skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quote: "Perhaps the problem had to erupt as a result of the inner dynamics of U.S.-sponsored globalism becoming impossible to impose when the result is financial austerity, waves of population flight from U.S.-sponsored wars, and most of all, U.S. refusal to adhere to the rules and international laws that it itself sponsored seventy years ago in the wake of World War II."

This is one step towards the reinstatement of the gold standard, whereby Trump will remove the central banks' ability to inflate the dollar and devalue the wealth of Americans.
An error with a 200 OK status code is pretty clearly not what you _should_ do in REST.
I came here to say the exact same thing. What a despicable human being Lori Stroud is. There is an utter lack of understanding by her that people other than American citizens are humans too.

She was ‘a bad spy’ as she put it as soon as she started targeting human rights activists, children, anyone who didn’t have violent agenda (like the governments that she worked for).

This part in particular makes me sick:
> “Some days it was hard to swallow, like [when you target] a 16-year-old kid on Twitter,” she said. “But it’s an intelligence mission, you are an intelligence operative. I never made it personal.”

I hope she has trouble sleeping at night.
In the US, it feels like 50% of the movies released at a given time are based on comic books. Also “Glass” is pretty much a direct comment on how comics are structured. Basically I don’t understand the notion they’re not taken seriously here.
France regulates books prices very heavily (a.k.a it's a single price for every single distribution point), meaning there's little to no interest buying books online / at a mall (except convenience sometimes). In contrast, it allows a dense network of specialized libraries to maybe not thrive, but at least survive.

In turn, those libraries create events, participate to the cultural life of their neighbourhoods, create social links.

In the end, it makes it very easy to find a book store, get good advice, create links with sellers (I spend hours talking with the shopkeeper at my comics place), and take an interest in the medium.

So it's not really a random singularity happening there, but also in part the result of a very specific books policy. And of course, the cultural legacy is also super strong !
Yeah space shuttle was a delivery vehicle for spy satellites and space based weapon systems. Pentagon/CIA was on the design committee.
The infamous whale groups on telegram. You gotta be super careful with these, there are lots of scam. Ex: the leader of the group tells everybody to sell at 1pm, but actually himself and other get out just before and you end up the only one still holding the bag.
Ask HN: Do you search for podcasts episodes based on a topic?
I wonder whether there are more people like me that want to listen to different podcast episodes based on the topic?

I often don't care so much whether is it a podcast show I listen to if it's a topic I'm interested in. For example, I'd like to listen to different episodes on the topic of "Audio Startups".

My problem is that currently, I don't think there's a way how to achieve this. Do you have any tips?
“Netflix is just a service that packages up Americana to sell around the world.”

That just literally is the definition of cultural imperialism. If imperialism involves rule by violence, it’s just imperialism, and doesn’t take much culture.

I have no idea if a McDonalds on every street corner is actually bad. As every single commenter in this thread independently discovered, people are free to make these decisions, and sometimes there is a reason why a local speciality stayed local.

But you should really tackle the actual argument being made.
If you ever build this thing I will buy one.
I loved Robert Heinlein's books. Though I disagreed with his philosophies about women, his predictions about the future were amazing.

He predicted something similar to this, and called it S-Groups.
Like a lot of people mentioned, there are some obvious shortcomings. What I really like is all the thoughts are original ideas the author came up for this render. So many amazing little details.
Re. chemo: it was most likely radioactive iodine, taken in liquid form to destroy a thyroid tumor.

It is a form of radiotherapy.
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Maybe the reason that news are controlled by the richest families is that news is so unprofitable only the richest people can afford to provide them.
> saying we need to aggressively regulate industries and eliminate blue-collar energy jobs in favour of high-tech clean energy (both generally considered left wing policies/strategies already)

There’s 180K people employed in oil, coal, and natural gas jobs compared to 370K in solar. From a pure numbers standpoint this is just a completely farscical angle, but it’s a great example of why there is no true media bias problem, but there is a huge problem with stupid people who will believe anything and vote with fear.
I've used them for over a decade without issue, for one. But as I said, 24/7 phone support, the fact that domains are their primary business, not an addon, and that their management tools are absolutely top shelf of any domain registrar I've ever dealt with.
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One shows a miner and cop each grinning slightly. In the other, the same pair appear to be eyeballing each other. The second seems much more confrontational, to me anyway.
I'm sorry but i just find the idea quite horrifying for the children involved. On paper everything is just daises but I just don't see this turning out well if this were to start becoming a common trend.

Or maybe the human race can transcend the nuclear family, I guess we will find out soon enough.
I have very fond memories of my old Asus Eee PC 1000 netbook (see https://www.computerworld.com/article/2532501/mobile-wireles...).

