered in a particular class vary a lot from school to school based on the expectations they have for the students. there's a lot more depth in a data structures course at a tech school than in the same class at some liberal arts school's vestigial cs department. if, instead of having brighter students, a school actually just has a much larger proportion of effective cheaters, the professors might unknowingly assign too much work to complete honestly. you personally might not change your assignments much, but I'm not sure how you could prevent this drift from occurring across an entire department over the span of a decade.

> There's no unfairness to an honest student who gets just as much out of a course with or without cheaters.

this depends on what you think the point of college is. if it's strictly about mastery of material for its own sake, sure, cheating only hurts the cheater. unfortunately, most students don't just go to college for the pleasure of learning. they go because they believe it will help them get a job. when you apply to your first internship, your GPA likely one of most important things on your resume. it is very much unfair to be competing against people who didn't earn theirs honestly. if a cheater takes your spot in the recruiting pipeline, you're out for this round. the company isn't going to call you up out of the blue because they realized the other person is an incompetent clown halfway through the summer.
based on the specific wording and vocabulary jshaqaw used, i assumed he was referring to the latter
You can go 30 km on a train that travels over 120 km/hr and still be in the same city?

I just wouldn't take a job where I have to commute 2 hours. I don't think most people do that, although some may.
The doctor shortage isn't really about hospitals.

It's a huge issue with family and primary care physicians, particularly in rural areas. Paper work requirements and misguided reimbursement goals are making it unsustainable for doctors not involved in large health systems.
Well the medical debt bubble has gotta burst eventually. My guess is right before it does the state of healthcare in the US will be so bad that women will be giving birth in minute clinics because everyone will be priced out of hospitals by then. We won't have a shortage of anything until we fix our shortage of insurance providers.
Ha!, yes, what does it mean to understand something? To fully understand an apple you must fully understand the entire evolution of the universe, where it came from and down the rabbit hole we go :)

Still, chasing understanding is useful as every now and then something jumps out of the rabbit hole and changes things... Trying to understand the revolutions of the celestial spheres, why black bodies don't emit endless amounts of energy or what it would be like to travel at the speed of light.
> "How much are they paying you?" he said she asked him, not clarifying who "they" were. "Did they give you a visa? Did they give your family a visa? Do you make a lot of money? Do you work on Wall Street? Are you on an American visa?"

She probably wasn't asking him that because of his Canadian citizenship.
Rural America really really needs more doctors. The amount of time it takes to get an appointment to diagnose anything is crazy long already.
Why would mental illness, temporary or any other temporality, be reason to eliminate any value in categorizing the specifics of the behavior as racist?

If not all racism, maybe some racism could be a symptom of mental illness? [1]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1071634/
Possible, yes. Easy and straightforward, no. Casework and duck-type checks over args and *kwargs are not easy to maintain going forward, especially for a non-expert in Python.

Factory methods are usually better, and I believe what the more modern parts of the standard library have tried to use, but they don't work as well for this specific case.
FaceTime and iMessage are features that are used to sell iPhones (and the ecosystem in general), they are not products that exist to directly provide a revenue to Apple.

I am not super familiar with Apple Cash, but my understanding of it is that it also falls more on the Feature side and doesn't exist to provide a revenue stream on its own (hence why there are no fees for debit cards).

iTunes is clearly more of a product as it creates a significant revenue stream for Apple.

It makes sense that Apple cares less about competition with its features as that leads to a better user experience and more iPhone sales while Apple cares more about competition with products as that cuts directly into their income.
your site is useful and has good recommendations. Thanks for the link. I tried looking at books with "Writing" category and some of the recommendations like "On Writing by Stephen King" are really good and what I would expect. Though I feel that you should work on your priority of order when showing recommended books. For example: when I search for books similar to "The Handmaid's Tale", I don't expect to see "Cat's eye" as a top recommendation. Something to improve upon further.
(Ironically) I'm unable to understand what your comment is saying.
The doctor shortage has to do with the American Medical Associate (AMA), a cartel, that successfully lobbied to reduce the number of residencies available for doctors. They also make it difficult for new medical schools to be created -- this is intentional, since as a cartel they want to limit the number of doctors so that they can demand hire wages.

