skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good point. However hopefully whatever brilliant file format the source of truth is in will eventually end up being able to be consumed natively by the other applications and we can forgo the translation layer. Until then yes you have a good use case there.
The votes seem to be going the other way now :-)

I've heard people prefer JSON over XML because XML is too complex... and now we have json schemas, jsonpath... the namespaces can't be far away.

I'll admit that XML probably would be better without entities and the crazy whitespace handling.
> Withholding is an awful idea designed to favor the government over the taxpayer

I like taxes being withheld from my paycheck. Dealing with taxes can be incredibly confusing, and it's super easy to screw up. If I could choose between taxes being withheld and making payments on my own, I'd seriously consider having the money withheld.
I think part of the problem is that there's a lot of actors in law enforcement for which "reasonably suspected" isn't important; "can we make it stick" is. Past that, they don't even bother to consider if it might be the wrong person.

There's a LOT of good cops, lawyers, judges, etc. However, the bad ones can have such devastating effects on their victims, that all of them need to be watched (controlled? not sure what the right word is here) more than would be necessary for other areas.
The first thing that must be said is that there is no true definition of alt-right. https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-ma...

The second thing that must be said is that in order to communicate, we must use a consistent definition of the category for it to be useful.

The third thing that must be said is that when we argue "semantics", we're trying to figure out a shared definition of a category. Without it, there is no agreement. With it, arguments usually evaporate pretty quickly.

The left side of the aisle commits a dishonest fallacy constantly with respect to "alt-right". There is a category of despicable people. There is a category that includes non-despicable people. It's not right to waffle between the two to bolster rhetoric.

There is a category of despicable people that believe Western civilization is good because of its whiteness. These are the original "alt-right" people that everyone agrees are "alt-right". They are racist and pretty much everyone rejects them across the entire political spectrum. Maybe they number 100k globally with a very generous estimate.

There is a subset of those people who believe that enforcing ethnostate boundaries is good. They number maybe 10k globally, generously speaking. They are definitely "alt-right" by everyone's definitions.

There is a larger category that uses the word "alt" to imply simply an "alternative" right, which includes all conservatives that don't agree with traditional turn off the century neoconservative figures. So if you don't like Hannity and O'Reilly but do like Shapiro, then you're "alt-right" because you attach yourself to this new wave of conservative thought that doesn't agree with the old guard.

The definition here matters. People on the left want to stretch and shrink the definition to fit their rhetoric. But this is key here: the final category of alt-right doesn't really even overlap with the racist ethnostatists that everyone hates.

All that being said, Peterson isn't really even conservative. He just happens to be criticising more left leaning figures than right leaning figures because today, the left is far closer to totalitarianism than the right, in his estimation.
After privatisation people flocked back to UK rail. Volumes that had been largely static for more than fifty years have doubled since privatisation.

A Virgin Pendolino is a far more pleasant experience than the old British Rail equivalent.

I agree on the fare rises but rail remains subsidised while road and air travel are taxed.
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any links, please?
Exactly, if he is to be classed as a journalist, has his past actions conformed with journalist ethics and standards expected within the USA?

I do disagree with him being classified as a journalist as from my understanding he published writings from others. That, if we are to classify him, would place him more within the realms of a publisher, not a journalist.

Hence this is not a threat to journalists, but publishers - who are less protected and the legal buck for journalists actions. That's their job. They are there to make sure journalists adhere to standards as much as write articles wanted. But journalist or publisher, etc - your not above the law and the journalist card is not a get out of free jail card. Never has been and some would argue, more the opposite.
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Routing problems aren't particularly "unusual" though. The issue is that sometimes there's no good way to report them and they may go unnoticed for a long time if things like happy eyeballs or dns round robin mask some of their impact.
I never did, what problems did you encounter?
Do you know even the first thing about earthquakes?

You're an idiot.
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There is tremendous housing scarcity where housing is scarce and in demand, such as with transit access to major metro areas.

The depreciating housing is in places people don't want to live. In general modern societies are centralizing in cities to a degree never before seen, but that migration is stymied by catastrophic amounts of NIMBYism and regulation holding back density.

In Tokyo most properties don't depreciate that much if at all, and modern Japanese building code means new structures are much more permanent and last longer. It takes time for the culture to shift as with all things, but the Tokyo metro won't stay contrarian to every other metro for long - its been trending away from the always-deprecating building for over 30 years now.
They mention that in the article but they state that the data from Google is much more precise, which makes sense.

>"But despite the drawbacks, detectives noted how precise the data was and how it was collected even when people weren’t making calls or using apps — both improvements over tracking that relies on cell towers."
This is great news for anyone anti-Facebook!

