skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've generally avoided tropical species exactly as you say, but after having decent luck with some of the "you can't kill this" plants (zz plant, sansevieria, some ferns/aloe/simple cacti) I figured I'd throw a wider net.

Unfortunately our house both gets _very little_ light and is often quite cold so that already precludes a lot of options. Some day I'd love to live somewhere that allows the "room full of giant bushy plants indoors" setup.
Not TAOUP specially, but the Jargon file is what ESR took loads of things as wrong or Unix related. Also, at TAOUP you have Emacs, which is the Anti-UNIX by definition.
https://www.dourish.com/goodies/jargon.html
It does take some nerve to present paying women and PoC less for the same work as somehow working “against discrimination”.
Cleveland Museum of Art releases 30k images from collection into public domain
> The left-progressive use of the word 'bias' is completely different than the way statisticians use the word.

There's lots of words people use that don't match up with exact scientific definition. Infer from context which version applies, or ask, and you'll be fine. Also applies to: force, resistance, acceleration, etc. We know that startup accelerators help companies grow faster and not actually increase their physical velocity.
> You can literally make a 500K+ a year.

People need to stop repeating this nonsense as if everyone makes that much. A very small percentage makes that.
Nissan can make a profit selling an entire car for just over $10,000. Let's say that a large carmaker like them can figure out how to build the entire rest of the car at a viable margin for $10,000. Then we should be able to see $20,000 EVs.
Typical car manufacturing cost breakdown https://www.quora.com/How-much-does-it-actually-cost-manufac...
"Systemic" doesn't even have to be left/right though, that's the point. It can simply be well-meaning people that keep ignorantly doing things they way they did before, unaware that their system has racist/sexist impact.

I don't know what you mean by social engineering, by the way. I've only heard it in the context of hacking, like calling customer support and pretending to be someone else to try to get their mother's maiden name or whatever.
Same here. I'm the tech lead responsible for cloud infrastructure at a company with a large cloud presence, and have been doing this for years. Google has better technology in a lot of ways, but awful customer support and even customer treatment. A billing glitch on their side tore down all of our infrastructure and data at a previous employer, without so much as a "we're sorry". With AWS, if such a thing happens, you have an email from your account rep.
More like the orthogonality thesis, I think. These different value axes are totally unrelated, and building an algorithm that maximizes one does not necessarily mean that it maximizes the others as well, and this mismatch can have disastrous consequences, a la "The Paperclip Machine"
> Naming a PL "Julia" is sexist and creepy

How? (I kind of assume that a big reason computer scientists would pull out that name without a specific referent in mind is the influence of the Julia set, named for Gaston Julia.)

> The language doesn't add any substantial value to PL theory or programming methodology compared to say, Python

Maybe; not all practical benefits in programming come from advances in methodology or PL theory.

> The future of computer-human interaction is not in programming.

I've been hearing that since the early 80s. When someone makes that future reality, we can discuss what it requires, until then programming is what we have and I'm glad it wasn't neglected for the last four decades, and I hope it won't be for the next however many it takes, either.
Agree with this, I wonder some times if the top 50 schools put on their entrance requirements "We prefer students who have spent there early youth camping, playing energetic games with friends, and pursuing exploratory activities." If that wouldn't create an entire cottage industry of 'get kids out of the house' services.
When I read about that, I lost my mind. People who give their banking creds to someone who isn't their bank are insane.
You can only develop IOS apps on Apple products, apple does not offer a matte display. The argument only holds true if Apple offered a matte display and developers still chose glossy.

No for sure there are people who want MacOS -- but again those people don't have a choice if they want a Apple they get gloss. So the argument does not hold.

People buy apple despite glossy screens, not because of glossy screens.
> It would create more opportunities for people already here, and increase demand for education that leads into this career.

You're wrong on both counts, because the economy is not a fixed-size pie. Higher education benefits a lot from foreign students paying full price.

This is fairly settled economics.
That seems high. My local Costco is $70 and I've walked by Walmart where they advertise exams and I don't believe it's $250...

I also know of instances where you get charged more if you have insurance, just because the provider knows they can get more money.
Perhaps even more apropos to your point is the Underhanded C Contest:

http://www.underhanded-c.org/
I don't even know any developers that work on matte screens. What problems are we supposed to have in the real world?
Ask HN: Are you limited in what language you can write in at FAANG?
Hello I was having a discussion with a friend and found that one of my assumptions about how FAANG companies tend to operate may actually not be true.

Hoping someone from Facebook or another could comment.

Each tech company has it's preferred languages - but I'm wondering how strict those guidelines are and how far they extend. If you wanted for example to write a microservice or script in Ruby at Facebook would you be allowed to? Or are the guidelines more strict for what languages you're allowed to use?

