skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Are you suggesting that the reason the US/Europe is not at the Malthusian limit / has a low population growth is because we don't grow enough food?

Population growth isn't being restricted by food availability. As to the other questions, I wouldn't want to argue causation in either direction. I'm pretty sure it goes in both.

If we started to reproduce at the level supported by our food production, we'd end up in the Malthusian equilibrium.
same here. using gcloud, not web console
That's true for writing code, but I think the man benefit is when you're reading it. Parenthesis tell me that there is a function application occurring, and square brackets tell be that bindings are being initialized. Then parenthesis, square brackets, and curly braces help me easily find lists, vectors, maps, and sets just from a quick visual scan of the code. Clojure also does a nice job of eliminating unnecessary parens, such as the ones surrounding pairs in a let binding. So instead of this:

(let ((x 1)
(y 2))
(+ x y))

In Clojure, it becomes:

(let [x 1
y 2]
(+ x y))
Yeah almost all regions and zones for any compute instance have been exhausted since about 1pm PST on Friday. I finally got one up last night on us-east1, but my older cluster is basically SOL until it's fixed on us-west1. It went down for an upgrade and never came back up because of the same resource issue.
I’ve used Lisp for decades, so it’s hard to remember a time when the parentheses bothered me, but every new programming language has some surface syntax that can be off-putting. I used to hate the hard to type curly braces when I started with C, my fingers didn’t know where they were on the keyboard; at the time, I was programming with languages that used BEGIN and END. Now I prefer curly braces or even indented languages like Haskell or Python.

I encourage others to learn lisp. It’s really not a hard language, and the parentheses don’t get in the way after a brief period of acclimation. It also opens up the real power of Emacs customization and programming, which is done in Lisp.
I reject that Facebook gets to decide where the line is between acceptable and unacceptable causes.
Which is ironic since Facebook got Trump elected.
I worry that it'll become easier (and this more common) in an all QUIC world. It's always been possible, but few people have had the expertise and motive.

The OS can throttle sends on a single machine, but it can't arbitrate across machines or do anything about incoming flows.
You are seriously asking me to reveal my medical history?

Short answer: none of your business.

I'm glad to say, though, that I spot-checked what she said against the medical research literature myself and it seemed right to me.
Who within the company makes that decision? What if a conservative white manager fires a liberal black employee citing that they were making other employees uncomfortable with their political diatribes?
Believe it or not, it's easier in lisps, because the uniform syntax enables more aggressive tooling. I have more trouble with paren-matching in, say, js, than I do in clojure.
In California, where Luckey was employed by Facebook, it is generally illegal. I think this article is a reasonable summary of the California specific law:

"Can I fire the Trump supporter who reports to me?"

In California, the answer is clear — the law expressly prohibits employers from forbidding an employee from participating in politics, or controlling or directing an employee’s political activities or affiliations. Employers are also barred from firing or threatening to fire an employee in order to coerce him or her into any particular course of political activity. (California Labor Code Sections 1101 & 1102.)

These provisions encompass and protect more than simply supporting a particular candidate or party. The California Supreme Court has decided the term “political activities” includes all activities that may indicate support for a particular candidate or a political cause. This broad definition of “political activities” protects California employees from discrimination based not only on which candidate the employee supports, but also on support for or involvement in the many social and political movements of today’s political landscape.

Employees may not be fired or otherwise disciplined for participating in a climate march or attending an Ann Coulter speech; nor for going to a “Black Lives Matter” protest or supporting a border wall between the United States and Mexico; nor for countless opinions and activities in between.

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2017/05/16/can-i-fi...
You can set a 0-7 pixel offset horizontally and vertically. Programming smooth scrolling is still really difficult though because the processor is pretty slow, scrolling the screen left one character takes a lot of raster time.
"The data says engagement is down 46%, I think its time we drop the product."

- Someone at Google right now, probably.
> There's a pretty high probability that the number of FSI agents in Havana with 12-year-old twins is precisely one.

And strangely enough I am pretty sure I know who this person is. Just based on those facts and other things from the article.
>Nov 09, 2018	05:59

>We will provide more information by Monday, 2018-11-12 11:00 US/Pacific.

Wait, did the people tasked with fixing this just take the weekend off?
You might be doing the same.
Absolutely not.

The threat of losing a job is one of the most powerful coercion mechanism in modern western society. For vast majority of people, it's not far from threatening a person and their family with bodily harm. If you allow for that, then people won't really be free to choose their political beliefs.

(Firings for politicking at work instead of actually working are another thing, though.)

> political beliefs are chosen and based on ideology.

