skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is that when people from totally different cultures do math, they come to compatible conclusions. The algorithms in the Rhind Papyrus still work, the ones we understand, anyway. And that's from 1000 years or more before Euclid. This is not true of cooking, fashion, law, childrearing, painting, or religion. So maybe there isn't an underlying objective truth people observe mentally in math, but there's something that has some properties shared by objective truth and not by other human inventions.
People should pay attention to the world around them, but keep in mind that the pedestrians aren't the people doing the activity that causes the damage.
I never understood this argument. The same vulnerability exists with regular high speed rail. In fact... Since it’s protected by a thick steel tube, it’s harder to do that than with a regular Maglev. Leaks take much longer to depressurize a vacuum than you might think and would help slow the vehicle down.
YC has never been an advocate of decentralizing tech. In fact, it's the opposite they force you to start in the bay area
Yes, but was the language for your performance gone over by your own lawyer?

Is there a clause for when an upstream team decides to stonewall the work you've involved with?

What happens when your boss transfers and the new person you report to doesn't have any history to go on?

This stuff happens all the time, although mostly at the business level. Zeroing it out is a great way to make sure you aren't in financial position where you're taking a risk on things you don't 100% control.
Was almost an inevitability it seemed like with all the other news, IPO ended etc. While this is a huge deal, is it really going to change anything about the underlying business?

Let's say there's only 10% of employees or some very low number. Would then the Real Estate deals put in place vs. the Revenue received for re-leasing them pencil out positive?
Six and a half million people live in the Central Valley. So it's about 15% of the state population. And running high speed rail through the central valley is fairly cheep. The planned high speed rail line tends to follow the existing freight rail lines.

Always possible to build the high speed rail and then run another connector down the Salinas Valley between Monterrey and Santa Barbara on to Thousand Oaks. (Following HWY 101 basically) Political opposition that is probably bigger than the geography though.
It absolutely is an ad hom, I'm just claiming that that is not a fallacy in this case, since the trustworthiness or bias of the dude is the thing we are discussing. Ad hom isn't always a fallacy. Nobody has even discussed any arguments coming from mjg, they're just chalking him up on a tally of who is on whose side. And I think the dude is super biased, and that whose side he is on isn't evidence of anything since he picks sides based on ideology, not on a case-by-case basis.
I just had to shop for doors, the only ~$40 doors I could find at home depot were hollow core, like these: https://www.homedepot.com/p/Masonite-30-in-x-80-in-Primed-Sm...
Another example is Robert E. Lee, and Ulysses S. Grant. Even though Grant was the winner, often Lee is perceived as the better general. Though I think if you ask historians now who was the better general, I think many will say Grant as he had a deeper understanding of overall strategy (including logistics, manpower, etc) which is more important than whatever tactical brilliance Lee may have had.
> How I read the horsemen comment is that these topics are used as boogie men.

Yes they are. And it works because we can't multiply, emotionally. I tend to avoid LessWrong links around here, but this one is appropriate: https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Shut_up_and_multiply.

My first comment alluded to the torture vs dust speck dilemma. Horsemen vs privacy is nowhere near as extreme (especially at the dust speck end), but it has the same structure. If lay people realised this, the horsemen would not convince anyone.
Kickstarter management rejects voluntary union recognition
You squandered half a percent of the history reading about it :)
PayPal Close to Quiting Facebook's Libra
No Libra? Eat this! I removed Moxie's E2E encryption from WhatsApp for you, I can put it back, you know.
The pig. If your pig comes on my land, it's now likely my pig.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possession_is_nine-tenths_of_t...

Which, coincidentally, has a case about the Hatfield/McCoy feud over a pig, whose ownership was granted to those who possessed the pig.
Instagram launches Threads, a Close Friends chat app with auto-status
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Also "However, various health and lifestyle factors could be playing a role in the links they identified."

I imagine that if someone is poor (on average) they'd get less sleep due to living in noisier areas, working longer hours and so on. I also imagine being poor would decrease life expectancy on average.

And another one I thought of ...

1990-2017 is not a long time. Older people (say >50) tend to sleep fewer hours. Older people are much more likely to die in a 30 year period than younger people (<30), so there is that. I wonder if that was taken into account.
> If I were a homeless I'd be more than happy for someone to take a photo of me for $5.

The problem isn't that they were offering money in exchange for photos of homeless people it's that they were tricking homeless people into giving up their biometric data by telling them they'll pay them $5 just to play with a phone for a few minutes.

