skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't live in a tech hub. The only place I've lived that was close was Northern Virginia (for only two years) and I hated it so much I moved to Florida.

I graduated from a fairly average state university with a BSCS in 2002 and joined the Army. My first software engineering job (which was hard to land given I had gone 4 years since college doing something completely different) paid $55k in 2006. I crossed the $100k threshold in 2012.

Though, I'll admit the raises haven't been as generous the last few years, and I did have to move a few times for jobs :)

But I really don't think my life has been particularly privileged or out of the ordinary for a reasonably competent developer (and many here on HN who do live in tech hubs make quite a bit more than I).
It's self-evidently not the case that only "corrupt shills" oppose FCC-mandated net neutrality.
Yeah, ships are a whole lot more expensive to maintain that buildings.
I would also add:

- regulate advertisements for unhealthy foods, especially ads targeted at children

- ban vending machines (and candy sales) on school campuses

- implement sugar taxes similar to cigarette taxes
We had a policy of forcibily sterlizing Native American women through the 1970s, so it's not exactly 'many generations ago'.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterilization_of_Native_Amer...
Title II was removed from Verizon's service in early 2005. Before then they had to do local loop unbundling and reselling.

In 2015 it was added back, but with almost all Title II rules suspended. Like price controls, unbundling, reselling, etc.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15889035

You are contradicting yourself.
Only about 1/2 of Americans at any given time work (very roughly - think kids, elderly etc.) so most Americans don't pay tax is technically kind of correct, but not very meaningful at all in any discussion.
Counterexample: Waiting for Godot. Also Macbeth. And Romeo and Juliet. And all the many, many other stories not about journeys.
I agree with you, more or less. I don't think the Odyssey is a complicated story.

But that doesn't have anything to do with this article though, which I rather liked.

> You wanna argue with Tolstoy?

Tolstoy famously described Shakespeare as "insignificant" and didn't understand what all the fuss was about:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lear,_Tolstoy_and_the_Fool
Apart from being doomed to failure, this seems like a stupid thing to legislate for. The one thing everybody in this debate should be able to agree upon is that Title II is not an especially good regulatory mechanism for enforcing net neutrality, just the only one that the FCC is legally entitled to use. If Congress wanted to do something useful they could legislate to allow (or require) the FCC to enforce net neutrality under a lighter-touch regulatory system like the pre-2015 Open Internet regime that failed to stand up in court.

Of course if Congress does pass anything it all it's most likely to be a law to shield ISP from liability for not delivering the services their customers have paid for when they don't receive the kickbacks they want...
Your comment actually got me thinking... By what metric have you decided that a country is overpopulated?

Using the absolute population size? If so, is America far more "overpopulated" compared to every other developed nation? If China were to split up into 20 sovereign nations, would it suddenly stop being overpopulated?

Or perhaps you're using population density? If so, Taiwan, South-Korea and Netherlands must be absolute cesspools to live in, since they all have population densities higher than India's.

Or more likely, you think that a country is overpopulated because it has a lot of poor people? If so, that sounds like a mighty fine circular reasoning. "Why is XYZ so poor? Because they are overpopulated." "What makes you say they are overpopulated? Because they are so poor."
That's a simplified version, the actual oxford dictionary is not free online and should look like this: http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/52325

Between them you have : http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.201...

1 A market that is free from government interference, prices rising and falling in accordance with supply and demand.

2 A security that is widely traded on a stock exchange, there being sufficient stock on offer for the price to be uninfluenced by availability.

3 A foreign-exchange market that is free from influence on rates by governments, rates being free to rise and fall in accordance with supply and demand.

So, I can see why that was used, but it's not definitive.
Happy to!

First, I chose the word "objectively" in the sense that win/wins are still possible in consumeristic markets. I think most businesses would have taken a flexible $100k USD and spent it on marketing or expansion or something. The fact that this was distributed freely to people who self-identified as having use of it is good.

Second, flawed/unfair/biased/imperfect does not mean that something can't have net gains. Just because a company recognizes and discloses their faults, that shouldn't dismiss them from credibility. I'd rather a service that promises 99.5% availability than no service at all (or worse, a service that doesn't disclose their reliability).

Third, I think that the public, publicized, monetary actions of a trendy business have an additional non-material benefit. On top of any fiscal commentary about this bit, CAH is quite popular, and they have enough financial leeway to make a statement. This statements is "we are a business. we have knowledge that some of our customers have a greater need than others. we are making a decision to help those people with greater need".

Their statement is no more prescriptive than that. But damn if it doesn't make me question every other wildly profitable business, including the corp I work for.
No, I'm not.
I really don't understand how people can relate gold to bitcoin - other than the fact they both seem to trade at prices unrelated to fundamental underpinnings.

