skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much do you pay attention to the live feed of news from Mauritius? (If you live anywhere close to that country, or have ties there pick a different country on a different continent). Somewhere in my family history is the towns where my family immigrated to the US from, but I don't care at all about news from those towns.

The news in my town is of interest to me, nobody else would care about the latest live music at the local stage.

Science might be of interest, but the problem is both cultures will work in parallel, so we can assume that majority of advances one planet discovers are discovered by the other planet in the mean time.

The nearest star (which might not even have a habitable planet) to earth is too far away for science collaboration other than the "here is new type of signal we are sending your way, see if you get it", and even then you take the risk that the other planet chooses to not listen for whatever reason (it wouldn't surprise me if some theory require this level of cooperation). It is close enough that some "we are studying this lead, so you probably want to look at something different to avoid duplicate work".

As we get farther and farther from the other planet collaboration is less and less useful. You quickly reach a point where the planets can advance faster by duplicating effort than talking to each other (other than as a much latter verification of current theories)

Of course if we colonize a planet 100 light years away you can assume a few hundred years of the colonists working hard to establish the colony and so getting science and technology feeds from Earth will be useful since then they can make a copy of widgets without having to design it from scratch. Eventually they will get established and start producing their own science locally, and soon the feed will be useless and not of interest.
How do other European countries compare?
New “Terrorist Content” Regulations: A Grim Day for Digital Rights in Europe
There's a very interesting explanation on why you can consider money as being debt by Paul Grignon [0].

Of course, there are critics of this view and it's not necessarily 100% correct, but it does seem plausible.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_as_Debt
Is Amazon Down?
Currently when I click links to from outside of Amazon, or try to search from within it, I'm greated with a "Sorry, something went wrong on our end" message, along with an image of a cute dog.

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=anything
What seems strange is IF someone had root on a enemy nation's natgas distribution plant, a short spike resulting in a handful of explosions is the third least effective attack I can think of (the least being doing nothing, second least effective being some kind of blackmail attempt). Performing almost any other conscious action would be more destructive to life and property and economy. Therefore unless its literally accidental (like the SQL slammer attack decades ago causing DOS via flooding) there almost certainly can not be hacking / terror involvement.

Yet its also too destructive and attention seeking to be a plausible threat or sending a message; if outsiders messed with the SCADA to do this, fifteen minutes later all the passwords would be changed and sites physically locked down, such that a threat to do something more destructive next time (or else..) such as flicking the gas supply off for a couple minutes would be a non-starter. You have to look at it militarily like a stealth attack; giving away your position is not a wise first move if your whole strategy is stealth. You get one shot and this would be an intentional miss, so ...

This would also imply its not an inside job; an insider would know that in my state (admittedly not MA, thankfully) an interruption in pressure requires an attempt at physical access by a rep with a leak sensor to verify pilot light and pilot light safety interlock for EVERY point of use and/or door tag notification warnings. Its happened to me a couple of times for some street work replacing pipes and replacement of my old meter. Its kind of an expensive labor job, a wealth transfer from the company to the union. The fact this didn't happen kind of exonerates the union.

So rule out outsiders and insiders. A nutjob would probably drive a truck into an above ground facility, or frankly, just drive into people, so its probably not a nut. Not many options left. Space aliens did it accidentally? Maybe they closed down that solar observatory in NM because the space aliens are coming to mess with our delicious natgas.
Elvish: a shell with some unique semantics
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Isolationism will go real well, I'm sure of it.
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This sounds more a problem about your total number of local variables than their names. If you have too many variables, using longer names is not going to help you as much as organizing your code differently.
On Killing, by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman.

Changed my view of people, for the better.
> We are not unique in our ability to overwhelm ecosystems.

We are not unique in that respect, but we are unique magnitude and consistency, we aren't an "event" like others, we are an adaptive species.
Most people don't seem to realize this. Even if the nearest star had an earth level civilization, we wouldn't be able to detect its signals[1].

[1] https://www.seti.org/faq#obs12
> Personally, I follow a rule I read in a blog some time ago and don't try to de-duplicate code until I've copy and pasted it three times

Known as "Three Strikes and You Refactor"[0]:

- The first time you do something, you just do it.

- The second time you do something similar, you wince at the duplication, but you do the duplicate thing anyway.

- The third time you do something similar, you refactor.

[0] http://wiki.c2.com/?ThreeStrikesAndYouRefactor
I hope this isn't an obvious question: Why aren't there safeties in the system to control these kinds of problems?