I can speculate for hours but my initial impression is that people do this under stress when faced with overwhelming critism and lack the appropriate coping mechanisms to handle said stress. It almost always is an early indicator of absolute breakdown in the individual and subsequently the organization tied to such an individual. Yes organizations can move on, however usually and specifically in this case the person responsible wields too much power and is directly implementing systems that undermine the resiliency of the orginzation to respond effectively to systemic threats.
I meant a human as opposed to an algorithm.

Point being: kanji words aren't always sorted phonetically, for the reasons described in the article, so a user may not be surprised if they aren't. But when a human is sorting kanji words they do so phonetically by reading.
Orwell never guessed that the government could outsource our dystopian nightmare to corporations.
Closing tags is not really an issue with XML.

In my experience, the biggest reason people hate it is because it has too many ways of structuring data, and it allows people who design the schemas to go overboard. Attributes or child nodes? Multiple namespaces or just extend the one you have? CDATA or embedding?

That said, simple XML is as good as simple JSON. XML is fine if you keep it simple when designing the schema. AND of course one can screw up with JSON too. But after almost 20 years of people over-engineering their XML schemas, I can't fault anyone for choosing a simpler data format.
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> Believing in anything is optional - except...

Except nothing.

> hard scientific facts that have been proven experimentally

Science isn't in the business of proving things. Science develops explanatory models that account for known evidence. Saying that science proves anything is super wrong and leads to all kinds of problems.
It's called "Social Fixer for Facebook"
using Turing complete languages for configs is a mistake.

Configs are hard, and they're different to enough from normal software (for example DRY doesn't apply in the same circumstances) that using the same tools is a bad idea.

I've seen what happens when swes use swe languages on configs. They get unintelligible. And then I have to clean up the messes.

To be clear though, using Json or toml for configs is also often a mistake.
Great comment. I'll share a potential practical "definition" that popped into my head that is clearly different from the topological approach.

If one starts with the idea of a hole as: "something that an entity can fall into or through", then it becomes very clear that a cup has a hole and a plate doesn't. An ant can fall into a cup from one side, but there is no way for an ant to fall into or through a plate.

For falling "into" something, clearly some conception of "height" is important for this definition. Perhaps its related to being able to draw certain lines -- ones that are nearly parallel and of a relatively large length -- from one boundary to another surface of the object.

For falling "through" something, I'm drawing a bit of blank right now, but I think there is some fairly simple definition that can clearly express this idea.

I would argue the above is pretty close to what humans naturally consider as holes.

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EDIT: Thinking about this a bit more... I think we can simplify the above by viewing holes as "openings". This covers both cases of "falling into" or "through", and removes the distracting reference to gravity.

It should be possible to come up with some sort of fairly practical definition of "opening". I think it has do with relatively sizing and geometry of the "cavern" that the hole leads to.

However... inherently, there is no sharp line we can draw here, as the difference between a small scratch or dent and an actual cavernous hole is just a matter of degree. It seems, like many things in life, the distinction will remain a bit fuzzy and is not perfectly resolvable.
Are there practical uses for "hydrocarbon-degrading" microbes? Like cleaning up oil spills? Or eating the plastic that the oceans are filling up with?
Your comments here aren't helping. The clear implication is that Dr Bouman is receiving "undue credit" in order to push a "feminist narrative".

If that's your honest reading of events, then you're the problem here, my dude.
That can't be right. Fork your own build and edit out the tracking code if you have to.
Even a cursory glance at some of the sections on XDA or a search for '2019' and 'brick a mobile' will reveal that they are not mutually exclusive events.
What's the alternative? How about...JavaScript! JS has a little function `JSON.stringify` that accepts objects and returns JSON. Pretty nifty.
Recalls & reversals generally seem to very selectively incite the fringe. The center figures the matter is settled, and the very edges come in and undo it. So I personally tend to see recalls & reversals especially (except in cases of e.g. corruption, criminality, incompetence) as the will of the fringe, not the will of the masses.

Colorado is kind of an example for me. In 2013 the right mobilized over just-enacted gun control laws and recalled a number of Democrats, turning the majority to the right. But then in the general elections of 2018, everything went back to the Democrats again.
8 orders is crazy!

Though to be honest I think unicellular organisms take pressure differences much more easily than multicellular orgs.
People are going to treat housing as an investment so long as government institutions artificially constrain it to such a preposterous degree that you can exploit unmet demand in perpetuity.

