skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My issue is the article doesn't once mention this as factor at all. I also object that one needs racial animus to have racist policies. "I've got no animus towards blacks, I just don't want to share large chunks of civic life with them" is racist. Blacks wanted to move to the suburbs due to lack of city & civic infrastructure in black neighborhoods - as the whites fled; so did polling stations, hospitals, banks, stores, and good quality drinking water. Lending policies for mortgages were explicitly racist; and many neighborhoods tried (successfully!) to prevent black people from moving in and "ruining the suburbs too!".

Also, rewinding only a couple of decades from civil rights legislation; denying blacks the vote, school entrance and outright lynchings in the hundreds qualifies as pretty strong racial animus. It's naive to argue that the same society & people "had no racial animus in mind" when choosing where and how to live.

I've always thought of gentrification as more of an economic class issue (which so often corresponds to minority status). In Boston, a lot of poor and middle class white neighborhoods get gentrified as well - nonetheless I take your wider point that gentrification is often a positive force for urban renewal; and I agree. One counter-example: Hudson Yards is the 1% being gentrified with the 0.1%, hard to argue helps the urban fabric with its non-human scale.
It's great to hear a project valuing the poetry and art in code as well as efficiency and other design goals. Committing to maintaining the codebase as something beautiful and interesting to work on must have a huge impact on maintainer happiness and overall longevity of a project.

> We optimize for joy. We believe writing code is a lot of hard work, and the only way it can be worth is by enjoying it.
And cats destroy local bird and wildlife populations. They don’t discriminate on what they hunt.
OpenTable should be replaced with an, er, open API standard.
Gardeners World
I think these are pretty obtuse use-cases these days for the vast majority of people. I also manage videos and things but I do it via the cloud like most people. You may disagree with a that but it explains why they went that route - it wasn't a case of them not thinking.
Most acceptable use policies (or information security policy or employee handbook) point out that employees must presume that the company does monitoring of the employee's communications.

Further, some readings of the ECPA (Electronic Communications Privacy Act) indicate an obligation on the part of the company to monitor.
>The way in which public considers science today is much more analogous to the way the public considered religion during the time of Galileo.

I wish. In the US a huge number of people (large enough to be dangerous) reject climate change consensus, think that evolution shouldn't be taught in schools, are "skeptical" about vaccinating their children (I use quotes because skepticism implies reasonableness), think that the earth is 6000 years old, or think that abstinence-only sex education is effective. Blind adherence to current scientific consensus (whatever that may be) would be better than the hot mess is going on in the US right now. Not enough people in the US actually believe in scientific consensus in general for this to be a significant problem yet.
TV, hell just listen to music that has been popular in the inner cities and the shows that came along on the likes of MTV glorifying it. the music industry if you have not noticed has been strangely immune to the whole #METOO movement and for good reason.
This is a stupid comparison. How can BBC claim with a straight face that India has the world's cheapest mobile data when access is sold by the gigabyte and other countries have truly unlimited mobile data?
>Fines can be far more beneficial to society. Make them pay in a way that actually helps other people.

How exactly?
Or they can just have their own backup solution for a lot cheaper. 8TB = $140 on Amazon.

1 petabyte = 125 drives = $17,500 (one-time cost).

It will probably cost more to connect all these drives to some sort of a server. Though 125 is within the realm of what a simple USB should be able to handle (127 devices per controller).
> It's shocking to me how this article fails to mention even once that a lot of post WWII suburbanization was due to white flight.

I've never really understood this explanation of suburbanization.

Suppose you're a bunch of racist white folk wanting not to live near black folk. How do suburbs get you that any better than cities? What can you do to keep a black person from moving to your neighborhood in the suburbs that you can't do to keep them from moving to your neighborhood in the city?

It seems more like two phenomena that happened to occur at the same time rather than one causing the other.

Especially when at the same time the government had an explicit policy of encouraging people to move out of the cities, to reduce the damage that would be caused by a nuclear weapon.
Honestly one of the bigger potential benefits of self-driving cars would be the decreased need for parking and resulting increased density.
Is there a particular edition of the Gilman Rose book you would recommend?
So then the restaurant doesn't want your business. You aren't willing to pay the cost to use their services.
Here you go. That was news from a budget proposal on March 16, 2017

https://www.space.com/36090-trump-2018-nasa-budget-request.h...
There is nothing to gain, as such. They became suspect because of their association, however remote, with the founder of Panthera:

A letter seen by National Geographic sheds new light on how PWHF staff became concerned with their cheetah conservation work getting derailed by politics in the months before the arrests.

The letter, dated October 17, 2017, was addressed to then chief conservation officer Luke Hunter at the big cat conservation organization Panthera, which occasionally provided technical assistance and sent experts to Iran to work with PWHF as part of the Conservation of Asiatic Cheetah and Its Habitat Project (CACP), funded by the UN and Iran’s Department of the Environment.

