skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>in a tight tunnel? unlikely.

12ft diameter gives you at least 8ft of internal space x a mile. Japan for example has 100sqft apartments. I've worked in an office, in Indianapolis, that wasn't even 8ft across and there were 20ish of us with desks against the wall so little space you had to slide all the way in for someone to walk down the aisle.

You could cut a channel down the center for plumbing and electrical conduit, probably only have a foot of clearance on one side, then have a walkway down the other side and make quite a bit of comparable office space.

Most THOW, tiny homes on wheels, are less than 8.5 feet wide to remain legal trailer width in most states so you've already got people living like that in the US. Here you could cut elevator shafts every eighth of a mile and just make the freight elevators. Say after fire suppression, pumps etc, you only have 4500ft of length to rent/lease/sell you could have 200+ small offices/apartments/artists spaces/climate controlled storage units.

I mean a Type IXC submarine (like U-505 at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago) had a pressure hull beam (width) of 14ft 5in and you still had material between the crewed area and that hull. Having been in U-505, and being 6'1 300lbs, even with a full tour I found it had plenty of room to move about and would have happily lived on it. Especially if it didn't have pipes/gauges/equipment/cabinets/cots etc hanging off the walls. Those things ran with crews of 50-60 people for months at a time, small offices or flats for 1-2 people would sell quite well I'm sure. Hell, I've been in escape rooms that weren't wide enough for me to lay down in.

I'd live in the tube.
Not saying it’s the solution, but giving the government that power might incentivize people to be more involved with local government and demand more accountability. Right now nobody really pays attention to what they are doing.
Why are there conflicting reports on the stats from the CDC?

The CDC's website[1] says there's been a 0.6% increase in vaping in middle school and 1.5% increase in high school since 2011. This advisory however says "E-cigarette use among U.S. middle and high school students increased
900% during 2011-2015, before declining for the first time during 2015-2017." Was there a nearly 899% drop in 2015-2017?

https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/yout...
Although I totally agree we shouldn't have spent trillions on war, I have a question about this whole "our country spent on X rather than Y"

Most of the money CIRCULATES in a country. So it's not like it's one shot and done. The money was paid to some people who then spent it back into the economy and it went round and round. So at most we diverted a certain number of hops of a huge amount of money to a thing.

I look at money as sort of wheels with cogs turning at a certain speed. When you launch some new project, it might pick up momentum by having other cogs spin it up. It can even "grow" in market cap depending on whether increased demand for it drives up the prices for it. But that price can also drop to zero later, as new things come out, eliminating vast swaths of "wealth" in a stock or cryptocurrency or whatever.

So back to my question... money isn't just a one-time resource that a country can spend and can never get back. However, from the point of view of a government, they only get so much revenue per year, so it should be said about the US government and not the country as a whole. The government taxes and diverts money to things that individuals would not do on their own. Fiat currencies allow further powers to print money — before WW2 pundits thought that military activities on such scale were simply not possible to be funded with taxes etc.

Everywhere in the world I go, I see the vast majority of people are regular folks who just want to put food on the table and laugh with their family. It’s the governments and media that whips up all this warfare and propaganda and we wind up paying for it, and people on the other side of the world wind up dying as a result. That’s what the tragedy is. The money paid to eg Blackwater mercenaries or the rest of the military industrial complex probably found its way back to the US economy in short order.
I got the syntax right? Was completely guessing.
did that host happen to be Hiformance? pretty much what you said is happening there (servers going down, no contact from host etc)
We should be clear what the actual object of this "epidemic" is. It isn't really about vaping. It's about Nicotine. And this fight is just one battle in a larger war: the societal struggle to define the proper moral dimensions of chemical dependency.

Many people have a knee-jerk reaction to "chemical dependency"... they assume it must be a bad thing. That somehow sobriety is the "natural" state of human beings, and that any dependence on a mind-altering chemical is a weakness, a deviation.

You can see this in the way we mix up terms like "dependency" and "addiction". People treat the former as if it were equivalent to the latter, but it isn't: "addiction" is when the harms of a dependency outweigh the benefits, when it becomes "maladaptive" (a vague, value-laden term). But a dependency by itself isn't necessarily maladaptive. Sometimes it's a positive adaptation.

Consider this, one of my favorite essays, about a woman whose relationship with Nicotine appears to have enriched her life:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/06/opinion/sunday/can-nicoti...

