skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honest question: Do you think this disadvantages people who have basically followed a traditional path? By that I mean, if you are a finance major from Harvard, Yale, etc who goes to work at a large firm (say Goldman).

Is there a chance they might get looked down upon because of the emphasis on the "whole person" or finding "interesting" candidates.

Poets & Quants MBA odds doesn't talk about those kids, yet they will freely admit many of them end up at a top program for their MBA.

(For the record, this is not me personally, but still I wonder how these kinds of candidates get evaluated, given the current environment)
Consider places like the town where the DMV is only open four days per year, and the closest alternative is 20 miles away and only open two days per week. https://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2016/feb/19/...

There are a lot of people for whom the 'small' barrier to entry of dealing with state bureaucracy is much larger than it is in your world.
Reporting on https://www.nu.nl/binnenland/6004310/gezin-uit-ruinerwold-ko... has already changed away from that they were actually living in the basement - it's now reporting that they were living in some sort of 'provisionally set up rooms'.

Don't be too surprised if in one or two days it'll turn out that this family wasn't as hidden or "off grid" as is being suggested, but that the organisations which are responsible from preventing this from happening were partly aware but poorly communicating with each other... so no-one actually took any action.
I loved using Lightroom for photos organization but lately I am just too lazy to organize photos.

With LR6, you can add tags during import.

Then you can use keyboard shortcuts like letter P to pick and X to reject photos. This makes culling and choosing best photos very fast.

There is also a VS mode where you can compare 2 photos side by side and pick one, then it compares it with next photo.

Then you can rate each photo by press number 1-5. I rarely did this.
Thank you for that correction. I had taken what Google spits out in that top box and didn't bother to look at the date of the article they were scraping from.

Overall point remains, but accuracy matters.
The Apple icons you see today have surprisingly ancient roots
Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo: The Nobel Couple Fighting Poverty
No, it's only weed that has this "tolerated" status, where personal use and sales to individuals by coffee shops are not prosecuted (but everything else still is).
You might be better off using Facebook groups or a mailing list then as Meetabit is likely to have a bunch of functionality you won't need.
Struggling with rent vs buy right now for this very reason. I know financially it would be better to buy, but then you lose the flexibility to go after a great opportunity in even another part of a major city.
> and wages are stagnant

Wages aren't stagnant right now, they're almost on target (for current growth, at least. They are still behind overall from being below target for a few years).[1] That's a relatively new thing though, and who knows how long it will last...

1: https://www.epi.org/nominal-wage-tracker/
This is giving me deja vu...I'm not alone right? This same comment is posted on the same story but from the past, no?
>What exactly do you think is a hard problem about such interop?

The problem is that .NET libraries cannot be used from C++ or Rust without depending on the entire .NET runtime, including its tracing GC, which is obviously extremely undesirable.

And that is probably why Microsoft dropped their plans to write Windows userland components in .NET and decided to write them in C++ instead (exposing COM interfaces).

As I see it, the key theoretical issue is that neither CIL nor arbitrary code written in languages like C#, Java, JavaScript or Python contains enough static information to generate purely reference counted code.

You're seeing the same on Unix. All truly reusable code is written in languages that don't require a tracing GC. Everything that is written in other languages is duplicated for each language/runtime environment.
On the flipside: how useful is your code really if it's not reproducible with a modern Python version? From 3.3 to 3.8, there should be perfect backwards compatibility?

For packages, I can understand it, sure. So include a requirements.txt, and just spin up a 3.8 virtualenv to reproduce, no?
There are circulation codes and policemen watching the roads, trying to reduce reckless behaviour. How do you police and bring down misuse of onion sites for hideous crimes?
There are a few different rankings that sort of assess this.

There's a CompTIA "Tech Towns" report[1] from last year that does a good breakdown of salary + job opportunities vs CoL by city.

Anecdotally, I think it was right to rank Charlotte NC at the top. It's easy to find 100k+ salary jobs there if you have experience (avg is a bit lower though) - and median housing prices are like 230k. But the big downside is that you pretty much have to be cool with working for a bank.

[1] https://www.aitp.org/blog/aitp-blog/2018/10/23/tech-town-usa...
Ghibli films aren't available in 4K HDR.
This was at Haikko Manor in Finland, years ago. I just happened to visit a spa which had such a possibility.

