skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This whole entire argument is pretty strange to me.

It's upper class people from Europe debating with upper class people from the US where it's better for "middle class" people.

If you've read Picketty at all, it's pretty clear there is no middle class. And the only place in the world a true and sizeable middle class ever existed was the post WWII United States from like the 50s to (maybe as late as) the 90s.

Life sucks for lower class people everywhere. I suppose it's slightly less shitty for lower class people in Europe.

According to Picketty, the capital / income ratio had been substantially higher in Europe for the last 20 years than it is the US -- and at the time of writing Capital in the 21st century, it was still higher in Europe. That is to say, social mobility -- as depressingly low as it is in the modern US -- is (and has been) MUCH worse in Europe.

America's biggest flow truly is it's greatest strength. This is the most hopelessly optimistic group of people on the planet. Most Americans truly believe that one day they'll be successful.

You know why they believe that? Because for 40 years, this was really the only place in the world where that was plausible for an average Joe. It's still one of the few places where it's even slightly statically likely.

I think most people would trade hope for a slightly less shitty life.

I think that's why Americans don't really care that much why life for lower class people in Europe is slightly better than it is for people in the US.
Campaign spending is not the whole picture. How many outside interests contributed otherwise to HC and DT in the last election?

You can start an ad campaign against a candidate you don't like without that showing up in the campaign fund.
If browsers are to bundle fonts, they should bundle fonts that actually support correct rendering of the various scripts in Unicode - e.g. the Noto fonts. Unifont simply cannot render many languages correctly.

Better still, though, for operating systems to bundle adequate fonts. And indeed, OS-installed font coverage has come a long way in recent years.
As a resident of a western country, I don't fully understand how to implement or test Unicode compatibility on my browser, website, terminal, etc. Is there a test suite of characters I can use to validate etc?
I never realised buying crap you don't need equated to a better life.
I disagree, and would say that was even less true in 2003 when this was written — but there’s a fair bit of variance in how the word is used, and it’s on a trend towards improved status now that, well, (some) geeks seized substantial assets and syncophants have to suck up to (some of) them now.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/geek
... Great.

Well, I guess consideration for anything except mission results is too much to ask of an organization like a military...
Europe doesn't currently have a problem with building a wall to keep the Mexicans out or anything.

This is plainly not true. EU has a lot of its own walls. It's just the fact that it lacks long land border with countries from which major migration flows originate is what makes it a lesser topic for debates.

Why do you think migrants coming from the Middle East prefer to cross Aegean sea, instead of going by land? Because land border is all fences, barbed wire, and even landmines with not a single gap.

And limiting migration is very hot political issue in many EU countries currently.
Some other info aggregated here
https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/4/18294317/boeing-737-max-et...

Clear to most that the software has/had an appalling design for error-handling, with tragic results, and blame from Boeing to deflect that
While I sort of agree with the sentiment of this, I really can't see any downside to learning how to do a decent mix on a pair of turntables. It helps to break things down to the bare minimums, no fx, no beat-sync, nothing. Basically, if you can pull off a great mix with just two dekcs and a mixer, you'll be fine to move forward with whatever else you choose to use.

Plus you know (and hopefully respect) where it all started / came from.
This was my experience in Brazil, too. Everything was more expensive, unless it was made in Brazil. This was either due to import tariffs or price gouging (or just domestic taxation, as on petrol), but it was still hugely impactful.
>I think it's pretty disgusting that you're still smearing the Lion Air Pilots despite all the facts that came to light after the Ethiopian crash.

Thank you for your personal attack.

Besides that, I'll just note that you didn't actually address any of my points.
I'm not surprised. 7+ billion people on the planet and growing, some of whom enjoy the highest standard of living ever which requires more and more resources. Those not enjoying the high life want it. Climate change is and will continue to place ever increasing stresses on modern societies. From damage to coastal cities (where most humans live), problems growing crops due to weather changes, and water scarcity - the things we need to live in the manner we are accustomed to are becoming rarer as there are more and more of us living on the planet.

