skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I do see a difference between apples and oranges - in areas with "vigorous competition", municipal fiber does not get support!

We're talking about areas where there has been no competition, and the incumbent has already succumbed to the same exact lethargic rent-seeking that people ascribe to municipal services.

Also it appears you seem to be thinking that "municipal fiber" means there are employees at City Hall with a blank check from the general fund. WG&E is a separate corporate body, overseen by the City of Westfield. I would guess they will be doing operations for Charlemont et al, but Charlemont will be free to choose a different operating contractor in the future.

So what we're really talking about is the ownership of the built-out infrastructure, which government has traditionally been paying for anyway - this story is about Charlemont not giving $500k to Comcast! The idea that the government should pay to build out infrastructure to be owned by a private company isn't the "free market" - it's textbook corruption!

For context - I am libertarian, and I recognize that there is no difference between government and a de facto monopoly that one is forced to patronize. In fact, the latter is a great way of describing the former. If you want to make a philosophical argument that government has no business subsidizing communications infrastructure at all, I won't argue. But that is generally not the point of contention around "municipal broadband".
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Similar to [CSSScan](https://getcssscan.com/), which is a paid Chrome extension that I use. Any benefits over this besides being open source and free, as I don't mind paying for a quality product?
You're experiencing 1g most of the time in everyday life, when not moving. When you jump, you're briefly experiencing a few g downward while you push up on your legs to go against gravity, then briefly zero g for the short amount of time where your body does not touch the ground and you actually follow a ballistic trajectory, then finally again a few g upward as you land.
This article is a criticism of a particular documentary (which admittedly seems to have a number of false and dubious claims), and in some places seems more determined to debunk the claims made in that documentary than to consider whether a bunker fire could nevertheless have played any role.

If the documentary claims the ship was only doomed by the failure of the bulkhead in question, then it is in error, but timing of the essence here: if the ship stayed afloat for one more hour, it probably would have made little difference, but an extra two hours probably would have.

The metallurgical discussion of the effect of fire on the bulkhead looks well-grounded to me (though I know little about the matter), but it might be somewhat moot if, as this article seems to acknowledge, the bulkhead may have been deformed beforehand, as a consequence of a bunker fire at some point. I am curious as to whether the strain on the hull, from having the stern lifted out of the water, could have led to (further) damage to the bulkhead, creating the reported rush of water.
>Third, to admissions officers of elite colleges: Do better. America’s most selective colleges can, it seems, change the lives of minorities and low-income students. But they’re still bastions of privilege. They enroll more students from the top 1 percent of the income scale than the entire bottom 60 percent. In this way, elite institutions are like factories of social mobility being used as storage facilities for privilege; they have the potential to use their space to manufacture opportunity at scale, but mostly they clear out real estate for the already rich, who are going to be fine, anyway.

I wonder if this this advice would actually be harmful. The real cachet of the elite colleges is not so much their elite teaching, but that the elite go to them. Going to these colleges as a non-elite kind of "adopts" you into the elite and has great benefits for these non-elites. However, if these elite colleges basically become a reflection of the United States where the vast majority of people are non-elite, these elite colleges will lose their aura over time. The elite won't really be affected by this as they have other social networks to connect with fellow elite. However, the non-elite will lose this important way of networking with the elite.
I must be missing something because this didn't fall apart when I refactored it to work with a `useState(symbol, value)` interface. I'm not saying this is a good or ideal solution, indeed if the useWindowWidth hooks were to both useState and also useSubscription, then multiple keys would have to be injected -- it would work correctly, but the interface would have the AMD feel that perhaps is undesirable (per flaw #8).

https://gist.github.com/politician/5f03c169a4119a63abb785b1c...

EDIT: I still think it's a hard design problem and the concerns in flaw #8 are _very real_ to a broad range of developers. When you're just trying to get it done, proper bookkeeping of Symbols and injecting them into hooks composed of other hooks might cross the line. It's a shame that relying on call-order indexing is the solution because it's magical. But at the end of the day, engineering is about trade-offs. Time will tell whether deeply nested composition of automatically-managed hooks was a good feature to expose.
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I guess I'd disagree, in that admissions practices at many schools are designed to admit children of rich people. Sure, poor people aren't penalized for being poor per se, but they're not going to contribute to the endowment, you know?

So you get a boost for being a legacy, for having parents who are rich, for being from a rich feeder school that indicates you have parents who are rich, etc. It's not that you get a -1 on your point total for being poor. It's that you get a lot of +1s for being well-off, because ultimately well-off people give more money back to the school & produce well-off alumni who are attractive to well-off applicants. At private colleges and universities in particular there is a careful attention paid to long-term revenue, as colleges are feeling the economic squeeze in the amenities arms race. Colleges are separating into 'winners' and 'losers' and that sorting is along the lines of revenue and endowment.