I miss netbooks. It’s too bad that we let Intel and Microsoft kill them.
The best system humans have come up with to meet the needs of the farmer is capitalism. Think of all the selfish actors whose countless innovations (big and small) go into making sure peoples needs are met. The irony of capitalism is that by each individual focusing on themselves society is the beneficiary.

The farmers needs are more than met under capitalism than under any other economic system people have thought up (to date). That’s why innovation happens more in capitalist societies.

Communism, as a counterpoint, is pinned on selflessness. Think of your brothers and your sisters! Work hard and freely give away your labor, for everyone will give you their labor. Think about the good of the nation! The irony is that this system minimizes innovation and maximizes a cruel society.

Why should a capitalist society, whose individuals act for the good of themselves, have a stronger societial fabric than a communist society, whose individuals act for the good of society?

Who knows, but I certainly am not willing to throw out such a proven system just because it’s raw “selfish” focus at the micro level makes people a little queasy.
Wayland Firefox: For me, it doesn't work at all with scaling, and on another machine with no scaling, opening new window (in the sense of a new wayland surface, so that includes dialogs) could take 30-60 seconds, during which Firefox would be completely unresponsive (this was fixed in v65 yesterday).

Hw accelerated videos: some distributions (fedora, suse, arch?) have patched Chromium with VA-API support. On some GPUs, the allow_rgb10_configs raises it's ugly head though. In also works only in native X11, not in Xwayland. Other than that, it is only way to watch youtube during the more intensive compiles :)
19 days of productivity in 2019: The fails
As another data-point: My day-rates as a long-term contractor which have some decent year-on-year increases from switching clients

2012 £200 (first time programming for money)

2013 £300 (new client)

2014 £425 (new client)

2015 - took a year off -

2016 £500 (new client)

2017 £650 (same client)

2018 £800 (new client)
I only see forecast errors for hurricanes listed as the cited data. Maybe I missed the other cited sources for data measuring forecast accuracy, but hurricane forecast accuracy, which is a storm that covers hundreds of square kilometers, doesn't seem like enough data to justify making the general claim 'modern weather forecasts' are stunningly accurate.
The question is why you punish. I couldn't give a rat's ass about how harsh and cruel someone's punishment may be (in fact, I'd argue that harsh and cruel punishments don't even work), all I care about is whether that person has changed.

Louis CK for example shows no change of character whatsoever since the allegations have come out. His abuse wasn't a single "misstep", he routinely mistreated others and objectified them to the extent that he forced his sexuality on them. It's disturbing to see him return to the same comedy routine of punching down and making sexual jokes after these confirmed allegations.

I don't demand punishment, I demand rehabilitation. And if he seriously understood the full extent of his past actions, he wouldn't just carry on.

Imagine a child abuser wanting to work as a kindergardener after coming out of prison. Sure, he may have changed but not only is the US prison system not set up in any way to actively support personal change (wardens are not therapists, the change is expected to come from within or out of fear alone) but also if he has a past of sexually abusing children and understood that, you'd expect him to not ever want to risk slipping into the old habits again that led him down that path.

So in other words, abuse allegations need not be a career-ending event, but if the allegations are truthful and you claim to seek to change your behavior, don't complain if people don't trust you when you carry on like nothing happened -- especially if your abuse was enabled by a position of power.
I see these types of stories as propaganda aiming to placate younger generations into accepting a lower standard of living than their predecessors. The ones I really get a kick out of are all the Tiny Home shows popping up.

I know, I know, some people really are embracing simplicity and being unencumbered by the responsibilities past generations faced. However, what these types of stories are really saying is; sorry but because of inflation and the ponzi scheme that is our financial system you young folks are just not going to have what your parents and grandparents had so you'd better start embracing things like family cohabitation and tiny homes.

Instead of accepting this drivel I'd really like to see the gen Zers call bullshit and start demanding that they can be plumbers, electricians, nurses etc. AND still have single, detached family dwellings in Palo Alto.
Heinlein speculated about this in the book, "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress". Except they were family corporations that were multi-generational as well.
I got super curious about this, but it’s very hard to nail down price specifics.

In the 1950s, telephones were still leased, right ?

I found an article stating yearly phone service in 1979 was $350 a year, including phone lease price.

However, I would assume the cost of phone service dropped (not dollar amount, but cost based on inflation).

If we assume that the cost stayed the same (which it didn’t) we can use an inflation calculator to see that phone service in 1950 would have been about maybe $100 a year? Which would be about $1020 in today’s dollars.

I really have no back up for the accuracy of that however.

Long distance calls also seem like a huge monetary amount (as you had to get real operators involved at distance! ) that can throw that calculation into a tizzy.
So? It's the same agency. I don't know that it changed that much since 2015 when this "new" sting started.
Sounds like RuneScape too.

