skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This particular progress makes us vastly more vulnerable to a catastrophic systems collapse. A lot of small, independent farmers are more antifragile to natural events than a few giant megacorporations. We're optimizing for profits at the expense of disaster.
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Do you think that it's very likely that someone would forgo buying a relatively cheap book in favor of going to a bootcamp? This seems like two very different markets, and I would suspect that many people in the space where they overlap would do both (i.e. buy the book and go to a bootcamp).
What do you mean regulations about retraining pilots? Any time you change airframe you generally have to retrain, and it really isn't that big of a deal, just an expense. My father-in-law retrained from the MD-11 to the 777 a few years back at over 60 years old and did completely fine. The regulation to retrain on a new plane is absoloutely reaonable and it was boeing trying to pretend the MAX was similar enough to the next gen that caused the issue. In terms of inherent flight characteristics it never was similar, and no amount of software could make up for that.
At the same time, if that sign pops up four weeks in a row and is taken down four times - I should hope the city allocates a bit of labour to actually figure out who is doing it.

And that's the answer that GR doesn't want to hear - clear patterns of abuse are apparent and they need to allocate more manual labour into moderation - automatic moderation can get pretty decent accuracy, but there's always a grey zone where you need some manual review - as much as we shrink that zone I don't think we'll ever make it disappear.
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What do you mean clearly laid out? This is the only mention of fsync I could find through google or their own search function.

https://clickhouse.yandex/docs/en/operations/settings/settin...
Nice groceries isn't treating yourself?
Ah, I see what you mean, yes: it's denied by the campaign manager.
Just purchased a cargo bike, and with full load (1 adult, 2 16kg kids and lots of 'cargo') we get 80km autonomy in 'normal' (no effort, light speed) mode. Even the 'high' mode (ridiculous) we get 50km range.

This tech is amazing...
My neighbors (Maryland) have had a broken down car in front of their house for 2 years now. I see HOA violation notices on it every once in a while threatening to get it towed if they don't fix it, but nothing ever comes of it.
Which is what we already have at the consumer end of airline pricing. The economy seats on an airplane put together aren't enough to pay for the cost of fuel. Business and first class passengers are the only ones that make the airlines any money.
PC asked for environmentally friendly alternatives to a grass lawn. Your suggestion is neither an alternative to a grass lawn, nor environmentally friendly. (An order of magnitude more pesticides, fertilizer and water are used to grow the animal feed that you are using as fertilizer than you need to would put on your lawn.

At an industrial scale, the land used to grow that "fertilizer" could be put to better use growing actual food!

(Quibble: unless the animal feed is itself certified organic, it is not an "organic diet" for your lawn in the recognised sense of the word.)
if no one can sell to them, the Chinese market is a moot point.

Sometimes national security interests supersede a single darling companies bottomline. Plus, considering the Chinese track record of stealing technology, if that machine goes to China, ASML wont be the only one making it in a couple years.
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I’m pretty sure they meant AM radio which is around 1.5 MHz and below.
Importantly: there was no "right answer" in mind when it created the question. The letters were random, as was the word.

It calculates the distance in vector space from your word to the given word.

I think it helps if you understand what Word2Vec is, as then it becomes clear what is going on.
"Turn to Christ in prayer"

I don't know that talking to someone who doesn't answer back is a very good help for loneliness.
I think human nature incentivizes top-down corporate business structures and disincentivizes co-op businesss structures.
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I recently implemented our ClickHouse integration [1], so if any of you would like to try it out we would appreciate feedback. I really enjoyed learning about this database, and it has excellent docs :)

Oh fun fact, speaking of docs, this was the first integration of ours that we scrape docs for as part of the test suite. So when a new built-in metric is added it will fail our CI until we support it [2]. We just did this again for Apache Airflow [3].

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This doesn't describe why, in effectively the same system, almost everywhere I've worked has had people vastly outperforming others. I say this as one of the perennial bottom quartilers.
2R (from the document) actually seems to be the right front door.
But after a year or two in the Canadian offices, they usually qualify for an L-1 if they wanted to go back.