If they were honest about what they were taking and why I wouldn't have a problem with it.
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The “How I Built This” on WeWork[1] was fascinating. Basically the 2008 financial crises increased vacancies in trendy places a lot. WeWork grew up with the trends in coworking. But really has turned into a very fancy middle man for turning buildings into beautiful coworking office spaces. The brand for a while had some cache, but the thing is many are realizing that they can also build beautiful coworking spaces and there’s no magic secret sauce IP or tech that makes WeWork special here. In this context, WeWork has only gotten weirder and full of itself... they just seem disconnected from reality from what they are while at the same time losing money hand over fist.

1 - https://www.npr.org/2018/08/31/643774290/wework-miguel-mckel...
That headline seems exceedingly tautological to me. If a safety feature fails, then the situation isn't going to be the safest, or if it was, who would notice?
> The toolchain can be used on either a GNU/Linux® or Microsoft® Windows® host.

Bingo. I love programming for early DOS systems (86, 286, 386) but it's difficult to find a tool-chain that runs on Linux and is able to produce DOS compatible binaries. I think OpenWatcom might but I could not get it to work correctly.

Definitely going to give this a try.
Who watches the watchers? Who prevents the watchers from deleting footage/recordings? Unless you're genetically engineering humans to no longer have any desires, anyone can be bribed or blackmailed for the right price.
Pedestrian deaths in the USA have steeply risen over the last decade, as you can see in this graph: http://usa.streetsblog.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2019/0...
This article reminds of my coworker, touts Haskell all the time, ends up writing shitty Java code which is difficult to understand and performs like molasses.

Real world is not perfect, it is immutable with plenty of side effects. Using Haskell for day to day messy work is not trivial and should not be considered IMO, u nless you have Haskell gurus all around.

I would rather take a dumb language like Go or Java over Haskell for work code.
I agree with much of your argument, but what makes you say so confidently that we capture or punish almost all of the people who engage in child exploitation?
This website appears to have been designed in about 1997
The author has been posting some pretty awesome SQL content on Twitter recently. I'm a data scientist who uses SQL pretty frequently, and I'm learning lots of stuff - from random tidbits like this that clarify something I think I intuitively knew to things that immediately became useful to me.

https://twitter.com/b0rk
Lendup fell of cause it fired most of it's staff after running out of funding. They renamed themselves too.
Just light him on fire and keep the lighter.
The posts, tutorials and zines of Julia Evans are amazing. She has a knack for explaining things. This one is also quite great, isn't it? It doesn't talk about relational algebras, sets, cartesian products etc but explains things in a very easy to understand fashion while pointing out common problems and pitfalls.

I wish she did a monad one, you bet it wouldn't be "it's just a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem".
> high speed rail is romanticism from bygone days when rail was the only alternative to long distance travel. air travel pretty much superseded it and is doing so all over the world.

This isn't true. High speed rail is alive and well in Europe. Geography, politics and history are all significant factors that you can't explain so easily.

> the advent of self driving and electric cars will doom them regardless

Highly speculative. Nothing beats rail for capacity to move a lot of people around quickly.

> So rail is more of a benefit for the well to do

Quite the opposite.
I assume parent meant that if you work at a company, it is your responsibility to know whether the company will last for the time you intend to be there. Without knowing the risks involved, if the company goes under and it is clear that it's a scam, you losing your job is partially your responsibility.
I thought IBM bought it and killed it
I've found that CTEs help ameliorate this quite a bit, and it's especially exciting that pg will soon be removing the mandatory performance implications of CTEs in pg12 (fencing via CTEs will remain optional via a keyword switch, but in pg<12 CTE fencing is impossible to disable).

CTEs seems like a very nice middle ground for code reuse - enshrining them in views is nice for somethings but keeping them raw and composable is to my preference since application developers aren't losing any visibility of logic occurring within the composed in blocks... this is definitely not a simple problem to solve though and is a constant balancing act so there is some clear room for improvement.
How tall are you? I'm 6'5" and don't have the issues you describe with the B pillars and I sit back pretty far.

The Model 3 ended up being a breath of fresh air for me in terms of visibility overall, it has dramatically better visibility compared to the Leaf, Accord, and Corolla I had been accustomed to driving.

I should note the Leaf has absolutely atrocious visibility and stands out as the worst I've encountered in a car.
I'm guessing they might be able to find out how and where they're collecting the data.
Lot's of lay offs happening lately. I know two people at two different semi-hot tech startups that are laying off people.
2x/5x in which direction? Link?

I mean transport uses so much fuel I would be surprised over the lifetime of a rail line the infrastructure costs are over 95% of the total cost.
> Also new change won't look good on my resume.

