skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been hearing more and more recently from ex-journos etc. on Twitter and other platforms suggesting that there is a huge echo chamber in Canberra between the press gallery and the politicians, and in general they regard the population to be a lot more right-wing and a lot more biased towards authoritarianism than they actually are... I think everything from this massive overreach of surveillance, to the same-sex marriage stuff, to the recent leadership spill (and the resulting dive in polls) seems to indicate this might be the case.

We really need to get more people sending letters or contacting their MPs to give them more data points of how normal people actually feel about these issues! I fear political apathy is a bit of a self-fulfilling cycle - the more people think talking to their MPs won't change anything (and don't bother), the less their views will be represented.
Glad to know that road rage is reserved exclusively for humans.
"Anyone driving slower than you is a moron, and anyone driving faster is a maniac."
Pros:

+ It's all plaintext. I love working with plaintext for all the usual benefits, so this fits.

+ PUML renderer is technically a free-to-download JAR, so it can presumably[0] integrate well with my Org-mode life.

Cons:

- Try to draw anything more complicated than three boxes and an arrow, and you'll be spending 90% of the time fighting the layout engine.

- It's even worse when you have your own opinion about the desired layout. No way to do that reliably, the result is very brittle.

I generally like it, but I'd like it 100x more if there was a way to explicitly pin some component to absolute coordinates. Or at least a better way for giving layout hints than soft constraints introduced through invisible links.

--

EDIT: A random idea if anyone is developing something PUML-like:

How about separating out layouting a bit, and letting me type in something like that:

A F G
B C D
E H

And then continue with regular PUML code:

package "core" #A {
[something]
[something-else]
}

...

[some-component #D]-->[some-component #E]

...

Basically, I wish I could draw a picture representing the rough layout of key image components, and have this as a hard constraint on positioning other elements.

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[0] - Presumably, because I gave up on it after couple large-ish diagrams, just before my use has reached the threshold above which I consider Emacs integration.
You might not actually need to carry a phone around with you at all. I don't.
I made no such comparisons: I merely stated a fact to support the point re: Authoritarianism.
> As far as I know Github is the _only_ static site provider that will do this for you.

Netlify automatically does this [1], and Zeit's Now too, I think [2].

[1] https://www.netlify.com/docs/ssl/

[2] https://zeit.co/docs/examples/static
Right, no one is doing mouse autopsies to determine the murder weapon but we don't wholesale kill humans in the quest for scientific research either. Don't discount a medical examiner's job as not being science. They aren't discovering new cells in the body but they are more akin to a GP doctor (versus a clinical research doctor). Just like your GP doctor, they can read the latest medical research, try new techniques and practices, and report experiences at conferences. Or they can work out of a 1950's handbook. But just like an engineer that can't be bothered to adapt to new technology, they are quickly going to fall behind their peers.
You’re remembering it incorrectly.
Having read Damore’s memo, that’s categorically false, but of course he was smeared as having said that.
It's only shocking to people because Trump mentioned it.
> As a result, traffic accidents are the leading cause of death for people from 8-24.

"As a result" is a pretty big stretch. Traffic accidents result from unexpected situations. People who drive a lot learn to read the environment and the drivers around them and anticipate what will happen next.

When those anticipations are violated, it runs the risk of creating a surprise that can't be managed. That is just as true for a violation in the conservative direction as in the aggressive direction.

Learning to drive is an empirical process based on observed behavior, not a deductive process from the rules of the road. So I'm not surprised that self-driving cars are disliked. They don't drive like people, and thus violate the heuristics that human drivers have built up to predict traffic behavior.

And perhaps more importantly, they look different, so they can feed into confirmation bias about how annoying they are. If it was impossible to distinguish self-driving cars (if they exhibited the same visual diversity as cars in general), it would be harder for people to build mental associations about them.
I honestly don't get why so many sites are even paying attention to GDPR. If they don't have a presence in the EU, it is irrelevant.
Presumably, one can assume that once it is published publicly, someone else could make a note of it, and tattle on the author whenever they delete a hash without revealing the source of it.

In practice, nobody is attending to anyone that closely, aside from a handful of public figures, and shenanigans like those you described might actually work to get someone more attention, only to fail once they have enough. That's why a publication mechanism that disallows deletions is desirable for such hashes.
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> You first.

I am 54, married (just celebrated our 23rd anniversary), and childless by choice.

Your move.
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> Changing one's environment is usually hard work, and a real learning experience.

Mmmmm..I am not sure. It seems to me that adapting oneself to a given environment would be far more worthy a learning experience (might be harder as well). I think one should try to find faults in themselves, and fix them, before fixing or outright moving to a different environment.

