skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Olaf Carlson-Wee Rode the Bitcoin Boom. Can He Survive the Crash?
I disagree with your contention that the 747 was unreliable, in its first decade of operation it only had 7 hull loss accidents. A comparable number to the DC-10 or A300 - interestingly enough, much more than the L-1011.

I do agree with you completely about the security theater aspects of the TSA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_747_hull_losses
> you link anything to `thewire.in`, I would call it propaganda.

Care to provide any reasoning why you call it a propaganda ?
How Struggling Dayton, Ohio, Reveals the Chasm Among American Cities
I’ve been toying with the idea of stopping these sorts of interviews in the middle, but I’m not sure how to phrase it constructively.

I want to suggest that while they may learn more about me if we continue, if I don’t learn more about them then I don’t want to work here. And they will learn more about me by letting me ask my questions.

Long ago nobody knew how to interview. If you derailed it in the middle to talk about more interesting things they were almost grateful. And I would frequently get an offer.

Now everyone thinks they know how to interview even though we agree as a group that we don’t. So they show up to an hour meeting with an hour agenda and I spend half the time wondering if this question means they’re code cowboys or insane. So then I’m wondering if I’m throwing the interview to get out of laughing at them when they make an offer.

I’d like to go back to grilling hen about their development practices and their roadmap and how I might be able to help or fit in. Please.
1. Write down what you're hoping to gain from interning at a startup. Are you looking for paid or unpaid internships? Industry specific or agnostic? Early stage or later stage startups? Many early stage startups are tight with budget.

2. Hop on AngelList (angel.co) and scour through startups in your area. Identify 10 that you're interested in and why.

3. Reach out to the team via LinkedIn or AngelList with your request + what you're hoping to learn from the internship and why them. Invite a team member for coffee or an intro call

4. Goodluck :)
Does that include the black budget?
An empire by definition has to include people who are not citizens of the dominant polity, otherwise it would be a nation rather than an empire.

If you want to call the US an empire, Canada and Mexico would probably be considered part of the empire as would anywhere else that NATO or US corporations have large amounts of influence. The "barbarians"[1] would be those that actively avoid US influence like China, Russia and parts of the Middle East.

[1] An unfair term, but it was also unfair when used by the Romans, so it is reasonable to use in this analogy
What if they found the "creative" solution to delegate the policing to the governments in question (as a "third party"), in exchange for not having to pay taxes. Then deniability goes both ways!
Dyalog and the emacs APL mode both let you use a prefix key for the special characters. By default it's either . or `. So .. gives you a period, and .r gives you rho. It's not so bad if you practice with it for a bit each day for a couple weeks. I became reasonably proficient after about a month of 30 minutes a day of APL practice earlier this year. It would be harder if you don't touch type yet (I suspect).
I'm a frequent business traveler, I generally pick based on arrival/departure times, and carrier service level. Price is maybe the third or fourth item down on my list.
> An economist thinks US is bankrupt: What it means [...]

What it means is “the economist doesn't know what ‘bankrupt’ means or understand how public finance works for an sovereign entity whose debt is primarily denominated in its own currency and probably shouldn't be taken seriously on anything related to it.”

Or, more likely, “the economist knows all this quite well and is engaging in political/commercial propaganda that relies on public ignorance.”
Probably from the people who think those in prison are not slaves, but are "earning their keep."
Is anyone distributing C-band reception from RF quiet locations over IP?
Well just off the top of my head, here's what I remember from most to least painful. Some of these are not 100% fixable though or I'm not sure the best way to fix them yet without adding more complexity or some sort of editor to my SSG.

- Layout & Routing - Having "special" pages is usually impossible with "structured" SSGs (like Hugo). For example, say you want a page that's your portfolio and only contains posts with x and y tags and you want it to look different than normal pages. Also see rss below. Or for example archives, where "/year" = "/year/index.html" but also "/year/month/" = "/year/month/index.html" and "/year/month/postname" = "year/month/postname.index.html".

- Sitemaps - I have videos on my blog and usually you want to add those to your sitemap properly. To do this I had to patch together a plugin to fetch the video info from the youtube api.

- Smart tags/embeds - Similarly I had to do something similar to fetch embeds from just the link like "[instagram]link[/instagram]". You have to do this with every provider you want, ugh, awful. Also means fighting the markdown converter you chose sometimes.

- Images - I run a blog with lots of images and different views of those images, so I need to have them all in at least thumbnail size and the regular size, sometimes the original as well, but not always. I used to batch convert new ones by hand but that was a pain. I eventually patched together a metalsmith plugin for this to automate the conversion of originals to "regular" (max post width) and thumbnails but it needs improvement. Edit: And I forgot, actually adding the correct attributes needed for lazy-loading, etc, to the image tags was also a pain.