Unless you work for people that have kids. Its difficult to understand what kids do to your schedule and needs until you have them. I've met plenty of employers where your situation could be explained with "I have kids, and they weren't flexible", and 0 questions would be asked. Its honestly a good test of whether your employer understands WLB and how to keep people happy.
When the risk of an incident goes down, most likely the effort to prevent an incident also goes down, possibly causing total # of incidents to increase
That's easy: Your purchase decision is driven by what you'd like to know rather than what you're willing spend the effort to learn.

Reading requires active effort. Until we develop "I know kung fu" [1] technology, any substitutes for books will likely also require more effort than just an initial purchase.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vMO3XmNXe4
Also the most common squash dish! And green bean! And sweet potato (with more sugar)!
More depth and detail in this post a couple of year ago on Lukas Eder's excellent SQL blog https://blog.jooq.org/2016/12/09/a-beginners-guide-to-the-tr...
Sure, but then I'll point to my other comments that politically and economically this isn't viable.

Adding a train line requires an immense real-estate investment, likely with lots of battles with existing land owners who don't want to sell. After that, you're stuck with that route whether it makes money or not, and how many riders really travel between those cities in the first place?

This is the problem with CA's high speed rail line. They ended up placing both ends in the middle of nowhere when even the LA->SF route would have barely gotten the ridership needed to work.

Planes can reroute all the time and independently control schedules and payloads to account for actual passenger demand, while also only needing an airport on either end which already exist.

If a train was built, you'd be paying 10x more for a ticket than the airline. Is that something you would do? Something many others would do?
I did not know about this project at all. I live in North Dallas, and this is absolutely fabulous news.
> Of course, I suppose there is always unsafePerformIO, at least for those late-night debug sessions.

For temporary debug output you should probably consider the Debug.Trace module before unsafePerformIO. It has a simpler interface and doesn't introduce the possibility of arbitrary I/O, just text output (and event logging if that's enabled in the RTS).
The timing of this this seems suspicious. Combined with the ramp up of antitrust investigations, it almost comes across as a shakedown.
I sometimes mention declarative vs imperative when talking about software development, especially to people who are coming from a HTML/CSS background. I'll give some details below in case it is useful.

Declarative languages encompass things like HTML, CSS, and SQL. Here we say what should happen, but not specifically how it should happen.

Imperative languages are C, Python, Java, JS etc. Here we give the precise steps which describe how something should work, and there is an absence of describing what the problem actually is.

Declarative languages give us a lot of power to solve a very narrow range of tasks.

Imperative languages give us comparatively less power, but allow us to tackle a very wide range of tasks.

For example: We could certainly write a Python program to sort, filter, group, and join two lists of data. However, the equivalent SQL code would be much shorter and – all things being equal – much more readable.

Conversely, SQL would be a non-starter for writing a web service or an image processing library. SQL does one thing really well, and that thing is data wrangling.
Interestingly, while the 3D buildings are present in the vector map of Washington DC, they appear to be disabled in the Satellite view. We wondered if this was intentional obfuscation

Probably not. It seems to vary based on the availability of data.

In fact, it can even vary from hour to hour. Over the weekend, the 3D satellite of downtown Chicago disappeared for a while, while the 3D vector was still available. It restored itself in a few hours.
Sure, but then I'll point to my other comments that politically and economically this isn't viable.

Adding a train line requires an immense real-estate investment, likely with lots of battles with existing land owners who don't want to sell. After that, you're stuck with that route whether it makes money or not, and how many riders really travel between those cities in the first place?

Planes can reroute all the time and independently control schedules and payloads to account for actual passenger demand, while also only needing an airport on either end which already exist.

If a train was built, you'd be paying 10x more for a ticket than the airline. Is that something you would do? Something many others would do? Just to get there at basically the same time in the end?
Read the article. It is the NHS debunking the research. Don't jump to conclusions from headlines.
> the US is already reproducing less,
I am aware. Every civilization thus far has done this as technology advances. But it's a lot more happenstance than intentional. We're not actively trying to have less children for the sake of making anything better.

> "Reproduce less" takes a very long time
Pretty much every real solution to any problem I have ever seen takes generations. If the point of more housing is to mitigate suffering while these changes take root, that sounds realistic and responsible. As it is, it sounds like nobody has any thoughts at all about when we should realistically cap ourselves and I don't think that's responsible.
Japan has great high speed rail, without cutting corners and even with much weaker eminent domain powers. There are other factors at play here. Why is building rail infrastructure 5x more expensive in the US than it is in continental Europe?
HKer here. Thank you for standing with HK!

