skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The downvotes are coming from people who think the West is racist and xenophobic and anything contrary to that narrative means downvotes. The fact of the matter is that the vast majority of the world exhibits some form of racism and in many countries, such as Japan, its institutionalize. The U.S. And U.K. get a bad rap on this issue for some reason, but take a few million migrants from all over the world and plop them into Tokyo or Beijing and let me know how it goes.
>Isn't it, like, super expensive though?

Compared to the US military spending for example? For a country that's geographically so remote and already so powerful that no other country even thinks of ever attacking?
Culturally, many people would dismiss state-owned media perspective as a kind of Pravda. Because of the cultural perspective, two things would happen: firstly, politicians would think it's OK to instruct such media to follow a particular party line; and secondly, journalists and presenters that are the visible face of the media would also follow the party line, because they think that's where the money is coming from, so it would be stupid to do otherwise.

The cultural perspective is widespread and it's at the core of many Americans' cynical approach to the government. "We're from the government and we're here to help" are genuinely scary words to these people; they have not bought into the idea of government as a social contract, or the idea that a consensus of principles could lead to publicly funded media without excessive political bias. Instead, many Americans view government as a necessary evil that we only institute to restrain our worst vices, and if the government shows up, it's because something went badly wrong; that the best government is no government, which we would have if we acted morally.
I agree.. it's not at efficient way of going about finding a job. But it is effective, if the goal is to get a job. And at the end of the day, he has a job.

As Drucker used to say.. "focus first on being effective, then on being efficient"
Stream or upload recorded video?
How to become an influencer
No; I have just explained why nobody is unsuitable. Please bring yourself up to date and learn better. This is stuff that the world learned was the wrong thing to do in the 1990s. (The note in the LSB recommending against running daemons in a single shared account dates from 2002, and that was years late to the party.)
What other sources do you use, I ask as an over 30 something who wants to see how the other half lives?
Mining btc is expensive! What is alternative in eth btc Blockchains
Mining is super expensive is there another alternative in eth btc Blockchains that's lighter on the environment and carbon foot print ?
Similar: https://youtu.be/VWkY4gNIMzQ

Markdown to Mindmap, realtime.
Science division of White House office left empty as last staffers depart
I think a post from you and her on what she did during that year between deciding to enter tech and getting the job at Microsoft would be incredibly interesting and helpful.

Particularly, what resources did she use? More top down things (Udacity, FreeCodeCamp, jumping into building projects), or bottom up (online computer science classes, Berkeley CS61, SICP, etc).

Thanks!
>How is it different to have revenue going to services retirees need instead of going to new sports cars of big tvs

For one, the people buying those sports cars and big tvs are productive citizens and have decades of work and payments ahead of them...
The question then becomes which is better, the current big 6 or the new big 6 headed by Netflix.
It not clear at to me what you are actually advocating for. The article is pretty clear that most people should choose a CP database over an AP database. This is true regardless of your scale unless you don't care about consistency at all.

A start up does not need to make a CP system highly available but they will likely need consistency. They can probably make eventually consistency work for them but it does take effort and money. I don't see many cases were AP is the right choice. Again CRDT are good but you need to design carefully to make sure you system can work with eventually consistency. Once you have done that you are only gaining availability during partitions which does not increase your up time much. I would recommend a standalone database, a stock CP database, or renting spanner over an AP if time and money is a concern.
They give very precise distances by red-shift calculations.

There's no direct way to measure the distance of very far objects. There's only red-shift and Hubble's Law.
It's a good one, but it seems that there's a trade off with this design. Either you have to ask your users to enter all this information (not a good user experience), or, you end up with inconsistency in your model when you try to query by # number or email or any other "optional" Id's. Querying by UUID makes your app use cases fairly narrowed.
And Obama used to bitch about Fox News. Now granted, Trump complains a lot more, but then again, what other president has been scrutinized by a news network about how many scoops of ice cream he gets?
I'm down with discouraging paywall content. I've never flagged an article for it though. I get HN through the Feedly app, so I can't tell where the link goes until I hit it. It's always a nuiscance when it ends up at some paywall site.

On the other hand, those paywall sites do tend to be very high quality, with longform articles and more citations, more depth than most. I'll give them that.
> I've long ago moved on to better news sources

Any recommendations?
There is supposed to be a rectangle simply transitioning between black and white. Did you see this?
You seem to assume that the internet is flat fee, that is historically not the case.

