skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Instead, we can barely talk about it.

Is your contention that the main thing about the election of Trump that upset the people in this video that he took a cooly rational stance against some forms of immigration?

Banning all Muslims -- including citizens and visa holders -- from entering the country does not seem to be aligned with this position.

Saying that a judge was unqualified to do his job because of where his parents were born does not seem to be aligned with this position.

Blasting the family of a soldier who died saving others on the basis of their race and religion does not seem to be aligned with this position.

If your point is that you're frustrated that Trump has lowered the standards of intellectual dialog in the country, well, join the club, friend.
Your first paragraph would be spot on if there were only a tiny amount of grandstanding.

The majority of questions at every hearing I've seen have been politically biased grandstanding, with the goal of creating a soundbite that appeals to the base, not of factually informing the public.
Larry Page probably didn't attend the Senate hearings because he knew that this video was going to get leaked:

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/09/12/leaked-video-googl...

He would have been grilled for hours over it.
Do you want it hooked up to the grid? Otherwise that’s fun DIY project with 18650 batteries.
There were also many key business innovations with the iphone:

- convincing mobile providers to provide data plans

- Wrapping up the price of the phone in the data plan (i.e. providing financing)

- distribution with their own stores

- eventually the app store

- the itunes app also had to convince music studios to put their catalog online and price them uniformly
Can Science Cure Aging?
To this day, almost all aluminum cans carrying soda are lined with a resin that inhibits the insulin signaling pathway, and is associated with Type 2 diabetes. Most of the manufacturers make claims that it's harmless.

https://www.coca-colacompany.com/contact-us/faqs

Despite what they say, the scientific consensus is opposite, really, with the vast majority of academic papers suggesting quite harmful effects : https://medium.com/@InfinoMe/diabetes-time-to-resort-to-plas...
Thanks.

> have been a member of the U. S. counterpart to the Veterans Bicycle Club

What is the club? An historical society? Whence the name?
Why aren't those 8.8% covered?
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It was a bad headline, for sure. I see more attention grabbing headlines every day.
What is Exchange traded fund?
In Cyberwar, There Are No Rules
Definitely could be better, but as it's really just ColdFusion/CFML, cfdocs.org is the best resource. I think the assumption is that most people are coming to Lucee as the open source alternative to the Adobe ColdFusion product, but obviously that's not a good assumption to make.
The everlasting question. This is a good short summary, with an accompanying podcast(conversation w/ David Sinclair, an Australian geneticist and a prof at Harvard Medical School). Worth the listen.
that's text I can't interpret, unfortunately. It's highly speculative and ambiguous.
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> The GM CFO retired after 40 years with the company. The GM CAO left for another job and gave 90 days notice. It’s a little different.

The original claim was that the number of departures was high. Comparing the number of departures, there does not appear to be a large disparity.

You raise the question of the context. The first Tesla CAO left citing personal reasons. The conspiracy theory is that this is a dog whistle for some kind of accounting irregularities, but as far as I know neither he nor anyone else with actual knowledge has even suggested that as a motive. What actual evidence is there that he didn't honestly leave for personal reasons?

The second CAO actually described his reasons:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/07/tesla-cao-dave-morton-quit-a...

The whole "funding secured" drama literally happened on his second day and he didn't like it.

Nothing about that episode is super inspiring and his reaction is entirely understandable, but how is this supposed to spell doom for the company?

Meanwhile the other departures seem to be for the normal reasons with people in a low unemployment job market finding another job somewhere else and that sort of thing.

But given the drama, now people are looking under every rock for something to gossip about.
Who is clamoring for open borders? I don't know of any prominent examples of political figures who take that position, just examples where their opponents falsely characterise the position as "open borders".
In absolute terms, they're delivering 8x more full electrics than the Bolt, the next leading full electric, and still more than the 2 leading plugin hybrids. The market will never be happy with winning, it has to be winning by the desired margin.

https://insideevs.com/monthly-plug-in-sales-scorecard/
Ya that's totally all true. But, to my understanding, you can use college loans to pay for living expenses, and you can also get a part time job. Having a part time job through college used to be quite common.

I don't doubt that it's substantially harder for people who lack financial resources, but it doesn't seem that much harder to me. It seems well within the realm of ordinary stuff that is is a bit more difficult. I admit that maybe there is an aspect of it that I don't understand, but what I see here is both you and this guy seeming to say it was difficult, but then you both managed to do it.

My perspective on a lot of this is that there is a whole generation of kids who went to college with the promise that what they majored in was irrelevant - that they should pursue their passion and things would just work out, because the important thing was going to college. So they majored in things like English, Philosophy, and Psychology. And then they graduated with those degrees expecting the world to pay them a comfortable six figure salary. Except that nobody wanted those skills. Even worse, they took on debt to do it. So upon graduation with a fine mastery of medieval English literature, they found themselves saddled with debt and no job prospects.

