skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm working in the Cape Town area right now and here are a few notes from on the ground:

- If the city water system is largely shut down, like the article says, there will have to be a system of collecting water rations from distribution points.

- It's provoked a lot of class antagonism -- one response has been, "Finally, the well off population will have to carry water home in buckets, the same way as the poor 'township' population has long been doing." Kind of like "welcome to how the other half lives."

- It seems possible that in reality, people with more money will be able to buy their way out of the crisis somewhat (by paying private companies for water delivery, or in some cases by drilling wells on their properties, which isn't otherwise common in the metropolitan area).

- My household has been using about 33 liters per day per person, using pretty standard and obvious water conservation measures (less use of washing machine, minimizing showers, reclaiming shower water with buckets). This is slightly inconvenient but basically allows life to continue normally.

- The whole crisis is massively connected to local and regional politics -- I've only been down here since September so I don't totally understand, but it has to do with the ANC running the country and the oppositional party (the Democratic Alliance) running Cape Town. Some people say that there has been very little assistance from the national government because the ANC sees no reason to assist their political opposition.

- Lots of rumors about private enterprise maneuvering to profit massively from the water crisis -- I even heard a pretty credible story about organized crime using threats of force to extract water from one of the local springs (which are a relatively small but non-negligible source of additional water).

- There's a bit of a generalized sense of panic, like "maybe it will end in total social breakdown, anarchy in the pejorative sense." I can't tell how much of this is reasonable but my guess is that it would have everything to do with how well an alternative water distribution system could be organized.

- One other weird political thing is that, I would think, logically, if you were the city government and you had calculated the maximum available water ration, you would want to start by sanctioning people who exceeded it, instead of just letting the water get used up and then having a complete system failure. There have been threats of increased charges for people who exceed quota, which is a small step in that direction, but it baffles me that they haven't just shut off the taps first for people who are over quota. Apparently there is massive local politics around this (even having a more punitive charge for quota exceeding was recently shot down).

I can provide a lot of links to local news sources if anyone is interested. I haven't seen really great coverage in the international media.
Thanks, I didn’t know that! I use the fish shell, which does history searching differently but this is useful for those few times when I’m in bash.
I've recently moved to this model too. I follow mailing lists and blog feeds via emacs gnus. I don't use fb or twitter bc I don't think the (content value)/(time) ratio is too low
The best I’ve found for Apple platforms is News Explorer. It costs a little but works quite well and syncs read items between devices via iCloud so you aren’t shown old items when you switch devices.
Eh? The latter two are nominally true. They could happen whenever, but so far haven't. The former two will definitely happen we just don't know the time scale.

Yellowstone is on a timer that we don't have access to, and there are projects to drill down into it and deplete the heat, giving us electricity and solving the problem.

With respect to the magnetic pole, this is something that is actually happening.
Observe

The magnetic pole in 2009: https://tools.wmflabs.org/geohack/geohack.php?pagename=North...

The current position of the magnetic pole: https://tools.wmflabs.org/geohack/geohack.php?pagename=North...
If its such a horror- why not make up a company of theire own- instead of hijacking a pre-existing one?
SJW Incooperated then can provide all the search the world ever needed, without a single with male.
I am using reader on wordpress.com [0] - it works fine unless you need categories/folders for your seeds.

[0] https://en.support.wordpress.com/reader/
"And then you're scrambling to figure out how the spammers managed to exploit your setup this time."

...

" ... writing a MTA with the goal of minimizing configuration and being secure and resistant to attacks by default. "

As a 20+ year UNIX sysadmin and fellow owner of my own email infrastructure for 18 of those, I am surprised to read this and am not even sure what you are talking about.

Can you explain what you mean by attacks and exploits from spammers ?

Other than accidentally running as a relay or actually having a remote exploit in your server(s), what are the attacks that you have in mind ?

"Configuration that will soon be exploited in strange ways."

Again, am genuinely interested in an explanation ... other than running as a relay, and maybe handling backscatter (but that's not really config, it's just a blacklist) what are you referring to ?
The biggest issue with the memo is that James Damore attached politics to it. Basically a fair bit of the last part of the memo was an open accusation that Google is leftist and is "alienating conservatives", together with several standard tropes from the populist conservative realm that did not advance his argument very much ("universities are leftist" trope, a strangely oversimplified ding at communism / Marxism, mentioning "political correctness" and violent PC protesters, etc.)

The politics instantly put the memo squarely at one side of the current cultural / political wars. With the current binaries in American politics right now, such will never lead to sober discussion.
Exactly. You have to willfully look for an uncharitable interpretation for either of those interpretations.
Uber is next? :))
Yeah a non-trivial portion of the Romance market is stay at home moms who have down time while the kids are at school (obviously not all day with cooking/cleaning/etc) and they will read multiple books a week commonly.

