skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right wing white supremacist terrorism is clearly international. The New Zealand shooter's manifesto contains the same grievance and fear of invasion and replacement of white people expressed by Anders Breivik, and the Squirrel Hill shooter. The POTUS likewise uses the same invader grievance, playing down right wing white supremacist terrorism saying it's a "small number of people" when asked if it's a growing problem, even though FBI considers it a growing problem and has for over a decade; while in the same statement repeats his hyping of problems on the southern border, calling it an invasion, despite ~40 year low in southern border interdiction and crime including illegal border crossing. The invader grievance by POTUS is not lost on people who study white supremacy in the U.S., nor is it lost on actual white supremacists. Nor was his entire five year racist lie of birtherism. Simultaneously with his rants about violence committed by Muslims, POTUS cut Countering Violent Extremism funds which focused on mitigation of white supremacists and neo-Nazis by de-radicalization therapy.

So the right wing white supremacist problem, at least in the U.S., has been taken seriously; but with political change it has been taken less seriously by the current administration, for entirely predictable reasons. Whether FBI takes it seriously enough is an open question, but when intelligence agencies publicly list threats to the U.S., the southern border is not on the list, but right wing white supremacist hate groups are.

There is a very real issue that until there is planning or solicitation to commit violence, right wing white supremacy is legal freedom of association, and hate speech is still protected speech, so long as it's not in the gray area of "fighting words". I think it's completely reasonable for FBI to infiltrate violence prone hate groups by paying informants and putting agents on the inside. I also have no problem with enduring warrants on leader organizers of such individuals for wire tapping. What they want is a race war. They want to destabilize the country. It's not a new thing.

ADL and Southern Poverty Law Center have been tracking hate groups for a long time, both left wing and right wing. It just so happens right now it's overwhelmingly right wing hate groups out there. And it would not surprise me if the more violent prone ones would love to see successful recruitment of left wing groups, because they can't really have a race war, or make real their romantic notions of a civil war 2.0, with just a bunch of right wing groups. They have to incite the left to attack, or they've got nothing.
Note that it's not a lack of Java. It's a lack of Java 11.

* https://supernews.freshports.org/java/openjdk8-jre/

* https://supernews.freshports.org/java/linux-oracle-serverjre...
I've brought this up before, but worth repeating: According to the book Why We Sleep, something like 30% of the population are hard-wired to be "night owls" and 30 or 40% early risers.

The author hypothesized that this may be an evolutionary survival mechanism that allowed bands of humans to always have people who were awake or more likely to wake quickly if threatened after dark or in the early morning.

For the natural night owls (I am one) the power of a slow morning is just the way we roll. I am so much more productive at 9pm than 9am, and have reworked my daily schedule accordingly.

Yes, it's hard with kids but basically have adopted a bifurcated sleep pattern - 6 hours, wake at 6:15 am, and help with family stuff and do about an hour of non-brain intensive work, and then two more hours of sleep before rewaking and restarting work in the late morning, raring to go. In the evening I can get so much done.

I have my own company, so this flexibility is possible.
Yes. Kids 1 needs to be on the bus at 722 for the other two at 830.
The packaging industry is going to fight tooth and nail so it can continue to spew out single use plastics for every single sales transaction that occurs.

There's big money involved.

Imagine the costs to the packaging industry if it was no longer allowed to create infinite garbage.

I do find it strange that there seems to be zero noticeable social pressure on bottled drink companies to stop using single use plastic bottles.
I think there is still a % component in the US anyway. It’s smaller than credit, usually <1%. But brings up Another factor, in the US anyway, getting a merchant account to process debit transactions is not an straightforward thing, especially assuming It needs to be done online. Sure there’s tons of options for credit square/PayPal/etc. But even a somewhat big apartment complex has only a couple 100 monthly transactions and it’s just not worth the hassle for the landlord. No value add on our side equals no reason to change our ways. And yes, we change high fees to discourage behavior we dislike. I charge crazy high late fees because I don’t want to be a debt collector. I actually have a thing I tell ever new tenant about how I will never bother them about payments being late because I’m not a debt collector. But they can expect a eviction notice on the N day late because that’s what the state minimum requirement. My renters are never late.
It would create infinite other forms of garbage that people throw in the trash anyway.
What is product-market fit?
While I haven't lived in China and Amsterdam, I haven't exactly deprived myself of experiences, and I'll make your 20 years worth of income this year, and last, and next.

Good for you, but I can't imagine risking my options for the later portion of my life like that.
I use an Amazfit BiP which does steps+ heart rate + sleep and lasts a month on battery. Would highly recommend to you.
We run a fairly classical elastic stack for our log aggregation and telegraf/influxdb for time series. And grafana/kibana pulling it all together.
"little-typed" and "big-typed"
I've had positive experiences with having my questions answered using chat widgets from Codeship, AppSignal, Intercom themselves (they are a chat widget provider), Datadog, Packet.net, and more.

