skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't doubt that this happens frequently in many orgs. But I would like to caution people against grabbing onto the narrative that the unethical, scummy political games played by others are the cause of one's professional suffering. It's an easy thing to do, but just because it feels good doesn't mean it is true.

Of course, it doesn't mean it isn't true. But narratives that soothe the ego should always receive an extra dose of scrutiny.
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IIRC the real rationale is back in the early days people bet that 16 bits would be enough for a fixed length encoding, but the bet didn't pay off and now they're stuck with the worst of both worlds.
Would there be any conceptual barrier to a particular DB engine getting an updated parser that could handle "FROM... SELECT..." as well as "SELECT... FROM..."?
Well I'll be. Today I learned.

Little bit of international enlightenment never hurts.

And jeez people, lighten up. Not everybody is guaranteed to be aware of your vernacular. To me it quite literally had a touch of incedulity to it.

You try to accept that another human being could miss someone with a bloody zebra walking by with them anywhere because they were staring at a smartphone!

I wasn't trying to be snide or clever. I just honestly thought he was describing the most unlikely scenario I could ever imagine running into happening to him because someone was that damned intent on checking their feed!
hollow core doors are not all equal; some are almost entirely hollow, while others have several cross-members along their height (length when used as a table). There are plenty that are just a frame plus a single cross-member at handle height, and those will not hold any significant weight away from the center when used as a desk.
And human rights, actually.

No-fault divorce, universal suffrage, equality of races - at least in official policy - all at once, by the 1920s. It was unprecedented.

And it worked, to a certain extent at least. Women got education and entered the (educated, professional) work force (and, during the war, combat divisions). The change for Jewish people (officially oppressed with race-specific laws in Imperial Russia) was immense (Trotsky, one of the top guys, was Jewish - as were many others, before Stalinism).

There was an explosion in arts: a revolution in cinema, music, literature, poetry, architecture, visual arts.

Basically, a lot of the bad things that people associate with Communism are Stalinism, but that came in the 30s, and went away by the 60s.

Now, a lot of other bad things were there from day 0, and some developed post-Stalin. But there were a lot of changes from 1917 to the 20s, to Stalinism, to WW2, and then to Khruschev and Brezhnev.

The country stabilized in the Kruschev-Brezhnev era, and remained static for so long that even those who liked the regime got tired of it. But it's important to see what the changes were.
A very instructive exercise for anyone who is or intends to be a software developer is to write some sort of interpreter and/or compiler. (As well as a virtual machine and/or emulator) Depending on your approach this can take a weekend, a few months, or the rest of your life.

For instance, and amusingly enough written in golang, one of the most respected recent books on this topic is `Writing an Interpreter in Go` and its sequel `Writing a Compiler in Go`. https://interpreterbook.com/ and https://compilerbook.com/ Both of these books are reasonably short, and have the reader make meaningful progress within a weekend.

Going through the motions of actually making your own programming language (or reimplementing an existing one) teaches you a lot of things you wouldn't otherwise expect about how to write general code, how to use existing languages effectively, and how things work under the hood. It's also one of the best ways to really get a practical feel for how to approach unit testing.

It's an exercise I'd recommend if you haven't gone through it already. It might make it really click for you why some features that seem like a no brainer and should be in every language aren't, and why some undesirable "features" are so prevalent.
I'm not supporting the position; I'm just explaining what the argument for it is, since you said you never understood the rationale behind it and felt it gave you the worst of both worlds.

But I will say that the concern you have does not take into account the concerns other people have who make this argument.
It might be because west can (or could) afford to prefer low density (for a portion of people significant enough to affect laws and zoning).

All those other places never could afford suburbs.
That does nothing about the fact that flying is destroying our environment and emits greenhouse gas emissions 2 orders of magnitude over the same trip by train.
I'd say that's 2000s style, not 90s. Still often handwritten, but that kind of hero images only appeared when connection became faster, for example.
Technicality, but it is not ef, it is the way linq is designed.
Same but until I'm 40
> Perhaps fortunately, this model has only ever been used in one real prison in Cuba

I think the design is actually a lot more widespread that that. For example, some of today's hot new software companies like Bubble App are already experimenting with it:

"Good news! In response to your “concerns” about our current open-plan creative campus, we are pleased to announce our new building: a towering panopticon à la Jeremy Bentham’s eighteenth-century vision of utilitarian corporate efficiency!"

