skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firstly, it's not unjustified to say that someone who thinks vanilla JavaScript is "bare metal" obviously doesn't know what they're talking about. Secondly, as a software-engineer-in-training, I agree - software "engineering" doesn't have much in common with other engineering, but I think that's a good thing for software.
This blog post is good evidence of the quality of thought that exists on the political left, and revives my belief that the left will eventually win the misguided attacks on “political correctness” culture. The comment section reinforces this even further.
33, not the last thing I learned, but the last thing I put sustained long term (since December) effort to learn is sleight of hand and card magic in general. I went from knowing almost nothing about it to being able to perform multiple illusions and tricks, and being able to understand the mechanics of many magicians’ routines that I see on television or YouTube. Still have a long way to go, though.
It's set in the page itself: https://github.com/jdittrich/quickMockup/blob/e8406d5fd016b1....

It couldn't really be any more trivial to change.
The shape of the income distribution is more important than the median number. The inequality is huge and growing, only a small fraction have the median income.
The article uses a quote of a quote.

The Guardian attributes

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/24/most-americans-live-paycheck...

Who attribute a "CareerBuilder Study"

>The job-hunting site polled over 2,000 hiring and human resource managers and more than 3,000 full-time employees between May and June.

Which you can find a synopsis of here

http://press.careerbuilder.com/2017-08-24-Living-Paycheck-to...

Which states

>Having a higher salary doesn't necessarily mean money woes are behind you, with nearly one in 10 workers making $100,000 or more (9 percent) saying they usually or always live paycheck-to-paycheck and 59 percent in that income bracket in debt. Twenty-eight percent of workers making $50,000-$99,999 usually or always live paycheck to paycheck, 70 percent are in debt; and 51 percent of those making less than $50,000 usually or always live paycheck to paycheck to make ends meet, 73 percent are in debt.

At least the Guardian attributing it now.
Are Muslims originating from India not Indians?
Simply put, the vast majority of American workers have lost just about all their bargaining power.

And yet not a word about tens of millions of people immigrating to the US. As if supply didn't matter. It's unions and oligopolies. Sure.
Just wanted to note: focus follows mouse is possible with Terminal.app with

defaults write com.apple.Terminal FocusFollowsMouse -bool true

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/98310/focus-follows-mous...
Welds are actually weak points as far as I'm aware. Perhaps reducing them and using another method (usually adhesive) is actually stronger overall. It can also reduce weight. It's why a lot of high end cars these days use bonded aluminium panels instead of spot welds.
I think those aren't the only choices. There's another. We could just eliminate it. Dismantle the whole apparatus introduced after 9/11, roll back each and every single security "improvement" since then at airports (which does nothing but make the long lines awaiting security screening an easier and much better target than any flight). 9/11 was basically a vaccine against hijackings. It only worked because prior hijackings resulted in nothing more than the flight being redirected to some different destination. But now that every person in the world getting on a flight knows that the potential exists that the plane will be turned into a flying bomb, hijacking is basically impossible. Do you think a pilot will open the door because a hijacker is holding a flight attendant hostage with a box cutter? Do you think that the would-be hijacker won't be crushed under nearly every able-bodied passenger on the flight piling themselves on top of the hijacker?

If there's still concern over hijacking, that solution is super simple. They do it in Israel. Separate entrances for pilot and passengers. Only way to get from the passenger compartment into the pilots cabin is by exiting the airplane and entering a separate door from the outside. Boom. Hijacking impossible. The security theater of the TSA does not keep anyone safe.
That is what happens when you have Big Gov
A brief history of the peace symbol
Robert Reich has become a very compelling and rational voice on these issues, making the problems and their causes much easier to understand. I strongly recommend his documentary at http://inequalityforall.com as well numerous other easily found pieces he's put out.
"Go Service Yourself" is the latest fad in Concurrent Micro-Managed Golang Function-As-A-Service Oriented Architecture Implementing Robust Distributed Parallel Y-Combinator Cloud Servers with Amazon Lambda, so other Amazon Lambda Functions can recursively call Themselves without knowing Their own names.
You will be sued by Warner Brothers...
If your browser supports web push spec, yes!
45, yesterday I learned how to fingerpick “don’t think twice, it’s alright” by bob Dylan on the ukulele.
> I take it the life forms were spherical and flat discs have broken off

Exactly, yes:

https://twitter.com/ferrisjabr/status/1023256798470463489
Dietary supplement and cosmetics are not very regulated in the US compared to other countries.