They even killed the official classic version not too long ago.
The Soviets knew that theory. They had mobile launchers all across the USSR and submarines on standby.

And the idea that only the president can launch nukes is false. There were contingency plans.
This concept really appeals to me, but I’m disappointed the article failed to talk at all about what could go wrong. Another comment here discussed the difficulty in decision making for big life choices, but in addition to that what happens when one of the couples falls out of love and wants to divorce? Suddenly the other couple might be expected to “choose sides” and the messiness of a normal divorce is compounded by semi-related children and communal responsibilities.
Looking on the bright side, just imagine how many divorce lawyers could be saved from unemployment!
It's the latter. Displays of all types have been able to handle multiple sources since forever. The only people who want this are sysadmins trying to troubleshoot A/V systems or plug into a server and college students who want to use a laptop as a screen for a gaming system. Neither of those groups are large or make the laptop manufacturers much profit so they're not going to be catered to by the OEMs.
I still use a fanless NC10 to run an IRC bot after a few years lent to my parents for writing emails. Removed the dead battery, replaced the disk with a small SSD and set it to power saving so it never goes above 60ºC while being completely silent. Best bang for the buck I've had with hardware.
I wonder if it would actually be better for the world to keep moving towards a common culture, assuming that culture is open enough to absorb the best parts of other cultures. There's a sense amongst the Canadian cultural elite that Canadian culture needs to be protected from American cultural imperialism, when really they're trying to preserve what's left of Britishness (at least in anglo Canada).
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How would you regulate Netflix then? The CRTC mandates that 55% of broadcasted content in Canada through traditional means is Canadian based content, with on demand streaming services I can't possibly see a healthy way to regulate this.

What about YouTube premium? They offer content more akin to traditional television, and it's very much American dominated. Is that "not really 'online'" either? Does it need the same manner of regulation that it seems they're looking to impose on Netflix?
> Such notebook is suitable for posting photos on Instagram, but not for work. At least not for mine.

Why do people feel the need to be so snide and put down what other people do as 'not work'?
Buddhism and self-deception
Not sure what I'll find to replace my T420 with classic keyboard when it dies.

What laptops do T420 users migrate to that has a non-terrible keyboard?

(I am not a big fan of the new Thinkpad keyboards)

Can I put a t420 classic keyboard on a new-gen Thinkpad? Is it a good idea?
Isn't it too expensive and heavy for daily tasks? If your work needs carry it around DC or similar, the rugged laptop is overkill.
No. What I'm referring to is systematic pressure brought to bear upon organizations such that they are afraid to hire someone who has been designated a pariah (for whatever reason).

In a tangentially related issue, as I've stated before, there is a definite problem in America with regards to ex felons who are treated like second class citizens for the rest of their lives. But that's a more complicated social attitudinal problem to solve.
The problem isn't really bad choices, it's uninformed choices.

What difference is there, in practice? The world is getting more complicated every day. The amount of information being created in a single day is more than a person could consume in a lifetime.

At some point we should ask ourselves whether it's possible for anyone to have a fully informed opinion on every issue that could ever effect them.
but you've just proved the point - the industry has shifted in favour of high tech over blue collar. I'm willing to bet that the disparity wasn't the same in the Bush era.

I don't personally think it's a conspiracy - as I said, I believe that we need to attempt to counteract anthropomorphic climate change. But the evidence does bear the idea out.

The idea that Republicans are all just morons is cancerous as fuck. And I'm British - I have no horse in that race. But seeing Democrats actively promote the idea that Republicans are white trash hillbilly redneck bumpkins with sub-80 IQ makes me really dislike those Democrats. Rather than basically claiming superiority over your political opponents, why not try to understand their position, and the circumstances that lead them to believe things different from what you believe? It's supreme arrogance to think you know everything and your opponents know nothing.
> Such notebook is suitable for posting photos on Instagram, but not for work.

There's something about that statement that put me off the entire article. Maybe the author truly is 3l337, but it just comes off as condescending. Plus, who uses a notebook for Instagram? The author managed to be simultaneously derisive and clueless.
The recent snow storm in my area, 4 days in advance they were predicting 30cm of snow. 3.5 days in advance were 25cm of now. 3 days in advanced 15cm of snow. 2 days in advanced 5-10cm of snow. 1 day in advance 15cm of snow. We got about 10cm of snow.