And yet, here we all are.
Are you referring to the only Purdue I know of, which is a flagship state university known for its engineering programs? I guess it's small compared to Ohio State and liberal arts-focused compared to Georgia Tech.
This problem was created by regulation. It's not clear that markets can work when governments grant monopolies, and don't restrict the ensuing vertical integration. The only solution is to grant weaker monopolies.
Yeah I agree, I thought the parent overstated the difference between governments and HOAs. A lot of HOAs are basically just the very local-est of local government, being responsible for roads and utilities, even approximating some functions of super small town law enforcement in the form of that guy who open carries really conspicuously.
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Whatever Happened to News.gmane.org?
One thing I notice often gets glossed over when Cambridge Analytica comes up is that they didn't really shut down at all. While CA ceased trading, a company called Emerdata was created around that time by the same directors [0]. Their Company's House filing documents can be seen here: [1].

I'm not yelling 'conspiracy!' or anything, but it's notable that this isn't more widely reported. I'll be watching them with interest.

[0] - https://www.newsweek.com/what-emerdata-scl-group-executives-...

[1] - https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/10911848/officers
> But that race to the bottom made cost of flying at least order of magnitude more affordable

This is a point that needs to be made more often.

I'm not sure more access to air travel has made people's lives better (different, sure)... but it's not like the flying experience has been getting worse in a vacuum. AFAIK, way more people have access to it today than did half a century ago.
Money is fungible. If someone gives you $20 are you specifically going to pick out $20 of "nice groceries" or just pocket it and forget exactly what you end up spending it on? I know I would probably do the latter.
The book by Matt Stoller, Goliath, is a deep exploration of this.

The blame is scattered all over the place, but the main idea is that government has become increasingly technocratic; trusting industry leaders to tell us that their industries are too complicated for politicians to interfere in. This is not just a question of "regulation" -- the problem is bigger than regulation since anti-trust is generally not a regulatory issue so much as a law enforcement issue. Regulation is actually part of the problem to a degree, as regulating fewer larger entities is "easier" than regulating a diverse healthy industry.

In the 1970s, a combination of things -- Bork and the Chicago school's notion that "consumer protection" was the main objective of anti-trust action, Ralph Nader and the burgeoning consumer rights movement that joined forces with this (because of the regulatory pressure above), and the switch of the Democratic party from a populist party to principally a social justice party. All three of these had positive effects as well (prosecuting abusive monopolies, increasing customer safety and dropping consumer prices for goods, and advancing the civil rights movement), but between them they ended up dismantling the New Deal era protections against big businesses that led to the massive consolidations of the 80s and 90s across almost every sector.

There are many things that Stoller points to as positive things that I was dubious about but he makes a compelling case -- specifically pricing controls (where the manufacturer can set retail price ceilings and prevent discounting). Some of it has been things that I have had trouble specifically elucidating -- why it's bad that Disney controls both content production and distribution, and how Congress can wield (and has wielded, in the past) power directly.
>I've expressed this in nonpartisan terms, but I'm willing to bet that everybody knows who I'm talking about

Honestly, I have no idea. Reading the first two paragraphs my first thought was that it's scary that I have no idea what side of the political divide this might more fully describe. Then I came to this sentence and realized that you did have a side you were thinking of.
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I think this is exactly what the original comment was taking issue with for the bootcampers.

>but as soon as you threw any real world problem that required any deviation from their established lane they completely floundered

He quoted it himself, but failed to notice the issue. I myself have noticed people who went through 4 year programs tend to be much more adaptable as the universities tend to do a better job of building a solid foundation.
I accidentally posted in another thread* earlier today about my curiosity over point 7 which included reports of bullying and "FBTA's" forcing people to do pushups.

Tried Googling and couldn't come up with any results, but have any of these reports been published or written about? That sort of behavior should absolutely be put in the spotlight and strongly rebuked.

*https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21972278
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> Exactly. Surprisingly, I can't find any statistics. But San Francisco now has zero lesbian bars, and quite a number of popular gay bars.

Your statement that "a city that has a large group of gay men doesn't necessarily have a large group of lesbians" is accurate, but this is a bad piece of evidence to cite in favor of it. Almost all cities with large LGBTQ+ populations have far more bars and clubs targeted at gay men than at lesbians.