Maybe it's specific to the SaaS space, but I tend to reach for the live chat right off the bat if I have a question. If nobody is online, usually they still get back to me by e-mail anyway, which is no worse than if I had just sent an e-mail.
Paying journalists to research and report the truth...
I'd argue you aren't "naturally a night owl" if that is the case.
Did you read today's Lunch with the FT? It's between Jo Ellison and Victoria Beckham. There's an interesting conversation in the paper on Victoria's fashion design career, and the problems she's faced along the way with branding and investment, yet she's pushing.
This seems a bit naive and shallow, also when you talk about Art are you talking in the sense of painting and drawing? Or a more general sense of creation?
The Cofounders - Developing metasystematicity in relationships
My exposure to ZFS was a nightmare. it was being used for user home directories on a HPC cluster. Frequent outages, storage offline for days for recovery. I wasn't involved on the administrative side, just saw it from the user side. It was also many years ago, no doubt it has improved.
Twice. Once with the British IRS for a change of situation and once with my internet provider for a billing issue.
"There's a real truth to the idea that you will be putting your all into any business, so if you have one that really can create an entire career's worth of wealth at once for you and your whole team, you should optimize for that."

That's the "truth" convenient for VCs. Even if a startup has a realistic shot at >> $100M exit, it doesn't automatically mean that the founders should go that route. It depends on their risk tolerance and particular circumstances. If a startup could exit at $200M with a much lower risk than them exiting at $600M, some/many founders might prefer the former route. And that still would be "an entire career's worth of wealth at once" for them and the whole team (if the team is small enough), or pretty close to that, or simply just a very very good outcome.
As a counterpoint, single use packaging is a godsend to people with food allergies.
Before the internet, parents of children with rare diseases watched them die without a doctor ever believing them.

Before the internet, gay kids committed suicide, never even knowing how they felt was normal for some other people far away from their small town.

Before the internet, if your county library didn't have it, it didn't exist.

Before the internet, you had 3 TV channels, and you watched what the advertisers would pay for, not what you were curious about.
Recursively calling the operator is an option.
So you aren't really a night person, you just don't sleep very much.
I'm amazed (and horrified) how come such an intelligent mathematician and designer of a beautiful programming language made such an obvious fuckup of using a commutative operator for string concatenation. Really, I hate python just for this single idiotic notation.

I mean, it's right there in front of your eyes. He talks about the convenience of using a visually commutative operator like "+" for commutative operations, and then a few lines later he says that it is a convenient notation for string concatenation. What. The. Fuck.
VB and Pascal were way ahead of their time.
Most bullets fired in wartime, or mines (sea or land) laid never strike a target. They can have a profound effect on behaviour.

Interestingly, that notion is one of the two uses of the word "invisible" in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. It's the very abitrarieness and randomness of consequences which is the primary mechanism of effectiveness:

Regularity, order, and prompt obedience to command are qualities which, in modern armies, are of more importance towards determining the fate of battles than the dexterity and skill of the soldiers in the use of their arms. But the noise of firearms, the smoke, and the invisible death to which every man feels himself every moment exposed as soon as he comes within cannon-shot, and frequently a long time before the battle can be well said to be engaged, must render it very difficult to maintain any considerable degree of this regularity, order, and prompt obedience, even in the beginning of a modern battle. In an ancient battle there was no noise but what arose from the human voice; there was no smoke, there was no invisible cause of wounds or death. Every man, till some mortal weapon actually did approach him, saw clearly that no such weapon was near him. In these circumstances, and among troops who had some confidence in their own skill and dexterity in the use of their arms, it must have been a good deal less difficult to preserve some degree regularity and order, not only in the beginning, but through the whole progress of an ancient battle, and till one of the two armies was fairly defeated. But the habits of regularity, order, and prompt obedience to command can be acquired only by troops which are exercised in great bodies.

https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations/Book_...

(Actually, "invisible" is used twice in that passage, vs. once in the better-known, and grossly misrepresented, passage.)
Well, that’s if you consider free speech to be hate speech. The kind of behavior I’m talking about is people posting explicitly racist memes or incitement to violence.

Even today, a flood of racist caricatures of Andrew Yang are
Flooding from
4chan onto YouTube, instagram, and twitter from maga trolls.

The reason why censorship is coming is because the trolls have ruined a good thing. We can tolerate nazi marches and extremists as long as it is off in a small discredited corner.

But when the fascists start running bots and troll armies flooding forums, making it hard to trust anything, speech has already been censored by sheer lowering of signal to noise.

If I can drown you out with online armies, I don’t need the platforms to censor you,
I just need to overwhelm you and make people feel reading the comments is useless and I will have achieved my mission.

