skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The alt-right is a loosely connected and somewhat ill-defined - (summery).

The Associated Press advises its journalists to not use the term without providing an internal definition, due to its vagueness. They described the "alt-right" label as "currently embraced by some white supremacists and white nationalists" that "may exist primarily as a public-relations device to make its supporters' actual beliefs less clear and more acceptable to a broader audience". - Etymology and scope

Both funkythings and namdnay comment above assert statements to what alt-right is and who belongs to it that the wikipedia article do not. Labeling anti-"political correctness" as alt-right is not supported. Journalist Mike Wendling says that alt-right share the view of anti-"political correctness" with chan culture, but that is as far as the wikipedia article is willing to go.
He may, but even if he doesn't having as much technical experience as he does, or anyone else who's been around the block as much as he has, is going to give you a shortcut to insight into most situations.
> There is always some uncertainty in life. And yet, we're somehoe able to make decisions despite this uncertainty. However, you take this uncertainty argument to absurd levels - by your logic, no human being should be expected to be responsible for any life decision, ever, because uncertainty.

I think my point didn't come across. I wasn't talking about avoiding responsibility. I simply meant that it's easy to make assumptions. Just because someone has a child and doesn't have the resources to care for it, doesn't mean that it was always that way. Things in life don't always go as planned.

> How about we just presume that having a child without a good, reliable job and some sort of partner (not necessarily a heterosexual or even romantic one) is plain stupid?

Personally, I agree with that statement. But who am I to judge other people on their choice to have kids? That's just not my place.

And I am also a realist - things happen. Live throws curve-balls. Birth control doesn't always work. And sometimes people do things that are not smart in the spur of the moment. Procreation is a very powerful drive.

It seem to me that more and better education and easier/cheaper access to birth control would be a more effective way to help people make smart choices about having children.
I do look forward to our cyberpunk future where to "opt out" of certain systems, you have to paint a certain mark on your face, or put a little QRCode sticker on your cheek.

"Sorry, I'm only opted into Google Facemind and FacebookFace; I don't want to be indexed by Amazon Visage."
That sounds quite reasonable. If you break something due to your own modifications (hw/sw), the manufacturer should not be held accountable. The trouble is of course proving that is was not due to the mod if the device breaks.
Earth is even if hit a better backup. Also longterm effects could easily undo all colonys.
Even hospitable earth is littered with failed colonies.
What's even more disturbing is that this "gamer" who never worked a day in his life was able to collect government benefits from the Feds and the State of California and live in Section-8 housing while at the same time earning money with swats-for-hire.

The Wichita police are also awful.
This looks really cool. Why add a different type static_map instead of using a constexpr declaration?
In some sense. A way to teach how a slide rule works is by using two rulers to create a slide rule that does addition. Most pupils will understand why that works. The jump from there to really understanding why logarithmic scales work is a lot harder for most, but I’m sure that intermediate step helps some pupils.

(Google gave me http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/AdditionSlideRule/, but not an example of using normal rulers to make such a slide rule)
Same here. Our backend team uses Python, SQLAlchemy and PG. They are looking for a tool to handle migrations and schema versionings. Any recommendations?
I suppose we could blame high fructose corn syrup, then.
The technical debt of devops
Be happy you got updates in 2018! My unlocked LG G5 is still on Android 7.0 but the most recent security update is December 2017.

My advice is to focus your next Android phone purchase on devices which are on the Android One or Android Enterprise Recommended lists. They'll get 3+ years of timely security updates.
For a few shining years, you could basically charge any device with a micro-USB cord. I guess we're going back to having a culch drawer full of one-off proprietary connectors.
Eich's "speech" (his donation to the Prop 8 campaign that would ban gay marriage in California) was telling all of his LGBT employees that he did not believe that they were entitled to the same basic human rights as he was. This is not a simple political disagreement; this is telling those people that he believes they are second class citizens. As a result, many of those employees, as well as other organizations that worked with Mozilla who highly valued inclusion did not feel they could effectively work in such an environment. They wished to exercise their freedom of speech by deciding to no longer associate with Mozilla. Eich chose to step down, recognizing that such actions would be very bad for Mozilla.
“Actually, it is not "their nature". The nature of people on the spectrum is to have difficulty understanding social conventions.”

