jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I agree. The problem arises when people predominantly of a certain race or sex attempt to define the narrative around racism or sexism that affects another race or sex. It's a little difficult to find that trustworthy, in my opinion. People should be trusted to speak about data and other verifiable sources as well as their own experiences.
As Matt Levine likes to say - everything is securities fraud.

> contributing to global warming is securities fraud, and sexual harassment by executives is securities fraud, and customer data breaches are securities fraud, and mistreating killer whales is securities fraud, and whatever else you’ve got.

Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-26/everyt...
> polymers that aren’t cross linked, are in a sense easy to recycle

The way to do big changes is one small step at a time, and the reasonable way is to start with the low hanging fruit. So the the interesting question isn't why we're being lied to by Big Recycling, but why the easiest steps aren't being taken.

It's almost fruitless to discuss these issues on online forums because otherwise intelligent people insists on explaining how hard the problem of universal polymer recycling really is, as if that would make all recycling of plastics (sometimes even all recycling, full stop) impossible.

Meanwhile countries such as Norway recycles 95% av all PET bottles while the US is stuck on 30%.

Yet every discussion that remotely touches on recycling has to iterate that it's all a big lie.
None. This is predicted by existing theories.

The setup they have here is basically a waveguide[1][2]. You can show classically, using Maxwell's equations, that the group velocity of a wave of light when confined to a waveguide is less than light in free space. Thinking classically, the actual wave that is transmitted is a superposition of a bunch of plane waves bouncing off the walls. The complete wave moves slower than the individual waves that make it up [3].

What the authors have experimentally verified here is that single photons also travel at the group velocity. This is mostly expected, but difficult to measure (the time difference is 30 femtoseconds after travelling a meter). It's somewhat counterintuitive because the superposition is caused by the photon interacting with itself; but that's pretty par for the course with single photon experiments. I'm mildly surprised we haven't done this until now; probably one of those things where it's been generally accepted but no one's bothered to test directly. Cool experiment.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waveguide

[2] Technically, it's a Bessel beam http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessel_beam ; but if you understand why this should be in a waveguide, you understand what's going on. They make this analogy directly in the paper.

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_velocity
Also a parent of a 4yo, agreed 100%. I notice a difference even if I don't get woken up at night (which thankfully is a rarity). I think it's mostly a matter of how I get woken up in the morning (she's basically our alarm clock), even though I get up at roughly the same time when she's not around.

I've also noticed that the rare nights when she's completely out of our care (at her grandparents), my quality of sleep is even better still. I wonder if there isn't some sort of psychological stress that affects sleep quality when there's a kid in the next room who's your responsibility.
* AltDrive - client side deduplication.
Very likely BS, but it is at least consistent with a prior Who is hiring? post.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26724326
In Japan, sacrifice for your family and organization are what bring you respect. The police take that into consideration.

In the States, meeting the bust quota so you earn your promotion for ridding the streets of scumbags is what brings you respect. The police take that into consideration.
Because the libor scandal, gold fixing, and central bank puts don't happen in the real market? US congress can even legally get away with inside trading, having laws against it really only allows those in power to punish those without it.
Location: Lithuania

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes (Not US)

Technologies: PHP, Node, HTML, CSS, JS (jQuery, Angular, Vue), knowledge on other stuff but not as much as the ones I've mentioned

Résumé/CV: Contact via email, will provide

Email: andriusse.v+hn on google's service
Hi

I am the author of this article.
If you have questions about these places, or how I am handling my digital nomad round-the-world trip, feel free to ask me directly.

Raphael
You might equally ask why don't we all work remotely?

(Disclaimer: I work remotely, in a team of > 50% remote workers, and believe it works very well)
I am saying we do not know yet if the climate change is within normal parameters, and even what is the definition of "normal change". The earth has been much much warmer and much much cooler.

