skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The fish seem perfect as long as they stay on the other side of the glass. They can’t eat you if you don’t swim with them. Sharks and piranhas can be safely admired as long as you stay in your world, and they stay in theirs.

I think this is a useful analogy, because it serves as a possible explanation as to why there seems to be a 'generation gap' whereby previous generations believe to a certain degree it is possible (and right, even) to separate the artist from the art itself, and why modern progressives are rejecting that (Although this gap is cleaner seen from a political perspective, I believe that to some degree it is also generational).

Previously, culture was seen from mostly a consumptive perspective. The bad people and their actions are 'on the other side of the glass' -- so to speak. Not only do the 'bad actions/opinions' not directly affect them, but they lack any true meaningful ability to change things. Strongly worded letters can really only achieve so much, and all of the information channels are centralized.

I don't know if this makes much sense, it's 3am...
Don't you know? systemd is the world's most popular operating system! A shame it has such a terrible init system...
This is a great example of how the in-group and out-group boundaries mentioned in the article are reinforced. "Look at this out-group nerd, writing all fancy! He's not cool like us, the in-group!"
But on the other hand, given that fedoras are (within that context) the most tip-friendly hat, wouldn’t that mean that the author is a natural writer?...
It means he's not a fan of the GNU philosophy: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-impor...
I don't believe for a single second that violent assholes wouldn't give me a hard time if they felt like it. They don't live by some kind thieves' code. It's not a Dickens novel.

They're dangerous as shit and anyone who accidentally crosses paths with them might get killed for the hell of it. You ever read Borderlands Beat? That's real news coming out of Mejico. That country is bullshit and it can't keep its act together and never has. But, oh, my quaint villas and excellent tacos. Yeah, right. Drink the water and get back to me.

As far Chicago, that city is a mess, too. I was there just last year. It sucks there for all kinds of reasons.

You know what Chicago and Mexico have in common? Failed liberal policies.
Save your enthusiasm, those are the fakest numbers I've ever seen. Divide them all by 50. Source: I've paid for a bit of influencer marketing.
I think you mean “partly” rather than “strictly.” Even if you remove the supernatural element (the part that calls for faith, which is not rational), you’re still left with a political, philosophical, and moral framework. Such frameworks aren’t irrational any more than say “social democracy” as a political framework is irrational. The you have the utilitarian social functions. Serving as places for members of the community to interact, a place for children to be socialized, a place to help elderly people stay connected, a vehicle for addressing local social issues.
you really dont use context menus for everything. a lot of functionality is based on modal key chords. so, different sequences/chords do different things based on the selected mode. watch this video and tell me this is inefficient: https://youtu.be/31A0s9HDRHU?t=483
The assertion is not that Huawei isn't an asset. Huawei is definitely an asset. No one disagrees with that. The assertion is that Huawei is a _Communist_ asset used to enprison their citizens and steal data from freedom loving countries.
I love how in this article "If industry fails to self-regulate, governments might seize the opportunity." is considered a bad outcome.

But indeed no one forbids anyone from providing certifications or imposing them. I actually have a diploma that says (rightly) that I know how to write provable code and good software. Only once have I been asked to do so by my clients.

I, personally and unoriginally, blame Microsoft for the current situation. "Runs on Windows" is a common requirement and when it is present, you know your software won't be held to a higher standard than Microsoft's is.

If we had a certification that for instance required that we are 100% certain that a given process can not be interrupted for a software reason, we would need to examine Windows code or blindly trust Microsoft, rendering the first point of the certification moot.

I know how to write realtime code where I can give hard guarantees on the time it takes to finish a task. But it requires an explicit and transparent scheduling system, a known IRQ system and a precise account of the number of cycles necessary to execute a given procedure.

Maybe it can happen now, but until recently, a certification procedure that would require an open OS would have been seen as ideological.
> I have a problem with the people being controlling, dismissive, and deceptive.

They're probably just busy.

And calling the "imperialistic" is annoying them, so you've destroyed your political capital with them.
it's not that hard.

- custom/tracked coupon codes

- custom/tracked swipe-up or bio links

- general increase in sales for the day

Instagram ROI for consumer products is good enough that the tracking doesn't need to catch 100%.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/21/technology/google-europe-...
The corpus of all of your posts are valuable for statistical analysis for ML models, sentiment analysis, and the like.
Tangentially, I regularly wonder what Steve Yegge would have to say about that rant nowadays.
One is, either we didn't correctly measure the mass (which we measure by the light emitted), or we didn't measure the rotational velocity correctly (which we measure by doppler differences between the different sides of the galaxy).

The third is that there is mass that doesn't emit light at all. (I think it's a bit stronger than that. I think that they think that it doesn't interact with light at all, not just not emit it. But I forget how they think they know that, and I'm not certain that they think they know it at all.)

