skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's been theorized that these companies are trying to reinstate an "official" narrative for people to follow.

https://youtu.be/fQNEu_CTe80?t=467

Tim is discussing a comparable process going on on social media in this video, which I see clearly related in this sense. Tinfoil hats out, what Google is being called out for here might be the exact same effort. It sounds like the US propaganda machine is attempting to reclaim the narrative by trying (and failing to) reinvent itself outside cable news.
Was he not shunned by the Ivy League in-groups, as per [1]? I don't think this is as simple as it seems to be.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/we-were-brett-kavana...
You don't need to drill tunnels for people to walk in - just a borehole wide enough to fit a cylinder filled with nuclear waste.

In fact, this very idea was already researched and test holes drilled - but of course was cancelled due to public opposition, even though we could get rid of our nuclear waste almost overnight using this method. Typical.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_borehole_disposal
> It funds welfare programmes and state pensions ... It enforces worker rights ... a degree of freedom of movement, expression, political affiliation and democratic expression

I always thought the people in power do this because they learned the hard way that revolutions and uprisings are frightening and that conceding to some, mostly trivial, requests from the rest of the people is a good way to prevent them from happening. As you point out, China, NK, Iran, Saudi Arabia & co. show that there are other ways of doing the same that work just as well (for now, at least - and with differing sets of side-effects, obviously), but they all have the same goal: to stay in power and rule over the people.

I'm not saying it's intrinsically bad or anything, but I think that saying the people ruling the West are all idealists who wish to serve the people, while people in the exact same positions elsewhere in the world are power-hungry despots seems kind of... too optimistic, maybe?

There was this consul in ancient Rome (IIRC) who was a farmer, was appointed as a leader to win the war, then he won the war and then left his office to go back to his farm. There's probably a reason why this became a legend - it wouldn't be this famous a tale if things like that used to happen every other day.
I think it will help if you think in terms of conditioning on (for example, a coarser sigma algebra). You would get another random variable that is measurable on the sigma algebra you conditioned on. If that is coarser so would be the new function you obtained by conditioning.
I'd happily use my disc versions of CS2 Illy and PS as they have all the tools I need, but unfortunately I need to maintain compatability with client files so I have a CC subscription.

Frankly, I hated paying as much as I did for Illy and PS here in the UK, which compared to about the same cost as the full suite in the States, but I complained sometime in the last year and now have the full suite for a mere 30p more than I was previously paying.

I still dislike their subscription model, but it now leaves a bit less of a sour taste.
If there's evidence that you've been deleting things, you haven't deleted enough evidence.
Reading over the opinion and the dissent (https://www.scribd.com/document/409788583/Apple-Supreme-Cour...), I think the crux for the majority is that the customers purchase the app through Apple.

The Illinois Brick ruling prevents "pass-through" claims of damagers. So if I buy something from Company A, and they bought something from Company B required to make my item, and Company B is a monopoly, I cannot claim damages as a "pass-through." Company A has to claim damages. The majority's point is clear:

"In this case, unlike in Illinois Brick, the iPhone owners are not consumers at the bottom of a vertical distribution chain who are attempting to sue manufacturers at the top of the chain. There is no intermediary in the distribution chain between Apple and the consumer. The iPhone owners purchase apps directly from the retailer Apple, who is the alleged antitrust violator. The iPhone owners pay the alleged overcharge directly to Apple. The absence of an intermediary is dispositive. Under
Illinois Brick, the iPhone owners are direct purchasers from Apple and are proper plaintiffs to maintain this antitrust suit."
I remember my learning moment. I worked 96 hours in one week to desperately save a project where the team had fallen apart. I was rewarded with a t-shirt and a six pack of beer.

Never again.
Universal Math Solutions in Dimensions 8 and 24
Your story is a shining example of the scientific method. It sucks it took so long. But that’s the whole point of science. Those human foibles are unavoidable. But in the end the science won out.

I guess I’m not sure what you are arguing? Science has to contend with human bias. Any method has to. That’s not going away. Isn’t it still the best method we have, short of altering humanity?
I think you are diminishing the importance of brands and brand loyalty for companies. A lot of effort is spent to have boxes designed for retail; size, shape, color, etc. matter a lot for this use case. Resistance to weather and being thrown around are not the main consideration of this use case. Standard size boxes that are shippable might be good for Amazon and the consumer but companies always want the brand front and center.
I believe all of these justices care a lot more about their legacy of justice and the sanctity of the court than anything else.
He did vote in favor of the bank bailout (as a Senator) so the large deficit in 2009 did have a little to do with him.
It creates a lot less waste, which is the point. Lots of fuel (waste) in, little bit of waste out.
Is Cloud Custodian extensible? Can we make it connect to other clouds?

I am trying out Cloudmarker. It claims to be extensible.

