skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> NA(P)T is fundamentally incompatible with the guarantees set out by the IP standards that specify packets to be transmitted unmodified end-to-end.

A small nitpick, but some fields of the IP packet are meant to be modified in transit. For instance, the TTL, the ECN marking bit, and the fragment fields. The checksum field is defined so it can be updated (without being recomputed) to match these changes.

But yeah, other than these fields in the IP header, and a few hop-by-hop headers or options, packets are not meant to be modified in transit (other than fragmentation, but this applies once the packet fragments are put together).
The problem with the Earth's crust is all the stuff on top of it. We can't extract 100% of the earth's crust's value, or anywhere near it, without disrupting huge swaths of wild and human habitats. We're already causing a mass extinction at our current rate of consumption, do you really want to increase that?

We need to move away from oil so that we don't kill ourselves with climate change regardless.
> There is also not a single email client that integrates resource management as well as outlook

This is an argument I've never understood. Why do you want your calendaring mashed together with your mail? I much prefer the macOS model, where mail, calendar and contacts are separate applications. Nothing prevents them to use the same data store, but not having to switch them in modal mode is a big win.
> Why is it impossible to invade a country without a land bridge when the US have regularly done it in the last few decades? Iraq, Afghanistan, Iraq.

The United States invaded Iraq from Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan from Pakistan, Afghanistan (note that Afghanistan was more or less in a frozen civil war), and Uzbekistan.

Amphibious assaults are the most complex and riskiest kinds of military attack. It requires expert command of logistics to keep the landing ships providing supplies and men to the beach, even when the environment may be working against you (such as the tide), and where there is far too much to be crammed into too little space. It requires control of the sea and the skies, because you have masses of ships with masses of people just waiting to be bombed out of existence. Even if you do make it to land, you now have to supply your entire front-lines. If you don't capture a port, or if the port you captured was sabotaged by the defending army, you have to supply your entire assault from a beach that's not really capable of providing the deepwater capabilities to handle cargo ships of serious capacity.

In the event of a war, the South Chinese Sea would likely be a contested zone, where neither China nor the US has sufficient control of the area to effect an amphibious assault. It is far from "quite easily."
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I attempted to source his audio and recreate one as above.
> Recycling cannot replenish supplies. Lithium-ion batteries last for 15–20 years, 3 times longer than the 5–7 years for lead-acid batteries

Over 90% of car batteries are already recycled. Assuming this stays constant when batteries get bigger(why wouldn't it), we'll hit steady-state on materials about a decade after electric cars become dominant.

Due to recycling, this whole article is baseless. Eventually we'll only need to mine enough to make up for a the few percent of batteries that aren't recycled. Car batteries are already recycled at extremely high rates, and there's no reason to believe this will change.
Turbo Codes Supercharge Internet of Things
You are assuming it needs to be replaced at all. These services are vapid additions to your life and once they are gone I think people will realize they didn't need to exist in the first place.
> Compliance issues can be addressed in the cloud as well.

How can I guarantee the security of my customers data, if it's not hosted on equipment I control?
That's nothing really. They have to use 2 different suffixes to denote 2 kinds of files vs modules.

Meanwhile millions of people use it for 10 or so years for all kinds of deployments.

If only all languages had that unimportant problems.
Is someone who is a professed neo-nazi using your platform, but not otherwise engaging in abuse, worth banning?

Let's try it with this example. Is someone who genuinely and openly holds the opinion that all men are rapists, but not otherwise engaging in abuse, worth banning?

When we start going down this path of trying to get rid of "undesirables", we start engaging in censorship.
Why is biofuels the very worst? Are you an oil shrill? (I'll admit to having an interest in biofules)
Fanon versus canon (2015)
Why on earth do you think that a request for trigger warnings is an extreme position? Are you opposed to twitter having a "sensitive content warning" function at all, for example?
Some questionable assumptions there:

- cheaper to operate

An enormous amount of electricity would be required to actually replace all combustion engines in just regular cars, plus a lot of investment into infrastructure to charge all these cars. Higher demand, higher prices.

- offer better performance

Are the best-selling cars today those with the best performance? No, they're the ones offering acceptable performance at the best price.

- require less maintenance

That's assuming that maintenance cost is a big deciding factor in a car. Cars are assumed to be depreciating assets, when maintenance becomes too expensive they are replaced. There's some argument to be made here for certain vehicles like Taxis with a lot of usage, but the general consumer will not highly value or even accurately estimate maintenance.

- don't emit toxic pollutants

Most consumers don't put a premium on this. Modern combustion engines don't emit a lot of pollutants anymore, but even then it would take government intervention to force people away from them.

