skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As an engineer, I feel like I have very little recourse other than to vote with my feet, but I want there to be repercussions for us being treated like this.

Your options are: 1) leave, 2) attempt to unionize, or 3) suck it up. If you leave, you can do a half-ass job at transitioning your work and take your knowledge with you, but it's unlikely the bosses care about that or even notice. It's unlikely that you can successfully unionize, but if you do, the bosses will really appreciate the repercussions of their actions.

> How do I go about daily tasks when I keep asking myself "why bother?"

You said it yourself: you feel betrayed by all the people you're working for. Do the bare minimum expected of you, and save your energy for planning your next step.
Private training varies, I have a friend that didn’t build that reflex properly until training for instrument cert. If you ask lots of private pilots - what’s more important: constant awareness of minimum maneuverable speed, or stall recovery - I expect most will answer stall recovery. Commercial pilots will answer the opposite. It’s a different mindset that’s been driven by commercial airlines. My point is GA training can be improved, and it’s not hard - just a change in mindset towards risk and preparedness.
It seems like you got a raise. Is there any chance that you can frame the raise as a potential way to repurchase the benefits you lost? It is hard to know if this would be possible with the (understandably) guarded description of the situation.

Basically, is there a way to frame things as net-neutral at least until you find something else?
Its a dangerous path - saying that one race is smarter directly implies that another race is dumber. That sort of dialogue is completely taboo at least in the US.
Its a reasonable risk/reward calculation. If this is your only 2 week vacation for the year, having a bad experience is a huge cost in time and probably money. If you're traveling regularly and save $X 95% of the time by using airbnb. That occasional bad experience is pretty bad, but more tolerable.
The author of the repo here. It is still very much in the POC stage. It will definitely have python APIs in the future. One of the primary reasons to choose a native language is to have better python integration. I intend to have to APIs almost identical to Spark, so that it will be easy to migrate. It is still very early to assure this, but it is the objective.
Cool! The framework makes a lot of sense, and articulates what I've observed very well.
Basically, they are using Rust to encode a state machine using types. This is brilliant! The nice thing is that the transitions are determined at compile time so there can be performance benefit as well as compile time correctness testing.

Really neat techniques!
> If you don't want to do things their way, fuck you, that's their motto. Then they wonder why people keep choosing other OSs.

I definitely feel your pain (I can't count the number of times I have run into UX issues on various Linux distros, and in search for a fix/answer find many people that ran into the exact same issue but find that the maintainer has stubbornly refused to consider changing or fixing it), but really? If you don't like something on Linux, you can fork and fix it yourself.* If you don't like something on Windows or macOS, it's Microsoft and Apple that are telling you 'fuck you, deal with it.'

* Whether or not doing so is feasible is a different story..
Norway is indeed a semi-socialist country financed by state-owned oil.

Regardless of whether you think that's a good or bad thing, it's certainly very far from the U.S. situation.

> those are not revenues. They're movements in the balance sheet, converting one asset (oil) into another asset (cash)'

Though it doesn't invalidate your point, I do not think it means what you think it means.

Revenue: The income generated from sale of goods or services, or any other use of capital or assets
> Perhaps this is an indicator that for-profit companies that solicit volunteer contributions to open source projects should set up a non-profit organization to manage the open source project separately from the for-profit business that sells support and / or provides paid turnkey solutions.

The vast majority do, and it's getting more and more common.

> It seems potentially a little greedy to me to insist that highly paid software developers retain the right to volunteer on a wider range of software projects at the expense of lower salaries for workers in other professions.

Are you saying that either everybody should be able to volunteer or nobody should?
Neumann and his wife fired multiple people for completely arbitrary reasons. This seems consistent with their other disgusting behavior. If you haven't read about it, maybe spare yourself the frustration.
Yeah, I've written a lot of Java, and I'd be happy to inherit a well-tested, well-factored Java code base. The language is more of a pain, but automated tools like IntelliJ's refactoring tools (which depend on Java's explicitness) make up for a fair bit of that. But as you say, the patterns encouraged in the "enterprise" space are often terrible, so I'm automatically suspicious of anything like that.
I don't get the sense it's the abstract concept people are up in arms about, but the implementation.