Holy moly, please don’t tell me what I do and don’t have difficulty understanding. Even if you were a clinical psychologist, it’s a spectrum and throwing out what entire populations do or do not understand is so weird, I’m not sure what point it serves.

Even if I was the elected spokesperson of this population in the world, I’m not sure I’d have the authority to issue such a nebulous statement.
Seems good enough for the kind of data they want to display; you're not going to be playing Battlefield on these.
If someone has stated what they wish to be called by, and rather than respecting their wishes, you choose to go down a tangent on how what you said is not a problem, then that is condescending, whether you intended it or not. Although I would have a very difficult time believing that someone who did that did not intend to be condescending.
Lo de los padres inmigrantes no era ningún tipo de crítica malintencionada ni nada por el estilo. Me refiero a que seguramente existan dificultades a las que se haya tenido que enfrentar tu familia en cuanto a trámites administrativos, discriminación, no lo sé... y que eso es un conocimiento valioso que puedes tratar de explotar de algún modo (worthy pursuit = un objetivo digno de perseguir). Como mínimo hablas un montón de idiomas, cosa que la mayoría de la gente de tu entorno seguramente no hace. ¡Eso es una _gran_ ventaja!

Articular este conocimiento de forma útil (la manera depende de tus circunstancias: voluntariado, hacer de intérprete para algún recién llegado, hacer una web con información, un canal de youtube en ukraniano explicando como es la vida en españa...) o buscar un trabajo que te dé un poco de autonomía era un comentario un poco más orientado a mejorar tu situación y tu autoestima mientras pasas este momento de confusión vital hasta mayo del año que viene, no como una opción de carrera para el resto de tu vida. Pasar por distintos trabajos en distintos sectores también te dará perspectiva, pero no te ates a ninguno.

Suerte y al toro! (topicazo español que nunca pensé que escribiría en hackernews ;)
I'd disagree here. The entire public cloud model is built on top of VMs. While I have a strong distaste for most CFM tooling out there that is precisely what you're talking about. Chef, Puppet, Salt Stack, Terraform, etc. all fulfill this and all of these are popular in their own communities.
No, and I don't think it can happen until users are empowered to be driving design decisions. Designers may need to serve as facilitators of the design process.

https://hbr.org/2018/09/design-thinking-is-fundamentally-con...
$800 buys a lot of food, pays a lot of bills and could keep a roof over your family's head for a month or two depending on where you live.

Reminder that 40% of Americans can't cover a $400 emergency expense[1].

[1] https://money.cnn.com/2018/05/22/pf/emergency-expenses-house...
Yes, I was just speaking with regard to the game— in which case it definitely charges you more in rent.
Thanks, I'll give it a try. That's still a mess compared to npm, which is a single tool you can use for app and libs, in constrast with easy_install/setup.py/pip/pipenv/poetry/...
A look at a satellite view shows the bridge pretty much empty - maybe 3 trucks. And no backup at the 'customs house' on the end - totally empty lanes. Maybe it was a holiday or the weekend; but still.

https://www.google.com/maps/search/kong-zhuhai-macau+bridge/...

Oh! The HK end is still under construction in the picture. So its old. The trucks are probably bringing supplies for construction.
It's almost a right of passage to be part of the "trade", so to speak. Same thing goes for doctors. When a doctor recognizes the counterparty is a a fellow physician, the conversation changes to reflect that. There are exceptions (as do all things in the world), but this professional courtesy happens regardless of whether the two parties have ever had a prior relationship.
I love the concept of Fairphone but I can't believe they're still selling their phone for €530. It's worth maybe 1/5th that, if that. Is it just hubris? I hope not, because even if their phones command a reasonable price premium over competitors, it's worth it to some people. They're definitely filling a need. It would be a shame if few of their phones get into people's hands because they price them too far above cost (because, let's face it, it's almost impossible to turn a profit as a small phone manufacturer).
I've been trying to see how that works for 15 minutes now and the furthest I get is to Tuen Mun, which is still in Hong Kong. I'm probably missing something trivial.
So if all "other chargers" for the wired version could only charge at 500mA, due to DRM, this would also be acceptable?