- contribute less CO2 emissions

Again, most consumers don't put a premium on this, but government intervention could change that. Synthetic fuels of the future may well be carbon neutral though.

- they offer a better driving experience

...assuming you're not running out of battery.
I mean there were books before there were phones. The point is that phones have added little value.
There is an idea among boomers that they literally own the past, and all things that spring from it. For instance, they talk of social security not as a government program but a property right, something personal that they own. Reductions in it therefore aren't cutbacks but theft. If you feel you are being stolen from, it is easy to see anyone else receiving benefits from government as collaborators in that theft.

They also cling to 1950s ideas about work and religion. They really do believe that hard work brings prosperity. So young people who aren't succeeding obviously just aren't trying hard enough. We know the world is more complex. They don't. When those ideas are challenged, say by a group of young people inventing cellphone apps rather than toiling in a shoe factory, their internal conflict expresses as anger.

The anger at us motorcycles I chalk up to reduced mobility. Old people feel trapped in their bodies. Movement is difficult or even painful. So they are jealous of those motorcycles whipping by them on the highway. Another manifestation of this are the "stand your ground" laws that literally protect one's right not to move away when confronted by a more mobile person.
Ok, perhaps I picked a poor example - but still, the success of a standard depends on some magic formula that isn't easy to repeat.
It's mentioned in the above WP article, but see also: Preferential Attachment. It's a notion from Network Science that helps explain this kind of phenomenon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferential_attachment
Thank you! Let me know what do you think after you tested it.
> Despite a supporting letter from Matt’s HIV consultant pointing out that he had contracted HIV and hepatitis C through contaminated blood products supplied by the NHS, they were told these were not “exceptional circumstances”.

No matter how much I see, hear or read about government bureaucracies treating people badly because doing otherwise would risk having to own up to their mistakes it still doesn't disgust me any less. It's one thing for a corporation (which is supposed to be profit driven) to treat people badly and refuse to acknowledge it or compensate those who were harmed. It's inexcusable for a government entity (which is supposed to be serving the people in some manner) to behave that way.
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Are you paying online with a credit card? What type of sites are you having issues with? In a normal online payment gateway, there is no facility to verify the cardholder’s name so I’m curious what type of transaction you are doing.
Neal Stephenson:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Beginning..._Was_the_Co...
Yeah, none of this is true. The vast majority of users have, again and again, called for Twitter (and Facebook and Google) to perform more censorship because (surprise) absolutely nobody has any interest in reading the tweets of various hate groups and trolls. Twitter et al are now aggressively moving to give users what they want but, if anything, it's too little too late. Twitter has developed a bit of reputation as a haven for trolls and abuse. Their success in fighting these groups off and creating a safe space for reasonable discussion (and therefore a safe space for advertisers) will decide whether the product lives or dies.

The end game here will be the end of anonymous Twitter and a smaller but much more valuable user community. To that end the market is wrong on focusing on declining user growth. Twitter is moving in the right direction: eliminating abusive users and bots and increasing average revenue per user.

(Twitter also has a lot of upside potential when it comes to how they can monetize users. But they are very, very cautious and moving very slowly here. It's a bit frustrating... they are leaving a lot of money on the table... but there's also something to be said for not wanting to piss off users.)
Design Patterns (GoF), The Mythical Man-Month,
Radixx – JavaScript State Management Library
It always hits the nerve to hear that a public organization is moving back to MS from FOSS, but I wish this kind of demand(from governments) would lead to a open company that is strictly focused on developing an alternative to Windows desktop. Linux is heavily pulled in the server direction, and we need a company other than RedHAt who can pull Linux ecosystem a bit together to build an opinionated but coherent desktop.

Trying to support all of the email clients, calendar tools and obscure media decoders will never lead us to an usable Linux based Desktop.
Trump's fast and loose trade policy endangers American jobs (Bunnie Huang)
We offer some support for the previous version of the spec. In those cases you can add a media query to detect IE10+ and override some of the properties. It works well as a starting point for supporting the legacy grid. In our tests the positioning is working as expected, but the sizing units might need some tweaks.

For me the biggest issue with IE grid is the lack of support for auto-positioning of elements. If you don't rely on that for your design you can support IE10+ pretty well.
how to win friends and influence people. Doesn't matter what field. I could be a bus driver or a CEO.
This is a simple yet robust library for Unidirectional State Management in Web Applications with support for the major JavaScript UI libraries/frameworks (e.g. ReactJS, VueJS, AngularJS). By default, it stores application state across page loads.
Are you imparting trust on checksums downloaded from the same source page?

