skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They do, because of market size effects and standardization.

Automakers, textbook writers, etc cater to the largest state they serve (or the lowest common of several large markets), then distribute the same version to multiple locations.

In the case of cars, which have to adhere to California regulations to be sold in California, that can drive up the price in other markets due to expensive parts required for compliance and auto-manufacturers standardizing.

It’s also more constructive to explain why people are wrong (eg, why you think car regulations one place can’t impact the price in others) than just call them stupid.
Interesting, because I was seriously thinking of building a product where you get a good amount of features from these cloud providers and run it on your own servers... although obviously there's going to be some drawbacks, you may save a lot of money.
oh and people can now work remotely. this was an early promise of the internet that people had kind of given up on , but it came back serendipitously with improved tech.
You don’t play this game. We are all pawns, you can’t choose to play or not.

You are the product and almost every organization you interact with is trying to get a piece of the action. Some of the worst offenders selling you out are your state and local governments.
"May you live in interesting times" -- likely apocryphal Chinese curse
literally mind fuck.
No way is it simple - there are over a dozen OEMs each competing and advertising their Android phones with the co-branded messaging that they see fit.

The whole strategy behind the Pixel phone was to change the perception of the android brand as a cheap, bloatware'd device for tech dudes. Releasing a recognizable, high quality wearable line fits in with that strategy.
Tether continues to amaze me. How on earth does it remain stable despite such obvious questionable aspects?

Are there that many true believers keeping this stable?
> "don't use black, use dark-grey" mentality

They only do this because the iOS UI uses darkening to indicate depth, with no alternatives for dark mode - it has to be something other than pure black or there's nothing to darken. It's a band-aid.
That sounds like Facebook's Ad Library feature[1]. It doesn't show you the targeting parameters used, but it does show the age/gender demographics the ad was actually shown to.

[1] E.g. https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/?active_status=all&ad_t...
They're literally dying and you think the solution should be "don't bike"?
> To be frank I think the benefits of "Free Speech" are vastly overvalued.

Free Speech really only applies to the government, not private companies, so FB can impose whatever rules they want (though that might depend on if the FEC decides to try and enforce some regulation). Also, even Free Speech has its limits, for example, yelling "fire!" into a crowd to cause a mass panic when there is no fire is not protected speech.

Other examples include slander, this wiki page has a nice discussion on Supreme Court decisions as it relates to the First Amendment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...
No.

Again, his exact statement was: "Cyclists in NYC (and I imagine most cities) do not, and have never had, a history of 'endangering the lives of others.'"

He's stating unequivocally that cyclists do not have -- and have never had -- a history of endangering the lives of others.

They kill people. I certainly call that endangering the lives of others.

They don't kill a lot of people. Neither do sharks -- in the US they only kill about 1 person a year. That doesn't mean sharks are not dangerous or don't have a history of endangering people.

If you or he want to make a statement about the low probability of such an event -- fine. Or compare cyclists to far more dangerous motor vehicles, also fine. But to say that cyclists don't and have never endangered pedestrians is not factually accurate.
There is a bit of conflation of "observable universe" with "universe". The "observable universe" (as observed now) would be absolutely tiny, but the overall universe may be large even pre inflation, we simply don't see anything outside our tiny cone.
Eh, the market is the reaper of wearables. There doesn't appear to be much of a market for non-Apple wearables (at least after the initial novelty wore off - tons of people bought fitbits and wore them for a couple weeks a few years ago). These companies are only being acquired because they failed to build a profitable market niche.
Zuck's best way to 'wash his hands' of it is to adhere closer the newspaper standard. Though, if he does this, it may mean less money.
> Why does Facebook get an exemption?

Because it's not apples to apples.

Facebook is like NBC but it's also like Comcast. Comcast doesn't have an editorial board screening all the content that its product indirectly facilitates.

Newspapers basically are content creators and curators at the core. If newspapers stopped doing that, they basically wouldn't exist. If Facebook eased up on ranking, filtering, and promoting, it would just be the old thefacebook.com.
I was thinking the same thing wrt to Jean (french) vs English Jean. Or Ariel (Hebrew).
It's just a matter of using the right tool for the right job. There's a lot of things Docker can do that an OTP application already handles (and in a way that's better-integrated with your application). Same with an orchestration system (e.g. Kubernetes).

You can use Docker to provide a common/consistent base on which you'd build the nodes running your OTP applications. If you have zero non-OTP dependencies, then this is overkill (you'd be better off deploying directly to some server, be it a VM or bare-metal, and managing configuration/deployment on that level), but most real-world applications do have other Dockerizable dependencies (databases come to mind, though there's ongoing debate on whether or not putting Postgres in a Docker container is actually smart). Also, using Docker to abstract the runtime environment for BEAM does help considerably with deployment to various PaaS platforms (e.g. Heroku, Bluemix, Elastic Beanstalk, etc.).

