skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Wow. This is the most bigoted comment I've read on HN in a while. Thanks for starting my day off with that, I guess...
> I'll never understand why serving static(!) sites is so hard.

It's not hard. They're all adding stupid bloat for no good reason.

When my blog was on the frontpage, traffic peaked at 1 Mbit/s (that's megabits, not megabytes) and CPU load peaked at 5% of a single core (and only because that box runs a dozen services in parallel).

Everyone who's blog cannot withstand the HN crowd deserves to have their computer operator's license revoked.
If you read the article, you will see a that a lot of professors in more artistic fields (and many such programs) are being shut down. I don't think that is what you want from a University.
Is that really that much of an issue though? The current generation of monitors and TVs are probably going to become obsolete before they stop working.

Yes you can still watch the new series of Star Trek on a 26" CRT, but it'll look a lot nicer on a 55" 4K HDR OLED. In 10 years time I'm sure that will look just as outdated.
ů and ú are pronounced the same in czech /u:/ - the only difference is grammar. There are very obscure rules as when to to write ů or ú (wheter it's in the middle of the word, end of the word, exclamations etc...)

Slovak language also has ú and to my ears it's pronounced the same as in czech. ô is pronounced /uo/. It might be that the pronunciation has changed in czech language during hundreds of years. Same is the case of ä in slovak that used to have different pronunciation to a regular e but after many years (people being lazy) it is just being pronounced as a regular e.

So if we talk about pronunciation used these days then ů and ô are not pronounced the same at all.

I'm no historian/linguist. Born in slovakia studied in czech republic
Sweden and Norway, both flagship nanny states are extremely entrepreneurial and not just by volume but success. This goes against the logic you can't have social support and people reaching for entrepreneurial success.

I think, though know this is anecdotal, US startup success is based largely on its market size of both consumers and venture capital.
Seems to be nothing of interest to Hacker News.

I wish people would stop posting political nonsense here.
A lot of these comments due a great job of hitting the nail on the head on most issues, but I have not seen someone talk about the fact that the United States believes in treating versus _prevention and or curing_.
> Charities don't build roads or other infrastructure, or test food for safety concerns, or build other large scale useful works that life people out of poverty at scale.

Also, charities don't bomb the living shit out of strangers around the world.
Sure, I could add if/thens to my apps for each specific undesirable scenario, but I would much rather prefer to solve the underlying bugs.
The best performance can be had by just dumping some .html files into a directory and pointing nginx/Apache/whatever at it.

Static site generators are a thing now.
Its "brain drain" and no way is it colonialism. None of these students are being "made" to emigrate; in fact a sizable amount actually return to their home countries.
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Not so strange. We just parted a few months ago from our 4:3 29 inch trinitron. It still worked, but we wanted a bigger screen for our new home. I never liked LCD so replaced it with a Sony OLED (yes I know the panel is from LG)
I use Debian 9 with gnome. I don't know what I'm missing by not using one of these other distributions and don't care enough to seek out that information because I have thus far managed to do everything I need with Debian, and have used it for years.

Damn. Maybe I need to look around.
Czech/Slovak speaker here. Slovak kept the original sound /uo/, which is written as ô. There are many words with a simple ô/ů substitution, for example Czech “trůn” /tru:n/ vs. Slovak “trôn” /truon/, meaning “throne”.

So no, they are not phonetically equivalent, but they are related.
The theory that I’ve heard is that reliable heating lead to the general decline in hat wearing. Not sure what to think.

If you look at pictures taken in public places as late as the 1950s then almost everyone is wearing a hat.
Quiz: Did You Lose 10 Pounds or Clean Out Your Inbox?
The Case for the Subway
Have you watched the documentary the 13th? It covers severe issues with the incarceration rate in the United States, for example, the high proportion of black people incarcerated for the same crimes white people are completely let go of or otherwise not charges. How the justice system is very selective on what laws to enforce along racial lines. Stop and frisk turned out to mean “stop all the black people exclusively and search them”. How people are pressured to take plea deals even though they may indeed be innocent. How the police have been known to literally plant evidence or incite violence within communities or protests to force arrests.
The reason this is being brought up is because often these litigations end with zero funds being transferred to the artists themselves. It’s not in the artists interests to sue for _damages_ if they make no money. That is the sketchy thing that this type of litigation exudes.
millstone was saying that the president doesn't pay many bills. He can generate them, though.
Depends on the display, yes you could run too high of a resolution on many CRTs but a good one maintained flicker-free operation and focus.
Apple didn't have to replace batteries, they chose to do it to quiet down the bad PR they were receiving.