Not implying you are but there is plenty of software where that is how they expect users to verify the integrity of the download. Useful for checking bit errors, but in the event that someone has replaced the binary then they could probably also replace the checksum...
To be clear, I wasn't defending peoples "rights" to harass others. I was talking about topic censorship. If you use the platform to harass people then yeah, you should probably be cordoned off at a minimum.
But it sounds like you identified and solved the problem without throwing out your smart phone completely.
The article is about the availability of cobalt and nickel, which are not rare earth metals.
It's not noise, it's contamination with modern bacteria.
I have seen news archives from the 1880s where they predicted the end of oil in 10 years. A few years ago a town dug up an old time capsule in which they had a new car from the 1950s, they buried it along with 10 gallons of gasoline in case gasoline was obsolete in 2000 (side note, the gas was bad, and the car destroyed by rust). The idea that oil would last forever was never really believed from what I can tell.
"Symantec, LifeLock’s parent company, says it fixed the issue and found no indication customer email addresses have been harvested."
Pricing mostly
Can't host it ourselves, not really an issue now that we have a new boss and he doesn't care as much about hosting everything ourselves. Thats why moving to stride was in the works.
I tried testing slack with a sub section of our team and they didn't like it at all.

I've been toying switching to mattermost for a year now though.
See how it goes.
I always advise turning on all warnings and maybe disabling them selectively, and using any static or dynamic analysis available (and understanding the warnings). Compilation time won't catch a lot of things anyhow, and most people just ignore warnings. It's a matter of judgement whether to issue specific warnings by default, but I don't want the noise from things like intentionally elided code from compile-time constants. In the case of aggressive-loop-optimizations I'd have thought the argument would be whether it should be on by default, or at something like -O2. [On my first workhorse systems, reading past the end of an array, as in the SPEC case, gave a hardware error if you didn't disable that.]

Incidentally, ifort turns on (or used to) generally-invalid optimizations without warning, which GCC doesn't, and the first question to ask about user complaints of SEGVs on the systems I support is "ifort?" if only because of an optimzation which is valid but hits typical resource limits.
Why Pitching Your Product Is Not Enough for Investors
Your first point sort of misses the idea that multi-tenant SaaS applications could and have shut down their service overnight (see Smyte https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17371074). At least with HipChat On-prem the customers who are running that version can migrate on their schedule instead of just having the service turned off.

You can always make the argument that for this reason we should only write our own internal tools and use OSS. However, it is just as easy for an OSS project to be abandoned or neglected. Often times enterprise contracts will have a source code escrow clause that provide the enterprise with the source code in the event of a shut down (the same capabilities as a fork & take over maintenance anyway).

We don't actually know the plan for HipChat On-prem yet (do we?). Slack and Atlassian are both known for being customer centric so they will probably follow what Facebook did with Parse. Open source the entire thing, sunset the operations and development over the course of a year or two with minimal security updates/patches and no feature dev. This could be what the investment from Atlassian was tagged for... to make sure their customers are taken care of while most migrate to Slack.
I think the safer your job/situation is, and the less debt you have, the less you need to protect your assets in case a downturn happens. I have a government job in France, which is basically the safest situation on Earth, I'm supposed to have a pension when I retire, and even if my salary was divided by 2 I could still pay off my debt (mortgage), so I'm all in on stocks and couldn't care less about bear markets. But if I lived in the US, with a very unstable job, in a small company, no pension, no national health insurance system, I'd load on cash and bonds like crazy (I mean, even during bull markets) and learn how to live frugally in the case of a recession.
Thank you for that. Very informative.
Seems possible to me the US may want to deplete others’ mines while saving their mines to become the last ones remaining.
Trump, but not in the way you might think. Facebook instantly becomes uncool once your grandparents join and try to friend you. Southpark knew this years ago. Now the iconic angry grandparent is on twitter. Not only are kids leaving as their grandparents sign up to follow Trump, everyone sees king grandpa in Trump. It isn't about politics or anger. Twitter is just falling off the uncool grandparent cliff.
When Companies Question the Value of Design
Which social networks have successfully relied on subscription revenue?
I loved google wave -- it was great and ahead of its time. I think it was a major mistake that google let it go and that the apache wave foundation never got it going. it is too late now but really a greatly missed opportunity.
Who on earth made the decision to pay prisoners for blood and not test it? I realise it was the early days of HIV, but enough was understood at the time to make that one of the most evil things I've ever heard.
The problem with Rare Earth is that the West collectively acts like 3 year old who are to dumb to solve incredibly simple problems.

Rare earth contained lots of Thorium and that has to be handled as nuclear waste and that means you have 1000s of tons of nuclear waste on your hands. This is of course completely idiotic because Thorium not really a big problem as it is not radioactive.