> As a result of this plugin-based architecture, Cloudmarker can also be used as a framework to develop your own plugins that extend its capabilities by adding support for new types of clouds or data sources, storage or indexing engines, event generation, and alerting destinations.

We have many VMs in Digital ocean. It can be nice if I can make Cloud Custodian or Cloudmarker connect to DigitalOcean. The plug-in framework of Cloudmarker looks neat. I am writing digitalocean.py similar to https://github.com/cloudmarker/cloudmarker/blob/master/cloud.... I can write read() function that returns the JSON from DO. The rest of the framework takes care of running it and putting it in the selected DB (Elasticsearch for me).

If the Digital ocean plugin runs fine I will write a GitHub plugin after it.
Riding for 50% off Uber and 40% off Lyft, capped at 10 rides week, really was nice. It almost approached public transit prices in some areas of Seattle.
There's an interesting case here of do you manipulate search algorithms for political reasons, or political alignment?
The brand value of a lot of left wing brands is higher without question (and I imagine they have more links too), so do you show them more, because, hey, it's just an algorithm... Or do you have to start showing an equal number of left vs right publications?

Also, who says what's left or right? How left? How right?
The vast majority (95%, including lots of oddball pcbs, fasteners, etc) of my recent Amazon deliveries have come from an Amazon van. I'm almost surprised they don't offer a reusable bin or something of that nature. It feels wasteful to throw away so many boxes.
Some people believe, much like there's a minimum wage and below that you're not allowed to hire someone (even if both employer and employee consent and it's market rate) and minimum safety standards (again, irrespective of mutual consent and market conditions) there should be minimum levels of working conditions.
Well... everyone chose to leave their junk up there, a few thausand new satelites wouldn't really matter, would they? Would also be an opportunity for someone to build drones to clean up space around earth.
US environment agency cuts funding for kids’ health studies
I guess (economics aside) that a wage increase is a simple concept to grasp.

But I'm interested how Amazon's working conditions are "inhumane"? I've read about 'picking' jobs which require lifting, bend, and walking for many miles per shift, but this doesn't seem more inhumane than many other jobs requiring manual labour? And I've read about complaints about the rate of workplace accidents (this was highlighted in the UK recently) but it's hard to tease out more details here.
Hermeus Raises from Khosla for Mach 5 Plane
Yes, that is pretty much how it works.
Coping with ADHD: Helping others to help myself
There is one aspect in which non-radioactive heavy metals are worse: since they are stable elements they must be stored away and guarded forever, not just for a limited number of years.
Actually you're the one breaking the Hacker News guidelines by making this kind of unsubstantive comment.
What's the lockup period for employees? Six months? Is it likely the stock of a company that isn't profitable (except in a few markets) and is rapidly burning through cash reserves is worth more in six months than it is today? Their marketed value isn't on being a profitable cab service in a few major markets, they argue they're taking over the world of mobility (which is obvious they aren't and can't).

Disclaimer: Armchair investor, intend to buy puts when they're available on the hunch there are no further greater fools to buy UBER
Hermeus announces plan to build the fastest aircraft in the world
Wasting food like this just is terrible. As kids my parents struggled to afford to feed us and we were taught never to waste food. Even now, if food goes off in my refrigerator I feel really guilty about it.

Seeing food just wasted like this is horrible.
It should be noted that UC browser has a lot of security flaws, and is notorious for not bothering to fix them.
PostgreSQL Slug Function
Used once is referring to plastic bags used to hold groceries and then immediately thrown out. (Not used more than once: ie a garbage bag, pick up dog poop, etc)

So it is comparing 1 reusable bag used 131 times to 131 plastic bags.

Further in the article another study considers plastic bags used more than once, which are much better for the environment.

>I think the fundamental problem with plastic bags is that since they are 1 or 2 use, they are always going to be entering the environment at a rate faster than they degrade. So there is going to be an ever-increasing buildup of plastic bags in the environment for as long as they go on being used.

I think it is much more important to look at scientific studies than what a random person hypothesizes with no evidence to back it up.
> Maybe you'd go off to college, but then come back when it gets hard because it's totally okay if you never amount to anything.

I would say, it's totally okay for any person, in rural US or urban, to not go to college if they don't need it. I am a huge proponent of higher ed, including making it freely available to all, but this idea that you have to go to college to "amount to something" is damaging.

Additionally, your use of "amount to something" is showing your own bias towards feeling that white-collar work defines success in life. Not everyone feels like this -- as you've noted, but it's not limited to "college-educated hippies." I know many, many people who work solely to put food on the table and find their fulfillment elsewhere. This could be via volunteering, art (not only hippie art), mentoring others, or pursuing dream jobs in their free time. Imagine if the safety net of UBI existed -- how many more people would feel confident taking the risk to open the restaurant they've always dreamed of opening, or art gallery, or other cottage-industry?

