skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any australian working in the US that is able to obtain PR or citizenship likely has a well paid job that provides health insurance. While I feel for the folks in the US without coverage, lack of access to affordable health care does not really apply to employed, skilled immigrants. In my experience US health care is the best on the planet, its also the most expensive.

From my perspective, US health care is way above the quality of healthcare in Australia. Price, not so much...
Interesting, from 10 months ago: The Fate of Most Silicon Valley Drones: ‘Live Work Work Work Die’ [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17201057
Instead of a single study you should look at systematic reviews.

Here's an article discussing a wide-ranging review the National Academy of Sciences conducted, which is the sort of thing that informs the current FDA policy: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/national-academy-of-science...

> I fully respect your view, even if I might disagree with the soundness of it. I'd ask for nothing but comparable treatment.

I'm not claiming you have to eat GMO food, or food that's been exposed to cell phone tower waves or whatever.

But you weren't expressing a personal preference. You were suggesting that a government organization like the FDA should be regulating something based on a hypothesis that the current scientific consensus shows is baseless.

At that point you aren't asking for your view to be respected, you're suggesting that government policy should be changed to enforce it on the rest of us.
How to Architect a Web Scraping Solution: The Step-by-Step Guide
Another, related paper describing rather easily why this separation of consensus-requiring and consensus-free computation/data-writing is the right separation is the CALM paper: https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/03/06/keeping-calm-when-distri...
Why? When you post a single question that gets downvoted you don't get banned. It's only when you repeatedly ignore the rules and ask terrible questions over and over refusing to learn from your past mistakes.

There might be a discussion to be had about how to teach users what a bad question is, or how many is too many, but I don't understand why we should let people who repeatedly fail to clearly ask a question keep asking. Most people have no such problem.

In fact, when experienced posters politely point out what the rules are and where to read more about them, you start to see new posters fall into 2 categories:

1. The people who say, "Oh, I didn't realize that's how it works. I'll update my question/do better next time/etc."

2. The people who insist that no, it's their platform and they'll ask whatever they want however they want.

People in category 1 usually have no further problems using the site. People in category 2 usually end up banned.

And of course, there are experienced users who are jerks and don't point out rules or don't do it politely. They should not be excused. But letting new posters continue to pollute the site with terrible questions isn't going to help anyone - especially not the people posting the question.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-azure-pipe...
It is easy to repro this issue as I have open sourced the kubernetes manifests. There are instructions on https://github.com/gengstrand/clojure-news-feed/blob/master/... for how to provision the cluster on either Amazon or Google's cloud and spin up the services and the load test application. Be sure to create the kong service (commented out) instead of the proxy service (which replaced it) and use the feed3-deployment.yaml instead of the feed-deployment.yaml manifest.
"to also mow your lawn for free"

But it's not free, you just said they're paying you for at least 8 hours no matter what.
Sounds like you're saying certain things are below that plumber and he won't do them, but still wants to get paid.
Holt-Winters Forecasting for Dummies (Or Developers)
Show HN: ReqView introduces Volere Software Requirements Specification Template
"Become a spiritual attempt at the dbase/foxpro family of database-oriented languages, in the sense manipulate data(bases) is natural and integrated"

This is a personal dream for me as well. The commenters in this thread (@gavinpc, @vidarh) will also agree with you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18634555
That wouldn't be a problem if these organizations hadn't captured 95% of the discourse. There is nothing in the definition of censorship that requires it to be done by the government.

The same sort power brokers that would drive censorship in a place like China are the ones who fund political campaigns, found think tanks, control media empires, and choose advertising spend, and use this leverage to drive censorship on social media.

In the end if the rich and powerful have effectively squelched dissent does it matter if it was through government mandate or some more complex mechanism though private means?
> I spend a lot of time in online communities and I've never seen anything so toxic

I haven't spend that much time asking questions, but I answered many (and commented, edited, flagged…) but Id didn't found the community that toxic, especially compared to other places.
Brideshead Revisited During Lent
Screenshots are saved to the sd card, where every app has complete access. Apps can specify certain UI safety features, like preventing clicks through overlaid UI elements or preventing screenshots. Blame the app if you want. There isn't some blanket policy in the OS that identifies banking apps and prevents screenshots.
I've not installed it becuase they ask for my email address and post code to sign up. Why? They don't need it. If I'm listening from Europe BBC Sounds just works, so it's not a technical limitation.

And the "Why do I need to sign in?" page is evasive. Why is it compulsory? What are they hiding?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/help/how-to-guides/sign-in/acc...

And this "Why" page doesn't even make an effort.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/usingthebbc/why-we-are-asking-you-to-s...

I don't think there's some secret conspiracy. I am a great supporter of the BBC.