Thanks in advance for taking the time to read / respond.
literally dripping in it
I once encountered a situation where a particular projector would only work when connected to the right hand side of my 13" MacBook Pro (2016) - so it's not true to say that devices don't work.
They need to LeetCode and go work elsewhere, if they want to come back then Oracle will pay them market rates.
>Reminder, if you're in the US, the FTC says your eye doctor must give you your prescription after your exam. If a doctor refuses to do so, they can face legal action and penalties.
https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/2016/05/buying-prescriptio....

That said, I don't think the FTC stipulates what information must appear on the prescription. Many docs leave off your PD (pupillary distance), which is a necessary measurement if you're buying online. Fortunately, there are a variety of easy ways to take this measurement yourself after the exam, although if you're really concerned about precision, you'll want the doctor's measurement.

The doctor will leave off prescription information on-purpose? WTF?

I'm not sure what bizarro system the US has with opticians and buying glasses...

On a trip in the US I broke my glasses. I had to get a replacement, but I was in rural country, and it was a weekend. Now, even though there were shops selling eyewear open, I couldn't just get a pair, because they wanted a prescription from a doctor (I think I went to a Walmart, whose doctor that takes prescriptions was off for the weekend among other places).

In my country you can get a prescription on the spot at any shop selling eyewear (perhaps our law dictates that any eyewear shop has an optician in employment -- but any assistant can also take a lens of your old glasses and get the measurements). In any case, a prescription test costs nothing, and you can buy single use contact lenses with that immediately, or get the glasses in a couple of days.
People that stare at the screen all day long are sophisticated enough to know that a matte screen is just better.

"The group I'm conveniently in is more sophisticated." Mmm, hmm. Matte screens suck because everything is blurry and smeared. I mean, if your work/life balance is out of whack and you have to work in moving vehicles, I could see the need. But professionals that work someplace other than sweatshops prefer glossy screens with sharp pixels.
> Oracle pays its long-term employees less than newjoiners, that is no news.

Is your choice to conflate "interns out of college" with "joiners" deliberate? Interns are a very special class of joiners and seeing them earn more than experienced professionals in similar roles is surprising, and is news - at least to me. Yuck.
I... can't form a coherent response. How do you even know which prescription to get? Do you have astigmatism? How do you measure that?

It's not a scam. It's just overpriced in the US, because they can't get their stuff together in the health department.
Note that aggressive tactics are not as effective when women do them. We also have studies that state that women who attempt to be assertive similar to men are not received as well as men. So women are disadvantaged because there is no way to ask for a raise or negotiate as effectively as a man in the general case.
> CGRP has been shown to activate the mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs), which are phosphorylated in some tissues following CGRP activation. This can lead to the proliferation of gingival fibroblasts (215), via PKA-dependent and -independent pathways (214). CGRP can protect cultured vascular smooth muscle cells from oxidative stress-induced apoptosis by a signaling pathway involving activation of extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 (ERK1/2) and p38 MAPKs (354).

(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4187032/)

To simplify, migraines are a result of oxidative stress, and CGRP helps reduce oxidative stress. Seems a bit reckless to me to be decreasing CGRP

Anecdotally, while I've never had a proper migraine (but my mom does occasionally), I used to get terrible headaches. I've completely eliminated this by eating an anti inflammatory diet and taking a collagen supplement. Glycine is the main amino acid in collagen, many (most?) people are deficient, and is used to make glutathione, you body's natural antioxidant and detoxer.
In fairness though, if you want a politics version of HN, you can just make your own. I think there are a large number of flags required to get a post removed from the front page. So, to me, it sounds like there are a lot of tech, math, science types who are just not interested in posts that they feel "pollute" the stream so to speak.

I mean, again, if we're being fair, those guys should get as much of a say as you do.
Hoare formulated the problem in Communicating Sequential Processes, using spaghetti and two forks. See page 55.

http://www.usingcsp.com/cspbook.pdf
That's true too, yes. I just think it's interesting that malicious intent isn't required. I think it helps to talk about it too - if you can approach the participants and assume good faith, allow them to believe that you believe the output is completely unintentional, then maybe it will be easier for them to agree to change their system.
UK and other Member States always had the right to decide for themselves with regards to immigration (movement between Member States was the only thing the EU influenced, and that was not up to Merkel or any head of state)
That's insane! $349 I could buy like 10 pairs at any other online store with the upgraded coating.
A lot of people rationalize racist or discriminatory beliefs in such a way that they seem reasonable. Yet, when you judge their behavior as a whole, it tells a different story. The banker who consistently gives loans to people from [group x] but not from [group y] who have similar financial features. When we talk to the hypothetical banker, they may claim that "numbers don't tell the whole story", etc.
It does. That's the problem.

Take an 18-year old with a red Mustang and a 58-year old with a midlife crisis and a 3-series. Both drive like assholes. Both will inevitably cause an accident.

