skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One constant thing in every country is there is always a narrative among certain percentage of population about how shitty their country is, America is no different, usually the people who feel this way are not nationalists.

If you immigrated to US from third world country you would know how amazing this country is.

It always be your choice to live how happily you want to live, you can quit wanting to climb the ladder, you can quit watching news telling you how shitty country is, you can quit watching TV constantly telling you to upgrade your house, car, phone etc.
We are well aware of the challenges. Read a bit into the documentation and the efforts that has gone into achieving reproducible builds on different distributions.

This is hard on distributions as we are suppose to support all the ecosystems. But for rubygems, pypi, go, rust, npm and so on this is a easier problem to solve if they want to. But even with all these challenges, Debian is at 94% reproducible packages, and Arch is edging closer to 80%.

Introducing non-determinism into your build process is something that should be removed, and all ecosystems should be aligned in this effort.

Weekly blog posts are written about the current efforts.
https://reproducible-builds.org/blog/
Yes but assigning responsibility is a complex process, it would make the issue more complex, even if it is a systemic issue with the equipment.
> I disagree with this, on a very strong and deep sense.

That's because you're inexperienced.

> All possible behaviors should be treated on equal footing, using the control structures of your language.

That's impossible if you're dealing with a system composed of multiple interacting abstraction layers.

An error inside a function precondition is not the same as an error crashing a thread of execution, which in turn is not the same as an error in logical consistency communicating between different services.

The "equal footing" you're talking about can only exist if you're dealing with very simple and linear programs.
...so you are not critically thinking about your work in the context of how useful it is to the end user? That's a bad UI work, I'd say.

As for your senior thesis - Developer's job is to create software that makes lives easier. It was your decision to use your skills to harm people by exploiting their privacy.
Or it could be seen as something good - you discovered a way to exploit people and if you informed whoever was running this app you helped a good amount of people in your school.
I'm aware of that, but the crucial bit is that CDs existed (and still do for the most part) as it is pointed out in the letter. So even if it weren't for apple, sooner or later things would have taken a similar turn. And that's also why this didn't extend to any other form of media.
Yup. Hence why I only mention them as contributors to Humble Book Bundles. Their site only has what you mention, but Humble Bundle (and other sites like ebooks.com) still sell DRM-free O'Reilly titles outright.
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Workers at a firing range I used to go to were sent home for weeks if they were exposed to too much lead. I am shocked a well funded army couldn't do the same.
I couldn't think of any more powerful examples than those. I might wish otherwise, but if Thoughter does become popular it seems like it would be, if I may be blunt, off the backs of teenagers and/or college kids looking to hook up, so Tinder or Snapchat-type interactions. Or maybe it should go in the opposite direction and be used for more frivolous situations? Open to any suggestions.
Bingo! This very subject is being discussed in industry. However, it's important to point out that we're still pretty far from 100% renewables throughout the day. Both the ERCOT & SPP markets have had renewables as a percentage of load as greater than 50%, but that is generally during the night with low load and high wind. I'm not sure what markets will look like in 20 years, but they could be very different if we have 100% renewables and a high amount of grid level storage.
- They did and it didn't work for some reason. Possibly because of the air loads on the stabilizer.

Has the CVR transcript been released? I can't find any source on the procedures taken in the cockpit prior to the crash.
This is the blathering of spoiled rich kid on vacation.

> In London, Paris, Berlin, I hop on the train, head to the cafe — it’s the afternoon, and nobody’s gotten to work until 9am, and even then, maybe not until 10 — order a carefully made coffee and a newly baked croissant, do some writing, pick up some fresh groceries, maybe a meal or two, head home — now it’s 6 or 7, and everyone else has already gone home around 5 — and watch something interesting, maybe a documentary by an academic, the BBC’s Blue Planet, or a Swedish crime-noir. I think back on my day and remember the people smiling and laughing at the pubs and cafes.

This is so farcical it's not even worth trying to rebut.
The last minute when they grounded them?

I don't recall them "defending" anything, anyway, they simply held off grounding them until they got a little bit of data to back it up.
Indeed, GNU Unifont looks awful to many people, and even we only talk about bitmap fonts, Unifont is not the best-looking one. However, it's a font designed for practicability, not aesthetics. It's one of those few fonts that covers the entire Basic Multilingual Plane, and is actively maintained. It's a perfect choice as a fallback font.

And in fact, the font actually looks pretty good under a CLI console. I once tried a Linux kernel patch that embedded the 10 MiB+ Unifont to the native Linux VT console, and I got a perfect multilingual console (without using a 3rd-party framebuffer-based or KMS-based console), including all the CJK characters. It's also a good choice for a dot-matrix LCD/LED display.
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Because you don't always know what kind of content you'll be displaying. Especially if you allow user-generated content.

