skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I take as a premise, my only premise in life, that what’s mine is mine and what’s yours is yours. Anything that violates this premise is, according to my own opinion and set of values, wrong.

What's yours is yours and what's mine is mine, but the planet and the presumption of a climate compatible with civilization are shared. It is owned neither by you nor me, and this necessitates an agreement where neither of us agree to exploit it for our own self-benefit at the detriment of others.

Is it against your set of values that we both agree to drive on same side of the road? If one of of us fails to do so, the government will step in and deprive the offender of their property and freedoms. As a result, we both benefit from the increased reliability and safety of transportation afforded by us agreeing to abide by the same set of rules.

> By that value, I’m ok with life as we know it ending if that means that individuals liberties will be kept.
>
> On the other hand, it seems like you don’t mind if a few million people die when we force third world countries to reduce their carbon emission by asking them to shut down coal plants and other processes generating carbon.

You literally state you're okay with "life as we know it ending" as a result of your absurdly rigid philosophy, but somehow you project me as being okay with millions of people dying.

As a sibling commenter said, your entire reply is essentially you clarifying that—yes—you are indeed arguing in bad faith. You've declared as ground rules a completely indefensible moral philosophy and have declared that anything opposing it is inherently wrong. This isn't a path to a productive conversation, and while I suspect you know that, it's a great way to make yourself feel superior and feel like you've "won" the argument when others don't agree to play by your rigged set of rules.
> if the hotel belongs to a brand let’s say Hilton or Marriott I’ll email them directly to get a better price.

Does this work differently than calling the front desk? I tried that a few times over the years and never got a price improvement over the online brokers or the hotel website itself.
Is there any part of this footage that can't be explained by a bit of matter stuck on the FLIR lens? Even it being apparently "cold" seems well explained by the dust/bug whatever casting a shadow onto the IR sensor array.
Haha, it looks like a classic case of enthusiasm being mistaken for competence. I can't imagine any reasonable agent would have chosen to work on this project so you only get the kooks.
There's actually many things that I hated about travel sites, and then I worked at a "travel tech" company and it changed by perception of the industry as a whole. Part of the issue is the suppliers themselves. Bcom, Expedia, Kayak etc are all at the mercy of what individual hoteliers and airlines report. I've seen data issues where hotels will report little/no inventory, and we investigated the issue and it was on their end (user error, oops). Or, a huge party booked up the hotel, but users were angry because just 24 hours before, we showed N open rooms, and now we have almost nothing.

Issues like this happen all the time, and the debate always centered around messaging. We would love to tell users why something is unbookable, but trying to figure out the details with suppliers ended up being near impossible.

That being said, OTAs do have their own set of issues to answer for, including misleading messaging, scummy sales tactics, etc.
What if Monty only opens a door when he knows you've chosen the prize door?

Extension: what if Monty tosses a coin to decide whether to open a door, conditioned on you having chosen the prize door?

Specifying Monty's behaviour matters, I think.
It looks very interesting, thanks!
last week a story came out quoting an air force general saying that "technology exists that could transport a human anywhere on earth within an hour" [0]...

[0] https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/31445/recently-retired...
I just look at "hotel" on google maps, weigh the prices/locations visually, and book directly. What's booking.com's value-add?
Thank you for engaging instead of downvoting. It's like people don't want to admit there could be issues with any vaccine, which is of course untrue. It doesn't mean they aren't the right call _on balance_, but pretending there are literally no risks is going to alienate people. It's reminiscent of the war on drugs (albeit in reverse), where marijuana was demonized, but the truth was obviously so different.

Those are scientifically understood and accepted risks. With the limitations of with epidemiological studies, and difficulty associated with replicating vaccine studies in any other way, it's hard to justify the level of certainty I see in the scientific community.
I stumbled upon this forum a while ago that seems to go into extreme depth trying to understand the gimbal videos/purported UFO sightings

https://www.metabunk.org/threads/nyt-gimbal-video-of-u-s-nav...
>It’s cheaper to overbook and relocate someone to a near hotel having 105% capacity than having running lower than 100% on high season.

And your relocated customers are surely happy about that.

I (used to) travel a lot for work and the one thing I am pretty sure is that I never returned to a hotel that overbooked and had me relocate, additionally I told everyone I knew about the shitty behaviour and made sure that noone in the company I worked for ever booked there again.

Now, I make some consulting work for a small, independent, hotel, and - luckily enough - even if it is "cheaper" to overbook, the management holds the care and respect for the customer well above that.
> Is it not possible that the environmental benefits of recycling plastics had actually been considered by governments that brought in legislation?

It is not. the paper you cited (thank you) was written in 2017. But more to the point, governments don’t work that way.

