skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it is common for people to genuinely not care about the freedoms they are denied.

for instance, there is likely a law on the books in the USA which prohibits you from having your cattle graze on various lands. you would be incrementally more free if there was not that law, but do you care? no, the issue is not relevant to your life, nor is it relevant to any life you could imagine yourself realistically having from the starting point of the present moment. if you were a cattle farmer the issue would be more salient -- but there's still no guarantee that you would be railing against the law.

now, imagine that the prospect of democracy was what was forbidden, as it is in china. it's abstract, and the benefits are purely hypothetical for the chinese -- but there are hypothetical liabilities that come with democracy too, which might seem just as salient if you don't start from a position of being in favor of democracy.
Atmospheric concentrations are low so you need to harvest a lot of air. To put in context the earth has ~2E9 km^3 air, if you wanted to process every cubic meter of air in the world once in 10 years you'd have a system that could process ~6km^3/s , using air flowing at 30kph(18mph) would require ~800km^2 of collecting area.
Yes I think it’s just the taxi drivers who are used to being able to get some tax free money, and now resist complete transparency.
1. No. Charter schools select the best students but that doesn't say that they're actually better at educating them than a normal public school.

2. You don't believe that kids should share an environment with the less-advantaged? Even if we said that your child may be more likely to 'succeed' when they are placed in an environment where almost no kids are materially wanting or have special needs - what kind of person are they going to be? Unfortunately it seems they are likely to grow up to be the same kind of person you are.
Airbnb Is Dropping React Native – Should You Too?
If you have 1000 enployees you will have much higher costs for anything else, e.g. space for them to work.
If downed power lines are that big of a risk I would think that the correct solution would be to bury them instead of shutting down power.
This is a bit like 123.do a Perl 6 powered command line app:

https://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2017/12/18/perl6-powered-w...
The British term makes so much more sense to me.

British public schools are run by members of the public for any members of the public (who can pay and pass the exam).

American public schools are run by local government only for people the local government wants to admit (based on where you live etc).
Google has two choices:- to be outside - looking in, or to be inside - and engaged.
It is axiomatic that China has roots in an oppressive communist titled government. I say titled because it was not communist in the classical sense, any more than the former USSR was communist - again in title only.
China will gradually change and adapt - converge, to a more truly representative government as the middle class expands and the government learns they have nothing to fear but fear itself.
Both former communist countries are doing far better than under their former party dictatorships.

I suggest everyone read "Gulag Archipelago"

I hope North Korea also is also opened up - engaged, in a similar manner.
Yeah; the few people crazy enough to try to switch to Hack from vanilla PHP in the past few years just went to PHP 7, which is faster and fixed a number of the gripes devs had with PHP.
Wow. People in power really dont want us to discuss this topic.
Yep. I thought the law was more restrictive than it was.
To be fair, building the average Windows Container image doesn't usually take hours -- that sounds like an unusual build. However, it is true that Windows Containers are very heavy compared to Linux Docker images, and for the most part they aren't production-grade (yet).

The microsoft/windowsservercore image is currently ~10-12GB.

The lighter-weight microsoft/nanoserver image is ~600MB, which sounds more reasonable, but there are certain limitations.

Compare this to the Alpine Linux Docker image at ~5MB.

It takes significantly longer to provision an Azure Container Instance (ACI) running a Windows Container than a Linux Container. That said, if you need to run Win64 or .NET Framework binaries (say from a proprietary vendor), Windows Containers are your only choice... else you have to spin-up a full blown VM.

That said, .NET core running on Linux containers and connecting to open-source databases are a reasonable alternative. Devs tell me that .NET core itself is still pretty new so while it works for the most part, teething issues are to be expected.
Couldn't this simply be a test of the reciprocity principle? People who feel like they've wasted someone else's time are probably more likely to make an effort to resolve the problem so as to be less of an inconvenience to the other person, or to meet the other person's expectations. If the mediator is chipper no matter what, then nothing is socially at stake for the negotiators, and it shows that the mediator is unattached to the outcome(which isn't or shouldn't be true). On the other hand, the perception of being a nuisance also comes with the social implication that one isn't pulling their own weight of effort, and most of us naturally want to be judged well by the group we are a part of.

