skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The number of unique paths is theoretically infinite since the path could be infinitely long, but there's obviously some software limitation on that.
That's how Switzerland does it. Prostitution is legal, regulated, and hookers charge value added tax like every other business.

Amsterdam's problem, from the article, seems to be tourism, not sex. The city is being overwhelmed by visitors.
Sorry, but that's an understatement of what sourcehut.org is.
I'll give a shot at the last one:

Future is something that will eventually produce a value.

CompletableFuture is a Future that you can register a callback on for when it completes.

RunnableFuture I'm not completely sure on, but I'd guess it's a Future that will complete but won't produce a value (basically a Future<Void>).

ScheduledFuture is a Future that you can specify when it should run in the future.

ScheduleRunnableFuture is a RunnableFuture that has a defined time it should start running.

FutureTask is a RunnableFuture you can cancel. OK, so I cheated on this one, I didn't actually know what it was and had to look it up.

Edit: I looked up RunnableFuture and I was half right. It's something that's both a Runnable and a Future, so it has a run() method that causes the future to be evaluated but doesn't return its result at that time. It actually seems pretty niche and probably only useful if you already have some API that's expecting a Runnable, otherwise it's exactly equivalent to calling get() on a Future then ignoring the returned value.
I don't think that is correct. Merchants are charged different rates based on the cash back rates of a given card. Merchants have to eat most of that cash back being given to the card holders.
this really illustrates how we live in a society
They did it, and they lost 25% of their of employees doing so: https://jalopnik.com/toyota-loses-25-percent-of-its-american...
FWIW, I've been using Keypirnha [0], and find it way faster than the start menu and not as ancient as Launchy.

[0] http://keypirinha.com/
> [...] we're pumping the brakes on the telemetry changes

So you revert (don't implement it)? Thx! Reverting it is the right decision (I hope that means "pumping the brakes").
It is actually really hard to rent a safe-deposit box nowadays, because banks just don't offer them.
Did you? Has anybody to any degree of scientific certainty? I think once you review the studies, you will find the answer to be no.
The wealthy are building a generation of softies. Every kid has some kind of 'issue' now and they need special coddling.
Electron 7.0
Collecting, Prepping, Plotting Data: Social-Media Influence in the NBA
Asking users to trust a random web service with their most sensitive data almost feels like a prank.
I've learned to take a lot of notes, make frequent checkpoints (e.g., git commits), and break things down into small pieces, just to deal with interruption--minute to minute (people asking me questions), day to day (fire drills, bugs), and week to week (constantly changing priorities).
Stripe CEO was actively against paying taxes to support SF homeless through Prop C. This isn't suprising.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Tech-moguls-wor...
Brings back memories. Years ago, I came across a need for a DB-19 cable and had trouble sourcing one at a reasonable price.

I arrived at a somewhat less robust solution which involved a DB-25 cable and a hack saw.
I worked for a well known company today, many years ago when it was smaller. When the IT team created new accounts for employees, it was the standard Pa$$word password for everyone. It was up to the user to change their password. They had no password rotating rules or requirements.

Anyway, many years later after I started, IT hires a person who wants to do good while in IT. This person discovers the CEO is still using the day one password he was given. The IT person decides to email the CTO, the director of IT, and the head of HR warning them the CEO is still using his default password.

I’m not clear what exactly the wording was, but the IT person skipping over the chain of command was bad enough it got them fired.
The biggest Rust language feature is the borrow checker IMO, and unless you're running in unsafe, that's still doing its job. I always assumed the slowness was more based on the borrow checker analysis than on the error wrapping (option) stuff, slices, or functional bits.
For a payment processor, does "gross receipts" include the full amount of the purchase, or just the amount that Stripe takes (e.g. 2.9% + $.30).