By both sides. Why should it be allowed to fire people based on ideology?
Mostly ceramic tiles in my experience, or lino in budget e.g. student accommodation. I've rarely seen wood in the UK, presumably because it is prone to water damage. The problem with tiles though is that they do get very cold underfoot, hence the popularity of "bath and pedestal" mat sets. I did have a place with rubber flooring in the bathroom, and that was nice because it was non-slip, easy to clean, and not so cold underfoot. But I don't think I've seen a full fitted carpet in a bathroom since I last saw an avocado bathroom suite.
Ask HN: Recommendations for securely wiping a hard drive?
The hard drives are not SSDs, they are 3.5 inch external hard drives, formatted for use with Windows.

Any recommendations for software (free or paid) to reliably wipe the data on the external drives? I am using Windows 10 so the software will need to work on Windows.

I know that destroying a hard drive is one option, but it is not something I want to do.
Interesting article. I had always assumed that Luckey was forced to resign because of his “NimbleRichMan” charade, a subterfuge so cringey and shady that it was r/the_donald’s own version of the Digg revolt [0], which to me would be grounds for firing because of all the FEC problems it could get him and Facebook into. And then he lied about not being NimbleRichMan [1], which would seem to seal the deal for firing. But the WSJ article says FB’s investigation afterward that Luckey did not violate any internal policies. It still makes more sense to me that they fired Luckey for being a reckless liability. But they had the chance to say so and apparently didn’t.

0. https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/535jkk/about_wh...

1. https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-palmer-luckey-oculus-rift...
I got the muscle aches that can come from statins. Lowered my dose and they went away. Thing is, the doc never saw anyone achieve the results I did with the prescription stuff. No need to support a broken patent system and get a doctor and pharma company involved.
That would be the employer's decision. If you are fired for these sorts of reasons, you should be more than welcome to tell your story to people. Perhaps it will hurt the company's business.
In this mirror world that you imagine do you also imagine that these progressive causes you are donating time and money to are using your help to spread misinformation? Or do truth and lies get transposed in the mirror as well?
The Commodore version of Prince of Persia is a fan made conversion from 2011.
Etch a circuit board with kitchen supplies
Utopian societies in pre-20th century USA were typically located in isolated settlements. Armed conflict was typical unless it was a group specifically dedicated to nonviolent ideals. Cf. the "Mormon wars" and pro/anti abolitionist movements in Western territories
Are these lights still on the market?
If you workout frequently enough and build your endurance you perspire less given its not scorching hot outside.
This isn't true. Do you have a source?
Parinfer is also really nice. It rearranges your parens automatically based off of your indentation. I still prefer something like Paredit, or Smartparens for the power user features, but Parinfer is really intuitive and just works without having to learn new editing commands or hotkeys. It's my go-to recommendation now for people coming to lisp for the first time because it makes working with lisp code very similar to working with an indentation-based syntax like Python.

https://shaunlebron.github.io/parinfer/
Exploring Streams in Flutter
The civilian government does MVP pilot programs all the time and looking at them is one of the first steps in evaluating the merits of expensive proposals. You can't MVP a bridge or a fighter jet though, because the political and economic cost of iteration is ruinous.
I would draw the line at direct intervention. Those moths that evolved darker colors in response to soot in the industrial revolution were responding to a change in environment, not some Victorian era Pokémon craze that hunted down all the white moths.
Yes, but we have to differentiate between general tax competition available to most companies and company specific offers, these are clearly illegal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU_illegal_State_aid_case_agai...
Being able to have cookies restricted to a subdomain is kinda one of my favourite things about subdomains. I just like the idea of requests being minimal, and when you have a lot of static public assets, you can put them on another subdomain without cookies. That no longer works if you have a lot of cookies on the origin, since those get sent always.
This is a legitimate article from a good source about a major tech company. The only obvious reason for flagging is that it makes a conservative guy the victim of a liberal/progressive company. Why was it flagged?
Well this is Facebook. How much political content moves through their platform everyday?

Your comment makes sense if it is McDonalds or Nike or Wallmart. Their CEO's aren't being asked everyday by every govt on the planet what they are doing about disagreeable info.
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If this really matters to you, there are things you can do:

Walk and bike more.

Eat less meat.

Drive and fly less.

Wherever you live, promote a more walkable city.

Get involved and make an effort to track successes, track progress and publicize what's working. Humans are terrible at counting the successes. We tend to focus on everything that's going wrong.
Use scientific methods to measure air flow and quality (CO2), and humidity. You want around 50% humidity and CO2 to be below 700 ppm. CO2 doesn't directly measure air quality, only how often that air is changed. The more like outside (around 300 ppm) the better. 35% or lower humidity will effect your your skin and mucous membrane. A dried out mucous membrane makes it easier to catch a cold. And dried out skin leads to cracks and itching. But too high humidity 80% + is also bad. If the temperature between outside and inside differs more then 7 degrees C, it's enough to effect the humidity, for example if it's cold outside, the cold air expand, leading to less relative water. You can get a humidifier or dehumidifier to control humidity, and use ventilation to control air ventilation. Then there's also temperature, you want around 20-23 C to be comfortable, but I guess you already figured that one =)
Ok, so there have been literally decades spent in managing and optimising TCP to behave in various network conditions, from modem lines to multi-gigabit fiber, in all kinds of congestion conditions, lossy-ness, and other hairy edge cases of real physical networks.