It voiced “alarm and consternation” regarding comments critical of Iran made by Panthera chair and co-founder Thomas Kaplan, a billionaire investor, businessman, and philanthropist. The previous month, Kaplan had spoken at the summit for United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), the lobby group he helps fund and which counts among its board former members of U.S. and Israeli intelligence services. Although Kaplan was not speaking in his capacity as Panthera chair, the letter suggests the Iranian researchers were worried that being associated with an organization linked to someone publicly criticizing Iran could be problematic for them.

UANI advocates “the economic and diplomatic isolation of the Iranian regime in order to compel Iran to abandon its illegal nuclear weapons program, support for terrorism, and human rights violations,” according to its website. This summit was the first public show of Kaplan’s support for UANI.

It looks like the PWHF people themselves realised the risk of such an association early on.
I like lightning port, it's pretty natural compared to USB-C. Male port which could break on cable, female port which won't break on device. USB-C seems like very fragile decision, so it's only good that they don't abandon their better port. That said, they should definitely ship all necessary cables, it's really strange that they trying to save tiny money on premium product.
More and more of this has been delegated to the manufacturers themselves.

They simply assert to the FAA that the aircraft meets the type requirements.

Boeing showed the FAA their test results, said that with MCAS the aircraft meets requirements, doesn't require extra training, and the FAA took their word for it. Authorities in most other countries trust the FAA, so they took their word for it too.

That's an oversimplification, but more or less what happened.

As to whether Boeing was deliberately deceptive, we'll probably find out in due time as investigations have begun and subpoenas issued.
> In the US a huge number of people (large enough to be dangerous) reject climate change consensus

You just proved the parent's point...
You seem to think that "religion" means "blind adherence to something", which is really, really narrow. Is COBOL a religion?
> When was this? Being owned by Yahoo, I am surprised they don't use NetApp.

Dell used to offer an online backup service. It wasn't even running on Dell equipment!

Basically they acquired a company that offered the service, and while it would be "nice" if a Dell company ran on Dell gear, a lot of the time it's simply impractical/expensive to overhaul things.
As someone that historically relied on an iPad Mini for media consumption on the many weekly flights I take, it is not realistic to download 10+ GB of content directly onto the device. Especially since I don't use Apple's ecosystem of media and generally rely on my own, I find myself using the VLC app to watch content that is loaded via iTunes and its ability to load files as you would any other document app.

The "use case" of connecting your devices to your computer is still alive and well, despite being in the era of cloud.
In practice, Smalltalk methods tend to be very short. Having too many "callbacks" (really it's just asking Block objects for their value; the "lambdas" here are just objects too) is an issue of how you are designing things. A lot of if/else stuff is avoided simply by taking advantage of the kinds of polymorphism Smalltalk allows in the first place.
Which makes the article’s claim that prices will go up even more unlikely.
> Looking at it from another angle, I've got a suspicion that continually moving your hand from a typing position to use the mouse with a different (more of a claw) hand shape probably contributed to the rise in RSI.

On the other hand, I always thought the opposite.

My hands fly around everywhere. My right hand goes from the main keys area to the home/end/arrow keys and the mouse pretty frequently. I keep my forearms perfectly parallel to the ground with close to 0 resistance, then I mostly use my shoulder and elbow to move my forearms, which leads to my hands being in a different spot.

I also never strain to reach any combo because I just move my hands instead of trying to break my wrist to press something like tilde + g with my ring / pinky and pointer fingers.

Been doing this for 20+ years and I have no arm, wrist, hand or finger pain and this is with years of gaming abuse where I was clicking and doing repeated key presses for 12+ hours for entire summers back in the day.

But if you ask me to type with my hands on the home row, I feel a very unnatural strain on the top of my hand when I move my fingers. After a minute it's painful. I dunno how anyone can do that without injuring themselves.
> What Google is really good at is evading FTC regulation by staying within FCC jurisdiction. The FCC has historically been hand in hand with industry. The FTC has real teeth.

This is nonsense. You're insulting the intelligence of everyone reading this.
This shouldn't happen in a vacuum. Who's writing the requirement? The test case?
That (probably) has some reality, because the issue is that nitrates and high heat cooking + proteins probably causes generation of Nitrosamine, which are carcinogenic.

Don't eat meat all the time and you will be fine.
> The BBC report, citing a UK-based price comparison site, said that 1 gigabyte (GB) of mobile data cost $0.26 in India (£0.20), compared with $12.37 in the US, $6.66 in the UK, and a global average of $8.53.

According to OECD, the Purchasing Power Parities (PPP) for India is 17.729 , UK is 0.691 and US is 1.0 [0]. That's a huge difference and hence, ignoring the purchasing power will not give you a full picture about the "cost".