San Francisco had a few lesbian bars a few years ago, all of which have since closed. That pattern - lesbian nightlife disappearing - is pretty consistent across other cities that have large LGBTQ+ populations.
These are good points you raise. I suppose what I'm really thinking is that there needs to be some sort of "interpersonal digital communications normalization process" for young people that functions similarly to how being at school around teachers / outside at recess around peers functions to normalize children's behavior toward others (or at least serves to mitigate the most blatantly anti-social behaviors in many cases). As it stands, many children are introduced to the web and online communications without much (or any) guidance whatsoever as far as I can tell; it seems like the impact of this hands-off approach is quite negative in many cases, with young people lacking the tools to healthily manage their interactions with the web.
You are basically correct. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word2vec

Essentially, all words are embedded in an N-dimentional space. Then you can simply measure the distance between words in the word-cloud. The exact method of how it decided what coordinates to assign to each word in the cloud isn't important to the game.
> Man... what your economic policy will do to 30k units or armour, and 50k units in reserve?

Make 144,5 million Russians even more unhappy?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-a-big-shift-russians-take-to... - dated: December 2019.

What will the army / Putin do against much higher protests, if they continue to threat and receive more economic sanctions? This is why the USSR, at it's peak in 1980 x 5 of current Russia, fell without a war.

What good has Russia's gigantic military done? I only see failures. It seems that history hasn't been a good teacher. So, please learn some history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War#Effects_on_...

PS. Always welcome to adjust my opinion with facts.
Maybe they are loosing a particular kind of customer they may want to loose anyway. Neither the number of acres to be farmed nor the number of mouths to feed decrease when a small farm goes under. The tractor has no long term concern of sitting idle and it may be giant non-corporeal people prefer doing business with their own kind.
> But modern capitalism, at least in the American context, is a system being drained of competition.

I agree, and I agree that it's a problem. But it's the "being drained of competition" that's the problem, not capitalism itself. (Well, capitalism itself is something that would prefer to drain itself of competition - even Adam Smith knew that - but for capitalism to work properly, there has to be competition.)

There seem to be two kinds of "draining of competition". First, there's the "just too good" kind. Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and (the subject at hand) John Deere may all be of this kind (though Microsoft did plenty of dirty tricks to get there). Economics of scale and network effects create positive feedback loops where one competitor can win it all. I don't really know what to do about that.

The second kind is government-caused (or at least -allowed) monopoly. There's only one electric company here, because the government thought it made sense for there to be. Some other monopolies are less directly government caused, but heavy regulations can make it so that only the largest firms have the resources to comply, and all the smaller firms die.

Government-allowed is when the government approves a merger of firms that are big enough that the merger significantly decreases (or eliminates) competition.

With the government we've had for the last 40 years, I don't know what to do about this kind, either.
It is infuriating that one individual

A) has the audacity to believe they are entitled to such a rare publically beneficial property and

B) has the power (both politically and financially) to see this battle through.
I like this, but I would change "and" to "on", since it's an interview.

"Anna Wiener on her book 'Uncanny Valley'"
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Both of these cases can be handled by having the email link validate the original session rather than the "current" session/browser.

If it happens to be on the same browser that requested the login, it will be the same session anyway, and will work as you'd expect.

If it's a different device/browser, then (using your example) the user will see a message on their phone like "Login validated, please check the original device where you initiated login" and their desktop session will now be validated. Ideally the site uses polling or a push mechanism to proactively show the right page, but the lazy way is just to show a message like "Refresh this page after clicking the login link from your email".
Of note regarding Plataformatec open source projects: http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2020/01/important-informati...
That would be a "Mortgage Contingency," which is common in California. Yes, you get back your earnest money if there is a mortgage contingency in the contract but you can't get a loan.
Years ago, I developed a similar habit with email.

I like to get emails out of my inbox as soon as I don't need them anymore (so my inbox always only contains the email that still requires my attention). But I don't do any sort of serious categorization/tagging/etc. -- the cost/benefit to doing that far too high.

Instead, I have a folder for each entity that I exchange emails with, and move the emails into the appropriate folder when I'm done with them, with no further categorization.