What I find irritating is the rather poor science behind much of this (statistical modelling being presented as scientific proof for example), and government agendas and business interests are all clouding the picture.

The UK government for example have raised a huge amount of tax on the back of these fears.
That links says that temperatures are rising "at an average rate of 0.16°C (0.28°F) per decade since 1970."

So, "it also false to say that the warming is on pace for even a full degree of warming by the end of the century" is completely wrong.
"Many Western human rights organizations alleged that the high conviction rate is due to rampant use of conviction solely based on confession. Confessions are often obtained after long periods of questioning by police as those arrested may be held for up to 23 days. This can, at times, take weeks during which time the suspect is in detention and can be prevented from contacting a lawyer or family.[3]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_justice_system_of_Japa...
I'm with you there.

It's not often that so much can be wrapped up in just 4 words.
Well... A heavily shielded spacecraft could be built and launched from the Moon... Use regolith for shielding and a magnetic rail to launch. This way most of the mass will never have to be lifted from Earth and, still, you get a lot of shielding, as much as your rail can launch.

But that is decades (a good couple of them, more like a dozen) away. And the rail itself would be so easy to weaponize the diplomatic nightmare required to build it would dwarf the technical difficulties.
Sigh, more sensationalist headlines that really have no content.

Unsurprisingly, old technology is old and new technology is new.
This is very impressive.

Think of all the BitCoins they could create with a setup like that (I get an average of 50 coins every 26 minutes with http://www.alloscomp.com/bitcoin/calculator.php).

At a current market value of about USD$0.22 per coin, this equates to about USD$25/hour.

Of course, BitCoin uses SHA256, but how much different from MD5 can that be?
The funniest thing about the 'invert a binary tree' meme is that it genuinely is a simple, 5-liner problem that most programmers could solve in five minutes, it just sounds intimidating.
We use Terraform to manage as much of the configuration of Vault (and Consul and Nomad) as we can. The provider is pretty good.

This makes it a lot easier to get a 1000ft view of the configuration.
Same here, gave it a try and it's pretty much just a bubble builder for celebrities, not much else.

What I really don't understand is people trying to build a connection to podcasts? Why? Just because it's audio too?
The reason I enjoy podcasts is that I get to enjoy specific topics (or field specific news) from a list of sources I curate myself. I have show notes, know roughly what I get into with an episode, and get to pause and rewind, and that is just a part of it.
> Every part in the system is not "how can we make this part never fail" but "assume it failed. How does the airplane survive?"

This is also the principle behind Qubes OS, security-oriented OS based on security through isolation.
There were 3 'once in 500 year' floods in Houston from 2015-2017. It makes no sense.
East Asia and beyond is in for hell if Mishima’s explicit fascism is being mainstreamed in Japan
This works very similar in different parts of the world. You will hear lot of times CTC (Cost to company) being used when discussing salaries.
As the article says,

>Nomad is also a simpler piece to keep in your tech stack. Sometimes it's best to keep things simple when you don't really achieve any benefits from the complexity.

Simple is better. But in this case he doesn't realize that he's stuck way up the complexity stack in a local minimum that's way more complex than most of the potential software landscape. None of that is needed to expose a webserver. Just run nginx on the machine from repos with no containers, no deployment, etc, etc complexity and forward the port.
> I'm presuming they tried to make logical arguments.

Why would they need to make logical arguments? Money (lobbying) is far better at influencing politicians.

However, the politicians that are getting lobbied sometimes try to make logical arguments, and they typically say that making the process harder encourages popular support for lower taxes.
I'm still angry about about a 96 Jeep I bought new. A little untruth by the sales guy about a minor feature, that was important to me, has turned me off all jeep products ever since. Nearly twenty years later I cannot look at any jeep one without remembering that profound disappointment when my new vehicle was not as I had expected.
That's called the four-factor test. It's the standard used when deciding whether or not something is fair use. See: http://depts.washington.edu/uwcopy/Copyright_Law/Fair_Use/Fo...

