skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow that’s messy.

I have trip this coming month through Expedia and the last leg of our bargain basement flight got cancelled. The rep told me there were no flights for days surrounding our original flight date.

I had to sit on hold for a long time but I have to say they were great. United swept our transportation out from under our feet but the rep was able to wrangle a flight with fewer stops that arrives earlier without us having to pay the difference. We had those locked-in cheap tickets that charge you a couple hundred just to upgrade your ticket before the price difference is even considered.

Needless to say we were greatly relieved...
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What does =3= mean?
I'll never understand why anyone would want to own a cat, especially one that frequently roams outdoors, when something like toxoplasmosis exists and affects over 30% of the global population.
"Marketing" means money.

There was never any money behind Python, or C++. Both paid their own way, all the way: people actually using one put in sweat because they believed it made things better for them.

That is the diametrical opposite of marketing.
Interestingly enough, if your `close` logic is implemented in the `drop` method, `close` itself can be written as:

fn close(self) { }

...which is—not incidentally—the exact implementation of `std::mem::drop`(https://doc.rust-lang.org/beta/std/mem/fn.drop.html).
I mean, you clearly have an agenda here and a discussion on HN isn't going to help.

Child sex abuse isn't limited to a certain group or culture.

You bring a good point though, the 1% and cheap labor.

There's another solution here that's beneficial to all of us. An economic policy that combats worker exploitation and guarantees a basic living standard (housing, food, transportation, computer & phone, education, healthcare) to all people living in your country. With these, immigrant and native populations won't need to depend on the 1% to survive, and will be able to create businesses, more jobs, more innovation.

So yes, you've properly identified the problem, but not the solution.
Depends, if months of hard work results in a drive strike, it could be said to have killed some one.
Who will put a gun to your head if you stop working in the US?
Assuming intelligence can only be the direct result of genes is not supported in the literature. The relevance of individual genes to the success of the human population disappeared when we became a tribal species hundreds of thousands of years ago.

Since then the useful selective function for individual survival has been the ability to operate in a tribe and make the tribe successful.

Who's to say what that has really been selecting for? Intelligence may very well have almost no correlation with individual genes, and simply be an emergent phenomenon optimized for by pro-social behaviors, or activated by being in the presence of people who are already fulfilling that role. Maybe what we regard as individual intellect is repressed pathways only chemically triggered in childhood after the development cycle casts around to try and figure out the status of the tribe and specialize into the optimum addition?
> Population growth is vital for the world economy.

At most you could argue that population growth is useful for some of the world's economy.

But taking a larger view - ending population growth is vital for the world economy. Probably for human civilization.

Now, I'm not saying that the Earth's carrying capacity is 7.7 Billion people (or less). But in many respects we (= humans) are scratching the edges of that capacity with wasteful use of natural resources, pollution, and skewed distribution of products and services (e.g. of food - hundreds of Millions are hungry but the food produced could feed everyone several times over). So, we should work on that, and in the mean time, keep the population in check. When we've "fixed" human society enough, growth may or may not become relevant again.

> desperation is creeping into the search for ways to reverse the current trends

It is the desperation of large capitalists who want to avoid the necessary transition into from permanent/exponential growth economies into other, sustainable economic models. It's like they want to extend a pier further out into the ocean because they're not willing to stop driving their car out onto it and consider going someplace else. And of course - a political class which lives on these people's donations.

One final point: It seems to me like the actual problem spots are countries with massive growth (e.g. Nigeria in the story) which may need to bring it down sooner than they would have, had they had it in the 19th century; and countries with significant sub-replacement numbers. In the rest of the world needs to adjust while the age pyramid changes.
I'm unfortunately having trouble with the email provider I'm using. Unsure if it's the volume, but it's a big name and it should be fine.

Really sorry about that. Please write me at omar -at- monitoro.xyz and I'll try to fix that wrong.
You're also not talking about a PR decision or political stance. You're talking about logistics, which is normally within the purview of the COO.

And yes, now that China is a political issue, you can bet that the PR department is involved in the decision to buy Chinese-made components and the COO will take their advice into strong consideration, since they're the ones that will be explaining the decision to society, and their choice of logistics structure could affect their future logistics mobility.
Clickhouse is a distributed relational columnar database. It competes with MemSQL, Vertica, Actian, Greenplum, and hosted options like Redshift, Bigquery, Snowflake, etc.
Just read this today! Also this lib is from the maker of the amazing UMAP dimension reduction lib.

https://hdbscan.readthedocs.io/en/latest/performance_and_sca...
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>Should Japan bring in millions of Europeans, which will change the culture and demographics, just to keep the arbitrary GDP number up?