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/our-open-plan-office-fai...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20946847
It doesn’t really go to the city, but some far out suburb in pudong. Faster to take a cab than subway + maglev transfer. Unless you specifically want to ride the maglev.
We don't maintain an encyclopedia of HN moderation for a bunch of reasons. One is that such a compendium would only be of interest to a small subset of users, and they are just the kind who would never be satisfied by it. There's a certain sort of moderation discussion in which, no matter how patiently you answer objections, your answers are never accepted and only spawn new objections. To engage is to participate in a denial-of-service on yourself, dancing ever faster to a piper who will never stop. It doesn't take long to learn what a mistake that is. It sucks energy, razes morale, and never works.

The vast majority of HN users aren't like that. They find the site interesting, are grateful that we maintain it, and respond with happiness when we answer their questions. That's the population we're excited to serve.

So our approach is to operate by the principles outlined in the site guidelines, spend most of our resources trying to make HN more interesting (or at least stave off its decline), and answer specific questions when they come up. Not because of sinister secrets, just because of basic resource management: it's the best use of our limited resources and the best way to manage the effects on ourselves so we don't burn out quite so quickly.

It's fairly clear that the community is happy with this approach, because if it weren't, we'd be hearing about nothing else. Then there's the grousing sort of commenter who makes dark insinuations about moderator manipulation. There are actually fewer of those than it seems, because they tend to cycle through various accounts over the years. I think they have a role to play, too, and am happy to engage up to a point—but only as long as it feels like the discussion is useful for the general audience too.
Yeah, that's why Japan and Europe don't have high speed rail either.
I'm going off of what is said in the article and determining if what is said matches what I expect (which is based off of Pareto). Also consider that the statement that the AG said is not countering FB's claim. So that's what gives me confidence. One side says "we capture 99%" and the opposition says doesn't disagree and uses a desperate statement. I think if FB was wrong then the AG would counter on that point.
China has about 30000km of highspeed rail. Pretty sure that counts as widespread. Sure, it's going at a leisurely 250–350km/h, not the 600-1000km/h from the article. But I don't think anyone claims that each train has to go 1000km/h from now on.
"Download the ALPR Dataset"

https://www.eff.org/pages/download-alpr-dataset

does not appear to be updated with this data. but other data already available.
>This is one of the things MS Entity Framework gets right - it enforces the "start with FROM"

It gets it "right" (right being a very loosely defined term here) by happenstance, because you're operating off of an object. Not because it was some higher level design choice or discussion.
You have to be careful with throwing people under the bus because if it's noticed by people..going to be honest, they are not going to trust you and word will get around. You become that snake to avoid, you're dangerous to work with. So, hopefully you do it in a way where it can't come back to you. At the org I work at, if you're seen doing this, you're not a team player and you get an unofficial mark against you. People will generally look up to people who take responsibility.

Regular smoozing I think is not too hard and you're just being sociable.

If you feel you need to play politics, get with good team and play politics in concert. My department has made a lot of good progress just by providing a united front and influencing together. It doesn't even have to be a bad thing.
musl still has many of the same issues, as it needs to remain compatible with POSIX.
> I'm curious what Apple has to actually gain by doing Maps?

The same reason Google started making hardware for Android. A company should try to control its core competencies[1]. The intersection of software and hardware is a core competency for Apple. At the application level, navigation is a critical piece of that software.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_competency
Depends what you mean by "rationale" I guess. I was trying to explain why one might still want to use it, not why one might be stuck using it.
What is a meaningful downtown?
Only one of the people in that interaction is wielding a deadly weapon. Perhaps the burden of responsibility should be slightly greater for the one who can kill half a dozen people with five seconds of inattention.
Ask HN: Best surge or price drop alerts
What is SOTA for alerting price drops or surging in options, Bitcoin, or stocks. Maybe I'm to naive but looking for some well proven algorithms. Only to get notified when let's a huge price change takes place.
It also says something very human. That people want to make the world a better place. I do not understand a complaint against those that are seeking work that is more meaningful and beneficial to humanity. Isn't that exactly the type of work that we (as ... humans...) should be encouraging?
It may seem a bizarre take to you, however after decades of reading titles of legislative bills and "projects" it's a simple test whose results stand up over time. I use it all the time.
Is there a record for the fastest company crash and burn?
I once worked with a guy who would generate SQL queries via a series of multiple regex transformations. Even now that's still up there as one of the most terrifying things I've seen a developer do.
Hey Barr, if innocent people have nothing to hide, please set an example by releasing all your private communications to the public.
> So, as someone that lived in New York for 6 years and California for 6 years, stories like this are incredibly depressing.

What would be really depressing would be getting stuck with the hidden bill for this stuff. Sentiment like yours is why politicians can dangle the carrot of rail in front of the public for decades and keep cashing out.

