skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or maybe it just takes a while for families to establish themselves? Over half of Asians in the U.S. are foreign born. With most of the remainder being the second generation.

That said, Asians are starting to get elected to political office. There are three Asians in the U.S. Senate (making 3% of all senators) and there are 14 Asian members of the House of Representatives (making 2.6%). That might seem low, given that Asians make up about 7% of the U.S. population, but over half of Asian Americans are foreign-born. I think the fairer comparison is to American-born Asian Americans (after all, it's hard to get elected when you're not a native speaker of English and you're missing shared cultural references). And that shows an attainment of political office in line with their representation in the population at large.

I can't find decent stats on Asians in the 1% of income, but if you have a source you like, I'm happy to dig in. The link you provided just has an "Other" category at 1.6%.

My stats are from these wikipedia articles:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Asian_American...
Well... there's the data you've stored, if you're trying to keep it private. But, yes, it does invalidate the original point. :)
A preview of some of the economic toll of climate change
I assume backwards compatibility. It's a much smaller change to existing operating systems than to create a completely new page table format.
I had to pause my Ad blocker to read this article.
Monopoly and the SEC. ICOs are such a big threat to the economy, the SEC has a "ICO desk" to track people down. Meanwhile, charging millions of dollars for boilerplate advice is business as usual and companies pay it because the SEC won't allow them to try anything else. SEC is a criminal organization themselves and they help keep the investment bankers wealthy through each economic boom while they contribute very little to the boom itself. Wall Street is a much bigger and more successful scam than crypto could ever hope to be.
Privatization of public services cannot work unless the private companies have liability for their actions. This is the necessary consequence of their negligence.
> Again, once again, over again, yet again, one more time, the crucial core is some original applied math based on some advanced pure math prerequisites.

This is super descriptive! I should have understood you the first time. My apologies.
Does this use web workers to access the db? Otherwise I'd worry about queries blocking the main thread, especially as the database gets larger.
Look up studies on the reliability of witness testimony if you want to get really scared on how courts run.
We've been using Notion for a year or two now (a lot of people didn't like Confluence) and it's been working pretty well.

I particularly like how they construct URLs for documents; it always keep its ID regardless of title changes, but it also shows the title in the URL.
I miss the days when you could buy a piece of software -- like, physically buy a license that allows you to use it in perpetuity on your own terms. Then, if you want to pay for some hosted features, it makes sense to have a subscription. But the default cloud subscription dependency business plan immediately turns me off to any product. I've got too many damn subscriptions, and I can't take on any more.
I have a hard time finding value in this. Mastering a language take years, so the tool better has some killer feature to make it worth the investment.

I can see why Go, if you want an easy to compiled yet middle level language with good concurrency.

I can see why erlang, if you want crazy concurrency, and reliability.

I can see why rust, if you want c/c++ power, with a modern touch and a safety net.

But what is the selling point in D ? Why should I choose D over those for a particular task, and take the time and energy on this on not something else ?
It's not a perfect import but they do have it: https://www.notion.so/Importing-Guides-18c37b470e8941789548b...
Android Studio 3.3
Antarctica losing six times more ice mass annually now than 40 years ago
I used Notion for a significant period but ended up switching to Nuclino [1] - which is identical in many respects, but without the various add-ons that are unnecessary if you're working with text/images.

I've found it to be more responsive, and to my tastes, it has a better UI. I'm not a big fan of the emoji/blank file image that is necessary with every Notion entry.

[1] - https://www.nuclino.com/
there can be no immediate decentralisation the way you want to put it. The moment an OSS system is being implemented there is a main contributor and a core team of devs. It would take years for a system to be completely independent. Bitcoin is approaching towards this goal. But to think that decentralisation is useless because the devs along with the miners and users decided by consensus that a bug was indeed a bug is the wrong approach.
But again, that's enterprise.