Here's an example I found a few years ago - https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2015/11/premature-subsetting-of-web... - an English language website never expected their authors to use the é (e-acute) character. So they removed it from their webfont.
> In London, Paris, Berlin, I hop on the train, head to the cafe — it’s the afternoon, and nobody’s gotten to work until 9am, and even then, maybe not until 10 — order a carefully made coffee and a newly baked croissant, do some writing, pick up some fresh groceries, maybe a meal or two, head home — now it’s 6 or 7, and everyone else has already gone home around 5 — and watch something interesting, maybe a documentary by an academic, the BBC’s Blue Planet, or a Swedish crime-noir. I think back on my day and remember the people smiling and laughing at the pubs and cafes.[0]

No, not everyone in Europe gets to live white-collar worker dream of writing poetry at the coffee shop and coming in late. See the people working at the coffee shop, the construction workers, garbage men, etc.

One thing I love about America is that people still get shit done here. One reason that Europe has very few innovative new companies created in the last 25 years is that everyone is at the coffee shop writing poetry.

An old joke - "Every MBA in America dreams of starting a billion dollar business. Every MBA in Europe dreams of starting a satellite office of the American business."

[0] From the actual blog the author quoted from https://eand.co/what-do-you-call-a-world-that-cant-learn-fro...
Please. Europe doesn't even have cold brew coffee
Thanks for that link, much better and it answers some of the questions I had about the author that are covered at the source.
My company forced Yubikeys on Mac users. They're trash. DO NOT USE.
Perhaps then each candidate should be marked with either a "0" or a "+". It is difficult to change either of these into the other without signs of tampering.
One of the issues when you "just include the fonts you actually want to use" is many fonts which get picked that way for "the look you want" only have latin glyphs[0]), and then you get an asiatic or arabic user, and depending on their setup your application may just fail to display their content entirely.

[0] or even just a subset if they got "optimised" by anglo-saxon developers who assume ü or ß are useless
True, replying just gives the attention they seek
Without amazon many smaller publishers would fill the market.
From the actual post:

> In London, Paris, Berlin, I hop on the train, head to the cafe — it’s the afternoon, and nobody’s gotten to work until 9am, and even then, maybe not until 10 — order a carefully made coffee and a newly baked croissant, do some writing, pick up some fresh groceries, maybe a meal or two, head home — now it’s 6 or 7, and everyone else has already gone home around 5 — and watch something interesting, maybe a documentary by an academic, the BBC’s Blue Planet, or a Swedish crime-noir.

I mean, if you are a Europhile of course the US is going to suck. You can always move to Quebec I suppose? No train to hop on, though.
I'm sorry you had to post this, but amusingly my coworker who lived in NM previously, Socorro to be exact (graduated & worked for NM tech), did not have many nice things to say about the town or NM overall. A terse summary of his description would be "If you want your car broken into or stolen and/or house robbed then move to NM."

Though, that's his opinion. I visited with my parents when I was much younger. We went to Taos Valley and I remember it was a really beautiful place. Ski during the day and jump in the pool at night.
Was useful to know, thanks. I think developing a wide range of highly competitive nano-materials is a serious issue today. There are many good nanomaterials companies but Modern Synthesis Technology company http://mstnano.com/products/graphene/ is one of the best I've worked with. They are known for their reliability, exceptional quality, time and cost efficiency. And they provide international supply of the most up-to-date nanomaterials and cooperate with the leading companies on the global market.
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There are some objective problems fairly raised here (e.g. quality of public transit) but set against the rest of the world, the net immigration numbers simply suggest we are not all as bad as the author makes out.
Thank god we have all of those shining beacons of socialism today to set us straight, like Venezuela.
Thanks TuringNYC!
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> This is a shining example of old web content we've lost in the current era of walled gardens and social graphs.

Five AMAZING geek social fallacies you never learned in school. You wont believe number 4!
> In some other countries, your ethnicity/background/religion would get in the way far more than in the US.

Some may say that in the US, what gets in the way is which social class you belong to. Several studies highlight that social mobility is very low in the US.
Why is nobody looking at the manufacturer of the sensor?
A guy called Colin Platt became the richest person in the world
GSF1 appears among artists, hippies, and that sort of crowd in addition to geeks.

It’s a common response to social bullying, and not limited to geeks — though it tends to manifest in marginalized social groups, for obvious reasons.
I'd wager that pilots, like any other professionals, make mistakes all the time.

This, however, is mitigated by a regulatory, technological and cultural safety net, which usually corrects such mistakes.

For example: There's an important cultural understanding that pilots admit safety relevant issues, even if they made a mistake in the process and not getting punished for it. The effect is that all involved entities learn from that and correct it in the future.