Personally, I lean toward a couple big servers dedicated to BEAM instances (running all the OTP apps), and a couple big servers dedicated to some SQL database (usually Postgres). Whether you maintain those servers as Docker containers or EC2 instances or DO droplets or physical servers is an implementation detail that doesn't really matter that much as long as it works and it's easy for you (or your DevOps / sysadmin teams) to maintain.

On that note: I don't think it makes sense to have a bunch of little containerized microservices each running a separate BEAM and a separate set of OTP applications. OTP already takes care of that sort of orchestration, and OTP applications already are (or can be) microservices. Just throw 'em all into a big server and let BEAM's scheduler and OTP's supervision model do their jobs.
Offline-Pedia converts old televisions into Wikipedia readers (2018)
I totally get the benefits of indoor training. Especially since it takes me 20 minutes to get ready, and then 30% of my miles end up just being garbage miles anyway.

In general though it seems like Zwift is much more popular than Peloton among actual cyclists. Maybe this is just because Zwift sponsors pro cyclists and Peloton is actually better, I have no idea, but for the most part it seems like relatively few people own both a Peloton and a bike.

That's why I was assuming that for most people they are either going to spend 2.5k or a Peloton or 2.5k on a bike, but not both. But I totally get that anyone who owns a bike will spend a large percentage of the time training indoors.
So rather than waiting for someone to steal it.....you stole it yourself?
>Interval trees reduce to Binary Search Trees when the nodes can't overlap.

Interval trees are degenerate R-Trees which can be implemented using GiST which is itself a btree.

>Also, Red-Black trees specifically are used in many database clients to implement an in-memory write-back cache of a database table, as the combination of performance requirements for flushing batches of writes to the DB, and reading back arbitrary keys that were written to the cache, make these BSTs nearly optimal for this use-case.

Got a source? I'd like to read up on this use case.

>But yes, DBMSes themselves don't tend to use BSTs for much. Maybe as a query-plan-AST term-rewriting-phase ADT.

Postgres' source does indeed have a red black tree in it:

https://doxygen.postgresql.org/structRBTree.html
And now you have proof; The "it's free as in speech" FSF has fired their founder for something he said.
Thanks for the feedback. I feel bad that I offended people. I'm sorry; it wasn't my intention to imply all immigrants are problematic. It's only the state-sponsored immigrants, and they're only a tiny, tiny fraction.

I don't think most people care, honestly. Plus, as the parent poster said, this has been going on for 10 years. Not much can be done about it now.

But, if a journalist does happen to reads this and is interested, post your contact info. I'll reach out.
Looks genuinely interesting. But also looks complicated and hard to explain.
This is only for the fire coverage

There is still a paywall if you try to read the other articles
I really appreciate when an OS, app or site implements dark mode.
My OS comes by default in dark mode, I use VSCode with a dark theme, I set dark mode in apps that support it (twitter, reddit, gmail, etc). I have 2 monitors side by side (2560x1440 and 3440x1440) and it's really a lot of light to take in when there is no dark mode available.

I like to read a lot during night time, and it was hard not to get burning eyes after a couple of hours.

But I learned about toning down screen brightness as to not get headaches, then I learned about Redshift which it's been a real life---or should I say eyes?---saver.

I even implemented a dark / light mode for my personal blog: https://lobotuerto.com/
Does the name have to get one letter shorter each generation as well?
you're limited to what Apple has allowed you to have. Search app store for content blockers. This "story" [1] by Apple contains most popular, and I've used Ka-Block! and Ghostery Lite. I would go with either or both.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/story/id1377753262
Disinformation about voting dates or choices seems out of bounds. But any negative ad is at a basic level voter suppression.
What about all the political ads that are not connected to federal elections? People in this thread keep throwing around "political ad" as if it is a synonym for "election ad". It isn't.
Great write up on your website! I remember Valve had some great pages about network game programming too.
Not really, otherwise no one would have written things like this:

https://github.com/jlouis/fuse
Ask HN: How to pay Interviewees for take-home projects?
Our startup would like to pay Interviewees in Visa or Amazon gift cards as a gesture for their time on test projects.

Is this possible to do in a way that does not invite lawsuits?

Do the parties (us/them) need to report this on taxes (that's why we thought gift cards instead of cash transfers)?

Is it acceptable to ask the Interviewees to sign an NDA prior to the test project?

Thanks for your advice in advance!
Solving NP problems every day.
I did in fact try, and was rejected either immediately or after a few weeks of reviewing my request.