https://www.forbes.com/2009/08/25/american-medical-associati...
Oh sorry, I thought that was obvious. It's a problem because you might read the article and start thinking that nuclear energy could be a reasonable solution to our climate change problem, but it can never be, for reasons that the author decided are outside the scope of his article.
Ridiculous comparison on aftermarket tires. Tires are everything for lap times.
"[Venture Capitalists and engineers in the Valley] wanted [to outdo one another and buy more things] and couldn’t find enough [creative means to generate truly useful inventions to make enough money] to pay for it all, so [social media and gaming companies] flooded [the internet and internet-connected gadgets] with [profoundly addicting software that was optimized for maximizing the numbers of ads user saw, regardless of the value of the media that attracted and held attention] instead. The addiction spread quickly, the need grew, and soon [the minds of many] began to writhe and cripple under the... curse."
>This would seem to disqualify much of your comment. Have a chat with AWS Pro Serv members handling accounts of companies with billion dollar IT budgets.

I work with companies that have budgets that large. Your situation still sounds very atypical to me.

>Most enterprises are not on AWS. That's where the growth will be, and who my comment is about.

I mean, maybe if you take that out of context and ignore the part where I say 'Lots of these companies are ones that I am helping move to AWS'...
If you're competing in area where other competitors spend 10k hours practicing then maybe you should make sure that those 10k hours are actually giving them an advantage. If not you now have a 10k hour time advantage over them.
>> every time you need to slow down a bit

In racing that is not a thing. There is never a situation where a car needs to "slow down a bit". The goal is to stay as fast as possible as much as possible. That means either going flat out (either in speed or cornering) or be under maximum braking (to minimize time at lower speeds). If you are ever "a bit" too fast then you have made a mistake. You began braking too late. On the next lap you will alter your braking point, not adjust your braking pressure.

>> tail spin

Also not a thing under braking. "Tail spins", or to use the correct term oversteer occur when a rwd car applies too much power (or some 4wd). The back end slips. When you brake too hard entering a corner the front wheels will depart first, causing an understeer rather than a tailspin. The car will push forwards and fail to turn.
The only shocking thing here is that no one stepped in earlier. It's not like Java/C# are radical new technologies in the online space. Obviously statically typed languages are not a new concept either. I'm just aghast at this culture. It's actually quite shocking that this debate is a real one taking up a large amount of airtime in the industry.
Jean-Luc Picard Meets His Clone, Shinzon of Remus
I think two things:

* Ito's position at MIT was so compromised that, for the good of the organization, he needed to quit. He had an obligation to do so; MIT didn't owe him his role, but rather he had joined to serve MIT. He was doing so no longer.

* One reason he was so compromised, in my estimation of the available information, is that he repeatedly did something egregiously wrong. Once again: I've never even heard of a boss anywhere else in technology putting their employees in a position where they felt they may have had to intervene --- at the workplace --- to thwart sex trafficking by an invited VIP guest.

The former argument I think is clear and defensible even if you harbor doubts about how bad Ito's actions were.
Holy shit this is awesome, thanks so much. I'm starting a creator collective/technology studio and this is a great resource.
I felt like racism against asians did get a little worse this year. A lot of it is probably due to china coming up a lot more in the news so I start noticing the stereotyping/generalizations surfacing in the comment threads. Usually we get all the good stereotypes (e.g., harvard needs affirmative action to keep us out). But more recently the highly upvoted news were about how you shouldn't trust someone chinese because they are here to spy on you or steal your intellectual property for china.
As an american expat, no it is not particularly free. But it's good at presenting itself as that, or as a land of opportunity in all of the media we heavily export to the rest of the world. Leading many people to want to move there when in reality america is a land of poor social mobility, and extreme incarceration rates and legal restrictions on dumb things like giving a sandwich to a homeless person.
Nice omission from the NYT always printing half truths as usual until they cannot get away with it anymore.
In theory, we can still enable end-to-end encryption while forward proxying by a separate service provider, but it might not be easy to implement. The browser would need to be smart enough to route packets through the website and verify SSL coming out of the PCI environment. This will require modifications to the OS to dynamically add static routes for dependencies.