When something really bad happens pilot error is mostly part of the puzzle, but the bad outcome is a sequence of problems, which lead to catastrophy.

A great example is the worst disaster in civil aviation history ever[1], which ultimately was triggered by the error of a very experienced pilot. But there were a lot of small puzzle pieces, which needed to fall into place for this catastrophy to happen.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster

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The security that you have medical care, food and housing tomorrow takes away a lot of psychological pressure and your mind can think about other things. But nevertheless I also think about the ethical implications of letting people die because they cannot afford the medical care they need. A society that just thinks only about profitability of a person is in itself unjust and inhumane.
That's true. But on the other hand it seems that for the same cost people got happier, while not affecting employment levels. So it also shows that placing conditions on unemployment support creates wasted effort and extra suffering.
Note that hints can also simply be "who sent the thought" and not the hashtag or anything. Doesn't directly address your point, just another way to use the service. See https://aytwit.com/thoughter#hints for the different hint types.

Edit: realized from your comment you probably read that section already, apologies!
That article is terrible. It's a complete mischaracterisation of what it's sources actually said wrapped up in an attempt to make it relevant to the current MCAS drama.
And all this time I thought R was the programming language that statistically speaking people used.
Why not just have it installed on your system, and disallow websites to dictate which fonts to use?

Edit to make the comment (hopefully) more valuable: I mean, unless certain choice of fonts is somehow intrinsic to the content or purpose a given website serves, the browser, and by extension the user, probably know better which fonts are preferable for them to comfortably read the textual content.
I think this Vox video explains it well. TLDR American TV does a good job distracting people from real issues in order to keep funneling funds to the rich. My guess is European elites are catching on to American tactics and are following suit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNineSEoxjQ&t=100s
That's fixable by using voting machines to print the ballots. E.g. fill in the circles but also print the number of filled-in circles for each contest. Or, print only the selected candidate names.
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Americans don’t travel. If we did, we wouldn’t buy the myth of American exceptionalism.

But then, we are largely becoming a country controlled by global financial interests rather than the population. Money is the deciding factor in our elections, and the most concentrated forms of wealth out there are sovereign wealth funds and large multinational corporations whose executives are largely above the law. Which means you don’t need to be an American citizen to have a voice in the political process that affects the quality of life for hundreds of millions of us.

We need publicly funded elections. Otherwise, corporate and foreign money with zero interest in the wellbeing of American citizens will dominate the politics agenda (just like they have for the last 20-ish years).
This is easily prevented by additionally marking the number of candidates chosen.
How long did linux exist before there was a corporate sponsored person working on the kernel?

Only half rhetorical, as I'm actually curious.
2fa should always be on.

1) Signing should always happen. Publish time + hashes of external resources should be taken into account to prevent meddling with things after the fact.

2- a much harder solution) Don't use so many libraries.

In this way I think it's borderline impossible. Of course this vuln targeted `bootstrap-sass`.. it's basically a default gem for new rails installations since bootstrap is so commonly used.

Actually, rails 6.0 not only installs dependencies for you upon generating a new app, but it downloads yarn and installs 602 dependencies too.

It's a miracle we do anything as programmers.
The linked blog is by a notorious America-hater Umair Haque, almost all of his pieces are slammed for similar reasons you see in this comments section. It's hate bait, nothing more. (I recommend "Why the Anglo World is Collapsing" /s)

Take a look at his other work to get an idea of how seriously you should take this guy: https://eand.co/@umairh
I guess you were reading as a writing critic instead of trying to understand the point of the article. Interesting.
Thank you, I like the concrete numbers. Is this per week or per month and how old does one have to be to receive it?
It’s sort of like horse racing.

It’s gambling for most people, and crosses over to speculation for a limited population of people with domain expertise.
> If you immigrated to US from third world country you would know how amazing this country is.

Yes, compared to the third world country you come from. But that works for pretty much any other western country. It doesn't help comparing them between each other.
It is different. Algorithms require understanding what the algorithm does, how it operates. Lay people can't do this without significant training.

AI/ML in principle simply requires example mappings of inputs and outputs. Lay people can do this.
I tend to think this is a bad idea. Most of the characters that can't already be displayed using fonts included in modern operating systems are likely to be characters from "obscure" scripts that may need complex shaping for correct/readable display, which won't work with Unifont because of its limited 1:1 character/glyph mapping, and/or they're characters (whether from historic scripts or newly-encoded emoji) in higher Unicode planes, meaning you'll need to provide not just the basic (plane-0) Unifont but also the extra resource for higher planes. It adds up to a lot of bloat, for the sake of inadequate rendering of characters that the user probably can't make sense of anyway.