Even in China precincts with more recognized property rights will see this effect where even on massive government works projects contractors just build around holdouts whom can exploit the growing demand for the land they are on.
At least back then SIPRNet had a password login for normal users. I've been out for nearly a decade, so I don't know if the situation has changed.
I know you're probably joking, but for the sake of anybody reading this who may be consider composting: A healthy compost doesn't smell bad (I honestly kind of like the smell) and doesn't smell strongly either, so neighbors won't mind or even know it's there. I compost in my small patio; there's table and chairs just a couple feet from the composter and it hasn't been a problem.
The NYPost is the oldest newspaper in the US. It was founded by Alexander Hamilton to push anti-Jeffersonian propaganda.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Post#History

It is as reliable as the nytimes. Meaning it has a bias towards their benefactors like every media source.
(Hacker news toxic... have you seen twitter...? ;)
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> Trains are also more expensive to run than planes because they need more infrastructure to operate, and that infrastructure is high maintenance.

Planes and their associated physical plant are pretty expensive too and suffer a lot of variable costs trains don't. Do you have figures?

Apart from that, your suggestion is not obvious.

The SNCF is a nationalized train system, and it arguably works well.

Britain's rail network was built privately and suffered after nationalization (and subsequently after privatization)

The US's nationalized passenger network is in dire shape. The private sector freight system is thriving.
To be honest, I think he is more of a musician’s musician and a bit hard to “get”.

Outside the artistic creativity itself, I find his music more enjoyable by recognizing the craftsmanship and musicianship required to create his unique sounds and rhythms. Once you realize it’s not just random noises, perhaps some of the songs may speak to you like I found.

If you have ever tried creating electronic music with drum machines, synthesizers, midi loopers, etc, it would be a lot easier to appreciate his music I think.

Maybe similar to say, free jazz? If you don’t appreciate or understand the nuances, I doubt you’d enjoy listening to it.

I’m on mobile or I’d research, but I’m sure there are some great videos on YouTube explaining some of his or similar techniques?
I use this one and it works well: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fbfluffbustingpuri...
This thread got really deep, but the answer is simple.

Peterson is describing traditional mythological associations, not prescribing anything. Chaos is tradtionally associated with the feminine. Order is traditionally associated with the maculine. This is true historically. He's not saying anything should be any way on this topic.
Leave it at home. Don't think that Google is the only culprit here. As long as you're connected to public infrastructure there's a company that will be legally obligated to narc on you.

Google might be just the latest addition. Or maybe the traditional media has declared outright war on internet companies in retaliation for taking their ad and subscriber revenue.
> Comments are mostly useless in a machine-generated and machine-consumed file. They are indispensable for humans, because they are a link to what machines are not doing.

But comments are often code smell—a crutch for poor identifier naming and design. If your names and design are well thought out you rarely need comments and the consumer of your code should be able to understand it using the statically checked source alone—-versus manually having to parse your unchecked human language documentation.
Not the parent commenter, but it really gets tough to figure out _where_ you are in a bunch of nested lists, objects, etc deep down in the yml file. When the schema gets complicated enough you start having to refer back to the documentation to understand what syntax a particular item needs (I'm looking at you, docker compose!)

One example from a larger file:

networks:
macvlan51:
driver: macvlan
driver_opts:
parent: eth0.51
ipam:
config:
- gateway: 192.168.51.1
subnet: 192.168.51.0/24

Maybe I'm just getting older and dumber, but that hyphen under config seems completely arbitrary to me (and the necessity of it is poorly documented in the manual). This gets magnified to the extreme as your config file grows. Maybe this is a list of objects under a key? Who knows.

Edit: OK, it looks like hyphens indicate arrays in the schema but for me it feels like a guess as to which one of these to use for each particular case.
I would speculate that they could. Pressure should be a lot less significant at the bacterial scale. Sperm whales can survive at the surface and deep ocean, and are fairly closely evolutionary related to us so the pressure resistance is probably coming from large scale morphological changes and not structural differences at the cellular level.
Live shows are amazing! Saw him in 1996 in Seattle, and in 2003 at an All Tomorrow's Parties festival in UK. The latter was absolutely incredible, curated by Autechre.

Boy I feel old ;)
Current policies are that men and women should be treated equally, and the women have the same rights over their bodily autonomy and sexual relationships that men do. I want to read your comment as implying something other than a view that women having such equality and autonomy is a problem. Can you elaborate on what current policies, specifically, you feel are in error and what "future is male" is supposed to mean in relation to improving population numbers?
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Does the left hand side of the bell curve actually owe any federal income tax?
Correct, the problem is the misguided idea of immigration when automation is the future.
When we introduced speed limits, people were protesting. When we introduced catalytic converters, people were protesting. When we banned smoking in busses, people were protesting. When we banned smoking in restaurants, people were protesting.