Selling used bras? Some people might argue this justifies and even higher price.
Before clicking the link I was expecting some light sexism, I was not prepared for women employees opening bottles stuck between men's legs. Wow
63. Docker. I have Plex, Wordpress, Nagios, SQL Server, Pihole, and VPN containers in a CentOS VM under Parallels on my Mac. It’s been fun setting this up.
Only Norway has any real quantity of oil. Sweden has none. Denmark only has a little. Finland – albeit not technically in Scandinavia, but related since it's part of the Nordic Countries – also don't have oil. And while we're at it, also Iceland don't have oil. That should give you a better idea of how well these countries are being run. Also consider that the dream country of Reich – Venezuela – has tons of oil...

While we're at it, neither Denmark nor Norway are "Democratic Socialist" states. Heck, not even Sweden, though they are marred with a Left-Wing government. They are instead Market-liberal Capitalist Welfare States. While the policies of these countries are "social" they're not Social-ist. Please make a clear distinction between the two, because Socialism – the thing Robert Reich stands for – is anything but what we have here in Norway. But like in most countries, you'll find commies also here. That doesn't mean either Communism or Socialism are viable political ideologies. Quite the contrary!
Homo sapiens has continued to exist without government for far longer than it has existed with government. But existence isn't really the point. Quality of life is what matters. But this is very hard to measure.

I imagine quality of life is good in the US. But they continue to build up an enormous debt to maintain it.
Tens of millions? That seems like a lot. Over what period?
More cars that you'd think have rear drum brakes.

Sure, legacy. But this entire discussion started with Tesla. Which has a much more sophisticated system. Even the entry level current generation Honda Civic LX has 4 wheel disc brakes (which, granted, aren't much different than drums).

not really germane to the complexity of maintaining brake systems

The poster I responded to said "fixing them". I consider that to be much different than your word "maintaining". Maintaining is much easier than fixing. Tesla probably keeps their codes secret and won't sell you any replacement electronic parts anyway. The practical result of this is IMO quite the opposite of "dead simple".
XSS in Open-Book
Random remarks:

* You have no moral obligation to release something as open source.

* Open sourcing a project is not free. It's work. You have to manage maintenance/releases/contributions/etc, in a way that will match your audience's expectation (much more than for a closed source app). If you fail to do so someone will fork it and de facto take over your project. In general, do not open source your project if you're not ready to put in the extra work.

* Typically when you open-source you don't sell licenses, you sell support contracts. If it's cheaper for enterprise customers to pay for maintenance than to update the software by themselves, they'll pay. If your software requires your expertise (i.e. it's complex and/or specialized enough) this might be a valid option.

* If you're still on the fence, consider releasing a 'lite/free' edition, i.e. closed source with some hard limits, so that individuals and small teams can use it at no cost, and then see where it goes regarding that particular edition.
In a discussion of the economics of a far future spacefaring human civilization, someone once suggested diatomaceous earth as one of the few raw materials that might be exported from Earth, since it might well not occur anywhere else!
As the other respondent says, it depends on your view of accidentally involving the innocent in police activity.

In an ideal world, someone wrongly identified would just be questioned, they'd identify that there was an error and there's no physical impact just a brief disruption. That is the approach which genuinely could be beneficial to society.