1. Browser loads the shopping cart page on example.com to transmit credit card details

2. User enters credit card details in to the form and hits enter.

3. The browser resolves the IPs for domain api.creditmerchant.net and adds static routes for those IPs pointing to example.com

4. The browser initiates SSL connection to api.creditmerchant.net using example.com as a static route

5. The browser verifies the authenticity of the certificate and chooses ciphers for the conversation

6. The credit card details are encrypted and transmitted to api.creditmerchant.net without being exposed to example.com

7. The purchase is complete and example.com is not in scope for PCI.

*. If the example.com is set as the static route for any unknown dependencies, the traffic is null routed
In Search of Lost Edges: A Case Study on Reconstructing Financial Networks
I definitely agree with this. I have to say though, I really enjoyed Blink and the storytelling around that. I visited the statue from the first chapter in the story and marvelled at how researchers "just believed" it was fake.

Sometimes pop-psychology, if it gets us more interested in subjects, may not be that harmful.
Image of news anchor in erectile dysfunction ads taken by convenien store camera
For anyone else wanting to be overly pedantic, the weight difference between a fully charged P100D and a nominally depleted P100D works out to 39.281 Nanonewtons. Those weight reduction mods are really getting out of hand. /s
An Elise feels rather like a go-kart on steroids and amphetamines.
Seems fine to me. The lady told him she was calling the police on him so he notified them of that when they arrived. The only weird thing IMO is that he was '90% sure' he was the cause of the commotion. The overreaction seems ridiculous enough that if I were him I might have assumed there was another cause like an actual shooter or bomber there and indicated to the police as such, especially after they go "we've got him" and stop looking.
No, not at all. There’s plenty of places with more economic freedom - less regulation, lower taxes, simpler rules. The US simply has more _opportunities_ and (particularly in tech/sciences) and pays _much_ more money for the same job. It’s just leverage, not “freedom”. :)
And yet people like Ben Shapiro continue to insist that it is single payer that will lead to less doctors...

If doctors collectivize, then shouldn’t patients?
Show HN: Package.json Phobia
Reference here: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/concurre...

Take a good look at things like ConcurrentLinkedDeque or ConcurrentSkipListSet and then look at what guarantees they do and do not make and think about the rationale behind those decisions.

And all you have to do in java is create the collection, hand the reference to multiple threads, and IT JUST WORKS like a normal Java collection.

You do NOT want to be using semaphores and locks directly if you have java.util.concurrent at your disposal. Look at the "Concurrent Collections" section:

Most concurrent Collection implementations (including most Queues) also differ from the usual java.util
conventions in that their Iterators and Spliterators provide weakly consistent rather than fast-fail traversal:

they may proceed concurrently with other operations
they will never throw ConcurrentModificationException
they are guaranteed to traverse elements as they existed upon construction exactly once, and may (but are not guaranteed to) reflect any modifications subsequent to construction.

These are remarkably difficult properties to get correct. Then you have to think about fairness vs progress (the java.util.concurrent folks have thought about this a LOT).

That library is something I sorely miss when I'm operating in another language.

You should also dive into the code itself. Sometimes you'll look at a function and marvel at how much work it really takes to get something right. And sometimes you'll look at a function and wonder how it could possibly be so simple.
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Hopefully this works too in Phase 2 and Phase 3 trials. Looks promising.

And doesn't get patented to hell with insane pricing.
People also risk death to go to the EU, so your comparison falls flat.
I don't see how you can possibly justify that claim as it seems to be to not only be false, but to be extremely far from being true.

I would say that the history of computing over the last 40 years has succeed ONLY because users were able to control their computers, install any software they wanted and grant that software complete control of the computer.

If users had spent the last 40 years only able to do "safe" things with their computers, we would have nowhere near the level of innovation we have today and our economic growth would be stunted.

It is only in the last ~10 years that OS's that don't have the ability to grant root access have seen real success. Even then, communities invariably spring up that find ways to get the ability to grant root access.