Quite often, the people don't know what's good for them. That's we generally don't have direct democracies.
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To me it’s an improvement over JSON which is an improvement over XML.
> It isn't a simple matter of "paying people" to get them out of their homes. You have to force them out via eminent domain.

Nonsense.

If zoning was changed so large housing buildings became legal, existing home owners in prime locations could become very rich selling to skyscraper developers. Or even build tall buildings of their own.

All experience indicates that people with a chance to become very rich will take that chance.
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From the website: "[2018-04-13 13:32 ET] We're still under heavy load. To reduce the likelihood of the Gateway Timeout error, we've reduced the refresh rate of the data -- i.e., information about your devices will be updated roughly once every minute (instead of once every 15 seconds previously)."
I live in southeast Alaska, and anyone who's been in Alaska for a while starts to know people from around the state. We don't always talk about climate change as a global phenomenon, but people are always talking about the specific changes they're seeing and experiencing.

Southeast Alaska is a temperate rainforest. When I moved here in 2002, I spent my first years relishing the short periods of clear skies we had. I'd plan longer hikes for those days, and squeeze in a few of those hikes each year when the weather cleared. I liked going hard outdoors when it was clear, and then enjoying some inside time when it was gray and gloomy. It was a perfect place for a programmer, because you play hard for a while when it's nice and then spend longer periods working indoors while it rains. I like the rain too, but it was nice to plan some bigger hikes for dry spells.

Now I make myself do indoor work when it's nice out, because we have regular month-long dry spells. It's not just me; many people talk about how they've adjusted their lifestyle away from a focus on rain. We all still talk as if the rain keeps us inside, but it's less of an impact every year. Around the state it's the same story, local changes have a wide range of direct impacts on the everyday lives of residents here. Three miners in Nome got stranded on an ice floe because the ice broke up in March for the first time in at least 120 years. [0]

If you're curious to hear about Alaska weather on a regular basis, Brian Brettschneider is an Alaskan climatologist who regularly provides informative commentary on long-term patterns and recent changes. [1]

[0] - http://www.nomenugget.com/news/nome-gold-miners-rescued-drif...

[1] - https://twitter.com/Climatologist49
> If your names and design are well thought out

Sure, but how often does that happen?
It's possible he might believe that child support and it's function is being perverted which is fuelling a decline in the number of men willing to engage in relationships with women.
I'm trying to write something snappy, but honestly you're just rude. Your shitting on my profession and from here it looks like you've only ever operated extremely simple production environments.

(Those examples, the real world ones, where from competent software developers that did product development, not operations people).
> you show up on the first day before you find out they require you to sign this piece of paper.

So ask them as part of "accepting the offer" to see the contract, rather than later. It's a bit foolish to move to another city for a job without knowing what the contract is.

> they may be the ones hiring because they need you just as badly, but you'll rarely be in a position to know that for sure.

And they don't know if you'll walk away, either. Unless you act like a victim when talking to them, of course.

Essentially, if you act like a victim, you'll become one. It's just like dating - she's going to walk all over you if you act all needy and desperate.

You're not going to die if you don't get that one job in the entire US.
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Tech stocks are flying high again - maybe a bit too close to the sun.

What to do with a decent number of unvested stock? E.g., if I am happy with the value my unvested stock have today, how can I lock them in more or less today? What strategies worked for you?

Futures can be a nice (and probably cheap) option. However, if I lose my job, the stocks don’t vest and went up 30% in the meantime I have a problem (going short)...

Put options in the money ain’t exactly cheap (especially if they run for a few years). I was thinking “way out of money” Put options (e.g., strike price 40% below current value with settlement date 2 yrs from now).

What strategies worked for you? What to keep in mind (e.g., when a car hits me, my stocks don’t vest and I have some open positions my wife doesn’t know about...)?

I can deal with losing 20/30% of their current value, -60% would put me in crisis tbh...
False comparison to SF. Build dense highrises in the middle of nowhere of course make the rent cheap. The dense highrises in the middle of Shanghai would have outrageous rent. Desirable places are always expensive.
It has a few features that feel like programmability but really aren't, and I think these address most of the use cases that people want a Turing complete language for.
You're the reason many people don't take global warming seriously. People like you are so wrong on population and its effects so they just assume you're also wrong on global warming.
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Since you work at Google, do you have any knowledge about Sensorvault? Where does the data come from?
> Out-of-pocket medical spending jumps once the money hits people’s bank accounts.

It is a bad thing that tax withholding is one of the few ways Americans can have savings. When you live check to check this can be your only option.