This started with the idea of a personal on-prem solution, which is probably not worth the cost to maintain for the company. I mean, how much is it worth to you to have an on-prem personal solution for a diary? Because that's the worry... people are afraid that their household budget or their database that tracks the content of various adult films or whatever is going to get exposed. That's mostly about embarrassment, not actual harm. That's not something worth hundreds of dollars a month to most people.

And really, if I want to write down my deep dark thoughts where no one will read them, I'll use paper.
Tactics Media Unions Are Using to Build Membership
NYT Diff
I’ve been wondering the same about AppleTVs and network connected TVs. Recently bought a Sony TV that has Android TV, I didn’t realize until I took it home.

Consumer reports has a write up to let you know what to disable based on the manufacter.[1] I’m still tempted to do wireshark.

[1]https://www.consumerreports.org/privacy/how-to-turn-off-smar...
The customer doesn't care about the code - they care about how the system functions. The code could look like shit, but if it "works" that's all they care about. There's a difference between how the code looks and how the application functions.
David Cope (a professor at the college I went to) started working on that idea back in the early 80s, calling it "Musical Intelligence". His approach got the most attention for its ability to write new classical works that accurately mimicked the style of famous composers.

http://artsites.ucsc.edu/faculty/cope/experiments.htm
How the Brazilian government allocates it’s defence budget is it’s own concern of course but consider that a comparable-role ship HMS Hermes was laid down in 1944, sold to India in 1985 and served until 2017. Ocean will never manage that. HMS Ark Royal served for 30 years too.

São Paulo, the ship Brazil is replacing, a former French vessel was intended to have a total service life of 80 years!

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Reply here as I am “posting too fast” apparently

The idea that in 20 years, let alone 40 years time, we'll still rely on human piloted planes is pure stupidity.

They said that 50 years ago when the first guided missiles were coming into service. They will probably still be saying it in 50 years!

The truth is that military tech just doesn’t change that fast. The B52. The 1911 pistol - that’s the year. Warship hulls are supposed to last 50+ years and you occasionally upgrade the radar. That sort of thing.
Looks great, would be nice to have syntax highlight support for more languages and maybe MathJax support.
My first digital camera was Kyocera Samurai 2100DG from 1999. It was actually pretty good, 2.1 MPx, great optics, 4x zoom, CF card. I've used it until 2005 or so. Only for sale in Japan

https://www.cnet.com/products/kyocera-samurai-2100dg-digital...

http://www.digicammuseum.com/en/cameras/item/kyocera-samurai...
I think the OP means modem plus router combo that most ISPs offer. The modem is most definitely patched OTA, has been true for most modems since DOCSIS 3.0 was introduced.
When I first saw that blog post I was inspired to create a visualization of some of the data. You can use it to explore the chord progressions and play them in the browser:

https://briancort.com/songviz/

I also made a visualization to explore chord harmonies:

https://briancort.com/chordviz/
I’m about to finish my first web application—created to show off as a portfolio piece—and it ended up being an SPA. Granted, it’s not very complex, but I’m thinking about adding additional functionality to it, and if I do I’m pretty sure I’ll stick with the SPA architecture. I like the responsiveness and sense of intimacy, but more than that, I like having all of the functionality easily accessible to the user at all times. The one thing I find most annoying about using web applications is the sense of uncertainty that lurks behind every click of a link/button. I find myself wondering:

- Am I going to be taken to a new page with a different interface?

- Will I have to open multiple tabs and/or navigate back and forth?

- Is this going to take several seconds to load?

It’s not the end of the world, but I find it annoying.
That sounds like resignation or acceptance rather than joy. You see this with terminally ill patients or first time prisoners. They initially struggle with their fate, but eventually accept or are resigned to their fate. That is different from joy.
> 5. In order for the market rate price of housing to become affordable to cooks and servers, it would first become dirt cheap for tech workers making 2-4x their compensation. Therefore all of that worldwide demand for SF tech worker housing would need to be satiated before the market solves this problem. (See point 2.)