When Intel issues a microcode update to slow down aging Skylake processors so that everyone goes out to buy Cannonlake, you might be able to draw a comparison.
> You are missing a very important point which is that the US is a country of immigration and of different states the US is a very very very big country.

And yet not even the biggest country in North America, an entire continent of immigration; the only difference between the people in what is now the USA and what is now Canada was the degree of loyalism to the British.

> America IS the land of opportunity and I would challenge you to find any other country which provides better opportunity and still protect your rights as well.

For that not to be just an empty slogan you'd have to explain what you mean by "opportunity" and "rights", to which races and genders those opportunities and rights have historically applied to in actuality, and how you think every other country suppresses or represses those rights or opportunities.

> So the country is build on tough women and men.

The USA was "built" (leaving aside how) by, among others, Danes, Dutch and Germans. I don't understand how they suddenly became tougher, just by stepping on a boat.

Edit: and there goes the autodownvote bot, within not even enough time to read this post.
The problem with Debian is that there is no One True Way to build packages. Instead everybody builds wrapper scripts calling other wrapper scripts and it builds up into a giant mess.

I'm guilty of this myself. The script I made is heavily inspired by Arch. The resulting script for Firefox is like this: https://github.com/qznc/simpledeb/blob/master/test/firefox.D...
My point was that SA itself is an evangelical charity. But you're right that SA (like many religions) considers homosexuality to be sinful to the extent that they'll employ LGBT people in all positions except clergy, and they've served LGBT people in need long before it was fashionable.
No I am responding the OP who mixed in a lot of different discussions into his analysis of why the US spend much more than other nations.

We are talking about a very specific idea of opportunity (the american dream) which was what I responded to.

When it comes to social mobility again Denmark isn't doing much better than the US. I would recommend you read the Rockwool Foundation report on this matter. I am well aware of social mobility and wha tit means.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28649168
Given that iTunes provides DRM free tracks, the utility it provides is irrevocable offline reproduction
New cancer treatments have perplexing side effects
The Logic Puzzle You Can Only Solve with Your Brightest Friend
i have visited your website but cant seen any section where it is mentioned that the company is remote friendly

thanks
What's the Dutch perspective on American media?
He said "heavily contended", and then you dropped the "heavily" prefix and claimed that was literally what he said. That adverb is material to the discussion and your dropping it completely changes the meaning.

I concur with his opinion. Infrequent contention is not a bug; otherwise no mutex is needed. Frequent contention (or heavy contention in his words) is a performance bug.
Most deployed JavaScript isn't source code.
Did you also consider OpenStack, which is what this post is about; OpenShift isn't really the same thing, and also doesn't really compete with OpnStack.
How to advertise your newly launched startup?
Taking control over network cards in user space seems doable nowdays. There was a talk about doing such drivers with IOMMU/DMA at CCC: https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9159-demystifying_network_cards
> Social mobility is not what "land of opportunity means" it's not meant to be an equal society in the normal sense. It's meant to be a society with opportunities.

Social equality and social mobility are almost opposite ideas. Mobility measures how likely (easy) it is to climb up the ladder, if you're good and/or lucky. Equality measures how steep/long is the ladder - in a totally equal society, there wouldn't be a ladder at all, so there would be zero social mobility.
Okay let's take Norway as an example. It's a smaller country ofcourse, but there's no reason this can't scale.

In Norway, fewer than 4,000 of the country's 5 million people were behind bars as of August 2014.

That makes Norway's incarceration rate just 75 per 100,000 people, compared to 707 people for every 100,000 people in the US.

On top of that, when criminals in Norway leave prison, they stay out. It has one of the lowest recidivism rates in the world at 20%. The US has one of the highest: 76.6% of prisoners are re-arrested within five years.