It's just not that great a choice of transport on most legs in the U.S; and most places where medium- and high-speed rail makes sense in the U.S. already have it, at some price that keeps it somewhat occupied.
I'm not interested in getting into a slapfight about who was worse, but I think it's pretty clear that _The Trump Administration_ is treating Southern American migrants purposefully poorly.

I know you're trying to point out some supposed hypocrisy for not criticizing Obama or Clinton or something, so I'll let you know I think they too enacted unforgivable political violence. Happy?

People exist outside the Republican/Democrat spectrum.
Outsourcing work is not a justification for outsource responsibility. Google has a choice.
Do not forget that you need about 5 employees to fill a single 24/24 365/365 work position. About 3 for a 2x8 position.
This is about as far as I got with this...

"While it solves the problem of methods, and the mutation problem, it has a serious bug. We can’t have None as an element in the tree!"

Uhm... what?! Why not? You check that your left and right are None and if they are it is a leaf. And if they are not it is not. What your data value is doesn't matter and you can have as many None values in the tree as you like. Your tree doesn't need leaves to define where it ends, it ends when there are no more branches.
Our library system doesn't have fines for any children's materials. As far as I know there haven't been any issues with this policy.
Is Facebook such an ad monopoly that no advertiser in their right mind would boycott them for decisions like this? Have we outraged people no recourse?
That's wrong. The assumption would be that homeless people tend to be dark faced.

It's so unsupported, of course. Far more likely that homeless people tend to be a available and amenable to the project.
By the time they started planning the bullet train, that was long in the past. This is what the surroundings would have looked like when the bullet train started.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:0_series_Yurakucho_1967...
This event is going to be ridiculously good. The speakers are super impressive. Can't wait to meet all of these heavy-hitters in person.
> A bit off on a tangent, but I love the 90s design aesthetic of this website.

I think you and I experienced different 90s design aesthetics if a bootstrap looking site with a big hero image at the top evokes the 90s for you.
Shanghai happens to have one of the few, but it’s not especially practical: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_maglev_train
Counterpoint: regularization is just a way of specifying a Bayesian prior for maximum a posteriori estimation.
Your edit is correct, I'm very serious unfortunately.
This isn't about being in a public setting, this is about taking photos of people with the intention of including them in a database for later use. It can't be that simply being in public means that you give up all such rights, since it's impossible to avoid being in public.

That informed consent should be obtained seems obvious -- perhaps some of those people wouldn't want their faces to be used in that way. Are their desires without meaning? From the report, it also sounds like the images were being obtains in a plainly deceptive manner.

Whether or not there is "harm" is beside the point. The point is whether or not people are being deceived, and whether or not we as a society value meaningful autonomy.
We live in a large N-Dimensional world of knowledge. Everyone at some point is guaranteed to have missed something "they should know", both according to themselves and according to others.

Many times you encounter such knowledge when you are not ready for it, so you forget having encountered it. A good way to convince yourself of this is to start opening up some of your old college text books and look at the chapter introductions and conclusions. You will find some insights that you simply missed regardless of how you performed in the classes.
> yep - once u factor in the TSA body shakedown and traffic to airport, then it about evens out air travel.

That's a problem that will be replicated exactly for boarding a train destined to travel at 278m/s.

The consequences for a major security failure on a high speed train are, if anything, more dire than those for even a very large passenger aircraft. An 800,000kg barely-subsonic chain of rigid torpedoes barreling through dense population centres is serious business.
This is why I'm a big fan of Overdrive/Libby. I check out a lot of audiobooks and they get automatically returned after 21 days, so I don't have to worry about any late fees.
Well you could draw samples of the parameters with a Bayesian setup via MCMC or get a distribution over them via a variational approximation, rather than getting some sort of maximum likelihood (MAP whatever) value for the parameters of the model via solving an optimization problem. This seems much more general (and practically useful). So I think it is the other way around regularizers are just priors (that you arrived at somehow).
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I work in a company which rents a floor in a large downtown office tower and I think the number of people working there is less than 10 including cleaning staff. There is 1 security guard who I see around often and someone is usually in the management office and at the end of the day a pair of janitors come around.

I've also visited WeWork offices before and you're right that they have a lot of extra employees. They usually have multiple people at the front desk checking people in, then there are people who are going around to make sure the kegs are full and the shared spaces haven't detoriated into pigstys (this is different from a typical office where Janitors come around once a day or sometimes less than that).
> Furthermore, as a consumer, would you rather buy a car that costs x dollars that protects you or costs x+y that protects other people?

Reducing the chance of having to live with the fact that I ran somebody over and seriously harmed or even killed them, that's indeed worth an extra y dollars to me.