You're right about them having to utterly fail to lose an argument like that, but these folks are not exactly doing high quality legal work. Check out this story from the EFF: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/04/righthaven-defies-cour...

They cited a non-existent subsection of an inapplicable law, claimed to own something a recently unsealed agreement proves that they do not, in fact, own any exclusive rights to, and advanced the same tired arguments that they've already had shot down in court. All in all, it makes their complaint look like the equivalent of copypasta.
It's best to keep the homosexual agenda out of schools.
>There was always a huge first-mover advantage to getting a high scoring comment

It's right for good comments that are read by more people to receive more votes. Also that the first person to make a particular comment should be higher voted as repetition of the same insight isn't improving the thread.
"[...] the entire point of an accredited degree is to have a recognizable proxy for someone's intellectual capability."

Indeed, but the college degree is used for this because most of the former methods have been outlawed (or in the case of the high school diploma watered down to uselessness).

I don't find it impossible to imagine the government outlawing the new sort of Internet based investigations or enough people getting wise to the game to, well, game it.
I could be way off base here since I only know what I saw on the site, but it doesn't look like this is life-or-death monitoring. It looks like its long term monitoring for later review by a doctor. It doesn't seem at all likely that they have someone monitoring the incoming data in realtime for heart attacks, that would be far better suited by hooking up the system to dial 911.

I think some IT person was freaking out that they had downtime and slightly exaggerated the life endangering part, they likely just lost information that may have been used in a future diagnostic manner.
Thanks - I guess I should have added that link before.

Looks like I'm going to remain mystified as to why that thread was killed.... :-(
This seems very interesting, unfortunatly page doesn't load in my iphone 3g, is it fully functional? Sound and everything? Fps?
That is actually verifiably true.
Could someone who knows better comment on the feasibility of this? It sounds like a really good idea, but I'd imagine it's a bit more difficult than it sounds.
Some of them are justifiable, some are terrible, and some are both. That's one of the justifiable ones.
Apple has a 1984-like policy about acquisitions where they erase any trace of the acquired company, and they follow this policy to a fault.
Mormon mafia?
Coroutines are much better suited to event driven, non blocking IO code. Sorry for the shameless plug but I recently released my hobby project that uses Lua coroutines for nonblocking HTTP server: https://github.com/raksoras/luaw

Lua was quite pleasant to work with in this context!
It's not _obligated_ to, no one says it's illegal. NYT can decide to be an asshole and reveal it despite the request not to. Which it has.

Is there a real argument for why the NYT _should_ publish Scott's name? Other than "it doesn't care whether that hurts the subject, and it expects to get more clicks this way".
Unfortunately, one of my senators is the infamous Senator Hatch of the Napster Hearing fame. Besides, I doubt I'd get much traction in the reddest state on the election map.

Still, things like this make me wonder if the alternative root servers would gain any traction. Of course, those are not free of their own problems and politics.

That, or somehow obsolete DNS altogether. I've often thought of setting up a site without DNS to see if I could get it ranked on the first page or two with only a bare IP address. I still use a handful of bare public IPs from places I worked at ten years ago. Surely, if the need arose, people could learn to memorize groupings of numbers again.

Then again, once IPv6 rolled out in a big way, raw IPs would be a real bitch to just type in, nevermind remember.
Ship > Feedback > improve
Ship > Feedback > improve
Ship > Feedback > improve

x n times
I looked briefly at the possibility of applying the business model to the UK, I found a good source for legal info to be farmers markets and local food markets where people already sell homemade foods as the organizers have often already put a lot of work into researching the legal (and insurance) issues surrounding the business.