For example, I have a giant gas meter outside my home. How come it can't turn the gas off when the line is over pressure? Massachusetts state law requires that the gas company change it every few years. (I'm a MA resident)

My breaker box will turn off if there is a fault.
This is a well articulated point. You're right. My only counter might be something less articulate like "1000 years ago our understanding of physics/space/etc was incomplete." Possibly our understanding now is still incomplete.
>Can you suggest an environment conducive to life that isn't exposed to EM radiation? Life itself creates EM radiation.

There is nothing in the definition of "life" that warrants an ability to observe EM radiation or create it for that matter..By the way, what is the definition of "life" that you are using here?

>there are fundamental forces left to be discovered then they are not having any observable effect on the world..

So just because we haven't discovered something, does it mean that that thing is not observable at all? We are still discovering "things" in our own body, let alone in the entire world. The fallacy that human beings are capable of detecting every observable (by observable, I did not mean observable with our current tech) phenomena in this world is exactly what I was indicating before.
I also suggest consider your data. There are two main problems we face as programmers: managing complexity and transforming data. The former gets the majority of the treatment in articles like this but I believe the latter is often more important. We must consider the shape of our data, the usage patterns of our data, and consider structuring our programs to accommodate such patterns and transformations.

An example of where rules of thumb about abstractions turn into poorly designed code is when processing large arrays or vectors of data. It is common to model your data in some kind of product type like a struct or union and process each item using some method of iteration. However if the main usage pattern of our data is to perform this transformation over the vector within an outer loop we've shot ourselves in the foot from the get-go. Our caches are constantly swapping data. This is called, premature pessimization.

So don't get trapped into thinking that our job is only about learning SOLID principles or various aphorisms and mnemonics. The other side of our job is transforming and moving data.
Not surprising.

The whole place is basically a big rust belt. Industry is dead, martitime doesn’t generate a lot of jobs, the US captured tech, and banking produces money but not employment.
The semantics of its command language is what made it interesting for me: https://elv.sh/learn/unique-semantics.html
>Doctors invest huge effort in keeping up with the state of the art in their field

I'm afraid this hasn't been my usual experience.
This article keeps talking about mean GDP.

Unless you live in a perfectly communist society, mean GDP is a poor proxy for how wealthy the people in it are.

Additionally, if the author wants to adjust for PPP, they should also adjust for cost of healthcare, education, median transportation expenses - all of which are much higher in the US. (All right, median transportation expenses may be higher in the UK. I honestly have no idea.)

Also, it's worth considering how much GDP in each country is spent on projects that don't improve anyone's life. If half your GDP is spent on building tanks and submarines and nuclear weapons, while your people want color TVs and washing machines, or a health system that won't bankrupt them, it's often not the best use of your economic output.
GDP per capita per hour worked is a better metric to use when comparing countries. Most Western European countries have fewer hours worked per worker, but when they work have the same productivity. I'm not sure about the gini coefficient, but both of the numbers given seem low. The US's was over 0.42 from what I've read in other sources.
Makes sense in some way. But why "Novichok" did not work then, if it is so scary super-duper chemical weapon? Both of the victims are cured.

Basically western mass media was talking that only Russia has a formula for Novichok form the beginning, how did they came up to know that is is Novichok without having the formula? If anyone can have that formula to compare or to detect that poison, is there any evidence that it was originally produced by Russia?
It's easy enough to undo, so we don't need confirmation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Humane_Interface#Design_ru... https://alistapart.com/article/neveruseawarning
Would that you place yourself at eye level with royalty, still choose to do so, knowing it be treason that criminals are broken upon the wheel for toying with?

My sons tell me that, historically, the world couldn't afford to support prisoners long term in subsistence societies. So one thing they did: During war, they offered poisoners the chance to become landed nobility. All they had to do was be part of the first assault wave attacking a castle and survive the assault because the death rate for that first wave was ridiculously high.

The world is dealing with crises our current models cannot solve. Preserving the current order to jealously guard their authority and wealth is heading towards a burned out, barren land, like the lands ruled by the hyenas in The Lion King.

There will be nothing left to rule. They know that, it's why we have billionaire preppers with compounds in New Zealand and bug out bags to get them to their special plane in Nevada for a straight flight to NZ.

They jealously guard a dystopian future and hope against hope that UBI will somehow keep the zombie hoards from their door while feeling in their bones that it won't and failing to come up with real solutions.

Because god forbid anyone should listen to a woman. A poor person. A former homemaker.

Obviously, she must be crazy. Let's go with that.

PS I'm descended from German nobility, just a mere two generations removed. It wouldn't be that hard to clean up my public image and frame me as socially acceptable -- A story of a lost lamb returned to the fold or the prodigal son come home again.
> This would also negatively affect the United States.

How much money are our values worth? If we're willing to prostrate ourselves in front of dictators and tyrants who twist the rules of the game and compromise our values, let's at least put a number on it.