And on the guys front, plenty of guys read cheap thrillers that are all about explosions and blood without much prose behind them.
I do it for free by using cloudfare as the dns provider and used to do it for free by using the Linode DNS service that comes included with having a VM there.
Resources are scarce, and until we live in Star Trek where we can magically replicate anything, there will be no free lunches.
A friend of mine used to do marketing for a romance novel house and she told me how they used to do stuff like sending small gifts with book club subscriptions and A/B test their effectiveness.

It might just have been her bias but she gave me the impression that sort of stuff mattered quite a lot.
They are proposing that countries where it is very lucrative and popular to write spyware for money are also countries where golang is popular, thus making it a social reason as to why they are getting written in golang as opposed to any technical one like cross compilation.

The list of countries where spyware is written intersected with golang popularity to me is actually a rough one, measuring languages' regional popularity always seems fraught.
I mean, it can be. Just might not be tangible effort. Thought, planning is effort. Banksy, for a beaten to death example.
There is a way simpler explanation: it makes people work harder, longer for no extra money.
Buying a Home in San Francisco Is About to Get Even Harder
>>I don't see inclusion programs as discrimination against the majority.

Well, I guess there's a line between an activity specifically designed to include minorities and an activity specifically designed to exclude the majority. The first one is not discriminatory towards the majority - the second one obviously is. I am fairly certain there is a difference between the two, no?

Going back to my example - if you specifically only offer parental time off to one gender, you are specifically excluding the other one. That's discriminatory, even if that other gender is in majority.

If you run a black history month, you are not specifically excluding white or asian or any other history - you are just focusing on the black history month for now.
Are you suggesting that if someone votes for health care, they’ll get it?
That same technique can be applied to basically anything.

I've setup both multiple times, and have worked with Sendmail since 1994.
Postfix config files are much simpler.

To configure sendmail, you have to do extra layers of weirdness, like deal with "m4". That's mental overhead you just don't have with Postfix.
In my experience, high earning women want even more high earning men because if she can do X, as a man, he should be able to do X+1. I hear this FAR more than anything else.

The second most common thing I hear is that men are intimidated by her. Sometimes this is true and sometimes they are just put off by her aggressive (masculine in their eyes) behavior. She of course rewords it make it sound like he shouldn't have a choice or preference (while she can).

It should be obvious that anyone who is too much of an outlier is going to have issues with marriage. Picture a man who is the image of a soft caring person who strives to be the best caregiver as a stay at home husband. Can he get married? Of course. Will lots of women reject him and think he's not a proper man? You bet! His behavior won't get him mocked my women, in fact he'll be so deep in the friendzone he be surrounded by women. Sexual attraction is another thing.

Regarding the comment about not doing more homework, I see it this way. Many men are simply unwilling to do it. I just can't be bothered. Her level of income won't change my attitude towards this. Does this restrict me to women who earn less? Probably. Most men who chase youth and beauty also end up with women who earn far less. It shows that her income is very low on the priority scale while his exemption from most housework is high.

Your solution is a valid one. Another is to try to make our society a more fair and balanced one so that income isn't as important in a spouse as it's getting to be if you're not already wealthy.
> I can understand not permitting banter at work or in organizations. It makes some people uncomfortable. But what I can't understand is just allowing banter of some ideological bent.

I can. The point of "[only] allowing banter of [a particular] ideological bent" is to enforce conformity to that ideology. When that happens fairness isn't a priority.

> What bothers me is not the language, but the unfairness.

Me too.
I don't use Webpack, would it help with regular website dev? Or is this just for web apps?

Also, does it really make things faster? What about HTTP2/SPDY, do we really care about making everything one file anymore? This seems like a paradigm that is no longer valid (like using tables instead of grid for website layout).
This is certainly a concern, but I'm not convinced it's all that rampant. You can't make much money if you 1) poison your customers, or 2) are a brand new seller (e.g. if you make a new account after every sale to avoid stacking negative community ratings).

And if the buyer isn't testing their drugs before doing them, that's on the buyer. That's the reality of that market.
That suggests the fire truck was stopped in a bad place and had not set up enough warning signs up the road that there was an obstruction in the road. I wouldn't be surprised if the fire truck was found responsible in this case. (That's not to say that auto-driving systems shouldn't be improved to better handle this situation by at least braking before impact!)
> get rich easy schemes.

Inheriting money work well for several friends of mine.