Sorry but that's stunningly inaccurate.
> which is about half a letter

What oddly specific unit of measurement is this?
Ironically, now that the shuttle is gone, the X-37B is closer to this vision. It hangs up there for over a year at a time doing who knows what. And it has a ridiculous amount of delta-v to change its orbit.
IQ is a shit measure of intelligence
There has also been at least one attempt at a site that facilitated this: pay the journalist you want to follow. It didn't take.
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You don't have to add a header image, but doing it no matter what seems to be the general thinking on Medium, presumably to get people's attention. See freeCodeCamp's guide on writing for them: https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-to-get-published-in-the-...

"Medium will automatically make the first image in your article its featured image. This means your article’s og-image meta property will be this image. This image will serve as your story’s ambassador everywhere: social media news feeds, Reddit, Google News — even RSS readers."

"Start considering images early in the writing process. And never publish without at least one image. Otherwise your story will be all but invisible in news feeds."

I agree the header images are rarely relevant, and I wish they weren't considered must haves.
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The instant questioning of motives has always bothered me. Starting from a position of distrust makes for poor cooperation, and lower productivity.
"US letter size" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_(paper_size)
Entertainment instantiation of the multi-parent idea... Have you ever watched Futureman (M rated comedy)? In season 2 in a post apocalyptic world family units are composed of 5 parents. Each parent has a role to play.

Your proposal made me think of that family setup. How would a multi parent family unit deal with personal relationships? In the show, every parent was “married” to each other and they collectively engaged intercourse as a group. In reality I bet people would have favorites and that would collapse the parental dynamic.
No thank you. I’d rather go to Hacker News for news.
It's specific (US Letter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_(paper_size) ) - half of which is reasonaby close to A5, but I'm not sure why the "odd" qualifier.
The problem is that you don't know whether the Shuttle is just floating there on a peaceful mission or going in on an attack run until maybe 3 minutes before the nukes are dropped. Plus the big Soviet radars were pointed towards where US ICBMs would be coming from, not south where the shuttle would come from. Getting the capability to take out the shuttle would be really hard.
BD are a perfect example of one the french biggest weakness : we have awesome things, and we don't know how to sell them.

We do that all the time. The minitel. The credit card chips. Hell the TGV should have been everywhere, and we struggle to sell it to a few countries.

We are a superpower with only 70 millions of people working a mere 35 hours a week and so many occasions to skip work. That's damn impressive.

France could really shine more, technologically and culturally.

Did you know that the biggest (in term of sheer content mass, quality is more subjective) Python blog is a french one ? I know, because I wrote it. 1k articles, 700 being about python.

But it's like being french is a curse that forces you to do great things... And let them stuck in france forever.
> I’m one column away from the round of mob opprobrium that sinks my career for good.

If that column involves you admitting to having sexually abused people, or making blatantly racist or bigoted statements, sure. But I fail to see how this is supposed to be a bad thing.

If such an event is so close to your normal behavior that you worry it might happen just about any day now, maybe you are the problem.
I've actually learned a lot about coding from my years of hacking shit together. It really is a good learning experience
It's not a publisher in the normal sense, but if you are looking for news from all sides, I have to recommend, well, allsides.com

https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news

I've found that just browsing through their opposing headlines is a nice balance.
It wasn’t a criminal trial, it was a job interview.
Doesn't have coaxial propellers option to double as a camera drone. A show stopper for me!

Seriously, this is computer nerds' version of prepping, starting with a diss at clueless commoners and gradually piling up the levels of ridiculous.
Countries don't have friends. They have interests...
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Which model? Try ECMWF on windy.com, that's usually the most accurate one for long-term.
Where such families existed, they had ties of blood to bind them. The brother who loses his job will be supported by first-degree relatives, not by people he met on Tinder-for-couples. (And even better for stability if his wife is also related to the clan.)

But it's worth knowing that such families were not common everywhere. Nuclear families have certainly been the rule in England for at least 500 years (we have good data) and likely much longer. France is the same, but Russia is different, IIRC.
It all depends where you come from, for instance if you've ever used Angular, you'll pick up Vue's syntax in one afternoon, it's super simple transition. Also to any backend programmers it will probably feel more familiar than JSX. And I also don't think it's more complex, once you learn to add those few special attributes to html. I work in React mostly but to me Vue's templates are way cleaner than JSX when it comes to writing boolean conditions, you have closing tags instead of ))})}})}} mess and any editor will know to highlight them for you, you don't have to use external libs like classnames to compose css classes elegantly, it's already built in, you can pack js and css in one component without any external libs and hacks. Of course, I'm not saying you're wrong for liking JSX better, it's simply a matter of personal taste and depends heavily on your background.
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There's a nice explanation for this in Pandas' FAQ: https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/user_guide/gotc...

Not allowing nullable type in raw integer `Series` is the least bad solution this problem. If you really want nulls in numerical data, either use floating point or `IntegerArray`.