skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would say that that has a habit of only valuing lives that are Western or lives that are white.

That's obviously not true. Ever heard about abolitionist movement, for example? Are you claiming no Western culture persons supported movements like civil rights movement, BLM, etc.? This claim flies right in the face of obvious historical and present facts.

It sounds like you are just parroting some fashionable overgeneralisations - which may be fine to shout on a protest, where the goal is to push your point and getting a little overboard is ok, but it can't be taken seriously as a logical argument.

Surely, there are Western racists - as there are racists and xenophobes in very many cultures. But no guiding principle of modern Western culture claims that only lives of persons with pale pinkish skin are valuable. Don't confuse propaganda with facts.

> It took decades for there to be even mild acknowledgement that Thanksgiving celebrates the genocide of millions

Why acknowledge an obvious falsity? Literally nobody celebrating Thanksgiving is celebrating "genocide of millions" (ok, I don't know, maybe you personally know people that do, but nobody else does). Surely, events that gave birth to Thanksgiving also led to some very appalling atrocities (if you bother to dig, atrocities are buried in history of virtually every country, and certainly in the history of many indigenous American tribes as well - you don't think Europeans invented war for them and they never knew what it is before that, do you?). But that is decidedly not what is celebrated on Thanksgiving. So only a propagandist completely detached from the facts would claim that it is what is celebrated.

> A single American dying somewhere warrants more attention in the West than a dozen brown lives.

In US, yes. In UK, that would be single Briton. In Russia, single Russian. In Japan, single Japanese. In Philippines, single Phllippinian. Of course people care about people that are close to them more than they care about abstract people they never saw and have nothing in common with. This is common to virtually every culture on Earth - if there's a culture that cares absolutely equally about every single human, I've never heard about it. You neither, probably.

> Had this American caused the death of 5-6 islanders with disease,

But he hadn't. Instead, he was murdered. Yet you ignore what happened while concentrating on what hypothetically could happen.

> Please don't give me this claim that the West values life more

I will. If an person from that tribe comes to a Western country, maybe he wouldn't be treated nicely. Maybe he would not be even admitted (he probably has no papers and no visa). Maybe he would be subjected to a treatment much worse than a common Westerner. But he won't be murdered on sight.

> It is we in the East who suffer the bulk of the casualties of your Western wars.

If you talk about any wars before WWII, most of Western wars happened in the West, and thus West suffered most of the casualties, naturally. WWII is impossible to call a Western war, though, given what happened in the Pacific theater, for example.
Passionate about outcomes, not the means.

The only thing is by not giving a smack about the tech is that you risk looking like one of those 'impostors' by the nerd-crew who think everything is about the tech.

Also ... there are intangible benefits from our hard-core nerd outs. Let's be real: 1/2 of the tech we used may not have been invented if it were not for some dude doing it 'just cause'.
This might be the stupidest rationalization ever posted on HN.
Here in China there are a lot of videos of kids (or adults) playing with toys. My daughter can't get enough of them, so far as I can tell because she enjoys seeing other people create inter-toy relationships and play scenarios in their minds. She is 4, the same age as the children in this study. She's not self-reading yet but she is a vicious monopoly player and we do read to her in English and Chinese.
I highly doubt this is the strategy. There is somebody in charge of experience design in these organizations who is doing their very best to make the site easy to use.

However, they are hampered by a confusing product selection (as mentioned in the article), marketing people who want to make sure their preferred items are prominently placed, tight timelines that don't allow for user testing, or legacy tech that restricts design options.
That's an interesting comic. Though I think it's very one-sided especially in the last parts and written from the point of a women, who had bad luck with her partner. Staying with these stereotypes there are other mental tasks that a man would have on his mind like keeping the car running: changing tires, changing oil, etc.

