skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Considering we have a VP who very much hates gay people, various laws in place designed to hurt gay people incl. the fact that gay marriage is somehow still a debate in America?

I'd say you would have to be deliberately ignoring the politics of the time which are generally not friendly at all to members of the LGBT community. You're creating a situation which somehow equates the author sharing her experiences with homophobia to that of someone who is homophobic. It's a goddamn terrible analogy. Try again.
I have wondered why homepods don't include the ability to act as a network extender, at least for just Airport networks. From a hardware perspective, it obviously could serve this purpose, and adding in a functionality like this would help justify the high price.

My guess is that future versions of homepods will offer additional features like this, and hopefully the long-distance charging that Apple seems to be working on: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3234911/mobile-wireles...

As an aside, I just bought my second homepod and was disappointed to learn that one cannot use a linked pair of homepods to listen to anything from a Mac other than iTunes content. This is bizarre because a pair of homepods can be used as the output device for any app on iOS. But if you want to watch that youtube/hulu/netflix video on your computer? Tough luck — you can't use the homepods as a stereo pair.
You raise the capital. That’s how campaigns work. You start with a small office. Then you raise money to go bigger. Joe Biden wasn’t wealthy at all, yet he never lost an election, starting with the New Castle Counsel. Ocasio-Cortez didn’t have a ton of money. Look at Maxine Waters. Plenty of “poor” people get elected. You just have to be smart, organized and have a message. Certainly running for Senate or President isn’t easy, but local races are winnable which springboard you to higher office of you’re any good.
Crude export restrictions were lifted in 2016.
That matches up with the topics listed for each reading. Thanks!
LaTex + Tikz is very helpful for paper work, and viso is very useful tool to draw professional diagrams, and mindmanager and xmind are mind map tool, they can be used to draw some beautiful mind diagrams.
>you need to do similarly complicated things all the time

My policy is to ask about those things instead. The ones you'll actually do rather than the ones that are, at best, tangentially related.
The modern evangelical philosophy that seizes the most attention today is often focused on prosperity of the individual.

There’s no room for stewardship in any real sense. It’s cash in before it gets shut down.
A minor quibble: The ratio of admissions to applicants is kind of a funny number. Applications could be driven by an external factor such as online application systems and word processing making it easier to apply.
How recent? (Ex last year, last decade?)
Netflix movie 'Black Mirror: Bandersnatch' to change the way we watch TV – again
> He thinks it would be useful to figure out if there ways to either shorten the process entirely, or at least spread it out over multiple days and gives candidates more time to reflect and think.

Please don't. I can take one day off work for a full-day interview; I'm not going to burn through four fucking vacation days for you to vacillate over whether or not I'm a "culture fit" or whatever.
Interesting. Could produce odd results if you run a local webserver and don't have SNI on. Seems like that behavior should be something configurable.

Edit: Apparently it is. https://pi-hole.net/2018/05/18/nxdomain-and-null-blocking-wi...
Incompleteness Ex Machina [pdf]
Don't get me wrong, I know it's not a bug in kubernetes, it's a bug in the filesystem. Kubernetes is as stable as the weakest part and the weakest part is the container engine (docker and underneath).

Containers require volumes/filesystems to run and some implementations are buggy as fuck.

Docker abandoned CentOS 6 many years ago, whether they stated officially or not, the last docker package and kernel/drivers are unstable. Similar story on some other distributions.

It wasn't production-ready at all back then and it's still not a good idea to containerize databases now. Besides bugs that come and go, there are other challenges around lifecycle, performance and permissions that are not trivial to deal with.
Gesundheit durch Wissen – Sozialtherapeut und Psychoonkologe hilft bei Krebs
Clever Robot Can Autonomously Inspect Sewers
A large portion of my job, and the role I interview for, involves discussing alternatives, taking positions, attacking and defending them. I use hypothetical situations, and defend what I think are incorrect positions, to see how the candidates defend their positions. To me, this is an efficient test of a few things - can they identify the best position, will they resist the bad arguments I put forth to advocate for my bad position, and will they give intelligent and clear arguments to defend their position?

It's a huge part of the job and the idea that I shouldn't test people on it strikes me as absurd. You seem like you're jumping to interpret what I've said negatively.
I'd argue that programmers rarely get to make decisions like performance. Esp. in a large corp, where responsibility is diffused.
Technological progress was much faster than political progress. - Joseph Henry Condon, Bell Labs

A generation before, with the telephone:

This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a practical form of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. What use could this company make of an electrical toy? - Western Union (1878)

Two generations before, with printing:

The invention of printing, though ingenious, compared with the invention of letters is no great matter. - Thomas Hobbes (17th century)

Thus...

A little bit of history, repeating... - Alex Gifford (1997)

.. via http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
My interview covers coding, data structures, algorithms, system design and data modeling. I attempt to tailor to the candidate, but there needs to be some level of standardization to be able to justify to the recruiters why a candidate didn't proceed.

