skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely echo chamber effect and being in a bubble.
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19457322
I’ve never had any earbud style headphones last more than a few years. Usually the very thin wire breaks partly or completely.

My AirPods have outlasted two sets of EarPods.
I keep contrast (usecontrast.com) open as a picker and accessibility testing tool, but I agree, adding recommendations based on color theory, etc would make it even more usable. It has a few hotkeys that work well and is minimal enough to make the startup list.
>Who's talking about the government? This is about Google.

True.

> I'm talking about being factually wrong, not morally wrong.

True.

I was taking things out of context.

I don't love how much power these companies have with their app stores. I'll be interested to see how regulation of these falls out and whether or not that regulation makes them more open or closed. (this was my thinking when I mentioned the government above).
I misremembered - they are adding it: https://www.namecheap.com/blog/true-totp-2fa-and-u2f-are-com...
24M to unveil novel dual electrolyte system for high energy density batteries
Guessable API design
IP is not the same as manufacturing capability.
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19457322
It's fine for me. I mean, our house wasn't cheap, but it's a nice house in a nice neighbourhood, and I'm really happy to live here. We do need two good incomes to be able to afford it, though. Sure, I could live much cheaper elsewhere, but then I wouldn't be living here.
Seems you incited someone to submit it [0]. I don't think it's unfair to say there wasn't any meaningful disagreement across the respondents at all. They only differed in how much confidence they had in disagreeing with the answer-begging question.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19456616
Advertising is often a form of propaganda that leads us to inadvertently allow the issues of hunger, disease and war to continue. Advertisers basically say whatever they want to us skirting on the edge of any existing regulation to get ahead.

The fact that corporations can use advertising as a tool to manipulate your emotions is something that is fundamentally undemocratic.
Very interesting use case here. Would love to get more technical details on the scale-out process. The author mentioned two pieces:

- Turning down the data retention period in the database. Wonder how long data is kept?

- Scaling out with additional worker nodes. Curious what st2 processes got scaled out? st2actionrunner, st2rulesengine, st2api?

Any other tips/tricks?
Look at Argentina: there is a very high inflation, and also there are very high taxes.

I mean that what you mention does not look obvious to me, as you can reach a point where even very high taxes cannot counter inflation.
Apple’s Largest-Ever Health Study Could Be a Game-Changer
My Grandpa George taught me something when I was young. He said there are two kinds of people in this world:

1.) Those who will listen to people badmouthing others and use the badmouthing to inform their opinions.

2.) Those who reserve forming an opinion until they know the person being badmouthed.

Forget anyone who falls into condition #1. You can never, under any circumstances, trust someone like this. Therefore, they are not worth your time or anxiety.
HoTT was a popular topic in the Haskell ecosystem a little while back, so worth digging around there for info:

- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/2623...

- https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/6nxgkc/similaritie...

- https://bartoszmilewski.com/category/homotopy-type-theory/
And it's back. Thanks to Scott and Dan and all their colleagues for their prompt attention to this matter.
> “Nobody is going to read that wall of text”

If you’re not going to read things you dismiss, please don’t reply. It just adds unhelpful noise.

> “Do you have any better models for providing expensive-to-run services to everybody, and not just the select few who are willing/able to pony up the cash directly?”

The whole point is that if these services cannot be self-sustaining without monetization of ad injection, then the service is thereby demonstrably harmful to the people it delivers the service to.

Whatever value proposition the service is claiming, whether it’s news delivery, a communication feed with friends, whatever, if it cannot be self-sustaining without ads then it is a non-business thing; it is not a business at that point, because predicating the financial viability of a thing on the activity of injecting a harmful substance into customers’ lives instantly renders it a non-business... a thing that the market has demonstrated to be unwanted and worthy of losing money unto the point of shutting down as a side-effect of it not being viable outside the scope of hurting people.

