skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the principal; I have not yet figured out what to think about laws that concern “immoral” private behaviour such as “extreme” porn (any jurisdiction, the point isn’t any particular law — Japanese, USA, UK, Saudi — but the principle).

Even if all such laws were repealed, there would still be social consequences for violating taboos.
It’s an argument that doesn’t make any sense, I’d imagine having it gets tiring.

My in-laws just went through an event like this. A sewer backed up and basically destroyed about 60% of everything they owned — everything from HVAC to clothes to kitchen.

It’s not a hazard that is likely to happen at that scale, but for the ridiculously cheap cost of that insurance it’s certainly something worth careful consideration. Getting a boiler replaced on an emergency basis in January is an expensive proposition.

Low probability, high impact risks are the best risks to insure. Home/renter insurance isn’t a scam.
As exciting as this thread is to read, it's hard for me to watch its subject change into a different one. I think the hardest aspect right now is the number of meta-level comments that are being added in replies to replies.
Preferences files tend to be pretty small; I'd be rather surprised even if a 128MB thumb drive couldn't store them all. The bulk of the space will almost certainly be consumed by other things.
150 mbps can be managed easily by an Archer C7 or one of many other QCA ar71xx based routers, which can be picked up for under $50 nowadays.

The Netgear R7800, while a bit more expensive ($150), is still cheaper than the price you mention, and is very powerful and able to handle gigabit speeds easily.
How not to start with machine learning
This really isn’t how insurance works. These are regulated industries where pricing, underwriting and actuarial models are under heavy oversight. No one at an insurance company is designing policies for you to get screwed over.

Most insurance companies are relatively low margin enterprises. Most for profit insurance companies manage to turn a 0-5% profit. Claims make up 60-75%, ~15-20% in acquisition related costs and then other expenses like r&d, servicing costs, etc. end up eating the rest. Auto insurance for example is historically a break even business or small loss on underwriting premiums for most companies.

Companies that can underwrite profitably actually help keep the premiums that consumers pay down and keep the market in check from inflating premiums.
Yes but even though you might be able to sell “act of war” insurance, like earthquake insurance it wouldn’t be something covered by a generic policy
> Was he being sexist? Or was his detractors being ableist?

No and no. He was just trying to describe pieces of his grand and overwhelming vision. The outrage generation machine that is the 99% of the press now seized on one of his comments, twisted in into something that can feed the outrage and run with it. Due to Heinz being particularly vulnerable, it had fatal consequences, which the outrage machine probably did not intend, but they definitely intend harm.

It's like punching somebody - if situation turns unlucky, it may have fatal results, though usually it doesn't. But whatever is the result, the intent for harm is clear and inherent in the act of punching. Heinz was not targeted because of his vulnerability - he was targeted because he exists and that's what the outrage machine does - targeting people. Because of Heinz's vulnerability the consequences were more severe. But the outrage machine can target anybody.

And the solution is not to figure out who is more vulnerable and dial down the outrage a little so that they don't kill themselves - the only solution is to dismantle the outrage machine.
OK, so not all churches teach this. But the Catholic church does, and that has been the barometer of western morals for 1500 years. The protestant revolution even went further, with the Puritan movement that influenced the first US immigrants so much.

We can have a discussion about how your church's attitude towards sex pushes people to commit to long-term relationships way too early, but that's a separate discussion.
>> He argues that eliminating the power of the super-rich would created would lead to America that was "the country we think we live in but don't.

A transfer of wealth from billionaires to the government is a transfer of power from one overlord to another. Different overlord. Same problems.
At this point the right solution is to just not allow applications to choose. Give each their own view of the file hierarchy but keep all the crap they spew out in a location obviously related to them from the user's view of the file hierarchy.
In this video someone mentions, "It was a really cool challenge". I think that sums it up well. It's like hitting a nail into a piece of wood with a shoe. It's technically possible if you're given the constraint and enough time, but for your own sanity you'll wish you had a simple hammer.
Report shows extreme rainfall events are connected around the world
History of Tesla in 5 min
I think you wear masks and stuff like that to protect sensitive parts
In an apartment or house fire, you've lost _everything_. Picture your bathroom in your mind and think of everything you need to replace just in that one room.

Toiletries and soaps.
Towels and washcloths.
The shower caddy and the shower curtain.
The plunger.
The cleaners under the sink.
The books on the back of the toilet.

Now do the same calculation in your kitchen, your bedroom, your family room. The couch, those chairs, a TV, your mattress and box spring and bedsheets and blankets, dishes and glassware and silverware, pots and pans, and so on. Even if you own cheap stuff, that all adds up very quickly into a loss most people can't readily absorb, even when you factor out the pile of stuff you don't wear any more and really ought to donate. I think we could inventory a lower/middle-income renter's belongings and spend $25K pretty easily.
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s life was a study in destructive alcoholism (2017)
It is the basis of the Catholic Church's opposition to contraception, and has been part of their teachings for over a thousand years now.
I’m not sure how many people, but it’s all the compiler group at HP did for the last twenty years.
>And when people complain, the devs have the gall to suggest that this is all fine.