I rather enjoyed my free college experience w/ free lunch plan not to mention a healthy mind and body.
The article goes into one of the issues with masculinity, that of a Provider. However, there are two other aspects that are also critically important in the marriage markets: Protector and Procreator (the 3 P's, in total). These aspects of manhood are fairly universal among cultures and throughout time (many excerpts have been studied, but more serve to prove the rule). It is important to remember that for most males manhood is a continually earned trait, whereas in females womanhood is largely inherent. This means that most males can 'loose' manhood and return to boyhood in the eyes of society. Often this is lumped into the concept of 'honor' (though things really get messy now). The article mostly focuses on the provider role and the interface with money and the decline of 'blue collar' jobs. It would be instructive to also look into the roles of protector that men may not be fulfilling (due possibly to opiod use, obesity, etc) and the procreator role as well (obesity again, other environmental sterilizers, etc) to get a full view of the problems many young people are facing.

A good introduction on the 'universal' traits of manhood can be found here: https://www.artofmanliness.com/2014/03/31/the-3-ps-of-manhoo...
Areas of empirical evidence and research are plenty - maybe you can look instead of using it as the first shot across the bow? Topics like Truth and Reconciliation will grease logic wheels into a nicely polished mirror and uncover other areas of study.

Sorry another person's reality can be effortlessly maligned as window dressing to you. Happy to chat offline and you can report back here - email is in my profile. Happy to do a hangout too.

A reality is it's easy to marginalize and dehumanize those you haven't had to sit down, face to face and have an interaction with and have to consider that they might actually hold you to task as much as you are holding them to task.

Getting along with others doesn't only involve logic and the mind.

Interpersonal skills are not purely logical, they require a balanced ability to use one's emotions with intelligence and maturity.

In business settings, teams that practice deep horizontal loyalty generally outperform teams that borderline tolerate each other but would prefer not to. Similar effects happen on sports teams that have proverbial Cinderella runs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_and_reconciliation_commi...

http://horizontalloyalty.com/#/title
Ok, based on the replies I understand that many in this thread think white bigotry and other bigotry are equal. That's probably a mistake, but I can see why "fire bigoted white men" is triggering so those who think that way.
At 80mph, 2 seconds is about 240 feet (72 metres); 3 seconds 360 feet (108 metres). I'd expect to have my safety buffer merged into with a three second gap. It can still happen with a 2 second gap, but it's a lot less likely.
We get a lot of projects that just start with a page on STOMT to collect wishes for the project. It's basically a mix of feedback management and community building.

Example: https://www.stomt.com/stomt
We used it to collect and manage our own ideas and at the same time we shared labeled stomts with friends and used this as priorization tool while building the platform itself.

Mostly used by game developers we get more and more SaaS and app projects on board. It has a freemium tier that is good enough to let your project becoming big.

Edit: And btw.. users don't have to sign up but can leave their e-mail address optionally to get notified.
You can never actually replace what the reference is bound to in C++, you can only call the assignment operator. The real distinction here is that in languages like Java and python, assignment is fundamentally different from mutation. In C++ there is no distinction, assignment is just a form of mutation.
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>but its manual does warn that the system is ill-equipped to handle this exact sort of situation: “Traffic-Aware Cruise Control cannot detect all objects and may not brake/decelerate for stationary vehicles, especially in situations when you are driving over 50 mph (80 km/h) and a vehicle you are following moves out of your driving path and a stationary vehicle or object is in front of you instead.

Yeah that definitely sounds 100% autonomous... ship it!
2^77,232,917 - 1: Largest Prime Found To Date Through GIMPS Project
If you don’t have a giant military force, national security starts to critically depend on intelligence.
My experience was quite the opposite (granted I'm an ops guy these days anyhow). I've been self-hosting mail for ages with a postfix + dovecot + cyrus + spamassassin + opendkim + dkimproxy + lets encrypt stack. Everything just works, although I'm going to move it into a jail sooner than later so I can rebuild it more easily.

The biggest pain is no longer having a static IP or reverse DNS (thanks Sonic!). Having reverse DNS setup and an IP address that doesn't map to a pool of dynamic IPs are the big things that will keep you off of spam lists.

Coming from sendmail I think postfix and dovecot have been a breath of fresh air. The defaults generally just work. Getting inbound (so spamassassin can check) and outbound dkim to work were the trickiest part. Aside from regular OS updates it's largely hands off.
Sounds interesting. Please let us know when you've started it. :)
I always heard that connective tissue can be weakened by the virus and thus high level athletes are more susceptible to injuries like tendon rupture post-virus.
It's still illegal to text or otherwise use a handheld phone while driving, even with the automation that we have on some cars now. I imagine this will be the case until the automation is so complete that there is no longer a steering wheel.

I still see people driving around while holding phones to their ears. There needs to be a change to make it socially unacceptable to do this. You only need to be caught twice to lose your license.