No, that is oversimplified. The "worldwide demand for SF tech worker housing" is actually limited. Why is this supposedly uniquely true for San Francisco and not for other places with Google offices that are more affordable, such as Atlanta?

> 6. Most tech workers don’t give a shit. They are here to hopefully make their fortune or at least get their career started in the next 5-10 years. A vibrant restaurant or working class community is not a priority. If they burn through it, it’s fine. Long term community development goals are a “nice to have”.

Don't speak for me. I absolutely care about a vibrant restaurant and working-class community. I donate to local charities and patronize local restaurants and shops. I just bought a condo for the long term. Why would I not care?

It is exceedingly annoying to be demonized as somehow less of a San Franciscan by your side because I happen to work in tech. You have no evidence to back up the assertion that we don't care; it's just a lazy stereotype.

> 7. Only reserved means-tested housing for the working class will solve this problem. This is what divides the “market YIMBY” and “affordable housing PHIMBY” political groups in local SF politics.

That is a very uncharitable way to describe the YIMBY movement. The YIMBY movement wants to maximize the amount of affordable housing, not just the percentage. The "PHIMBY" movement, by and large, refuses to adequately engage with this argument.
Most of my "non-tech" friends are familiar with Slack as a company, even if they haven't professionally used it themselves.
Even forensic science can be used questionably. Really, once you're in the court room it's entirely rhetoric and fudge-factor.
Slack tries to do this too. You have to click a few buttons to get the app to let you type in your username and password.
Would be useful to follow the conventions on here and update the title with "(2015)"

The point that always bugs me when Google Music Family comes up for discussion is that being a G Suite user with one of the original free accounts means it's yet another service blocked for me. I get that I'm lucky to have the free account, but it is frustrating how many Google things aren't workable for those in this situation.
Would adding multiple payment methods to your google payments account mitigate the risk here?
Law enforcement is permitted to do that only if they have a warrant. The question is whether they can compel you to give up a password (mostly no) or compel you to give up biometric key (unknown, but this court says no).

And it is not just an extra step. Cracking an encryption is infeasible or extremely expensive when properly encrypted.
Awesome thanks!!
That's hardly a selling point, a Java syntaxe is only nice if you have beeing doing Java all your life. Comming from a lot of other languages, it's not appealing.

What would you choose D for ? What kind of task, project ? And why D and not the competition, given the cost of learning it ?
> The resulting backlash and legal ramifications would be so huge it just wouldn't be worth it.

Everything can be explained away with "we discovered a bug that might cause your unit to record you constantly, but it's fixed now. Won't happen again, sorry!"
Is there an extension that converts news articles to basic HTML and then allows custom CSS to be applied to it?
Hugo? As in the static site generator Hugo? That sounds very interesting, I've been using Hugo at work for an internal-only facing developer 'blog'.

Do you publish the progress of this project you're working on for interested persons to keep track or should we wait until you're ready to unveil it?
Does that also opt you out of their apps too? Guessing all this does is set a cookie for that browser.
Same story from the Associated Press: Utility seeks bankruptcy protection over California fires - https://apnews.com/5e70c4c99a044c4192d7ee52e38330f2 .
I've reported your issue to Notion.

In the past, they've been quite responsive about bugs (and even feature requests).
So scanning this seems to be a summary of what's know about biological neural networks, from low to high level. It's very complex with even the lowest levels, single neurons, requiring complex models.

Further, as I understand, for each and every level here, you could find an alternate school of thought that would offer a slightly or a considerably different model.

Essentially, you reach the point where so many different human ideas have to compete in understand phenomena X in the brain that integrating them goes the mental capacity of a given human being - taking into account that every model here is going to be a very leaky abstraction.

So we basically need a computer program or interface, not even to really simulate the brain but to integrate existing models on whatever level of abstraction we're working on.

