skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not questioning the husband's devotion to his wife, but it seems a bit odd to me that he would take an 18 month sabbatical and focus on re-teaching her a language that keeps slipping out of her mind due to brain injury. You would think that teaching himself German would be the low-hanging fruit.
To an extent. The US still has territories that were conquered in previous wars that have not been integrated. Puerto Rico is the biggest example, maybe, though there are other smaller ones.
By letting the application load all required components into memory before running the test(s). If Component A needs Component B which needs Component C, they all get loaded as they would in production (ie. without mocks). If this means that almost the whole application gets loaded to run a single test, so be it.

The only time this approach is really a problem is when doing slow calls such as I/O - eg. writing to the database. In such cases you can easily switch to an in-memory database or use a factory pattern (which is kind of like a hand-rolled mock).

It's true that an error in say Component C may generate many failures in test of for other components, but in practice that's not really a problem. Just pick one of the test failures and drill down until you find the root cause - fixing that cause will magically fix the other 55 test failures.
Careful with the blue light, it can be toxic to the retina. Tilt towards warmer spectrum whenever possible.

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As someone who went from nothing -> Amateur Extra when i was 23 (25 now) from a random spurt of inspiration to learn ham radio and then promptly did nothing with the license i agree with this.

I don't know exactly what i was expecting from getting the license but i will say that i didn't expect it to basically just be dominated by old conservative men who don't appreciate younger folk stepping in on their air space. I have yet to actually speak to anyone because i don't feel like there is anything i would want to say.

Part of me was excited to do things like decode ISS transmission or send digital packets around the world; but i wanted to ease into the higher cost HF equipment with a simple and cheap as chips baofeng UHF/VHF radio (i know, its garbage but i like i said i wanted to ease into the hobby) and when i discovered there was nothing to do but listen to old men rant i just shelved the radio.

I considered getting the bitX40 but never ended up doing it because i don't own the house i rent and putting an antenna up seems like a lot of work for a place i might move from soon. Admittedly maybe my problem was getting a baofeng UHF/VHF instead of something that i can plug into my computer and do digital modes with. But no one was really around to help me decide what to choose or give me insight into what i may want to do with my new AE powers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGB
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Gotcha. I've never really used OpenDylan, but I've had it on my "list of things to learn one day" for a while, so just curious about your take on that. I didn't realize that old Dylan had a lisp style REPL and that new Dylan doesn't.
We built https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine , https://hasura.io that sets up the plumbing for this architecture with state being Postgres.

There’s a lot of other tooling emerging in this direction too. For example, set up a GraphQL server and subscriptions with Postgres and listen/notify and use SQS with lambda. Or dbezium + Kafka + custom service for event delivery.
London is the one place in the UK where public transport isn't terrible. It's also the place where the MPs who're proposing this live most of the time, which may explain a lot. Unfortunately, it's also overcrowded and too expensive for almost everyone.
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There's a map in the article.

some of the zones are legitimate opportunities. A lot of them -- and the ones most likely to attract investment -- make it patently clear that this is a low-risk give-away.
I am not a Finn, but I can relate. The current discussion reminds me of this NYT article on this very subject:

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/20/opinion/the-how-are-you-c...
The phone would still come with an app store; it just wouldn't be the Play Store. Amazon is probably calling all the phone vendors already. Carriers might also like to take back control of the store.
Something along the lines of AWS' Lambdas
> You just saved almost 20% on your income taxes. This presumably lowers the deadweight loss associated with them. Does it lower it by more or less than the 3% loss you take converting gift cards to cash or more appropriate gift cards?

If any tax dodge which feeds money to third-parties to exploit a loophole while doing nothing productive on its own is efficient, the problem is with the tax rates in the first place. To say that an elaborate charade involving indirectly buying plums or gift cards through tax rebates is 'efficient' and 'the overhead of the system is paid for' is quite a claim and not obvious, let us say.

> Don't double-count the 3% "overhead" of liquidating a gift card and "deadweight loss in gifts"; those are the same thing:

I was referring to the non-monetary gifts like the products or grave visits. As far as the gifts go, the gift cards are probably the least harmful as they 'only' have a 3% overhead involved in turning them (back) into cash (plus whatever else goes into redeeming them, I suppose, in terms of time/effort/hassle/delay), which is probably a lot less than most of the others.

> With a legal cap on return gifts at 50% of donated value, this shouldn't be the case. You can donate anywhere and you'll get exactly the same return; why wouldn't you donate to somewhere you liked?