IIRC one provider did let me in, but it didn't have the functionality I needed.
Bird eggs laid in cold climates are darker, which may keep eggs warm
No, the government supports those groups by granting them a monopoly on a lucrative industry. Get rid of prohibition and those narco-terrorist groups disappear.
I would switch to Pale Moon instead of Firefox for the browser. Then again, I'd also add in FreeMind for mind-mapping.
so i heard from friends, that the snow might actually a problem if you're outside a city; in some instances you'd be hard pressed to make it with a fat bike.

apart from that i guess you just have to ride carefully, but you the same applies to driving a car on icy roads.
A computer chip works fundamentally different. This paper doesn't make sense at all.
Head of NHS voices 'serious concerns' about homeopathy
The fight to keep the internet free and open for everyone
In the past I would have said Parrot, but it appears to be defunct.

It may be that some of the VMs that Raku (fka Perl 6) has generated might be useful. I believe, at least as of a few years ago, they still mostly working on NQP as the intermediate language, where NQP is a low language "like" Perl (NQP is an acronym for Not Quite Perl) which is used to implement the higher level language features, allowing for fairly easy porting to other VMs as long as NQP is supported (for example, Raku was ported to Java by implementing an NQP interpreter, which allowed the majority of the vastly more complex Raku language to just work).

LuaJIT is also a popular choice I hear. This would have the benefit of using Lua, which is a widely deployed and well known small language, and LuaJIT is known to be extremely fast.
Heh, what a silly little mistake to make with the asserts. I've now improved their readability. Thank you!

You're right, I need to add a better explanation for what a ket is. Same applies to the validity, should explain a bit about normalization.

Thanks for the feedback!
> I named my eldest daughter Lynzy, to continue the tradition.

And that's why I always ask patients how to spell their name, no matter how common it sounds...
The biggest markets set the price for the smallest
Why does the commentariat here always gets so triggered over anything cryptocurrency-related?
> They can call it whatever they want.

I never said otherwise.

> Multiplayer is a better name than 'live editing' anyway.

Right now, three of the top four comments in this thread are people criticizing and/or being confused by the term they used.

You may think that, say, "internationalization" is an awful, unwieldy word. As a guy who used to work in an i18n department, I'd agree. But if you're making internationalization software, and you decide to just call it "multiplacing" instead to save typing, you're going to confuse and put off a lot of your target market. That's not, generally, a good idea.
Am I the only one that wishes social media would just ban political advertising altogether?
And its an age old problem. We have expressions for it, ballot stuffing, and quips about it, vote early and often. We even had a partisan judiciary decide an election since the machines failed to fully punch cards.
> Sounds like it’d be an unattractive deal for the dealership, no?

Not if the car is a trade-in that would be sold as used, anyway. Otherwise, I can't see how it makes sense: it takes a lot for rentals to make up for the “new” to “used” transition.
thats hard to imagine when you look at the books for a number of unicorns that are literally burning hundreds of millions(per quarter) more on advertising than on their actual product. ;)
I loved my Garmin for the 2-3 months I had it. Great battery life and the minimal functionality I needed in a fitness watch (GPS, heartrate, steps etc.)

It eventually irritated my skin (I had burn marks right under the light) so I had to give it up. Even with regular cleaning, I could not stop the strap itching.

The nice thing about Garmin (the company) is that they gave me a full refund even though it was well past the 30-day return. I haven't gone back to do the research on avoiding the skin issues, but I hope some day I'll be able to buy a Garmin again.
Problem: thieves steal mandatory cats

One solution: Less government meddling, make cats not mandatory

Second solution: More government meddling, i.e. actually do something about the thefts

It absolutely blows my mind that people out there think #1 is the better solution
On top of ReactJS, what else do you use to build dashboards and internal business tools?
Tuesday: Nehemiah Acts
For a simple non-U.S. example, consider J. K. Rowling, who was forced to invent an initialized pen name by her publisher.
As far as I can see the terminal rendering is one of the main points that's showcased with this project. Sure you could do this with a raster framebuffer, but that's been done loads of times. The fact that it looks this good in a terminal is marvelous imho.
This is a silly argument. Do a Google image search for "cars in the 1800s" or something like that, and you're going to see "cars" that have tillers instead of steering wheels, and resemble horse carriages much more than modern cars. This doesn't mean horse carriages or motorized carts or golf carts qualify as "cars" in 2019.
Praising scroll hijack and bloated ui on HN. Bad idea.
I wonder what the authors thoughts is about not having a secret annotation for wiping secrets.
Besides being an idiotic asshole move, what you did is illegal in every state because it violates the Clean Air Act.
Instead of DynamoDB, perhaps you meant DocumentDB which is AWS's managed MongoDB compatible database service.
Cracking the Code on Egg Coloration (2015)
> do you seriously think Putin will renounce a domestic space industry?