One would want something that lets one shift seemlessly between models. Essentially, a system that lets you take the information that is now contained in scientific papers and make it as interactive as a spreadsheet. Anyway, we're quite far from such a situation.
Ask HN: Best MacOS terminal font/color configuration
Recently migrated from Ubuntu to Mac and I absolutely loved the Ubuntu terminal. Any tips on what the best terminal setup is on MacOS? On all the default setups, the fonts look weird and it's hard to read verbose results.
On a somewhat similar note, president Trump recently threatened to cut off funding for wildfires[0].

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/09/trump-threatens-to-cut-off-f...
IMO coda is closer to airtable than it is to notion.
90% of the time you don't need to constantly run crap in the background scooping up my personal information, thanksno.
They do need a warrant now, although they did not used to, and obviously don't need one if you hand an unlocked phone over upon request (same as if you go along with 'let me see your backpack').

It's unlikely this ruling will be upheld since providing biometrics to unlock a phone is difficult to construe as 'testimony' since it's performing an action, like complying with a court order to unlock your front door in response to a warrant should you not desire for the police to kick said door in.

The biggest gray area currently is whether typing in a password is 'something you do' or 'something you know', and you can find different precedent to support both conclusions in US jurisprudence for the time being. Hopefully SCOTUS will come down on the side of 'something you know' if/when such a case ever makes it before them.
You are making an enormous amount of assumptions based on a semantic argument.

Echo devices only begin recording if they think they hear the wake word. Obviously this is less than straight-forward, hence the recordings that didn't follow the wake word (just examples of an Alexa device incorrectly thinking it heard it).

To suggest that a serial root console is a point of attack for an Echo device is bordering on insanity. You'd need a breakout board connected via the USB interface (not port, mind you) in order for this work-around to be effective. So yes, if a hacker had physical access to your device, time enough to solder on a breakout board, said third-party could record a variety of things.

But then, it's a whole hell of a lot easier to just install a mic in someones house and get the same effect, now wouldn't it?
Say what you will about Electron apps that use excessive resources and lack native touches, but they are definitely not “as close to painting the back of the fence as it gets.”

That Jobs-ism was specifically about caring about the internals of a product that nobody looks at, but you know are there.
Serious Sam's Demo Saved the Game from Extinction [video]
I was not aware of that. Thank you for correcting me!
what about a self-hosted gitlab instance? I can see it would fall short on a few elements but it has a great API that can be integrated with.
Perhaps just a little more complicated and nuanced than that: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-14/pg-amp...
FB's whole business model is extreme targeting of ads based on learning everything possible about people by any means necessary, including grabbing their text messages without their knowledge. FB isn't the overworked security guard, they're the bank robber.

And yes, non-transparent targeting of opposite fact claims to different voting blocks is quite different from "put a TV spot on Conan because the young people like him", not least because anybody could see the spot on Conan, and because TV advertising is regulated.
These types of "services" should be opt-in, not opt-out.
Why did you inject all the stuff about ICOs and evil Wall Street into the discussion? There are credible ways to critique the cost of IPOs without devolving the discussion by calling the SEC a "criminal organization." Your comment strikes me as more ideological than critical.
I read this as "Tinder Under Criminal Investigation in Norway Over 'Faked' Streams'. I was so confused!
Starting a company takes time. Customers aren't just going to flock to you because you put a product out. I can't tell you if you should quit or not, but if you want to know why you don't have more paying subscribers, you should try asking your existing subscribers what made them want to pay for your service, what they love about it, and what they would do if it no longer existed. I'm sure somewhere in there you will get some interesting answers that will guide your decision on how to move forward.
PG&E has been obviously negligent to any casual observer for at least the last 40 years. But yes, there is more to come.
Traffic from Google, Bing, and Facebook is easy to buy, the failure is the company for not understanding how PPC works and letting some agency run wild. A hundred things can go wrong after the ad click yet this is trying to save face by saying we should have started small and scaled and limited keywords. That's all yada yada yada, internally they didn't ask the right questions to the agency after week 1, 2, 3, 4 and analyzing the funnel. Then stop the ads, rebuild LP's, restart ppc. If the agency doesn't want to play along, fire them. Poor planning from to start to end.
Would you say that metaprogramming is an important selling point for you ?