The US has a long history of implementation pessimizing desired outcome at the Southern border. For example, the number of undocumented permanent residents in the US went up when border control was tightened in previous administrations. Under lax border control, people could border-hop for a day or a week, take care of some business (mostly quite legal with the one exception of the failure to go through the entire process of a temporary visa), and go back. But when inspection constraints were tightened and checkpoints and fences went up, lots of hoppers decided that if they had to choose, they'd rather be trapped in the US than in Mexico. The intended effect of lowering undocumented residency boosted the numbers on undocumented residency. Oops. :-p
I really like Postgres as an allround database, and putting monitoring data into Postgres is an attractive idea to me. One thing I'm wondering is how well you can mix a regular Postgres database with timeseries data using TimescaleDB? If I have a regular application using Postgres, can I just add timeseries in there with TimescaleDB in the same database? Or is that either not possible, or simply a bad idea?
Sleeps 16, but there are only 3 or 4 real beds.

And then they have the nerve to complain to AirBnB if you hold an all-night drug-fueled orgy.
Another example, implementing IMAP with Rust's affine types.

https://insanitybit.github.io/2016/05/30/beyond-memory-safet...
That's based on https://github.blog/2019-10-09-github-and-us-government-deve... :

> We will donate $500,000—in excess of the value of the purchase by ICE—to nonprofit organizations working to support immigrant communities targeted by the current administration. The Social Impact team will get Hubber input on which nonprofits can provide the most impact for migrants, to be supported via this donation. In the past, we’ve supported organizations like Border Angels, Families for Freedom, and Movement on the Ground.

The charitable view is that they genuinely care about these causes. The uncharitable one (which I'm espousing) is that they're just buying indulgences and that giving $500K of value to ICE and $500K of donations to anti-ICE groups doesn't actually cancel out and ICE gets significantly more benefit from it - and more relevantly, that if GitHub is keeping the contract and donating the revenue, they're clearly not in it for money anymore, they're in it because they want ICE to have their product.
Flight is an option.

Fight's the other one. It really depends on whether you have more power to enact change by taking blood out of the system or diverting where it's pumped.
From his posts here, it looks like this is just a small side business for him, and he still works a normal day job. If UK customers are already a small fraction of his total customer base, it's not going to make any economic sense to start a subsidiary of a small moonlighting one-person gig just to retain those customers.

There's a lot of small businesses out there that just don't have enough market demand to be turned into something as large as what you're suggesting.
You realize you just “hoped” people are ethical as a reply to a post describing a way in which at least one person was claimed to be unethical

If you can use a pattern to grift off the system someone is using it. What’s most likely you’re not aware or emotionally predisposed to avoid connecting those dots
I’m not talking about making training harder - just changing the mindset of GA pilots. I wrote more in a reply below if you’re interested.
Yeah exactly. Much of the "overkill" was done because of performance and cost reasons, that frankly just don't apply anymore. Now the largest expense by far is time.

There are a number of people starting to talk about Star Schemas having little gain on modern stacks. The performance and costs gains are automatically done now with C-Store warehouses. Fivetran has a great post on this https://fivetran.com/blog/obt-star-schema
Five hundred goats save the Ronald Reagan library from wildfires
Because the story arc goes like this:

1) people notice someone has gotten power

2) people notice the person is being shitty about it

3) people insist that responsibility and power go hand in hand

4) person does not rise to the challenge

5) people take the power away

Making them accountable is the warning shot. Next step is divestiture.
The XCode profiling is mostly for iOS apps - not server side code. You wouldn’t really be better off using a Mac for profiling server side code.

And what server side code “behaves differently”

Where does it say it’s not “production ready” on the GitHub link?
There have been studies that shows the mind is working after death

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/mind-works-after-...

In Hinduism, the Garuda Purana details this as not the physical mind, but the detached soul can see the body as it floats above it and watches its relatives weep. But it can reattach it self in some cases. Some Yogis also talk of being able to detach their body from their soul using breath alone.
I often have a cancelable hotel reservation on hand.
I'll give a shout out to Speeko! (I'm not affiliated with them in any way)

https://speeko.co

A testimonial (also unaffiliated): https://www.speeko.co/blog/beth-tucker-interview
Network passes are ruining coworking
Ask HN: What's the current thinking on doing plain JavaScript development?
Is there a current approach to front end development that is pure JavaScript - with absolutely no use of a compiler, no use of webpack or other code processors, and no use of other JavaScript build tools?

I'm wanting to know if there's anyone/any group that is doing modern, plain JavaScript with zero of the complexity introduced by the modern build systems.
Corporate culture clash = employee rape, find a law firm and class action them
Exactly this. For one or two people, Airbnb isn't lot cheaper than hotels. The big win is when the traveling group is more than two people. That gets very expensive at hotels because you usually have to book more than one room.
isn't all data streaming data? whats so specail about streaming data.
“The government” is not a homogeneous entity.
Please explain what you believe White Nationalism is.
I've played OW with people who are absolutely terrible at shooters but loved the characters and skins.