If in fact the reason for recycling is environmental benefit, we (USA anyway) would not be in the situation where we are putting plastics back in landfills, and we would not have been in the prior situation where we dump plastic and ewaste to other countries with no oversight whatsoever on what happens to it once it leaves our shores. the environmental impact is the same, here or there.
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Even direct voting wouldn’t reveal the will of the people, because the issues are generally vastly more complex than the information supplied about them.

If my desire is to, say, eliminate the homeless problem, I wouldn’t have the faintest idea how to implement that as government policy, and anything up for a vote would almost certainly have intended and unintended consequences that are far beyond my ability to anticipate them.

E.g., California’s experimentation with direct voting. The long-term consequences of some of their votes have been tragic and definitely not what the voters would have thought they were voting for.
Why this works:

Bcom and other OTAs negotiate discounted rates on your behalf, because they bring in so much volume they can pressure the suppliers. Similar to how Walmart gets rock bottom prices on goods.

Sometimes it's cheaper to directly contact, but often it is not.
Is Bitcoin Dead Yet?
Well sure, but a tiny spark in a relay isn’t going to ignite the engineer.
-Not necessarily - there's a bunch of ATEX Ex relays in my desk drawer. Conventional, not solid state ones - they are just put in some potting compound, hermetically sealing them.
Nothing that hasn't already gone wrong, they just have a rubber stamp now.
It was either Math.random or it was a request that always got back the same number. It was posted on here; I remember it clearly.

I've interviewed for Booking.com and even the girl on the phone couldn't make their process appealing (tons of Perl; no plans to migrate to anything not perl, very few tests, very little code review, developers can push straight to production .. seems like a hell shop).
Only thing I’ve found mongo good for is the warm data path where you need slightly more permanence than a straight pub sub (like getting the last 2 minutes of events upon connection) but you really don’t care about throwing the data away after that
No, the stealth fighter was not in operation for 20 years before the public knew about it. The F-117 was delivered in 1982 and operational in 1983. It was 'declassified' in 1988 and displayed in 1990. And it wasn't even a fighter. It was for ground attack.

https://fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/f-117.htm
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Another anecdote, but I was in Shanghai last month and they recently started an initiative to sort trash/recyclables much more strictly. The people I was staying with were telling me that they could be fined if they don't properly sort their trash.

Not sure if it's related.
This set of blog posts about building a database in C is a good read - not entirely relevent, since it isn't in go and doesn't handle distributed-operation, but if you have an interest in such things:

https://cstack.github.io/db_tutorial/
> The majority of software has been pay-once

No.

> (not counting major version upgrades)

That's very much a different model. You can't "not count" major version upgrades because that's how you make "pay once" actually work.

> Acorn 4: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/acorn-4-the-image-editor-for-h....

> Acorn 5: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/acorn-5-the-image-editor-for-h....

> Acorn 6: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/acorn-6-image-editor/id1233861...

That's a hack, which I mentioned in an other comment: the appstore has no support for this model, so you have to release each major version as completely separate software with loss of history, reviews, links, … and you can't do upgrade pricing.
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If the site is being served over HTTP/2 then the 11 separate JS files is a good thing compared to a single 2MB JS file.

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In my case it also has the added benefit of being able to cache JS for a long(er) period of time, with users only having to download maybe 0-30kb of JS when only 1 component is updated instead of invalidating the entire JS served (Way under 1MB however)
I remember I tried something similar a long time ago but decided it wasn't worth it.

2MB per page at 100 page a day, 200MB / day. That is 73GB per year.

May be once a year I get the problem where I remember reading something about it but could not google back the exact page in my memory. So I had a proxy solution set up, but the maths ends up it wasn't worth paying the Storage cost just for this one time convenient.
Bundles are an interesting hack around store limitations. When did apple implement bundles?
Yes, this is exactly what I meant by a drift that was unintentionally initiated, such as by hitting a patch of black ice. Thanks for elaborating.
Quite an open ended question. What are your objectives in business and technical terms?
Interesting. Hadn’t heard of Cap’n’Proto. A clever idea, although I do wonder if it’s being too clever for its own good, being unnecessarily restrictive.

Dr William Cook (who designed much of Mac OS’s “RPC-plus-queries” IPC model) explored a more generalized approach where whole self-contained chunks of behavior can be sent across the wire for remote evaluation. As I recall, his Batches model uses a “safe” subset of familiar JavaScript operations, but any behaviors could be supported as long as they are guaranteed to terminate.

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~wcook/projects/batches/index.htm

There’s nothing inherently magical about this: it’s just a carefully-restricted form of remote execution where the client-supplied “code” to be executed is incapable of doing nasty things like access restricted APIs or lock /blow up the server with infinite loops or stack overflows. Beyond that, it’s just a question of whose CPU you want to burn more, and how much time you want to spend bouncing between them.