Also if you want to get some initial providers onboard, checkout Craigslist/Gumtree as often people sell home cooked food services on there.
The whole repo is largely just a shortcut for folks that haven't set something like this up before. Nothing special - just aiming for useful.
You seem to be confusing censorship and debate.
I haven't seen any comments yet on the merits of a company having employees vs outsourcing:

And just as a household needed slaves,
so companies need staff. Permanent employees,
like slaves, are far more desirable than
outsourcing to outsiders. The Romans thought
external contractors could never be relied on
like members of the primary social group.
Learn how to use multiple selections.

On OS X CTRL + SHIFT + UP/DOWN will create a new cursor on the next line up or down. And you can CMD + LMB-click to insert a new cursor anywhere.

I cannot count how much time this feature saves me.
From the executive summary:

"In these areas, community resistance to housing, environmental policies, lack of fiscal incentives for local governments to approve housing, and limited land constrains new housing construction."

In other words: zoning.

I've spoken to both policy wonks and developers. IIRC, a good 70% of our land is zoned residential. Everything else is being redeveloped as fast as possible. The single biggest bottle neck is lack of available land.

Community resistant isn't simply just NIMBY. Methinks there's also self-image. Maybe like an inertia thing. Like the incumbents don't want to become "that kind of city".

Many are super reluctant to upzone residential areas (to permit greater density). And the upzones that do occur, are often via the backdoor, by introducing mass and public transit.

Resistance to redeveloping our South Lake Union area (think Amazon) was huge. A light industrial area with a smattering of hovels. A real dump. The political opposition was impressive. So a former mayor pushed thru a super silly trolley car and got the whole area upzoned. Clever.
then their payment would justify more houses being built, until the day they decide that they are overpaying for property, and stop the investment. This means they will sell, and thus, cause a drop in prices (and also cause a feedback loop). The existing residents would "lose value" if they chose not to sell, but new entrants to the market, looking to buy a place to utilize (not invest) will be happy.
That one line made me stop reading the article. Place it in the "bullshit" category.
Didn't you read the link? Neo-techno-crypto-pseudo-anarcho-cheerios-reactionaryification-antimodernism. Illuminating.
I don't understand why the assumption that your actions could have an impact on the world is ridiculous?
It would be better, clearly, because now 2 million people have found it the best place to live instead of 1 million.
We experimented quite a bit. Since it was relatively inexpensive to administer (almost anyone could ramp up to conducting it), we were able to test it in a variety of scenarios (even for intern candidates). It ended up being _after_ the initial phone screen, but early into the on-site. There were several other questions that tested other skills (system design, algorithms knowledge, reasoning about concurrency, etc.). Every engineering candidate did the question, regardless of seniority, at least during my tenure.
There's nothing wrong with making something that looks very similar to Trello, though there is something wrong with using their CSS and icons. Why does it need to be a "creative spin"? The UI works well, so copy it (by writing your own implementation, of course).
You might be hunting bison or hunting on horseback(or an ATV).
I haven't done a whole lot of GUI development, but I briefly looked at Qt and it seemed like it cost a huge amount of money to use, so I wrote it off. Is that not the case?
Given the list of names used, why not leave "boring" out completely?
Or, you known, docker run -i and use streaming still :)

Edit: that said, there's a ton of stuff you could work on there. Not convinced I'd abandon hadoop so quickly just to avoid wrapping my scripts in `docker run --rm -i foo ..`, but that's not the only api that's possible. But even then, not sure I'd want to tie myself so closely to docker still :)
Usually, if you have all the appropriate packages installed, running a GTK+ app in KDE/LXQt, or a Qt app in GNOME/XFCE/Cinnamon will look normal. The widgets/theme will not normally look identical to the WM's theme and widgets (Unless you're using a cross-widget theme such as Oxygen-gtk+), but you won't be seeing any real issues or loss of functionality.

Should an application (let's say, Amarok) require chunks of KDE to install on your nice GNOME desktop, your package manager will install those required packages along with the application, so that when it starts up, there are no missing libraries or errors. And those libraries will be loaded (in the case of Qt4, 50MB of libs) into memory for as long as the application is running.