Eventually they rage quit because they never actually wanted to get better at the game.

This same thing happened with Dust 514, where there was nothing at all for the person who couldn't aim, (unlike EvE which has some barely passable PvE).

I'm guessing that Blizzard is looking at these stats, and noticing that people log back in for the limited pve content in OW.
I'm guessing the idea is that a .com looks more "official", but I think that's becoming less and less over time as alternative TLDs get more uptake. This probably depends on your customer base though.
> In 2015, Airbnb spent at least $8 million on lobbying efforts to fight back an ordinance in San Francisco that required all Airbnb hosts to register their units with the city in a lengthy process. The ordinance passed anyway, severely reducing the number of properties available. But not all cities have San Francisco’s budgetary resources. When New Orleans overhauled their short-term rental laws in August, for example, the budget-strapped city mostly left oversight of the new rules in the hands of Airbnb.

> “If I had another choice, I would not use Airbnb again,” he told me. “I was very put off by getting scammed. But at this point, I feel like if I want to travel, there’s not really much else I can do.”

> I can’t say I’ll be leaving the platform, either...is still just a bit cheaper than renting a hotel.

This blows my mind. I had a terrible experience when Airbnb took over the top floor flat when I used to live on the ground floor, so I decided to never use them, I travel regularly and always use a mix of hotels and vacation homes depending of the destination and I never needed Airbnb.

But even after being scammed and spending their holiday time moving around and being shafted then spending time after the holiday fighting for a refund and losing money these people still find value in the service, mind blowing.
> Lots of property owners goes to great extends to make property look way better, bigger, nicer than it really is and to conceal obvious negative points that become apparent even before you are given the keys

Sadly that sounds like mort advertising of everything, so I can't say I'm surprised.
Are you writing this from last century?

Deepmind's best-in-class chess and Go AIs are the same code (AlphaZero) just given respectively rules and game state input for either chess or Go and then allowed to train on the target game.

One of the fun works in progress in this space is teaching AIs to play a suite of 80s video games. Getting quite good at several games where the idea is to go right and not die is pretty easy these days, but Deepmind's work can do a broader variety only coming badly unstuck on games where it's hard to discern your progress at all without some meta-knowledge.
What bugs me in this thread is that the whole idea of airbnb is cheaply stay in someone's property with "air bed and breakfast" (of course some properties are pricey but in genereal it just another category of bookings than general airbnb hosts).

Air bad and breakfast type of hosts could not be reliable by definition. If you want a predictable experience you will get a better luck working with professionals (either hotel chains or high end local hotels). It is a solved problem.
Congratulations!

* What is a plan for PG12 PLUGGABLE STORAGE[1]? this is for PG12?

* Can you compare with Zedstore[2]?

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/tableam.html

[2] https://github.com/greenplum-db/postgres/tree/zedstore
Spark != SQL

It's also graph analysis and ML models.
The maturity could be the ability to compartmentalize. Whether that's a good thing is up for debate.

Should we keep religion out of politics? Should we keep politics out of work? I doubt there are any clear answers.
> US households

> sovereign wealth fund

No one is passing about a cup.

A sovereign wealth fund is owned by the state.

A private wealth fund is owned by people and corporation; e.g. "households".
Interesting! Let me give this a try :)
Or the rights of people they don't like.
Why didn't the author take photos of everything, then take the documentation of what happened to his bank and issue a chargeback?
But does it come with sharepoint integration? Because if you claim to do that right, then this is surely snake oil.
Two years ago I was working on optimizing the load time for a web page. My basis for the investigation was the lighthouse tests that then where integrated into google chrome. To get data for each step of the process I tied this into our selenium test. This meant that we could get data on page speed (along with some more data) after every build. During this process I came up with a thought that I haven't been able to shake. What if at each page we gather the javascript code that is used and discard all the other data. In the end I came to the conclusion that for us the optimization that couldn't be reached was dead code in 3:rd party javascript libraries. This means that we define what is to be usable by customers is strictly what is covered by selenium. But for a company that has diligently implemented testing using say selenium, this could work. Bear in mind that this probably wouldn't be an entirely automated process but would require some small manual fixes here and there by a (very) competent javascript coder.

If anybody is interested in this or are aware of prior work, please let me know by commenting!

) By using googles metric this might optimize search engine rating for google as well as they are probably using the same system to analyze while crawling.
) I'm not saying that it's easy, but this is very there are optimization that are left to be done
That's what side projects are for.
I think after Khashoggi's death the extent of surveillance could be evaluated based on the fact that US president had the option to review it. Guy was killed in a consulate in Turkey and, at the very least, US had audio ready to analyze.
No, it's not a joke.