I mean, they could, but chances are most immigrants to Japan are going to come from other East Asian countries, as has always been the case.
> I'm pretty sure SFMono comes with macOS, which explains the platform differences between us.

Not in a way that would be relevant here. I’d expect this font stack to fall back to Menlo on macOS.
Clickhouse is good, but it's definitely made for a very limited purpose; it's not a general purpose SQL database. Which is fine, but the attraction with something like TimescaleDB is that your time series data can coexist with normal data.
Never any money in c++, pretty sure Bell labs funded bjorne
WSL is truly a godsend for me and MS just keeps making it more and more useful.
I assume they were pointing out you don't need to go to a commercial offering.
Couldn't you say the same about ICE? You support their main function, protecting the border, but aren't in favor in all of the things they're doing in order to achieve that goal.
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Working without documentation, or overstaying a visa, or entering a country without a visa, have historically been misdemeanors in the USA. The current administration has decided to treat them somewhat differently, but that's quite new.

Americans don't, typically, describe people who received a parking ticket, or a speeding ticket, as criminals. In the same way, most people have not, historically, referred to people overstaying or working while on non-work visas, as illegals.

Melania Trump makes a particularly good example for this. Her profession as a model is high status, so the allegations that she worked without an appropriate visa in the US in the mid 90s does not generally lead to people calling her a criminal.
Yes, it's called blackhatworld.com
Hey Artur, thank you as well for your interest in Monitoro! I actually see a great synergy potential in fact.

What would be the best way to get in touch with you?
My email is omar -at- monitoro.xyz
In my experience too I observed that distributed code introduces a lot of redundancy and it requires a lot of data to beat the performance of a single-threaded/single machine implementation. Check out McSherrys' Timely Dataflow, it is truly an amazing piece of work.
As do I. It makes sense really, the queue for a green card for someone from India is 12 years now, while there are people 'cutting in line'.
Software is predictable compared to reality because every part of it is deterministic, or can be programmed to be deterministic.

The fact that most programmers are incapable of properly coding their software to be deterministic says more about the quality of the programmer than the difficulty of the field.
[2] is clearly someone's overbuilt tacti-cool potato gun. The overwrought bipod doesn't really matter: A single piece of PVC pipe with a cap on one end (or even just a film canister) and some dry ice is equally felonious
Because scientists are aware about privacy abuses of Facebook more than any other community
True, but this is a major step up from what Timescale offered before. This was always my biggest contention since performance lagged behind many other datastores but they have done well in taking advantage of the Postgres integration and ecosystem.

There are plenty of scenarios that benefit from having automatic time-based partitioning and querying within the same operational PG datastore instead of running a separate analytical system. The improved performance only helps this case.
> Dragging children across two thousand miles of desert and multiple borders (where many die en route) is far worse endangerment.

When compared to your cushy first-world existence, sure. Some might consider continuing to try to raise children in abject poverty permeated by narco-terror to be endangerment. As usual, it comes down to whether you think any random stranger from these countries is likely to be a bad person or likely to be a good person. I am happy that I see goodness in others, and I feel sorry for those who live the other way.
That really sucks. I'm sorry about the inconvenience!

Thank you for your patience.
I don't know if I'd say very limited, I've used it to do a lot of standard SQL stuff where my workload wasn't time series at all but was aggregations and analytical workloads.
So i wonder about a ways of implementing secure communications using untrusted device over untrusted channels.
I do some consulting as well. Same thing, total python on back-end servers. All young programmers, some calling themselves pythonistas. Many actively support green movement to the point of wearing "green" labeled clothes. I loved their reaction when I showed them a table outlining energy consumption of python vs C (75 times difference).
None of this is a free speech issue. Facebook get's to choose whether you can openly speak there specifically because it is outside the realm of free speech and inside the realm of a private business.

Free speech at least in the US is protected by the constitution so if this was a free speech issue it wouldn't be on the table because the answer would be: you can't restrict it.

They want the speech which is best for their business. What else are they, a corporation, supposed to want?
I think you are confusing your criticism of the author's language and the "usefulness" of the actual job.

I don't see how a software engineer with a focus on machine learning is a "bullshit job".
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I would instead state that the standard for what constitutes a "decent compiler" has risen. For any given performance target, I'd still bet that it takes less work to hit it with a C compiler than with a compiler for most newer languages. (Partly because the success of C has resulted in C-related hardware design constraints...)
Question: Suppose I want to use a black hole to replace a 3 minute egg timer, what kind should I look for?

Answer: The appropriate mass is roughly the size of a WWII destroyer, or somewhat more than the largest dump truck in the world. There might be a drawback in that the energy release will be about 50,000 megatons per second. That might affect how fast your egg cooks.
tl;dr we use it for a similar set of tasks that one would use Airflow for.