So, what's the point of ditching all that and reinventing HTTP over a thin wrapper (UDP) over (lossy) IP? Has there been a huge theoretical breakthrough which simply can't be applied to TCP?
It's a bit in response to a change in California laws. California has always more strictly enforced employment regulations, especially with regards to contractor classifications.

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2018/09/04/cal...
I reject that anyone else gets to tell them where that line is on their own platform.
Does anyone have any experience with air quality sensors what would easily tell me if the air in the building I'm in is bad along the lines of sick building syndrome?

Ideally some sensor that's relatively inexpensive and easy to use and connects to smart phone? There's several out there for home use but I'd love to carry around something that just told me constantly and also that was more than just particle density sensor.
How does it compare with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York?
Growing corn or wheat is indeed super-efficient in its use of human labor. But pretty wasteful in topsoil, chemicals, energy. And other crops (like fruit, or herbs) are much more labor-intensive. So that's two directions where it would be great to get more efficient.
A generic question: Our company is completely dependent on AWS. Sure we have taken all of the standard precautions for redundancy, but what happened here could just as easily happen with AWS - a needed resource is down globally.

What would a small business do as a contingency plan?
Seems to be some weird underlying issue going on at GCP at the moment. Had cloud build webhooks returning a 500 error. Noticed we were at 255 images and deleting some fixed the issue. Created a P2 ticket about the issue before we managed to solve it and haven't had a response in 40+ hours.

The timeline of this disruption matches when we started experiencing cloud build errors.
That was my assumption too, but the WSJ article claims that even after Luckey was found to have lied about it, they still did not accuse him of violating any internal policies.
Farming some things is efficient: wheat, soy, corn, etc. Most vegetables and fruit are still very, very labor intensive especially organic farms where you need a ton of labor just to deal with weeds.
I worked for a farmer who was caught in one of those. It spun him around a few times. His right side his body was somewhat sideways after that. That happened to him when he was in his 40's

He was 87 yrs old and still farming hard when I worked for him
Employers who aren't ruled over like slaves should be able to fire or hire employees for any reason, including race, gender, or political belief. Of course, it may benefit the public to know if an employer is hiring or firing based on bigotry, which is a much better "solution" than the resulting unintended consequences of government regulating this kind of discrimination.
>* modern, successful democracy should take care of its people.*

Good thing we live in an oligarchy then, otherwise, we would be upset.
Interesting. Speed is still about 40% in Safari and 60% FF compared to Chrome with this version. Much better than the 2d-canvas version though and looks pretty fluid.

Would be pretty weird if the osx native browser didn't hardware accelerate while Chrome does it on a MPB, but Apple are often weird like that.
Not true - Capsicum is used by a growing amount of software, from base system utilities (like uefisign(8)) or servers (like ctld(8)) to third party stuff, like Irssi. And yes, there are language bindings as well.

The problem with Chrome is not that it’s hard to capsicumize - it’s not, it has been done and documented - but rather that the upstream developers are extremely uncooperative wrt accepting patches.
VPN profiles in iOS can be used for network-level configuration: despite the label, that doesn’t have to mean just a VPN tunnel.

In this case, the profile is ONLY configuring DNS: there is no VPN tunnel being created. The “VPN icon” in the status bar just indicates the profile is active.
The people tasked with fixing this aren't the ones providing the updates.
It's pretty far from threatening a person and their family with bodily harm. You are not entitled to be employed by any particular employer.

If someone is stuck in a single job and unable to get employed anywhere else, that's an entirely separate societal problem.

> "By both sides."

I said as much in my original post.

> "Why should it be allowed to fire people based on ideology?"

Because the relationship between employer-employee should always be voluntary and never compelled. If it's known that I want to expel all white (or black, fill in the blank) people from the country, and this is an incompatible view with the company, they should not be forced to continue the relationship. If I want to abolish the Constitution and force everyone to worship me by law, the employer should not be forced to continue this relationship. These are merely examples.

In reality if you're firing people for all but the most extreme political beliefs, you'll likely damage your business either directly or indirectly through public perception.
I suspect that a robot capable of doing that would nearly as expensive as a human doing it.
But also 30% tax rate, totally open for business, common law, beautiful nature, forced by their difficult geographic location "to try harder" and be more open. I would also say that being a small country puts a limit to having big political ambitions. Many safe, wealthy, stable countries are small and sovereign (or were at least originally based on "small-minded" localist politics). I can see NZ become some kind of Pacific Switzerland -- which arguably is also built on a substrate of conservative or "parochial" people.