We can definitely debate about degrees of the problem, as long as such debates are based on measuring and quantifying the harmful effects of ads and associated privacy intrusion, and are not disingenuously framed in terms of a customers purported self willingness to endure ads for the service. It’s not a thing a person can in principle be informed enough about to give that consent; it’s a vehicle of psychological harm where the perpetrators have a huge asymmetric information advantage and a huge lobbying advantage.

In all earnesty and seriousness, it is exactly like the kind of harm perpetrated by cigarette companies, with asymmetric knowledge of bodily harm and limitless marketing budgets and a supply of die-hard customers ready to say how willing they are to make that harm trade off to consume the product.
I have not formed an opinion on MMT, nor do I consider myself to have the right background trying to fully understand it or any other economic model, but even at my level of knowledge, the first four paragraphs of Sumner's rebuttal seem to be willful ignorance on his part. The views he cites as inconsistent easily fit into the MMT framework, which asserts that inflation is the only constraint that matters, and other factors (like large deficits) only matter if they affect inflation.

Later on he cites low overall GDP growth in Japan to counter Japan as an example of large deficits/low inflation. This:
1) Doesn't invalidate the point.
2) Totally discounts that Japan has had _some_ GDP growth even as an aging population has led to a _smaller_ workforce over that period.
Amtrak is a government subsidized entity with monopolies on certain passenger rail, it really doesn't have a strong profit incentive.
Indeed, also churches had music, and education included music. Bach was an employee of a city, assigned to work for the local church, which included composing, managing the choir, teaching, and performing at services. He quibbled with his employers about pay.

Music education is still an OK income source.
Thanks for confirming that was actually a feature. I wanted to post as well but couldn't find any screenshot of how that looked like back then and hesitated, fearing that I remembered it wrong :)
There are licensing requirements with continuous daily background checks. The results speak for themselves.

California has pretty much this, and in implementation is much stricter than Canada. The result? There are mass shootings here as well as lots of urban gun violence.

New Zealand already has stricter gun laws than many places in the US.

Throwing up your hands and saying it’ll never work without trying it is tantamount to accepting the status quo. None of that is okay.

The government unilaterally taking away the rights of innocent people shouldn't be okay. If it's okay with someone, then it means they're okay with stomping on the human rights of people they don't like.

I'd rather have individual rights and armed guards in the schools and places of worship.
Actually, I don't mind the ads themselves.

What I loathe - to my very core - is most of the social networking ecosystem that's developed to support ad delivery.

The constant whinging, outrage, passive-aggressiveness, and superficiality on display via Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and others is deeply disheartening.

Pre-social media, the internet wasn't this shrieking cacophony that we have now.
I agree, and anecdotally, I buy all kinds of things frequently on Amazon - food, electronics, cosmetics, pricey PC parts, stationery, phone cases, etc. - with a purchase every week or two and have yet to encounter a counterfeit. And in the rare cases I do have problems (damaged product, shipment missing, etc), Amazon customer support has consistently been good. So personally speaking, their reputation in my eyes hasn't really changed. I suspect that many customers share my feelings, but like with every other service industry, the most outspoken customers are the unhappy ones.
Why would you randomly remove code from ActionView? It's some of the least user-serviceable code in Rails.
That is a very good point. I should start saving snapshots of the resources I want to link to in documentation using the "save now" feature at https://archive.org/web/

This way I know that the link will not rot and I will have a record of the exact information that lead to the decision I am documenting.

Edit: I wonder how the wayback machine deals with GDPR compliance
Edit 2: After further research, there is an exemption for archiving for the public interest. It looks like this was either an overreaction of MS's legal staff or simply blaming migration issues on GDPR.
Except for when it does (which in my experience is like all of the time).
Construct a phishing site that gives some vague error message about being unable to connect to your device, and offer the TOTP fallback. How many people will fall for it?

"Literally cannot get phished" is woefully far away, because the phishing-resistant property of U2F has a giant hole in the side of it (fallback factors) and therefore still relies on human vigilance.