You're complaining on a really high level and nobody suggested "this is fine". They suggested "wishlist" is fine according to their definition of "if it's not immediately broken and a fix is not trivial"

If you have an issue with default folders that are quite normal in a modern desktop environment I suggest you move back to Arch or wherever you came from and install i3 again?
Same for the default gopath. That was horrifying the first time. At least you can override it.
EdgeRouter gets pretty close running OpenWrt. And hits your mark if you keep the stock firmware. No wifi though.
https://an.undulating.space/post/180927-er_alternate_firmwar...

Maybe the Turris Omnia if you need WiFi and aren't worried about cost: https://omnia.turris.cz/en/

The NetGear R7800 would be somewhere between the two in cost, and reportedly does GB for wired, somewhat less over WiFi. Pretty easy to find used ones for $100USD too.
Netgear R7800: Again, $150 in USA, €280 in Serbia, €250 in Hungary, etc...
Some of us like to pretend that we own our personal computer, not whatever developer deigns to allow their software to run on it.
I went to an Anglican Sunday school as a kid, and was definitely taught that sex outside marriage was a sin, that sex purely for enjoyment was a sin, and that God invented sex purely and only to make babies.
> It's basically insinuating that the techniques Renaissance used are somehow unfair because Medallion has such high returns, as if those returns were anointed by God instead of the work of the people at the fund

The general assumption I've heard from friends in the industry -- which may be justified or may not be, I am certainly not qualified to say -- is that they're juicing the Medallion fund with returns from their other funds, they're just using clever trading mechanisms to effectively "launder" what would otherwise be highly illegal transactions.

The advertising mileage they get out of Medallion alone would probably make the activity worthwhile, but I'm sure the tax-free income from the Roth IRAs doesn't hurt either.
Why is 17 minutes important when the context is Mutually Assured Destruction, possibly enforced via stealth subs you can’t hit preemptively and deadman switches to detect the first strike?
WRT3200acm Or build a x86 box.
Consider the premise of pornography's capacity to motivate violence.

This is an often neglected concept. But we see it readily emerging as a cognitive awareness of real denial and promoter of outsider self image, and depersonalization.

So, individuals suddenly notice that they have no access to real sexual gratification, they are only permitted participation as distant observer. They live isolated from the inside of the fishbowl where everyone else has sex, and on the outside of the aquarium glass, desolation.

In frustration, they lash out, violently. Those invited to the party are treated fairly and receive sexual favors as rewards for status, and they are not. Due to ugliness, poverty, or some other outsider status.

This is made plain to those who only consume internet pornography, but shall never realize absurd and unattainable sexual fantasies that internet pornography might provoke.

See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Isla_Vista_killings

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incel
Not so much the source, as the destination.
I'll bite - why do you believe this is a bad idea?
I'd rather not Mediatek, I'll try to find the C7 used or brand new but opened box on ads, if not, Mikrotik...
It's not great. Everything interesting has moved to the East Bay or out of state. All that left is high rents. I've already got plans to leave in April. The only thing good that remains is a lot of the most interesting tech jobs at the larger companies like Facebook, Google, Uber, AirBnB, etc. However even those have a shelf-life because it's only a matter of time (5-10 years is my guess) because those are no longer the exciting companies anymore. If SF starts losing the future unicorns to other markets, it's only a matter of time until the golden goose dies.

Word on the street is that several unicorns are planning more and more engineering growth outside the SF Bay Area in 2019 and beyond.
no, it wasn't. I regret bringing it up now.
Rust and WebAssembly
It seems to me that distros are in the right position to nudge this in the right direction. For example, Fedora did the /usr merge, moved to systemd, wayland, etc. The great dotfile cleanup would probably work by patching all packaged software to do config files the right way, plus sending the patches upstream. Then in a few release cycles this would be more or less solved.
Google can crawl apps:
https://developer.android.com/training/app-indexing/
Does it have a GIL? If not, it's already better than CPython :-D
Unethical people come in all shapes, sizes, and ages. Youth and idealism are often associated together for a reason.
Ah yes, the old misogynist himself. I forgot about him. Which is stupid of me, because this whole thing probably starts with him.
thats not actually true. especially since the 50+ people are the "leaders". That have instructed everyone to do the unethical things. Actually in general, older people seem to be more racist, more homophobic, etc. So i'm not too sure they are magically more ethical.
I loved my week in the Bay Area. But...I prefer living around mountains and trees instead of that many people and buildings.