In my opinion, bitcoin is not digital gold, and quite the opposite. Both require a large amount of energy to be mined, however, once gold is produced (i.e. found), there is no more energy required to keep that nugget of gold in existence. Bitcoin, on the contrary, requires a constantly increasing amount of energy to maintain it's utility.

If today we stopped mining gold, all the mined gold in the world will still be there and will probaly increase in value due to scarcity.

If today we stopped mining bitcoin, all the bitcoin in the world will be worthless.

That sounds pretty bad to me.
Lots of people that aren't working do pay taxes though. Social Security benefits, for example, are taxable in a lot of cases.
Let me quote you a passage about Roman gold mines:

"Over the pockmarked landscape there would invariably hang a pall of smog belched out from the smelting furnaces through giant chimneys, and so heavy with chemicals that it burned the naked skin and turned it white. Birds would die if they flew through the fumes. As Roman power spread the gas clouds were never far behind."

I agree, though, that this kind of problem was localized and was not in the minds of Romans the way it is in ours.
>Climate change is irrelevant because if people simply consumed less and demanded products that last longer, we'd reduce carbon emissions as well as other forms of pollution.

Not so. Carbon stays and accumulates. It's not the annual emissions which matter, it's the total emissions to date which matters.

At this point, we've already put too much in the atmosphere. Continuing to emit, at a lower rate, would still be adding to the problem. It would be an improvement over emitting even larger amounts, but we'd still be making the overall situation worse off with each passing year.
Yeah, I think that's a really apt description of the culture clash that happens. If you go into it with that expectation, you'll get absolutely steam rolled. I mean, you can still disagree, but you have to pick and choose your venues for talking about it. It's quite a famous saying that Japanese people have 3 faces: one that you present to the general public, one that you present to your friends and family and one that you keep completely to yourself. If you can't/won't do that then you will never fit in. It's worth noting that there are some Japanese people who have difficulty and they also don't fit in.

One thing I should point out is that "inside/outside" is always relative. It's not like people classify you as being Japanese/not Japanese most of the time. If you work for a company, then you are "inside" in the company -- as long as you follow the rules: going to drinking parties, showing up on time in the morning, dressing properly, staying late, etc, etc. You are also "inside" in your family -- again as long as you follow the rules: showing up for important events like Obon, Shougatsu, etc; paying deference to the head of the family; etc, etc. You are also "inside" in your community -- again rules: paying the "community fee", sorting your garbage properly, doing your turn at cleaning the community, participating in the community festival, etc, etc.

So when people see me, they don't see "Foreigner Mike"; they see Mike who works at blah, is in blah family, lives in blah community, is a member of blah sports club, is a regular at blah izakaya... and tangentially -- came originally from Canada. But a lot of foreigners don't really understand that: they have a contract position at some company, don't become a fixture in that company, don't have a family, don't get involved in the community (and especially actively avoid paying fees, or volunteering, etc) -- so the only thing left is "Foreigner Joe".
Google's mono-repo is interesting though, in that you can check out individual directories without having to check out the entire repo. It's very different from checking out a bajillion-line git repo.
Facebooks doesn't, y tho?
No, of course not. But I'm still interested in what a court would ultimately decide and whether anyone has actually been taken to court over this.
For calling the FCC out on their lack of technical knowledge I find this quote rather lackluster from the EFF.

"Every machine translates IP addresses from machine-order to network-order;"

No. Network order is big-endian, and for big-endian architectures there is no translation that occurs.

Also, "As the FCC would have it, an Internet user actively expects their ISP to provide DNS to them."

Yeah, they do. Just because most users don't know what DNS is doesn't mean they don't expect it. They expect their Internet connection to work and part of that is DNS resolution. Come on EFF you can do better than this.
Extra note, it's not worth contacting members who do not represent your district. The interns are instructed to take any contacts from other districts and ship them to your own member's office.

An exception could exist for people who live on a gerrymandered district border or who are in the same state as a member seeking a state-wide office.

It's always better to call too.
RE-usable bottles have a finite usable cycle count. Typically around 20 to 30-cycles[1]. They are better than disposable containers, but like anything else they wear, break down, etc.

[1]http://www.o-i.com/Sustainability/Refillables/
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For instance, he didn't consider loss of privacy, the ability for governments and companies to surveil people, or the effect of information bubbles, for instance. Those seem like objectively bad consequences, or at least things that he'd agree are bad.

Condemning the genomics revolution as "entirely bad" is really laughable, though. The genomics era filled the drug development pipeline with thousands of new targets, and was the necessary precursor to the coming era of precision medicine and precision health.