Furthermore, it is in the interest of my insurance company too, they might factor that into the premium.
> The old rules prohibited all ads that contained "false" and "misleading" content and made no mention of the fact-checking program. The new rules are limited to claims that are "debunked by third-party fact checkers."

> Moreover, Facebook says "political figures" are exempt from even that narrow restriction.

Grim.
It is constantly empirically shown that most people don't care. Most people have already given their face to Google or Facebook via Photos, either directly or by being friends with Photos users.

And what are the negative effects of giving away biometrics? Is someone with no assets and no stable residence in danger of harm from someone getting a loan in their name? Of being rounded up by the government for their biometrics and not for the much more immediate threat of being criminalized directly to just for being homeless?
At the point you are donating...IDK all bets are off no?
You can check out the source here: https://glitch.com/edit/#!/myaccount (it aint very good)
And the most happy one was the cat.

I'm still stuck with my tiny 2-room apartment on the edge of Moscow's suburbia, but hardly even visit the place now.

The commute to work is nearly 3 hours so I'm renting it to my friend (who has a remote-ish job) for a really small fee, compared to the outrageous prices Moscow has. Didn't want to rent it to a random street person for various reasons, and the rent market is nonexistent there.

Being tiny, this place is unbelievably cozy and quiet. So quiet you almost feel like you've been placed in a vacuum compared to what's you've gonna experience every day in the big city.
my first thought was Colombia but then went searching https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_named_after_...
What about the singleton tree with just None in it? As in, what's the difference between `node(None, leaf(), leaf())` and `leaf()`?

Or the following:

x
/ \
/ \
/ \
y None
/ \ / \
/ \ / \
Leaf Leaf Leaf Leaf
> because taking the app down does no more harm to anybody than the alternative, which is for Apple to take the whole store down and stop doing business in the country.

Only the future will tell if that's true
I don't think the thing about false positives is actually true, though obviously it will depend on how good the crime scene sample is, and on how good the police are at their jobs.
Is there a source for this claim? If so, I'd like to read it and learn more about it
> 9 of 10 top drugmakers spend more on marketing than research

> These spending numbers are at odds with a common claim by pharmaceutical companies that they need to patent drugs for extraordinary amounts of time to justify the massive amounts of money spent on research. Not only do many top drugmakers appear to spend more on advertising, but their profit margins, the BBC noted, are often larger than their research spending.

https://www.vox.com/2015/2/11/8018691/big-pharma-research-ad...
It took me a while to realize that by multi-byte you must mean variable-width. Of course UTF-16 is multi-byte, how could it not be? :)
Using Triggers and Strategy to Prepare Users for Product Updates
I'm confused, this doesn't seem right. This article, and several of the comments here, suggest that you cannot reference things calculated during SELECT in the HAVING field. But you can.

As a quick demo, pick your favorite table and run:

SELECT 2+2 as num FROM <table> HAVING num > 3;

this will return as many 4s as there are rows in the table

SELECT 2+2 as num FROM <table> HAVING num > 4;

this will return 0 rows.
I see, I misunderstood your point. I agree that the misleading, if true, is the most problematic part here. As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, I don't think targeting certain demographic is necessarily bad, but lying about what the collection is for definitely is, if true.
> The party is more important than any one elected official and certainly more important than the voters.

Presumably that's even truer in China (where 'Party' is capitalized), but at least they're getting a high-speed rail out of the deal.
Seems totally reasonable, although perhaps 15 times seems a bit generous.

After the book's due, return the book, or else you can't check out any new ones.
It is time but also energy. At 1000kph a train (at sea level) has massively more drag than an a380 at altitude. Even on electric, these things may have a greater carbon and financial cost than proponants want to admit.
Ask HN: Is there anywhere to get help with low level Windows development?
I'm talking mainly things like writing WDK drivers, understand how certain existing OS drivers.

With Linux / BSDs / etc. there are dozens of resources including websites, IRC channels, Discord servers, subreddits, books, etc.

With Windows, however there seems to be the docs on MSDN (pretty complete, but better as a reference than anything) or the MSDN forums which have a terrible UI and vague copy / paste answers along with a handful of outdated internet articles.

I understand that with Windows being proprietary, there is going to be less in depth knowledge, subject experts, and resources, but it's still shocking to me that there aren't even any good WDK books.
Your sarcasm fails because it's truth. Aside from a few direct intense carcinogens like asbestos, carcinogens are not a big deal.
At least at my location in SF, WeWork is not open during non-business hours. You can have office access if you as a business are leasing office space, but there's nobody there.
That's a direct benefit for your own safety, though.

Thicker pillars means better structural integrity during crashes, particularly the roof during rollovers.