Imagine a rock that is getting polished. If the rock is given the choice of the file, ending up moving from rougher to smoother until it is comfortable, it will never get polished, right?
My guess is that a lot of it has to do with the family and home environment of the students.

It does, but it's not only that. For a student to excel they need a lot of different things and if they're deprived of any of them they will not do well. In your case, you may see a lot of students with a family/home environment that makes it difficult for them to focus. In other cases a student may have a more supportive home environment but their classmates don't and the slower pace the class may run at as a result leaves the student bored and disinterested.

So a student needs a supportive family, access to proper nutrition, but also a curriculum of really challenging courses that pushes him/her to learn a lot. The latter need is why wealthy parents pull their kids out of public schools.

Essentially, the problem with public schooling is the same one we saw with the mortgage crisis and one the insurance industry deals with all of the time: adverse selection [1]. Students that struggle due to lack of nutrition or a difficult family environment need a far greater share of the funding allocated to the school. Students with strong and supportive backgrounds get far less out of a school that focuses on struggling students. This encourages them to leave, just as an insurance policy that charges the same premium to both smokers and non-smokers tends to drive out the non-smokers.

What we end up with are schools with disproportionate numbers of struggling students. So what's the answer? I don't think there is a single answer. A ton of commentators out there look to education as a silver bullet for class mobility. Yes, education correlates very strongly with career outcome. But education itself is an outcome of a whole host of factors and I strongly believe those need to be fixed, first.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_selection
A Mozilla team member closed it as invalid, pointing to an online discussion of the bug as a reason why a bug isn’t necessary[0].

Interestingly, this ‘just once’ attack is why Firefox Accounts are broken as designed: it’s possible for Mozilla to target a user, just once, with malicious JavaScript which steals his Firefox Account password. Mozilla could do this of their own accord, could be suborned by a malicious employee but even more likely could be ordered to do so by any government which has that authority.

0: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1487081#c3
Having politics ‘happen’ to you is exactly the reason to put advocacy aside at work. Because hopefully it helps you empathize with people who have had ‘different’ politics ‘happen’ to them.

E.g. There’s a lot of Asian Americans from impoverished immigrant backgrounds who experience reverse affirmative action at American universities. They may still vote liberal, but for very different reasons as people pursuing social justice.

The issues are hardly black and white, and a workplace environment where people are forced to pick sides is inherently unhealthy, not to mention anything but diverse.
Yes, that is the unknown variable. However, your costs can be steered pretty accurately in software startups through hiring and firing. This means you can easily track whether your sales are still hitting the targets you expected, and if not, how much reduction you can accept into on the costs side before you need to look into getting additional capital investments.

Edit: For existing businesses this metric is much more predictable by the way, but especially in B2B it might be obfuscated because the finance department does not know how much value has been provided for which there was not an invoice created for it yet.
I would LOVE to go back to a dumb phone like this, but three use cases really prevent me from doing so at the moment:

1) GPS / Maps for navigation: I agree with your sentiment, but I find that I"m _more_ likely to travel or take adventures when I know I can fall back to Google / Apple Maps as a safeguard for getting me from A-to-B, or finding new places around me.

2) Uber / Lyft / Ride Sharing: I can already use Siri on Apple Watch to say "Hey Siri, get me an Uber," so why can't I text a service like that? Or maybe a dumb phone with Google Assistant installed that could aid with those types of tasks? [Disclaimer: a service or phone like that _might_ exist, but in my limited time searching I haven't found one I like nor trust just yet.]

3) Photography: I'm no pro, but I do enjoy taking very good quality pictures at the fraction of the cost of a bulky thousand dollar camera, alongside the auto-backups and location-data stored alongside.
MDMA, when I used it, was always combined with dancing or walking or physical activity. I also always had a coming down which had a bottom peak a few days after (the infamous Tuesday dip). With psilocybin I had not much of a coming down, at worst a headache the day after. With MDMA though, the coming down additionally had my mood being down as well. I become agitated and inward, very much in contrast to the peak and moderate upper effect (there are some movies which portrait this, such as the movie Human Traffic [1]). Then again, this is anecdotal, and I am very sensitive to drugs in general, especially the contrasts (alcohol, beer makes me often tired, MDMA, SSRIs, amphetamine). The reason for that might very well be related to ASD, I do not know for sure though. I just know that I do have ASD. But because I have ASD, my anecdotal experience isn't typical in this case. However the Tuesday dip is widely known among MDMA users.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Traffic
> That is just as true for a violation in the conservative direction as in the aggressive direction.