I do use U2F though, because it is pretty convenient.
Product advertising isn't necessarily better than search or social advertising, it's just different. It's unlikely that amazon will be competitive with FB on political advertising, advertising for events, local advertising, ect.
In the "meantime", Chinese had bamboo piping systems centuries earlier, and Babylonian ceramic ones as well...

Nice find though.
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this quote caught my eyes:
``In San Francisco, said Gascón, prosecutors moved away from incarcerating children for low-level offenses like truancy or petty theft as research showed that even one stint in juvenile hall led to a higher likelihood of recidivism.``

This effect was known from the beginning of the traditional prison system. Here is the quote from "Discipline and Punish" by Michel Foucault:
``. And, just as the project of a corrective technique accompanied the principle of punitive detention, the critique of the prison and its methods appeared very early on, in those same years 1820-45; indeed, it was embodied in a number of formulation which - figures apart - are today repeated almost unchanged:
...

- Detention causes recidivism; those leaving prison have more chance than before of going back to itl convicts are, in a very high proportion, former inmates 38 per cent of those who left the maisons centrales were convicted again and 33 per cent of those sent to con-vict-ships (a figure given by G. de Rochefoucauld during the debate on the reform of the penal code, 2 December 1831 Archives parle-mentaires, LXXII, 209-10); between 1828 and 1834, out of almost 30,000 convicted of crime, about 7,400 were recidivists (that is,1 out of 4.7 of those convicted); out of over 200,000 correctionels, or petty offenders, almost 35,000 were also recidivists (1 out of 6);in all, one recidivist out of 5.8 of those convicted (Ducpdtiaux, 1837,276ff);in 1831, out of 2,174 of those condemned for recidivism, 350 had been in convict-ships, 1,682 in maisons cenffales, 142 in four maisons de correction that followed the same regime as the centrales (Ducp6tiaux, 1837, 276ff). And the diagnosis became even more severe during the July monarchy: in 1835, out of 7,223 convicted criminals, 1,486 were recidivists; in 1839, 1749 out of 7,858
''

Keep in mind, "Discipline and Punish" was published in 1975 which is whooping 44 years ago.

P.S sorry for typos, scanned version of the book is not very good quality
The New iPad Mini
I can't even imagine. I remember reading an article by someones experience on a lawsuit jury and they described the deliberations as "wheel of fortune". (It was an edition of Medical Economics, not my profession by interesting nevertheless.)
I live in a very heavily taxed nation and across the board, we are seeing all our government services degrade more and more. I pay over 50% direct tax and all our services are crying out for funding. The ability to fund these "good public services" is dependent on having a large tax-paying base.

Social security and welfare is 36% of our federal budget. Education is only 7%. We have free universal healthcare and that's only 16%.

There is a literal culture here of living off support and having large families. You get more funding for larger families. The children tend to follow in the footsteps of their parents. Exponential math is taught in high school, it doesn't take much to see how this ends up. I understand your human argument for these children but I'm concerned with our ability to look after families in 20 years time, or 50 years time.
I traveled to China for about a month and a half a few years ago. Everything was excruciatingly slow. Except for Hacker News. Probably more about the payload size than anything else. :)

How many companies work hard to make their services readily available in China? Any notable exceptions?
> Vacuums of power in the world will always be filled and a Western invasion/expeditionary force is a much nicer alternative to a Russian one.

In this case you're only speaking for yourself.

Most Asians, from the Middle East through to the South East, would kindly disagree.
Exactly. The boundaries aren't disrespected - they change as relationships change. Disrespect for boundaries is a disrespect of the person whose boundary you are crossing. If you do it out of ignorance then it can often be forgiven and trust can be rebuilt if you show you can be trusted, but if it is repeated, knowing, or as a display of power, the relationships get worse - not better.