Furthermore, It's not about preventing people from working if they want to. It's about ending minimum-wage slavery -- making sure people don't need to work two or three minimum wage jobs just so their children have food to eat and a roof over their heads.

> I would probably just spend my life on the internet and playing games while feeling guilty.

You say this, but I kind of doubt it. That guilt would spur you to do something of value.

> Others would escape through drugs.

There is currently an epidemic of drug use in the US due to all the people trying to escape from the misery of their $7.25/hour existences.
Link to the podcast in reference, very excellent episode: https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/debunking-deficit-hyst...
Interesting. I suppose the distinguishing factor with apps like Amazon or Home Depot is they deal in physical goods?
> Think about people who work in Amazon warehouses despite those conditions.

I thought everyone wanted these jobs to disappear because Amazon was like a sweatshop or something? Now that Amazon is getting rid of such tedious jobs people are complaining? You can't have it both ways.
Turn it around and see if this makes more sense: for the pollution caused by making one cotton bag you could have made 131 plastic bags. This means that if you fail to use your cotton bag 131 or more times, you've created more pollution than you have saved.
Not sure it will because it's a very short time period that plastics have existed geologically speaking and the time periods found in rock/soil/ice are generally pretty imprecise until we can relate them to something like tree rings that show precise year cycles where there's a large event like a fire that shows up in both the rock/soil layer and in trees. Generally without large anchoring events like that the best we get is very large time frames for events and mostly in relation to other events in the local area where you can measure forwards and backwards (up and down in the rock formation) relative to other events.
Paper bags are also reusable, but more importantly they are biodegradable. “Just don’t throw them in the ocean.” has proven not to work. People throw everything that is packaging, all the time, despite decades long campaigns. Every generation has to diligently be educated, and despite this, it isn’t enough. The amount of plastic I have to pick up in my relatively wealthy neighbourhood is surprising.
> It starts right after the school.

I'd argue that the competition start before the child is even born in the modern world. Wealth of one's family, their connections play a major role in the success of the child (admission scandals come to mind)
Even better are foldable bins made of cloth—I think mine are reinforced with cardboard or semi-hard plastic inside. They stay open when loading with groceries, and don't roll around in the trunk of the car.
Sounds like it’s a really great time to be a farmer in the US.
Game of Life on GPU
PyPI has no closer relationship to Python than the other options to their respective language. Similarly to others PyPI also runs out of an http server. There really is nothing tied to Python.
The problem with trash is that it will always find its way into the ocean. Would you rather have a natural product (paper) break down in the ocean, or a plastic product[1] that will leave behind micro-plastics that have unknown health impacts?

1. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/29/biodegra...
Somewhat related, how is the strike price for the employee option holders determined?
> Increasing the productivity of a job does not eliminate it.

Of course it does. Not on an individual level, but if suddenly one employee can do three times more work, there is no need to recruit 2 more full time jobs to address the increasing needs. So on the whole, productivity will destroy jobs, but the good news is that the additional returns will create other jobs in other areas.
Paper comes from tree farms. More need for paper, more tree farms will be built. So even without use the farm themselves produce more benefit then plastic factories.
As I said in the other thread a few days ago, Uber should obviously be shorted, both in the short and the long-term.

Their investors are simply trying to hedge their losses by bringing this stock public.

Uber's entire valuation hinges on the idea that they will be in the big three of autonomous driving, and I simply don't think they A) Can sustain long enough to achieve this, B) have a large enough Moat to prevent outside competition from jumping in (which already happened to their ride-sharing all over Asia) and C) They bet on the wrong horse with LIDAR, vision (camera arrays) will be the future of Autonomous driving.
I'm a UBI supporter in theory. It's the practical math that always leaves me hung up. Even $600/mo/adult citizen is a seemingly prohibitive amount of money (works out to approximately the entire amount of all individual income tax payments, or about half of total receipts, including FICA).

And of course, $600/mo/adult is an extremely meager existence.
the consumer price standard is a pretty poor metric for monopoly. You can thank Bork of Watergate fame for that one.
In their defense the vast majority of mainstream media in the United States is left wing biased. Fox news is pretty much the only major right wing counter balance.
I think the original article title should be used. "A mysterious gut doctor is begging Americans to throw out “this vegetable” now. But, like, which?"
> SSHing into your running docker containers to edit code

no, not primarily

A few use cases:

1) I'm on a bastion host, and I need to knock up a script to run there

2) I'm working at home, and I don't want turn on the VPN, I SSH into my workstation and develop as if I was on the workstation

3) I need to change a conf/script/other because something is wrong, and the edit->commit->change config run-> test cycle is more than 2 seconds.

4) I'm in a container, debugging something and I want to edit a file (mostly python here so no need to compile) docker build-> run -> retry is painfully slow, and leaves loads of mess.