However, I am somewhat concerned that many police officers won't keep the fact that it's fairly likely to be wrong in the forefront of their minds. Combine that with an eagerness amongst some police to start applying "justice" immediately (rough use of handcuffing, pushing to the ground etc), at best treating people like hospital trolleys and at worst inflicting injury, and it's a recipe for escalation and injustice in scenarios involving completely innocent people (and you could argue it shouldn't happen with those who turn out to be guilty too, but that's a distraction!)
Quote(trying to fit it to narrow widt, for others on mobile):

curl -s \
'https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x1657198823E52A61'
| gpg --import \
&& if z=$(curl -s 'https://install.zerotier.com/' | gpg);
then echo "$z"
| sudo bash;
fi

It's interesting - it tries to import a given gpg key from keyserver, then grabs a gpg armored text file with a bash header - with the gpg header wrapped in a here-document:

#!/bin/bash
<<ENDOFSIGSTART=
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA256

ENDOFSIGSTART=

I'm unsure, but I think you could just stick your malicious code before the signature?

#!/bin/bash
sudo much_evil
<<ENDOFSIGSTART=
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA256

ENDOFSIGSTART=

So it really isn't any better, as far as I can tell. There's also a trade-off between scripts that can be typed (curl https://i.com.com) and need copy-pasting - as copy-pasting also isn't safe - even if that's a somewhat different attack vector (compromising the web site, altering js depending on visitor).
Not you, you're part of the simulation. It's just superasn, Elon Musk, and a bunch of goldfish used to generate entropy.
But that's for a 40 hour work week, there's many workers that want to work 40 hours but have jobs where they can't work that much.
It's because the economy isn't a fixed size pie. More people means more demand, especially in a consumptive economy like the US has (those scary trade deficits we run are clear evidence that consumption is higher than production).

It's also not the case that borders can protect workers from competition. Especially in the long run.
I feel like experts 'get things done' with less tech debt though and are therefore more beneficial to have on a project.
What's making this sad is that salary and worker performance are almost always completely disconnected. A responsible worker has no way out of their situation. It's pretty demoralizing if you ask me.
Yet the US economy is huge. I don't understand either.
What's strange is Europeans are constantly told that everything is so much cheaper in the US. I used to earn that median salary according to current exchange rates, and I had an incredibly comfortable life. Owned my own car. Never worried about finances at all.
Casey Muratori: The Thirty Million Line Problem
yep. That was my point, $59,000 seems too high.
Why do you think the social safety net is non-existent? The US has tons of social welfare programs:

- TANF (temporary assistance for needy families)

- Medicaid

- SNAP (food stamps)

- CHIP (child health insurance program)

- unemployment

- disability

- housing assistance

- social security

- ...

States and cities also have many welfare programs along with private charities.

It is absolutely possible to save money on an average salary. In general, Americans are indebted and live beyond their means by choice, not by necessity. And once they get into the debt cycle it can be extremely difficult to get out.

Check out Dave Ramsey for practical tips: https://www.daveramsey.com/store/product/the-total-money-mak...
Hm, seems pretty straightforward. Can't think of any "interesting" consequences right now, but I wouldn't be surprised if there's a few interesting things about it that I'm not thinking of right now.
No. That would be a grave security hole.

In the git-crypt's case, "git-crypt init" adds this to your .git/config:

[filter "git-crypt"]
smudge = \"git-crypt\" smudge
clean = \"git-crypt\" clean
required = true
I don't quite get where you're trying to direct this conversation. You're saying that an American's quality of life is high, but this seems to contradict what the parent comment mentions. You don't seem like you are disagreeing with that comment, though.
Addressing and Name-Independent Routing – Yggdrasil
This fails to differentiate between intention, action, and interpretation. Wanting to stand out from the crowd, being clever, having a clever idea, and being an asshole are all judgements. What is the intention? What actions might address that intention? Privacy in communication is emphasized, but general points like this apply to all communication. References might be missed, so be careful with them especially the first time.