> To just invent something that can’t be explained to make us feel better sounds a whole lot like religion.

They don't invent it to make themselves feel better. They invent it so their equations work. (Of course, they feel better when their equations work...)
Looking at the example -- do the symbols really help any more than just normal highlighting, and, `x --> y` and `/` at the end?
gig cabs
It’s going to be an even better fit than Google Flu trends https://www.wired.com/2015/10/can-learn-epic-failure-google-...
No I'm pretty sure Kylie Jenner could sell millions of dollars worth of wireless pineapples tomorrow if she wanted. She could just ask her fans to buy them as a favor to her. and techies follow hot girls too so they'll see the post anyway.
> (brand) didn’t do squat with that data beyond the airbag system. It wasn’t collected or transmitted.

That doesn't mean that they won't in the future.
Personally I don't trust cheap USB enclosures at all. I had a 2-drive IcyBox die and take one of the drives with it.
Speaking as someone with a closed kitchen and small kids: the closed kitchen doesn't keep the kids out from under my feet while cooking unless my wife is home to watch them.

Otherwise, they are under my feet because they want to be near me and talk to me and get my attention. I can't just close the kitchen door and ignore a toddler. This happens much more than in our previous open-kitchen apartment, because they could get my attention from the couch or living room floor while I was cooking.
It's very easy for people to convince themselves that they are not contributing to the problem. "It's the government's fault for not liberalizing and regulating the drug trade"
worked on my pixel 2 by setting the chrome flag to force the profile
it's entirely possible that the preview compresses the color space in just the right way to show the separation. reducing colors can shrink image sizes quite a lot.

as to what's actually happening: not a clue! just pointing out possibilities :)
it seems my skills are not worth more than $1 per week
Try this for two weeks:

-Help your colleagues without expecting anything in return.

-Mentor people junior to you. Learn something new and teach it to them.

-Give useful feedback when someone shows you something.

-Focus on doing your best work and be useful to others when required.

You'll notice your insecurity will eventually vanish.
Slightly off-topic: I have an iPhone 6 that I believe cost me $299 in 2015. Whenever it dies I'm going to continue with Apple but I guess it will be the first time I don't buy a current model. I just can't justify the cost of a $899+ device for my use-case.
> There is, after all, ample precedent for this: women have succeeded to the throne on ten previous occasions

> [When this comes to pass,] the emperor system, which depends on an unbroken line of male heirs, will collapse.

These two statements seem to be in conflict.
It's 2019 and people still like to mock cultures and traditions blindly. The article does a pretty good job of explaining a lot of the situation in a grounded, rational way -- especially concerns over the uses and potential abuses of taxpayer money.

The US essentially deifies the Founding Fathers even though we're living in a world with influences and technologies they could never have anticipated. Why is it ok care so much about that history but not for other countries to care about their history?

The system of government also doesn't seem like a firm basis of argument to me. Yes, many governments have moved on from monarchies, but that doesn't mean that there may not be a monarchy in a country in the future, nor does it mean that a monarchy is an objectively terrible country to live in.
Where do you see sarcasm? On the amount?

These fines are typically small at first, and rise exponentially as the firms do not comply.
What is a "swath"? What is "just cartels?" Are cartels providing road and highway construction? Are cartels operating the national healthcare service? Do they do water permitting? Collect taxes? Regulate commerce? Look at my passport when I enter the country? No - none of the above. Your claim is false. They influence parts of the government, not substitute it. You are describing a place more like soithern Somalia.
Check the allowable voltage input ranges for each and if they have overlap just buy a big power brick (like a laptop charger), cut the ends off of each of the supplied wall warts and solder+shrinkwrap them all together into a nice neat harness. This has the added benefit of saving a tiny bit of power assuming you get a decent main supply.

Tip: thread the shrinkwrap first before soldering. This will save you much swearing.
Hey, that's a bit harsh don't you think? I mean, I enjoyed the writing, and if he's a fedora I may as well be a mustache and cigar myself! :)
after a decade of use I just permanently deleted my account on a whim, then was told it will be deleted in 30 days...
I signed up for this the last time it came up on HN. Although I’ve had trouble on my end with mailing addresses and uncooperative nursing homes, Alex at Nanagram has been absolutely fantastic and proactively helpful.

It’s been a niche use-case for me - getting photos to the two grandparents that can’t get on board with smart phones - but as far as it goes, it’s a phenomenal product for that niche. It’s definitely allowed me to keep grandparents involved with my newborn in a way that would otherwise not be nearly as convenient. The closest alternative would be to make a point of sending a snapfish order every few weeks; with NG, I just text a photo to them at the same time I’m texting my other relatives.

My only wish is that they could somehow foolproof their packaging to get past the front desk at nursing homes, but I don’t know if that’s possible. NH seem to just not be built for accepting mail for their residents.