So perhaps it's less about hostility per se, but the covert social communication made through the hostility.
It’s come to the point where I wouldn’t even think twice about ordering a hot dog in a stand with no cash on me. It’s 99.99% chance that they accept card, because if they didn’t they couldn’t sell a single hot dog as no one has cash.
Charter schools are a great option when your school district has poor management and private school is not an option for some reason. Teacher unions hate them for a various number of reasons, in my view the main reason is that they are threatened by them. There are great charter schools and great public schools as well as horrible public schools and charter schools.
Then again, if you're Borges, you might say that all thoughts that have been thought will be thought again, therefore all books that have been written, will be written again.
Formally proven code is not necessarily bug-free or even ' rock solid and predictable'.
Facebook and Instagram add dashboard to help you manage your time on social apps
I think the OP probably did mean that and wasn't thinking that much more deeply about the statement, but I also think it is that very mindset that the posters challenging it are targeting. Because that mindset - looking at everything through a lens of economic development, and a very narrow definition of economic development at that - is incredibly destructive.

I don't think its necessarily a knock on OP, so much as it is just meant to be a reminder that we should really try not to just fall into that way of thinking.
My Windows laptops had a average of 5 years, minimum.

Maybe one should take care about where to service them from?
> many sources of truth

Kinda. Not quite.

ICANN decides who controls ".foo". That organisation decides who controls "bar.foo", and so on.

You can't just make up a domain name and claim it; someone else has to permit you to have it.

So perhaps reading the DNS is decentralised, but writing it is centralised.
Feeding the world's hungry hasn't been about agricultural output for a long time- it's more about transportation and distribution.
Are real estate (+recruitment) agents still relevant in the age of tech?
That doesn't sound like much? That's less than 100USD per tonne (approx $40/g current gold price)

Is there much other valuable stuff in the ash to make the venture worthwhile?
IPSec IKEv2 is actually pretty good
Nothing between small and medium, with 2 to 3 Gb RAM?
Lol, school nurse. Those disappeared in the 80s. Now it is normal for a single first aid attendant to cover multiple schools. Nurses cost way too much.
There might be many tech companies in China, no doubt, including big names, and companies should comply with local regulations if they want to do business, however the fact that Google pulled their search engine out of China, defying their censorship attempts, is one big reason for why I respected Google, in spite of my reservations for them.

So let me tell you what I think as an EU citizen that's actively concerned about both freedom of speech and privacy ...

I couldn't give a crap about what companies are active in China and complying with their local regulations. That Google took a stand showed they valued freedom of speech above their bottom line, but now if they are going back in, we can talk about the primary concern with Google ...

Google is the destroyer of privacy. Google tracks their users at an unprecedented level in the whole history of humanity and if they do this, we now have concrete proof that they don't have values that are above their bottom line.

Therefore we have a problem and the next time the EU slaps them with another multi-billion fine for violating EU's anti-trust or privacy laws, I'll cheer them for it, because it's all about the dough.
Tried it on my 2016 Macbook Pro. Has some performance issues, I don't know how many exactly, but I'd say I'm getting around 10 FPS or less.
There's an interesting intersection between "Money Stuff" (Matt Levine's newsletter) readers and HN participants. I often see Matt link to articles that were on the front page of HN the day before and often see front page HN articles that we're in Matt's links from his newsletter that morning.

Could be coincidence (interesting articles are interesting articles!) or a more closely linked feedback loop.
A Twitter thread making a similar point:

https://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/102439440363551539...
I guess one solution is that we then get charter schools that cater to special needs students.. we sort of have these programs already with center based autism "schools". However, going down this path will eventually run into Brown vs board of education.
That suing over legitimate claims is not worth it is an artifact of the legal system, not of the law or contract.
Probably not useful specific ones, as they're mostly about my own idiosyncracies. But if you can find a natural way to introduce some foible you have into the conversation, especially if it's something they've joked about before, that's a good start.

For example if you're perpetually late to things you could say "...as you both know, punctuality is important to me." And that gives them something to swoop in on.
"...doing far better than under their former party dictatorships..."

Not trying to split hairs or anything, but China is "...under their former party dictatorship..." It's the same party, the only difference is that the leaders today are mostly trained engineers and scientists instead of the mainly political thinkers who preceded them.
One of my 5 ideas from today
Thanks for your feedback and support! We're trying to push forward the specification work to support other implementations like https://datrs.yoshuawuyts.com/.

We created a protocol working group and spec are being updated at https://www.datprotocol.com/deps/. But definitely still some need to improve docs all around! We have an upcoming grant to support this :).

- joe hand, a dat person
And at that length your latency gets reeeeeeal bad.
Only if you're using the ridiculous IPsec protocol and its ridiculous modes. Nobody actually needs a mode that authenticates the header but doesn't encrypt it, and nobody can understand this mode anyways. Nobody needs ECB or 3DES or any of the other zillions of IPsec methods. The great thing about WireGuard is that it removes all the crap and has one mode: Fast and Secure.
Looks like Carbon to me. In other words, fake.

https://carbon.now.sh/
The mod is led backlighting, and you can use the higher res screen panel for that.
Depends whether you use Oracle or not
> I guess songs were the exception in that multiple songs sold together as an album did work (at least until recent years).