If, on the other hands, we're willing to do business with every butcher and murderer out there, let's stop pretending otherwise and stop referring to "our values" in every corporate meeting. They clearly don't exist.
Same in oceanography. People also are frequently attached to papers/proposals for name recognition to increase chances of funding. I don't really see an issue with it at all. everyone knows that it is the first and second authors that are important.
Easy to forget there's a difference between models and the reality they try to represent. All abstractions are leaky.

In the case of maps there are all sorts of issues that relate to projections and size, the 2d nature of maps vs. the 3d nature of lots of places, editorial decisions as to what is relevant and what is not, etc. There are a lot of political subtleties as well, historical changes, temporary changes, etc. Also, continental drift and gps accuracy are a thing; especially in earthquake sensitive regions.
The question is, will Brexit help or hurt with this? Will Britain be better off than the rest of Europe as a result of leaving the EU, and how long will withdrawal pains last?
You can negotiate part-time work.

1. This is easier at your current job, since your company knows you, and also you have organization specific value (code base, procedures, people).

2. It's also easier at companies that value your output, not how many hours you sit in a chair. Companies that support remote employees well are good for this.

So, your best bet is actually negotiating at your current company.

Some things to keep in mind:

- Half-time is harder to get than e.g. 4 days a week.

- In US requirement for employer to provide health insurance (for larger companies) goes away for employees working less than 30 hours a week.

- Some company health insurance plans in US won't accept employees working less than 30 hours a week.

I've done an interview with someone who has been working 4 days a week for past 15 years, which'll give you some sense of what it's like: https://codewithoutrules.com/2018/01/08/part-time-programmer...

And I'm working on a book on how to negotiate a 3-day weekend (and more broadly, shorter work hours): https://codewithoutrules.com/3dayweekend/
Not according to the article you quoted: "... not commonly used ... they have been used occasionally in some special contexts in the UK ..."

I've lived in Scotland and England most of my life, and can't recall ever having seen it and am now curious about what these special contexts are.
(1) and (2) Absolutely right, and they might tell the patient they need to see a psychiatrist instead
this one is pretty funny:

http://justinhileman.info/article/git-pretty/git-pretty.png
So given this information as well as the UN report on US and the fact that the US is in poverty like conditions [1] I think it’s safe to say everyone is broke.

This post from reddit on /r/funny isn’t funny - it is the truth [2]

[1] https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?N...
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/9fq5e4/the_simpsons_...
How to write X in both Python 3 and JavaScript
I'm not sure what point to take from this, other than to be reminded of the imprecision and conceptual vagueness of the terminology he uses ("order", "balance", etc.)
Ah yea, CATO. I’m sure they haven’t twisted the numbers to make Europe seem like a socialist hellhole and America the land of the free and the rich, despite half of America barely able to afford necessities and one accident away from complete bankruptcy.
Not really. Point me to the OPCW report that says evidence of chemical weapons use in Syria is weak.

FUD is good, because it takes away/weakens popular support from any kind of western intervention, which is good for Putin's interests in the region. Less competition.

Also you're rewriting history. I was actually watching the developments quite closely as it was happening and there were numerous reports of Russians delaying OPCW FFM on basis of security in the area, while at the same time parading around some journalists in the same area.

And last, the US and friends bombing were during the night and in a different place. Certainly nothing that would prevent OPCW FFM from operating in the area.
@danieldk: "If we compare the hashes of the latest commit two git repositories"

Which implies that you hold a copy of the repository, which is therefore the master copy, as opposed to trusting a third party to do that.
"In the US food is generally cheaper than it is in Europe, medical care generally more expensive."

I'm not sure when medical care is cheaper in the US. Within the VA system, maybe?

Also, the ranking does not stack up against wikipedia figures:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_GDP_per...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)...
(Where PPP is already accounted for, so this guy is doing it twice).

UK would come in ~35th. Similar to Nevada or Michigan.
I'm currently working on fixing a semi broken REST API that exposed way too much of the data internals to clients. The clients have so much control over the DB that they must chain calls in a specific order and have none of them drop or else the DB can get into a nonsensical state. I understand why it was built this way by the consulting firm, because it let them leverage a server side framework to auto generate a ton of endpoints based on the DB schema, but it's a great example of REST gone wrong.

I'm considering transitioning to an RPC framework to dig out of this mess, but not sure that will go over well with one of the REST gurus on my team.
Yeah it's confusing. Is this a way for multiple people to control the same screen?
The problem with this is the cases when you don’t remember that you (or someone else) already used this same snippet twice. In large codebases with a lot of people working on them, this can expand to dozens of copies.
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This Wikipedia page may also be of interest. It has two lists: 1) median household income, and 2) median adult income.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_income#Gross_median_hou...
> GDP per capita per hour worked is a better metric to use when comparing countries.