I've been caught by surprise before when a conservative driver slammed on their brakes when the light turned yellow even though there was ample time for both of us to coast through the light. Instead, I nearly rear-ended them.
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However many cultures do/did do exactly that.
Is it still better than the state prescribing it? Probably.
Do these cars ever go at the speed of traffic even if it's above the speed limit? Practically if everyone is driving 5-10mph above the speed limit then it actually seems more dangerous if the Waymo car is driving at the exact speed limit here?
Every single time someone honks at me for this, I'm tempted to stay in place longer than necessary. Fortunately--most of the time--I think better of being this petty and passive aggressive.
Hah, I told a (non-gamer) Indian woman about Civ's originally-accidental running gag of erratic Ghandi.

She was displeased, to say the least.
Well if they talked about browser fingerprinting via javascript, someone would take a stab that too
My experience has been 1) don't think about it too much beforehand and 2) if you have empathy to see situations from their perspective you'll be able to look up and learn what you need.
Is there a flavour of Spring for small capacity hardware?
I have a hardware device that has a very limited amount of RAM memory and I would like to run a Java app on it. Currently I am using a framework called Spark but I don't like it, I want to use Spring. Is there a lightweight version of Spring that I can run on this device but does not consume more than 50MB?
"Population growth has been slowing since the late 60's, it peaked in 1968."

Misleading phrasing...

"World population projected to reach 9.7 billion by 2050. The current world population of 7.3 billion is expected to reach 8.5 billion by 2030, 9.7 billion in 2050 and 11.2 billion in 2100, according to a new UN DESA report, “World Population Prospects: The 2015 Revision”, launched today."

http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/news/population/2015-r...
Create a sparse file on your unencrypted ext4 volume. Mount it as a loopback. Encrypt it. Write data to it. Sync the disks and dismount it.

To find the next available loop device:

LOOP=$(losetup -f)

Make a sparse file, size being how big you want it.

truncate -s"${SIZE}" /path/to/dropbox_disk/file

Add your new file to the loopback device.

losetup "${LOOP}" /path/to/dropbox_disk/file

Optional: See what ciphers give you what speed on your hardware. AES (rijndael) may be fastest due to hardware offloading. Serpent may be strongest.

cryptsetup benchmark

Set up encryption for the loop device, CIPHER being what cipher you want. Avoid defaults unless you only care about speed.

cryptsetup -c "${CIPHER}" create MyCrap "${LOOP}"

Then format your encrypted loopback with whatever filesystem suites your fancy.

mkfs -t xfs -f -d su=64k,sw=3 -l version=2 /dev/mapper/MyCrap

Mount your shiny new filesystem

mount -t xfs -o defaults,noatime,allocsize=64k,inode64 /dev/mapper/MyCrap /home/username/MyCrap

Write data to your new filesystem, then sync and dismount.

echo "I know you dont need sync, this is not why you think."
sync && umount /home/username/MyCrap
cryptsetup remove /dev/mapper/MyCrap
losetup -d "${LOOP}" # maybe save this in a lockfile / pidfile.
> One woman said that she almost hit one of the company's minivans because it suddenly stopped while trying to make a right turn, while another man said that he gets so frustrated waiting for the cars to cross the intersection that he has illegally driven around them.

I.e. obnoxiously bad human drivers hate impeccably good drivers that happen to be robots.

Suddenly stopped trying to make a right turn? I'm not convinced by that without evidence that it was not a required stop, like turning into a road that has right-of-way.

Passing cars at intersections is not only illegal but a dangerous dickhead move. I don't care what a dangerous dickhead thinks about self-driving cars or any other cars; please don't repeat it and convey it as news.
I did not imply I would have those balls either.
Not really, no.

I don't believe I'm any smarter than these people - I'm just pointing out that the article is treating them like they are smarter than everybody else.
There are a handful of packages (time and some stuff in os for example) that are tied into the runtime and can't be rewritten outside the standard library. It's not a huge amount, and some of it can probably be fixed in the future.
I'm assuming here that you mean an uncontrolled right turn, where the right turn is at a red light or stop sign.

Is that Left Turn lane also uncontrolled in that moment that you are complaining about? That is, are you talking about the situation where people in the next lane are making a left turn at a green left turn only light or is it the uncontrolled stop sign (though rare to have a multi-lane stop sign) or more common flashing yellow left turn light (or jurisdictional equivalent; as some states allow uncontrolled left turns on red lights, and some drivers think all states do though they do not)?

In the case of people making an uncontrolled left turn when you are attempting an uncontrolled right turn you have an interesting relative to the prisoner's dilemma. As you point out, there should be some "shield" from mistakes in opposing traffic by nature of the person to your left making a left turn. But that same "shield" also blocks your vision of intersection, so you have to trust that the person making the uncontrolled left turn is situationally aware of their surroundings to not make a mistake. Even as a physical "shield" in that moment, basic physics will remind you that momentum is a jerk (terrible pun intended) and there is no guarantee that the left turning car will absorb any or all of an impact. In making that right turn you may not be risking a direct impact, but you can still be risking a three or more car pile-up.