There are certainly chemicals that cause far more harm than good... there's no denying that. I'm not saying we should embrace Fentanyl. But it would be a mistake to treat every chemical dependency as an obvious evil. The moral valence of Nicotine dependency is far from black-and-white. Sometimes we depend on something because it's good for us. (Notice how nobody's complaining about a coffee epidemic.)
I agree with all of your points except for the package theft one.

The package theft "solutions" proposed really are insanely inconvenient and unworkable* in most suburban environments. I've seen all of the reasons listed many places here, so I won't bother rehashing them. If I'm at work on Tuesday, for example, a redelivery attempt on Wednesday doesn't really help, does it?

* unworkable in the sense that they're less efficient than the alternative of just allowing the rare package theft to occur
It might make sense to add a link to the repository near the top of the page because that's a stronger call-to-action than reading about it.
The U.S. federal government used unchecked eminent domain power when building out interstate system infrastructure. So this is not really applicable.
Nope. I think most of us are attempting to agree without placing much significance on him personally.
The only actions explicitly addressed in the memorandum involve nuclear attack, the other sections point to other treaties that arguably should mandate defense.
I live in Atlanta where MailChimp is headquartered. Beyond their horrible customer service and stories I've heard from people who work there they are one of the worst tech community members in the city. There have been instances of managers from there Doxing people, trying to get code school students kicked out of their programs for respectfully expressing opinions in local community groups etc. that they disagree with.
Juul is reported to have higher nicotine levels though.
after seeing this thread, I checked my idle but (paying for it for years) mailchimp account which had some possibly value hundred or two hundred emails, and it too seems to have been disabled this year... and I definitely have invoices from mailchimp as recently as March 2018 .... :(

shitty way to handle a pure profit easy paying customer
Non paywall link: https://outline.com/bUYzWn

My opinion: The bubble expands.
You've invented the "YouTube Algorithm". (because it's one monolithic thing, right?)

No one has ever taken issue with the YouTube Algorithm before.
Fireman Capital Isn’t Disrupting Craft Beer. It’s Sustaining It
Landing in any American Airport never fails to shock me. Equally the clash between passport control and the commercialism of the rest of the airport.
I was first in SFO in 1995, I'm pretty sure there hasn't been an update to border control since then, and I'm always given a good few hours to study the place.
Regardless of whether Service Mesh is overly complex, the industry seems to have entered an era of "Complexity Worship". I was speaking to some engineers at a small startup the other day with only a handful of customers. They have invested significant resource building there own K8S cluster, ensuring it runs on multi-cloud etc, sounds a lot like premature optimisation.
Prometheus is winning because push-based metrics are the wrong approach. Integration with service discovery to tell if your metrics are operating or not is, in my experience, the #2 or #3 preventer of outages.
To clarify, that's to say it's a response by an engineer, but NOT a Google engineer who was involved with YouTube.
Are you saying sugary foods and drinks are essential products?
You would think they'd know how to access the data by now given all of their experience using it to target ads to specific users...
The US government could build out infrastructure if it desired. We did in the past and we could today. It doesn't meet the profit margins that the MIC can.
To be fair, it looks like they are closing off some security vulnerabilities, and I'm hoping they wouldn't kick up this much of a PR nightmare unless the security vulnerabilities were some type of horrific RCE.

They might advert this PR storm if this if they just document the vulnerabilities that they fixed.
They deleted the account without the "." as it had never really been used.
The ubports team developed something called halium to address this: its more or less an android emulator that has apparently been working for a couple of years now in testing at least. Its in the purism future goals to add this iirc.
"Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility." -- The Cynic's Word Book (1906), by Ambrose Bierce
FWIW I agree that the effects of russian influence—intentionally at least—is overblown. However, Facebook still managed to make themselves look like comically evil in responding to the charges.
International security is important, and military defense spending is a large requirement for that; despite all the propaganda I personally still view the U.S. and the west as positive forces for democracy and freedom; although certainly I'm no fan of 'pushing' these on other countries; I think it's always better if the benefits of democracy and international co-operation can become self-apparent and lead to self-guided regime change.

But assuming anyway that the spending is a requirement - the question becomes how efficient that spending is, and where the money is really going. If it's being spent efficiently to support defense operations and capabilities, that's great - if it's going to line the pockets of contractors and corporations spun up largely to capture wealth, that's not so great (for many cases it's probably somewhere in a spectrum).