But the way "TV Licensing" behaves (operated by a Capita) is so breathtakingly and openly dishonest and opaque, there is no trust left.
While downloading gigabytes of own ads...
Languages and tools and practices evolve. Stack Overflow is now getting old enough that the answers a question originally got may no longer be the best way to do things, and sometimes aren't even workable anymore.

If anything, what SO needs is a way to "fade out" old questions in favor of new ones.
No they wouldn't, because this already happens and you hear nothing.

For instance in the UK Facebook banned the pages of a political party and very little was said because the same kinds of people who control Facebook also control the mainstream media, so they're almost always in agreement, except that journalists would really love Facebook to ban even more stuff to achieve the 'right outcomes', as they see it.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/359847/facebook-bans-far-right-uk...
Threema messenger published app audit report by FH Münster [pdf]
All governments, regardless of their nature, all civil societies and all bodies of law, from the hardest fascist dictatorships to the freest democracies, claim legitimacy by and execute enforcement through a monopoly on violence.

Pretending the US is any different in this regard is silly.
New Opening –-Senior Software Engineer
From my experience it's true in python (ie not a static type system). Removing the distinction between compiling and running makes this point even stronger.
Kong would be more comparably to Istio, yes and we're big fans of it! We provide additional control capabilities on top of what Istio provides and can integrate with Istio for folks using it. Basically, if you're using Istio for a mesh, and you want to have that mesh also work with all your other non-mesh services, we help make that happen.

You can also use Kong as an ingress controller for K8s or inject it as a sidecar proxy in K8s, which would give you very similar capabilities to using Envoy + Istio.
Interesting. Tried the middle of Manchester and it gave me a location starting with Leeds: https://3geonames.org/LEEDS-RAGI-USANA
> No they don't, they just hate harmful pranks.

If that were the case, why don’t we have several of these prank days per year? Maybe monthly?

It’s because on a scale of 0-10 these pranks usually rate somewhere between 0 to 2 in terms of humor and > 2 in terms of annoyance.

“Your mailbox is empty!”

What?!

“Haha, no, April Fools!”

I’m rolling on the floor now. Oh. So. Funny.
Wow, didn’t know they had one. I wonder how they handle the licensing as there would be no one to complete the 5 year understudy; chicken and the egg.
I find it interesting that you are getting downvotes, but no replies. Come on people, if you disagree, why not say why you disagree? Just downvoting isn't helping the discussion.
UK cyber security officials report Huawei’s security practices are a mess
The point is that it doesn't matter whether Facebook was involved in the creation of the ads, whether they support the ads, or anything else. They have a duty not to allow their platform to be used in this way, and until recently, they were failing to do that.
Why Distributed Systems Are Hard to Develop – and How to Fix It
>Certainly certifying pilots for a new aircraft isn't free, and probably isn't cheap, but the MAX line promises significant savings in fuel cost. In the long run, would the latter outweigh the former?

The savings in fuel cost isn't everything, because you're missing the fact that Boeing was competing directly against the Airbus 320neo, which likely offered the same fuel economy but without the extra training costs. Why bother buying a Boeing when you can get the Airbus for less?

It seems pretty obvious to me that Boeing has been milking the 737 airframe for far too long, instead of proactively developing a replacement when they had time. Instead, they just stuck with what they had, and then when Airbus came up with their plane, Boeing tried to come up with something competitive on short notice using old junk they already had. They should have developed a successor to the 737 many years ago and moved to that, spreading the development and certification costs out, but they were short-sighted and cheap, and now it's going to cost them very dearly.
"Cloud Atlas" is another book that uses different writing styles for different eras -- 6 of them, I think. Every new chapter, it takes a little while to figure out the language.
Plenty of them were variations of Algol, PL/I and Lisp, including for systems programming.

Some surviving ones are NEWP and PL/S, if you happen to touch an IBM or Unisys mainframe.
Very clever, but alas, Facebook stopped being a hammer when they started censoring and manipulating content to support their political agenda. If the suit is successful, Facebook will be the official owner of all content on their platform under U.S. Law and be required to exercise due diligence in upholding the law or face the consequences. This will open the door legally to monetizing the value of Facebook's algorithm to the political campaigns it supports which is good news for conservatives in 2020 as Facebook is heavily biased toward the Democrat Party. The new attorney general, Bill Barr, served on Verizon's board of directors and said, during his confirmation hearing, that he intended to address the issue of political bias on social media platforms. Asked, would he use antitrust law? His answer, no, probably something else. Over the past few weeks Congressman Devin Nunez filed suit against Twitter for libel, and now HUD is filing against Facebook for discrimination in housing, also content manipulation. Finally US law is beginning to address the oversized impact of social media on politics, culture, finance, et.al.
AMP email itself will fracture the email landscape anyway.
It's been down for over 24 hours. This is what happens when you lay off most of your senior engineering staff. [0]

[0]: https://twitter.com/ReinH/status/1098663375985229825
Lifting blocks. Filling reservoirs. Moving loaded train cars uphill.

