skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really. As noted in the article, Thomas Cook merged with MyTravel Group in 2007, which almost collapsed in 2011 and left them with a lot of debt. Brexit came years later.

Possible causes would be long term trends in the types of holidays people want, increased competition, mismanagement, etc. But the problems started long before Brexit.
Why use old fashioned machines with buttons (which will become muscle memory in a few months) when you can have a buggy, unresponsive and ever changing touchscreen with poor UX?
>If yes, how can we prohibit the sale of those lands to people outside of the village/county?

This is only a feature in a couple jurisdictions. Not all countries ban the sale of land. You might guess those jurisdictions won't be interested in recording land sales, since land can't be sold.
Now your post is grayed out.

Someone is watching...
Repairability is one of the defining qualities of “old stuff”
“Logged in”? Does this seriously not accommodate cronjobs? Well, this isn't the first time they have ignored non-interactive and distributed uses, and it always seems like they're targeting a game console rather than a real computer.
You’re right. Thanks for this comment. It’s really helpful. I’m still wondering what the factors are that created this gap. If financial institutions aren’t losing confidence in each other or the assets that are been posting as collateral, why is there a cash shortage in the overnight market?
The galaxy fold is not a phone I would ever recommend anyone purchase. It does, however, make me extremely excited for its successors three to five years from now. If they fix the issue with screen delicacy and the always-visible line down the middle of the screen I could see shelling out serious cash for one.
I read the article, and there was nothing in it about what you eat and how this _might_, a little bitty bit, also affect the climate/earth.
What percentage fits into, "Tries right clicking things when the buttons on top of the app don't have the immediate function"?

It's my observation that people who don't right click can't be taught to program. (half serious)
> But of course, I don't want to spoil our friendship, so I never told her that.

Maybe she needs to hear it. The key is to get her to ask herself questions, rather than telling. It's best done by suggestions and questions that prompts thoughts.

If you tell a hamster there is no point running so hard in the wheel, it will probably run harder.
Input and output types would be a good start.
I had gathered that primordial heat would have petered out billions of years ago. That the radioactive decay cited as providing long-term heat is not primarily fission is a surprise. But isn't alpha decay really a kind of fission? It's not useful for chain reactions, but that's a whole other topic.
Can artificial inteligence predict premature death?
Not everyone lives in a sunny tropical paradise.
Density/power/cooling are real constraints when you aren't 100% bought-in to the cloud.
> it's been harder and harder to find a truly coherent album

Not really. Just look through stuff from the 1970's.
I suspect boycotts galvanize tyrants. They need an "us versus them" narrative to justify their actions and prosecution of their enemies. It provides a wonderful scapegoat for domestic issues too-- I suspect the Cuban government could write off mediocre economic growth for years as "hey, the biggest most obvious trading partner won't deal with us."

It's a lot harder to get people rallied against an "enemy" who supplies your food/favourite consumer goods.
do h1b workers from india open defecate or is it the crazy homeless people? i saw poop on the street when i was there 5 years ago.
Maybe you don't need to know how to repair your car, but it's easily arguable that every car driver should recognize the things happening in their cars, otherwise, they are an unsafe driver.

On the simple side of things, is your check engine light on, are you dragging your air dams, are your lights on, do your tires have any tread.

Slightly more complex, recognizing that your car is over heating, recognizing burning oil, brakes on the wear pad.

More complex, is the suspension connected to the body?

What's scary is the number of ride share drivers (and taxi cabs) that continue (are allowed to?) drive with some of these serious issues happening. even in states like California with vehicle inspections.
> He coached them on passing the exam and succeeding in their interviews. Many were subsequently hired. Yet the percentage of blacks and non-Asian minorities in high-tech professions consistently remains under 2%.

tl;dr:"My father helped hire a lot of people, yet somehow total demographics didn't change". Right, one person should have definitely solved the problem but incredibly it didn't. Brilliant logic.
Highly sensitive medical histories to wrong number
Barracuda: The Power of $\Ell$-Polling in Proof-of-Stake Blockchains
The threshold is around complexity of your practice, and you don't need a complex practice to get very far. It just helps if you have specific goals for your practice.

What you're doing is totally fine. Insight timer gives you some useful additions like repeating timers or sub-timers with different bells, e.g. if your practice requires changing the style of meditation 20 minutes in, etc.

Also, the sounds on Insight timer are Tibetan bells typically used for coming out of meditations, which have a long but diminishing sound so as to bring you back gently.
Sneaking on a Canadian Freight Train
Roman Mars vs. Greek Ares as the God of War
> I'm afraid that some people just struggle with everything.