You are okay with a close friend touching you on the shoulder or asking personal questions because your relationship has evolved to a point where your boundaries permit it. It is not okay for a person you dislike to do those things because your relationship is such that your boundaries forbid it.
Volkswagen partners with Northvolt to advance batteries for electric vehicles
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/12/opinion/whats-wrong-with-...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/25/opinion/running-on-mmt-wo...
Since reddit/Twitter/Snap wasn't a threat, I highly doubt Amazon will be. The fact that agencies might spend a few bucks here and there to "try out Amazon ads" is beside the point. As someone that has been working in ad tech for about 5 years now, I don't think you truly appreciate the reach and level of optimization FB & GOOG have.
Canadian here to offer an anecdote. I spent about 80 days road tripping and living out of the car with my gf between julyish to Nov in the US, coming from Vancouver. My car died near Fresno and I had about 2 days to figure out what to do with almost all of my posessions and find a way home. After considering our options we decided to take the train from Fresno to Vancouver with some heavy and annoying baggage, and then I'd later Train from Vancouver to Winnipeg for christmas.

Context out of the way, AmTrack was great and mostly on time with some killer scenery and no WiFi in economy. We really enjoyed the 30 hours or so plus the 2 hour bus ride. The train from Van to Winnipe was also fantastic in Economy, albeit a little uncomfortable and much more dated than the trains in Cali. It was just me solo, so I made some friends and got some work done, if I was single I'd maybe find a closer friend. Killer scenery. Highly recommended but it will cost you to be comfortable or pretentious.
Pretty sick! Hows it work? I'd love to be able to have Pygame stuff show up right in a web browser and not have it be wrapped by repl.it.
> You get warnings and captchas.

Frequently they are unsolvable captchas that just waste your time. :(
There is no plugin required, you can do that now in Thunderbird without any modifications.
The Water Works is still standing, right behind the Philadelphia Art Museum. I wouldn't want to drink from the Schuylkill nowadays though.
needs more burning man tickets.
I'll ask the question, why? You have a vague "they don't comply with our requirements", but you don't actually explain. That could be a happy to glad issue, or it could be a much bigger issue.

But this announcement just sounds like the phrase from Empire " I have altered the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further."
Did you try going back in time?
New evidence links lifespan extension to metabolic regulation of immune system
Coming soon. This will leverage our repl.run product which allows you to ship any app -- web, terminal, desktop, etc -- as a web page https://repl.it/talk/announcements/BetaExplorers-Announcing-...
> Microsoft or Linux store...oh wait, you can’t

Actually, there is a Microsoft Store. I have one at the mall nearest me.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/locations/find-a-store

That said, when I walk by the Apple Store in the same location, there's easily 20x (often more) the number of customers roaming around.

> they ARE dominating that space

I doubt that. I bet more Macbook Pros are sold at Best Buy than Apple Stores. (unless you're defining the "space" as operating system manufacturers)
I know the US Army has a precise definition for an assault rifle, but I'm not so sure there is a good legal definition, and that's what I'm talking about. This holds true for New Zealand. If anything the US Army definition is probably too precise and would cast a net probably not broad enough.

Also the "selective fire" of assault rifles means you can select either semi-auto or full auto, which I think should be preferred terms in legislation. That is, you ban weapons that are automatic or semi-automatic (or both.) And again, the particulars of the magazine.
Create a shortcut for it.

I have it set to CMD + Shift + C. Great to have it easily accessible
Not even Antonio Stradivari?
Don’t forget to account for the temporal variance created by high levels of tachyon emissions.
Yabbut, buy the cheap “new” ones and you run a risk of stripping them. And that’s annoying to fix.
I wholeheartedly agree with your additional perspective. My remark was a hint and a summary, not intended as a comprehensive view.
Most of the article, but especially the section labeled "Pet Theories" reminds me a lot of this recent XKCD. In the Biffco timeline, everyone has an explanation for how things got as bad as they did, and none of them are a time traveling sports almanac. Seems to be the same way for lead poisoning, for some people at least.

https://xkcd.com/2104/
Im surprised that nobody mentions that the core communicational message has been done before: Milton Friedman always said that deficits are not a problem, because you can print them away.