Anecdotally:
I did a big junk of the organizational stuff for my girlfriend during her five years of university (we basically met a month before she started) including pushing her through her bachelor and master thesis. Basically I kept a mental todo list for her and kept nagging her "like a boss". I also organized us moving different places, getting insurances, setting up contracts (like for tv and internet), shopping for tech, getting her car fixed and planning our holidays. I also organized and execute all the household related fixing. That's mostly stuff that happens on occasion and takes a lot of time and mental capacity then, but is not a daily load.

On the other hand she does a lot of the daily load stuff like washing, shopping and cleaning (basically because I'm fine cleaning once every 2 weeks when I can actually see the dust lying around, but she gets furious at this point). I probably do not appreciate this enough from a mental load / organizational point of view.

I'm sure though that I will be the one keeping track of doctor appointments and nannies, when we have kids, while she will keeping track of feeding, grocery shopping and changing diapers. I hopefully will remember this post and appreciate the small, but frequent and steady organizational load she takes and not only think about the rarer, bigger ones I take care off.
They also started making enough money that the cost of two native development teams isn't a problem.
Out of curiosity: 2nd most used by what metric? Ton-miles? And who has the most-used?
Major U.S. climate report says damages are ‘intensifying across the country’
Physics can explain the fastball’s unexpected twist, new study finds
This is what DAB means for you
The truth is, Germany and France have overplayed their hand here. They've guaranteed there will be hard feelings and strife no matter how this plays out.

This is not a good faith deal between friends. It is instead warfare by lawyers, and the UK is being handed a very bitter defeat - maybe. If the UK takes the deal, there will be widespread resentment, and the UK will essentially lose sovereignty, and will be locked in a limbo state, much like Turkey has been for several years, negotiating with the EU. If the UK walks, there will similarly be many hard feelings, but at this point it is the only way they retain sovereignty.

And its not a static situation either. By taking the deal, they lose the ability to conduct foreign affairs. By walking, they retain that, and will quickly line up deals with the US and other countries.

The 3rd option, just saying "let's forget the whole thing and just be part of the EU" is also now not a good option. The negotiations with the EU show that the EU does not wish the UK well, just like many brexit proponents said. Angela Merkel and other higher ups are already talking about the need for ceding more sovereignty to the EU from the member states.
So how can you make a technological decision if you do not have hands-on experience with the technology (at least a year of deep immersion)? It sounds like the most important decision (whats to build) are at the hand of the least knowledgeable person.
The downside to this approach is that it can kill the passion for the thing you were passionate about.

Also, I've noticed that real world solutions to problems tend to include lots of schleps that are excruciatingly boring, but necessary.

The longer I do this kind of work, the more strongly I believe that the people who are most likely to see a project through to completion are the ones who have the stone cold professionalism - or just plain stubbornness - to grind though the boring stuff instead of just faffing around on the bits of the problem that they're passionate about.

I think a side project that's just about indulging a passion is totally fine. But a side project that is also a product that makes money will almost require lots of pieces that definitely feel like work.
But the whole point of QUIC is that it is a userspace implementation. From the QUIC viewpoint (and I take no sides in this) kernel implementation is death for a protocol because it freezes its specification and behaviour in slow-to-update systems. This is why they found they couldn't "just improve TCP".
I think it’s because they simply don’t want to pay for decent web dev talent.
IME, the core of your product, the part that your customers use regularly, should work perfectly. It’s okay for the other stuff to not be perfect.
Our industry is possibly an emergent phenomenon. There are many species on this plant and only one has taken technology to our extremes. That could be a differentiator.
Without offering any other commentary on this book, I'd recommend not using the Python libraries it uses for examples, and instead using pyca/cryptography.
From the video comments the author noticed these and tracked them down. They seem to be power lines and a huge wind generation project in China:

"I asked myself exactly the same thing when editing the video.