If so, it would be a sign for me no to invest in D, as my experience is that easy metaprogramming leads to more abuse than goodies. I
I thought that polygraphs were not accepted as evidence in court, but are still used by some government and private agencies.

Also, just curious, have they been discredited as in that double-blind trials show no more than a 50/50 chance of being correct (i.e., flipping a coin)? Or is it that a high enough percentage of people will fail them even if innocent, or pass them even if guilty?

The thing I don't like about them is the method of reading them, where it is up to the subjective judgment of the examiner. That is, there isn't an algorithm that can be written down so that, for example, an untrained person or computer program can read it (and therefore be subjected to large enough random tests).
That's interesting, I didn't know that. Seemed like a few places round Hammersmith got blocked some years back but as you say maybe it's where the path diverged from the riverside more.
There was at least one scientific study, by authors who don't want it used to condemn homosexuality.

Summary: Study at the height of the AIDS death rate found that homosexuality led to shortened lifespan. AIDS death rate has declined dramatically, but there has not been a followup study.

Here's a politifact analysis: https://www.politifact.com/virginia/statements/2012/jun/07/b...

More recently, a 2014 pro-LGBT study claimed to show a shortened lifespan, attributed to prejudice: https://www.medicaldaily.com/can-prejudice-kill-you-lesbian-... though this failed replication ("No effect found") https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027795361...
If a user 'force quits' an app, don't they expect that it won't be running in the background receiving app content updates?

If I force quit an app on my computer, it no longer runs and does things.
I love Nuclino too. Their editor uses the wonderful ProseMirror (https://discuss.prosemirror.net/t/nuclino-a-lightweight-real...) by Marijn Haverbeke (https://marijnhaverbeke.nl/) of CodeMirror and Tern fame.
Oh, so when we say "alarms" we mean "background processes that occur at set intervals"?

Not literally "alarms", like the ones that ring?
Are there examples of co-operative apps or pricing? I'm interested in that as well, but don't know of any!
Agreed.

Pretty much everything in forensic science turns out to be junk science over a long enough timeline. Hair, bite marks, fire progression, all junk. There's even a few cracks in the fingerprint wall. Don't get me started on all the field test kits of various types that LEOs use.

The only things that seem to be reliable are things that don't have their roots in forensic science (e.g. using DNA to identify people) and even then you still have to depend on a crime lab (run by the people doing the prosecuting) to not be sloppy.
Well, by the time crucial services are falling apart and people are dying, getting a settlement is cold comfort (obviously better than nothing but still). This is an argument for simply not privatizing public services or alternatively, for regulating such privatized services more heavily.
I do vaguely remember seeing that in some documentation but yeah, if no one knows it exists and all you see is a generic 3.5mm it essentially doesn't exist.
> The most development in SF has happened in Jane Kim’s district who is a leading affordable housing activist.

Yeah, until Jane Kim raised the affordable housing percentage so high that the pipeline is now virtually stopped, in a bid to (unsuccessfully, I might add) try to win an election against Scott Wiener.
I think it's dangerous to conflate freedom of speech with moral relativism. Freedom to speak does not suddenly make morally wrong actions right. Ex: murder, slavery, forcible confinement, poor treatment of women and children, and so on.

I realize we are quibbling the definition of "nutbar", but my line is drawn at the extreme end, not the moderate end. It's one thing to advocate Haskell as the perfect language for building an OS (crazy talk, but I support it) and quite another to advocate violent uprising against minorities in society (a la StormFront). I hope we can agree that there's a distinction at play here.