If it's the full amount of a purchase, not only is that insane, but it really feels like double dipping, as the seller would have to pay the tax on their receipts as well.
And not all of that 2.9% goes directly to stripes account, most of it is going to visa/mc/amex
That's an idea for sure. What could be interesting is cases of some credentials/data/whatever being shared among multiple folks. So do you wait until each person has viewed/downloaded then close? Do I (Passbox) notify everyone else if one person gets access then allow them all access? To be continued...
Not to mention all the times when the index has borked its self and search just returns results from Bing instead.
The technology itself is amazing, and as long as it was used for replacement for desktop and mobile ask it would be great, but I have the same fear that it might replace proper web sites.

Hopefully the need to be discoverable by search engines will mean that most sites will still use the dom, but at some point Google might provide a proprietary crawling interface...
Because most of the foreign sex workers are trafficked in and forced to do the work.
I got Gitlab's email and immediately knew people would be freaking out about it.

The fallacy of transparency: The more transparent you are, the more people think you're up to some shady shit. It's crazy.
> even remotely enjoy your life, DO NOT HAVE KIDS

> If it's less than 100% (and it usually is) I tell them not to have kids.

I need to disagree with your first point, I loved my life before kids and I love my life with kids.

I think the key is your second point, make sure you're ready.
I visited in 2016 and drove around the entire island as well. In Reykjavik and the golden circle there were a lot of tourists indeed, but as soon as you go out of the area, there's hardly anybody and it was great. The only other place with considerable amount of tourists and tourist buses was Jokulsarlon.
I don't recall any of the abuse coming from Airbus. Because of all that hubbub with Boeing resulting in US tariffs, the A220 is now manufactured in Alabama by Airbus.
Rats can learn to drive, and even find it relaxing
When has police running around shooting people ever fixed anything
Thanks then for the correction.

It is a little confusing for me that the city owns or administrates a number of sites outside of what we think of as "San Francisco". It's not been clear to me if you "re-enter San Francisco" when you go to those places. I figured yes. A number of them have signs posted at entry that the city owns it, so it feels like a natural conclusion to make, as if a "now entering..." sign.
HN user demographics...
In what way does your B2B use Postmark? And do you use Fastmail for your company mailboxes? If so, why not just use Postmark to forward emails?
At the end of the day your mental health is worth a lot more than a few interviews ;)
Just trying to be a better HN citizen, so is there something specific I did wrong here that crossed a line or is it just a "know it when I see it" situation? I didn't reference anything partisan and was simply relating a recent political event to both the general topic of poor congressional cybersecurity and the specific topic that duxup was talking about regarding securing a site from electronic devices. It was the response to my comment that was sparking a partisan flamewar.
Can you ping me please?
Public restrooms are a problem in many areas. Take San Francisco. People piss and shit on the streets, you would think its because they have no couth, I almost ended up shitting on the street because no one lets you use their toilet without buying something and the friggin lines were too long.

I still dont understand why folks dont let tiny houses and allocate certain parking lots to let the homeless use for sleeping at night. Its not like you can pretend they arent there and make them disappear
I live in the Red Light District and I’m very happy that the problem on my doorstep isn’t prostitution or hard drugs. These things exist in my neighbourhood but they seem to be fairly well managed without huge irreparable harm [1], as opposed to the 25,000 tourists who walk past my front door, put cigarette butts through my letterbox, vomit on my door handle and convert every decent local shop into a Nutella store or shitty boring overpriced bar.

So yeah, I’m cool with legalised prostitution and quasi legal drugs [2].

1. Mainly because I’m on first name terms with some of the girls who work behind the windows or who are part of the cleaning crews and who live locally - and who I see at the supermarket.

2. I had a disastrous furniture delivery that was rescued by two of the street dealers who helped me get stuff through the upstairs window when the delivery guy left when he ran over time. Sweet guys, as far as that profession goes.
I know you asked for books, but I have to mention the videos of Grant Sanderson (3Blue1Brown) [1].