People like you and the other guy in this thread, on the other hand, did exactly the right thing. You took on a level of debt that was commensurate with the earning power of the degree you obtained. That's how this is supposed to work. You look at the value you can get out of the degree, and you compare that to the cost of obtaining it, and if a > b, you do it. That worked out for you not because you were lucky, but because you made the right decisions and you put in the effort required to realize the benefits.
> Also, fascinating that Rust’s borrow checker sort of encourages you over time to adopt an entity component system architecture instead of a naive OO architecture.

Is this true outside of gamedev contexts?
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That works, though I think most developers are drawn to the markup style <cfquery> (I've been building CFML apps since 1999, and I don't know if I've ever seen queryExecute in the wild)
No it doens't, since a single partition is stored sequentially on one disk which limits the consumers to bandwidth of single disk (say c1 reads beginning of the partition and c2 end of the partition). But in the case of Pulsar c1 is most probably connected to a different node than c2.
Yes, but how would you prove how many copies of something someone shared?
The Wheelmen: http://www.thewheelmen.org

(Not to be confused with the League of American Wheelmen, the old name of what is now the League of American Bicyclists.)
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Yes, and those rentals-that-feel-like-purchases seem to be increasingly how new products and services are distributed whenever the providers can get away with it. You don't just see them with games, but also with movies (as described), music, e-books and, more recently, software suites, IoT devices and cars(!).

Which makes sense: For the involved businesses there are enormous upsides to this kind of deal: Instead of giving your product out of hand, you enter a long-term relationship with the consumer, you get the money and remain in full control over the product, you can define in unprecedented detail how your customers are permitted to use the product, you can use that control as leverage in contracts with other businesses, etc, etc.

Consumers usually don't mind because, indeed, it feels like you own the product. Until stuff like the OP happens and they realize it was a lie.
Excellent question! I use both regularly so are qualified to answer:

- monorepo. Versioning over entire repo. node modules are used for granularity, separation of concerns, etc.

- git submodules. Versioning over individual node modules. node modules are used for sharing code.

Nothing stopping you from using both.

Also, silly semi-technical point: I have never, ever, had a bad experience using git submodules, but many others have. I like submodules, but often work in teams where otherwise technically good people really hate them due to bad prior experiences.
Twitter is now banning promoted tweets with the legal term "illegal alien"
I would say the European Court of Justice is also outside the EU as it also regulates the EEA, but Brexit has meant leaving that too for about two years now.

I know it seems weird and cynical to say a government might not understand what it is and isn’t leaving, but my total lack of faith in the UK government at this point means I’ve chosen to leave the country rather than risk it.
I made a Vim plugin somewhat like this a while back

https://github.com/bwasti/vim-multiuser

It’d be interesting to standardize the diff protocol for live collaboration tools. Everyone uses a slightly different mechanism.
Weird. I've seen the exact opposite. The only people I know who own the SE are men who care about owning the right thing for their life, and not a social signaling device (usually high income, high net worth, or very well-educated).

For most of us, we would gladly pay $1000 for a small version of the XS, but the market for people who like big phones vastly outweighs our niche preferences.
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Ectoplasm and the Last British Woman Tried for Witchcraft
Can you explain how so?

I guess I'm putting forward two points:

1) Being a hateful person with a desire to oppress innocents seems to aptly qualify for the label of monster.

2) Those who equate republicans with monsters do so because of the republicans' current active support and promotion of hateful people and their desire to oppress the innocents.

Nothing here seems unfair to me, or irrational. I feel it all simply follows. Oppressors are labeled as monsters, groups that are represented by oppressors and support oppression have their members labeled as monsters.

The logical follow up, is that if you yourself are not supportive of oppression, then disassociate yourself with the groups that are? Join another group that represents yourself more accurately? Form a new group which represents yourself more accurately? Or attempt to change the group so it becomes more accurately representative of yourself?

Why, if you are against the oppression, would you continue to support the group otherwise? There's only two reason I can think of. Because you're a partisan, and you just feel an irrational sense of belonging, like if it was a big family you are part of, and this is just the clan you belong too no matter what. Or because you are okay with the oppression put forward by the group if it means you also get X, Y, Z, etc. Where X, Y, Z are other policies like say banning abortion or maintaining gun rights.
> The thin-walled tube of circular cross section is a most efficient structural member; it can resist tension or compression, bending, torsion, or the combination of stresses that are exerted on the frame of a vehicle. Although for bending in a particular plane an I-section joist may be more efficient, if bending load can be applied in any plane, then the thin tube is to be preferred. It is for this reason that tubes are used as a strut or compression member in which failure could occur by elastic instability, or bowing. For torsion there is no better section, hence the tube is the typical main transmission shaft of an automobile. The stem of the bamboo plant is an excellent example of the properties of a hollow tube ...