It's also illegal to drive distracted. While it's technically legal to use a hands-free telephone, if you could be described as "distracted" because of it, it's illegal.
To be fair, it was for the anti-gay marriage prop, not just some generic right wing thing.
I linked to two pictures with large static objects at the same height as parts of the road.
I think he's implicitly saying that Trump is a Russian asset.
Uh...hm. Y'know, since you put it that way, I have saved a decent amount of money working and am thinking of starting a new business, but I'm concerned about the myriad layers of risk.

I could just move to a country that has health care and invest there, though. Great idea!
The previous HN discussion was decent -- especially in ecological and practical terms -- but probably left room for more analysis of the cultural and political factors involved in the crisis (I say this as a cultural anthropologist!).
Oh, oh, oh! I've seen this movie!

The protagonists have a limited opportunity to go back in time and attempt to thwart the crime, prevent a catastrophe. Paradoxes! Unintended consequences! Regrets!

Now all we need is a working time machine.
I love the idea of more and more people trying to get away from platforms. But for the love of all things good, please:

1. Don't use wordpress, you'll catch a virus.

2. Don't use scroll-jackers, your OS/Browser combination should provide the best scrolling experience for your user, if you hate your own scroll experience, get a better browser/OS, don't FK with the one I have it's perfect.

3. Don't use pop-ups that cover content to sign up - EVERYONE I know immediately closes the page and never returns when that happens... it's kinda the opposite of what you want right?
I think the alternate proposal is that semi-automated driving is a bad idea and shouldn't be a thing. It's not on an HN poster to solve the problem for Tesla.
I have to say, I've been running my own mail server without a single problem for years. OK, the way I do it is a stretch of the definition of "running my own web server" but I have full control.

What do I do?

Get a nice VPS from a company like GoDaddy. Setup whatever domains you need. Setup as many email accounts as needed. And off you go. No problem. I don't even have to think about email.

I thought about rolling my own on one of our Linode servers but every time I compare the no-brainer of doing the above to what it would take to run this ourselves on Linodes I can't justify the pain and aggravation.

What I don't like about the Gmail approach (other than it is Gmail and I do not trust Google to not shut down all of our accounts for some stupid reason) is the cost. I can spend a few bucks a month on a VPS and have a hundred email addresses. The same on Gmail would cost significantly more and you would be under their irrational thumb.

A few years ago I looked into running Zimbra on Linode. Back then it was so resource hungry it just didn't make any sense. I wonder if it has gotten any better over time? I really like the concept.
Raycasting demo in React with DOM, not canvas
– GIMPS press release from January, 3rd 2018: https://www.mersenne.org/primes/press/M77232917.html

– Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16063946
We do this every morning at 8am sharp for 30 minutes. I finally just decided not to attend as the inertia from just sitting there was killing my morning productivity.
But then to ensure that that 'right' unknown person is at the meeting you basically have to invite the whole company. Much better to send out a quick "hey, anybody done any work with Monte Carlo simulations before" on the company mailing list.

Maybe twice a year you can have a big 'all-hands' all day work shop where you go through and discuss major long term issues.
Conway chained arrow notation [0] is really mind blowing. The simple notation of “3 -> 3 -> 3 -> 3” results in a number that is larger than Graham’s number.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway_chained_arrow_notation
But how can you tell they are 4 meters above the ground level. Nothing in the image directly shows the last row of signs are that high off the road.

We can say they are not close enough to be a problem yet, but all I am pointing out is it's a harder problem than your thinking about with a lot of potential false positives.
Am I doing it right? No wordpress, no js (at all!), no popups, just (low quality) content.

https://klezlab.it

EDIT: damn, I just noticed the date on the most recent post. I should give the blog some more love...
I'm saying that I'm more inclined to group Soros and Koch brothers together in one group, and hateful audiences on both in the second group. I'm also inclined to dislike that second group more than the first one.
I'm going to assume sarcasm here, given we're talking about content which is purely text, without interactive bits.

EDIT especially after looking at the source: it's a CSS blanking to show signup for newsletters. Once the CSS is disabled, the text is there.
Improving privacy without breaking the web
​Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 is ready for testing
[random advice from the internet]

If there are papers to sign in exchange, negotiation is possible, but may or may not be worth it. At a minimum it is worth closely reading what is contained in those documents. At the midlevel paying an attorney to review them is not unreasonable. At the top end, hiring an attorney to negotiate the severance contract (and that's what sign this for that boils down to) on your behalf is always an option.

When I say it might not be worth negotiating, I mean that moving forward toward a new job is a necessary step and negotiating severance is a step in a different direction (a potential distraction). On the other hand, if you have a relationship with a higher up, calling them and saying that three weeks seems a bit thin after nine years, might be all it takes...with the caveat that the context is sensitive and framing anything in a way that puts the other party on the defensive will probably backfire...they will or won't find their own way to seeing an "injustice". Let them draw their own conclusions. Heck, you might even wind up getting a position elsewhere in the organization.

Good luck.