His explanations of mathematics are the only ones I can think of that have given me the same sort of piercing clarity and insight that one gets from reading Feynman on physics.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/c/3blue1brown
Capitalism is fine. WeWork is Trump scale criminal financial fraud. Adam Neumann should have gotten exactly zero dollars for leaving the company. The company is so broke it can't afford severance for regular workers, and this crook gets 1.7 billion dollars to go away?
Databricks Raises $400M, Hires CFO
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
I liked Steven Strogatz's books Sync and Infinite Powers.
Google maps work commute estimates in CA are not accurate at all. Probably looking at 30-45mins during rush hour which would be soul crushing if you've previously fought 20 other applicants for a year long lease at a place in walking distance of the old HQ
I didn't downvote you if it matters. I agree with you about society, but American culture does not in large. Even the family who has seen this happen to me is still staunchly hard right and against their taxes funding any social programs.
> "adult obesity rates now exceed 35% in nine states, 30% in 31 states and 25% in 48 states."

The source for the above data is a telephone survey for the CDC. The NCHS regularly conducts a survey on the same subject for the same CDC, but with added physical examinations. Their data is much worse, over 39.5 % of USA adults were obese in 2016. The rate was almost constantly increasing over the past years.

Source: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db288.pdf p.5
Feynman was a unique teacher of course, and pure math isn't quite as easy to teach intuitively.

Something that might be close would be the survey _Mathematics: Its Contents, Methods and Meaning_ by Aleksandrov, Kolmogorov et al. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/405880.Mathematics
TamaGo: Bare Metal Go for ARM SoCs
It looks like notepad still only has one level of undo. I don't think that's reasonable for any kind of composition or editing.
It's worth noting that the problem is with the engine manufacturer's software; the Pratt and Whitney PW1000G family has had issues on the other planes it's on, namely the A320neo and Embraer E-Jet E2.
I would be interested in writing blog posts and articles for you. Send me a message at [redacted] for some samples and ideas.
I have decided to contact them directly rather than publicize.
I would believe that a random startup employee might be considering leaving SV due to rent.

I wouldn't believe that a CEO of a company that has raised $40 million is leaving because his wife needs a roommate to make rent. His wife should probably live with him if she needs to save money.
Twenty-Three Skidoo
One nice thing to share here is that a statistical model for success under such conditions is for there to be a collection of independent random variables that multiply to form your overall success: people who lack any particular one of them, x_1 and x_2 = 1000 but x_3 = 0, see the product x_1 x_2 x_3 = 0, below people who have x_1 = 10, x_2 = 10, x_3 = 10.

Taking a logarithm, one gets a sum of independent identically-distributed variables, which then tend to sum to a normal distribution due to the Central Limit Theorem, meaning that success distributions produced by multiplication tend to be log-normal. This was argued by John D. Cook at [1]. Log-normal distributions are interesting because they have a long tail—usually the top people drawn are way, way better than you might have expected; normal populations stick within several standard deviations of the mean but long-tailed ones see remarkable achievers many tens of standard deviations above the mean. This result has been long known for things like wealth and income and other measures of external success. So there is a lot of truth to this idea that, say, if you are a programmer, your time is worse spent on building that extra expertise with things that you are good at, like programming, and better spent on building new expertise with things that you are not good at, like perhaps digital art or negotiation/persuasion or accounting.

[1] https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/09/29/achievement-is-log...
Scala Future in Details
Having lived in Alameda (ferry to work daily), gotta say nice location.

I only apply for jobs which I can ferry to and it'll definitely enable employees at Stripe live in more affordable locations.
Thank you! This is great, much appreciated.
What's the context here, exactly?
I have a different theory. I think women dont want sex workers around because its competition.

I wonder if I would have ever got married had there been a regular prostitution place to go to.
On a single machine? You need a Hadoop cluster for that :-P
And it's being hugged down after getting to the top.