The one case where there might be a worthwhile benefit would be for recent emoji additions. But that would be better addressed by a more limited effort to provide an up-to-date emoji-only font, not a resource that attempts (in vain!) to cover the whole of Unicode.
If you give people everything

Easy solution: don't give them everything.

There's a lot of difference between "give people everything" and "make sure everyone has enough money for food and shelter". We're already doing the latter part, at least in the more civilized parts of the world. The argument for the U in UBI is that there's currently a whole lot of administration fees spent on determining who should get which handouts. If it's universal, all that management overhead disappears.

It's like retirement

Your view of retirement doesn't match the retired people around me.
I wouldn't necessarily say vast number of americans have plenty of experience outside the US.

For example, only 42% have a passport. https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2018/01/11/the-sh...
If this was a bug it would have presented in other airliners as software is an exact copy. Sound's like human or hardware fault.
I read the original and didn't get that there were more substance elsewhere. In the end I found it pretty contentless. The link that CoolGuySteve (and seibelj) pointed to is where the real article is.
That doesn't really work. Is my life better or worse if I feel worse about myself because I become aware of the way that I'm part of a unethical social system? Given the choice, I wouldn't choose to be a happy person who lives in the Jim Crow south and supports segregation. Part of what many artists do is help people understand themselves differently. You can't assume people are going to be willing to pay for something that's good for them (by their own standards).
Real Estate agents are famous for not representing their customer's interest. In real estate, half the time (buy-side) your agent is being paid their entire income for the transaction by your adversary. In several states, "your agent" is legally required to disclose the fact that they are not your agent!
I'd like to believe the hallmark of a truly great society is that they are capable of shamelessly copying good ideas from elsewhere.

I'm not sure this idea of 'everything [in the US being] lower quality' is going to hold up to close inspection though. He cites life expectancy; that statistic is probably going to suffer from Simpson's Paradox - it is reasonable to expect that the better the poor and are treated, the lower average life expectancy will be. It would be easy to have great life expectancy by raising the cost of living to be so high the poor are all forced to leave.

It isn't to say that America is all sunshine and roses; there are a lot of problems in how people are rewarded and punished for their choices. But it isn't obviously worse and looking in from the outside it does seem to be easier to be the change you want to see in America.

There is also the irony that these ideas aren't being communicated on a world-leading European message board using world-class European software. It isn't that telling, it just made me smile.
It's hilarious that the author is citing television. Is there anyone on the Earth who believes, e.g., British television is better as a whole than US television? They must really like slow-to-never-developing low budget, single camera angle crime dramas.

[Edit: Apparently so! Quite the controversial statement. However, when voting, do consider what percentage of television consumed outside of the US was produced IN the US and vice versa.]
At this point it should be obvious that network effects of every kind are the largest single determining factor in success, yet so many continue to believe in naive meritocracy.
>without some other income or assistance?

Low income households receive a housing allowance as well.

https://www.kela.fi/web/en/housing-benefits-amount-and-payme...
I'd phrase it as "massive taxation reduces the reward of doing business" and therefore, assuming equivalent risk, some number of potential entrepreneurs (and their investors) will decide it's not worth it.
Again, we are on the same page. 80% is what I was expecting. 94% is very good!
Why do you think those people write poetry instead of creating side project businesses?
What do you think an 'income' is?
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I will also say Cloudflare has saved sites I’ve managed numerous times. I’ve been null routed by major data centers for a few Gbps and they wouldn’t give us any options. It was always “wait.”

Most of the DDoS providers in this space are insanely expensive so I’m very glad Cloudflare has existed!
Interestingly here on Long Island, NY we have the NY and Atlantic RR which is a freight operator who leases LIRR tracks. They move freight between mainland freight tracks in New York City all the way out to the "forks". They even revived some abandoned LIRR tracks in NYC and LI.

It's amusing to see a small freight train come rolling through a passenger station with platform. I don't know how they squeeze them in, probably only run off-peak.
Living in Europe thus could mean living in the future.
But in this case the pilots and airlines were accused to be a lower tier then the american pilots. So on top of the regular accusations if this would have been an american airplane the third world country accusations were added on top as an extra.
> There is a myth of exceptionalism in America that prevents it from looking outward

Which is frankly such a common sentiment from every European I’ve ever met that it’s become almost a cliche. Perhaps we are a bit arrogant but at some point don’t you have to realize that maybe you’re doing the exact same thing in reverse?

All the things he listed out as being of lower quality are completely subjective. The food is worse? Compared to where? Yes, you can get a lot more variety of crappy fast food... nothing is preventing you from NOT stopping at McDonald’s though. It’s like saying all furniture is crappier in Sweden because IKEA is everywhere...
btw pg is not against crypto. he is neutral/positive imo