And then there are nuclear weapons. Nuclear proliferation is introducing new actors that must be accounted for when trying to prevent nuclear war. Existing actors can experience a significant change in leadership, policy, and direction - take a look at recent US politics as an example of this. You can imagine maintaining nuclear peace as a weighted graph, with every nuclear state as a node, with vertices to every other node. The graph will only continue to grow over time and the weights can change, sometimes drastically. It just becomes more unstable over time due to the strain of nationalism, climate change, and nuclear proliferation. Then throw in miscommunication and computer glitches into the nuclear mix - events like the Cuban Missile crisis and Vasili Arkhipov, Stanislav Petrov in the 1980s, Boris Yeltsin and the Norwegian Rocket Incident, and unfortunately many others. The risk of large scale nuclear conflict is only growing. Yes, I'm aware of MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) and how as a policy it has helped us so far. But MAD is less effective for smaller nation states and rogue groups (who will more easily obtain materials and know-how over time), it works until it doesn't. And MAD does nothing for the miscommunication and computer glitch scenarios I have provided. It's not a magical blanket that will protect us from the consequences of having nuclear weapons.

Sorry for the rant. I think this will be our Great Filter. I hope I'm wrong.

- Links:

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/03/you-and-almost-e...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_rocket_incident

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_nuclear_accid...
The diets cutting one in five lives short every year
The proposed SpaceX internet plan. WOW
Beto O’Rourke outspent Ted Cruz $79MM to $45MM. Another exception?
Docker’s vision was to throw images over to the ops team so they can figure it out themselves.

Generally speaking I don’t know of many dev teams that enjoy OS and middleware patching or the nuances of Linux security. Some do of course, but many just want to code.

Buildpacks’ vision is that the ops team already knows how to install run production systems and that knowledge is encoded and tweaked in a buildpack.
I'm no nationalist, but I do enjoy my high paying Engineering job and low cost lifestyle.

I have concerns my pay would be lower and cost of living higher in Europe.

Looking to be able to retire by 32 years old.
It's certainly an interesting finding, but I wonder if there are any long term implications of it? Especially as swimming should be easier on the knees than running is.
I'd expect the opposite. Giving a UBI would suddenly give the poorest people a voice in the market, and industries that are currently bottom-feeder would become inclusive and thriving. Eg payday loans becomes small business loans. Dollar stores get better fresh produce, etc.
As a European who wants the American way of life, thank you for this. At times it feels like I'm the only person in the world who likes America.
It's also 1.1GB!

And hasn't been updated since 2017 https://www.google.com/get/noto/updates/

But, other than that...
Thanks for the link, just subscribed.

Years ago I took Chris Manning and Dan Jurafsky‘s Coursera NLP class and it was excellent. I also own, I think, every book they have written including Jurafsky’s book on food.

It is extremely generous of top universities to make their classes available online. Of course, watching the videos and trying the homework assignments on one’s own is not the experience of going to Stanford, but it is less expensive!
> Your employees aren't allowed to work their asses off.

Strict labour laws don't really prevent this in practice, if someone _wants_ to work themselves to death they can (I've worked with a remote team from Poland before while I was in Australia. Despite Poland having far strong labour laws than Australia, some members of the Polish team voluntarily worked longer hours and just didn't report it).

What labour laws do is prevent employers from forcing employees to work crazy hours. I think it's largely a cultural difference in the end. I live and work in the US now and here I've noticed the general sentiment that employees should be thankful to have a job and so should do whatever their employer says. It's also important to realise that highly compensated tech employees are less susceptible to this needing to work insane hours because we have much better leverage, but that doesn't stop people self-imposing longer hours due to cultural differences.
Those forums exist and are more widely-used than ever. They're just mostly hosted on reddit now.
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Zuckerberg’s statement on ledger technology becomes a hot topic
Bell Fibe throttling, in modem speed test boosts bandwidth
I noticed I was being throttled to extremely reduced speeds. Using several different speed tests i get one speed (10% advertised speed), then i run the bell fibe in modem speed test and while the in modem speed test is running I get my full bandwidth (on every different speed test service). In fact sometimes when I run the in-modem speed test I get even faster than advertised speeds (on third party speed test services) but only while the in-modem speed test is running and in the moments after. After a certain delay, my speeds drop back down at which point i can again boost them by initiating an in-modem speed test.

Is there a secret to getting an unthrottled connection with Bell Fibe? This is a FTTH connection. Has anyone made a script that monitors bandwidth and continually triggers the in-modem speed test when below a certain speed threshold to automate the process?
This occurs in other snake species as well, the documentation is not always complete, but there is evidence for adders and pythons.

> It turns out that the Komodo sex determination system means the offspring are always male.

Do you mean when it is not parthenogenenis? How does this work?

EDIT: these are some of the snakes that I think it has been (partially) documented for:

Copperhead

Fur de Lance

Some types of rattlesnakes

Burmese Pythons

Reticulated Pythons
Cmon. Take this passage, right at the beginning:

>There is a myth of exceptionalism in America that prevents it from looking outward, and learning from the world. It is made up of littler myths about greed being good, the weak deserving nothing, society being an arena, not a lever, for the survival of the fittest — and America is busy recounting those myths, not learning from the world, in slightly weaker (Democrats) or stronger (Republicans) forms.