- RSS, Most do not come equipped to handle rss, and available plugins are too simple (for routing that is, like having an rss feed per tag, per archive page, etc).

- Layout Language - Depends on the SSG, most allow choosing or these days are super flexible (e.g. Nuxt) but those that don't and just use one template language, argh! Template languages like handlebars are just not flexible enough. This was the easiest to fix though. I just use ejs now, basically allows any valid javascript, love it.
I dont work in tech, im an engine mechanic by trade, but im fascinated to know why/how often this happens in a tech interview? Do programmers/sys admins really endure this kind of aggravation in their interviews?

The hardest question I've ever asked one of my shop mechanics during an interview was how does Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR) in a Diesel engine affect thermal efficiency, smoke output and emissions of the engine...and that was for a full-time diesel tech at our cross town location.

id imagine if i ever started throwing out manhole cover questions or underwater airplane bullshit, i'd catch some hands before I managed to hire anyone.
You are missing my point or I am not explaining it very well.

The point is that that this is what I think, but rather this is what the people who join the antiestablishment think.

The article claims that 2008 is the reason and that couldn't be further from the truth since we financially are even better off today than right before 2008.

The people who joined occupy Wallstreet aren't the people who vote for those political parties.

It has nothing to do with whether there is racism or not that's a completely different discussion. We are talking politics which means we are talking perception here not some "true" interpretation of reality (which neither of us have)
Many interviews are hard, but there's a distinct difference between good hard and bad hard.

My current gig interviews were all deep storage strategy conversations and hard in the sense of needing to show a lot of knowledge articulately. I left there feeling really good if exhausted.

My Google interviews were hard in the sense of embarrassing regurgitation and thinking nonsense on one's feet. Hard was being made to feel inferior.
The worst part is that they are visually similar. There's text at the top of the section that tells you whether it's sponsored or organic, but the layout and format is otherwise identical. If you recognize things more by shape and color and such as you're scanning the page (as I do), it's easy to not notice sometimes.

While nobody loves ads, I'm OK with them if it's always very obvious which you're looking at. This skirts that line.

Which is an unfortunate trend. Even Google's web search results page is making ads less visually distinctive. If I remember right, they used to have a different background color, and now they just have a small box that says "[Ad]".
If someone needs a project, please develop an "Amazon Advertising AdBlocker".

Their class names are fairly consistent.
A single SQL Injection has pretty huge potential, specially if its in an application that deals with sensitive data. I would not downplay it.
The site now supports all language characters ... like ビジネス The server side infrastructure is fast - just 10s of milliseconds for server side retrieval with the remaining user-experienced latency due primarily to the required network transport. If a site you would like covered doesn't show up in search results, go ahead and submit it for indexing.
I'll pay 20% more for a system that I don't have to manage - the cost of patching and general EC2 maintenance is easily higher than that to me.
In my experience it's better to pay attention to what your customers do, rather than what they say. Often peoples true goals aren't directly stated, or even known to themselves. If you asked people what type of store they want to shop in, very few would describe a walmart, and yet walmart seems to gain plenty of customers.

This sort of behavior is compounded when you throw in things such as distributed decision making. You will get piles of disjointed feedback, and almost none of it is informative about what actually drives adoption of your product.
I agree with you in a way. I think the rise of the new chains you describe is a result of the gradual decline of the old guard of fast food. And if you look at those new chains today vs when they opened you see a decline in quality as well.

In the late 90s everything at Subway was prepared fresh in store and the meat was single origin. Today everything comes in bags and the "meat" is lower in quality than the crappiest of hot dog.

Chipotle went from fresh in 2001 to unsanitary burrito factory in 2017. They're being followed down the hole cloesly by Moe's and a bit further back by Willy's.

Starbucks went from a high end coffee house in the 90s to a candy store.

Dunkin Donuts in the 90s made fresh donuts nightly in store, today they have them shipped in from factory and aren't any better than grocery store bakery donuts, just more varied.

Perhaps that's the natural order of most fast food as they chase margins. Death by a thousand compromises.
How I hacked Hacker News (2009)
Read the book I recommend :)
I find it interesting how your comment grants a lot of agency to the government but very little of it to banks:

>so instead they had to become "creative" with loans

>They HAD to use at least X% of new loans to low income families.

But there's no actual connection between their requirement to loan to low income families and this:

>This insane game of musical chairs, where banks generate toxic loans, securitize them and throw them at someone else

They didn't have to repackage those loans into complex instruments, they didn't have to sell those instruments, they didn't have to do both of the above knowing that the rating agencies had intentionally mislabeled the risk of those products.

They also incentivized their low-level workers to lie or let borrowers lie on loan applications which regulation did not require. The problem here isn't regulation, the problem is banks and their management let The Fear of Missing Out rule the day and they put a bunch of money into a bubble and then leveraged it and sold it to other people as a safe investment.
You were likely buying from a 3rd party seller.