Human progress is neither
automatic nor inevitable...
Every step toward the goal
of justice requires
sacrifice, suffering, and
struggle; the tireless
exertions and passionate
concern of dedicated
individuals.[0]

HTH

0 - https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/martin_luther_king_jr_164...
That’s a very good point. Travelers have shifted over the years from an all-inclusive package booking process to a DIY piecemeal approach and it’s hard for package sellers to compete against the OTAs.
In C it's very simple

volatile int cnt = 0x1000;
while(cnt--)
;
> favourite sound generator & synth apps

Any you’d specifically recommend?
I was using these apps for about 2 years, and I got to a point where I would use it daily and feel better for it, so it was a subscription worth paying for.

Later on, I went on to read some books that really answered a lot of my "am I doing this right" questions that the content in the apps didn't. Now, there's no reason why the apps can't have more the material that those books presented, but learning from a book made me confident enough in my understanding of the methods that all I needed afterwards was a simple timer.
This misattribution is something America loves to fall for. And we react in _gigantic_ ways against the wrong thing. Communism, Unions, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Central America, Iraq, the environment. We are great at solving the last big problem in the most headon disastrous way. We only react, never predict.

We treated Mexico like sht, if we helped build her up, we both would be a solid position right now. Our war on drugs directly fueled a bloody civil war that has and is displacing millions. The war on drugs was the problem, it raised the price of drugs that made something both attractive and illegal, perfect combo. It is like a cryptocurrency called DistableCoin, where you can mine for more by attacking the state.

The root cause is a direct physical cause, but the problem space is the problem. We need to go up-dimension, to project the problem into lots of different lower dimensions. Lots of cut off roasts in the world. The next level of meta is to ask why people cook their own food. Then one asks why the have to eat at all? Why are they biological? Why are they physical?
How so? The decision between a stackful and a stackless coroutine is precisely that, a decision. The tradeoff is that storing all registers/stack variables and processor state before a yield and restoring it after a resume is a non-trivial cost. For some applications, that cost may not matter, but for others, it may be critical.

Also, this is less like a goto, and more like a setjmp/longjmp.
This talk is about Zen+ Epyc, not Zen2 (which is where the non-cache memory gets uniform). I don't know if they have release quality Epyc 7003 (Zen2) samples available yet, and if they do, NFLX probably isn't allowed to publish benchmarks about them. There's almost certainly still some value in their existing NUMA work even on Zen2, as things like L1/L2/L3 cache have locality even if memory and PCIe does not.

Pretty sure Intel single socket of this generation is totally non-viable for this workload due to lack of PCIe lanes. Maybe viable when Intel gets gen4 PCIe.
> (I don't even know whether you still have to manually check the level of oil? Don't they have sensors for that these days?)

Most cars do have sensors for this, but they often fail, and even if they're working fine, tell you at a warning level, not at a full level. If you want to be a prepared driver you'd check your fluids regularly, but especially before long trips; The bonus is that the sensors can't tell you that your oil is prematurely dirty, so just by looking at it, you get more information.

This reminds me of Obama recommending people check their tires; yes, modern vehicles have tpms, but if they heed the warning, it often doesn't come on until a tire is significantly low ~20%.
This may be good advice in general but it’s not a problem for us. I have a pretty good radar for when emotional intimacy starts to cross a line and I’m comfortable communicating boundaries.
I was there during the '00s. I'll admit my hostile attitude is partly sour grapes on my part, since I deservedly flunked out (otherwise known as getting a master's). But nearly all the bad press the lab has been getting lately rings true to me. Thinking back to how little of what I saw there turned into any kind of practical advances or useful products in the years since...what was the point? And of course I'm horrified at the source of so much of the funding.

But then I've also been souring on the value of academia and research in general. "Publish or perish" leads to a lot of garbage getting published, as increasingly large amounts of money are thrown at increasingly small results. There's just not enough scientific truth to go around. The Media Lab, being particularly prominent and press-friendly, has this worse than many other places, but it's a problem everywhere.
Solving problems can be done in many ways. I reach first for OSS myself, but that's just me. Others solve the problems they must with tools which are not OSS.

What matters most is solving the problem at hand, not what tools are used.

I'm just a random Internet account, trying to impart a bit of perspective. Do with it what you shall.
I guess you're right, I remember seeing quantum algorithms that were assumed to be more efficient than any classical algorithm and then people devised equally efficient classical algorithms. E.g. work by Ewin Tang https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.00414
That isn't what's going on here.
My parents were like this. I ended up feeling resentful of their attitude as a kid. They whenever I changed schools, it took me a long time to make friends because I didn't have good examples to follow. Even when I did, I always felt like the odd one out because all my friends parents hung out together, but I wasn't invited since my parents had no social interests.
Sounds a lot like a system for controlling Regular Joe.
> Is it really a competitive advantage though?