(Also - HN has downvotes?)
Here's the econ 101 supply/demand graph of GP's argument:

https://i.imgur.com/jhQi1yK.png

Right now, the miners have an incentive to mine more than is socially optimal because the impact on the environment (the externality) doesn't affect their profits. If you add a tax such that the cost to mine bitcoins matches the cost to society, the market will restructure itself to produce the socially optimal amount.
Not an expert, and my apologies if you already know the following.

On costs: have you investigated going to an emergency room to be seen for blood in stool? Under Federal law, you have the right to screening, emergency care, and transfer to appropriate followup facilities regardless of ability to pay. It's possible you could at least get a diagnosis at an ER, and perhaps a full colonoscopy as part of that.

On needles: I don't have fear of needles, so I have no 'been there, done that' recommendations. However, there are effective oral anxiolytics that would probably reduce your anxiety enough to get past needle insertion. These might be combined with oral sedatives as well.

On the actual colonoscopy: I've had three. They've all been completely routine and painless. The first time, my doc asked me if I wanted to stay awake and follow the colono-tour on a video monitor, which I did. It was fascinating. For the others, I decided I'd seen it before and chose to not be a tourist, so I was sedated (Versed, I think).

My brother had intestinal cancer. He had a short bowel resection over 40 years ago and he's been fine since. No colostomy bag, no hassles, just 4 more decades of good life. Good outcomes do happen.

I hope you can get care very soon. Best of luck.
To be fair, many of those processes are things that I would presume halt at some point in an isolated chemical environment.

Also, what kind of breakdown? If segments up to a certain sizer were stable, that would be enough to reconstruct a full genome of the sequencers were sensitive enough and the final segments long enough.
SE Asia’s Ride-Hailing War Is Being Waged on Motorbikes
I'm interested in this too. As a 27 year old, if this holds true, it's very, very frightening.
How strange it is that your comment coincides with a mass-downvoting of my comments.
The stuff that is guaranteed to work is already documented on dlang.org. However, there has been more work done than was - I haven't checked in weeks - documented e.g. dmd can apparently catch C++ exceptions (but not in release) so the documentation does not mention this.
Can you point where I can get my shill pay out. I'd love some extra X-mas gift money.
Tolstoy also never said the thing quoted in that goodreads page. So it's not an argument with Tolstoy to begin with.
It's truly interesting how using an abbreviation of an open source project's name brings out the venomous commentary like yours.
I could see that working with Bond. McClane is too much of an everyman to care about boatfull of billionaires in distress. Family would have to somehow end up on board.

Bond, on the other hand, is all about protecting the interests of (a subset of) the rich and powerful.
Can anyone quickly summarize the article in a few pointers? I'm looking for benefits/drawbacks and trade-offs.
I'll agree on the hole-in-the-ground schtick which I guess I attribute to a social experiment.

As far as the border property, I wish more people of consequential power/capital would follow their lead and buy up border property. The wall is preposterous and any form of resistance is credible in my eyes.
> and because the price of steel has fallen to $0.03/lb

Since when? I'm pretty sure it's around $0.10/lb right now and stainless is around $0.30/lb.
My favorite one is disproving Fermat's last theorem:

> 19774**3 + 257049**3 == 257088**3
true
> but the laws work differently

The general concept is the same. Your original comments said:

> "not everyone has rules where the police need a warrant to search your home or vehicle".

EU membership nations have laws that require search warrants in some form. Most exceptions to this are reasonable, narrow and well defined. Similar to exceptions in the US:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrantless_searches_in_the_Un...

Your original comment:

> "not everyone has rules where the police need a warrant to search your home or vehicle".

Suggests that this is not the case in Europe.
I've always liked the dog analogy ever since I came across it in Stephen Weinberg's book Dreams of a Final Theory:

"...it may be that humans are simply not intelligent enough to discover or to understand the final theory. It is possible to train dogs to do all sorts of clever things, but I doubt that anyone will ever train a dog to use quantum mechanics to calculate atomic energy levels."

The impossibility of dogs doing Calculus is an equally nice example, but I think we could push the point further. Calculus is not only hard and unnatural for dogs; it is hard and unnatural for humans as well. There were anatomically modern humans equipped with culture and language for something like 30,000 years before even one of them understood calculus. It's truly extraordinary that this thing which was at the absolute limits of the human intellect in the 17th century is now taught routinely in high schools and colleges across the world, and used for such mundane purposes as building bridges or stock trading.

Those inclined to optimism could read in this a story about how humans are not like dogs, because culture. (i.e.: "culture allows us to consolidate and simply the understanding of previous generations so future generations can build on it towards almost limitless horizons", etc.). But I'm a pessimist: calculus is still damn hard for nearly all human beings (just ask your average college student). Heck, I found it pretty tough to learn and I ended up getting a masters in math. And - to get back to the article - I'm not convinced that current topics at the edge of human understanding today (string theory, or whatever) are ever going to get 'mundane'. It takes many years of special training and extraordinarily single-minded dedication to even get to the current frontier of knowledge in these areas. At some point, as the article says, perhaps the math just gets too hard.