I'm fairly sure this was just an illusion. Liking a full album seems really rare, the general sentiment with anyone I talked to about this was that they bought it just to get 2-3 of the tracks available.

Imagine if there was no such thing as a 90-minute movie, and they were all made up of 9, 10-minute movies. They'd appear very successful as well.
>but that's about all you can do with it, and there are better places for 'outdoor activities'

there are better things to eat than shitty meat from cows grazing in a desert. i'll take the outdoor activities and the preservation of these ecosystems
I am on the watch and in last 5 minutes this submission got 6 new votes but have fallen 8 places!

Before we attempt to solve climate crisis, first we should solve BIGOTRY CRISIS.

I have seen this happening before too. Why does HN allows anonymous flagging? I bet anything if it were unanimous we would able to frame bigots who only flag because of their stupid personal world view.

Has there been any efforts to make flagging more transparent-perhaps where I can contribute or should we raise a new issue on that?
IE 11 is a major modern browser. It's still supported and has more users than Edge and Safari combined.
I have seen changesets for Atom before that include something like "make typing faster and more responsive".
Is the book available in English? I could only find passing references in news articles, but not the actual book.
"toy is under heavy development"

If your commits in the last week keep their pace, you may as well have this statement be a clickable link to the github activity page:

https://github.com/hugoam/toy/graphs/commit-activity

But if you slow down significantly, change wording to "active development"

Not knowing anything about game dev, your presentation page looks great. It's nice to see all the important pieces mentioned (3D, audio, physics, scripting). I think you did a good job on the page.
How are the guests supposed to have any sort of idea what the wedding budget and number of attendees is?
Foundations for Open Scholarship Strategy Development
Google needs to make an extra effort for that to actually happen.

ChromeOS is barely noticeable outside US.
The real question is whether they get results that are as much better as they should be, since they are selecting students up front. I suspect that picking your inputs at a very young age is more about marketing and capturing money than it is about true ability to perform.

Either that, or it is simply a follow on of the fact that parents with money, free time, and high levels of education tend to have students that do well in school. The school may make no difference at all if the kids learn a lot at home.
Yes but it's a magnet of underprivileged and at risk students. Not your typical magnet. Props to LeBron for starting the school.
American public schools are open to the entire public within the area they serve. Private schools are only open to those who can pay.
I've always considered books just too precious to be binned or thrown away. My dad was a teacher so books were all we had, devouring whatever came our way. Sometimes rereading the same works again. We moved a lot so finding a library in the new town would be akin to finding Aladdin's cave for us. It's now a mild OCD condition in me when others don't look after my books (dog ears or folded pages. Gets my f'cking goat!). I silently judge others for not looking after their own books (jealously petting my own book with endearment). I've still kept my obsolete tech books - safe asylum.

How do people find the nerve to throw a book away? How?!
How to reduce technical debt by using code review tools – Codacy Blog
This is just a silly idea and doesn't fix all the problems, except heat.

Could we position a sheet, or a carpet of asteroids in a Lagrange point around the Earth, or as a sort of reverse Dyson sphere?

I heard that such a thing could be used to cool down Venus.

That doesn't address the ocean acidification, or mass extinctions, etc. Certain high-light plants would also likely perish without intervention. Also, solar energy on Earth would be stifled.
Wow impressive, wish you the best of luck with this project
> Why not both?

By definition, “companies” are incentivized to prioritize capital pursuit over moral pursuit. It’s actually the most fundamental part of the whole concept.

Many democratic governments in the world, and particularly the most wealthy and powerful ones, are run by people who are (to a large unmeasurable extent) incentivized to do what companies want them to do. This is not a fundamental concept of a democratic government, but as long as the electorate fails to take responsibility for their own government’s behavior, the incentives remain in the company’s favor, which doesn’t make a very good case for democracy.

Democracy is a very slippery concept. America, for example, is well understood to not be a democracy, but it’s people seem to have convinced themselves it is. These kinds of miscalculations are really at the root of “why not”.
Evenly distributed
I'm wondering if this school will be sustainable in the long term. Given the correlation between low-income neighborhoods and poor school performance, how is I Promise going to be supported by taxpayers? Many school districts scrounge for basic supplies; how long will they be able to keep this free bike program going?
Yes, the clathrate gun hypothesis.
> As my father was a news and politics junkie (as well as a collector of email addresses)

I feel like there's something I'm missing here: something like getting his hands on clever usernames?
>We know that subjective reality exists because we directly experience it. But the evidence for an objective reality is shaky at best.