I notice that many current bikes have flattened, non-tubular frame components. Why? Style? New materials? I would assume, knowing little about it, that the tube shape would generally retain its advantages regardless of the material. But perhaps the new material doesn't form tubes well?
> militia hired by the factory owner enforcing people stayed there.

That isn't capitalism.

> In later stages it actually did keep those people there because they either couldn't afford to leave the city without half the family starving

I'm not sure what that means. Cities weren't that big. Just walk out and go live on some uninhabited BLM land if you don't want to participate in the capitalist economy.
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Yeah, I saw on YouTube that some guy was trying to build their own power wall. Do you have suggestion for a good tutorial? The thing I like the most about the power wall is the power transition. The moment the power kicks out, the power wall kicks in.
"I gain nothing by watching ads."

You get the site getting revenue, which allows it to continue existing and creating the content you enjoy.
THIS.

I'll add that when Adobe CF introduced a "richer" script syntax, it wasn't complete and along the lines of too little, too late. This is where MACR stagnated. Had CF introduced a full blown scripting language in the early 2000's, CF would certainly have a little more staying power these days, especially with open source implementations like Lucee.

The biggest problem for ColdFusion is that there was a time (2008-ish) that the open source web development world innovated and evolved by leaps and bounds around it and CF stood still. One of CF's biggest selling points was that it wasn't open source and that it wasn't PHP. I'm not knocking PHP; the reality was that there were a ton of companies that would steer clear or open source projects back in the mid-2000s. If you were doing "enterprise" web development in 2003-2005, you were either doing Classic ASP, Java, or ColdFusion.
Well you are technically correct, and despite the meme being that technically correct is the best type of correct, I don’t think that argument will hold up very well against a crowd of angry Glaswegians.
It's really just ColdFusion, which has been around since the mid-nineties.

cfdocs.org is a good resource; learncfinaweek.com is a good resource (but leans toward the commercial Adobe ColdFusion product, but syntax is pretty much the same). You'll want to look at coldbox.org for a full-featured framework.
Yes, "alt" attribute is for short descriptions. From the w3.org site:

"The alt text should be the most concise description possible of the image’s purpose. If anything more than a short phrase or sentence is needed, it would be better to use one of the long description methods discussed in complex images."

The alternatives for long descriptions are the "longdesc" attribute, "figure" with "figcaption" tag or the "aria-describedby".

https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/images/complex/
There were tons of bicycle manufacturers, so the bicycle wasn't "late", there were plenty of them. The difference is that they were luxury items.

"The problem with the airplane was that it was late..." No, we've had airplanes since 1903. The problem is that I can't afford, even as an upper middle class software engineer, to keep one in the air.
Sheets isn't consistently the better option, but it does shine for specific use cases. The three main reasons I'll reach for Sheets is:

- Heavy text munging. The builtin regex functions have no equivalent in Excel without dropping down into custom

- Quick and dirty data pulls and third party integrations. Especially any that involve Google services (since the auth process is less painful). I used to use both VBA and App Script pretty extensively, and could switch between the two without much issue. But I use neither as frequently as I used to, and it's significantly easier to ramp back up and ship when I use App Script rather than VBA. Excel supports Javascript now, but are only usable if you can ensure it's going to be used exclusively in newer versions of Excel.

- Sheets I create for others (especially shared by multiple users) that I know I'll need to maintain and support later on. The access controls, change auditing & revert capabilities, and standardized/centralized execution environment all remove entire classes of support needs and the associated cognitive overhead when triaging issues.

That said, there are certain times I prefer to use Excel.

- Pivot charts are amazing and have no equivalent in Sheets.

- Pivot tables are far more powerful than their Sheets counterpart.

- PowerBI is fantastic (except for the lack of Excel for Mac support. Which can still view the results of PowerBI, but can't do any editing).

- When connecting to internal data sources. Getting access to data sources, for business teams, is a royal pain in the ass. Legitimately so, since it's rare for a business team to have a resource with a technical enough skillset to truly be trusted with direct access to anything. Getting access that's reachable outside of the intranet (where App Script would run) is virtually impossible.
Yep! Exactly! https://twitter.com/mxwllt/status/882190696224083968
Um...no. The goalposts have always been that the purpose of the brainteasers was to demonstrate reasoning skills. Using Fermi estimation is demonstrating reasoning skills. It's not like some trick that you have to know, it's not a formula. It's something any intelligent person would do on their own when faced with a task of this sort.
iTunes made the iPod huge, but the iPod itself was pretty remarkable. The UI was entirely new and more intuitive than similar devices, and it was the smallest large-capacity device thanks to Steve seizing on the idea of using the new tiny hard drives Toshiba(?) had created.