To cover both bases, if the left turn is controlled at that moment, with a green left turn light, at least where I live that often means the opposite left turn light is also on, which is not a good opportunity for an uncontrolled right turn either. (Also too because depending on intersection size and layout here too the people making the controlled left turn to your immediate left may decrease the visibility of oncoming traffic making the left turn on the other side of the intersection.)

I get honked at somewhat routinely for precisely these scenarios, and I doubt most of the people think of that sort of risk calculus in their impatience in those moments (and they certainly don't have my assessment of intersection visibility from behind me).

I wouldn't program a car to make an uncontrolled right turn in those situations either, and it certainly sounds like that sort of behavior is what is causing some of the complaints in the linked article.
I will say that Google is better when searching for code help (probably because it feels that I'm a programmer) so if my query is likely to have an answer on SO or one of my coding forums, a !g gets appended almost reflexively now.
...which is not compliant. "Opt out everywhere" has to be the default when you click accept.

But for version 2 of GDPR I'd like to see something like: No landing pages. Content must be served on the first request. And no Captchas for Tor users.
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And people can also _not_ want to use social media for their own personal reasons. That doesn't make them holier-than-thou, or a hipster, or condescending just because they make the less popular choice.
Just so you know, if you want a gun here it's not rocket science. Go to a gun club, watch a fire guns being fired, go do a test and buy a safe.

Congrats, you can now buy rifles and shotguns.

There was a recent case of a father who was rejected from 3 gun clubs because he was too shifty and yet the 4th accepted him and the cops didn't see any reason to reject him. He bought a rifle and shot both his teenage kids at his x-wife's house.

Also you just have to pickup the weekly papers to see cops are afraid of the rising gang violence and the amount of illegal guns that they are finding and being used.

But airsoft guns are illegal so i feel so much safer than countries like NZ that let you buy AR-15s /s
I have not claimed what you claimed I did.

Someone who is not doing what everybody else is doing is just very easy to spot and piques my interest. So yes, it is a door-opener when looking for a job with some (like me). That does not mean I'd hire you - give me some nonsense justification and you're out.

This is not about judgement of specific technologies and their use, but about self reflection.
I bought this exact phone a few months back, works great. The only issue I'm having with migrating off of a smartphone is app-based MFA and email.

I thought it would be super easy to just use my iPhone for MFA and email, but I wound up needing to carry two devices wherever I went instead of just one. I tried hard not to use mobile email altogether anymore, until something came up and it was just easier to pull out the smartphone to reply to it instead of pulling out the laptop.

I'm still hopeful that I can get entirely off of a smartphone, but it's a massive challenge when work demands certain apps that just aren't dumbphone compatible.
One way to think of it is as Bezos being on welfare. Another way to think is that, presumably, the Amazon workers don't have better jobs available to them. If they weren't at Amazon then they'd be somewhere paying less, with less benefits, or unemployed. Without Amazon the workers would require more from the government. In this sense Amazon is subsidizing social welfare and not the other way around.
It is not. If their customers are in the EU they have to to comply.
Trying to keep politics out of things isn't apolitical, it's the politics of status quo.
I agree with everything but the GPS. I've always been shit at directions and spending more time driving lost in an unfamiliar area is something I do not want to do.
I've definitely addressed the fact that there are good reasons for not using social media in other comments on this very thread.

I'm just saying that not using social media doesn't make you "better" than anybody else.

That is literally all I am saying.

I might not respond to any more comments after this, because I'll end up repeating myself all afternoon.
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I think we can agree to disagree on this one: I read the article a second time and I still think it's a political move.

> the author is clearly making this change on moral grounds

To me it looks like he is trying to indirectly force the government to do something he wants. If it would be that clearly immoral, then surely one of the higher courts would have had an opinion on it, unless you are willing to make the argument that he is more qualified than a court.

> It’s apparent by now that to many folks, it’s unbelievable that “ICE should not rip toddlers from their families and put them in camps” is something that could be dismissed as just a political opinion valid as any other

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/appeal-to-emotion

We can continue this thread forever, let's just agree to end it and move on.
Thank you. Very interesting.

Might be interesting to see if patients who’ve had a craniotomy (of some threshold of size) have greater neuro-related issues in their future.

Do they have less capacity to inhibit inflammation, etc.

I suppose the bias would be heavy, since there’s prob something troubling happening in the first place if they’re cutting open your skull. :)