It totally is. These things get installed into ISP racks. ISPs have limited space and power for these things. One box pushing 200Gbps in the same space is twice as good (although, note they have 4x100Gbps NICs in this generation, there's room for more perf here).

Reducing the number of nodes helps with management of the network as well.
It is possible to use Swift on audio thread. You have to be careful not to use any reference counted (i.e. class) objects. If you do need to perform allocations (e.g. creating CMSampleBuffer instances), use a custom allocator.
I think included in that framework is also, "thing over which I have the most control or could be controlled".

We don't say the root cause is that time flows forward. Or that gravity can't be stopped or shielded. Or that I can't directly copy my ideas into your head w/o playing out a story. Direct teleportation of knowledge, feelings, thoughts, arguments and truths. Root causes are like the free variables. The universe is the fixed.
Asians don’t really have that type of unity.

Maybe if it was, “Now that it’s just us Koreans, or Chinese, or Indians,” then maybe.

From my experience, Asian Americans are extremely progressive.
While it's certainly interesting, I don't think this excerpt from his book explains at all why he became a whistleblower.
But plenty of "non-WeWork" office space offerings have already been like that for decades. They'll provide janitors, receptionists, etc unless you opt for spaces without it to run your own.
Churches and States
Bill Gates: The Scam Behind Her Foundation
Yes. What other people are saying is also true. Many nails in the coffin. Brexit apparently caused Britons to hang on to their money more and vacation abroad less. So if you're a travel company on the ropes, Brexit could seal your fate.
So, you read this article which talked about how Thomas Watson and IBM helped Nazis perpetrate genocide, and the 'taint' you're worried about is a few black people who might have been helped to get a job? You've got to be joking, right?
I don't think "stranding" is the right word.

For some time now, UK companies selling "package holidays" (with hotel, air, etc. all from one vendor and with one bill) are required to put up funds that the government uses to repatriate those who are already traveling when a company goes under:

https://www.caa.co.uk/atol-protection/

Note that it does not cover trips that people put together themselves; in that case, I expect they'd only have to arrange for a flight home (as they paid for the other parts themselves).

The CAA (the UK's Civil Aviation Authority) already has a site up for Thomas Cook customers:

https://thomascook.caa.co.uk
Of course it can't promote them. All of the best groups are secret, and with good reason. They are spread via word of mouth which allows group admins to vet new users. Facebook even added a flow to support a "before you join, submit your answers these questions" workflow.

Maybe that's not where the money is, but these private groups are so sticky that I don't currently see any alternative. People already know how to use Facebook, they don't know how to use Discord or Slack.
I think it's safe to say any kind of sweeping generalization like this is unlikely to be broadly true (in either direction). Both work quite well.
dear friend of mine grew up with a snooker table in his basement. Dude could shoot pool like nobody else.
I was always wondering about the profit margins of these companies. From their prices I always felt that I am paying a portion of the previous guy's vacations. I'd call it a pyramid scheme, only everybody loses.
This little bit seriously has me questioning myself.

Wow.
That’s well beyond my knowledge of race issues. Maybe others have some data. I’ve seen it at a number of companies. To the point that before a black engineer speaks, Ive got a Bayesian probability precomputed on what accent I’m likely to hear.
Counterpoint: Google now outrights owns a absurd amount of buildings outright on Manhattan's West Side near SoHo.
These big companies have so much money, that they stand to make even more money just holding the damn real estate for all they care if they end up not using it.

It's the same as a individuals buy vs. rent scenario for a house. Sure, rent may be cheaper, but there are long term pros just holding the property yourself if you can afford it.
Brexit Threatens a Steep Loss of Jobs for U.K.-Based Tech Companies
One of the worst was right across 10th St. from Solar4America Ice (formerly the San Jose Ice Center, home training facility of the Sharks).
Minorities fighting against one another for crumbs.
Your comment made me recall some of how I felt on SSRIs. I went on SSRIs for several months for anxiety. My subjective experience of it was that the thoughts and obsessions that were continually going in my mind increasingly felt like they were coming through a fog and from farther away. Which was great in some ways because I could just enjoy being, but I need to access that obsessive mindset for work as a developer and for my personal projects that I care about. A lot of the time I felt like I just didn't care about stuff that I really should care about. If things were objectively going to hell, I didn't think I would be able to tell, because it kind of silenced or dampened the critical thinking part of my mind. So ultimately I decided to stop... occasionally I want to go back for the serenity it gave me, but I value my critical faculties higher.
Building a Whack-A-Mole game with rn-sprite-sheet
TI is antagonistic to all but the largest customers. Trying to get access to manuals, instruction sets, etc was a pain in the 90s. Devkits commonly cost >$500, even for the smallest of parts.

