skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon wanted an in-place tech-ready workforce, an environment that could appeal to yuppie urbanites, and a good transportation hub. Empty office space for quick bootstrapping and the ability to wring concessions were also major sweeteners. Bicoastal geography was also strongly suspected to be a major criterion.

That pretty much cut out any second-tier city from the running. When Montgomery County, DC, and Northern VA were all announced as finalists, it ought to have been pretty clear that Amazon was focused on the DC area. Crystal City itself is basically the description of what you're looking for in that list I gave. Atlanta doesn't really have anything when you take out the airport (which is lousily situated anyways). I suspect Chicago, NYC, and Toronto all have too much focus on other industries (and, besides, Illinois is basically broke, so a sweetheart tax deal needs to be discounted on the basis that Illinois could need to find the cash quickly).
> I later found out that this was apparently due to having been provided with a "teaching" version of the interpreter intended for beginning students (who presuably don't know any better), which makes it even worse.

I think you still misunderstand; racket doesn't have different interpreter/compiler versions with different language features, racket code explicitly can request different languages via a language directive (I think there is a corresponding UI option in the Dr. Racket UI.) Among the preinstalled options are a series of teaching languages designed to accompany the textbook How to Design Programs, among others.
It's interesting seeing how a community codifies the nomenclature and the formalization of the various things that it has stolen/borrowed/reinvented from other communities.
Baron de Bonvoisin and Paul Vanden Boeynants of course.
Recipe – an integration test data declaration framework
LA Is Trying to Fix Its Prostitution Problem by Banning Right Turns at Night
I began this project at work. It made writing and maintaining our tests so much easier, and it supported our need for setting up data in different languages in a consistent way, so I open-sourced it.

Just wanted to get this project out there in case you find it useful. Currently there's only support for Java and TypeScript, but I'll be adding more languages in response to demand. Any feedback is appreciated.
This is too bad, but, really, WireGuard is incredibly easy to get set up regardless. I've had harder times with SSH configurations than with rolling out WireGuard. It's a pretty amazing piece of software.
You underestimate the power of boredom as a motivating factor to go do something!
im very excited of being able to take photos at night but what about videos?

can I record really edgy, film fps, at night? usually in downtown alleys.
My mentees failing to progress will show up on my annual evaluation, and will certainly be a factor in my tenure case (especially since my position has no other aspect for teaching).

It's also something the project officers on my grants watch.

It also means I lose whatever I've invested in that student.

One does not idly destroy their graduate students, regardless of what HN occasionally thinks.
Explorable microworld is an interesting way to think about specialized Language+IDE combos.

For example I like LiveCodeLab[1] a lot, and it’s also a fun tool to intro total beginners to the pleasure of programming (“write and something happens”). It has very few primitives, but you can build some very interesting live visuals, and the language is build on interesting choices driven by its live nature [2]

Another great combined tool is OpenSCAD [3]. It’s really a computational tool to explore solid, printable objects, and thus seems to fit the microworld category.

A weird, niche one is Context Free, that didn’t grow like Processing but has it’s own advantages and particularity (like how randomness is managed) [4]

[1] https://livecodelab.net/
[2] https://rumblesan.com/static/LiveCodeLang-Farm2014.pdf
[3] https://www.openscad.org/
[4] https://www.contextfreeart.org/
Almost certainly, yes.
> The thing about sales is that at a certain level of client, the clients want to speak to executives, not salespeople.

This is why all sales people are called "executives" and why all executives spend a large fraction of their time on sales.
> The purpose of government funded research isn't to help university faculty build portfolios for professional advancement. It's to find new original knowledge about topics that are in the public interest. That goal is frustrated if the public can't access the knowledge afterwards.

I'm talking about the evaluation criteria of the government funding agencies. You should tell them them your opinion, not me.

>"Destroy careers" sounds too dramatic.

You don't understand. This is about the quality of the research. If you put arbitrary open access journals on a par with the top journals that have been established over 100 years, or even rank them higher, then even more bullshitters will make a career at the cost of serious scientists.

I'm in the humanities where this is a real concern. I already have colleagues who publish 10 lousy papers/year in bad journals and make a career out of this, rather than publishing 3 good papers/year in top journals.

I wouldn't put this into so drastic words if I wasn't 100% convinced that the problem exists. There is already a race to mediocrity due to excessive indicator counting, pushing researchers away from the top journals to mediocre journals with less quality control will make things even worse.