Because what are the odds that the place which incurred the expenses of educating you, out of the hundreds of competing muncipalities, large and small, near and far, naive and sophisticated, meibutsu vs trips vs gift cards, high or low, will give you exactly the right thing and win the competition, and this will happen in almost every case and produce the same net flows as simply sending the rebates to, say, people's registered birthplaces?
Tablet licenses are capped at $20. I wish I had the option of a supported Google app suite on an Amazon tablet. I'd pay a lot more than $20.
I call it ‘falling asleep when sitting in the backseat of a car syndrome’ the feelings are more or less the same to me.

Stuff happens around you, but you are not really a party to it, and you don’t have to be.

Same for really boring meetings. You just get slowly lulled to sleep.
Similar thing happened to a family friend. She had a stroke and lost her English and could only speak her first language, Mandarin. She was an English literature teacher in Canada for 40 years. Her children only had basic Mandarin... not a good situation.
When making generic rules one should provide a lot of context. I have found that a fairly large rearchitecture is needed to move from a monolithic product to something with microservices. It is not something to grow into that way.

And the technical reasons to move will be mostly for fault tolerance and resiliency (you don’t want your whole service to go down because a small widget failed somewhere). Of course this does not come for free.

Basically it’s not that one is better than the other for all cases. This is a case where people should consider many things including non-technical aspects before making sweeping statements or decisions.
I’m guessing they mean something like AWS Lambda.
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Nice. I just backup the DNS records manually (https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/zones/ZONE_ID/dns_recor...) but this seems like it would be useful too
Typically you make an abstraction for all those timeouts, retries and errors. It can look just like a normal function call and have optional arguments for timeouts.
I agree that we undervalue our time ... until we start to value it more, and then often it's too late (or expensive) to make a change to free more of it, and then the complaining commences.

I also think that this may have more to do with housing costs than income potential, given that there is a steep cliff of decreasing housing affordability associated with proximity to work, especially in knowledge-sector dominated areas.

This is usually the opposite in manufacturing industry dominated areas (i.e. the Rust Belt), where people often pay more to live farther away (and upwind/upstream) from the environmental externalities created by manufacturing facilities.
You don't see a difference between typing a message on your phone and clicking one button of consent?

Texting while driving is what causes majority of crashes involving cellphones, clicking a button is statistical noise.
The suit is back!

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This time it's rentable.
Always bought Big Tower, bought another big tower last year. It's good to have Big PC. So silent and cool. It's not like I don't have a place to put it or I'm moving it every Friday. Some things should stay big.
I've always heard people happy with microg, people dissatisfied with the complicated procedure of installation, but never anyone that could that was unhappy.

What did it lack, for you?
I'm very interested in developer requests regarding what possible XServe-like hardware could do if it existed. Is it the UX or feature set or dev tools that would be desired? Is it mainly to have something more compatible with their dev cycle? How would you set up your network? Would you like to use something like Docker on MacOS? I think you are not alone in this reasoning.
How would that accomplish the same thing? That's like saying that you don't like that a "right to an education" is a positive right so it should instead be the "right to be ignorant". Either you think that people should be able to move on and be forgotten or you don't. Deciding between positive and negative rights is just a matter of strategy.
>Charge more

Agreed. There is this weird psychological trick where if you charge people more they start to value your service more or at least delude themselves into thinking so exactly because they are spending more money, it's a beautiful thing. If it fails, you can always reduce your price again!

>Never give your service away for free.*

* Except if your business model depends on capturing a large enough audience to feed them ads and generate revenue from that (Facebook, Google, Reddit).
An additional solution would be to stop publishing names for suspects entirely. Wait until the person is convicted to release the name.
> civil war where the heroes are universally agreed to be the side fighting for more powers for the federal government.

The Union wasn't fighting for more powers for the federal government, just for the integrity of the existing federal government and it's powers.

The war resulted in some expansion of federal power, but that wasn't what motivated the Union.
Well, you could also “serverless” with kubernetes and vendor + OSS ecosystem around running containers with 0-n scaling aka serverless is also getting better.

Also, GraphQL is important because it’s a convenient way for clients to consume asynchronous information.
A hearing is not a trial.

Why don't we elect representatives who can ask the hard questions for us and compel the tech companies to provide us the information necessary to make informed decisions on whether we should be concerned or if we do have reason to be concerned.

Maybe we could even compel Facebook to answer our question with the threat of jail if they lie.

What is wrong with this idea? Seems like a very democratic and completely appropriate thing to do in a representative democracy.

I am starting to get the sense that a lot of technologists skipped the section on civics, didn't learn about it or simply don't care how it works.
When the embedded project I've been working on since 2009 decides to upgrade compiler versions (which will be approximately never). Or when I change jobs or move on to a different project.
As it currently stands, most of the installed base of smart meters can't even communicate to electricity companies other than the one that originally installed them, so I'd say that's a long way off.
Great engineers understand computers all the way from the silicon up through the different layers and protocols and systems.