The internet was pay by the hour or pay by the kB for a very long time. The flat free subscriptions only emerged around the 00's.
Exactly. Take for example the Sendmail book. Probably one of the most important (and feared) sysadmin books of our time. If you had a well worn dog eared copy on your desk, you commanded respect.
> when you don't enforce anti-trust laws

And that is what happens when you accept the legalized corruption of the political system, in the form of lobbying. The same stakeholders control the media corporations and the politician who should regulate them.
And for i3 on Wayland there's already Sway.
It sounds like the application of this fuel is meant to be alongside carbon capture, so there's no net emissions at all.
That's essentially identical, except for the connecting bar, and a slightly darker shade of blue. They are even both SVG files.
Bundling.

systemd as a package is more than just init.

It is init, inetd, session manager (logind), udev, dns client, dhcp client, cron, su, and the list keeps growing.

Basic thing is that first of all Poettering to it a toehold at Fedora (he works at Red Hat, so surprise surprise). Then he offered Gnome the code for supporting logind on a silver platter.

End result is that to offer Gnome as the desktop you either have to patch it, shim it (ask Canonical how well that worked out) or adopt systemd.

Effectively what is happening is that Fedora is becoming the de-facto standard for Linux. In part because it is effectively the testing distro for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and thus a large portion of userland devs (and a number of kernel devs) use it as their "dogfood".
Isn't it also rude to assume they don't want to go?

If only there were a way you didn't have to assume, but could find out...
Is it being a "well know problem" how Japanese perceive it or how foreigners want them to think of it?
The Blogging Industry Is Due for a Shake-Up  This Is Why
Good you still have the BBC.
XKCD Explained
The 'vote with your dollars' premise is flawed; the very nature of monopoly is to erode choice by consolidating market position and using influence (government, market) to maintain position which tends to mean creating barriers for more choice / new players to enter the market.
Chinese rocket launch fails one hour after lift-off
Those are just the normal police. Add some more laws making it illegal to be immoral and you're done.
There are two routes to finding jobs.

First route is through personal contacts/network/referral/nepotism/cronyism. In this case, your strategy of customizing resume and application is an effective strategy as you know your application will be reviewed a relavant human.

The second route is through applying to job listings when you don't have any contact. With this route the chances of your application being reviewed by relevant human is extremely low. In this case, you are better of reaching out to as many opportunities as possible. Pre-application suitability filtering and application customization is waste of job applicant's time. Instead have an standard application and just apply to all positions in your area of interest. Any filtering by job hunter happens once an interested company has made contact.
Cool to see a VCMI developer here. I'm the creator of Project Ironfist, the Heroes 2 mod that works by some seriously cool binary modification tech (www.ironfi.st).
Considering Fox is the only reputable news outlet left, I don't support the negative connotation you imply.
It's very plausible. The NY Times has always been a behemoth compared to even other large papers (such as the LA Times or Boston Globe). Peak recent revenue (2006) was around $1.9 billion for the NYT.

Facebook will hit near $38 billion in sales this fiscal year.
For market competition to flourish having at least a few dozen competitors seems necessary to me. People in the same business talk and run in the same circles. If just half a dozen people control a market then unspoken rules can develop and signaling can be done with prices on the open market. If there are 50 competitors then active organized collusion will be necessary, like the trusts of the Gilded Age.
The absolute number is all that matters. A person immigrating to a country with a low population has a disproportionate affect on that population compared to a country with a large population.

Also you're implying that immigration is good and desirable. That's certainly up for debate.
Who are liberal, modern day liberal, which is worse.
EPIC?
> How do you get away with asserting that he has likely done this "many many" times?

Sarah posted on twitter that other women have reached out to her claiming similar behavior.

https://twitter.com/sarahkunst/status/881004317674577920

> I think the key is to realize that at some point in your life, you were the devil, whether your transgressions were subject to public scrutiny or not. Have some sympathy for the devil and do not be the one who casts a stone.

In regards to his apology, I thought the qualifiers were offensive and it made me think he was being insincere. I see your point about the pitchforks and mob mentality and I see how my original comment can contribute to that.

That said, I also fee that as a society we have to emphatically reject this type of behavior, especially perpetuated by people with power/influence/resources against those without. We jail people in this country for far less.
I didn't know abotu HAGGIS, thanks for that link.

I vaguely remember that in the 1990's the US Advanced Placement test for CS was done in Pascal. The point has to be a focus on fundamentals. There are fundamental data structures and algorithms that any programmer is useless if they don't know, and I doubt people are learning these at bootcamps in 6 months.

> Colleges teach fundamentals like lambda calculus, but fail to teach practical skills.

College CS programs in the USA are focusing more and more on appeasing recruiters and HR folk with keywords than in teaching CS fundamentals. And I think that's a tragedy.
I am reminded of a quote that made an impression on me years ago but which I'm unable to attribute:

"If you don't believe ownership matters, you're not playing capitalism anymore."