These all store energy be resisting gravity until recovering the energy by allowing gravity to do its work. Some are more practical than other. I'd have to say this mountain capping plan is the least practical I've ever seen.
Lost me at "The world is a sphere"
IMO Removing/merging repeated questions is important to keep up the standard of SO and is what makes searching easier in the long run. I agree that comments sometimes can get very picky and discouraging.
Hard grind: The epic journey of the world's biggest tunnel boring machine (2017)
Facebook likely restricts and prevents other kinds of illegal ads. Why shouldn't they be responsible for restricting and preventing this kind of illegal ad?
Google get all the metrics, particularly on popularity of podcast apps available in the Play store. When new features are added they can see the metrics on increase or decrease in uptake, etc.. If the top podcast apps are using Google for advertising then that's more useful data.

This surely means Google are in a position to eat any apps lunch if they choose to. If Google couldn't release a product and have that hit the top 3 [on Android] in a few months then they have some serious problems; they'd have to majorly mess up their design or functionality, by not bothering to look at the metrics.

Now of course Google might choose to make something "innovative", but at least as far as which functions to include, and what people using podcast apps like, they're starting with a major advantage.
It's really an argument of platform vs publisher. Google, Facebook, and others have been treated as platforms (it's really what the DMCA protected). But as they have been grown larger, governments want to treat them more like publishers and hold them accountable for the content that they put on their site (treating them more like publishers).
I was reading on w3w in 2017 and thought its better expressed as syllables instead of arbitrary wordlists:
http://void.wikidot.com/methods:4syllable-locations
We recently did a switch to buildkite.com. It's a bit unusual in that its a cloud-based UI attached to agents running on your own infrastructure. If that's an option, it may be worth a look (they do provide a cloudformation template for AWS)

Featurewise:

- good support for updating status in github

- haven't tried Jira

- it supports artifacts which can be stored in s3

- you can use docker to build most programming languages and there are plugins for some functionality

- you can also install additional things on your worker nodes which could be available when you run your build

All in all its probably less-featureful and will require a bit more setup, but it gives you more control.

I have also used Google's cloudbuild for personal things and like it OK. It uses cloud-builders: https://cloud.google.com/cloud-build/docs/cloud-builders. If you set it up right its pretty fast.
Sure they can. If there was a version of the app that was submitted that’s compatible with their device, when they try to download it, it will ask them do they want to download “the last compatible version”.

I’ve done that with my first gen iPad as late as last year to download a few streaming apps like Netflix, Hulu, and Plex.
This point stands without the snark. I understand the frustration when people poopooh climate issues, but at the end of the day, nobody is served by a slapfest.

Would you please consider editing to remove the snarky jabs?
My doctor friends understand what a techstacks and programming languages are and some of what it means for those to change. And I understand what a different ordering of treatments mean or what a change in target hb1ac/trglycerides levels are or why doctor's might pay more attention to CRP and certain VLDL numbers now than 10 years ago.

If you could find an article that describes the changes over the last 10 years, or write a description that would be especially persuasive. I searched for articles online but all the ones I found seemed to make the changes in the field seem minuscule over the last decade.
>And notably, all the build slots for the A320neo family are sold for the next few years; I believe an order today won't be delivered till 2022

There's a simple solution for this: increase manufacturing capacity.

How do you do this quickly? It's simple: there's a really huge airplane manufacturing plant in Washington, USA that may be up for sale soon...
Tesla’s popularity? It is the twentieth-best-selling brand.
Maybe. Or maybe not. Can you find/cite the law that requires that?

edit: ah. tunnel vision. yes the other parts of the statute would cover FB as partially culpable here. particularly the 'publish' part.
With over 200 billion in savings the only thing they can’t do is be honest about what you are repairing for the third time!
I forgot, legally you're supposed to take the upsell on your ad package so you can target based on a love of kayaking and golden retrievers. (This is what I mean by "diversity tax".)
or in regular light...
I recently decapped some old chips that were ceramic packages with a soldered on metal cap. A 486 DX2[0] and an old Analog to digital converter IC [1].
the bare silicon was beautiful once exposed..(Pics posted without filters, though huawei's photos are generally more saturated than I normally like)
[0]https://www.instagram.com/p/BudTdillc-K/
[1]https://www.instagram.com/p/BudTG3Ml2ki/
Deep Learning in Clojure from Scratch to GPU: Why Bother?
These are very cool.. The layout and traces remind me of a well designed factory in Factorio.
> Phone numbers and ZIP codes can also be (and often are) used as proxies for race. Should HUD go after the phone companies and the postal service too?