Thinking about it from a JavaScript or C mindset will make your head ’splode, but for Lispers (of which Smalltalkers are a spinoff) it’ll be a big fat “how obvious”. Be nice to see it further pursued.
Ask HN: What's your greatest security challenge?
Or if you're ignoring these set of challenges, why? Or, until when?

Food for thought:

* Ring hacked https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/15/us/Hacked-ring-home-security-cameras.html

* Odds against startups https://www.forbes.com/sites/samanthadrake1/2017/02/03/chances-are-your-startup-is-going-to-get-hacked-heres-what-to-do/#7f081da2ce25

* Why does it matter? https://medium.com/@mcla0181/why-the-best-tech-startups-take-data-security-seriously-c9cc6fae3e32?sk=bfb142e801996eca7295d1879b030b1b
My impression is that lumped as a (extremely
broad and diverse) whole that OTC supplements, when studied rigorously in humans in vivo, have generally not been found to be terribly effective for most maladies. Many have been often found to have poor quality control, often adulterated with other substances, provided in poorly bioavailable forms, or sometimes not actually containing the substance they claim to contain.

As a whole they generally get a bad rap in medical school and among physicians.

So I wonder if this study reflects a tendency of some patients to disregard or be less adherent to the treatment plan recommended by their oncologists, who seem unlikely to recommend dietary supplements that lack large supporting RTCs.

Or perhaps, as mentioned, if they didn't properly control for severity of disease, it is not uncommon for a provider to give a "sure, why not" when a patient with severe / terminal disease is interested in an unconventional but low cost and likely low harm intervention.
The FDIC is a confidence game. Mentioning it just gives a reminder of its existence and confidence in the system.

I just like to imagine the enterprisers in 1930 that convinced Congress to insure their private company deposits with public money in order to more easily convince people to make deposits.

Worried about the viability of a new market because there is no recourse if you lose your money? Make enough money to lobby Congress to insure it with non-participant's money! Now there is more confidence in your market
Reggae: A build system with multiple front ends (D, Python) and back ends
I like it. Every tweet is constrained. Little opportunity to insert stupid memes everywhere. The conversational style is engaging. Asking questions is easy: post a tweet.
I happened to run across statistics (iihs I think) for fatalities to (human) drivers per registered vehicle-years, and the number is about 30 per million. You may or may not accept that this is the right type of metric, but it's interesting to think about what the number implies. I read that Uber had a fleet of 250 cars in testing. If an average human driver has a fatal accident once in ~33,000 years, then to demonstrate parity in self driving, Uber would have to operate their 250 vehicles for an average of 130 years between fatalities. Granted, this is driver fatalities, so hitting pedestrians would not count. But even so, it seems it is a high bar and you would need hundreds of years of testing at the current rate to be confident you are better than human drivers rather than having a statistical fluke.
Can't do anything while you're on the ice, but once you're past it you may still need to react to avoid a collision, and you may find yourself in a sideways slide at that point. So a control system that knows how to handle a drift could be beneficial at that point.
The different results pertain to their (very speculative) ancestry models. I have not seen any incident where testing services disagreed on specific genetic markers, and that is what the medical indicators are based off of. You have to separate the ancestry guessing from the medical research, which is not done by the testing companies.
> Listening comprehension, IMHO is the last skill to develop in learning a foreign language.

Speaking is harder

> The reason is that it's "all or nothing". You either know and recognize all of the words in a sentence, or you can't cope with the sentence at all.

Disagree; you can make sense of parts of a sentence and infer the rest or get some clues; actually that's the normal state while learning.

Eg: "How do I go to the station?"

"It is XXXX, you YYYY ZZZZ walk there, you need to take a taxi WWWW KKKK Uber"
Not all of those issues are bugs though. Only 4,000 are labeled as bugs, with many more being labeled as improvements or product direction discussions.

Gitlab’s development runs through those issues, so there are a _lot_ that are related to that.
Great! Can I use it with imported libraries...?
Deploying Keras model in production with periodic training
It changed! By 0.49 cents, we rounded it down to a whole euro!
Every time I look at what the EU is doing for their citizens and then turn around and see the US has... removed all regulations on coal... I can’t help but think US thought leadership is dying
The first golang result in the plaintext benchmark ranks 8th (atreugo-prefork), which is incidentally immediately followed by firenio-http-lite, a Java library.

My point still stands, this is a third party library that is not commonly used, and depends on another third party library, fasthttp, which itself comes with caveats from the its author.
"Black Tar Hero"
Have solid requirements, and expect them to change. Be upfront and treat the contractor like a professional when scope changes.
Could you please refer which competition you have in mind exactly?