Fortunately, just because the universe might not be comprehensible by humans (we never get to a successful theory of quantum gravity, or whatever) doesn't mean science itself will have a end. There's plenty to do in other fields.
What fraction of Google's code is in the monorepo these days? Android, Chrome, and ChromeOS are not, and those are certainly large projects.
Even if the legislation is doomed, the overall battle between policymakers is not over.

The fight to save Net Neutrality will benefit from high-visibility attempts to bring the issue to light.
I heard updating pager duty [on-call] commits used to be a mess --perhaps it was apocryphal, but if not, why not use a different system for the pager duty updates?
Skynet plans, nothing big.

Source: Googler.
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Doesn't it? https://code.facebook.com/posts/218678814984400/scaling-merc...
It's a signal. Signals are important even if futile. Without such signals, we can only make assumptions concerning where the minority party stands on whichever issue.
Using the existing thing was probably easier than anything else.
Facebook monorepos harder than Google!
Good for China, they've got an environmental nightmare to deal with, and part of it comes from the US offloading lots of "recycling" operations there, and I use that term loosely, particularly for electronics. We also "export" pollution to China by buying cheaper products that would be more expensive if they didn't externalize their pollution costs, and it's sure better to externalize that pollution abroad than domestically. The US, in my opinion, has been burying its head in the sand about the pollution which occurs when manufacturing everything that we use.

Recycling, save for very specific things, is neither environmentally beneficial nor economically viable. We recycle so many things because the operations are subsidized, and we feel good because we assume the recycling bin doesn't end up in the dump.

Sorting refuse for recycling is a time consuming, tedious process. I hope that automation can actually make recycling more things viable. Reuse is best, but lots of things can be recycled for raw materials, particularly metals. Plastics don't recycle very well, glass requires more energy to reprocess than making new glass, and paper can be allowed to biodegrade or mixed into existing paper process.
There's no reason to recycle glass. The planet is made of it. Almost every rock you see around you can be melted into glass.

And it's completely harmless if thrown out. At most crush it first.

The only thing worth recycling is metal.
While technically true due to some features of tooling, that is really only masking off part of the repo under a READ-ONLY directory.

Builds can (and usually do) depend on things that aren't part of your local checkout.

I'd say CitC is a much more accurate representation of the way Piper and blaze "expect" things to work.
1k investment would give you very low returns most of the time. Like $50 in a year.

So you might as well put it into a high risk investment.
That's pretty common feature in most non-DCVS. It was nice having Perforce on the last game I worked on. The art directory was ~500GB and not fun to pull down even with a P4 proxy.
Appalling. Self-indulgent without being funny; barely relevant – note outdated Devo reference– and absolutely without enlightenment, even considering its publication date. I feel resentful that my time was wasted this way.
Can you post the link? Thanks!
The hard cap is the same until it isn't -- when Bcash has to hard fork to infinite inflation in order to incentivize mining because fees won't supplant the mining reward.
Looks interesting, we've just spent a bunch of time getting our deployments done so a bit late for us.

What are your plans for future platforms?
Do you think serverless and apex already handle this for faas? Where is your differentiator there?
> it was not meant as a perfect example of anything

+1 this

I feel like we tend to demonize incremental progress in favor of easy criticism.

Let's maybe ask: "Is this a Good Thing? Is it better than nothing? Is it better than than yesterday's suggestion?"

If you answer no to any of those, shut the fuck up with your criticism and start working on the next iteration.
There’s quite a few approaches, it’s hard to figure out which one is appropriate for this one. I think that enabling setNeedsDisplay and dispatching commands asynchronously might do the trick? With asynchronous dispatch I’ve actually been getting 120 FPS. But it’s very much case by case basis and I might not be understanding the use case.

IIRC this project Gets to 120 when you drag your mouse https://github.com/jtbandes/metalbrot-playground
Thanks for sharing your opinion, let me reason my platitude.

Yes, my disability is not without difficulties -

I have a BMI of a child, with it I have to perform duties of several adults every day. I'm constantly in pain, much of my childhood were spent in hospitals for surgeries on my limb deformities (I underwent ilizarov ring fixation for 4 times, with 2 years completely immobile at different times); perhaps of which physical pain doesn't bother me anymore.

Coming back to my statement, yes I face constant physical difficulties. But every moment I spend thinking about it, I get closer to sitting in a corner of my house for rest of my life like thousands of other disabled persons in my country. It might be called a farce, that "I put up a display of nothing is wrong with me"; then again it might inspire a few to come out of a closet and put up a brave fight against prejudices.