Comparing what? Wealth? Efficiency? Happiness? Athleticism?

If you are comparing economic well-being, use GDP per capita. If you worked one hour today and $100 or eight hours and got $100, either way your richness/poorness is $100.

If you are comparing efficiency or something, do the per hour thing.
Decades and they won’t be, unless they don’t want access to the EU market for their goods. Best case they have to follow all EU law and have no say in the matter.
My economic knowledge is lacking, how good of a metrics is PPP?

Specifically this jab:

> showing that the bottom 10% in the US have the same incomes (yes, PPP adjusted) as the bottom 10% in either Sweden or Finland.
> While the top 10% have very much larger incomes than the top 10% in either country.
> All that redistribution hasn't made the Nordic poor richer than the American poor but it has made the rich poorer.

If PPP is a good metric, that would mean there are about the same percentage of people starving and lacking medical care in the US as in Nordic countries. That is incorrect if general media portrayal is correct.
It sure doesn’t seem to be reflected in how people live. Is this just using the wrong measure for “poorer”?
Seems premature to claim "it works" based on predictions. That was what got us in trouble last time.
Off topic: What is this form of title when they add stuff like "Yes, Even Mississippi" which doesn't add any value? Is there a term for it?
nothing stopping you from popping in, grabbing yr 10 dollar water, and texting the chatbot from a more dignified location 20 minutes later.

SMS txt bots are actually really useful. I use digit.co as a little saving acct bot and i really love it.
Quite a lot friends went to Europe travelling this summer for whatever reason. They share the common impression:

1. You don't realize how great USA is until you travel elsewhere, e.g. Europe.

2. Europe will become a mix between the old Europe population and people from Africa based on the faces they saw on the street and the birth rate among different races these days. Soon, white will become minorities there. Yes I know this is politically incorrect by just saying it, but people from different origins are actually quite different, and it takes guts to just state that fact these days.

3. No Air conditioning in many hotels/airbnb and they had to switch places last minute.

The only solution is to have more kids?
New iPhones, new Galaxies: Who's the bigger copycat?
The performance using it is a derivative work for which you'd need a license to create (in UK) or perform, or publish.
Without the bag scales, a decent touchscreen and an UI not designed by monkeys.

The scale is the least of your worries when the UI is an absolute disaster and takes ages to react to every interaction.
Yes, that's what I did but instead of copying the subkey via QR I put it on a Yubikey. Actually it's more convenient that way as it's possible to use it on any computer.

But from my perspective if you keep your master key super secure subkeys can be your "operational keys" that are easily swapped when needed (I rotated my subs when Yubico Infineon bug surfaced).
Creator here! Let me know if you have any suggestions.
I worked extensively with a number of doctors, primarily pathologists, for about 3 years.

Some of them are among the most humble, caring people I’ve ever met. Some of them had colossal egos and would ignore advice from PhDs on their area of expertise because they had the wrong letters after their name.

On the whole, I felt enriched by the experience. Eventually you learn which to treat like children and which to treat like adults.
Why must anything be harmonious? Why do you think there's any one way "nature" is supposed to be. Natural is as natural does. Everything we do is part of the natural process of the universe. Wiping out all life on Earth or increasing biodiversity and everything in between are all perfectly valid outcomes because there is no intended course or outcome.
Why would you read anything from CATO?
Switzerland isn't in the EU and is doing fine.

Switzerland poverty rate - 6.6%
Germany poverty rate - 16.7%

Source: https://www.indexmundi.com/factbook/compare/switzerland.germ...
The author is saying that the medical care is more expensive in the US, not cheaper.
What an outstanding example of positive second order effects from the advance of technology - in this case, drones. This project might not even be possible without the advent of cheap consumer quadcopters. I love it.

With all the negativity about tech sometimes, it's lovely to see a genuinely positive use.
If you don't have gas heat, you can get a (large) propane tank for use with a gas stovetop. My first house had such a setup (oil heat).
The point of spread-spectrum signal is that it's indistinguishable from noise unless you know the key.

With frequency-hopping you still have spikes in the spectrum around the frequencies you hop between, but with most modern systems you no longer have anything distinctive to find.
Silly question: so, terrorist regimes often do everything possible to censor the Internet and forms of speech that can be critical of their actions...

Would reporting news of said new regulations be considered "terrorist content", as it is identical to what terrorists do to victims?
"Chasing the Rabbit" by Steven Spear. It gave me a much deeper understanding of the Lean/Toyota than other books.