We're laser focused on extracting data, transforming it and sending it to webhooks.

No other service to our knowledge achieves a similar result with the same (low) effort required by Monitoro.

Beyond that, our focus really is to be a trigger to your automations, and in that regard expect more specific functionality targeted at this space, beyond what we are providing already.
I wonder how much of this is aftermath of them getting thrown out of the Google Play app store in 2018.
Gitlab executes shell commands, you can and should run those locally to debug. If your putting complex build logic inside gitlab definitions then perhaps you’re doing it wrong - “make test” or “make release” should be all that Gitlab runs.
I've never tried it with a RWD car, but as a teenager, I thought the behavior of FWD in the snow was really fun. Go around a turn as fast as possible, and push on the gas pedal, it slides towards the outside, front first. Let off on the gas, and the front snaps back to the inside of the turn. I also buried my car in a snowbank more than once and had to dig it out.
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It could be that Google Maps is saving everyone time by doing this. The Braess Paradox is really interesting, and this could be an attempt to prevent it: http://vcp.med.harvard.edu/braess-paradox.html
I've done that, but now got this error:

const_str.hh: In static member function
‘static void const_str::safe_free(const char*)’:
const_str.hh:33:61: error: ‘free’ was not declared in this scope
static void safe_free(const char *s) { if (s) free((void*)s); }
^

I'd love to get this working - currently running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, soon to be updated to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

Suggestions?
What kind of premium service on top of this would you suggest?
After long at booking.com, I once went directly to a hotel website to book, but still ended up with a booking.com reservation...
You’re missing the point. At a Python shop, using Twisted would have been a fine choice. Adding a completely unnecessary Python layer at a PHP shop was not helpful. Yes, there exist people in the world who know Twisted, but they do not tend to work at a place where everything is written in PHP. Adding a centralized choke point and extra network hops to reduce latency was a bad technical strategy, and adding a layer in a language that the existing engineering team didn’t know was also a bad idea.
JSON on the Command Line with Jq
There’s 0 downsides to criticizing everyone else’s projects and systems so a lot of people do it. This is kinda exacerbated by the fact that we engineers have a reputation for being incorrect about the stability of systems we build ( there are good reasons for this, and I personally don’t think it’s possible to avoid that impression even when it’s not intended).

I wonder if this team would have done better with tools that offer better observability (metrics, logs, tracing etc.). An example of a rewrite that went well https://avc.com/2019/12/grinding/
I always thought RWD was more intuitive, and in this video the car appears to be RWD. It probably depends on what you grew up with.
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Even after reading the description and the “Why Use” section I still don’t understand what this does. The introduction makes it seem like you invented resolveconf and that’s what the repo is for, it clearly that isn’t the case.

The plugins make it look like your perhaps able to use the resolveconf confine to automate zone creation, but this doesn’t make much sense either.

What is the use case of this?
Does it replace resolveconf?

In my past life as a sysadmin the preferred way to use multiple domains and resolvers was to disable resolveconf and manually (or using config management) edit /etc/resolve.conf.
Or maybe...

"Let's turn off the stealth systems and see if they keep regarding us as divinities like they did thousands years ago, keep attempting to shoot at us like they did in the last 50 years, or have evolved in the meantime therefore they're now ready to be welcomed in the galactic federation. Although from watching their entertainment and news feeds I'd bet this starship they won't be in another 3000 years".
Would love to see an example of a booking employee (current or former) claiming they're false. I looked into a number of them first hand and they weren't (last I did that would've been 2016/2017 and certainly didn't audit the entire code base).
Still broken on IOS
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So let me get this straight: We believe an alien civilization has traveled across the galaxy with faster-than-light technology, and has deployed aircraft that has broken our known laws of physics. But is susceptible to 1970s-era infrared radar technology? Okay. Got it.
I think he was referring to the new NASA supersonic plane, and meant "hours", not "hour".

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-x-59-quiet-superso...
FDIC insurance, and similar deposit guarantee schemes in other countries, aren't primarily a way to socialise private risks.

A bank run is caused by the perception that a bank may have insufficient liquidity. But once a bank run starts, this is a self-fulfilling prophecy. The bank may have held enough of its assets as cash/near-cash for normal times, but of course many of its assets are illiquid things like mortgage loans.

The main purpose of deposit guarantee/insurance schemes is to prevent this vicious cycle from starting in the first place. If the scheme succeeds in instilling confidence, then there will never be a run, and the scheme will never result in a costly bail-out.
https://www.motor1.com/news/64033/infiniti-q50-steer-by-wire...
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