Firewire also made it much faster to upload music.
Lucee also has a much better Docker story than Adobe ColdFusion.
potentially, if it's economic enough. The typical shale wells that you see being drilled have very high initial rates, but then fall dramatically. They are a totally different well profile than the wells offshore (where shale is not being targeted).

Will shale ever be targeted offshore? Maybe, in a world where oil is $150/barrel and we're all still demanding it. A few things are holding back hydraulically fracking offshore:

1) Freshwater - The current "recipes" need freshwater, and do not work with salt water. Fracking uses a lot of water. This seems solvable, but currently not a lot of research in this area.

2) Sand - A TON of sand is required to keep these fracks open - we are talking truck load upon truck load of sand (sometimes over 100 truck loads). How does this happen in an offshore environment? The logistics would be quite tricky (and expensive).

3) Equipment - Typically, onshore drilling rigs drill the well, and then move off the location and the fracking unit comes onto the location. The fracking unit can be as big or bigger than the drilling unit spread. To translate this to an offshore environment would be logistically impossible - we would basically need specialized "fracking drill ships" to equivocate this. To date, these don't exist (but could potentially exist in the future).

4) Institutional Know-How - for how big these companies are, it's quite surprising that the big players haven't had much success fracking - ExxonMobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, BP, Total, Shell - all of these guys do some fracking, but it's not really their core business (offshore is). The fracking revolution was built on the backs of the smaller industry players (and these guys don't do offshore well). In tech parlance, this would be loosely equivalent to why Microsoft/Yahoo/Oracle have never really done startups well (just buy the ones that do well).

It's important to note that fracking we see in the news are a totally different target than conventional oil wells. So the permian basin, which is "so hot" right now, had conventional targets that were tapped out in the 1980's/1990's. The shale wells being drilled are entirely new wells at different targets, so you wouldn't use the fracking techniques that we hear about to extend the life of an existing well - you would drill a totally new well.

To give you an idea of the costs involved, an offshore deepwater drill ship in the Gulf of Mexico has a rig rate (all in) of about $500k/day. An onshore rig in the permian basin drilling shale wells is probably around $50k-$75k. It's a 10x difference (why is why countries like Brazil, Venezuela, etc. have struggled during this latest "boom").
I agree. I liked Palm OS back in the day and used to have two generations of Sony Clié PDAs with resistive touchscreens. The first one (an SL10) had a grayscale square touchscreen and a little "Graffiti" area below it where you could jot down simplified characters and some gestures. The second one (TG50) was really neat. It had a color screen (I remember watching videos and playing ScummVM Lucas Arts adventures on this in 2003 or 2004!) and it replaced the Graffiti area with an actual hardware keyboard. Text entry worked so much better than it used to with that pseudo-handwriting recognition.

Much later, when I saw Apple and Android smartphones, I could not understand how anybody could stand the onscreen keyboards. But the truth is that the multitouch hardware allowed to progress these systems far enough that they would surpass earlier tiny physical keyboards.
The problem with this line of thought is that it is used to strongarm people with conventional right wing political views into silence by accusing them of harboring the taboo opinions you listed.

You cannot utter even the most platonic of right wing sentiments without the shrieks of frantic lunatics accusing you of being Hitler himself.

This idea of taboo subjects is exploited by nefarious far left activists, not for the cause of 'decency' or the preservation of western liberalism, but as a bludgeon to silence all thoughtcrime of the right.
As well as tmux! But neither offer multiple cursor support.
You cannot police every website on the Internet, but you certainly can scrap the Internet. It is easy to forget how much regulation surrounds the physical infrastructure of the Internet and how easily the government could just shut it all down. A key property of the Internet is that there is a single public IP address space; there is no technical reason why the address space could not be divided into "client" and "server" addresses, with only "servers" being allowed to host applications, and we are already halfway there with NAT (IPv6 does not help either, as it could easily be fragmented and we already have things like ULA). It would be easy to require a special license to receive a "server IP address" and I can see the EU doing exactly that based on their recent pattern of behavior.

Europe has a long history of doing such things when confronted with new, disruptive technologies: the effort to license printing presses in various European countries is what eventually led to copyright law as we know it today.
Just watched this yesterday. I really like the pragmatic tone ("you don't have to go all the way, you can stop at any of these points and be fine"), and I love the "egoless" style of presentation. Illustrating your point using your own mistakes is much more compelling than picking on some artificial strawman.