Really, you shouldn't need to go to such a reductionist extreme to find stats like these troubling. "Tone at the top" is a real enough phenomenon, and you're not going to have much variety of tone at the top if there are only a few tops.
Curious what are your sources. I have a few friends who are also anti-big news outlets and they link me to their alternative sources, which some of them are VERY ultra-right-wing outlets.
This is an instructive escalation.

User ewjordan's original comment is clearly calling out a bad institution-- an "honor-based patriarchal culture"-- for encouraging a specific bad actor (or at least a specific class of bad actors) to murder other human beings. I say bad actor because ewjordan saw fit to emphasize-- using the heightened language "damn well"-- that everyone knows about the potential for ambiguity in the choice of text. People who jump on an ambiguity in a patriarchal society for a chance to do murder are clearly bad actors. Hence, the word scum probably seems like a fitting epithet for such a bad actor.

The problem is that heightened language always ends up obscuring one's point. For example, is user dvfjsdhgfv agreeing with ewjordan or extending the critique more broadly to include people who aren't obviously bad actors? It isn't clear to me.

User Kenji's logic is less ambiguous, however. Since it is "their culture" which "causes causes behaviour you'd expect of savages a couple thousand years ago", the use of the word "scum" is deemed appropriate. Yet, using "scum" to describe a "culture" is awkward, and seems to suggest that it is the inhabitants of that culture who are in fact being called "scum" here. Does that include both bad faith and good faith actors? User jballanc asks for clarification on this, and by now user lawly is apparently confident enough to give a one-word answer: "Yes." Finally, just to confirm that the understanding is that we're indeed applying the descriptor "scum" to large swaths of human beings, user jballanc gives the counter-argument based on that logic:

> I mean, I'm no fan of the British, but I wouldn't call them "scum".

This is why I try to avoid using heightened language especially when describing people who commit horrific acts.
The space is not void as there is non-zero density of matter that we see in absorbtion lines of quasars [1]. This implies that the space has to be treated as transparent medium with non-trivial optical properties.

[1]
- https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Madau6/Madau_contents.ht...
>Time is something in very short supply.

Mostly because businesses demand every minute of it.

Time is ample if you're not stressed to the point of collapse all the time.
I recall that NIDA had some rather nasty quality control issues (you'd think you'd be able to do better with a budget of 69 million dollars)[0]. To be honest, I could imagine at least some studies being rejected for lack of adequate supplies. Not much point in trying to do science if your samples are heavily contaminated.

[0]: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/scientists-say-governmen...
Very interesting work. What they developed essentially is a way to store renewable energy.

They take CO2, H2O and electricity from renewable sources to create their fuel. The secret here is the catalyst they developed. The fuel is liquid, thus stored easily.

In order to use it they use a reverse chemical process which creates H2 and CO2. The H2 burns with oxygen (and releases part of the stored energy) to produce H2O and thus they end with the elements they used in the first step.

If in its currrent capacitiy can be used for transportation, it probably can be used for many other things as well.
I expected to read about how OP built a successful e-commerce business after transitioning from full-time software development. Instead this is about how he earned $275 over three days on a one-time shirt idea. Click-bait.
Ask HN: When will cryptocurrencies be currency?
I'm really excited about the potential cryptocurrencies offer as an international medium of exchange, as smart decentralised currency, but everyone seems to only view it as something to "invest" in.

I have family members who barely even know how to operate their smartphones "investing" in Bitcoin, but even a casual conversation with them reveals that they have no idea what it really is. They don't even know that it can be used to actually buy things, and they don't know about it's other applications, like smart contracts.

And it's such a shitty 'investment' instrument too! This is all madness.

How can we change this? How can we get people to stop hoarding it and start actually USING it?
Facebook is happy collecting money from those large players and small players. They aren't a content generation group in and of themselves.

Their primary differentiator in the US is that, unlike TV outlets, they're not really accountable to specific law. As we've seen in the last election, it's very likely groups used targeted Facebook ad buys to violate various state laws in the types and targeting of messaging they used (and before anyone gets their hackles raised, this is a quadpartisan phenomenon).

So yeah they funnel content but they have no editorial process.
That power stems from military spending, though. Not only that, America spends so much on its military to compensate for the fact that most of its allies spend significantly less on theirs; without the so-called pax Americana the world would look very different.
Responsive design isn't about hidden menus.

At its most basic, it's just reflowing content to fit the given viewport width.
So the catalyst isn't renewable. How much of that do they need? What are the costs, and energy put into that?
It's part of the problem of cross platform software. Sometimes you have to go with the least common denominator, in this case byte strings. Do not be smart about it and let the programmer handle the errors. It is unexpected to blow up my software because a user supplied completely valid file name happens to be invalid by Python rules. Yes, fsencode was finally added to work around parts of this problem which is good, but it shouldn't have been there in the first place.