He would then continue: "The problem is spending, thats what you have to cut". (MMT, however, took the exact opposite stance).

Just modern keynesians wanting to confiscate savings somehow, and what better way than to print money. But even then, MF would say "You print money, reduce your deficit and your currency devalues to match your import/export". MMT has less weakness in inflation as it has in the exchange value of the dollar.

You dont want to mess the dollar value because it might take away its role as a world reserve currency, meaning everything gets way more expensive for the us if that happens.
That he was able to get such good results from his interrogation using kindness and dialog instead of violence is interesting. This is apparently a known effect. Was a very interesting article posted here some time ago describing similar techniques that I found fascinating: https://psmag.com/social-justice/nazi-interrogator-revealed-...
> When well rested and not stressed, a week can stretch forever.

I am actually quite surprised that the article makes no mention of (emotional) stress which I believe has a huge influence on the perception of time. cf. Mihály Csíkszentmihályi's "flow" vs a state where one is bored.
> Denarau & the Mamanuca island resorts are the "Fiji experience"

Denarau is mostly multinational chain resorts (Accor, Sheraton, etc) so yes the experiences there are pretty boilerplate and "manufactured".

But there are numerous different resorts of all shapes and sizes in the Mamanuca and Yasawa Islands. There are resorts owned by foreigners like the one you went to, resorts owned by locals, resorts for backpackers, resorts run by their owners, and 5 star resorts. To assume you'll get the same there is like walking into McDonalds and saying that all restaurant food is crap.
I think this is a very valid counterpoint, but I'd just like to point out that Shamans must have actually helped people throughout history as well. Now, I'd argue it might have been some combination of talk therapy, social expectation, and whatever else.
indiehackers.com is all about product building and bootstrapping
Thanks for that, I was missing the step that assets are named $filename.$mime-type.erb in Rails. I was missing the high-level view
It's not a matter of "not respecting" personal boundaries, but rather of probing them, by which we become closer. To use a coarse, but common example, if you're chatting someone up, you might probe the boundary by touching them on the arm, or shoulder. You would, generally speaking, not be respecting it by grabbing their ass.

If you're demonstrating closeness by "not respecting" people's boundaries, that's an entirely different matter.

I don't mean to pick on your phrasing, except to suggest that how we say things colors how we think about things, and nuances like that matter when we're talking about something as, you know, nuanced as interpersonal dynamics, and especially so with intimates.
A very, very large percentage of searches are for local locations, which is why you see these cards and 'answers' as your result. Most of the time it's what people want.
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Software engineers have driven the rent up for everyone else but can't provide new housing stock, so they get fleeced by the class of commercial property owners who invest in the startups the software engineers work for. Unfortunately the software engineers have little incentive to disrupt a property market that is mostly working OK for them. The software engineers are being paid to make tools which concentrate more and more wealth, but that's OK because those people all have shitty jobs so their lives don't matter, and once they have fallen below a certain level of economic productivity they can die, because market economics is the source of all human goodness and anyone who does not prosper in the market deserves to suffer.
> What kind of heartless monster trains kids to be as literal as possible all the time? Why not strive to teach them about appropriate context instead?

A heartless monster who understands that "appropriate context" is a rapidly moving target in the modern world, and who wants to ensure that their kids grow up safe from either side of both misunderstandings and "misunderstandings", insofar as that is possible.
That's not a very charitable response. Obviously the OP's social circle will know better than that because they know him (or her) and what they actually work on.

Among the general public there's a real stereotype about DOD work. When I mention to strangers that I work for a defense contractor, they more often than not assume I'm working on bombs or something like that. Not every time, but often enough that I'm used to explaining that I only work on mapping software.