What seems especially odd is that this post is an apparently unintentional example of the failure mode being discussed. Instead of directly talking about the risk of misunderstanding and how to limit that using simplification a bunch of colorful but ultimately distracting discourse keeps the focus on judgements about character and intent and assembling the clever asshole strawman.
One company attempting to make commercial products:

https://www.google.com/search?q=storen+technologies&oq=store...

On a bigger Grid scale:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UniEnergy_Technologies
What percentage of countries are as wealthy as the United States, while at the same time having the majority of their population living at this level of tenuousness?
It allows more spending by taxpayers for the military industrial complex, more invasion of privacy, increased government power, and makes the populace mentally prepared to be repressed. It’s a jobs program for people who don’t want to do manual labor, and aren’t smart enough to do anything else.

Perfect for power hungry organizations. Only solution to combat this is full transparency, or to join the game and make it to the “elite” and help suppress everyone else. It’s a pretty good setup, you use the bottom 20% to help keep the 20% to 80% in line, and then pluck out a few of the smarter 20% to 80% and drop those in leadership positions in military or police and pay them a nice pension and keep suctioining up a bigger and bigger share of resources.
Didn't read the paper, but see apenwarr's comment. Something is very theoretical (to be polite) here.
Yes, it should imply a right to repair for all types of items.

Mind you, right to repair is a separate question from right to use on public streets. The former is between the manufacturer and the owner, the latter is between the owner and the public/the state. There may be additional requirements to be allowed to use a repaired vehicle on public streets, but the important point is that that is none of the manufacturer's business, the requirements are set by the state, not by the manufacturer.
Tutorial: Getting Started with Quantum Computing in Python (Part Two)
zip codes. Whenever I see a form saying "enter your zip code" I know I'm in for a terrible user experience :(
I honestly just go by how I'm feeling. If I'm tense or restless, I might take some magnesium citrate before bed to help me sleep. If I'm feeling dehydrated or constipated, I'll take some magnesium citrate or an electrolyte drink packet with magnesium and potassium salts. If I'm anxious, I can take an epsom salt bath.
>I've always believed in the law of thermodynamics myself - counting just the calories

Counting just the calories ignores second order effect, and diet is all about second order effects.

If one could absolutely stick to counting the calories and eating the specified amount, of course one would lose weight.

But e.g. a diet of only having 1500 calories of broccoli for 1 year, and one would be ill from lack of tons of nutrients and vitamins (and they'd have stopped much earlier anyway).

E.g. if one eats certain kinds of foods, your appetite increases and it's more likely to overeat. Not giving one's self some foods they like, also makes it easier and more tempting to break a diet. And lots of other factors (exercise, hydration, nutrition, and so on) unrelated with counting calories, that still affect what we eat and how we process it.
$59,000 is median household income.
How can this make anyone feel safe if they won't even admit that it's happening?! Moreover, the people are forced to compromise on just about every issue when voting, so they naturally get swayed by marketing and personal priorities. Somehow I doubt that surveillance was much of a priority for anyone.
Texas hold’em is life :)
Hi guys! The next part in the tutorial series is out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17637553
Yes, surely it depends a lot on how developed the country is and how much social care is there. Eg in a country there is little to no social help living without any job means your life will end rather soon.

I think everyone should see where their bar is in needs vs free time and manage that. I'd love to drop 30% of my working hours and income accordingly as you said as well :) Hope this will be an option in our future.
From the comments in the Twitter thread:

> Only tangentially relevant, but I love the fact that sand from Normandy still consists of up to 4% microscopic war materiel from WWII.
> Prior versions of Alias (2019.0 and earlier) can continue to run on High Sierra or earlier operating system versions.

> Alias is not supported on High Sierra due to a macOS incompatibility that Apple does not currently plan to fix.