Just because a candidate fails or falls short in one area doesn't mean they are cut, but it's a pretty large red flag if a candidate purports to know something, both on their resume and in person, yet can't answer some seemingly basic questions. If you state on your resume that you architected and implemented a system end to end, yet can't whiteboard the result and explain bottlenecks or failure conditions, I absolutely will assume you stretched the truth a bit. And if the candidate feels the need to do that to get the job, what will it be like to work with them? Could you trust their estimates? Would you be able to back them if something they delivered fails and you trusted them as a senior to deliver?

I ask follow-ups. I give hints. Honestly I'm dismayed at the skillset of purported "seniors" and "architects", and that's interviewing for small companies up to one of the FAANGs.
Do you usually get compensated for interviews?
What 2018 looked like 50 years ago
Yep, this isn't about hosting docker containers or the end result, but doing development work/tearing down/setting up test environments and things of that nature.

It is surprising how big docker containers get after a while.
Looking at Rails, first list, first question: "What does ruby name refer to?"

I interpreted the question as: "What does ruby's name refer to?" so I guess the precious stone... but no https://www.careerride.com/view.aspx?id=2439

Anyway, this seems exactly what a typical clueless recruiter would ask and try to pattern match the answers to
> With the rise of streaming, peering arrangements are more lopsided than ever and ISPs are actually having to pay for their own internet access.

Don’t most ISPs cache this sort of content closer to their customers? Netflix at least offers to install hardware that does this.
I read about, but never tried, an even more primitive diode for this: Burn sulfur on the end of a fine copper wire, then touch it to a piece of lead. Seems like you could do something with iron pyrite, too, but I can't remember the details. I'm sure they came up with a ton of these in the early 20th century that never made it into mass production.

Edit: https://books.google.com/books?id=S1QyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA46&lpg=P...

Unfortunately it seems like you need a power source to initially condition the rectifier, which you might not have in a WWII foxhole.
> The green lines are flight paths from before the implementation of the new technology (January 2013). The red lines are flight paths from after the implementation of the new technology (January 2015).
Amiga: Year 2018 in positive way
Ask HN: Best Under-The-Radar Podcasts and YouTube Channels?
I had taken the edx version of this course. Professor Dan Klein is an amazing teacher. Its clearly one of the best online courses I took on Edx and coursera. Most interesting part for me was completing Pacman assignments using the concepts taught in the course.
It takes a few days to explain the business rules. It's probably better to use a well understood general structure.
I thought the article was alluding to the fact that the same code ran 10x slower in JS, vs jvm
Interesting to see you say that about Texans, as my experience is nearly the complete opposite. Texas is the country's leading wind power state, and is pretty big on solar as well. Among most of the people I interact with daily (friends as well as colleagues), are not people I would consider "pro fossil fuel" at all. And this is coming from people mostly in Dallas/Houston, where oil & gas is much bigger than in Austin. I can even think of a couple friends of mine that actually work for the major oil companies, and even they I would not describe as "pro fossil fuel". One of them drives a Prius. When I was at school at UT, even amongst the buildings and lecture halls that are sponsored and paid for by Chevron/Exxon, I never encountered an anti-renewable sentiment. Hell, McCombs has a masters degree program specifically geared towards exploring renewable energy businesses (as well as several undergrad classes, one of which I took), and I know the engineering school has an entire department for researching renewables.

Most of my friends are in their late 20s/early 30s though, so maybe that makes a difference. I could see older folks who grew up when oil was king maybe being opposed to solar/wind. But even then, now that I think about it, one of my friend's grandparents (who are from West Texas) were very thankful for the wind industry and the money it brought to their town (it got brought up because we made a remark about how there seemed to be endless wind turbines in every direction on the drive through W Texas to visit them).

I just browsed through a few polls and based on them, it seems you must be really unlucky to encounter so many people unwilling to discuss renewables. According to these polls [1][2][3][4], 80%+ of Texans support renewable/clean energy.

I'd be interested to hear more about what types of conversations you try to have and who (age range, industry) you interact with when you find these people. It surprises me that this has been your experience, especially in Austin of all places.

1: https://www.citizen.org/may-11-texas-poll-shows-citizens-wan...

2: https://www.wsj.com/articles/which-state-is-a-big-renewable-...

3: https://www.texastribune.org/2016/05/04/survey-texans-suppor...

4: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/06/climate/renewable-energy-...
FiOS in some parts of the country (including, I think, Oregon) is now run by Frontier, who are nowhere near Verizon's competence.
> Do you see a responsibility of the federal government in lending money to students who have no ability to reasonably pay back their loans because their degrees don't have a high rate of return?