Objective reality can kill me, so I'd consider that rather less shaky than the images that appear when I sleep.
A cult would imply belief without evidence. Is the Q movement without evidence?
Man, people have really jumped on the worst habit of Reddit here lately, downvoting people they disagree with.
Not necessarily. Charter schools do much better if you measure just output, but are frequently quite average once you control for their advantageous population.
Since I really had trouble finding a way to read the article (source seems to have depublished it?) I just wanted to leave a small how-to on how I succeeded eventually:

- Look up the page in wayback machine
- Open the first snapshot
- JS seems to delete the content immediately
- Open developer tools
- Reload the page
- View the HTML response in the response preview window

Bullshit Web it is

Edit: Article seems to be back online now
> The only downside I've notice is slightly increased battery consumption on my phone, but that's to be expected (it uses approximately 5% of the battery per day).

I believe that Android does not accurately represent the battery usage of VPN apps. It seems to count all the radio (i.e. mobile and Wi-Fi) usage against the VPN app, but actually the traffic was sent only because some other app requested its transmission. WireGuard itself uses zero battery if no network traffic is being passed and the NAT keepalive mode is off. (at least this is true in the abstract, it might run occasional timers to update system information as Android requires)
The data does not back this up.

Charter schools like elite colleges gain 90% of their reputation from rejecting average or below students. There is variation among school quality adjusting for incoming students, however that exists for both normal and charter schools with many charter schools preforming worse than expected and many public schools preforming far above expectations.

However, if you want to support the value of some institution or approach it's really easy to ignore this fact and create biased research.
>Why should there be a different standard for Google and other tech companies to not expand into China

there is no different standard. it is unethical to aid totalitarian states in their oppression of their people.

that standard is crystal clear, and google is on the wrong side of it.

waffling regarding corporate responsibility is irrelevant because the question of whether the actor is a corporation or not has nothing to do with the standard itself. once again: the moral issue is very clear on what is acceptable and what is not acceptable.

selling widgets to the chinese is not in violation of that standard. offering a product that is neutered so as to be a tool of oppression is in clear violation of the standard.

the question of china using these tools to oppress their population is not up for debate. china is a police state. for ethnic minorities like the uighurs, the falun gong, the chinese muslims, etc, that police state is operationalized to eradicate and prevent any presence in society.

this is not right. it is not right to help the chinese state keep groups of people subjugated and starving.

the apologists should be ashamed. google should be ashamed. google employees should be ashamed, and outraged.
I think that the point was that only minority of this land is really used for this purpose.
Looks very interesting, but not what I expected a "thin" game engine to be, as it seems fully featured; Obj importer, physics, UI components and sound capabilities.
Do you have some more information or links for anyone that would like to get started?

Beginner info / what type of environment to use or is ideal / tips for dealing with mold, bacteria / common beginner mistakes / etc.
> we now have concrete proof that they don't have values that are above their bottom line.

I had the same reaction. Back in the day, there was this common belief tech companies had a certain set of values and would draw a line. Now? It's always about the money.

Welcome to the decline of Western Civilization.
Quite often when someone dies without interested relatives, a cursory sweep of the house is done for obvious valuables and then everything else is thrown away. Appears to be what's happened here. Kind of compounds the tragedy, but in a world of plentiful stuff and expensive real estate it's hard to avoid.
Slot 52 now, and 87 points / 83 comments.
Lesson: Give your famous books to a library collection before you die, and your ignorant grandnephew (or whomever) throws them in the dumpster to be destroyed by rain.
"...Google is the destroyer of privacy. Google tracks their users at an unprecedented level in the whole history of humanity..."

In fairness, you never had a problem with that privacy invasion before. You still respected them in spite of the fact that they were Gestapo-like privacy invaders. As evidenced by your claim that, "...the fact that Google pulled their search engine out of China, defying their censorship attempts, is one big reason for why I respected Google..."

I've always been wary of Google. They are not our friends. They are here trying to make money off of us. They would sell any one of us out to any number of governments if they were asked.

And they would do so without hesitation.

That's the reason that we need to be mindful of what we disclose to companies like Google, Facebook, et al.
General Magic: Oral History of the Influential Tech Company
>I realize technologists feel like insurance companies are malevolent entities,

No, it isn't that. I feel like every large company behaves almost always like a machine whose job is to print money, with no consideration to morals, ethics, or decency unless they believe the good PR from such will cause them to be able to print more money.

I believe this because it is how they (usually, not quite always of course) behave, as they are beholden to their investors to print money.
Excellent. Love it. Thanks!
As someone with no knowledge of this, how do you do small-scale precious metal reclamation and how did you get into home smithing?