How to help HK protests from abroad:
https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/cv0ws4/how_can_yo...

Other ways to help include boycotting products made in China.
potato, potato ;)
I'm exaggerating at the situation, but not too far off. For the past year, I've been working on an ETL app. I used Go at my last job, so I really got to hone my skills especially in regards to threading challenges. Kafka and Cassandra were also new to me.

Still, the VMs these are running on are a complete mess. Frequent, unannounced infrastructure changes, spin drives, old Java in Docker are just some of the issues that made the environment completely unstable. They chase sexy buzzwords like "big data" and "machine learning" but give us spin drive machines to do it.
>a whole lot of people blasting down residential streets at 40mph while staring at their phones and only barely slowing down in acknowledgement of stop signs.

Same where I live in Europe. When I commute by car, over 50% of drivers I look at are on their phones and another 25% are doing another semi-distracting activity(eating, smoking, fiddling with stuff). Maybe on the highway it wouldn't be a big deal, but I'm talking about city streets that are full of cyclists and people running to catch their bus.

It's one of the reason I'm super afraid of biking on some streets, thinking that one day someone's gonna run me down since he was texting his wife and didn't see me(had some near misses already).

Anecdotally, a friend of mine was hit on a zebra crossing by a texting driver while he was with me. Broke his collar bone and definitely left both of us with some mental scars that will not heal too soon.

It got me to feel like smartphones are a huge issue for traffic safety as some drivers simply can't leave it alone during their commute.
I think both have their use cases. For quick and dirty things (like manual logging/system performance), cron works just fine and is quicker to set up. For tasks that require dependencies or have to happen at very specific points in time (like immediately after the network services are started), systemd is more suited to the task.

There are of course quite a few people who dislike systemd for justifiable reasons (but I doubt it receives the disdain that SELinux does), here's a starting point:

https://ihatesystemd.com/

That said, I very much like systemd and I hope it isn't going anywhere. I think it's improved on a lot of things from the SysVinit days and I hope and believe that its shortcomings will be addressed and improved in the future.
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well, any type of process will fail in a dysfunctional organization :). And you can't (well, shouldn't) arbitrarily implement a specific process without thinking through the fit for your organization. Just buying a license to a Kanban tool isn't enough :).

The example you gave is a good one - devs spend their time making improvements to to code or the test automation to make the testing more effective, if testing is the bottleneck to delivering finished features. Throwing more code/features over the wall when that code isn't actually being tested isn't real progress.

In principle, the manager/lead would tweak guidance until the most expensive resource (dev engineers) are the actual bottleneck. I guess of course teams/companies that care less about quality might just tell the testers to test less thoroughly in order to get their work items through the system faster, but at least it's a conscious decision.

I've worked for teams where they literally close every testing ticket once the code is pushed to production regardless whether the testing has been done. 'tested in production' - that's one way to keep up I guess...
The point is that LINQ expressions (in the query syntax) can be more readable and straightforward than the equivalent statement in SQL.

EF is just an ORM that benefits from using the LINQ syntax and operators available in .NET/C#.
It's important to note that this article is the NHS inspecting and mostly showing the weaknesses of the research, due to it having been popularised in Mail Online. This is something that the NHS do frequently in order to reduce misinformation spread by the media on medicines
"Think of the children!" The most ridiculous, stupid argument that US politicians have loved for decades, maybe longer. What a bunch of bullshit. I can't believe that I'm siding w/ Zuckerberg on something. Then again, we're talking about the AG. I hope Zuck stands firm on this and gives them the middle finger. That's the only response to something like this. Have them pass a fucking law or shove their fucking open letter up their own asses.
> Since then I vowed never to take things seriously that have zero connection to real world results. It's not possible to regret mastering x86 assembly for example, because even if that skill is relatively useless, it makes you better at many tangential things which can be decidedly useful; C and OS programming for example. Functional programming doesn't have this potential because it (proudly) exists as an abstract model with no connection to the machine or any physical processes for that matter

Hm interestingly I actually felt like learning Haskell had a huge benefit to my day job, probably much more than I imagine learning x86 assembly would. (Though admittedly I have learned some assembly in the past and that was also helpful).

I feel like Haskell forced me to write better code by forcing me to think about side effects. I don't know that I would actually use it in a production project because unfortunately real projects often rely a lot on state, even if constrained to a subsystem, and I still find it difficult to reason about the performance of a Haskell program.

Not trying to invalidate your point; perhaps you were already very good at what I learned via Haskell =] I admit I also find Haskell much more enjoyable to program in for the most part.
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