It was not for medical purposes for me, but nevertheless there was a very relaxed feeling (like that from ice swimming), which lasted for many hours afterwards.
Deal with it means to use the resources and knowledge available in this day and age to solve a problem. If you believe that we are today on the same civilizational and technological level as we were in the 19th hundreds then I guess your fear might be justified. I believe that we have come a very long way since then and don't think that moving a city should be an impossible task. The Chinese build new cities every year, so i guess USA should be capable of building one too or people could move to other existing safe cities slowly in a longer time span, without a mass exodus as you call it.
HBS still does this, as far as I know for first years ("learning teams"). Although you may be evaluated individually, success or failure is a team effort when everybody brings something to the table.
Gotcha. Thought I was going mad.
5G is not a vastly different technology
Coming soon, Volvo's first pure electric SUV
Such "seams" are needed in the voting system to allow states to disenfranchise people. The country has a very rich and recent history of disenfranchising blacks wholesale, and that history is what guides changes to the voting system today.
I've got to say this: reading fiction that survived the test of time was like having thousands of substitute parents who were better at raising me than my own.
I tried to license virtualbox extensions and they told me to call back when I wanted at least 500 licenses.
Can't stream but you can probably find them for free on your local library. That's how I saw some of them :)
The bottom line is that these surveillance programs are lawful. We elected the officials that put these programs in place for the purposes of national security. If you think that the government is doing unlawful surveillance, you can take them to court. That's not a luxury you have in China.
The media probably isn't being given access to the victims to ask those questions. The police are certainly asking such questions, but I assume they are not allowed to talk (in the US they are not allowed to talk for various good reasons, I don't know the specific situation there)
A History of Chop Suey
That can't be! DDG has gotten really good. I'm only about 5% !g. S.O. and wiki come up reliably too. Any examples?
Those were exceptionally (almost laughably) easy cases and, IMO, make my point. The hard ones were the myriad cases of ratings and other deceitfulness that led up to the 2008 financial crisis. Only a single top banker was successfully criminally prosecuted, and the list of settlements was infamously underwhelming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_major_SEC_enforcement_...

For further reading see https://www.propublica.org/article/the-rise-of-corporate-imp... and https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/how-wal...
Also, for more on Arrow and Flight: https://www.dremio.com/understanding-apache-arrow-flight/
men by and large ignore wapo articles styled like this. health fad parent paranoia dies in darkness.
> any ideas about how to fix it?

Mobilizon supports federation.

https://joinmobilizon.org/en/
> I always thought that bankruptcy was a hard end of the line

nope. only thing bankruptcy guarantees is that creditors are prevented from getting your assets and have to negotiate to see if there is anything they can get

forces people to the table all at once to see what kind of possibilities there are
Your analogy only works if it were possible to do that:

1) With a car without a VIN number / registration

2) With a car without a license plate

3) With no driver and no way to know who was controlling the car.

The point is, it’s not good to be able to commit serious crimes with zero risk of punishment.

The issue at debate is whether the gain from the legitimate (legal) use cases of technology like this outweigh the loss of making it easier for sex offenders / drug traffickers to more easily subvert authority.
When most people hear "mug shots", they think of photos taking during incarceration: a database of photos from when someone has been convicted of a (implied serious) crime and is being jailed for it. (trivial crimes usually having a monetary and/or community service sentence)

The issue at hand is about those who should be presumed to be innocent. The many who are in a crowd, the majority that are probably not at all related to whatever search is happening.

I've read science fiction where the opposite extreme happens. Where there's an AI that implicitly interfaces with everyone at all times, but it isn't a surveillance nor advertising state. If anyone does actually do a crime there's an actual sentient witness, no need to track down video, and that witness is also able to get help on the way right away. Further there's no backlog of unprocessed data, no file of all of the various normal day to day things that really aren't important.

I could go for a future with benevolent partner AI(s) and no actual surveillance state even though there are cameras and microphones everywhere. I can also see some public spaces (schools, courtrooms, other places people are required to mingle) having observation and storage for a limited (days/weeks) time for manual review in the case of reported incidents.

However the power as it currently stands is much more likely to be used for leveraged persecution and partial enforcement against specific people, and classes of people (IE not rich), rather than for all the people.
There was a large bust of a pedophile forum years back. Police took over the site and run it for years and it was ran on TOR. Pretty interesting story overall:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jul/13/shining-a-li...

From what I recall, most of these TOR sites are only taken offline because of some server misconfiguration or some other opsec weakness in the people who run these sites.
the people who sit here and scream OMG WHY DOES GOOGLE SELL ADS JUST LET ME PAY are the same ones that aren't willing to pay for anything and feel entitled to everything on the internet
Not in all desirable players. Only ones that limit construction. Meanwhile in desirable places which allow more construction, like Tokyo, housing prices have stabilized [1].