The article is right on that connecting unconnected kids with connected peers is the biggest benefit of an 'elite' education. 'Winner' colleges today are trying to surf the wave of existing power structures rather than create/educate a new wave of potential elites.
If systems like this are abused, police will just treat it like most burglar alarm systems; it will most likely be ignored.
> What does cause a lot of mental overhead (and consider myself a decent engineer) is creating commits that have a single purpose in the first place.

That's why I typically write code where I implement a feature and then go through the diff to determine what to stage and what goes into each commit. Trying to do this while implementing something isn't really something that's worthwhile.
Same way you’d experience it in an elevator if someone cuts the safety cable. With a plane they can repeatedly climb / drop to recreate the experience.
This article explains the slow speeds pretty well: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/09/nyregion/subw...

Basically, it boils down to heavy consequences for operators that go too fast coupled with systems that measure speed inconsistently.
This is really cool as Qt just looks daunting to start with! Is there a way to make it use native widgets? I noticed the app in the screenshots doesn't look like native Ubuntu.
The jet flies parabolic arcs in the sky. If you imagine you shoot a bullet on a 45 degree angle upwards, it follows a ballistic path in a big arc right? Now fly that same path with a big plane. The bullet and the plane are both in freefall essentially.
Recent versions of React have encouraged truly pure props-only functions to wrap them with React.memo(), which also adds the benefit of giving them the equivalent of a shallow-check `shouldComponentUpdate()` avoiding re-renders when the props are the same.

React.memo() is all the more useful of a signal in the Hooks world.
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That would actually be horrible to me.

But I'm more curious about whether they all knew each other, or if it was like, one girl gets in and gets naked, and then another and she sees the first one and thinks, meh no biggie, and then what happens when the third one gets in?

The story would be a little more boring if they all knew each other ahead of time.
Visibly undeveloped land isn't a good proxy for the market's land supply. Much of the 'empty' land on the edges of the Vegas Valley is BLM land [1]. Periodically, the government auctions off parcels [2], but the BLM's incentives are a bit more complex than those of private landowners.

[1] https://caltopo.com/map.html#ll=36.12923,-115.0639&z=11&b=om... [2] https://www.blm.gov/sites/blm.gov/files/documents/files/SNPL...
> My benchmark is Charles Schwab Bank, which offers free ATM fees on any ATM, anywhere. It's what many millennials that I know use. But, it's a bad product and not very user-friendly.

Why do you say it's a bad product? I use Schwab as my main account and it works great for me.
Free fall. Like inside an elevator with a broken cable.
Here the aeroplane starts the free fall with considerable upwards speed. That and the horisontal speed form an upward parabola path of free fall.
Thanks! I think Qt never uses "native" widgets. If at all, it just renders them to look that way.
Actually, no. Very little of the land you see from the tourist zone can be developed. LV is hemmed in very tightly by military bases, national parks/monuments/protected areas, and state parks.

Look at an app like FlightRadar24 and see the vast areas that jets have to avoid because so many military installations surround Las Vegas.

Plus, it's the desert. Nobody wants to buy a house without access to water.
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> A setting that is much less explicit about what it is collecting.

It's pretty explicit on what it's collecting given the article's context.

The linked article's tagline is:

> Microsoft baffles Windows 10 users by apparently collecting data about recently opened websites and apps when users have opted against sharing that information.

But if you look at the help text next to the radio button in the diagnostics settings it specifically says if you turn it on it will track which websites you visit (among other things).

There are other things that get tracked which is less explicit in the wording, but then again, you can set this to "basic" and then it's only anonymous data that gets sent.

If someone is serious about protecting their privacy and happens to be stuck using Windows, in my opinion it's their responsibility to at least look at the configuration options of Windows.
Regulation in general tends to be a regressive tax. Larger companies have the bureaucratic overhead to handle it and can also often lobby or litigate their way around it. If they do get tripped up they can pay the fines or hire lawyers. Smaller companies have neither the time nor the money to deal with regulatory complexity.
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Chairman waves hands in mystical fashion - "These comments have hereby been declared... considered!"
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Housing prices were lower in both absolute and inflation adjusted terms, so the higher interest rate didn't hurt as much.
The people in r/wallstreetbets usually understand that they're making stupid bets. OTOH, r/Robinhood is full of completely irresponsible traders -- trading in illiquid securities, dumping tons of money in penny stocks, triggering PDT restrictions and getting stuck with unwanted positions, not understanding bid/ask/mark (usually blaming RH or the "market maker" boogeyman for changing the price on them), buying OTM weekly options (known informally on wallstreetbets as "FD"s...), complaining about tons of "glitches" that are actually just them losing money through ignorance, and (one that has always confused me) blaming all losses on some mysterious "market maker" boogeyman who kills all of their trades.