I love the arguments that amount to: "if we can't stop <bad thing> everywhere, we shouldn't bother stopping it here either". I'm not sure how one expects any kind of social progress to happen with that attitude.

> Is it, in this case? Ad targeting has a zillion legitimate use cases, including some that are outright humanitarian.

Let's be real. The kind of ad targeting that happens on the internet is something quite different than demographic targeting by sending flyers to certain zip codes or putting ads in certain magazines. Because the process is largely a black box and the ads are only visible to those being targeted it's nearly impossible to audit by watchdog groups or go after the parties who placed the ads. In the realm of commerce this leads to a lot of borderline scams targeting the ignorant. In politics, this leads to radicalization and weird conspiracy theories like QAnon.

At best, modern targeted ads are a way to convince people they need something they do not. Something that "classic" advertising did as well. At worst, it's a channel for misinformation, scams, and sometimes malware. Completely invisible to you and me because we're not the "target demographic".
The restriction on upvoting is necessary to have any chance of handling vote fraud like users upvoting themselves with socks. If any new account could vote it would be far easier to cheat the system.

15 rep is also a very small barrier. Asking good questions or editing are probably the best ways to start. Editing is certainly something a new user can do, simply fixing the formatting, grammar and typos in new questions will give you 15 rep in no time.
Why Are Economists So Bad at Forecasting Recessions?
> the codes are not hierarchical.

That, in itself, renders them hopelessly confusing.

I mean, imagine a domain name system like that. There'd be no domains and subdomains. Just a bunch of random names.
Instant electronic payments with upwards of 5% transaction fees for technology that costs them what rounds to nothing.

I feel like at least the payment processing part of finance today is something ripe to be nationalized if you had a democratic representative government you would trust to do so. It feels exactly like infrastructure, the same way fiber to the home should be a public works project, but instead its possessed by global corporations using rent seeking and crowding out effects to make gross amounts of money off of it.
Yeah I don't know where that Pixelbook keyboard came from (does Google have people engineering keyboards?) but it's crazy good. Thin, too - so no excuse for Apple's new keyboards.
To be fair, W3W is already "spheroid-optimized", in that the named squares are quite close to 10'x10' both at the equator and poles. There are grid "skips" (see one here [1]) every so often to keep all of the squares close to the same size.

[1] https://gis.stackexchange.com/a/195696

Also don't discount the benefit of their distribution of the words. If you're using voice input and trying to get somewhere, the system can guess which of multiple inputs you mean. If you're in Louisville Kentucky you're more likely to be trying to get to "captain.water.water" (a ~90 minute drive from downtown) than "captains.water.water" (located on an island in the North Atlantic). Do you have a mechanism (maybe a check digit?) to help with that?
Why do you get off on hurting people?
Why do people have this notion that Facebook is some unbiased public space, like an undisturbed forest or a beach where passersby can pedal their wares or something? Facebook is like a dystopian shopping mall combined with Clockwerk Orange reeducation techniques.

Due to it's algorithmic nature, Facebook ultimately decides every single post, ad, like, and person you see, and in what order. Creating a housing ad and targeting white people is not like putting an ad on the smooth jazz station, it is like having a storefront in the rich-whites-only section of the Facebook mall. In fact it's even worse because other people don't even know the rich-whites-only section exists, since they can never see it, even if they are your friend! I actually have a hard time imagining how an online system could reinforce existing class and race structures any more than Facebook currently does, short of disallowing users to become friends if it detects that this would be financially disadvantageous to allow.
It should be conpulsory to leave comments when you downvote a question. I always ask people to explain in the comment why they downvote me, and I would get more downvotes and 0 comment.
Silicon Valley would be wise to follow China’s lead – Financial Times
this is awesome and probably needs a thread of its own
> I’m not even sure those other companies you mention are ad companies

Why limit it to ad companies now? Two posts ago you mentioned any service that is "by its very nature both discriminatory..." without such limitation.

> the onus shifts to them

All of it? One hundred percent? Even though they are now taking measures to weed out these illegal ads? Again why is HUD only going after Facebook and not any other company or the advertisers themselves?

> it’s hard for them to bury their head in the sand

They haven't. They've already taken action on this exact matter, meeting the approval of ACLU and the Fair Housing Alliance. Since when does HUD really have a higher standard than those?
You might like the pics I posted in the sibling comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19513860
It is point based system. You don't need a job.
Maybe i should do ask me anything for moving to canada from US as an Indian on h1b

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/se...
Garfields are one topic but another one is 500 meter pipes with a diameter of 2 meters.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4781126/Beachgoers-...
No kidding, they did a great job of presenting all this data
I'm absolutely foggy about the specifics, but I wasn't talking about CDN, rather about the ISP-side.
Of course there's more to data science than just running models. However, those are typically things not discussed in Masters/PhD programs.
I live in Germany, now try to convince the family to move along.