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottbeyer/2016/08/12/tokyos-af...
Ask HN: What is the most reliable email provider?
I've heard of people having Gmail accounts suspended and recently my iCloud email address stopped receiving messages due to a billing issue. I have work and school emails, but I would like something longterm and reliable (preferably a third party provider). Does anyone have any suggestions?
Also, kudos to them for not just cutting loose the DBAs who have a lot of institutional knowledge and training them to be consultants on AWS data storage services both internally and externally.
People care more about their physical privacy than digital, as they should be. Google snooping on my packets is less intrusive than a camera or microphone in your home, looking/listening at you.
Indeed, there is market for it, and it is actually very cheap ($25 for a vial in Walmart, which typically lasts around a month). The problem with it is that it’s much more inconvenient and difficult to use correctly. The modern analogues are much superior, so most people prefer to go for those instead, despite much greater price.
That's right. Update on on-need basis only. Do not fix what's working ;)
I believe the "HN hate" is more on the accounting/contract side, rather than strict technology side.

It's the canonical enterprise vendor on the database side (DB2 has far smaller market share, and SQL Server market play is slightly different), so it's the poster child for anything from no two customers paying the same price for same metrics, to opaqueness and perceived unfairness of the contracts, to seemingly predatory fees, to ambiguous and frequently awful licensing on virtual CPUs, to the various shakedowns and so on.

I'm not saying others in the same market are markedly different; but just like IBM is the HN poster child for a "no longer relevant tech dinosaur", Oracle is the HN poster child for "predatory licensing & fees".

(* Note/disclosure, I have the distinct privilege of being happily employed by one to reasonably happily work on the products of the other :-D )
I wonder if their latency and performance claims in this blog post fall foul of Oracle's "No publishing benchmark results against our competitors".
>Isn't it similar to using mdraid, lvm and dm-crypt without experience?

Those are all pretty different, but yeah basically we agree on this. I'm not sure about battery life, if I had to give a more nuanced answer I would say it probably depends on use case and you should measure it if you want to be sure.
Feeling quite nervous about it. We're an international team based in Amsterdam and didn't get a pre-interview call. Hopefully, that means that our application was clear. I'm nervous but confident that we would at least get interviewed. Fingers crossed.
IIRC there was a discussion about adding the full ANSI MERGE statement, but in the end they added INSERT ... ON CONFLICT and left it at that:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/sql-insert.html#SQL-ON-CO...
open event (FOSS licensed) (public instance on https://eventyay.com)
I would imagine that consumer prices going down for everything but local, supply constrained goods like housing, education and healthcare, is leaving people with more disposable income to spend on local, supply constrained goods, thereby making them more expensive.
FreeCodeCamp project is this one:
https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/chapter
First I'll offer you learn from the experience.

1. "I did not have a concrete statement of work because..."

This was your mistake and there's really no good excuse for it. The lesson here is always spell out exactly what you are going to do.

2. "The data was several GB and it wasn't clean per se."

You should have alerted them to this issue as soon as you found it. Had you provided a detailed statement of work there'd be no disputing that cleaning the data was outside your scope of work.

3. "I did my job according to their proposed scope".

If the data you were working was never clearly defined there's a fuzziness as to what that scope was. They, it would seem, expected you to clean the data.

If they provided a sample of the data you'd be working with that didn't have any noise in it you may have some ground to stand on if you took them to court, but that's probably still not very solid ground to stand on in court if, in discussion, they implied it wasn't really a "sample" as opposed to a "rough example".

At some point, if the work order was clear, you should have informed them you were having issues parsing the raw data because it was not what they described. If you did that it would help your argument.

All that said, they were paying you a premium to get it right in the time allotted and you didn't deliver. Sometimes you have to suck it up and take the hit and learn from it. This may be one of those times because of #1.
What if we moved the "reservations" off platform since that's what they're squeezing. I see lots of conversations on Meetup alternatives but one of the most valuable functions of Meetup for me is the recommendations for new groups. And that requires network effects to build out. I'm all for ditching a platform that is sinking, but for the transition, maybe something like dropping a Google form link maksed by a url shortener would help organizers get a rough idea without requiring ppl to RSVP directly on the platform. And you can submit any contact info you want to the form, and receive a summery email blast after the Meetup with a sheet that has everyones contact info for networking purposes.
> What's the statistic for adults with any kind of government issued identification? Surely that's more relevant for this debate than the driver's license statistic?

A factor to keep in mind here is that it's an established tactic for Republicans to specifically allow alternative IDs used by whites for voting purposes, while banning alternative IDs used by blacks for voting purposes. A North Carolina law was struck down in 2016 specifically for this reason, for example.
Previous discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21251102
You can bookmark the bookmarklet that I just created at
https://codepen.io/durovo-the-typescripter/pen/GRRqRKX
To be clear for anyone reading, we're parsing and generating the data-related protobufs ourselves, and retaining ownership of the memory returned by gRPC to obtain zero copy.