Unlike Airflow, this lends itself to microbatching and streaming. Plus a bunch of housekeeping items ticked off that Airflow never got around to. With a bit of devops engineering time, you can have perfect manage the size of your worker cluster on k8s and scale it up/down with ingest demand, etc.

I'll say one thing though. The Perfect website used to be a lot more technical and explicit about what it is and isn't. Now it's mostly sales gobbledegook. Maybe not a good sign. I've seen this happen before with dremio.
Population growth is vital for colonization of Mars.

Earth will have to produce a lot of people to send to Mars in order to have the genetic diversity for self-sustaining populations on Mars.

The people on Mars will then have to produce a lot of people to live and work there to generate growth and produce generations of humans who maintain The Light of Consciousness on Mars past any sort of otherwise human-extinction cataclysm back on Earth.

This is also the only hope of eventually repopulating the Earth in this scenario.
The labor intensiveness is not binary.

Specifically, if there are socialized "assisted living" facilities, or even in-the-community caregiver visitation, then the amount of caregiving work-hours per day per elderly person is X. If the only possible arrangement is getting a live-in personal care-giver, then that figures is 2X or 3X (or some factor, I don't have the figures); and most people probably just don't get care.
that was only because "Death is defined as the point at which the heart no longer beats, and blood flow to the brain is cut off."

Superstitious beliefs about mind-brain duality are not relevant
Teams do self-segregate. What often happens is that the team manager ends up recruiting people they are comfortable with, which in practice means recruiting people who are culturally similar. If the team grows, the same dynamic works on the next level of managers, and so on. So immigrant managers tend to recruit other immigrants, native-born managers tend to recruit other native-born Americans, and so on. The manager of the first team was an Icelandic immigrant; the manager of the second was an American-born person of Indian descent.

A similar dynamic works on sex, as well. About half of the teams I worked at were roughly 40% women; the other half of them had zero women. Women are generally reluctant to join a team where they will be the only woman, and also word gets around about who the female-friendly managers are. So those female-friendly managers get teams that are close to 50% female, while other managers get teams of zero women. (Statistically, Google Engineering was about 10% female and IIRC 50-60% foreign-born, which means that I encountered about twice as many women that I would've been predicted to and about half as many foreigners. I wonder what that says about my personality.)
Created an account to de-lurk and comment.

McKamey is an actual maniac, the entire extreme haunt community hates him, and he is a piece of shit. He makes the entire community look bad, and he's the one that gets all of the press because bizarre sells. People need to stop outrage-promoting him, full stop.
It can escape from a local 1G gravity if the black hole were as small as the Earth. As soon as you move 6400 km away, that 1G gravity turns into 0.25G.

But the event horizon of such a black hole would be far larger than that of the Earth. Move 6400 km away, and you'll still have a gravity of ~1G.

Rinse and repeat, and you'll find that even light won't be able to escape.
sounds like it could be moved indefinitely further out
And yet people are totally willing to contribute to servers earning much more than $50/hr in tips (on busy nights). $50/hr spread across a lot of customers works out to not actually being that much per customer.

Admittedly this is relatively expensive sit-down restaurant service we're talking about here, which is different from the fast food market.
a lot of non citizens support ice because if they are working at a company like github they got here legally and don’t see it as fair that others just get to skip the line
Well, as we all know, on earth's surface, the gravity is 1G, and rockets do escape it. So if the gravity at the event horizon was about 1G, then why couldn't you accelerate temporarily, from inside to outside, until at least your fuel ran out?

Without thinking too deeply, I suspect the issue is that you could never be stopped at that location in the first place, unlike Earth's surface.
And yet, all of this is still bullshit. Trump is posting nowhere near the deportation numbers of Obama, and everyone involved was fine with ICE back then. Hmm, I wonder why.

https://www.axios.com/immigration-ice-deportation-trump-obam...
>you clearly have an agenda here

and so do you, you clearly support multi-culturalism, why else would you downvote me and reply? Everyone has an agenda or something they believe in.

>Child sex abuse isn't limited to a certain group or culture.

It's undeniable that all the people that were arrested in the rape scandal were not of British origin. Look at their mugshots. If they were not in the UK the little girls would not have been raped.

>There's another solution here that's beneficial to all of us. An economic policy that combats worker exploitation and guarantees a basic living standard

I absolutely agree. My solution is we make Pakistan so economically great that they don't need to come to the UK or any other country. We make Poland, the UK, etc where there does not need to be mass migration from anywhere. I have no problem with limited immigration, I think that's great.
I think there’s a general issue with design at startups— the actual products of most design departments are “jpgs”, and so most professional designers are really professional jpgers. This means designers are part of an upfront handoff process and not active participants in feature development.