I know of some people who do this. Basically, list tons of items on Amazon from local speciality stores, Costco, etc. They markup prices, of course. Then once a day, on their way back home, they pickup stuff that was bought, pack it at night, and then ship it in the morning. You are basically paying for someone else to shop.

I was introduced to this side-hustle by my friend and did this for a few months, but it was too much of hassle for very little return. Very hard to scale.
Policy responses to the digital economy necessary
The ping costs on AWS to keep VMs warm are literally just pennies.
False dichotomy. The problem was letting it get that bad to start with, and letting any single bank get so huge. If banks had been kept smaller and limited from taking on such crazy risks then it would have been far easier to just let some banks go out of business and let the market adjust itself.

Additionally, the fact that people in the street got screwed while hedge funds got their profit margins protected by tax payers is something that shouldn't have been allowed to happen. Much of the pain for the top 1% from the crash was socialized away and absorbed by tax payers and the working class. There should have been much more financial assistance to the working class.
> Weird. So I could get a job and then just hang out outside “striking” and not work and still get paid and they can never fire me?

Striking workers don't get paid by the employer while they're striking. That's why unions have "strike funds" -- to keep striking members financially solvent while they strike.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strike_pay

> I don’t understand the laws here.

They're meant to protect the rights of employees to strike. If companies were allowed to fire union members just because they're participate in union activities (like strikes), it'd be trivial for management to break union power for the low wage/low skill jobs that most need unions.
I’m guessing you’ve never been to an Aldi. They seem to have worked out high speed scanning.
The first is a tax on gas, which affects different vehicles differently; for example, a Tesla would not be taxed at all.

The second only covers state highways, of which most of the roads in New York City, especially Manhattan, are not.

The third is a flat fee; to get the most value out of it, it actually incentivizes driving more.

None of this is an actual price on traffic; you pay the same rate whether or not you do all your traveling on lightly trafficked country roads, or bumper to bumper city streets. In DC, for example, they started charging tolls to maintain a constant speed of 55MPH, and it turns out the market clearing price could go as high as $40. https://ggwash.org/view/65796/the-new-i-66-tolls-offer-great...
Didn't browsers take a stand a few years ago by ignoring "autocomplete=off" on password fields?

I think it’s about time browsers start ignoring any onpaste events on password fields. I’m curious what Chromium folks think - have there been tickets about this? It would be a great way to end this dumb practice.
As a long time tech person, it wasn't always like this at all. The brainteaser crap spread out from the likes of Microsoft, followed by the whiteboarding a little later.
>1) The day Amazon feel threatened they can become the cheapest in the market quickly again.

Only if they're being vigilant. Usually the threats to a company's business model come from places they don't expect, so by the time they feel squeezed it's already too late. Consider the examples of RIM and Microsoft.

> 2.) Given purchasing power scale and people like fast delivery there will only be a handful of companies that can complete with Amazon ever, so it seems unlikely there will be a 'started in the garage' business compete with them now the market is maturing.

Again, consider RIM and Microsoft. Apple + Google gobbled up much of their core markets. RIM just withered and Microsoft had to completely redo its business strategy. They're not the Borg anymore as a result.

Amazon's big gains come from taking advantage of low-hanging fruit in technology. It's something most other retailers just didn't have the internal expertise to do. But the Wally Worlds and Targets of the world can catch up eventually. The first mover advantage only lasts for so long.

At this point, the main thing that makes me go to Amazon is one-click ordering. But if things like Apple or Android Pay take off, that would kill much of the advantage Amazon has over other small retailers. I already don't really care for my Prime membership anymore.

And there is always the possibility that our government wises up and starts enforcing anti-trust la. . .no never mind. That's just ridiculous.
Essential Kanban Condensed.

https://leankanban.com/guide/
I don't think one is always forced, but I think there is always someone who is forced. As you said yourself, it could be even harder for someone else. If you take the barista job, someone else isn't going to get it. And is a barista job actually going to provide maternity benefits or pay enough to raise a child? "Maybe sometimes" doesn't make a good national policy.

Do you feel that the sacrifice you have made to stay near your support network is worth the value of your support network? By which I mean, if you had a child, is your support network wealthy enough to provide the resources to help you raise that child? For many people, their support network is itself getting squeezed. What do you do if your friends and relatives themselves have to work 60 hours a week and aren't available to help watch your baby while you work?
Cool idea, I'd never heard of this. TL-DR is that there are huge portions of the ocean that are nutrient-rich but have little life, and one hypothesis is that iron is the limiting factor here. Since various phytoplankton need iron to survive, why not dump iron in these places, watch the phytoplankton now thrive, and enjoy their carbon sequestration?