This is straight out of the Apple playbook of vendor lock-in and overpriced accessories.
Don’t Make Squirrel Burgers
How to apply a “hack” to force my CentOS system from timing out and sleeping
I work in this annoying government environment where my CentOS 7 system cannot stay awake after 10 minutes of inactivity. IT has applied this annoying global config that forces my system to sleep after this time frame requiring me to log in. This rule was mainly applied to our regular administrative staffing not so much the engineers.

I have a windows systems as well. So I'm constantly bouncing back and forth between the two systems reading emails, datasheets, documentation etc etc. Ten minutes of inactivity is quite common with my work flow. I have limited root access to my system and yum installs are not possible. I can request higher access but it usually involves paperwork and approval which I would just like to avoid.

Their global config overrides settings I apply in Gnomes tweak tool or any custom power management config I create. Don't ask me how they do this. How can I simulate a button press or any craft hack that could run in the background say every 10 minutes? Any other ideas?
If you want to measure that way, then the idea of one modern breed being closer to a common ancestor than another modern breed is is total nonsense; by definition, they're all equally close.
Speaking as a sideliner:

MongoDB seems to have experienced a rather exaggerated version of the hype cycle. But it also seems like, at this point, the technology is well into the "slope of enlightenment" phase of its hype cycle, and may even have reached the "plateau of productivity". A lot of that is fueled by MongoDB's own efforts - they took the complaints about reliability quite seriously. Case in point: This series of Jepsen tests that they've been funding.
maybe sometimes you want to be really clear that there is a well order with no additive inverse.
Just to touch on this point - you hit the nail on the head. Microsoft and others have measured this cost to be north of 30%.
Baidu Announces Breakthrough in Simultaneous Translation
The personal food computer here looks applicable but that seems like some wasted space vertically depending upon the plant desired.
https://www.media.mit.edu/groups/open-agriculture-openag/pro...
This probably won't fly...
Hillsong NYC volunteer software engineer here. We’re passionate about using our skills to serve the local community in addition to our church. Shoot me an email if you’re in the area and would like to chat about helping local nonprofits with code. e at emersonhall dot com
Punk with an organ? Link, please! I like the cultural crossovers that are made in all the sub-genres of rock (whether it's Christian rock, Mongolian throat singing metal, or Taiwanese post-punk). If it's got four chords, count me in.
I believe Apple does something similar. There were only a few whitelisted Qi chargers which the iPhone X would negotiate with for fast(er) charging at launch.

You couldn't take any old higher wattage Qi charger and get the increased charging rate.
Hell, Nestlé and Coca-Cola are trying to make it hard for some South Americans to drink tap water!
I'm not sure how hard it is to maintain some self hosted apps. It's just set up and forget. It doesn't randomly change interface or license unless you upgrade it as well.

I've used AWS for 10 years but for last 5 years, I've never seen it just go down randomly and even if it did, you have the room to redeploy with some clicks (assuming you have your data backed up regularly) instead of waiting for the uncontrollable.

You seem to take the ops work a bit overly.
iPhone XR Reviews Are Out and Reviewers Conclude It’s a Great Value
The people running our sim are getting lazy.
Indeed a disturbing truth.