The left might be destroying speech in academia, but on the open internet it is decidedly the alt-right and radicals that are endangering free speech.
Bananas Have Died Out Once Before
"strange typed" and "charm typed"
You can have a local virtual currency and good ol' US dollars.
The Qualcomm chips used are a few years old because there isn’t enough demand for Qualcomm to make faster ones.

So it’s WAY behind the chip in Apple watches in terms of performance.

Even if wear OS was better (never used it myself) it couldn’t compete.
How is this possible? Honest question, I've never heard of this before.
> I know people that dont do the math, and actually work to pay for the daycare

One parent staying home to avoid paying for daycare will generally permenantly depress that person’a income, long after the kids no longer need daycare. Even if you’re just breaking even on working with paying for daycare, you’ll make more money in the long run after you stop paying for daycare.
Plastic lasts essential forever - aluminum and steel do not
Here's the problem with your questions. I could answer in whatever way suits my argument and you'd have no real response. You want me to give input to your hypotheses, but I'm not going to play that game.

So instead of answering these, because your list of tasks that imply my life is deficient by your standard could go on forever, it makes more sense for you to argue whatever position you are taking directly.
I didn't think this was a controversial assertion. Most big techs have been collecting plenty of information that is non-essential for their functions.

For instance, you must have an apple account (that includes your personal details) just to get MacOS security updates. Why is that necessary if you don't intend to buy any software from the store?
Pharo is a Smalltalk distribution. I believe it's based on Squeak.
Plus, this study had 400k people in it. This isn’t exactly a small “well we tried it on 20 people” study, it’s much higher quality.
Found at least one error on the list. This claim:

> Apple's mail service silently censors the mail people send.

Is based on this article:

https://www.cultofmac.com/103703/apple-may-be-invisibly-filt...

Where one user was unable to send one email via the MobileMe web interface because of an outgoing spam filter. The Mail app worked btw, and was not "censored".

From this Stallman extrapolates censorship of all users who use Apple email.

Give me a break.
Not all forms of garbage are equally harmful to the environment.

We should enforce prioritizing producing garbage that provides nutrition to the things it passes through. Plastics do the opposite, to the extent of killing the animals mistaking it for food.
Single-used cardboard wrappings for non-perishables don't have nearly as much impact on the environment as plastic, even if just thrown away.
Looks to me like the world had mostly settled on types-on-the-right already in the 1970s, except C was an anomaly and languages which imitated its syntax in other ways often imitated that too.
> Is it common for blue collar workers to be without health insurance in the US?

Yes. More so now than in the 1980's say. Collective bargaining doesn't really work when a company can just move a factory to Mexico.

There's cobra which covers the health insurance gap up to 18 months, but you have to pay the company's rate, not the discounted rate. The downside of it is that it can be rather expensive, and so unemployed people will often forego it.
I meant to say "friends of family". Think grandparents friends at church, aunt's co-workers, etc.
Every antivirus app is a fraud. I stopped using them about 10 years now, I only use firewall and haven't got any problems. There's also some great firewall apps for Android that have logging and stuff, pretty useful.
Thanks! I'll try this out.
In countries with good waste management I assume they are burned if they are not recycled. Other containers such as paper might sometimes even be worse as it will cost more energy to produce them than plastic.
I'm no packaging expert, however we did innovate ourselves in to this mess, it seems reasonable we may be able to innovate ourselves out of it.
When everyone else is asleep it feels like i have all the time in the world.
Not if it’s intermittent / on-demand and hiding within existing traffic.
No, I'm a night person alright, but my choice to be a member of society in good standing forces me to not sleep very much.

That's the problem.
Kid #2, who still won’t sleep through the night at 6 months, pushed me into the get to bed at 10/wake up at 5:30 routine, because that’s his routine.
Yes, I agree. I love my routine and it makes me happy.

Early riser here, and like some of the night owls here, I also miss out on things. Concerts that go late are hell for me. I’ve adjusted to only seeing the ones I really care about and being fine with not catching the others.
Too much configuration to even get started!! and the fact that you can't work offline makes this setup so much worse than a regular laptop for my regular use :( I wish there was a better dev environment on the ipad already
Uncovering the Secrets of Grimrail Depot [video]
> In 1943, LeBlanc conceived the idea that became "Hadacol" in New Orleans, when he had persistent pain in his foot and elsewhere.
Things might be simpler if content aggregators had the option of making public their feed algorithms in exchange for not being responsible for user-posted content. Congress will eventually learn that automated censorship is not even close to being a solved problem, and it may never be truly solved. Whether or not automated zero-error censorship is even possible is a question for philosophers and mathematicians. I find it crazy that we're burdening companies with this job when we know so little about it.