Can we all agree that this is an awful idea societally and for the individuals involved? If you couldn't get credit to go, it's because the market is sending a signal that it's a really bad idea to go. Yeah, it sucks if your dream is to do [insert unmarketable degree here] and there are few jobs for people who do that and the training costs just as much as an engineering degree. The idea that "society" should subsidize that is narcissistic at best.
This was awesome.

Wish I knew the most interesting/popular of these.

My first virus/worm(one that wasnt adware from freeware games) was the Conficker-

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

Think I got it for sticking my USB in college and HS computers. Back then having a USB full of cool things was a big deal. I probably infected hundreds of computers.
"...because the Charity-status ( 501(c)(3) ) of Colleges in America depends on more-than-half of their students being unable to afford the education (read: “receiving financial aid”)"

I wasn't aware of this at all. Do you have a source? Non-profits don't generally need to give away their money.
TL;DW guy builds a passive AM diode receiver; hand-wound inductor.

This is pretty much the first receiver topology that EE undergrads who take a first course in comm systems analyze in any detail. It's also a fun way to get a kid interested in electronics.
Since I've started weightlifting, and reading books of the subject and watching a lot of instructional videos, I know more about all sorts of muscles and bones than I ever thought I would have known. I didn't even have to try to memorize, it just sort of happened after an year or two of really taking lifting seriously.

The human body is a beautifully complex system, and it's really quite fun studying it and stretching it to its limits. My biggest regret is having started lifting at a rather older age.
It will change when techies and psychologists and sociologists deeply collaborate. Right now its just a bunch of half baked experiments based on half baked understanding of human psychology.
The Radio Eriwan joke writes itself.
> Odd wording to describe a replanted forest as "desolate waste".

I know you're trolling, but planting trees doesn't replace an entire ecosystem.

Check out a palm oil plantation sometimes for what a desolate forest looks like.
This is infrastructure on which lives depend. Who exactly is liable here outside of a FCC fine? Its just insane how software errors are apparently more or less considered equivalent to "higher power" losses. This all not mentioning the lack of a backup plan for a 50h outage.
> This is what happens when you treat IT like a cost center and don't provide the necessary funds to tackle technical debt<

Cost-cutting didn't seem to have played a role in this outage. They had a bad linecard in their out of band network that was somehow impacting the control plane of their devices. You can talk the pros/cons of how they built out their national Out-Of-Band (OOB) network, but you can't blame this outage on cost cutting.

You're simply bashing a large company that had a bad day. They might deserve your vitriol for plenty of other reasons in other cases, but you can't blame this outage on cost cutting.
"The drone will never fly directly above the crowd, he said". What's the point, then?
Show HNs don't have to be serious projects. Please don't post shallow dismissals.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
>It's hard because I end up using a lot of my casual reading in life and at work, so in that sense it has meaningfully helped.

So do I. However, ask yourself the following:

1. (For work) Do your peers who perform as well or better than you do spend as much as time as you do learning?

2. If you were to randomly throw away 30% of the knowledge you've read (keeping in mind you probably didn't retain it anyway) how much would it hurt your work/life?

3. (For work) Do people in other disciplines (or even ones not too far removed from yours) do fine/well at work without putting in all the effort you have?

I'm a SW developer, and mostly self-taught. I studied engineering in school and took only two programming courses, and mostly non-computer related courses. I do well because I have strong interests in computers. So I can certainly relate. Yet, all that time and knowledge has not given me a particularly great advantage. The idea isn't to stop doing it all together. It is that you're likely well beyond the peak benefit of learning - and the limiting factor in career/life are things you may be neglecting. You can probably afford to cut back some percentage on the knowledge and focus on other things.

And of course: If you value learning that much, there's nothing wrong with dedicating your life to it. I love it a lot, but I also do have other interests and goals that tend to get sabotaged. I know that if I wake up tomorrow at 55 with only my knowledge to show for it, I'll be very unhappy.
> I've learned that I'm not the brightest mind in any given room

I find it scarier when I am the brightest mind in a room, at least on a specific topic. I understand everyone has different backgrounds and experiences, and given the chance to share, many people can make contributions, even sometimes from people you may not expect at first blush.

There are other times though when, not so much through hubris but sort of... delayed understanding(?) - I end up realizing I am the brightest/smartest in a room (at least for the topics at hand). Sometimes you're expected to lead - false modesty won't do anyone much good there. Sometimes you're expected to lead and someone else ends up thinking they're the smartest one, and become a pain to deal with. Looking back I realize I've been that person, and wonder if I could have done anything differently (honestly don't know - lots of factors at play there).
I don't particularly agree that BJJ is the top dog solo sport. In the early days of MMA, it certainly outcompeted fighters who were boxers, kickboxers, karate experts, etc, but there was a notable absence of certain sports, such as combat sambo, until recently. Khabib has shown how effective it can be against high-level BJJ practitioners.
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Insert other outrageously expensive good or service that is non-appreciating, then. Like yachts.
> In math everything has a reason and you can understand it, so you don't really need to remember much.