Probably not. It's possible to bring the space industry to the state of aviation industry, but 1) some resources are still available to maintain some level (as you mentioned) 2) to keep the same level, one needn't spend too much effort and 3) there are some interested parties in Russia which wouldn't want too deep degradation of space industry (e.g. periodically some hints to that come from Samara).

So a likely outcome could be maintenance of some expertise, at least for military purposes, and possibly attempts to cooperation with foreign partners - China, Europe etc. No total destruction; "just" - potentially - another deep crisis.
CitiBike data (if it could be used as a proxy) shows about half the number of daily rides in Jan as in the summer. That’s still > 40k rides a day.

https://www.citibikenyc.com/system-data
I am a great believer in "Software Literacy" - that software is a new form of literacy that we as society will need to ensure is as wide spread as normal literacy.

And I find more and more that using this as a lens solves lots of these sort of conundrums

What do we do with senior / principal engineers? can be translated to "what shall we do with these really good readers and writers we have hired"? The answer is not invent some parallel path in the company to have them walk around looking for solutions - they become leaders of the organisation ... or they go out.

And as for the C-suite. No CEO ever announced that "well I used to read and write but I don't have time for that anymore. I do enable my skip levels to do more reading and writing on their 20% projects however. Sometimes I dream of taking a week off in order to write something - maybe an email, like the good old days"

If the management of the organisation is spending less than half its time coding, the company does not have enough automation and will get its arse kicked by 2030
Transpile is a superset or compile just like typescript is a superset of JavaScript. Transpile implies translating but not into a less complex language but rather onto a similar runtime. So typescript is dynamic just like JavaScript, and they share much of their semantics. So transpile means compile but onto a similar runtime with similar runtime semantic behavior.
For what it's worth, I grew up on MS-DOS, so I am of comparable age if not older than you.

I still stand by my observation - very few people read help _files_. Printed manuals - yes, those were read and they were undoubtedly useful, but not the electronic versions. They are usually bloated with so much filler and so cumbersome to use that people just don't bother.
In general, government has a monopoly on legal violence. As such ads that promote war are promoting legal violence. Rules against promoting violence are (implicitly) targeting illegal violence.

At the same time, if FB reduced political adds (including any war/military related ones), I would be supportive.
> Expecting people to invent novel data structures on the fly, under stress, is unreasonable.

If that's the metric being measured, then sure, it's a bad idea.
If only a crime was a vote instead of investigation. People won't look kindly at this period but I'm afraid it will not be as you claim - the virulent insanity will be remembered for a long time.
In particular, the courts usually can't make victims whole in criminal cases. E.g. an eye for an eye doubles the number of eye-less people but cures nobody. You would need to quantify crimes that don't occur because potential criminals are deterred, currently incarcerated, or have been rehabilitated. We can't really measure this without making the law, observing changes in victim rates, and assuming causation.
Okay, I've read all the responses so far at time of writing.

Lots of technical solutions which would break the browser/site/web/whatever.

What I haven't seen is;

Why not, on highlighting text to copy, a small window pops up in one of the corners of the browser, and whatever text would be copied to the clipboard, is instead bunged into this window?

A sort of intermediate step as it were.

Then if you're satisfied that the content is what you want, hit some 'really copy to clipboard' button. The window goes away, the text is copied to clipboard.

A built-in text window. Because most people who use browsers aren;t going to go to the bother of copying and pasting into a text editor (Notepad, Kwrite, whatever) to vet the contents before pasting it wherever.

So make the intermediate step mandatory.
Perhaps you're thinking of the i-Opener?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-Opener
Back and back and back... to a clan in Scotland? (One branch of my wife's family is goes back to Clan Lindsay.)
> Not being a fucking fascist on the Internet blah blah blah...

I would prefer to speak as adults. Thanks.

By the way I never talked about camps, and to call fascist to other people in a discussion currently (instead to show real counter-arguments), is a really worn out strategy and a sign of laziness. Everybody does it (and it never solved anything).
I just wanted to add that you can basically put the filter behind the fan and have it suck air through it instead of taping it to the front of the fan. I bought the Heavy Duty Lasko Box fans (they pull more air) and run 3 of them 24/7/365 along with HEPA Filtration on the HVAC system. What's amazing is how these filters turn black over a month or so from just VOC's floating around from cooking to off gassing of furniture, hard wood, carpets, etc.

Even during allergy season the inside of our house is like a clean room. Every one sleeps better and there is no smell or anything.
At this point, does anyone trust Bloomberg for any information?