I spent several time on Google Earth and I found it's something around the city of Zalantun (Inner Mongolia); in all likelihood, the red lights are mounted on huge power-line trusses or wind turbines.
For example, look at this coordinates for power-lines: 47.761390, 123.026970
And wind turbines here: 47.5641695, 122.9092991﻿"

https://goo.gl/maps/jegbbvmmuV92
Sure, most countries have done a lot of bad shit in the past. Using that to convince someone of something is pointless. Since I am as foreign as an actual alien to China, I'll stand by my own country and the West if push come to shove, it's just the way it is...
0:49 Something that we won't see for SpaceX rockets.﻿

https://youtu.be/aJy1u-N3NY0?t=49
Lack of ambient light and atmospheric attenuation. Significantly more direct light vs indirect light.

If you fly at 35,000 ft the horizon is at 221.3 miles and most of it is dense air. If you look directly downwards from ISS there is less than ten miles of thick atmosphere between the camera and the target.

If you do ray tracing from single light source with few objects and without effects that simulate atmosphere you simulate how the scene looks in vacuum.
> In terms of power / weight solar can already beat many IC engines.

What? That is an extremely strange oranges-to-bananas comparison but rolling with it: a Honda B16A7 (not considered a particularly weight-efficient, or weight-inefficient IC engine) weighs ~183kg and produces 118,000W continuously in the standard configuration. A Talesun TP660P-235 (a reasonably efficient, reasonably light solar panel) produces maybe 212W intermittently under reasonable conditions, and weighs 20kg. So, charitably, 212W / 20kg = 10.6W/kg, and 118,000W / 183kg = 645W/kg. For a newer Toyota 2AR engine, it's something like 133,000W / 150kg = 887W/kg

Again, I have no idea how you thought of this comparison, but a common IC engine produces around 60x more power per kilogram than a solar panel.
It sounds to me like the danger of a single contact with a healthy person is a bit overrated. While theoretically it could happen that this particular person carries some disease strain that would be new for last 100 years and deadly to people on the island, the probability of this for a single contact with a single person is IMHO not that high.

> It's same as someone trying to use machine gun on a crowd of people

No, it's not the same. Christian proselytizers may be annoying, but believe me, machine gun is much worse. If you are given the choice, do choose the former.
Sure. Obviously it would require a new approach to planning and zoning. As the article says, rail corridors are obvious places for high-density mixed-use development. That aside, driving to a station and taking a train from there is still better than no trains at all.
Wow, Table 14.1 is terrifying:

> Considering both historical and projected non-CO2 effects reduces the estimated cumulative CO2 budget compatible with any future warming goal, and in the case of 3.6°F (2°C) it reduces the aforementioned estimate to 790 GtC. Given this more comprehensive estimate, limiting the global average temperature increase to below 3.6°F (2°C) means approximately 230 GtC more CO2 could be emitted globally. To illustrate, if one assumes future global emissions follow a pathway consistent with the lower scenario (RCP4.5), this cumulative carbon threshold is exceeded by around 2037, while under the higher scenario (RCP8.5) this occurs by around 2033. To limit the global average temperature increase to 2.7°F (1.5°C), the estimated cumulative CO2 budget is about 590 GtC (assuming linear scaling with the compatible 3.6°F (2°C) budget that also considers non-CO2 effects), meaning only about 30 GtC more of CO2 could be emitted. Further emissions of 30 GtC (in the form of CO2) are projected to occur in the next few years (Table 14.1).

Dates by when cumulative carbon emissions (GtC) since 1870 reach amount commensurate with 2.7°F (1.5°C), when accounting for non-CO2 forcings:

66% = 593 GtC 50% = 615 GtC 33% = 675 GtC
--------- ---------------- ---------------- ---------------
RCP4.5 2019 2021 2027
RCP8.5 2019 2021 2025

By next year, we'll (most likely) have burned through our chance of holding climate change to 1.5°C
It's interesting because we were just discussing this around the Thanksgiving table yesterday. My mother says she has been thinking of buying a laptop for a year and spent time online but has no idea. My mother-in-law said that she is fed up with trying to figure out what to buy. My son, who is tech-savvy, says that he couldn't decide between like 10 different ones because they were all just a tiny bit lacking to decrease the price of their individual models, but put all the good stuff together and it costs a thousand bucks more.