Norway also has a relatively low level of crime compared to the US, according to the Bureau of Diplomatic Security. The majority of crimes reported to police there are theft-related incidents, and violent crime is mostly confined to areas with drug trafficking and gang problems.

Based on that information, it's safe to assume Norway's criminal justice system is doing something right. Few citizens there go to prison, and those who do usually go only once. So how does Norway accomplish this feat? The country relies on a concept called "restorative justice," which aims to repair the harm caused by crime rather than punish people. This system focuses on rehabilitating prisoners.
> "The more i have had to deal with the Linux ecosystem, the less i want to do with the bleeding edge of it."

Sure, but that's not what I was getting at. If the bleeding edge of Linux didn't have any attractive features, hardly anyone would use the features from it in their desktop OS.

Consider a use case. Take gaming for example. Let's say you want to get the best performance for gaming on Linux, so you don't have to upgrade your gaming rig to play a game that your existing rig should be able to handle. As far as I'm aware, there have been quite a few improvements made to GPU performance in recent kernels, particularly with AMD. What distro is going to be best for Linux gamers?

You could use the newer kernel with Debian Stable, but as the age of the platform grows, there's a high chance of mismatches between libraries. In other words, if you stick with the stock distro then stable branches have benefits, but if you introduce any new features that haven't been through the level of testing given to the stock components the guarantees of stability go out of the window.
I was hopeful to see something about the difference in how countries control the supply of doctors, but looks like we'll need to wait longer till someone thinks to look into it. These well-trodden 'insights' must be too tempting.
PaperCSS v1.4 Released (now built with SCSS and Hugo docs)
> Your source on that? All the schools I’m in contact with are still as international as ever in their CS PhD departments. I’m not sure what the trends are outside of CS, but I can’t imagine they would be very different. I think you are just pulling this number out of thin air.

So you're asking for a source when your own view is based on anecdotes? Great.
While it stands out to me (for different reasons than you think), it doesn't evoke a message of awareness. I see "fixing" one issue by creating another as worse than doing nothing. Especially since there's a clear way how to solve it.

And "they" is such a great concept in my opinion. Along with having neutral position name, there's no bias towards one gender. That is not possible in my native language, there would be different word for male and female occupations (think actor/actress, but for virtually everything).
As an aside, there was a professor of mine in college that had a startup to apply an electric current through some rods and pins to stimulate osteoblast formation and therefore better osseointegration.
"Imagine to never be able to get that one feature you need because it's only in a more recent version."

Everything important has been online for a long time. The web browser refresh button works fine.
Researchers measure the inner structure of distant suns from their pulsations
I know that it is not what you are asking for, but I believe Facebook messenger indeed does this. So it is certainly not a technical limitation but purely a lacking implementation.
As far as I know it's not trôn but trón in slovak ...

EDIT: Thinking about it, kůň and kôň (horse) might be a better example
Depends, am I black?
My trinitron started having issues after 10 years. At first the colors would shift and in the end everything would be greenish, if I remember correctly.
I bought the Vision Master Pro 410 in the early 2000's (http://vesta.homelinux.free.fr/wiki/iiyama_vmpro410.jpg), fantastic monitor, my last CRT. Worked great up until ~2008 when I replaced it with an LCD. Crappier quality but I reclaimed half of my desk.
> I don't understand how they suddenly became tougher, just by stepping on a boat.

I don't understand the OP's point, but "selection bias" is why many immigrant populations out-perform their counterparts back home. The folks who are willing to strike out are necessarily more intrepid.
because of the same problem as other contracts the lack of trustworthy Oracles, you need some trusted third-party to confirm what happened on the real world.
I have been a Debian user forever, but my current go-to for "recommending Linux to friends" is Ubuntu Studio.

Latest release pretty much rocks, everything works smoothly out of the box, and the system is set up and ready for multimedia audio/video/etc. content creation.