"one-off" emails (marketing, registration, etc.) just get deleted.
Why so bothered TSLAQ?
Oh, hi Austen! For some reason you've blocked me on Twitter. Since I have you on the line, maybe you can answer a question.

I've had a few email exchanges with California' Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education. They fall under the Department of Consumer Affairs, and they were put in place due to California's problems with diploma mills.

The BPPE told me that because Lambda School is operating illegally, if a student has an issue with your company, it's impossible for the BPPE to do anything. Would you agree students should know about this risk, since many of them are likely in a position where they can't afford legal representation?
I run several web projects and need a tool to collect feedbacks, bug reports from my users. I don't want to have a dedicated person to manage messages (too expensive) and cannot offer real-time communication (I don't do sales). I know there are many apps like Jelpy but, in my opinion many of them are focused on real-time messaging or costly for the features I need. So I've built my own tool.

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Grace Hopper is known as the "mother of COBOL". Wikipedia lists 11 programming languages created by women https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Programming_languages... , and it includes languages such as Smalltalk, designed by 2 men and 1 woman. Wikipedia has article on 138 programming languages. The main computer languages I know of, such as C, C++, Pascal, Perl, Java, Python, Matlab, and S were primarily or entirely developed by men. Maybe the future will be different, but we should not rewrite the past and pretend that men have not made a large majority of the advances in computer science.
Religion has to be independent of reason because it exists to promulgate the continued power of the people who run it. If it was based on reason, then those authorities' authority would be subject to debate. "Don't eat carbs they're bad for you"... "well the science says otherwise." So religion generally sticks to the unfalsifiable domains. In the time of the Ancient Greeks the origin of electricity was unfalsifiable so lightning came from Zeus, winter came from Persephone, etc. As science expanded the domain of reason, religion retreated to the core unfalsifiables of meaning of life, origin of the universe, existence of the afterlife, etc.
Thanks for the link.

> OS's may need to account for the code actually written

I absolutely disagree with this idea, particularly as it's related to spinlocks. Spinlocks are such a low level, inefficient, method of acquiring a lock that using them as a de-facto method of acquiring a lock is a terrible idea.

Especially as more and more gaming occurs on devices with batteries. Any moderately sane OS will treat the resulting device heat increase and increased battery draw as a trigger to degrade CPU performance, hurting the game performance even more than using a sane lock acquisition method.
As someone who grew up on a farm and spent 7 years running one (few thousand acres so fairly good size), I can provide some background on why this is happening.

The large farms are driving new equipment sales. They are the ones buying the brand new John Deere $700k combine harvesters will all the bells and whistles. The problem is, those bells and whistles add a lot of extra complexity to the machine, making it harder and more expensive to fix. Deere doesn't make it easier since they don't provide details needed for 3rd party repair people (e.g. schematics, software tools for managing embedded controllers, etc). The people buying new equipment don't care about that. Their equipment is covered by warranty and Deere fixes it for them (or replaces it). They sell the machine after it is a year or two. So, they never deal with the crap repair-ability of new equipment. The 2nd stage used market cares a little but not so much either. They can still get Deere to fix it for them, maybe not under warranty.

By the time the equipment gets to the 3rd tier used market, it is already heavily deprecated. The loss in value due to poor repair-ability is not getting fed back up the chain in any significant way which would make the primary buyers change their decision making. They want the bells and whistles and they will pay a little extra in deprecation to get them. The problem for society is that you have a $700k machine that is basically a paperweight after a decade or two. You might was well drive it in the junk pile because no one is going to be able to make it run. At least, not without tearing out heaps of electronics that are no longer working. New machines are utterly dependent on onboard electronic control systems (e.g. ECMs). They won't run without them.

New machines are disposable and that is what the buyers are deciding to choose. You can't put all the blame on companies like Deere. The contrast to old farm equipment is dramatic though. We have an old Ferguson tractor, might be from the 1950s. Everything on that tractor can be fixed. If we wanted, we could make it run like it just came out of the factory. For jobs on the farm that don't need a big tractor, it does them just fine. Probably in 100 years you will still be able to keep it running if you want.