Common sense tells us that users should be responsible for what they post. If you post something illegal, you should pay the price, not the ISP, not Google, not Facebook. If users aren't held accountable for their own actions, then they'll continue to post abominable things. It should not the responsibility of Google, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc. to provide a safety net for the user.

The internet is like a virtual highway. Some people build roads, but it is the responsibility of the rest of us to learn how to use those roads safely and in accordance with the laws. We usually don't punish the road-builders for accidents (unless the road was built with malicious intent).
The "slow morning" thing is real. No matter what, my brain does not turn on till close to lunch time. Being a morning person would make life easier in a lot of ways, but it just isn't how I'm wired.
I don't have a citation, just my memory.
I would gladly give up 70% of my salary to live in a comfortable and equitable society.
Amen. It sounds like you have a good toolset to me.
I've been trying to encourage her to do just this, but she does not always take my advice. She had her mind set on putting this behind her. She does not always make the best decisions.
I think

let i,j,k : int;

is pretty clear. Although I'm not convinced that declaring multiple variables like this should be allowed at all. Imo it's clearer to declare them seperately when they're used.

For example:

for (let i in 0..n) {
for (let j in 0..i) {
// do stuff
}
}
>If you’re using the iPad Pro in the mindset of “This is going to be my main work machine”, then you’ll be living in constant fear.

I feel like this should be the opening line, not buried in the ending notes.
I use an iPad Pro, and no, it doesn’t work as an ideal Dev machine. However it’s great for code review, as a slack machine, em, and basically everything that is outside the realm of a terminal and a text editor.
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/mit-algorithm
As currently implemented? Absolutely, it observably isn't. Why do we need middlemen preying on fear, confusion, and preventing any reasonable price discovery from occurring while driving an absolutely absurd inflation rate[1]. Please note those are monthly, not annual numbers, and some months alone hit 5%! Keeping costs down and wages up has plenty of other positive effects too.

[1] https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_health_care_inflation_rate
Your earnest outrage is not really appropriate to the tone of the article. Did you see the part about crow telephathy?
This is a market opportunity to come up with less costly systems that can operate at slim margins and with scale.

Recycling will never be the greatest of businesses. However the scale of demand in a country as large as the US is extraordinary. 5% margins at $100 billion in sales is ultimately a giant, $60-$80 billion market cap business. That's the kind of opportunity this presents for an enterprise that can quickly move to be the solution to the post China recycling problem.
Actually, I think I know a little about the etymology. There was (and is) "systems programming" and "application programming". I suspect the term "application" comes from there.
Out of curiosity, what's wrong with single use paper packaging or some other non-plastic alternative to the same effect?
I get excited every time I see an article about using the iPad Pro for development. But then it always turns out that people just use blink to ssh/mosh into another machine.

I really wish I could have native Emacs on the iPad. It is one of the fastest and lightest machines around, phenomenally lightweight and with a great battery life. It has a pretty good keyboard attachment. And Emacs even without a native shell would work pretty well (using Tramp for editing remote files).

And no, Emacs via a shell is not nearly enough. You can't get enough modifiers through the TTY, so it ends up being crippled. And no, Apple is not likely to reject it, apps with interpreters have been getting in for several years now. And even if Apple were to reject it, there is nothing that prevents people (as in, me, for example) from compiling Emacs myself and loading it onto my iPad (these are common misconceptions, so I'd rather clear them up right away).

I think I might end up funding a bounty, perhaps someone is willing to shave this yak.
In Germany you pay a deposit when you buy a bottle and when you bring it back, you get your money back. At least when I lived there the system worked well. there is always a lot of pressure from industry to go one-way though.
Agreed. Honestly I find that success in most fields is largely about branding or dumb luck. The one notable exception is the field where I found success!
Some young people may just reach that "low" range and be able to catch the unpleasant existence of a 25kHz sound source :) I was able to hear it when I was circa 13yo IIRC. But yeah, for an adult, that would be truly exceptional.
Thanks, I do. I value the ability to criticize my government whenever and wherever I please, with no fear of reprisal whatsoever. I value the ability to rip on large corporations and the powerful people who run them. I can express my opinions, insult powerful people, and question the authority of the state using whatever language I please. These are things that would get me killed or put in prison in many countries, including China.

I suspect that you value these freedoms too, even if you're not fully aware of it.
> This is derived from GPT-2-small. So we already know that the state of the art is already better than what we see here.

And there is so much that could be done. I have a laundry list here: https://www.gwern.net/RNN-metadata#improvements
this article has little or no substance
>Yes, but your popularity doesn't affect your experience of buying bread or your ability to reach a destination

Your credit score does. In some places and situations, more directly than others.
I always think this is a great opportunity for AI and Robotics. Sorting recycling automatically would be a huge improvement.

Edit: I know you are not supposed to ask about downvotes but I have no idea why this got downvoted. This would finally be an application of AI that benefits mankind instead of more surveillance for ads.