If I was a government with the goal of total surveillance nirvana, I'd do it the same way as I'd eat an elephant, one bite at a time. Programmatically reducing the expectation of privacy through invasive technology and policies at the maximum speed possible that does incite a revolt.
I saw this the other day that may be even stranger than this rectangular iceberg, which is pretty weird too btw.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/1016610/weird-news-yout...
It's Okay to Be Good and Not Great
> It's difficult to tell exactly how big the iceberg is from the photo, but experts said it was probably more than 1.6km (1 mile) across.

This is mind-blowing. I'm trying to picture the scale of that thing, and realized a small plane could probably safely land on top of it with much room to spare.
I got a battery replacement for $30 (that’s a temporary price which Apple provided because of the PR flack they were getting for slowing down phones with poorer batteries). Unfortunately, it’s clear it wasn’t a new battery, or maybe the replacement wasn’t done correctly, but the battery life isn’t great and I can no longer get a battery health reading from the settings>battery section.
The dislike for mongodb usually came from people who were responsible for maintaining medium-large scale deployments of its earlier versions.

IMO it all boils down to startup culture and growth; that these goals are incompatible with building a database system responsibly. It broke trust with a lot of people and never really regained it back. Not that it mattered much in the long run.

The lesson is that you can get your hands dirty while growing. If you don't grow you're dead anyway. If you do grow then you can throw money at the trust problem until it's fixed.

EDIT: Unless you're in the medical industry :P
Because with a constexpr declaration everything will be constexpr, i.e. you couldn't modify the values at run-time.

The idea here is that finding the storage of the value is done at compile-time, but the values themselves are run-time values.
> Poorly implemented fast charging can ruin your phone's battery quicker than most anything else

But isn't the charger basically just a power supply for the phone ? i.e. the actual charging is done by the phone itself, not the charger.
Jupyter Lab portable for Windows
The laws that control funding parochial schools were implemented 150 years ago, so no.
The obvious TV series that went on far too long was Lost but even stuff like Game of Thrones or Breaking Bad is/was stretched out too far.
Nope. We're just in the middle of a transition to USB-C. Even this isn't a total lockout, it's just a restriction of certain (potentially damaging-to-the-device) features.
"The rich" ~= 60% of the population? Yikes. How many percents are you including in your "almost"?
I'm gonna answer your loaded question honestly:

Yes, I would rather shame people who are "having kids when they clearly have no resources of place for them in their lives" than spending any of my personal resources on actually helping them, if those are the only two choices I have.

Your empathy in and of itself is worthless. How much of your income are you personally willing to give up to bail out people who make poor choices? Where do you draw the line? I hope we can agree that having children without having the resources to take care of them is a poor choice. All that "neglect and undereducation" is due to that poor choice, first and foremost. Welfare doesn't fix the problem. Just look at all the "angry young people" in France (20% youth unemployment), a country which has some of the strongest welfare programs in the world, including free university education.
As a Christian, I can honestly say your comment is the cold hard truth; unfortunate, but true. Many churches today have gone from preaching the unadulterated truth to being nothing more than motivational speakers and social clubs. There's also many who haven't compromised and continue down the straight and narrow, but the trend has certainly been in the opposite direction. Thank you for posting your insight - very helpful.
In this simulation you have a kid. What roommate is going to be okay rooming with a little kid? Then you have to consider safety concerns. Are you okay with your kid living in the same place as some stranger?

"Just get a roommate" is not always an option. This applies to lots of other "obvious" solutions people like to come up with when it's not them.
WASM is the new and shiny also. I'm not even sure what to do with it ATM given that the DOM story still hasn't been figured out.
The operating system universe is a lot bigger than most people have been led to believe. They think it's windows vs linux vs osx. If you're 'wild' you go *BSD.

There's a lot more out there - unikernels in particular are similar in nature to RTOS (like the system that is on the Mars Rover) and they definitely descend from the microkernel branch of the tree.

Having said that many microkernels tend to be multi-process. There are now over 10 different unikernel implementations out there currently. They all have different aims and goals but I'd say one defining characteristic amongst all of them is that they are single process by design. There's many other considerations but that's the most important one that comes to my mind.
Microsoft owns Bing, one of the most important search engines and advertising platforms on the Internet...