I used to hope for this, but the more I go into mathematics, the more complex it becomes, the explanations more complex than the explained. I suspect "mathematical maturity" is the absorption of all this information. It takes years and years.

Of course once you know it it's easy - like fluency in a natural language, you aren't aware of all you've learnt.

Probably, if I had John Baez's experience, I wouldn't feel this way...

> everything has a reason

Proofs show that it is true, not why it is true.
I'd like to say good things, but there are a few big issues first.

It goes to the effort of downloading the sha256 hashes... For a filename. It never actually confirms a download is accurate with them. (curl --fail is not enough. You can have connections close nicely, but the file not be transferred correctly.)

It depends on bchroot for the heavy lifting, which is a beta product still, though interesting, and your own... And the habit of placing binaries in git do give me some twinges of concern. It would take more time than I have to audit bchroot. I have some concerns about binding /tmp and /dev the way you do... But a bigger concern is the assumption that /bin/bash will be available. What if it isn't?

It copies _my_ resolv.conf into the chroot blindly, despite the fact that many network managers may overwrite this file, and that my computer can move between networks where this may change. It'd be better to at least symlink the file. Best would be running a network manager.

It assumes x86_64. Reasonable-ish, but not always accurate. A Raspberry Pi is just as strong a target. Use uname -m. You'll probably hit issues otherwise.

Speaking of which, if you feel the need to grab resolv, you probably want hosts as well.

avenv-update finds and sorts binaries from a few static locations. It'd be much better if it could rely on a PATH variable.

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As a _first_ chroot manager attempt, it's not awful.

You set the right failure flags for sh, and handle most of the fail conditions nicely.

... But never trust the internet to hand you blindly what you ask for.

... And never trust the assumptions you've made about what it's running on will also be accurate.
I guess it might be more precise to say that it depends on the familiies of most students being unable to afford tuition.
YouTube and Netflix cache boxes are important for smaller ISP's. Their cache performance can literally make or break the monthly P&L. That said, I haven't heard about other OTT services offering a caching appliance. And there are more and more OTT streaming services coming. It's great from a consumer perspective, but it's going to be challenging for smaller players.
These things need to be known. I don't think it should require the permission of anyone, whether the subject or the surrounding guerrilla soldiers.

What journalists should (and many do) think about is the impact on the good reputation of the subject. But the child is certainly not victim of any kind of libel here.

I think this is a good solution to the smartphone age questions of "revenge porn" and "creep shots", taking and disseminating photographs of factual events is essentially an act of journalism and should be subject to journalistic ethics.
Please don't put binary artifacts in git; GitHub offers "releases," which are essentially download buckets attached to git tags, from which one can download tars. To the best of my knowledge they're still curl-into-bash-able (or I guess into tar, in your case)
He wrote a post on that too.

https://overreacted.io/the-elements-of-ui-engineering/
You definitely can move the airport. San Diego has considered moving several times already.
I pay candidates for doing take home tests
Ask HN: ISP Survey
Im curious what the internet offerings in your area are like. I would be interested in knowing the following:
1) Country/State/Province/City
2) How many ISPs are in your area that you know
3) What is they highest bandwidth connection available that is "consumer grade"
4) What does that cost
5) What does the cheapest connection/bandwidth/cost
6) How good is the service?
7) Is Municipal/Government/public utility internet available?
8) Do you like your ISP?

I will start. I live in a rural/country suburb of Houston TX about 40 Miles from downtown Houston.

Currently, we have their "double play" service which is the following:
1) 1Gbps cable modem.(I can get pretty close to that most of the time.) Currently that is the maximum available in my area.
2) pretty much every channel they offer that isn't an international, porn or other niche channel. We have a large family of 7, so there are 5 cable boxes.

That runs me around 180 per month in USD. Personally, I would like to cut the cord on cable, but its not really a huge savings to be had, and the spouse isn't ready to do that yet... I have managed to reduce costs somewhat by using roku boxes and purchasing my own cable modem. If there were other choices in my area, I can assume that would bring down costs. I don't know that I have any other complaints though. Comcast has generally been hated since their inception, and I do feel like things have improved somewhat.
I’m sure the contract is fairly explicit.
Vegas has it's airport close to the strip (and some residential burbs) but there seem to be little noise issues.
As someone who lives near an airport (2.4mi) and under flight paths, I honestly don't care. It's the sound of valuable commerce passing through my community and it's not worth wasting official's time with excessive complaints.
Bad URL: page displays "Sorry, we couldn't find what you were looking for."
It’s an unusual, red-headed stepchild product.

Personally, it’s unusual in that it’s an acquired product that’s sort of an Office component and it has gotten worse with every release until very recently. Even Outlook, while awful, gets better.