[0] https://data.oecd.org/conversion/purchasing-power-parities-p...
This is very cool. But, there are two ways to make your trips shorter:

1 - make them feel shorter by providing some luxury, comfort, ability to sleep watching movies, or remaining predictive, etc.

2 - go faster and reduce the travel time.

There is a cost/benefits points where 1 vs 2 will not make economic sense, even for very wealthy.

This is why I think, this kind of technology will mostly work and see demands in military applications and not so much for jet-setting around the world.
These products just feel like “component pipeline optimization” instead of working backwards from customer needs. There should be 3 iPads, all with the same form factor, same connectors (can’t believe I even have to specify this): small medium large, and they should be called iPad mini, iPad, and iPad Pro. The iPad should serve the vast majority of the market. The pro should really feel like it’s for Pros. The mini should feel like it cannot be beat on a hike taking nature photos. Stories based on use, not price. The way I imagine them talking about iPad uses cases instead is: “imagine you want to buy an iPad, but you only have $399. Boom: iPad mini, the perfect fit!”
I don't think a belief in religious authority is necessary for a belief in scientific authority. The scientific community is especially atheist. And I don't think a belief in religious authority is especially likely to cause one to believe in scientific authority.

A lot of times one can actually undermine the other because they have two conflicting views of the world.
Do you mean there is published scientific literature that fully explains the mind and the effect of meditation?

Can you point to it?
Jack the Ripper revealed? DNA research may finally unravel mystery
For the most part people on the coasts are who the news are catering to (that's where the millions of eyeballs that you can show ads to are) and they don't really care about the Midwest, at least not specifically.

Also some dude literally on the other side of the world shot some other people in a highly provocative manner so that's in the news instead because it's easier to milk that for eyeball minutes.

I'm sure this will earn me a bunch of "no, I totally care" down-votes but as you click the feel good button you should ask yourself, would you actually be interested in what's going on in Nebraska on a normal, not submerged in several feet of water, day?
I'd love to have a shared car pool situation with an automatic driver booked via an app that takes me door to door with say 5 minutes notice for a short trip (say upto 5 miles), and half hour notice for a longer trip (say upto 50 miles), and maybe 5 hours notice for a 500 mile trip. One that's clean, reliable, has appropiate child seats.

That's not happening in the next 20 years. My country is still going down the protectionism route when it comes to the taxi industry.

The child seats is the problem though -- as an adult in a city I can easily hail an uber or whatever to get me where I want to go. With kids in tow I'm limited to mass transit, as I can't rely on getting a cab with 2 car seats that will fit. This itself limits the amount of stuff I can take and places I can go.

Perhaps if I had no need for local trips (like yesterday when we went to a canal-side pub 4 miles away for dinner) I could live with simply renting a car for the larger trips -- but to rent a car it involves a walk to the station, an hourly train into the large town, then walk to the car rental place -- all between 8AM and 6PM, then do the reverse on monday morning to drop it off.
This is a supply chain optimization and also the reason they can keep the costs low for these products. Cost is important here and the whole reason this product line exists. It’s a mirror of their iPhone strategy where they sell last years model for cheaper.

They’re using old components and designs where they think it makes sense, but are being uncompromising about the compute power (e.g. A12 Bionic, AR capabilities).

It means they can give lower-end customer what they want, without compromising the software capabilities of the devices or ultimately the margins of their business.

It makes sense as a strategy and obviously comes with trade offs which it seems like they’re willing to make. I mean, the old pencil isn’t THAT old. The new iPad Pros and new Pencil were announced only months ago.
I got the Pro for two reasons: the screen-size (for use as a 2nd laptop monitor) and because the pencil was only supported by the Pro when I bought it.

I don't use the 2nd screen as much as I thought I would though and there is a good chance any of the other iPads (which are all smaller) would have been better for me. Hard to tell exactly what size has the max utility. Smaller isn't better necessarily because my iPhone can do pretty much all of the same stuff but is too small to be useful. A good heuristic might be "large enough that the keyboard is comfortable".
Yeah, the yeast extract.
Why ship any cable at all then?
I commuted by bus to downtown Grand Rapids, MI for a few years without much difficulty. Acclimation to the cold and acquisition of appropriate gear made it fairly painless. My asthma makes winter biking difficult, but I know people that do it. I've been working from home for the past eight months, and I find myself missing the commute.
I've been trying to push back on the number of presents my kids get, both from us and from our parents/family, but it's really an uphill struggle.

At Christmas my son hit a point where each successive wave of toys stopped having an impact on him, there was just too many for him to handle and half of them have been barely touched since. It's really frustrating seeing so much money and resources effectively go to waste when he would have been just as happy with half as many. I particularly take issue with some of the plastic tat that people were buying as "little extra" presents, cheap trash that got played with once and then ignored and ultimately ended up recycled.