So, yes, navigating the websites is not making this any easier.

And myself, I had literally no advice to give them. How would I know either?
Bad behavior X "is a sad indictment of" freedom.
I just recently built a PC with Windows in it and started using it for development (Ruby, NodeJS, Python, Ionic). Some of my experiences:

- Scoop is "ok" but not on par with homebrew.

- Cmder is not on par with iTerm2 (CMD+D, CMD+Shift+D, CMD+T)

- Powershell terminal is utter crap

- WSL is just OK but still the integration is not that good

- VSCode works well

- Vagrant does not work that well. In general setting up the PATHs is clumsy

- Working with Ruby/rbenv or NodeJS/NPM is clumsy

- I miss Cmd+Space for calculator. using Windows Key + entering the formula doesn't work half the time

- Ninite is a godsend, but nowadays lacks several programs

- I love Paint ... why doesn't OSX have a similar paint program (I have to download Paint from sf.net)

- I loved the Windows spanned volume HDD. I had 7 plate-disks that I installed in my ATX tower and made one 1Gb disk with all of them, quite easily

- Impressed (with Windows) that several old hardware that I dug from a box (old webcam, old usb WiFi, old BlueTooth) worked as soon as I connected them.

There is a lot of stuff that I am still getting used to, but in general, although my experience doing development in Windows "works" it is still somewhat painful, while compared to OSX.

OTOH, I installed ubuntu on the same Machine, and god I removed it after 2 hours of tinkering here and there (to make work multiple monitors, wireless, bluetooth, webcam, stuff not working after resume-after-sleep). I was sad because I really like bash (that was my "safe place" when I first started to use Mac).
Why is weight an issue when we are talking power plants for housing?

Here's a 8.3 kW diesel generator (6.3 kW generator) from Home Depo:
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Boss-Precision-Products-Inc-Port...

3900 USD.

367 lbs + fuel = 180 kg + fuel

http://www.nordensolar.se/produktdetaljer/solceller-luxor-so...

One random 265W solar panel, you need 31 off them, one is 18,6 kg gives 582 kg of solar panels to get to 8.3 kW (obviously you wont get 8.3 kW cont. from them). Not counting inverters, mounting rackets etc.

So for equal weight and way more power you have one 8,3 kW diesel generator and 402 kg of diesel.

1 kg diesel is ca 12 kWh energy. Lets guess 30% efficiency gives
1447 kWh electricty for the same weigth. That's about as much as the solar panels will produce in 2,4 months assuming 129 kWh/m2/year.

According to this site it's 3,14 USD per watt solar panel installation for consumers.
https://news.energysage.com/10kw-solar-systems-compare-price...

8300 * 3,14 = 26 000 USD.

So, you can buy a generator and 22 000 USD of diesel (about 22 000 litres or 22 000 litres * 10kWh * 0,3 efficiency = 66 000 kWh electricty) for about the same price. Or about what the same dollar in solar panels will produce in 8 years with way lower peak power.
How about a Greenpeace protestor trying to prevent the locals from hunting the animals or harvesting the forest?
> "because after all the view is there for displaying the data that's in the model."

I wouldn't disagree. But I also believe there's another way to look at the view, and that is as the interface between the application and the user. That UI has or needs to have (design) patterns, a la Atomic Design for example.

http://atomicdesign.bradfrost.com/

For example, a list is a list is a list. In a well designed UI / UX that will follow / maintain a pattern. At that point, there's no real relationship per say to particulars in the model. The view / partial is "free standing" and can be repurposed as required. In the mind of the view, there is no model.

Maybe I'm splitting a hairs and/or have gone off on a tangent? My apologizes.
It's not a huge difference. By tonne-km, the EU uses rail for 17%, and the USA for 31%.

So I accept that the USA uses the rail network almost entirely for freight, but it's not true that the EU transfers "almost all" freight by truck.