If it was 1996, these people would be speculating on Beanie Baby portfolios hedged with Charizard cards.
Supporting and maintaining old endpoint versions is expensive. Especially if the old endpoint shares a back end data store with the new endpoint. You can get locked into a bad data model and unable to move forward.

If you can do it then great, but it's just not always technically feasible or cost effective.
> For automotive sports high g (5+) turns are pretty normal there is a good reason why F1 drivers loose like 10 lbs during a race it’s an extremely taxing activity...

It is an extremely taxing activity, but the weight loss is mostly water.
And unlike the Voynich manuscript, here we have known good translations to start from.
> With the CLI, all you can do is cycle through "Stage this hunk [y,n,q,a,d,e,?]?" prompts, and if you mess up, you have to exit completely and do `git reset --patch` and cycle through those prompts again (at least, I don't know another way to do that). Actually it's a bit worse because it has even more options ...

You can get a hybrid of the two if you use commands like recountdiff (from patchutils) and git-apply --cached. I do this by reading the output of git diff into vim, editing diff hunks and running recountdiff on those hunks, and running git-apply --cached. If I mess up, I can always read the output of git diff --cached and run git-apply -R --cached to unstage that hunk.

I find it better than using the CLI menu driven tool that you refer to.
Stopping an OS from collecting my data should not require research. If it's anything but a clear, comprehensive choice that you make when you install the OS and stays made forever, something is fucked.

> if you volunteer to use Windows, it's the price we have to pay for the time being.

I paid to use Windows.
I think "where" you study matters, but for a different reason. It's not the prestige of the school, it's the geographic proximity to potential jobs.

I'm (still) trying to find a job in New Zealand, Australia, or Canada. Despite an MEng and 4 years work experience to satisfy immigration, companies aren't interested in interviewing people who aren't already physically there and have the right to work.

The only solution seems to be to get a student visa by joining a course in underwater basket weaving, and continue looking for a job locally when physically present. It's a terrible misuse of the visa system, but there seems to be no other way.
I do. But we are in minority, I see my non-tech friends giving up their info in all kind of stupid apps, even when it is optional.
As a longtime Windows 7 fan that refused to upgrade until I finally bought a new laptop with it I have been absolutely shocked by Windows 10's aggressive user-hostility.

The way they reset settings after forced upgrades should be criminal.

The way the user has no control over certain Microsoft processes unless they have been lucky enough to be allowed to pay for a Group Policy Editor license should also be criminal.

The ads, the nags, the surveillance.

It is not an operating system I can use anymore. They have lost me for life. I'll be switching to Mac and Linux from here on out.
> Trading for most people used to be deliberately obtuse.

When Robinhood initiates options trading by asking you, "Do you think the stock is going to go up?" on a phone interface, they've decided that trading is now just for morons.
One point of your depiction of the US system I haven't seen other replies address: You can easily and for no fees (though not quickly) transfer money to other people with paper checks. That's the main reason they are used these days. I haven't seen anyone (try to) pay using a paper check at a store in years. Most banks allow for electronic deposits of checks with smartphones so it's not even that inconvenient. Not to say this is an ideal state of affairs (checks can take days to clear and not everyone has access to accounts that can write paper checks) but it's not quite as dire as you portray it.
In the early days of "exchange" ... the email client. I discovered auto replies.

Very first thing I thought of was "What if two clients have auto replies set?"

So naturally I set one up, my cube neighbor set one up. I sent an email to my cube neighbor ... and fairly quickly email was down company wide for a good afternoon.
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Hard to believe it's not water weight being sweated out. Marathon runners don't lose 10 pounds in a race that is very physically demanding.
OP specifically talked about bigger companies:

> I feel like most big names in tech won't even look at your resume.

Do you think your suggestions work for Facebook or Google (which i assume OP means by "big names", among others)?
I don't know if the usual caveats about sample size should be salient when we're investigating something like self-awareness. If I found a fish who could talk, I wouldn't demur, " ... but it's a small sample."
I worked at a small liberal arts college for a few years that basically admitted (1) legacy students, (2) rich kids, (3) sports kids from the South (from states with no D3 football, basically), and (4) poor kids who got high SAT scores. They used (1) for history, (1) and (2) for revenue, (3) for school spirit, and (4) to boost the average SAT for the whole student body.