Wait, so is Alias supposed to work on High Sierra (which has a non-deprecated OpenGL) or not?
I'm not convinced a VPN is that useful in the general case for normal users (i.e. no specific ISP badness or other thing to work around), so I'd consider dropping that to reduce the amount of challenges presented.
In this context I think the Norwegian Oil Fund deserves a honorable mention (https://www.nbim.no). It really is a testament to a well-run government that they are saving significant amounts to future generations - and I say this as a somewhat envious dane :)
I've lived in Zurich for two years now. It would be very difficult to explain to an American who only lives in America how nice real public transit is. Or a good education system. Or the ability to let your kids walk 500m to a park on their own.

Another thing I've noticed is that most Europeans see American as a "high tax" country, and they wonder what we get for those taxes. I can say that I pay less taxes to Switzerland than I pay to the US. I would bet the impression from America is that the Swiss pay more in taxes, but that does not seem to be the case.
> No, but the right way should at least be easier than the wrong way.

Let us compare:

> bigDecimal.doubleValue() + bigDecimal2.doubleValue()

vs.

> bdResult = bd1.add( bd2 )

The first code is longer (two methods calls, which each do a conversion, one addition, and probably omitted some conversion back to BigDecimal). The second one is just one simple method call. I would strongly argue that the second, right way is much easier than the wrong way.
One / your / it / we: make up your mind on pronoun and stick with it!
My understanding is that not all classic Minis had dual circuit hydraulic brakes. So if you have one of the originals with a single brake circuits, any leak means you will fail to stop (if fitted with drum brakes, stopping was doubtful anyway)
Ask HN: Mid 20s, reached goals and still unhappy
(throwaway for obvious reasons)

Hey crowd!

I'm writing as I need advice. I am mid 20s and thought I already reached my career goals only to find out I am still unhappy with the need for a change.

I am coding since I'm 10. I love(d) it. I was working in tech ever since. This year I had the chance to co-found a company with very nice conditions for me. I always wanted to have a team of good engineers to "make it better than all the other guys doing so much stuff wrong". This I got now and after only a few months I realized this doesn't make me happy at all.

I have a decent apartment, a good working relationship with my SO and a way above-average salary and freedom at work for being CTO of that company. Basically everything I always thought are my career goals. Still, unhappy, thinking every morning to skip going to work today. It should be the other way around: being excited and love going to work to manage my team and do a bit of coding.

I always loved being around with friends, engineers and people I really respect due to their cleverness, loyalty and intelligence. I probably thought I will get this situation by hiring great people to have an environment I like 24/7. Reality is that I quickly realized that employees are not friends and that only because they are good engineers this does not mean at the same time that they have the characteristics I love to be around with all day long. To even make the situation worse I continuously lost my drive to code. It got boring for some reason. I cannot motivate myself to start a new project or getting a module done way quicker as I do currently.

How can I even motivate a team when I'm not even self motivated?

I really think I'm just a stupid idiot not realizing what I have here or could it be that my goals are actually different to what I originally thought they are?

Can someone recommend ways to actually find out about these? Is someone in a similar situation and can give advice?

Thank you!
Is the process you are talking about really honing or burnishing the blade?

I would expect a manual sharpening process to be vastly inferior to the factory edge.

I once saw someone on reddit talk about stropping their disposable razor on their jeans. Of course they were just cleaning it a bit.
Yes. You are correct to point out that having no cash savings is not a problem if you are creditworthy; that is you can put yourself in debt in time of need. In addition more than 20% of US households are home-owners and often have access to an inexpensive line of credit.
Strong for whom? The tiny sliver of oligarchs who are vacuuming up all of the wealth? This seems like a pretty shitty outcome for everyone else.
I cannot speak for the backend of setting up but from a consumer and checkout process perspective I like Shopify. They have really simple streamlined checkout process that will remember your details if you have previously checked out on another shopify store. I would think this would help with conversion rates.
And you shouldn’t speak as if you have first hand experience on those things either.
A single Druby blade costs ~9 cents on amazon if you buy the 100 packs. Not sure how much time it’s worth to spend on sharpening them.
I don't think that's right. I think the US enjoys a lot of benefits that would make it an economic powerhouse even if it went to a Nordic model -- most importantly probably its hegemonic status