Freight trains in Europe tend to run at much higher speeds than in the USA. For example, in Britain container trains can run at up to 75mph, and 140km/h in Germany. But compared to the USA, Europe already has a complete parallel infrastructure: pretty much every route has two tracks. I've only been on one long-distance passenger train in the USA, but there were long periods where there was only a single track.

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

https://www.bts.gov/content/us-ton-miles-freight

https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/how-fast-are-freight-tr...
The reason that you should use CloudFormation is that if you are working for a business, they most likely have a business support agreement with AWS. If you ever come across an issue, you have an easy button - AWS’s excellent support.
The book invokes the pagan notion of a pantheon of gods, rather than the Judeo-Christian God. He describes a ritual where he propitiates the Muses (the gods of creativity) before sitting down to write. You might find it easier to swallow, because when people invoke the J-C God they often mean it completely literally, while the Muses are clearly allegorical.

But to get through the book, you have to suspend your rational empiricism quite a few times. Perhaps no more than to read The Odyssey or Macbeth, where internal human struggles are illustrated with supernatural imagery.
So long as the overhead is predictable (which is an interesting assumption) then it'll just contribute noise and not affect the frequency analysis.
They probably weren't going fast enough for the brakes to kick in.
Full text [pdf]:

http://index-of.co.uk/Social-Interactions/Mastery%20-%20The%...
Anecdotally, I've been in the Army close to 10 years now and I cannot recall the last time I heard yelling in a non-jovial or non-combat manner. I've also had multiple experiences where people were stunned after I how I reacted in difficult circumstances. I can definitely see how certain employers would value these traits.
I've heard of quite a few products that launched without billing in place yet.

They gave users a 30 day trial period, so starting on launch day, they had precisely 30 days to get billing sorted out if they hoped to be able to charge anyone.

A free trial period may or may not be suitable for your product. But you can probably get by without it on launch day.

You could even launch in beta mode and give people access in exchange for feedback.

If you're targeting graphic designers, then go ahead and tweak that CSS. Otherwise, go ahead and get some real people using it. If they're using it to solve a pain point, they'll quickly tell you what's good and what's not. And if they don't use it at all...well, that's valuable feedback too.
I respectfully disagree with you. I wasted perhap 10 hours of my life or more on this PR (pointlessly rebasing it a few times). 95 other PRs are outstanding. There are many ways to improve this situation. I pointed two of them out:

1. Declare that you won't accept (or even review) them, preferably at the top of README.md *
2. Give a second person merge status.

I have some empathy for the maintainer but I also have empathy for the prospective contributors who spent a chunk of their free time working on https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/pulls

I've done my bit here to stop wasting people's time globally, I don't consider a maintainer's time more valuable than a contributor's time. That's elitest nonsense.

https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/issues/1284

* The likely side-effect is a unblessed fork (or people not wasting their time, or if they do, well, they didn't read the README.md and cannot be too annoyed at anyone but themselves).
I suspect also contributing is that the setting here is more like what you usually see with computer graphics than in real life. Very few moving parts.

In real life there are insects, and birds moving around. Wind blowing all sorts of things (leaves, blades of grass, trash, etc), etc. Individual strands of hair. Etc. All things we can't really reproduce with graphics.

Here there is just a sphere with a surface texture and some volumetric effects.
This management came in to save Sears from bankruptcy a while ago and invested millions in a failing company. Even with this investment, the huge pensions previously negotiated by labor imposed an enormous financial burden on Sears that eventually proved insurmountable. Labor may be getting stiffed now, but they’re also very much to blame for Sears failing.
The argument is that building train lines isn't the answer because the transport needs in the U.S. are different than Japan, Indonesia, Germany, Russia, etc. Having a cookie cutter "trains are the answer to everything" answer is shortsighted.
There have been plenty of improvements to TCP over time. New congestion controllers, new extension headers, fast open, ECN, etc.
Today I spent like 30 minutes fantasizing about what to buy and played with all kind of customization settings in their site.

Hurray for my new procrastination tool!