Unfortunate, I'm sure SourceHut is seeing a nice bump, and it seems like quite a well built product.
Drew is always on spot with his marketing. :)

I think it would be good to link related blog post -
https://sourcehut.org/blog/2019-10-23-srht-puts-users-first/
(maybe that would give some context)
I lived above a pizza guy in Padova Italy and would occasionally go down to get a slice if I didn't feel like cooking and chat with him a bit.

When he realized I was from the US, he went "oooh, America is really big isn't it... what, it's got to be at least 1000 km across, right?!". Try almost 5!
That's not the fallacy of transparency. The real fallacy is when companies think that doing shady shit is OK as long as they're transparent about it.
I sent this link to my daughter, who is raising an 18-month old baby.

I do not agree with the "don't have kids" advice. I have two grown-up kids; no regrets whatsoever. Neither child was planned (yeah, two accidents!) You have to be quite unlucky, I think, to have kids that don't make you happy.

Having said that, there's a good argument that the world is already full-up, that the world is getting worse, and that bringing kids into the world is not a kindness. I'm OK with not having kids for those reasons; and I'm also OK with not having kids because you have better things to do with your time. No judgements, be happy your own way.

Nobody is a good parent; we're all beginners, none of us has ever done it before. It works out; kids can deal with crap parents, otherwise our race would have died out.

BTW, I used to spank my kids when they were naughty. Word of advice: do not do that. Even if it's legal where you live, it is just a way of expressing your anger, it solves no problems. Grown-ups should never beat-up children, not even gently.

Um, dawgs, no thanks. I'm not enthusiastic about hoovering. I'd sooner change nappies (or become a school governor).

Child-rearing only takes about 15 years. It really isn't a river of tears; a lot of it is fun. Children can be a total gas. When it's over, they leave, and chances are you'll be on your own again, with nothing left but photos and memories.
OK, Context for people:

Apparently GitLab said it was going to telemetry, so a competitor, SourceHut saw a surge in signups.

To me, it's a sign that if someone is adding telemetry for on-premise software, it better be opt-in.
Why does this post not have upvoting buttons?
How to Become a Billionaire – WeWork Adam Neumann Edition
trauma is universal in that is very common for humans to experience highly stressful life events that they have some difficulty fully metabolizing.

this incomplete metabolization is trauma. the event or events are not the trauma.

developmental trauma is an epidemic in western society - this is what the presence of ACEs screen for.

I don't think 100% of humans are explicitly traumatized but most humans will have some degree of hypo- and hyper-arousal type activation of the central nervous system in response to different situations and their history. some much more subtle than others.
great stuff, an idiotic play by a bigger fish likely provides the biggest marketing opportunity for sourcehut it has ever had up until this point, and this guy is taking advantage of it.

there's also something grand about the fact that this was posted on mastodon (instead of twitter) to complete the FLOSS cosmic justice cycle
It's certainly a problem I sort of dance around in React planning how and when something might render based on what is going on, the amount of rendering and such, and the dance is somewhat never ending.
It says users can review footage before sharing, so I could see situations where users reviewed footage and had no problem sharing the result. Doesn't seem like a big deal as long as its voluntary.
> Because most of the foreign sex workers are trafficked in and forced to do the work.

Citation needed, especially since they're unionized and very vocally and visibly fighting these measures.
As an aside, it makes me happy to see a website which has so thoroughly embraced the "hypertext" in HTML. I could easily spend an hour reading this article and diving into the links. I just subscribed!
Yes, we have a PIN on the account. They did ask for it in store when I went to get a new SIM card.
This is a concern I'd have, and a major point of tension in my job search.
My Mastodon is being hugged to death, so here's the content:

@sir@cmpwn.com

Thanks Gitlab

image: https://sr.ht/qAVP.png

@sir@cmpwn.com

If my competitors keep making stupid decisions then making SourceHut successful will be pretty easy

@sir@cmpwn.com

Hi HN, the missing context is that this is signups for sourcehut.org, a GitLab competitor, in the wake of news that they'd be adding third-party telemetry to their software.