I totally get that everyone wants to be generous, and I don't want to be a scrooge, but the cumulative effect is overwhelming for a 4yo, and ceased to have any meaning for him. Just so much waste.
Funny how cities like San Francisco have very nice weather but still rely on cars.
listen to phone calls, conduct drug tests, monitor closed-circuit television

In Wall Street these were mandatory since many years ago.

Source: was tested for drugs as a part of my employment screening.
There's an insomnia-specific CBT practice (CBTI) which is more targeted than general anxiety.
I can't claim to know the OP's perspective w.r.t. why he / she doesn't like programming on Windows, but as an early (and current) user of the WSL I can say that I too dislike the overall experience, mostly due to how it colors my experience programming and using the system. Windows has an intensely corporate feeling to me that I can't seem to shake; it's obvious to me when I'm using it that I don't in any sense "own" my system, and that my behavior is being monitored and recorded on some level. The next update will inevitably bring some setting reversion to a pro-tracking default, and the lack of visual and system-level customization options takes a lot of the joy out of system setup, management, and exploration for me. Windows is, and always has been, a corporate productivity environment at its core, and it's very good in that role, but it feels awfully stiff and suffocating as a dev environment to me. Minor technical frictions like moving data and files between Windows land and my WSL home directory add just enough unnecessary overhead to my workflow that I find myself constantly questioning what actual value the entire thing provides. I suppose for people who are chained to specific Microsoft productivity software it's a good option, but in the absence of such a requirement I don't really understand the appeal.

To be fair, the environment is nice, and the WSL is certainly an impressive technical accomplishment (no question there!), but it doesn't have the feeling of a Linux to me. The freedom, control, and transparency just aren't there.
And for the post 2005 timeframe, I don’t see any alternatives for general purpose desktop operating systems. Can’t install macOS on a device, and while I use Linux systems a lot, I don’t think anyone really develops it for desktop usage. I did hear you can have variable refresh rate monitors in the next Ubuntu release, but no idea about power management and hardware video decoding and all that..

Obviously it’s great in a VM!
Because this is just an update of the old model; they haven't changed everything they could keep the same (see TouchID instead of FaceID) to avoid having to modify their production lines in any way, thus minimizing costs.
They kept lightning because the first-gen Apple Pencil recharges using it, and putting USB-C inside of the newer iPads would have either required updating the outdated pencil to USB-C (expensive) or retrofit for the older designs the magnet latch they made for the new Apple Pencil they ship with the iPad Pros. It's just a matter of cost.
Edit: inlining the comment here instead since this turned into a conversation

These products just feel like “component pipeline optimization” instead of working backwards from customer needs. There should be 3 iPads, all with the same form factor, same connectors (can’t believe I even have to specify this): small medium large, and they should be called iPad mini, iPad, and iPad Pro. The iPad should serve the vast majority of the market. The pro should really feel like it’s for Pros. The mini should feel like it cannot be beat on a hike taking nature photos. Stories based on use, not price. The way I imagine them talking about iPad uses cases instead is: “imagine you want to buy an iPad, but you only have $399. Boom: iPad mini, the perfect fit!”
After spending a lot of time in clean mountain air, it's gotten to the point where I can taste the fumes in the air in the United States. It's noxious. I run very early in the morning before anyone starts driving to avoid it.
Probably binned / underclocked chips.
I feel like we need a wiki/wolfram-esque system where knowledge is derived from axioms, propositions, and theorems, all of which can be toggled and shared by users. If you have the flat-earth axiom toggled on, or some set of axioms and propositions that lead to a flat-earth theorem, then you'll see a different entry of knowledge about the earth than I will. We just have to accept that nothing is completely provable in any concrete sense, and people will disagree about the noumenon. Flat-earth is an extreme example, but there are ambiguous parts of our models that you can interpret different ways, and data that can be reasonably argued as (in)valid. I think a unified system of disunity would be more clever than the patchwork of IdeologyPedias we have today. Once sets of truths have been distributed they could be given precedence by a user, with additional optional toggling, and then used/redistributed. I remember seeing an open-source project attempting this, I thought it was called OneModel but my google searches for that name are turning up an unrelated data company. The code seemed pretty gnarly to me at the time, but it's been a couple years since I looked at it.

Edit: changed ridiculous grammar for clarity.
Where does "order of magnitude" come from? In my experience, XML parsing is about three times slower than JSON and around two or three times the size. For most complex applications, this is not a show-stopper, because the bottleneck is elsewhere.

XML was a hype in 1999, when XMPP has been invented and JSON was a hype fifteen years later. When people invent protocols they just use what is trendy in the moment.