The latter is more likely to be wealthy enough to be able to pay cash for repairs and keep the entire incident off the radar. No insurance claim, no citations, no evidence. The 18-year old has no choice but to make an insurance claim, go to court and take points on their license.

Can we truly conclude that 18-year olds with red Mustangs are worse drivers than their elder counterparts?

(And yes, I realize that in the case of insurance, it's in their interest to minimize claims so in that context this is a valid conclusion. But this same skewed data gets shared outside of the industry as well.)
It’s nice to make this just another problem with ‘American isolationism’, but I’d say this is true in the U.K. too after years of pedophile scares in the media.
I do not understand why the US (and Germany, which switched only a couple years ago to TETRA, as one of the last countries in Europe) took/take so long to encrypt EMS communication.

I get the argument that people have a right to information - but at what cost? The data that is spoken on open frequencies is incredibly private: names, addresses or what a person is suspected of having done, or which car belongs to which person (=transmission of license plate, followed by the name on the driver license). All out in the open, ripe for all kinds of abusers to be harvested just like arrest data. Not to mention that criminals can also take advantage, e.g. by having one or more dudes off-site who simply listen to the police comm to inform if and how much police will be responding to a bank robbery or a theft.

And if you want to see examples of how this fucks up peoples' lives, just read this article or dozens more about such schemes: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/05/1...

Fun fact: a friend and I used to listen to German police years ago. You didn't even need a scanner, just an iPod with the FM radio receiver and the region set to Japan so that the lower FM radio ranges could be listened to (which happened to match with part of the EMS channel range). We picked up all kinds of shit ranging from addresses, names and plates to tactical information (e.g. during a knife stabbing). Now we just laughed our butts off when they announced to dispatch they're logging off for grabbing a burger, but if we were evil we could have done a lot of damage to innocent people.
Replying to a bunch of absolutisms with another bunch of absolutisms. How ironic
I think some of the price increase is also because of the different CPU options. In general their Precision line should be a lot more configurable.
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I am a big fan of RMS and his remarkable prescience. However the logic he gives here for using other people's mobile phones seems a bit suspect:

> To surrender my freedom in this way was failing to defend a free society. This is why I do not have a portable phone. I refuse to carry a portable phone. I never have one and unless things change, I never will. I do use portable phones, lots of different ones. If I needed to call someone right now, I would ask one of you, “Could you please make a call for me?” If I am on a bus and it is late and I need to tell somebody that I am going to arrive late, there is always some other passenger in the bus who will make a call for me or send a text for me. Practically speaking, it is not that hard.

Isn't this a little hypocritical, relying on other people carrying a mobile phone when he refuses to? OK yes, they have already made their own choice to carry one but he appears to be making use of their privacy limiting choice to protect his own privacy.

Not meaning to attack RMS in this comment, who as I said above, I admire. I know he's done a lot to advance and protect other people's freedom. Just questioning his logic in this instance.
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You can buy a T480 from Lenovo with 32GB of RAM.
The problem is some times things look good on paper, but those good attributes don't translate into user satisfaction.
Verizon Media Group is laying off 7% of its staff
People would still manage to spin these into highly competitive activities that constantly need to be monitored and controlled :-(.
As I understand it, Asians are "underrepresented" at Harvard relative to what they would be if Harvard judged candidates based on SAT scores, scholastic achievement, and other seemingly-objective-and-reasonably-sensible metrics. They're "underrepresented" relative to the pool of candidates who are qualified to be at Harvard. But they are "overrepresented" compared to the general population of the United States. Which comparison is the right one?
> I am terrified of Microsoft going this route, since they make my OS of choice

So change your OS. There are dozens, hundereds even, of options, or you can roll your own.
College hires make more at Microsoft than experienced people as well. These companies need to pay closer to top of market for the experience level to prevent losing new hires to other companies.
Raising kids in Japan means that you’re raising them in a culture that has an alarmingly high youth suicide rate [0], and that your daughter taking the subway on her own is likely to be sexually assaulted [1].

And since the original link is about quality youth playtime, let’s not forget all the hours spent at cram schools in the evenings and weekends if you want a shot at a decent university.

I’m not a big fan of the US either when it comes to parenting/educational trends, but there’s no silver bullet.

(Unsurprised by the downvotes, given how fetishized Japan is in the West and how most are incapable of looking at the country through a critical lens)

[0] https://www.humanium.org/en/child-suicide-in-japan-the-leadi...