It’s a good service, run by good people.
Interestingly, on an OSX laptop, Chrome does not display it on one monitor but does on the other. Firefox displays it on both.

tl;dr: (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ color is hard.
my source was also wikipedia; let's settle this by you changing wikipedia and making your changes stick. see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vistula_Veneti#Roman_historica...
No one complained when they named everything iEverything.

Or if they did, the complainers weren’t important enough to matter.

Just be thankful that they didn’t name iMac MacMan.
Care to share a link? Using fd as a utility name for an os that already uses the word fd as file descriptor is maddeningly hard to find
The dev docs are atrocious - especially when they were pushing swift before swift was even remotely stable. The end result is huge amounts of example code that has no obj-c code, but the swift code doesn't compile anywhere. :-/

So frustrating, even with my background.
I think we're going to have to agree to disagree about what "explicit" means, and possibly also "inspire." (Based on the excerpts quoted verbatim from Lennart's blog post in my previous comment and general understanding of the English language.)
Four in 10 Americans Embrace Some Form of Socialism
Hmm that's interesting. I'm not very familiar with bookmarklets. Could I sync and persist a uid so that I can store the bookmarks per user?
A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on AI (1955)
Tell HN: Google G Suite rejected my subscription for a weird reason
> maybe they would think of some other illegal shit to kill each other over if drugs were legalized, but I find it hard to believe that the violence wouldn't subside a bit if their main revenue stream were cut off.

You might think that but the data doesn’t really support it: http://polyticks.com/polyticks/beararms/liars/uscentury.gif. Homicide rates were spiking in the US long before prohibition. Likewise, after going down post WWII, homicide rates started spiking before the drug war. They had almost doubled from the previous low point by the time Nixon was elected. Nixon coined the phrase drug war, but didn’t really fund it aggressively. That was Reagan. But homicide were near the peak by the time he was even elected.

> also, it seems questionable to extrapolate the outcome of legalization in the US based on data from mexico.

Not really—the cartels supply demand for drugs in the US. And OP was blaming the US drug war for violence in Mexico.
Interesting, the default behavior is for it to carry over but I thought that was weird so I clear the inputs when you switch between the two. I can see how that is annoying since they look so similar.
In the UK I think about 70% of people support the Queen, our head of state. How many people in the US support their head of state? Less than 50%.

In practice, it seems to work well for us. We get a representative that most people support. The US republic fails to do that and their representative is always deeply divisive.
If this style of writing is “fancy” to them, they’re going to have an aneurysm reading novels written in the, say, early 1900s.
Not exactly; notice the following passage:

> What is striking is that 74% have no objection to the offspring of a woman emperor succeeding to the throne. If this were to happen, it would be an historical first.

Women have succeeded to the throne, but they have been succeeded in turn by offspring of an earlier male emperor. Every emperor (in theory) has been able to trace their ancestry back to the sun goddess through the paternal line.

Tracing ancestry through the maternal line as well would be a significant change.
TiKV Deep Dive
> highly optimized persistent data structures

These are not "optimized" with regard to their ordinary mutable counterparts.

> These two data structures are highly practical, performant in most of the cases.

Immutable hashes are highly impractical when you need regular mutable hashes, which is most of the time.
Ugh thank you for catching that. Will fix in the next push.
You're very well aware this occurs. Are you trying to ask why, or to make some social commentary, or were you just deploying snark?
Eco+Terra+Coupon+Memorial+Day+Savings
Life of a Contractor
"Further, I would suggest that the increased presence of School Resource Officers in schools, the increased usage of courts for school-related punishment, and the continued emotional and physical violence experienced by students from their peers show that, indeed, forced participation in government schools does indeed involve violence."

This is a pretty bad correlation/causation argument.

You're making arguments that only make sense if:
1: The United States is the only country in the entire world with a government-run education system and there are no other examples to look to
2: Every decision made that has negatively impacted our education is the only possible decision that could have been made under the circumstances

Neither of these are true.

Just because our government has made some really bad decisions doesn't mean that this is the only possible outcome of government-run education. If you look at education rankings globally, the United States is pretty far down the list, and most if not all of the countries above us use government-run education systems. The number one in the world, Finland, prohibits private schools all together.

It simply does. not. logically. follow. that the overreach of our criminal justice system is the inevitable result of a government-run education system.

You're ignoring so many political realities that are unique to this country.

There is nothing hand-waving about saying that your anecdotes are not data. I went to a school that had exactly zero teacher/child sex scandals, can I use that to "prove" that the system is working? No, I can't.

Our public education system delegates a LOT of responsibility down the line. The federal government offers some funding that is contingent on certain requirements being met, but the states are responsible for the execution. The states have elected officials and appointed boards of education, but they delegate a lot of decision-making to individual districts, which also have elected and appointed officials.