Yes, there are very good reasons to be careful about how you design the process of granting root access, but there are also very good reasons to grant that access. I am perfectly fine with the process being arcane, hidden and full of warnings, but it should be doable directly on the device.
I've never actually read Neuromancer, but Alexander Jablokov wrote some novels similar to what I imagine Neuromancer is like. For example, Nimbus and A Deeper Sea. Near future written in the early 90s.
>That said, I agree with you that food insecurity and upheaval will become issues, big ones -- but only because they'll become big issues long before 7 billion people starve.

and they can only become big issues long before 7 billion people starve by accepting the worldview of looming distant doom
I'd argue that how complicated a language is shouldn't be a factor for a company at that scale. If it's the right tool for the job, and I'm not arguing that it is, then they have the ability to hire engineers capable of using it.
600k GPS trackers for people and pets are using 123456 as a password
Yo, different publication bro. New Yorker != New York Times. BTW, NTY asked him to leave as well. Get your facts straight about 'fake news'.
Are these certified courses or audit only?
One thing that this analysis ignores is how the Roman Catholic Church stepped in and filled a lot of the void left by the collapse of the Roman administrative state. Although, the various Germanic kingdoms fought each other, by the time the Roman Empire fell, they had all converted to Latin Catholic Christianity. Because, of this the Roman Catholic Church could serve a unifying purpose and hold in check the worst impulses of an individual kingdom.

Now, there is no such authority. Maybe 10 years ago, we could have thought that multilateral institutions like the UN, EU, IMF, World Bank, NATO, etc could step up, now, if anything, those institutions might have more of a credibility gap than the US.

The collapse of the American "Empire" would be very painful for everyone, not least Western Europe.
I think I read somewhere that he took speaking fees from tobacco and amphetamine companies and wrote positively about them.
I've found it odd that Spotify keeps playing me the same tracks even if I forward past them every single time they start because I can't stand it.

I don't think that can be stupidity, it must be malice...
History predicts the consequences of today’s digital revolution
Yes, I knew this, and I said the wrong thing anyway, and I am sorry. I didn't think through what I was saying clearly.

My intent was more of an "Old Man Yells At Cloud" thing; I was just kvetching because the internet isn't as user-focused as it could be. Calling a bunch of resources from all over the place is a user-hostile behavior, and I'm generally unsympathetic when sites break because browsers narrow the range of user-hostile behaviors they support.
I think it'd be best if we removed the power of the AMA; allowed the ability to fast track foreign medical staff (doctors, nurses, specialists).

Allowed medical schools to control their curriculum more, allow new ones, change the residency system.

One simple change would be to create a 6 year BS/MD degree that students could start directly from high school -- many other countries do this.
> And, to be honest, what is wrong with chest thumping if you have a success.

Chest thumping is fine for your success, not of someone else's in which one had a grand total of 0 contribution

Dang: parent comment is yet another flame war thing.

Doing exactly what I said in my origin comment! Blaming Nehru while PM tales credit for ISRO, an org started by Nehru

Also

https://hwnews.in/news/national-news/govt-cuts-back-incentiv...

You don't get to chest thump after you cut salaries of ISRO staff and yet want to use their work for nationalisic agenda
Thanks for your (and sibling) responses. This is a new perspective I usually don't given living on the coasts. I'd love to hear what is the general view in these areas on what should be done.

I'll admit I have a closed mindset here, thinking that

1. Expanded education would improve opportunities by expanding the jobs one qualifies for

2. Healthcare coverage would allow folks to take risks with businesses, study, etc.

I also dont understand how reducing taxes for the uber rich helps...i'm hearing that the economy in these areas is not well and unemployment high, so why are folks adamant to not raise taxes for the rich? And if trickle down...doesn't the present state suggest it hasn't trickled down?

I'm very interested to hear, what do folks think will help? I'll admit that whatever happened in 2009-2016 did not help. However, neither did what happened in 2001-2008, nor 2016-now. What could I help to advocate for that would help, without making presumptuous assumptions about needs?
Perhaps she thought they were some sort of Chinese government terrorists. Seems like a plausible enough jump for a mentally unwell person to make given the rest of the things she said to them. Can’t know her motivations either way though.