Yes, the term "public company" is used widely, but it doesn't mean what you think it means given the rest of your comment.

Whether a company is publicly traded or not makes no difference on how much the government can regulate it. Educate yourself.
You can't make a business of an honest marketplace based on selling services only to dishonest people. Eventually your own customers will ruin the business.

This is the fundamental reason "Organized Crime" always fails in the end.
> Also what's the deal with the fi ligature in the code? It throws off the kerning and holds no purpose.

I'm not seeing a ligature there, or at least not an obvious one. What browser/platform are you using?
The Holocaust wasn't the only situation involving concentration camps in history. The US ran concentration camps during World War II for Japanese-Americans more or less because of racism coupled with fear of espionage or anti-nationalism; that's just fact in terms of the definition of these terms. In fact, when discussing contemporary US policy, it's the most relevant historical comparison.

In addition to running concentration camps (unacceptable), the nazi party also ran forced labor camps and death camps, which distinguishes the horrors they inflicted from the horrors the US inflicted on its Japanese-American population. But to ignore the US's history of depriving liberty from classes of people when it suits us opens up its own can of dangers that is (one hopes) smaller than the dangers of nazi ideology but should not be ignored.
Then we are in agreement that the premise of being able to refuse services from a divisive government agency we have no power over is flawed? Because it sounds like we are, but are presenting the argument in different ways. Apologies for speaking for the other commenter.
Taboos are a way to hinder progress and science. I will not fall into that trap.

I could be wrong ofc, but I was under the impression that it is widely accepted in the scientific community that intelligence is at least partially affected by genes.

> saying that one race is smarter directly implies that another race is dumber

Note: I said on average.
OK, the 286 was also garbage compared to the 68000.
Rather well designed. Thanks!
This is the 3rd or 4th comment I've seen about not reporting to credit card company because AirBnb may ban you.

Are people really so afraid of being banned by a company such as Airbnb that they will just suck up when defrauded?

It's a vacation rental company, and not very good at that. Why are people so afraid of it?

Genuinely curious..
I'd say it is a great reason to write a new language. I mean, otherwise we'd just stick with assembly, no?
CISA, FBI, and DoD Identify New North Korean Malware
> It's a biological urge for many

I can't say strongly that you're wrong, but I can say your thesis is most definitely unproven, and there is good counterveiling evidence.

Clearly there has and remains enough historical reproduction that humans are pretty much ubiquitous and have affected pretty much the entire surface of the planet. No question. But the why is unknown.

Yes there are of course people who feel a need to duplicate their genes (though to my knowledge I've literally only met one person in my 50+ years who said that this was their desire). However different people have many different reasons to intentionally reproduce and demonstrably, when given the ability, a dominant number opt to limit it (this fact is the launching point of the original article).

The clearest example is economic: birth rate and income are pretty highly negatively correlated (the US is an outlier but when you double click and look at the income data at higher resolution than national, you see the same thing). I could go into examples of why this might be the case but that could lead to an unnecessary flame war.
How do we know that both effects can't cause damage? Say you survive exposure to chemical poisoning, later in life you may experience cancer.
It's not exactly the same as a showmatch, but you can find lots of YouTube videos analyzing replays of AlphaStar playing on the ladder. For example, this game against 2018 world champion Serral: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BOp10v8kuM
Firefox at least does the screenshot part.

https://screenshots.firefox.com/
Ask HN: Is it important to have sharp math knowledge for deep learning?
So I've been learning deep learning from Andrew Ng courses and it's great. I actually remember a lot of algebra and calculus, as I used to be a TA in uni, but almost 10 years have already passed and I'm not that sharp anymore. For instance, I have to frequently review how to transpose a matrix, review derivate tables etc.

Is it worth to really review everything and do people that do deep learning professionally have always amazing knowledge about math, or is it normal to dig it up when you need it?

I could buy some books and go through them, but I'm not sure if it's worth the time given that I can invest on learning all the ML/DL things I don't know, which are many.
Yep. Just be clear that you'd really prefer to resolve it with the company, but that if they refuse, you view it as fraud and will pursue appropriate remedies.
DARPA invests in startups for military technologies.

VCs invest in startups for commercial viability.
Reminder that they responded on Weibo almost immediately, defending their actions and supporting the Chinese government.

See: https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/10/10/verified-chinese-bli...
I'd be interested in someone with a good profile selling it to a bad actor for a lump sum. I'm not saying this happens, but it seems like it would be easy to do/very hard to prevent. Especially if you're moving out of the original listing.

Generally number of reviews is a good measure of quality IMO.
Have you lost your mind?
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