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Note, I mostly use my Mastodon account for shitposting, this isn't a serious marketing avenue or anything. This is my personal Mastodon instance, its infrastructure not holding up under load has no impact on SourceHut availability.
Batteries don't handle impacts well. People living near airports don't appreciate battery packs crashing through their roofs when the parachute fails to open. It's expensive to have someone drive around with a truck and pick up the dead batteries. When weather conditions get a little rough, real airplanes can still fly but parachutes get blown all over the place.
> A while ago there was an article where a woman was trying to user testing in a mall and instead found an old guy who had literally never touched a computer. Reading that experience was fascinating.

I missed that article. It sounds fascinating -- I don't suppose you have a link?
My wife is a nurse, and the lack of well thought out scheduling contributes greatly to this. It seems like many systems lack any logic behind creating their shift schedules. The long 12+ hr shifts combined with poor weekend structuring for night shift staff make it extremely hard to focus on self-care and your relationships. If it's "your weekend" you work Saturday and Sunday night, and have to consequently sleep most of the Saturday morning and afternoon to be ready. If it's not "your weekend" you're on the schedule for Friday night, causing you to have to sleep most of Saturday. It's a lose-lose either way.

Combine this with anti-union practices, dangerous staffing shortages, and a general anti-employee attitude, and no wonder you see so much burnout.

The leeches in the healthcare environment (insurance companies, executives & administration) take too much away from the people who do the actual work (doctors, nurses, janitors, and other support staff).
I'm curios why the post about Gitlab [1] was marked as a duplicate and thereby banished from the front page, without any other post in sight.

YCombinator favoritism? ( Gitlab was part of YCombinator 2015 )

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21343761

Edit: Number 22 yesterday.
https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2019-10-23

Must have missed it. Seems fine to me.
Flights are dirt cheap. Accommodation and food is unusually expensive though, we found - even the tenting/campervaning is nowadays quite pricey.

Language was a non-issue for us. English proficiency was high. For those who don't speak English, if you're friendly enough, you can point to what you need, plus there's so many electronic aids these days if push comes to shove, it's not an issue. Perhaps more importantly, cultural norms will be familiar to Westerners, which makes it easier.
The person posting Podesta emails in this thread believes in Pizzagate.
> assuming you don't use iCloud

But most people use iCloud, right? Apple forbids you from using competing full phone cloud backup services. The built in backup software continuously sends iCloud copies of most user data on the phone.
This is described as somehow bad news for San Francisco, but I don't see it. Load balancing can be good news both for the old location (less crowded, less competition for housing) and the new one.

Maybe it's counterintuitive for some, but San Francisco is nothing like a old Midwest factory town where reduced jobs and economic activity would be a serious issue. It would be even better if they had moved somewhere further away that needed the jobs and economic growth more, but this isn't a bad result.
Astrology in the Age of Uncertainty
Work at GitLab, we've halted any movement on adding telemetry and are reconsidering our approach. More info is on this issue: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/growth/product/issues/164
Getting Started with Rust and Apache Kafka
Of note, there is another amendment in a somewhat similar position, the Equal Rights Amendment: “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.”

It's one state shy of passing and has been that way since the '80s. That said, there's a very strong argument that the amendment is no longer eligible to be passed because, unlike Madison's amendment, there was an explicit "this offer expires" date in the bill passed by Congress, and that date has long passed. Also, several states rescinded their ratifications. That said, there are plausible legal theories that states aren't actually allowed to un-ratify amendments and that proposed amendments can't expire.
Just watched this video and wanted to say thanks for sharing. That's insane.
To me I think that'd definitely work with static content/data and of course physical items. Things like passwords, accounts, devices and any special notes you may want to leave can change pretty often and presumably could become a chore to replace in the box and get neglected.

It could also be a hassle handling physical keys and also re-assigning who gets what. The barrier to having multiple and also changing accessors goes down.

Overall I'm not knocking the deposit box approach but it could be a little more work to maintain.