The problem is universal to every time you interface with the operating system. Sometimes it's locale dependent too and you never know beforehand so a program might blow up in the hands of a customer. While the encode/decode process was tiresome at least it gave predictable results.

If you have to work around your runtime in order to give the parameters you want to the underlying syscalls, you are doing it wrong. The premise to move to unicode was a laudable one, but I wish more attention had been paid to how other languages do it, because anything worse than what Perl 5 did more than a decade earlier isn't that great.
> A big difference between the US media and the rest of the developed world seems to be a complete absence of state-owned/subsidized/run media.

PBS and NPR, both modern day liberal, fascist, so called, news hacks, loyal to the Democrats to a fault.

> To me, this seems much more problematic than the limited competition between corporate media.

The US is not China, that is a very, very good thing.
How does this compare to media ownership in other countries?
We've been playing this one at work, it's great. Even joined a tournament a few months ago.
Well, no they certainly don't have the best interests of America at heart but mostly they're driven by greed. The owners of US newspapers are generally happy to give their news in liberal cities a liberal slant and their news in conservative cities a conservative slant. The problem used to be a lot more intense than it is now with competing newspapers being mouthpieces for competing political parties. But the rise of national broadcasting and the resultant economies of scale meant that the networks had to move to compromise coverage.

There's certainly something to be said for giving people the sort of news coverage that's good for them instead of the sort they want. Not reporting on disasters until all the facts are in. Never mentioning the names of mass murderers who are after fame. More statistics and less anecdote. But if given a choice the bad media will drive out the good (mostly).

You could solve the problem if you had a reliable source of philosopher kings we could set to rule over us. Until we find one I think we'll have to do with giving the people what they want. It's far from optimal but at least it corrects quickly when things go badly which is a lot more than you can say for most other things people have attempted.
As dlgtho notes, your system's useradd(8) man page is not a description of all existing systems. Historically, the prohibitions were against ‘:’ (breaks passwd(5)), initial ‘-’ (mistaken for an option by login(1)), and upper case without lower case (makes getty(8) think you have an upper-case-only terminal).

(Not much point in continuing this, since the post has dropped from front page to 7th in half an hour, and will never be seen again.)
This is an add for Morris Creative Group LLC. Although I would say anti-ad, as their slick graphic is out of date. But I might not be going deep enough and the out-of-date graphic has not been redone on purpose like a Nigerian Prince email having misspelled words and grammar mistakes.
America is like a capatalist dream. People seems to trust money and companies more than their own government and laws.
Toward mass-producible quantum computers
> two things would happen: firstly, politicians would think it's OK to instruct such media to follow a particular party line; and secondly, journalists and presenters that are the visible face of the media would also follow the party line, because they think that's where the money is coming from, so it would be stupid to do otherwise.

In my experience the opposite is true.

eg in Austria:

* politicans aren't allowed to interfere w/ the state owned programming and it's usually deeply rooted opinion in those institutes to be independent - they are a service to the people of the country not the current government

* private media are usually considered to be in favor of the party that pays them the most in ad spending and follows their own political agendas

* state owned news shows are usually known to be more critical (we done the research, stop BSing please) towards politicians than private ones (which politicians obviously consider unfair)

obviously in reality everything is shades of grey and not black/white. eg journalists still tend to have own political worldviews and report biased with them. but state owned doesn't by default mean propaganda channel.
I'm guessing, some lower form of life, pre dolphin must have mutated the ability, but useless to them. Down the line, the dolphin was finally mutated, still having the same.
I'm a hiring manager as well and let me throw out a partial counterpoint: What OP is doing isn't because he doesn't want to be genuine with you. It's motivated because the HR screen is the hurdle to overcome, and there will be no opportunity to have a genuine conversation with you unless he gets past the HR filter first. I have a solution to this that works for me, but maybe not for everyone - I have HR do a very basic screen for my posting (candidate in market, unless I'm going to relo; current career level somewhere in my ballpark), with the exception that I want everything that includes a cover letter.

If you're not big enough to have an initial screen happening, then obviously my point doesn't apply and you're entirely correct. But for many, getting anywhere near the hiring manager is the most difficult step.

Plus, from my memories as an applicant - to startups and larger firms alike - I can't tell you how many times in my past I've taken the step of writing a nice, personalized cover letter and a tailored resume for something which was a reasonably good fit, only to either never hear a word or to receive an automated form rejection in return. Courtesy is a two way street - if your ATS blasts rejections to people, you can't get upset with candidates blasting applications to play the numbers.