When someone claims to be a “full stack engineer” this is what they are claiming. But the reality is always webdev.
For a long time I have been told that small nimble companies will succeed so it seems healthy to me to break up these big, slow companies. I wonder if there is some level of Stockholm syndrome going on that makes people think we need these huge, dominant companies.
Detractors aside, does anyone here think that we should build subsidized housing en masse for the homeless in, say, San Francisco? If so, how do we do it?
What you are describing is how a social web designed for the best interests of users that care should be. And here lies the problem, that people don't care.
Exactly! Not marketed as a tool to surveillance your neighbor 24/7.
Random thought: I can't find it, so how do they translate the intro to Return of the Jedi?

Moff Jerjerrod: Lord Vader. This is an unexpected pleasure. We are honored by your presence.

Darth Vader: You may dispense with the pleasantries, Commander. I am here to put you back on schedule.

Is Jerjerrod's line something they wouldn't say? Would it be confusing that someone would need to tell someone to skip the pleasantries?
Phone manufacturer support may change that.
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This is a nice presentation that helped solidify some concepts for me: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/A-Tale-of-Three-Trees
If I do something bad, like collude to depress the wages of my workers, the existence of alternatives to the service I provide are not exculpatory.

Legally, if those bad things are anti-competitive in nature, one of the potential remedies is the forced breakup of the company.

If you don't think these companies are doing anything bad, that's one thing, and the existence of competitors is certainly one piece of evidence towards that conclusion. But it isn't determinative. You can engage in many anti-competitive strategies that don't preclude 100% market share.
> the site would remove names from older stories if their records were expunged.

That seems reasonable. If the record is "expunged", you can legally say that you have not been convicted of that crime. So it can't legally be used against you (like on a job application)... so references to that crime should be removed from public view.
Not sure why this got downvoted; I've been wondering for years whether people can even tell the difference of these >400 PPI screes.
That study looked at the weight loss "supplements" they sell in gas stations and delis... not at vitamins that probably the vast vast majority of readers here buy. It's really not applicable here at all.

A good source for info on this sort of thing is [Labdoor](https://labdoor.com), they're not funded by any vitamin company and they perform rigorous testing on samples taken from consumer outlets.
> For example, in a power outage, Helm won't work.

I mean you can connect it to a Uninterupptible Power Supply "USP".

It's not clear if they have a high power USB connector to connect USB batteries, however:

"Built-in battery backup for safe shutdown

On mode: 10 W

Standby: 0.4 W"

(https://thehelm.com/pages/technology)

> LTE backup. But then that's extra infrastructure against

> the promised simplicity.

There are low-cost routers with USB ports that allow plugging in an LTE stick.

> Also I don't see how encryption prevents the device from

> being physically destroyed.

You can create a backup and store it on an untrusted storage (cloud for instance).

I'm surprised these devices didn't take off 5 years ago already, as this is technology wise almost a step backwards into the 90s. But I think it's worth it, and in fact you don't need helm to set up a system like this yourself. Get a Raspi, stuff an LTE stick and a juicy USB storage into it together with external USB-battery in passthrough and you even have a superior device.
You realize OSX is BSD, right? Just because they didn't build you a configuration button for everything doesn't mean it's not configurable.
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Sorry but 25% of offenders committing another sex crime in the next 15 years more then enough for me to agree with the fact that they need to be identified and tracked.
In this particular case, I meant the former. But you might have workflows where the same event is delivered to multiple serverless compute things simultaneously.
So is FT8 is to ham radio as WebAssembly is to the internet?
I call those people annoying. I was born and raised and have lived my entire life in the US. I'm quiet, still, and prefer the same in the people around me. You can't assess over 300 million people by the few who can afford to travel.
Exactly, if people aren't willing to pay for it, what exactly is the point of it? To waste your time? I understand if something is a hobby project, but dumping tons of your own resources just to provide a "free" service is dumb. People are getting more reluctant to upload their lives in exchange for their private information being sold off. I said it before, the next big web is going to be actually good paid services.
The difference would be that it’s one sided, there is no expectation of response.

It’s so funny when sometimes the clerk has been doing it that job so long that it’s not proper words anymore and you’re not even expected to parse it correctly, it just doesn’t matter.
At first glance, this seems like a solid argument. However, there are plenty of positive rights that we agree on. The right to an education is a positive right (while we disagree over this after high school, I don't think anyone is saying children don't deserve this). How about the right to personal safety? Sometimes it's negative, but it can be positive when dealing with negligence.