So many schools are doing exactly what you suggest. It is kind of weird to teach there & realize pretty quickly that the rich kids are mostly not the smart ones, to be blunt.
Because one is from a bank with a high interest rate but a shitty privacy policy and the other is from a bank with a better privacy policy but a lower interest rate.
In addition to the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative, there is also the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/. (A nice example: "The advice of a supervisor to a younger scribe", transliteration: http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=c.5.1.3&..., translation: http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=t.5.1.3 .)

There are three problems with machine translation of cuneiform texts (Problem 0 is accumulating enough pieces of a text to make it worthwhile[1]):

The first is reading the signs on the tablet, which is probably incomplete and damaged. Further, some scribes weren't all that spectacular; IIRC, the early stages of Assyriology benefited because of the early discovery of Ashurbanipal's library at Ninevah, where he'd put some money into ensuring the tablets were good quality.

I believe there has been some work on 3D scanning of tablets, but I haven't found any major collection of them. Or of high quality photos, for that matter.

The second is transliteration of the signs into usable text. The article mentioned image recognition for cylinder seals, but I'd be interested in any significant success at recognizing text.

The third is translation, described in the article. This is probably the easiest; Akkadian (used in Assyria and Babylon) and Sumerian are both understood reasonably well.

I think there's two useful results of this research:

The general "digital humanities" giant database of people/places/things: transactions, prices, names, etc. It's possible with that to understand Mesopotamian civilization better than we do Greek or Roman.

And identifying, of the giant mass of archived tablets, those that really do deserve a closer look. Like Irving Finkel's translation ("discovery" isn't the right word) of another copy of Atrahasis' flood story.

[1] There's a cute story about Cyrus the Great's cylinder, I believe; one copy of it was broken either in antiquity or around the time of discovery and transportation. The two pieces wound up in Europe and America (Penn State?) until somebody very observant realized they were two parts of the same cylinder. And I'm given to believe that the British Museum has employed people to re-jigsaw the gravel at the bottom of the incoming crates of tablets back into something useful.
I'd love it if they started live-streaming all the launches.
It's all about the math. It is true they encourage unsophisticated people to go stock trading. But that's not how they do business.

They find gaps in the financial institutions' way of doing business and fill the space.
Windows 98 also had a gradient in title bars if you ran your desktop at a high enough color depth, though the colors they used were less tasteful than Windows 2000.
> what's the science behind this?

Earth's gravity in low-earth orbit is almost the same as on the surface [1]. What makes things on the ISS float isn't their distance from earth. It's horizontal (or more accurately, tangential) speed. Objects in orbit are in free fall.

To replicate that, parabolic flights free fall. (Parabolic paths are similar to the elliptical paths orbiting objects take [2].) They then stop free falling (to avoid hitting the ground) before climbing back up and doing it again and again. And again.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Earth_orbit#Orbital_charac...

[2] https://history.nasa.gov/conghand/traject.htm
Richer families can outsource the parts of parenting they're crappy at.
I liked the blue variant of this called "Royale"
The defined boundary of space always reminds me of Jeannette Piccard, the first woman in space (as defined in 1934).

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

It's interesting where we define what is an isn't space, with its own cultural ramifications.
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I remember a story from my tech support days: someone forged an email to support@eircom.net from support@indigo.ie, both of which had auto-responders.
Right. Plus how often is an entire line backed up because the operator didn't crawl slowly enough past that misconfigured signal, so the emergency brake got triggered and additional action had to be taken to get the train moving again (release from dispatch? crew sent out?), causing thousands of people systemwide to be "delayed because of a signal problem at 14th St" or whatever?
Minor point of irritation here. Apparently, there's no C-Level execs, just...

The humans who run YouTube

and

The people who run YouTube

and

the people in charge of YouTube

I always search the page for "Susan Wojcicki" when there's a new article critical of Youtube. No dice.

Is there any mention of "Wojcicki" in the Vox article behind this? Nope.

How about the NYT article from March that they link to? Nope. No "Wojcicki" there either.

Youtube remains a CEO-less company.
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>"But .. What on earth does that have to do with what amounts to giving a quantity discount to large employers?"

It's mostly certainly not a "quantity discount." These corporation aren't "buying" anything from these cities.

If Apple comes in sets up shop on 100 acre campus in your town and gets tax breaks to do so then your town forfeits the equivalent tax revenue another company would have paid for the same parcel of land. There is a huge opportunity cost involved, nothing is free.