Remote work is the way to go.
Rotations, Orientations, and Their Representations
Hi in the new build of openwrt you can use Software flow offloading.
We have to worry about torjans now?
Just because it is designed that way doesn't mean the design isn't a problem.
The Russians have cut their military budget.

The neocons assume the Russians can’t match the US for “tactical” nuclear capability and will stay put if, say, a small tactical nuke is used against an ally.

But the Ruskies have also been very clear that they are not going to spend insane amounts of money on an arms race. They’re stance is to go for the big fireworks early on in a potential conflict.

Also, don’t underestimate their arms industry. Their GDP is low, but their PPP GDP is not. They can build a twin engine fourth or fifth gen fighter at a fraction of the cost it takes us. A lot of the research for weapons has already been paid for by the USSR. They’re the second largest arms exporter brining in cash.

Also their weapons philosophy is to favor brutal efficiency. Their ABM over Moscow doesn’t try to hit a bullet with a bullet. It just set off a nuke in the skies over Lithuania.

Finally, weren’t the sanctions supposed to have bankrupt the Russians by now? They have very low debt, huge reserves (in Au, not their adversary’s paper).

Never mind balancing the budget; we can’t even pass a budget. The fed is forced to keep interests rates near zero because otherwise interest payments on a > 100% GDP debt become ruinous.

An arms race is something no one needs
I think the Ukraine would take issue with your final claim. Along with all the counties currently sanctioning against Russia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_sanctions_duri...
my current job, I was found (via LinkedIN?)by my current manager.
I think LinkedIn is misleading as it wasn't just 'cold call' I was probably referred by by another colleague who I used to work with before.
In other words 'word of mouth' - a referral for god work ethic etc
I've had many jobs before this one, where I'd gone with sending CVs and going via recruiter etc, but this current one is a really good 'culture' fit.
If you can work with people who think in a similar way to you, that's really the best - you're spending a large chunk of your day working so the quality is really important, have 9 or 10 interviews if need be, but make sure you're a good fit.
10 hours interviewing might seem like a lot, but you'll spend more than that in the first two days of your work - the upfront cost of interviewing is to ensure you'll enjoy the rest of the ride.
good plan, worth a try :) good luck with it
We will still have ALL of the nation's leading engineers in one city / area, but no one else will be able to afford to live there. Even non-leading engineers will be forced to move out, and will no longer be able to learn from the leading engineers, lowering national productivity.

I don't know why you assume the leading engineers will move. As a "leading engineer", I don't see why I would take a $200-300k/year paycut and a less interesting job just to leave San Francisco, even though it pains me to see what the local politicians here are doing to their people.
>I was trying to think who might have deep pockets to fund lobbying against genetic testing, that's all.

I think in this case the deep pockets would mainly be on the side of selling more genetic testing, as opposed to selling less. After all the pocket holders themselves aren't being tested.
> What about the risk of your insurance company going bankrupt?

For most insurance ordinary people would have, except possibly life insurance [1], coverage comes into effect fairly soon after you pay your premium. If your current insurance company is showing any signs of insolvency, you should be able to switch to someone else and get covered.

If there were no warning signs that your insurance company is in trouble and they unexpectedly go bankrupt, but at a time when you don't need to make a claim, you can quickly switch to someone else.

If they go bankrupt and you are making a claim, it should be covered by your state's guarantee fund. Insurance is a regulated industry, regulated by the states. Part of that regulation includes the state establishing a fund paid for by the insurance companies that is essentially insurance that the insurance companies can pay claims.

If you pick a large, diverse insurance company, probably the only real risk that they might unexpectedly go bankrupt at a time when you need to make a claim, and the state guarantee fund might not be able to cover it, would be during some major widespread disaster that causes severe damage over a wide area. You might be screwed then, although there will probably be some kind of Federal disaster recovery aid available then.

[1] I have never looked into details of life insurance so am not sure how that works.
What books do you recommend on bronze age in general and greek bronze age in particular? There doesn't seem to be much material available. I have a book on Linear B queued up for later reading.
Get over it.
I felt videos 2 and 3 were the most helpful parts of the article. I wish more science/tech articles could rely on graphical/animated explanations. After all, they do speak a thousand words.
> If they don't, but you advocate for it anyways because don't care about hurting a specific class of people that don't "deserve sympathy", that makes you quite a mean-spirited person.

Let's not gloss over the fact that the specific class of people who are "hurt" are the ones causing the hurt. If they only collected data they needed and secured the data they did collect, the regulation wouldn't be needed in the first place.

It's not mean-spirited to expect people who have widely profited from collecting bulk data to foot the bill for securing that data.
We didn't always have the XDG standards, they were bolted on later and consequently a lot of devs ignore them.
It means state within a state. Origin of the term is in 1990s Turkey. Military, police and justice system were upholding national interests and acting independently from the government.