Re-investing whatever efficiencies can be saved from careful economies into both better military infrastructure and civilian infrastructure seems like it'd massively benefit everyone. (although worth noting that cost-cutting itself also has to be done in a way that doesn't impact security; in some cases I can imagine that defunding risky or questionable projects could in fact improve security)
In response to your edit -

I think it's okay to extend your durability promise to your clients, but durability isn't the same metric as availability as you've eluded to in your edit. I typically tell customers our product's durability is an extension of AWS's via a BAA. If I had to shut down a product and needed to provide the data for export, it would be simple to throw them in AWS s3 by client ID and let them sit there, but you're going to have to budget a big chunk of money for it. The only way you get a green light to have that budget is if you are contractually bound to do it. I believe a lot of companies (mine included) do have those contractual obligations in place already, but I honestly don't think what I have in mind to meet the contract, and the user's expectations are aligned. Is it the raw data they passed via API that I return or the enriched data we produced that I return? If it's the latter, we're going to need more money as that will be exponentially more information to store for export.
Infrastructure spending has sadly become partisan because a higher percentage of infrastructure workers are unionized than in the broader economy.

Obama and the Democratic Congress delivered a stimulus bill in 2009 that was largely "shovel-ready" infrastructure spending. Because of that, it was attacked by the GOP, who then took over Congress and has proceeded to underfund infrastructure as a means of weakening unions. And of course they're now flying an "America First" flag and wondering why things aren't better.

The power of companies in the political process is easy to overstate. Political movements are an industry unto themselves and sometimes easily overwhelm corporate priorities. The military as a cultural force in America politics is very powerful... military contractors essentially surf this wave. They didn't create it; they are far too stupid for that. It was created by veterans and politicians and the consulting ecosystem that supports them. It is in some respects the pendulum still swinging back from the darkest days of the post-Vietnam War period, when people would spit on vets and call them "baby killers."

At this point in time, construction workers--and especially unionized construction workers--are not nearly as strong a cultural force, so infrastructure companies have a much smaller wave to surf.

That could be changing with Trump, but who knows what is real with that guy. He is all talk on a large number of subjects... he has done what he said he would in trade and immigration, but not even close in healthcare or infrastructure. Ironically for all his talk of America First, Trump's personal attention is focused almost exclusively outward, at allies, trading partners, and immigrants.
Gonum is neat, but to the previously-made point about Go's type system making stuff more painful than it needs to be in this application: gonum's linear algebra is defined over float64 and int, which is problematic if you need arbitrary precision.
Except you're between borders. You do have the very same rights airports as borders as well. Customs can check every person who decides to pass the border. That they don't is their choice; not yours. Don't like it? Don't leave your country.
The antecedent of "they" in the previous sentence is the company, not an individual. The individual creating the email, as a person, probably was not lying BUT since they were acting as an agent of the company, in an official capacity all of their actions were that of the company as a whole.

This shields them from individual liability as well as makes the company liable for their actions (as long as they are acting as agents of the company in an official capacity).

The customer has no business relationship with the individual customer support person, so whether they are lying or telling the truth is irrelevant to the customer -- they do have a business relationship with the company (a single actor, with multiple agents) and the company can easily tell lies via these agents.

If the above narrative is correct, the company did very likely tell a lie since the fact that the customer's data was recoverable was probably known by the company and also the company likely actively worked to make the opposite of this known via their agents.
Customizing the ads and spam is the first step, because that's what technologically feasible and makes business sense. Before long, they'll start "customizing" your search results even when you're not logged in, because your IP and search history gives the gatekeeper enough to decide what you should and shouldn't see.

Net Neutrality in the US was obviously gamed in favour of ISPs, telecoms and large corporations, and the population didn't lift a finger behind posting sanctimoniously on Reddit/HN, and arguing with each other about the semantics of free/un-free markets.
Oh, I guess it was the last paragraph of the snippet and not the full article.

> What’s more, all of these approvals were granted to be shared from pages for fake political groups such as “Cookies for Political Transparency” and “Ninja Turtles PAC.” VICE News did not buy any Facebook ads as part of the test; rather, we received approval to include "Paid for by" disclosures for potential ads.
So, basically some small, rural township would buy the access then share or several individuals would pool their funds and do it?
Facebook Allowed Some Tech Companies to Read and Delete Users’ Private Messages
It doesn't store its notes as markdown. It uses a format called cson. Still easy to parse, but cant open Boost notes in another editor easily.
Understanding Starsky Robotics’ Voluntary Safety Self-Assessment
Exactly. Corporate structures, governance, and regulation have been formulated to treat corporations as "persons".

Well, that "person" lied. Regardless of the specific agency it employed in doing so.

(And, this type of banning and cut-off from data is obviously -- just look at the comments here -- not a one-off scenario. I find it difficult to believe that the consequences, including the customer's lost access to their data, were not thought about by MailChimp, as an organization and by people in their official roles within MailChimp.)