Overall, I agree on the surface with your positive/negative distinction but I'm not sure the world works this way in practice.
Something that fascinates and discourages me is how effective propaganda is even when it is transparently (at least to outsiders) propaganda. There is so much media today which is also transparently propaganda but somehow the people it's directed at fail or refuse to recognize it.
Yeah, I agree, but from the opposite side: the human isn't really doing the real-number version either, because you can't represent a full real number. You're just doing an arbitrary approximation of the real number, which -- of course! -- Turing machines can do too.
Huh. Good suggestion.

Having worked with both voter privacy and medical records, my observation is that most proposals are more aspirational than practical. If you have any notions how to implement right to be forgotten, I'm all ears.

From the hip, I'd start with Translucent Database strategies, where individual records and fields are hashed & encrypted in place. Like a proper password vault. Throw away the encryption key and the data becomes inaccessible.

In contrast, I've advocated temporal privacy in the opposite direction. Enforced secrecy for a time period. Like with voting records and health metrics. Based on the notions that crypto has a shelf-life and after the fact auditability (transparency) is a public benefit. It'd be interesting if these two notions could be generalized.
This is true if you are running into people on such a basis that it becomes cumbersome. It may be a cultural/geographical thing, where in the US there's ton's of space and in some areas, especially rural ones where you see more small talk, it's possible that you don't see anyone for days at a time, which means you run into your neighbor and the small talk is a way to prime up a conversation. The more dense the population the more cumbersome this type of behavior becomes. The larger the countryside, the more likely the people are going to be using small talk to break the ice.
"I see no reason to believe that the anti-trust rulings against Microsoft, which were actually rather weak when all was said and done, is what allowed Google to come into existence."

Microsoft's behavior changed a lot once they got under pressure from the US and the EU. During the 90s they were much more heavy handed and aggressive than after.
We've still got the headphone jack.
What about applications that communicate over protocols other than HTTP(S)?
I think the other side of this is that using the USA as the far end of the scale is a mistake. A quick trip through much of Latin America, or for that matter the US Midwest, makes clear that the UK and coastal USA still do quite a bit less talking to strangers than other cultures. And by that standard, the stereotypically extroverted parts of Europe (e.g. Italy) are downright reserved.

For some reason, I do find the US standard more facile than either of the poles. Taciturn cultures like the Finns have obvious authenticity because people talk for reasons, but very high interaction cultures have their own sort of sincerity: people talking idly because they're enjoying the act of conversation. Trading a few sentences as pure courtesy misses both marks, and often feels more draining than a much longer conversation.

(Now I wonder if this is tied to US tipping and sales cultures, since "act blandly nice" becomes an important transaction for a lot of people. Obviously it's not the whole story, but I do find even UK conversation rather different than the US pattern.)
That would end up in a popularity contest between agencies, which I doubt is desirable, especially considering some of those disliked agencies [1] are actually useful (like the FDA and the department of education).

And hang in there, the weekend is almost there. :-)

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonexaminer.com/whic...
I think if a homeless person had a car to attach a teardrop trailer to, they would sleep in the car.
Isn't the person donating to their hometown the tax, giving something to the town (reciprocation) for the education and childhood they had in the hometown in the first place?

Where does the reciprocation ends? You give money to your hometown because you have very found memories and you feel grateful about the education etc., your hometown sends you plums, you send a pie to thank the plums, then they respond back with something else, ad infinitum.
I'm a regular on HF and I've found the community to be welcoming and I've learned a lot from people with half a lifetime more experience than I have. Retired doctors, aerospace engineers and other interesting fields. There are many younger contesters who move very quickly and just work to make contacts.

Bad actors? There are a handful, but FCC has taken enforcement action against several. https://www.fcc.gov/general/amateur-radio-service-enforcemen...

Weak signal modes have been around for a while. And voice is a different part of the spectrum.
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Yes, that's why we haven't marked it as a dupe. It's a quasi-dupe though.
I'm with Rossmann.

If you look at the wider issue, EVERYTHING in the Apple ecosystem is broken. This isn't just an issue about repair. OSX is buggy. iOS is buggy. iTunes is buggy. Photos is buggy... etc etc.

The hardware used to be solid at least. I have a 12-year-old MacBook that's still running. But, my new machines don't last.

It used to be that Apple would fix stuff, so you didn't really worry about the hardware so much. But now, they'll refuse to fix things in warranty, even.

So we've arrived at a point where Apple's software doesn't work, Apple's hardware doesn't work, and Apple won't acknowledge it-- and it's all at a premium price.