He makes a bunch of accusative statements that are intentionally designed to provoke bipartisan outrage, hence clicks and shares on forums like Hacker News. It's absolutely hate-bait.
Obviously the quoted author has never lived an upper-class American life. Context is important when speaking about America. We have the third-largest population in the world and a larger degree in inequality than most of the countries in our GDP-bracket. There is no better place to live in the world if you are intelligent, determined, healthy, and ideally, rich and well-connected. As for the justice of such a situation, well, this is the perennial American debate: is inequality actually a good thing, or are we in a zero-sum game where wealth is a pie that never grows? See Paul Graham’s essays, as always.
Not all of the 50 million people use Linux, so they should be covered with the previous fonts. But i'm curious - if some character cannot be displayed, will the browser try the next (or fallback) one automatically? I've been using this list for quite some time, but maybe it's time to revise it.
Pre-market is... not looking very understanding this morning for $TSLA, to say the least.
Lead contamintaion as a result of high use of lead and other metals (like mercury) during war (and after) is certainly a known and studied thing:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3464374/

So it wouldn't surprise me if many soldiers would be affected too.
A fair number of couriers, and delivery drivers. Over the road truckers as well, but even cars there are a lot of people who make a living delivering original documents where a copy is not legally valid.
And same in NZ where they’re used in local elections.
The fact they are typically referred to as exceptions has nothing to do with the fact that they are exceptional or not. Exceptions, in an abstract sense, are a language feature that allows exiting from functions via an alternative mechanism to traditional 'return' statements.

The main advantage (just picking reasons off the top of my head) is that you can write your code as if it will certainly succeed, then have a separate block of code for handling failure cases. This makes code a lot more legible and draws explicit attention to failure case handling. Some languages make a distinction between 'checked' and 'unchecked' exceptions (e.g. Java) whereby checked exceptions must be handled at the call-site, whereas unchecked exceptions can be caught anywhere in the call stack (or not at all, in which case the thread or program will terminate). It is often conventional to forego checked exceptions and only use unchecked exceptions to provide flexibility to the caller in where they handle the exception. Some languages such as Kotlin remove the concept of checked exceptions from the language entirely.

Languages like C which don't have exception handling force the programmer to use return code checking to verify if a method call has succeeded. This is fine, but as I alluded to above, can add noise to code and diminishes flexibility.

One example of the power of unchecked exceptions is e.g. an exception mapper in a REST server. This allows the programmer to throw an unchecked exception at any point in the server application code and this will (if not handled by the application code explicitly) get caught by the exception mapper. It will then map this exception to an appropriate HTTP response code and return it to the API user.

An argument against exceptions is that there is a large 'overhead' to handling them. I've yet to see a scenario where an application performance bottleneck is being caused by exceptions. YMMV.
I think more accurately, it's based more on a friendly attitude than hard work.
I think it depends on your frame of reference.

Sure, for certain individuals the US, or Europe, or much of Asia would provide a better life.

But compared to how things were in the past, the US has changed for the worse.

I'm a white male, so I can't really complain about being mistreated in the sense you're mentioning. But in talking to many people, and in my own experiences, there's a sense that the "meritocracy" is increasingly a falsehood based on survivorship bias.

My own sense is that this is largely driven by increasing income inequality, coupled with or driven itself by monopolies and rent-seeking behavior across many many domains. So a smaller and smaller pool of money is going around to those who are able and willing, and a disproportionate amount of it is going to a smaller few who either game the system, or who are willing to tolerate abuse.

Part of what the article is referencing, I think, is a shame among Americans to say this, because it's labeled as sour grapes or something. I also think part of it is a sense that admitting the system might be broken is actually less optimistic because it amounts to some admission that you don't have agency. But these seem increasingly untenable as positions to have.
Phishing Attack Uses SingleFile Addon to Obfuscate Malicious Log-In Pages
As usually, the disclosure is done as two crimpled pink pieces of paper with light gray print. The text on the paper tries to be legally correct and understandable by non-lawyers at the same time and fails to achieve either of these purposes.

Been through that. Still angry.
It is not lost. 15 years later, it is still up, and it is even featured on Hacker News ;)

https://www.google.com/search?q=link:http://www.plausiblyden... revealed 370 results, including social networks, blogs and the like.