And is NZ not just as multicultural as Australia?

And finally: another commenter here responded "New Zealand's software industry is significantly more mature than it was 2+ decades ago." Can you understand what he means by that? When did you leave NZ?

I hope you care to elaborate, we have to decide next week so any opinion is welcome, especially if you grew up there :-)
It's not that I hate him, but he's infuriatingly bad at meeting deadlines for books that have become an integral part of my identity. I'm not one of those redditors, but that's just because I have partaken in a thread like that yet.

I was college when I read ASOIF, I was expecting the Winds of Winter to come out before I finished the others. It didn't. I read the Tales of Dunk and Egg to while the time expecting it to come out like he promised. It didn't.

ASOIAF is my favorite storyline ever. I adopted a puppy yesterday and named him Aegon after Aegon the Unlucky. The fifth Aegon — Maester Aemon's younger brother.

It's because I was waiting on ASOIAF that I spent a little over two years reading 21 volumes of Wild Cards (26 now), and every year he kept missing his deadlines.

It's as if when you've got your money in your hand, and the pizza guy says the restaurant will open in a few mins, but it doesn't open for weeks, and he mixes coke in his pizza and you're addicted.

I don't think I can explain my frustration to you in mere words on the internet, but it's so painful that I've stopped reading his blog or thinking about it. One day it'll come out, but until that day I won't be duped by this man's false deadlines.
I'm with you, but we have to remember that most people including most "pros" meaning working professionals do not do coding. For 95% of working professionals, the iPad may actually be more than enough.
If farming can be done more mechanically than chemically, it'll be better for the environment in the long run. We'll need less pesticides, and have less top-soil erosion.
Sometimes companies voluntarily split when there is not enough synergy. Stock owners get shares in both companies.
But was still charged with more generic offences that have nothing to do with drugs.
You're right! This is beautiful!
I’m an artist who owns one and I totally agree despite it now being an essential tool for me. Lots of airdropping files back and forth with my MacBook is the reality and it works great.

You quickly realize just how crucial a mouse and it’s modifier keys are for efficient design work. It’s great for early stage thumbnailing. I’ve actually never been able to thumbnail as effectively as I can with the pro and it’s solely for the fact that I can use it as a sketchbook with integrated google images. Once a project gets rolling it’s mostly used so I can shuffle over to my comfy chair and do some detail work with the pencil.

That said, I wouldnt put it past a young person who hasn’t been molded by a desktop to blow me away with it. It’s not like my desktop workflows don’t have hacky and annoying steps along the way to a final.
It's way more complicated than that. The courts have repeatedly struck down constant automated surveillance from public views.

For instance:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/12/cops-illegally-n...
Fair point but still seems odd that the people providing updates took the weekend off during a large scale customer impacting issue. I'm sure all the people spending the weekend trying to mitigate the impact of this on their infrastructure would love to have timely updates.
Small scale farming absolutely does work as a business and the vast majority of farms (world wide) are in the sub 1000 hectare range. If you are talking sub 100 acre hobby farms then yeah they aren't a profitable main source of income (excluding some market garden operations)
US politicians in the postwar era were very concerned about having a proletariat on their hands, and embarked on a program of mass homeownership to make little capitalists of us all. It worked. A bit too well.

Owning a house while it appreciates is less socially useful than working or investing in productive businesses, and sometimes more lucrative. Why should it be taxed at a lower rate?

If it’s not an investment, what do you care about the return?

I appreciate that lots of people like suburbia, and I wish them well too. Only that government policy will also allow urbanism to thrive.
Why on earth would you do that, unless you had huge problems on aws?
We don't mention it on-the-air, but it's not hidden. You don't want to lie about something like this (or anything, actually). When you're caught you'll pay.

It's difficult to explain but what I do is designed for me. There's a lot I do because I understand both sides of the equation which means my studio isn't a turnkey solution anyone could walk into. You need to be able to understand 'why' when something doesn't work.

That being said, IMHO Sinclair did it the wrong way. The weather unit should be an autonomous production, not dependent on the regular studio being free. My all-in studio cost is around Hyundai money. It removes complexity and allows live production where needed and closer to air always.

I had a trip from SoCal to Milwaukee cancelled because a few guys who robbed a gas station decided to drive the getaway car to Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix -- where my first flight was headed. Random shit happens.

In three years of doing this what you describe hasn't ever happened.

We use the Internet for data. I have fiber to the wall.
Oh man must be a tough time to be an SRE at google cloud. But... they’re Google. They have been doing internal cloud for years and years. Borg — which K8s is a reimplementation if — has been the heart of Google for so long now you’d think they’d be able to architect their systems to have no outages whatsoever. I mean nobody is perfect but this looks bad.