Deep State is a form of clandestine government made up of hidden or covert networks of power operating independently of a nation's political leadership, in pursuit of their own agenda and goals.
There’s a mix of overpaid software people and the weird tech libertarian-ish attitude towards many issues. Just roll with it.
>As long as Russia is a paltry market with a tiny sphere of economic influence, China will always face the US.

A paltry market with a tiny sphere of economic influence... and a military. Despite being third world countries, Iraq and Afghanistan have caused $2.4 trillion in economic damages to the US[0]. Unless you are China, your best bet at subtracting value from the US economy is to get the US involved in a war. Further, as the Ukraine almost showed us, the war doesn't even have to be on your own soil.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_cost_of_the_Iraq_War
I use ubuntu 18.04 (kde) and my snap folder is /snap

I don't know how I did this.
Sure, but just try to make career progress in a flat organization.
> why do the interests of one particular interest group weigh in larger than the well-being of everyone else?

then, if I interpret this correctly, Friedman's idea truly was that laid-off steelworkers "take one for the team"
>You need to coordinate bringing up defensive weapons with retiring offensive weapons in a way that preserves some strategic balance, and if one side doesn't have the right sort of defensive weapons, or a good place to put them.

I find it fascinating that the treaties and the rhetoric around these treaties is a big fat middle finger to other countries. "Russia was strong once so they deserve to be treated like that." All the smaller countries inbetween are rendered unimportant and their defense doesn't matter.
This was a bigger problem in the earlier days of OS X (I even created a "Actually My Documents" folder inside the Documents folder to work around it), but now I'm down to two offenders - Adobe and DVDFab.
I think the bit that struck me as uncivil was "You seem genuinely confused about the nature of reality."
That doesn't really surprise me. It just strikes me that the level of knowledge/skill necessary to manage that isn't all that great.

It especially confuses me that people want people to "learn" serverless functions. Serverless functions are just like normal functions, except with a library to use for communicating with the outside world!

If I was hiring, then I'd be asking people about VPCs, IAM roles and Security Groups. Those seem to be the complicated bits that you need to understand to do pretty much anything. The service-specific APIs seem relatively simple...
NeXT won the desktop

Really? Mac OS has maybe 15% desktop market share.
They did that here. They lost 1 part of the key and now can't access anything.
So just end all discrimination and stigma? That's just a little unlikely.

Even then there will be innocent things some would prefer not to share globally, or be used as a basis for profiling.
It's for Apple consumerist soyboys for monkeying true techies and for persuading everyone that their toddler OS is a Unix - in the same way as Android is a Linux.

Who wants to use a normal package management system uses FreeBSD or Linux.
Remember that Homebrew uses Google Analytics by default unless you explicitly disable it.
What I understood from your post is you don’t want an area full of product managers, data scientists, and software people, but you’re very content in an area that replaces them with Jewish people?

I think everything you said is entirely subjective. I would personally rather be surrounded by techies than people of a particular race or religion, as long as these people come from different genders, races, ethnicities, or beliefs. To me, that’s much better than being near a large Jewish population or Arab population or white population or people of ${preferred_religion} here.
Calling into and out of C (whether dynamically or statically linked) isn't the hard part; the hard part is implementing the somewhat arbitrary interface against which C extensions are written in a way that is functionally compatible with CPython without losing the advantages of not being CPython.
PA-RISC was my favorite from that time. If it had the software stack of Sun commercial Unix might still be a thing.
There was a discussion of this company the other day and the suggestion that unlike the other outperforming hedge funds that turned out to just be insider trading, this one is real and they are just that smart. I am skeptical; they do not have a monopoly on brains. What they do have is some shadiness in their history:

http://wallstreetonparade.com/2014/07/senate-renaissance-hed...

I am sure there is more like this waiting to be uncovered.
Just anecdotal evidence, but I don't find this to be true at all. 20-somethings around me need less the money that older people (they are well paid, no kids, no mortgage, no old parents to support, no car...) and are more idealistic and critical of the system.
If you and yours are vaccinated, what would that matter?
Agreed, this looks like a great project!

Grumpy was supposed to accomplish the same for Python->Go, and although now abandoned, probably holds some lessons in how to design a platform to help Python projects get Rusted.

Grumpy compiled python code to fairly unreadable Go, and then quickly compiled the result. One effect of this is that a programmer could theoretically refactor the resulting Go code gradually.
The Startup-Problem-Paradox and How to Beat It
Jython is however stuck with Python 2.x compatibility only as far as I know (I'd be happy to be proven wrong).
That's how sandboxed apps (=app store apps) on macOS work. They can only access files and directories that the user has explicitly selected (through the system file dialogs or drag and drop)