5) I'm working on a headless box somewhere or other.

6) I'm debugging on someone else's workstation

I only really work with vim in a terminal, so doing it over SSH isn't actually all that noticeable. It does gets to be a problem when the latency is > 200ms
This product is intended for use in IoT devices and not really for 'iPhone use'. A few things to consider:

First of, in the telecom market, there are two ways to get a discount: Buy more SIM cards, or buy more data. Let's say you offer a track-and-trace product, have deployed 1000 GPS trackers, you can easily get the monthly fees and the usage fees down to cents. Same goes for your 'GB-per-month' personal phone subscription, you buy more data, you get it cheaper.

But since roaming will always be costly, even for wholesale carries, SIM card subscriptions that can be used globally are almost always A. expensive, or B intended for IoT (low usage). (GPS, trackers, sensors, feedback buttons, etc). Twilio is focussing on the latter with this SIM.

That brings us to NB-IoT and LTE cat M.

LTE cat M(machine) is basically a stripped down LTE modem, while an NB-IoT modem (or LTE cat Narrowband) is a stripped down LTE cat M modem. Network parameters for these types of connectivity have been tweaked in favour of power consumption at the costs of low bandwidth and high latency. You could say that LTE-M is used for 'MB's per month'-devices (smartwatch for example) and NB-IoT is used for 'bytes per month' devices (is my container full already).

NB-IoT is cheap, extremely power efficient, but is not intended for moving devices.

LTE-M can be used for more demanding applications, like smartwatches, panic buttons (including voice) etc. It can also be used in roaming applications, but that's it. No streaming video etc.

So if you are looking to deploy a large scale IoT application, you want cheap, simple and energy-efficient hardware, which is why you need NB-IoT or LTE-M.

You could go for other technologies like Sigfox or LoRaWan, but they are inferior to NB and LTE-M if you ask me (roaming, availability of network/hardware).

In my view, Twilio does a great job of offering all kinds of telecom services (one stop shop), a common strategy in telecom called 'bundling'. But if you know what you want and where to look, you can get much better rates... Margins are great on this, I can assure you that :)
Would that be on top of the over 1/3rd that I already pay to the US Treasury?
Sorry for the nitpick, but I've only heard "underwater" to refer to when you own an asset worth less than you owe on it. I've never heard it used to refer to all losses in value from investment. So it doesn't seem to be the correct usage here. Am I wrong?
This what interests me (genuinely - I'm not just trolling here!)

If an employer has need for employees to perform a specific type of manual physical work --be it 'picking' for Amazon, or building houses, or working in agriculture, or whatever-- and they pay market rates, and adhere to health-and-safety laws... what other reasonable working conditions must be met?

For example, it's difficult to build houses without exposure to inclement weather.
This article was written before today's worse selloff - Uber is now less half the expected value earlier in the year. I wonder if this is the end of the current tech bubble. All those unlisted companies really aren't worth what everyone assumes they are.
not necessarily. if we're all working on a code base and reviewing each others work, and we all value cleanliness, things can reach an ok steady state.

you have to establish a cultural habit of tidying up a little when you're in there. often accompanied by a 'wow thats much better, thanks for doing that'.

more importantly you have to foster a sense of ownership. a common issue with the worst organizations I've worked with is fear and lack of understanding. the code isn't something we're shaping together - its just some large and awful monstrosity that bites you every time you get near it. every time you start pulling at a thread the whole thing unravels.

so you restrict your scope to as narrow a window as possible, and make the smallest changes you can to fix the bug or add the feature.

its the difference between living in a pleasant little village or a squalid favela.
Physicists discover new type of spin waves potentially useful for IT
> Apple was basically playing the "whoa, we don't sell apps, we just make an app store. They buy apps from the developers" card.

Well, one thing is certain, and that is that Spotify will be happy with this as it may end up making their competition against Apple Music a bit easier.
Since we're discussing nostalgia, what's still amazing to me is how l33t being on a T1 connection was, whereas these days that's like half the speed of crappy Verizon (9x) DSL.

On the other hand, going to eBay and searching Cisco 2501 is a bit depressing.
It kind of made me think and question why I had such attachment issues.

Why the same pattern I saw in how I had to be ”interested” to give something or someone my attention repeated over and over.

I’ve had many relationships over the years with a specific pattern: I lose interest in about a year.

One total burn-out after another.
Extreme interest followed by absolutely nothing.

There’s a follow up book I can’t find in English called (my translation): ”The dark secret”, that treats what they call ”deorganized attachement”

This one’s actually more relevant for me personally as my youth and upbringing was... “interesting” and in several ways traumatic.

On the topic of books:

“Healing ADD” was really useful for my partner:

https://www.bookdepository.com/Healing-Add-Daniel-Amen/97804...