In my field there are maybe 2-3 halfway acceptable open access journals, and all the top journals are proprietary, mostly Springer and Oxford Journals.
no? you really don’t see the difference between a foreign hostile government spying vs the domestic one doing it? i don’t think either is good but just because one happens doesn’t mean it’s in our interest to allow another. especially from the governments perspective. it has nothing to do with xenophobia.
These are the blue collar jobs.The white collar jobs are about designing the network architectures and training them.
I spent a decent amount of time on news.admin.net-abuse.email in 1993 and in the mid-1990s. (ISTR that is where spam on Usenet was mainly discussed.) I was very curious about Usenet, but recall no restrictions on any unmoderated newsgroup (and most newsgroups were unmoderated).

I always believed that the reason it took years for Usenet to do something about spam is because (1) before spam got so bad they had to do something about it, there were no existing restrictions on the propagation of messages and (2) a widespread ethic among those running news servers that any restrictions on propagation, even restrictions on spam, were to be avoided.

What sort of content, in your opinion, was denied propagation back when most conversations on the Internet took place on Usenet?

I got the impression that the ban on commerce over the US backbone was to prevent making any business big enough to be able to afford a PR person or a lobbyist in Washington afraid that the Internet was a threat to its revenue stream.

Back when only a small fraction of the public knew anything about the Internet, the US Government was spending a relatively large amount of money keeping it running, and was consequently vulnerable to sniping from journalists and politicians to the effect that the US government is spending money to giving, e.g., people who are sexually attracted to people dressed up as animals, a forum to communicate with each other.

You and I know that the marginal cost of adding an alt.sex.furries news group to the Internet was so low as to be not worth thinking about, but it would've been hard to get that point across to the voting public.

People were worried for example about the National Science Foundation, one of the major funders of the Internet, getting one of these:

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

Or maybe the ban on commerce over the US backbone was a concession the US backbone's patrons in Washington needed to make to get Congress to continue to allocate funds for it.

The ban was mostly successful only because very few people wanted to do commerce on the internet while the ban on commerce over the US backbone was in place. Possible exception: the last year or so of the ban when the internet was growing very quickly. Exception: people seeking W2 workers or W2 jobs rather than 1099 workers / jobs would've liked to be able to use ba.jobs to advertise, but IIRC it was a moderated newsgroup, and the moderator, like most people running internet infrastructure back then, grudgingly recognized the need for the ban (i.e., to protect the Internet's supporters in Washington from ridicule or from the animosity of powerful groups).
Netflix's culture of fear
So it seems to be working well on what I assume is not a System76 system? Because that's another thing I was wondering. I don't want the issues of a Hackintosh (OS targeted for a small number of builds) but for Linux.
What do you mean no proof? I'm not saying any of these are worth much in global economy, but they definitely exist as a proof PoS works: https://www.poslist.org/
The photos are all really bad (technically, I mean, they're also bad artistically, but that's not the point), but you can easily tell the difference, it's not linear PCM vs DSD placebo effect.
"The issue is that you need to lock up money for PoS in order to mine it. That has a cost as you are forgoing interest on lending that money to an actually productive enterprise that is creating value. The net result is that funding and investment becomes more scarce because private investment is "crowded out" by people simply staking their Ethereum. This is the same harm caused by too much government debt "crowding out" private investment"

This is zero sum thinking. Yes, people will lock up money, which could have been invested elsewhere.

But you have to take into account the activity that happens on the chain as a result of POS, which itself will be productive presumably.

Thus the capital locked up in POS will be invested productively - because the activities enabled by POS themselves will be productive.

Of course, if there is nothing new that you can do as a result of POS - meaning, without POS you can already do all those things, then indeed there is no reason for POS. But the idea here ( which could be right or wrong ) is that POS will enable decentralized computation that would not happen otherwise.

EDIT: to downvoter: you can't say that locking up coins detracts from productive investment without evaluating what the chain ends up doing as a result of switching to POS. I mean, if you think that nothing useful will happen on a POS chain, that's a valid argument, but that's a different argument than simply worrying about locked up coins
You only have the stresses of major homelessness and an extremely large heroin/meth problem, directly due to the endless growth Amazon and other large companies had on this city, with the "top minds" of Seattle having absolutely no clue how to solve it. I've seen multiple people die since I got here, and I've seen people with guns to their heads over drugs outside of my Capitol Hill apartment. Seattle's population willfully ignores everything wrong with the city too.