Finally, just because I am defending the idea of government-run education doesn't mean I am defending the implementation of it that we have. Please do not confuse those two distinct positions.
The iPhone 6 retailed for a minimum of $649. Your comparing subsidized to unsubsidized prices. Its not a fair comparison, the difference was just paid monthly as part of your cellphone contract.
Every time I try to convert a prepaid card to a gift card on Amazon it gets declined because of the temporary $1 test charge they do when added as a payment method. Then I have to wait a few days for it to drop off and try again. If I wait too many days (?), they will run the test charge again and I'm back to where I was on day one.

I'm sure there is a "right" way to do it but I've never been able to make it work as I want on the first try.
This is ridiculous. You are making it sound like those suppliers are immovable and somehow only available in China. But let's face it, Apple is in China because of almost unlimited cheap, unskilled rural labor force that can't be found elsewhere. Samsung was also in same spot years ago, but found a much better deal in Vietnam years back and in fact moved much of their smartphone operation there (along with some 200+ subcontractors and suppliers). Unlike Samsung's AMOLED displays, Corning's Gorilla glasses, or SONY's cameras, there is nothing in China that can't be produced elsewhere.

Vietnam also has hundreds of thousands of CNC, toolings and craftmen to produce in Samsung's volume. This supply chain narrative is something Apple marketing folks invented to justify their outsourcing. Trump's trade war with China, as many contract manufacturer move out of China, will prove none of that supply chain myth is true within a year or two.
Googling it? The whole point of this thread is that that can be gamed. Do you want to reward schools for having the best SEO? Or for doing a better job of incentivizing people to review their school on whatever web site?
I'm assuming it's this -
https://github.com/sharkdp/fd
At the end of the day it is the handling and haptics that count. So let me give you some anecdotical experience. A few weeks ago when the new Fedora came out i tried it as a live system from usb keychain, out of curiosity. It was the xfce live respin. Anyways, long story short, clicked around for a while, wasn't impressed much, shut it down. Flicker, flicker, the usual console messages scrolled by, and then it was stuck trying to unmount somesuch yadda yadda yarr yarr... for minutes. I wasn't in a hurry and waited, curious
WHAT would happen. Nothing, just finally powering off after 2,5 to 3 minutes. I sat there and wondered: could it really be THAT slow? Was my usb-stick slow? Nope. Tried another stick, another laptop, even some other respins. Always the same. Dumbstruck of the audacity of the so called leader in Linux i just thought to myself that they must be on crack or
some other bad stuff. Because when i tried a few other systemd-free live systems on the same sticks and hardware everything just whooshed by. Why is that? Are they living in
a parallel universe? Do i have outliers in terms of hardware? At least in one case i don't think so because it is a very well supported Thinkpad which accepts almost anything i can throw at it, and the other a similar HP Elite Book. So there is that. Now what?

bzzzt! https://youtu.be/ulvgWoChvBU?t=9
That entirely depends on the strength if your password. That iPhone 6 had a 4 digit PIN plus a hardware salt. 4 digits is bad as that's only 1000 guesses to get the correct code (if you get the salt). The iPhone 6 had additional code to stop brute forcing, and that was the crux of the issue. Eventually they paid someome for a software exploit (the FBI director at the time, Comey complained that was "unsustainable").

If your extra paranoid about the government or whoever decrypting your phone, use a strong passphrase and only use it for decrypting your phone. Also turn if off before any interactions with police/TSA/NSA/whoever. This will work for any reasonably new Android. If you don't trust me feel free to dig into the code yourself!
Charter schools can be for-profit enterprises, or can be structured in such a way that executives can make a lot of money (even if they are technically non-profits). This is what skews the incentives for charter schools versus public schools.
I dislike the squealing tires thing neither.
i would not feel comfortable with my doctor wearing one of these contraptions during consultation.
Thanks so much for the kind words. I'm working on some new packaging. Nursing homes tend to be pretty sensitive about HIPAA and mail. I had a dream to get NanaGram into nursing homes as a group activity, hammered on sales a while and put it on the back burner. I'll probably revisit it soon. The general idea is people would open their photos together, making for a way for residents and team members to get to know each other better. All of the photos would come in one box to avoid delivery issues.

All that said, I'm working on some new packaging and will reach out to you by email to get you hooked up in a beta so we can improve your delivery.
There's also a lesser known project out there: https://search-guard.com/

Paired with an OpenResty reverse proxy I was able to set up a reasonably secure cluster back when X-Pack was prohibitively expensive and the AWS offering wasn't under their BAA.

Big thanks to that team of contributors!
Interestingly, there’s a whole underground industry of services that provide this functionality by having banks of automated Android phones (not sure if physical or virtualized) to post on behalf of the user through the mobile Instagram app. Problem is you have to give them your direct Instagram credentials, and you run the risk of Instagram detecting this and banning your account (has happened.)
Isn’t that all to sell you ads?