I think the only recourse is to hire designers who understand how to interact with a UI component framework in code, and have design be a code stubbing process not a jpg producing process.

This does require for your design department to be built upfront to handle this kind of process, good luck trying to retrofit existing design departments codified around “jpg handoffs” to work with an implementation level source of truth.
If the Channel ID is included it stops MITM completely.

In fact doing the authentication inside the secure channel in a way that depends on the key that is used by such channel is the best way to perform mutual authentication. In MitM case the authentication will just fail and passive attackers cannot learn anything about the identities used for authentication.

Both SSH2 and many Windows-related protocols work in exactly this way.
This is why I've been telling everyone that WhatsApp end-to-end encryption is moot if the client isn't open-source.

Nobody listens though, until something like this happens.
> Why would a racist care enough to specify the legality of their presence in the US? That doesn't even stand up to basic reasoning.

Have you ever heard of dog whistles?

Anyways, Ive never met someone that says things like this but also opposed efforts to reduce legal immigration like the RAISE act or refugee/travel bans. As it turns out, there’s a high correlation!
What's in the water in Oregon that makes them like this?

It looks like a beautiful place, and there's got to be a lot more to it than just Portland - I mean there's the entire eastern half of the state...
Excellent article and very well done in-depth work.
They used to use this shit at my employer, back in the 80’s, for cleaning circuit boards. Forbid the use of gloves due to electro static discharge. People often complained it would burn their hands.

At least they now use d-limonene, which is a food addictive derived from orange skin oil.
Be a manager by the time youre in your 40s.
> I have no strong evidence other than "It's actually happening right now and the companies have only made minor deviations from their courses."

I've yet to see anything actually happen in terms of exerting pressure aside from internal grumbling.
I concur except I would generalize to the entire worldwide web!
> People dismiss that as astronomically unlikely, but it must have happened many times somewhere in the universe

It's hypothesised that a Mars-sized planet once collided with Earth in the early history of the solar system (about 4.5 billion years ago), creating our moon today:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant-impact_hypothesis
I'm less likely to lose a piece of paper in a safe than I am to lose the phone in my pocket
The article does hint at the percent: “YMMV: healthy numbers for an interview loop for the phone screen to onsite, to offer, and to offer acceptance are, for example, 50%, 25%, and 70%.”
I downloaded the trial a few weeks ago. The results were not great unfortunately.
The handy calculator says 1G at the event horizon implies a radius of half a light-year.
I'll flip that one:

As long as the working class is dis-organized, and its members do not exhibit solidarity across ethnic and national lines, immigrants are bound to have poorer working conditions than locals, and capitalists are bound to try to artificially bring in more immigrants than would otherwise arrive.

Also, as long as there is not enough concerted effort to uplift the peoples of the more oppressed countries, to create stable, prosperous and self-sustaining economies in them rather than objects of mass exploitation - you will always feel threatened by the poor masses coming to take your job.
I give you Teen Vogue:

Why You Shouldn’t Use the Term “Illegals”
Not only is it offensive, it's dehumanizing.

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/why-you-shouldnt-use-the-ter...

Well-cited article with numerous references. Teen Vogue has become quite serious of late.
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Unless you're rich, I don't understand why you would consider doing this.
It’s used in frangible bullets. If you are in a shoot house, safer to use frangible bullets, but probably not for the dust.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frangible_bullet
You can just encrypt it before typing it down and send encrypted text so the cleartext is never on the device. It's just not convenient at all though theoretically this can be a separate device that is not connected to the internet.
"Invading"? Seriously? How many guns did they put to how many peoples' heads?

Universities wanted Unix and C, and not because AT&T spent so much on advertising. Not because AT&T forced it on them. The universities wanted it because, from their perspective, it was better than the other options. That's not marketing. It's not invading. It was pull from the universities that made it happen, not push from AT&T.

Producing something that people want is not the same as marketing, no matter how much you want to conflate the two.
I agree with you!

The word "just" in their post may be prickly. Also, it's not really a graph search as stated, just a "choose the airport with the lowest weight". That, in theory, chooses the airport to land at, but not... the rest of it.

Yes, choosing a route would be essentially a graph search, with weather at intermediate nodes adding to edge weights, etc, but even after you've computed a target path, you're going to be continually refining that path (e.g. the thunderstorm moves in a way you didn't predict). And... flying the aircraft itself.

Autopilot in straight & level flight isn't too big of a deal. Autopilot tracking a path is doable (including ascent/decent). Auto-throttle is common on larger airliners but not in GA aircraft. Automatically configuring landing gear and flaps, as appropriate for weather conditions, is (afaik) not done automatically even in commercial airliners. And doing all of this, reliably, with the assumption that the pilot is incapacitated... that's friggin' cool!