I live in Seattle. Things like the Showbox reportedly in serious danger of being demolished for luxury condo's are just showing how soulless this city is becoming in the name of 'growth'. The entire city population has been replaced by tech bros and their significant others, tech bro culture, ubers, the food is boring and most restaurants are over-hyped, costs are insane, the people are selfish and rude, there's nothing to do except drink and ride a bike to look at Puget Sound yet again, there's little culture or diversity, and the politicians work entirely in Amazon's favor. I have a decent stable job here, but I'd move if the opportunity was to arise.
Only for low-priority items. Anything that involves votes or money goes to the top of the pile.
I was going to ask this as well, surely there shouldn't be a problem with this?
This. My wife's particle-board computer desk has survived two moves -- barely. It will almost certainly not survive another, so getting rid of it is a real problem.
"You're crazy enough to run your own mail server :-)"
There are still practical issues in many cases I tend to agree. Unless it is truly a valuable piece, which it probably isn’t, drill a hole in the back. It feels a bit like phobia about making notes in books.
One of my favourite pages is the page on the Emu War: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War
The Next Climate Battleground: Your Child's Science Classroom
There's something with Cloudflare and Netlify interacting in a weird way. I just removed CF caching from the frontend, so you should be able to use it normally now.
Your route takes in some great places. It would help if you could be more specific as to what you are looking for - great nature, culture, architecture, UNESCO world heritage sights, beach, food, people, etc.

A few things that come to mind, concentrating on AsiaPac:

* Angkor Wat in Cambodia and Borobudur in Indonesia are temples worth seeing. Luang Prabang in Laos too, though maybe a bit overrated.

* Central coast of Vietnam has several nice spots (eg Hoi An).

* I'd not spend too much time in Seoul, but consider visiting the bizarre DMZ. Why so much time in Japan?

* On the way from East Asia back to the West Coast, consider stopping by in the North Pacific: Palau (beautiful nature and great diving), Yap (manta rays and stone money), CNMI (WW II sites, such as the place where Fat Man and Little Boy were loaded on the bombers), FSM, etc. There's the Continental "Island hopper" that covers these (and only rarely undershoots the runway).

* I'd also recommend the Middle East, eg Iran, but this might not be a good time. And consider Eastern Africa.
There is no "prostitution problem", other than meddling moralizers who want to tell people what they can do with their own bodies. Legalize prostitution, get the government out of the business of trying to control people's bodies, and the "problem" goes away.
Go slices sound similar, though they are always mutable.
Agreed and that would be a reason not to self host at all, if security is critical, because it IS difficult.

For example, driving is convenient. That doesn’t mean someone who has never driven before should just drive. It’s definitely better for them to taxi.

It’s a hard problem - we have to make things easier for people.

When King Sejong saw that people were illiterate, he didn’t try to force everyone to suddenly learn a difficult language - he just made an easier one.

Now korea is 99.9% literate.
OTOH it can also be argued that fiscally irresponsible people should not be taking on mortgages as they are the more likely to end up with a foreclosure.
SpiNNaker Powers Up World’s Largest Supercomputer That Emulates a Human Brain
UVC cameras and USB Wireless cards work.
maybe the commenter has the scenario of bare metal server at home in mind?
Even if PoW can scale, going from 0.5% of the world's electricity to zero would still be an advantage of PoS.
Yes, it is, and you can run microG on any Android version without OpenGApps. With microG you still rely on non-free services (Google Play Services, for example); just via open source frameworks. You also, possibly, breach Google's EULA.

I do use it. The notifications aren't flawless, since any application using firebase isn't going to work (the old GCM still works for now). Things may break any day. I suppose its akin to being on your own whilst running a Hackintosh except that the software is FOSS.

A reasonable alternative is a model where you pay for the software and get a license to run it. For that, you can opt for Sailfish which is almost completely FOSS. Heck, you can run community versions of Sailfish as well but without Alien Dalvik (Android compatibility layer). But I wouldn't depend on such too much.

Other alternatives are the Ubuntu Touch/Phone project by UBPorts, and the KDE people are also still alive and kicking. There's postmarketOS, based on Alpine, giving older smartphones a second life.

And you can also opt to use a dumbphone plus a mobile device. You don't need to have a smartphone.
I think it should be mandatory that everyone rides a bike for some amount of time before getting a driver's license, and everyone in city planning should be required to use various forms of transit throughout the year.
SO does OpenBSD with FUSE, and with NTFS you have ntfs-3g in ports.
OpenBSD's standard practice is for all daemons to run as unprivileged users in chroots (after using pledge and - nowadays - unveil to restrict themselves further). If one line of code is fd in any of the daemons, it will by default be constrained to that daemon.
This article is interesting, but not for the the reason the author thinks it's interesting. This fellow puts Alexandra Petri to shame.

Let us shed a tear for the humble bitcoin enthusiast entrepreneur, traumatized by "crack-zombies" lurking just outside his Tenderknob co-working space...
Your IP is exposed on outbound mail.

That reminds me of the good old days of the Interwebs: Your computer is currently broadcasting an IP address!

http://www.codehappy.net/ipaddress.htm
For webmail you could use rainloop or squirrel which can use the web server and the email server for example!
That's correct. For outgoing, assuming you setup certs and DNS correctly, the main challenge is your IP that's in an ISP CIDR which gets marked as spam.