P.S. As I've grown older and observed and thought about things, I've come to see this as a primary role of the corporation or other such entity: To "dilute" responsibility and accountability to the extent that no member -- or, no member who has sufficient influence, who "matters" -- is ever held personally accountable for their actions within and on behalf of the corporation. [Addendum: And, in turn, the corporation is never truly held accountable, because the employees involved "lacked knowledge". Nicely circular, eh? By the way, I don't consider paying a dollar amount that is often a fraction of the gains realized by the behavior, to be "being held accountable".]

I've stopped letting people in such corporate or institutional roles off the hook, just because "they didn't know". Or rather, I've stopped letting the corporations and institutions off the hook because employee X didn't know. All too often, it's set up precisely that way and on purpose.
CoolGuySteve complained that things will break because existing scripts assume /usr/bin/python. CoolGuySteve is correct. There is an enormous amount of work involved in changing or removing the function of /usr/bin/python.

Offering advice about how to write new software does nothing to help with the frustration he highlighted: His existing build systems will break. Build systems are especially frustrating as they tend to have hacked-together code that no one really wants to look at.

People will often work around this by installing a python2 as /usr/bin/python. At the end of the day this change results in a less predictable platform. On previous RHEL systems I know what /usr/bin/foo is -- it's predictable given the major version of the distro. But now I won't know what /usr/bin/python is on RHEL8. It will be uniquely different and that's not a good thing.
Karl May's lifetime ended in 1912. I'm not an expert on German history, but I can't imagine he was the very first German author to have fanciful tales, nor does it mean that Germany has a journalistic tradition of wholesale fabrication, compared to other countries/cultures. Joseph Pulitzer lived that same timespan and he was one of the main creators of "yellow journalism". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Pulitzer
> Cambridge Analytica has already demonstrated how bad actors will misuse any access they have for profit ...

Facebook was the bad actor. Facebook divulged user data to the thisisyourdigitallife app in ways that were counter to what it told users. When the scandal broke, Facebook claimed that its terms of service were violated because the app was collecting the data for commercial purposes, not research[1], but in either case FB would have been divulging private data improperly.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/cambridge-analy...
Chris Fox earns ~100K/yr writing ebooks and he's teaching others how he did it
> You can guess when the idea hit me... :D

While cooking?
We've been sending our email through our own servers since the early 00's. In my experience it's never been that bad if you are a good actor and follow best practices. Hell, even if you're a spammer and follow best practices you might still get through. But if you don't know what those are you will most likely go to the spam folder.

Regardless, hosting your own mail isn't the same thing as using outlook's BCC field.
"rekt" is immature and has nothing to do with agreement.
An individual private citizen not letting you onto their property is categorically different from the state passing laws dictating where individuals who aren't prisoners, captives or wards of the state may travel, commune, and reside--and it's an astonishing notion that anyone would try to conflate one with the other and expect to be taken seriously when they say it's "not about curtailing freedom".
A lot of the time we use OOP is for this simple reason: we need a record structure to keep related properties together, as if it were one value.

The features of a language that are recognized as its "OOP system" are organized around the record-defining capability. Record types may be called classes, and operations on records may be called methods and so on.

If we need a record structure to keep related properties together, say three of them, we could use an array or list of three elements. In some languages that would be a non-starter for records whose elements have different types, because an array or list has to be of items of the same type. In dynamic languages, it would work. However, we then have to remember that emp[0] is the employee ID, emp[1] is their telephone extension, and so on. We could define constants for these so we can access emp[id] and emp[phone]. We are then on our way toward creating an ad hoc, record system. We notice limitations, like we would like customers to have an "id" and employees to have an "id", but since id is a constant, we have to put the "id" at the same array offset in the employee array and the customer array.
This approach will not scale; there will be clashes requiring us to put these offsets into namespaces. These arrays all have the same type. We'd like to know, given this object P, are we looking at an employee or customer? So we can come up with a convention like element P[0] always holds a type code. Problem: Bob, Alice and Mallory want to integrate their separately developed modules into one program. Each of these programmers has come up with their own record-in-array type system, incompatible with the other two. It's a mess! Mallory took advantage of arrays with negative indices and put the type at [-1]. It's not a simple integer code but itself an array with multiple properties. Bob and Alice used [0], but with different integer codes whose values clash.

Instead of this ad hoc approach, we have some sort of record or structure type in the language.
Open APIs and the Facebook Trash Fire
I very much do not want this. godoc.org has decent search and I've never had any complaints.