It still quite Debian underneath, but there is a lot to be said for having a multimedia workstation ready to go, out of the box, on the other end of the spectrum ..
> The average student loan debt is something like $40K, not $200K

You are correct, I picked the most extreme cases to make a point. Here in the Netherlands €40k is about the maximum you'd get and that is after taking your time and having a lavish lifestyle. The schools themselves are only €2k a year, currently.
Until we have the ability to make/tailor drugs to the individual, there will always be side effects.

Also throw in the fact that curing someone is not nearly as profitable as treating them. It's the American way!
Most nutritionists like to cherry pick studies that support their cause (even when they're low quality observational studies) and attack studies that oppose it. Michael Greger (the author of nutritionfacts) is quite the typical example (don't get me wrong, Gary Taubes has done that too in the "opposing" camp)

The most likely theory I've seen is:

1. We have a certain amount of genetic propensity for higher-than-necessary insulin secretion

2. How we develop that propensity is still unknown (!).

Gary Taubes likes the sugar hypothesis (i.e. something about fructose metabolism in the liver causes the system's self-regulation to fail) but thats mostly supported by observational studies - the mechanics aren't clear at all.

Michael Greger likes the lipid hypothesis (fat inhibits muscle ability to absorb carbohydrates i.e. causes insulin resistance) but that doesn't explain why the liver continues to produce tons of fat despite its insulin receptors being clogged.

Jason Fung likes the overflow hypotheis (as the muscles get fuller of glycogen, they're less able to store blood glucose, which means more insulin is needed to do it - however the liver isn't resistant and insulin upregulates its fat production) - but that doesn't fully explain how there are people who do lots of heavy physical activity yet remain obese and insulin resistant.

Its possible that any subset of the above could be a cause if excessive enough - high GI carbs to raise the blood sugar, fat to slow sugar absorption and lack of exercise to keep your muscle cells overfilled with glycogen all contribute to high insulin secretion, together.

3. Insulin definitely regulates fat accumulation in fat cells. No doubt about it - more insulin means less fat released by fat cells and more carbs converted to fats by the liver and stored in fat cells. Insulin also blocks leptin which signals our brain that we're full, so we feel hungrier.

4. Keto and fasting definitely work in that they remove the primary reason for insulin to secrete. You can't have raised insulin secretion if you don't have a lot of sugars in your blood to start with.

5. Its possible that vegans (on average) also remove the secondary reason for insulin to over-secrete, whatever that is. Keep in mind that vegans on average are more mindful about having a healthy lifestyle, so it could be any number of things (correlation is not causation). But if veganism itself was the definite fix, we would expect to see no long-term vegans that are obese. Good averages to compare would be long-term vegans with long-term "ketoers"

Keep in mind, the mechanisms to prevent weight gain are very different from those needed to actually lose weight. The first one is about maintaining a stable homeostatic state while the second one is about deliberately causing a different non-homeostatic state.
VAC will not ban you for simply having catbot in your user name
Varnish backwards compatible
Do you know if varnish 5.0 (server side) is backwards compatible with 4.1 and whether the latest version 5.2.1 works with 4.1. Can't find it anywhere in the docs.
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Tim Urban of Wait but Why
Solar panel analysis pt 3: Scanning for objects
In practice CRTs went up tp 22", LCDs eventually matched that with the 20" displays, but that didn't exactly happen overnight.

You are comparing an old and small CRT to an LCD of a different era. You could have bought a better and just as big CRT instead if you had wanted to.

(Not saying that you should have, but I find it weird to state that LCDs were bigger, that happened when the 24" widescreens arrived (at a ludicrous price)).
Not windows 10.
Switzerland did wonders for Kim Jong Un.
There is a fundamental difference between system and applications. All common Linux distro unify them into one package management mechanism. Your comment suggests that NixOS is flexible enough to make a split.

Android and iOS clearly separate system and applications and it mostly works fine.

Ubuntu tries to split off applications via snap [0], but so far adoption seems marginal.

[0] https://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/snappy
Let me ask you: do you think lesser funding will make the universities admit more international students that pay less tuition? I, for one, don't see that happening. Especially in state schools.

There is a market to provide good education. Some students have the merit and the means to pay for it, others don't have the means but have merit. It makes 0 sense to deny those that are able to pay just because they can.