I have a small instance on AWS that forwards my outgoing email and it works great.
>Without net neutrality companies like Elsevier/Google/Facebook could pay a company like Bahnhof for a special treatment.

And customers could just use another ISP in that case. Net neutrality is only an issue when you have government enforced monopolies for ISPs like in the US.
Upwork has 3-tier preset ranges when posting jobs. Top tier tends to be $40+ hr USD.

I wonder more about the lower tiers.
Hacker News uses points, (inverse) time since posting, and (inverse) number of comments to decide the position of an item.

Lots of points in a short time with few or no comments will push an item to the top.
There’s a difference between a phone with a terminal and a phone with a terminal interface.
If you want to jump straight to the moment when WP began its ascent to ubiquity, that moment is described here: https://github.com/WordPress/book/blob/master/Content/Part%2...
Scopus is a huge index (unlike Web of Science), so you won't find any good journals that are not Scopus indexed.
> my question weren't to be answered

Please don't defend untrue claims in these discussions by asking questions "not to be answered"
The people to talk to about this are architects and town planners. They tend to be acutely aware of cultural differences between different countries, to the point that it starts to be a problem (because cultural stereotyping comes into play).

When I studied architecture in London, there was a lot of envy expressed toward continental urbanism (Copenhagen, but also Barcelona, Vienna, Zurich). In general, continental European cities are a bit more regimented in their design, compared to the traditionally liberal culture of the UK. Planning can be feel a bit more heavy-handed on the continent, and in the UK it tends to be more laissez-faire.

There is long-standing suspicion of continental European norms in the UK, as I'm sure you are aware. This is part and parcel of Brexit.

Somewhere extreme like Singapore manages to be extremely well organised and liveable at the price of being a bit paternalistic. I think that's the extreme "high organization" end of the spectrum, where the state can really make very large interventions.
Figure out what money is for, and spend on it.
Please don't be a jerk on HN, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you think they are. This comment breaks at least four of the site guidelines:

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize.

Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

Don't be snarky.

Assume good faith.

They're there for a reason. Please follow them. Maybe the author doesn't deserve better but the community you're participating in does.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Wow that's a grim picture. I thought this issue was contained to a few distant areas.
The virtual coins seems better for the environment than creating and moving around all the plastic stuff that used to be collected.
I haven’t used Crystal, but wouldn’t that cause some parsing ambiguities? `a %- b` would clash with `a % -b`.
I'm not sure what you mean about medical staff. I'm not suggesting that anyone bend over backwards to aid organizations like Gab, merely that they don't go out of their way to ban them merely because they don't like them. For example, in the case of Stripe and PayPal, there doesn't seem to be any suggestion that Gab falls under any of the normal categories that would cause a financial services platform to ban a merchant – e.g. suspicion of fraud or money laundering, high chargeback rates, high rates of fraud among people giving money, anything like that.
Immediately fire nineteen out of twenty college administrators making more than $125k/yr. The cost reductions would be immense, with negligible impact otherwise. These hordes of millionaire administrators really don't serve any useful purpose.
> How do I tell my employees who are suffering from PTSD from being attacked by crack-zombies right outside our office that they need to keep coming in?

Putting that line right before a couple hundred words about the increasing viability of remote work is, uh, something.
Similarly Cloudron.io and Sandstorm.io are very impressive and easy to use projects.
Absolutely, and pledge is amazing.

That being said, for example, let’s say pledge or unveil have one line of code that is fd.
During what era was the Showbox culturally significant and to whom?
C++11 mandatory null termination has the advantage that a call to data() or c_str() need not store the null byte. On the other hand, mandatory termination costs one additional store in some of the constructors, and burns one byte of the capacity for inline data.
The latter. The amount of academic scholarship money a few points on the ACT makes is huge when you multiply by 4 (or more) years.
Give some money away, even if it's a little bit.

In certain circles this is called creating an "abundance mentality," [1]. When you get rid of something that you're worried about not having enough of, it trains your brain to not worry so much about having the thing.

[1] https://www.positivityblog.com/how-to-create-an-abundance-me...
For me it was (is) just about the status and feelings of accomplishment compared to others.

Try to get your self worth from something else. (Easier said than done in this society!)
I've checked that option couple months ago. If I remember correctly: rtags was slow, incomplete (you need extra packages for example to follow header files/auto complete header files), with more complicated project you end up with .dir-locals.el, it had problems with switching between desktop/embedded (yocto) builds, overall complicated setup. So many issues with rtags that I didn't even bother to check how it works on windows. I have experience with QtCreator and I would like to reproduce this in Emacs. You open CMakeLists.txt and everything just works.