The few Rare Earth mines that do exist only extract the lower group so you can avoid the Thorium.

Because the US drives policy for the whole West, there is basically no Rare Earth mining in the West.

China on the other hand understands that the more expensive rare earths are outside of China the more likely people will manufacture in China.

There was quite a bit of effort to change this and it got traction in congress because many people are really concerned that all US military equipment depends on rare earths from China.

See:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7QNZ56j-HM

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxwF93wnRQo
You don't throw out your entire purse because it has cigarettes in it. Throw out the cigarettes and keep the purse. Uninstall the addictive apps and keep the smartphone if you want it for its utility.
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Thorium is not much radioactive indeed, but radon it emits is. That's why f.ex. building houses on a granit (that is generally thorium rich) without proper ventilation underneath can result in serious health issues.
Basecamp is derided in the valley as a “boutique” business, one that does not take VC investments to take off like a rocket and become a unicorn.
Why does everyone need to go somewhere else when they leave a crappy service?

Stop thinking like that. As a teen/college student I used both and nowadays I barely touch these "services" (rather psychological malware).

I suppose I migrated to my Kindle?
I had "3rd party scripts" disabled in uBlock. After enabling it, looks OK.
Winner-take-all economics
I guess you start the movie on Netflix and mute it, and then read the subtitles taken from 'Open Subtitles DB' The UI using a list is a bit jarring, I would prefer a smooth scoll, like a very large page scolling down, not a listbox populating.

"Find more movies in German" button not working as expected, takes you to a screen where you have to choose your language.
The 18-25-year-old crowd here in Denmark are on Snapchat. Many of them also use Instagram but with private profiles.
Except not everyone would. I ate out like once a month at my old company that didn't provide food and now eat breakfast and lunch everyday at my new office that does. If free food is banned, a lot of people will be like me would prepare their own food decreasing the overall demand for workers to make food.
Yeah is radioactive but you can build a bed out of it and sleep on it so its not radioactive in any practical sense.

And of course Toxic is not a problem because most of the metals a rare earth mine would deal with would be toxic.

You can actually find heavily concentrated earth in the US that would basically count as nuclear waste because nuclear policy is so insane.
I once heard a saying I liked: life is about making and breaking patterns. You do some stuff, get bored, change it up, keep it interesting, then when you had enough, try something else.
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I work in residential construction. Beginner friendly, 'find out if you find this interesting' kind of books:

"This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House" by Bob Vila.

An older book, only the carpentry is relevant today, but a nice picture-driven exploration of sensitive home renovation.

"A Place of My Own: the Architecture of Daydreams" by Michael Pollan

I didn't get a lot out of this because it was a pretty simple project that was being described, but it's a good look at the challenges of design, and a good primer if you're looking to do your own small project. Plus, Michael Pollan is an enjoyable writer.

"House" by Tracy Kidder

Follows the construction of a home in MA with a lot of builder perspective. Explores the common issues associated with running a small carpentry company frame to finish. There is also "The Apple Corps Guide to the Well-Built House" by Jim Locke which is written by a member of the firm profiled in "House" - haven't read it yet.

"Last Harvest: How a Cornfield Became New Daleville" by Witold Rybczynski

Follows the evolution of a farm field into a subdivision.

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A little more challenging:

"The City in History" by Lewis Mumford

Best described as a "Tome" - a staple in intro level planning classes.

"building Construction Illustrated" by Francis Ching

A good illustrated primer on basic residential construction assemblies, will help with visualization of written descriptions and vocabulary.

"Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn" by Thomas Hubka

The evolution of farm yard structures, of interest if you've ever wondered about the repeating patterns you see on New England farms.

"A Field Guide to American Houses" by Virginia Savage McAlester

This book will tell you what every type of house is. If I remember right, I believe it also has a section on vernacular houses. A similar book that I own but have not read is "A Field Guide to American Architecture" by Carole Rifkind. I also like, and have read, "American Vernacular: Buildings and Interiors, 1870-1960" by Herbert Gottfried

"How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built" by Stewart Brand

A great look at what happens after construction is completed, I love this book for it's treatment of a seldom-discussed reality of the construction trades.

"Builders Guide: Cold Climates" Joseph W Lstiburek

Lstiburek is opinionated, and usually right. Find more books of this style at: https://buildingscience.com/

"The Checklist Manifesto" by Atul Gawande

Changed how I approach documenting and completing tasks - in a business like construction where it's hard to go in reverse, it's been a major component of my success since I first read it in 2011. Simple in concept, hard in practice.