What may be true is that the global signal to noise ratio is lower than before. A consequence of the web being cheap and accessible. However, that kind of content is not only present but there is more than before. And while it is buried under piles of noise, we have much better tools to deal with it.

Search engines like Google, Wikipedia, Hacker News, etc... will get you loads of quality content. Platforms like Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, etc... can get very instructive if you follow the right accounts, or give you some mindless fun and memes if you so choose. The two are not exclusive.
Same with Instagram. I don't use it but I concede that it is useful to some people as a platform for promoting businesses.
FB on the other hand, deserves to die in a fire.
As we have now learned, switching to the manual control is useless when the aircraft is in this condition (high speed, stab down, elevator up).

The Ethiopian pilots turned off the electric trim control, only to have to turn it back on again.
Reason for the low convition rate [3]. The cameras were too bad:

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/koeln-silvester-justiz-101....

Perpetrators could hardly be identified

In Cologne, the charges resulted in preliminary proceedings against 290 suspects and to date in 43 indictments against a total of 52 defendants; in addition, six orders of summary punishment were issued. According to the local court, six of the cases are still pending. But most of the proceedings deal with accusations such as theft, robbery or receiving stolen goods. The allegation of sexual coercion was made in only three proceedings against a total of six accused persons.

The biggest difficulty for the investigators: Many of the suspected perpetrators of sexual assaults from New Year's Eve could only be identified with difficulty afterwards. The investigators evaluated more than 1000 hours of image material, for example from surveillance cameras. However, in most cases it was not possible to identify individual persons.
Did he say you can’t find those things in New York? I read his point as generally Europeans value things like fresh bread and leisurely spending time in a cafe more than Americans. This is backed up by my own personal observations from the time I’ve spent in Europe.
>Money is not the deciding factor in American elections. Hillary Clinton spent twice as much as Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign.

I understood the comment to reference the special interest money behind elections not so much the total amount of money. Corporations vs. individuals.
Those attack vectors you mentioned are already known, and we essentially have to live with them. When it comes to "reflecting on trusting trust", we already know that it's basically impossible.

However, this does not mean we should by default be installing heaps of packages upon generating new packages. This is practically begging for a security exploit, particularly the JS packages.

[0]: https://www.archive.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p7...
The way science is currently done is wrong
Agile Lite: Agile without all the burnout
Well, yeah, the Europeans have good work-life balance. But that comes at a price. European rates for software developers are way below what they are the US. Also, there are far fewer big opportunities. There simply aren't any FAANG-tier companies in Europe. They're all American, and there are a few players in that league in Asia. But Europe doesn't have any.
But still, the number of Tesla's driving around here in the Netherlands is just impressive.
I do believe in a bright future for the Tesla car brand.
Some of this behavior could be mitigated. Remove likes and resharing. Ban the incentives (economic, internet points, attenuate diffusion with distance from *caster), etc. in other words, semi-anonymize the author, take away virality and remove the economics (likes, views, etc., which incentivize virality).
Smart engineers are optimizing addiction, burning fossil fuels, and many other social ills. But those pursuits make a lot of money, and absent regulation, the labor market will be attracted toward them.

The future you're talking about will have to be regulated much more (at, at least, differently) than the present. I doubt it could even be capitalist -- which, to be clear, I see as a good thing.
"I personally have lower taxes, high quality healthcare, and live in an awesome location, and I got all of that through an education and training. That is available to almost every American if they just put in the work."

I don't know if that's true. If I'm a child with food insecurity, my lack of nourishment, poor home life, overtaxed regional social programs, and government disincentives will cause me to be unable to focus on my education at my overtaxed school program, thereby setting me back for the rest of my life through no fault of my own.

If I'm one of many children born in a county or state with no access to clean water, I am more likely to develop a chronic illness that will prevent me from putting in the work necessary to achieve your lifestyle through no fault of my own.

If I'm one of many blue collar workers who destroyed my body in my 40s putting in work, I no longer have access to my way of work and the industries I can go into are plagued with known ageism. I am now stuck through no fault of my own save for a lack of future-sight that technology will be the thing to get into 40 years ago.

Moral correctness is all well and good, but if we are gleaning over those less fortunate with our morals, we're not being moral at all- we're just providing justifications for why we deserve what we have and more importantly why people who do not have what we have deserve their poverty.
Bold move, trying to critique Europe on violent crime statistics versus those of the US.
Depends on your employment contract.

(OK, so given the general vibe I don't expect Europe to have the same kind of repugnant clauses I've seen elsewhere, but...)
What's the benefit of doing it this way instead of how Troy does it?