There is a big memory hole, at least in the people I interact with about the personalities around the various semiconductor companies. Nerdy (Maxim,XMOS) dorky (Green Arrays) serious (ST) irreverent (Fairchild), sloppy and fun (Microchip). Companies like TI are in it for the money, others have a passion for engineering and solving civilization's problems.
not the same but FYI, there is a large globe display at the Museam of the Future in Tokyo. They have contents each year for interesting things to display on them. Unfortunately they only take video, nothing interactive. But still

http://festival.j-mediaarts.jp/en/news/fpaward_entry/
> Postgres is pretty nice these days for a wide variety of use cases; including nosql ones.

um... what? Are you meaning to say that Postgres does a pretty good job as a document store? (not synonymous with "nosql")

Despite that that wikipedia article says, most (if not all) of the "impedence mismatches" described apply to most document stores as well. I would be curious to hear which of the mismatches described in that article you think are avoided by using Postgres as a document store. In my mind, the reason for using a document store is to have flexibility in the structure of your data (which can be a positive or negative depending on your needs).

> Or you can use something that actually was built to do reporting properly. I do a lot of stuff in Elasticsearch...

Of course there are document stores with good reporting. I was talking specifically about the downside of using Postgres as a document store given your complaints about its native json support being fiddly.

> But for the kind of stuff people end up doing where they have an employee and customer class that are both persons that have addresses and a lot of stuff that is basically only ever going to be fetched by person id and never queried on, I'll take a document approach every time vs. doing joins between a dozen tables. I also like to denormalize things into documents.

I often de-normalize addresses in my tables, but that choice is based on how you will want to store and update that data. A separate address table is good if you want to be able to automatically propagate address edits between records. A de-normalized address is good if you want keep records of that address for the purpose for which it was used. De-normalization is always an option with a relational DB, but normalization is not always easy some document stores.

> Having a category table and then linking categories by id is a common pattern in relational databases. Or you can just decide that the category id is a string that contains some kind of urn or string representation of the category and put those directly in in a column or in the json. You lose the referential integrity check on the foreign key of course; but then you should not rely on your database to do input validation so that check would be kind of redundant.

I'm not quite sure what you are on about here. You can use constraints on columns that are strings and you can have tables that are composed entirely of an indexed string column to point that constraint towards. Integer Ids are primarily used just to save space. (I don't really see how this is relevant.)

I don't see anything here to justify your assertion:

> A good table structure often makes for a poor domain model and vice versa. The friction you get from the object relational impedance mismatch is best avoided by treating them as two things instead of one.

To be frank, it sounds to me like you ran across a bunch of poorly designed DB schemas (or schemas you didn't understand the design decisions for) and decided that it must be impossible to design good DB schemas and so you just use unstructured document stores instead.
FWIW, this experience doesn't match everyone's, and personal chemistry and dosages can cause quite different experiences -- where anxiety is present, but managed.
In case anyone else has trouble finding the podcast episode in question this should be a direct link - https://megaphone.link/VMP1678725500
Exactly. Talk about affirmative action in academics, and most people will agree it’s something to consider.

Talk about affirmative action in sports, and people will laugh.
Cool! Maybe a useful feature request: make the output compatible with Markdeep? https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/

I tried Ascii_tree with this online Markdeep demo: https://tomberek.info/markdeep.html and I found that it can work with only minor changes, like using '+' at all the corners and junctions, and wrapping the output in a frame of asterisks '*'.
> Secretly breaking the rules because the system isn't fair is like lying because the truth will get you in trouble.

So according to you, Jews in Nazi Germany should have come out as Jews instead of pretending to pass off as gentile?
4-Bit Virtual Machine in TypeScript types
In How To: Xkcd author offers absurd advice for ordinary tasks
I wonder how many such Superfund sites we already have in mainland China (I mean from a factual standpoint, not from a government reporting standpoint). The Chinese government is so out of control over the situation that, nominally, environmental pollution can be punished with death.
I'd be cautious of this sort of study. Just as many of us Google how to do things, people can offen figure out enough to get things done with the help of those around them. The staff at fast food restaurants and call centers generally seem to muddle through.

Similarly, kids seem to figure out video game problems that would stump many adults.
It seems to me that a million bucks wouldn't really enough to be wise, either. I mean, even if you had a 10% chance of getting 50:1 upside (and a 90% chance of losing everything)... you'd still have to bet 29 times to have a 95% chance of getting your upside. I mean, can you be an angel investor by investing as low as $5,000?

(Not sure if 10% and 50:1 is anywhere close to what angel investors shoot for.)
The linked article.
How does Eto compare to the very mature wxWidgets?
"My point, however, is more mundane: we have created a demo literally from smoke and mirrors, and the Corporate World bought it." ... "Dance for me, Corporate America! I'm SHIT-HOT!" -Hunter S. Negroponte

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20905450