The C++ details are found in

https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/cpp/src/arrow/fl...
I'm currently working on a mssql shop, and on aws it's more than twice the price vs postgres or aurora. I don't see how you can justify the price difference
They constantly sue their own customers - why in the world would you want to do business with someone who will then sue you?
The amount of user-specific customisation Google does is generally overrated. For the vast majority of searches, I see only minor shifts in ranking when comparing logged-in to anonymous. Case in Point: [crystal] currently gives me meth and stones before programming, even though I have done quite a few programming-related (and even crystal-lang specific) searches.
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on one hand, as a dedicated user of !g on DDG for many years, my urge/need to use !g has gone down almost exponentially (despite being firmly in muscle memory)

on the other hand, when I do turn !g, I find more and more that I still don't find what I'm looking for

this is either down to:

(a) Google's results getting worse over time

(b) my searches getting more obscure over time

(c) selection bias due to DDG solving for my less obscure searches

I suspect (c)
Wardriving for Autonomous Vehicle Communications
I find it funny when you know it is Napoleon who forced every dutch to chose a surname in order to build up a registry (to tax them of course) . It is the source of the many funny names that the dutch have, as they thought they will have a laugh at the french :)
Great questions - these are covered in our FAQ (admittedly buried at the bottom of the home page): https://assist.app/faq.html

Can the assist servers access my computer?

> No, the assist servers are only used for tunneling the connection over the internet. All data exchanged between the assister and assistee is encrypted over SSH. The assist command that is given to the assistee contains all keys necessary to setup a secure connection over SSH. This setup is designed such that a compromised server with the ability to passively monitor or actively modify traffic cannot see or interact with user sessions.

Does allowing someone to assist me give them control over my computer?

> Yes, you should only allow use assist with people if you can trust with your computer. A person logged into your assist session can potentially access any of your files or install malicious software. Allowing someone to assist you is similar to physically allowing someone access to your computer. Assist is meant to be used in situations where you would be okay letting someone use your computer while you are not around.
Some "footnotes"! Yes, I agree that "original" would be an apt description.

Plato: Fire is obviously made of tiny tetrahedrons, because it feels sharp and stabby when you touch it, and tetrahedrons also have sharp points, QED.†

† Everyone else, after Chemistry: OK so that didn't turn out to be true at all.
To be fair, the Soviets are directly responsible for arming the Third Reich. They created the monster and then they had to put it down. People always forget the cross border training and massive amount of raw and finished goods transfered from Russia to Germany.
It's funny that you mention Rouge et Noir; I think they've been re-branded to "Marin French Cheese". I miss the old name.
I don’t think it that extreme, but that German has higher precedence than Greek. If you need to include both characters, you have to pick one or the other, and for whatever reason this configuration happened. We might never know the true reason behind the decision, but stupility is unlikely the answer. Most seemingly stupid decisions (technical or otherwise) makes at least a certain amount of sense within its proper context, and it’s fair to talk down to it when you don’t have the risk of being judged by that decision.
Adios Meetup.com you had a good run but this may be the end of you.
According to [1] VFINX (Vanguard S&P 500 fund) with re-invested dividends from Jan 1989 - Sep 2019 grew 10.25% per year on average. 7.58% / year when they account for inflation.

[1] https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com/backtest-portfolio?s=y&t...
Once again, it is highly suggested you use an ID, but it isn't 100% required.

From TSA's website[1]:

>In the event you arrive at the airport without valid identification, because it is lost or at home, you may still be allowed to fly. The TSA officer may ask you to complete an identity verification process which includes collecting information such as your name, current address, and other personal information to confirm your identity. If your identity is confirmed, you will be allowed to enter the screening checkpoint. You will be subject to additional screening, to include a patdown and screening of carry-on property.

[1] - https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/identification
Then by all means make them stay open more often instead of throwing the baby out with the bath water. Voter ID is important and should certainly include provisions in the legislation to help make it easier for people to get a government issued ID. However, for most people in America I would wager that this is not the case at all and you have just cherry picked an edge case to suit your argument.
Java could do this always, as it's a compiled language (the important thing here is interactivity vs. compilation, not JVM vs. native).

So I'd say that Java can do "this" since recently (JDK 9 in 2017) via JShell (I wouldn't count BeanShell or Groovy), i.e. it always had the compiler part but added the interpreter.

Although its usage is still quite rare, whereas the blog post would suggest a different pattern.
Yeah...seems to incentivize day trading.
What you describe is exactly how FR is deployed. There is no "automatic arrest on recognition" - that is just bad journalism. I write enterprise FR software, BTW, FR is a filter for reducing the manual searching - exactly as you describe.
This feels like a trend: investors forcing startups to find a real business model. Expect more of this.
Also schooling?

Do they require that you educate your child via the state or (not so) equivalent home-schooling?
Interesting! That seems like a reasonable solution to me, but I also have no dog in that race since I don't use Debian or write much Python code.