Uber had that secret API access granted directly from Apple so it could see which apps you had open at all times (in case you opened Lyft) so it could charge you different rates.

AirBNB is similarly large, so I thought they were worth mentioning.
The games job is not to give advise, but to educate people about how poverty affects the lives and thinking of others.

So no, it is not helpful advise. It is a teaching statement about why poor people continue to play the lottery.
Some hospital-acquired infections trace to patient's own body
> Mine had them.

I doubt that very much. Do you have a photograph?

I used to collect slide rules. I have never seen one with a linear scale, and I can't find any evidence on the web that any such slide rule was ever manufactured. So if you can provide evidence that you possessed such a slide rule, that would be of significant historical interest.
This is a good theory. Just look at the shitshow superhero comics have become after a couple of cycles of this.
I've seen a lot of confusion about "this" in javascript, to the point of multiple articles making it to the front page of hacker news on the topic.

Law is like javascript, except every other word needs the same context and explanation that "this" requires.
Too many counterfeits. The solution is basically what Apple did: put MFi chips in everything to ensure the valuable hardware isn't damaged, and lock down who can get the chips. Obviously this is very difficult for a standards body.
Americans make money via ads and dvd/streaming but the Japanese use merchandising to fund all their endeavors.

DVD/Bluray sales usually dictate if a show gets renewed. Also most anime are adaptations from light novels or manga so the expectation is that they all drive up sales for one another. Then we have things like figures, video games, pillow cases, etc. This is why One Piece has over 850 episodes spread over at least a dozen box sets and 900 manga chapters collected in 60 volumes.
"Smoothness" and stability of the incoming current is probably a factor.
The explanation of “This is to protect batteries from sub par quality chargers” is not particularly convincing to me. As a user, wouldn’t that be my call? Shouldn’t providing a safe charging be a charger manufacturer’s responsibility? Why is Pixel deciding to not accept charging at 10w from ‘unknown’ charging device? At best I can see the argument for not supporting charging from insecurely designed charger on the account of warranty, but even then I think it should be consumers call as to what device they are using to charge their phones and phone should at most warn me about unsafe chargers, rather than outright refusing to charge at full potential speed.
VMS -> WNT
Like most of the Brexit backers he didn't really do much business in Europe, pretty much anybody who did was pro-remain.
Ancestry developed relationships with many archival sources for a damn good reason. They have developed non trivial processes, equipment, and trained staff that treat the records with care. When I worked there it was a badge of honor for their document processing division that they were the only entity essentially allowed to just walk into the National Archives and take whatever they wanted to digitize, because they were known and trusted to return the extraordinarily fragile documents unharmed. Reputation matters. Presumably the cost that the plaintiff incurred was a form of insurance or "are you really seriously sure you have the capital to treat this stuff with care?"

I am not a lawyer and I might be making it all up.
I only ever met one executive who was like that. It was amazing.

Dude was basically on a guided tour and like many before stopped to ask me what I was up to. I mentioned some high level stuff and then he asked some questions that shocked me ... in the sense that they were good questions that really indicated he knew what I did. I answered cautiously, he asked some more along the lines of "oh so" and we went back and forth and I realized dude just "got it" as far as how we worked, what we were doing, challenges, and etc.

It was great, and maybe a bit sad that was the one time.

Dude in question was too good for the company at that time and moved on. The company didn't really want someone who knew what was going on because inevitably that meant some push back / organization / shifting momentum here or there. So he moved on and we got a yes man who had no clue.
That doesn't really make a lot of since though. Why all of a sudden for the younger one? He spend most of those years in command for Microsoft, before focusing on charity work from 2008 and up. (His children would have been roughly 12, 9, and 6 at that time.) So, that may be a part of it but probably not a major part.
> Linus debugged his own communication routines after users complained.

And found nothing wrong with them.

Personally, I'm perfectly fine with Linus as he was.