[1] https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/03/sexual-as...
Yeah, I'm really happy to be protected from all those hardened criminals they've been keeping in baby jail. That's exactly the kind of thing I want to support in my federal agencies!
I see it in the opposite way. A laptop with a glossy screen can be re-positioned to avoid strange lighting. While my desk, and my monitor have little mobility. When the sun comes down I like my matte desktop screen because it does not reflect any sun that might be coming in from the windows.
If you have 'scratch proof' lenses there should be a warranty on lenses regardless of manufacturer. Industry standard is either 6 months, 1 year, or two years, and that is probably the greatest value in comparison rather than the nominal difference between hardness. Also any good optician will only say 'scratch-resistant'.
It is a real shame they use the Killer (Atheros) WiFi. The developer edition used to have an Intel WiFi - have they changed that?

That said, I haven't seen any issues with Killer WiFi (XPS 15 9570 with Ubuntu 18.04.01), but I do have an Intel WiFi card if the Killer needs to be replaced.

Also I do use a USB3 to Ethernet adapter at work (I have always prefered a wired connection for work when available).
I think browsers is what regressed the most.

I used to be able to open 3 Twitch streams in 720/1080p back in 2010 on a dual core Athlon X2 5000.

These days, if I open 2 HD streams in Firefox on a 4.2 Ghz quad-core 4670k, the system essentially freezes - the browser becomes unusable and both streams lag. Thank god for streamlink that lets you bypass the browser interface and view the streams in VLC or MPV.

Not to mention Electron-based apps using 600-800MB for a chat program with some light jpeg usage.

Developers' blatant disregard the the use of user's system resources is insane. It seems that regardless of hardware improvements, the modern developer only targets "acceptable" levels of performance, leaving power users frustrated.
>You can only develop IOS apps on Apple products, apple does not offer a matte display. The argument only holds true if Apple offered a matte display and developers still chose glossy.

Or if the iOS thing is a red herring, and tons of developers still buy Apple products regardless.

I'm not an iOS/macOS developer and still use Apple products (and just about everybody else in my company). And in most dev conferences for totally unrelated stuff (Golang, Rust, Java, etc.) the number of MBP yielding devs is 50% or most (and most of the speakers even more so).
I happen to think that immigration and customs enforcement is a net positive.

I guarantee those people would be as well if they were effected by it personally. If you're not personally doing the kind of jobs an illegal immigrant can do for less, then you can only benefit - it lowers the cost to you for many things in your life. As a bonus, you get to pretend that makes you a good person.

An episode of South Park addresses this brilliantly, though people conveniently only remember the first part. Time travellers from the future come into South Park and take all the menial jobs. The blue collar americans yell "they took our jerbs!" Randy - a geologist - admonishes them as racists, until he finds out his own white collar positionhas been given to an alien, and then he too is complaining about how they took his job.

The day the wealthy Californian tech companies start hiring illegal immigrant developers at a lower cost is the day the echo chamber changes its tune.
Are they all using Apple?

- Glare for one, never had a glossy screen not be horrid with glare.
Your higher rate makes a bit of sense. The worst problem is the small sample size. If everybody crashed a minimum of 100 times, then the risk estimates would be much better.

The fact that you were hit is influenced by your risk factors. For example, maybe that is a bad intersection, and you always drive through it. Maybe it really is just the other driver being bad... but he and you happen to leave for work every day at a reliable time, making it likely that you will encounter him again. Maybe your car is hard to see. Determining "not at fault" is a fuzzy thing; perhaps a better driver would have somehow avoided the crash. The number of miles you drive is an influence on the number of crashes you get, and perhaps you drive more than is typical.
> One progamer who did it in competition was criticized for being disrespectful toward his opponent and viewers and lost his tournament seed as a result.

..what? Thats an absurd consequence -- sc/2 has a hundred different ways to rush, and they all come with the note: if it works, you win, if it doesn't, you're dead. And everyone accepts it. What's so special about drone rushing that it'd receive such consequences?

I mean hell, there's Has specializing in cannon rushing and goes damned far; but drone rushing? No, thats just too much!
Nowhere did I say that all public interest organizations are positive. Just that in the specific example of OP of air quality they are vs a corp would most likely want to pollute if anything.

Not understanding that is indeed rather dumb.

> Our immense prosperity is due to megacorps, not public interest organizations.

"Nearly 80 percent of American workers (78 percent) say they're living paycheck to paycheck".

I think those people would disagree with you.

P.S. Why do you think there's lack of will among politicians to implement single payer, despite it being majority popular and implemented by practically every developed and developing country in some form?

Why is there no sick leave, maternity/paternity leave in America by law?

Could it be that corporate players don't want these things? Hmm...
My favorite identity provider of all time is https://auth0.com

I was very impressed by their rules concept [1] that allowed me to create quite non-trivial authentication scheme in one day from scratch [2] They also pay attention to development workflows by having great logs and debugging tool chain as a part of their service, very cool!

[1] https://auth0.com/docs/rules
[2] https://gravitational.com/blog/aws-github-sso/