The answer seems to be "well, we don't really know what the effect would be". Some algae blooms are not good (red tide), deliberately altering an ecosystem is generally dangerous, it's not clear whether the positive local effect on carbon has some side effect elsewhere (maybe we're just moving phytoplankton around the ocean). Even doing experiments on this is difficult (the world's oceans are weirdly regulated), and current financial incentives don't make it all that enticing either.

But a cool idea.
It's just as worrying to parrot advice that hasn't made sense for years than if they'd dreamt it up themselves. Whoever is in charge of security should have updated their knowledge in at least the last decade or so.
Wow, I never knew they actually published a paper on it. Coming from a Moscow math school that traditionally had a lot of jewish students, most of whom went on to MSU to study math, I remember studying these exact problems - although in my time, this filter was supposed to long been gone.
Even fixing the infamous 'Choose a Department to enable sorting' problem would be a start.

How am I meant to know Amazon's taxonomy?

Somehow eBay can sort products across all categories and present them in one list. Wicked majick!
Would you be willing to provide an example of the "multiple incompatible implementations of the same macro" situation happening in the real world? I've been writing (modest) macros in CL for several years now, and never seen this occur - I've only seen "upgrading" where macro authors layer functionality onto existing macros in such a way that is mostly compatible with the original (such as sjl's extension of WHEN-LET/IF-LET to WHEN-LET* / IF-LET* [1], which I believe are compatible with the Alexandria implementations of the former), although it's quite likely that I simply don't have the experience to have encountered this situation.

[1] http://stevelosh.com/blog/2018/07/fun-with-macros-if-let/
In terms of Lisp and game-design, this [ https://borodust.org/projects/cl-bodge/ ] might also be of interest.
It's easy to buy into propaganda when you have no first-hand experience with something. Access to information was much more limited back then and censorship was much easier. It's not like most libraries would have a cannabis section in the 60s.

If I were constantly told by a number of authority figures that Argentina was a war-torn shithole with rampant poverty and violence, I'd likely believe it. I've never been there, I don't know anyone from there, and I have no reason to suspect those who I trust are liars.
That would have been more of an argument before the EU. Europeans have freedom of movement within the EEA, so Italy vs US is not exactly an apples to apples comparison.
I'm using AWS Lambdas for a project. Every lambda listens on an SQS Queue. This isn't latency sensitive in the sense of user interaction, but I certainly care about latency to a degree - primarily throughput though.

The reason I've chosen this is because I do not want to manage an OS. Patch management is something I am not interested in tackling - it's a hard problem and AWS has it down anyways.

There are other reasons as well (I find ephemeral systems very appealing), but this is the most significant.
These rare diseases are interesting in their utility. Previously one would think ignore them budgetwise - not out of callousness but because of compassion for others affected by more common diseases. However their oddball effects also boost understanding of otherwise obscure effects. Sonic hedgehog was named for the protein shape - and then it turned out defects in the linked gene can lead to horrifying birth defects and well SHH is a less frivolous term for it.
Yeah, sometimes I've been wondering if there's a natural unconscious resistance or barrier in ourselves or in the ego programming, that is averse or even hostile to loosening up or the very idea of there being something beyond it that weed and plenty other drugs may come to show, because even when confronted with scientific studies and evidence to the contrary they can often double down or divert the conversation to some argument error or non sequiturs or nonsensical statements.

No one should be forced to do drugs of any kind but what is it with this 'baseline hostility' towards altered states?
> What am I missing in this consideration?

If you give $2000 a month to every homeless person in say, San Francisco or Dallas or Smalleville, Nebraska:

* How many of them can afford an apartment with it?

* How many landlords will sign them? After all you are giving them money, not proof of income, and landlords are often particular about who they rent to.

* How many of them will decline to look for shelter with the money?

My point is that economic considerations like this often under-estimate the amount of footwork needed to make money actually useful. You would need to do a lot more than give them rent money, you'd need to move them to lower-rent places, find landlords that would rent to them, or spend considerable resources trying to convince them to even do anything with the money that involved housing.

Programs like medicaid are costly because they provide more than just money or medicine; they provide case workers and associated footwork—and those things are needed. There’s a much higher no-show rate among medicaid patients than other cohorts. They don’t sign up, they’re afraid of doctors, they don’t have addresses, and so on.

The problems some groups face are deeper than others, and helping those groups may require difficult and not-very-efficient overhead. It’s overhead that is still worth going through to become a better functioning society! But for a statement like "$20 billion can cure homelessness" to be correct, you'd have to believe its not necessary. This kind of work (what medicaid and medicare workers are doing every day for example) is very, very necessary, if you wanted to make a dent in the homelessness population.

That is what you are missing in the dollar figure consideration. Why they are homeless, where they are homeless, and the extent, which goes well beyond renting a flat, of what it takes to make a homeless person non-homeless.