Now, should you be running a headless install without all the appropriate lipstick packages already installed (some of us like running X apps over SSH sessions), you may see some really ugly naked widgets. Qt and GTK+ without any theming engine installed will not win any beauty pagents, but you'll be able to use the application, even without icons. And, should you wish to place some lipstick back on that pig, you just need to install a package or two to pretty everything back up.

TL;DR - Stuff should work fine between DE's, if it doesn't, then your distro is broken or frankenstein'd.
I'm on the fence on this one - I could argue either way (I could probably work a books worth of material).

However, I think it is interesting to note that the idea of "stealing" a design has been done for years. I just don't think many people do it to websites.

Examples - there are companies that bundle premade controls that look pretty darn close to the designs in paid software. Here is an example of one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYzjJHtldec

They may just wrap Windows API - but I've seen ribbon interfaces running on Windows 2K with VB6.

Even if one would argue that falls into "fair use" - consider two more examples:

Zelda Classic[1] - they used original artwork from the original Nintendo game and re-created the game on the PC

Mari0[2] - the original Mario but with portals (including level design and graphics)

Now from what I can tell - Nintendo doesn't shutdown/care about these people because they aren't making money off the games. But if these games aren't infringing on Nintendo's copyright - I don't know what would be.

[1] - http://armageddongames.net/showthread.php?96754-Zelda-Classi...
[2] - http://stabyourself.net/mari0/
The DigitalOcean provisioning issue was recently fixed, and creating new droplets is working properly. Making the mirroring segment more resilient to failures is high on my list of priorities. Thanks for the positive feedback!
Only thing I know is that the server went down and initially I could not access any of my sites, including root domains. Then the server seemed to have come back to life. I could ssh in and see my primary domain, but the subdomains still weren't working. That turned out to be some Apache issue, which I resolved by restarting it.

I got a reply from support at prgmr but haven't been able to trace down what exactly happened.
> Customers, particularly ADHD tech types, are very sensitive to shipping delays.

Just to expand on this: very /very/ sensitive. However providing them an accurate date upfront is a great way to combat this, even if it is a week away. Adjust it accordingly and don't break your first promise to a new customer.

The moment the clock ticks over the 7th day (and I mean, they will wait /exactly/ 1 minute past 7 days for this). They will open up every support channel and complain loudly and demand a lot from you. It's just not worth the hassle!
I am sure that people have different refresh times in their eyes. I don't consume a lot of video, so the only time I remember noticing a poor video frame rate was when watching Up! in 3-D. I think the theatre just divided the 30fps between the two eyes, and panning shots bothered me so much I had to close my eyes a few times.

In every day life I am constantly bothered by LED tail lights, and cheap video projectors. In both cases I clearly see the individual blinks in the case of the LEDs and the color cycle in the case of the projectors. I find in quite distracting.

Most people can't even see what I am talking about when I describe it and they go seeking it out.
That's the one, progressive enhancement.

A great principle, and nice to see they even think about Lynx accessing the sites [0]

The post I was thinking about with the analysis of why JS/CSS shouldn't be assumed to work was [1].

[0] https://technology.blog.gov.uk/2016/09/19/why-we-use-progres...

[1] https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2013/10/21/how-many-people-are-missi...
I really wonder about the accuracy of "Jewish people being rich". I seem to remember there was a massive Jewish proletariat that went straight to the camps. German Jewish population might have fared a little better economically (but that remains to be proved with numbers) but I believe most of Eastern Europe Jewish population was NOT rich. So I get your point but I am afraid things are little more complex. (Any sources about the topic welcome)
This is misleading. Every single state that is under investigation right now (swing state) is part of the "70%" that has paper trail. Also, every single one of the "30%" paperless states except one (NJ) was won by Trump. So if there was voter machine hacking, it was pro-Trump.
because tolerating flu deaths doesn't completely overwhelm healthcare systems?