skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a very similar reaction 25ish years ago when I found out as a teen credit agencies exist and were somehow not illegal (but employment blacklists are).

Don't worry - I was told they are optional, and you only need them for major things like if you getting a new car or house financed. Anyone worried about these things were mocked with the slippery slope "fallacy" typically being the counterargument.

Of course scope creep inevitably happened - and now you are effectively locked out of many parts of society if you have a poor credit score. We were told it was outright illegal to use credit scores when hiring people (again, 25 years ago) so our fears were unjustified.

Now we're running credit reports on entry level warehouse positions, some volunteer jobs, etc. With every reason to believe it's going to get more pervasive.

As these "social rating" systems get more normalized with consumers, I fully expect to see "novel" new uses and data sharing starting to happen.
I love that stuff like this is a thing. Humans are awesome sometimes, and our ability to turn a bit of silliness into a cultural moment is an example of that.
These are electric trains—what pollution? Noise isn’t much higher once you’re even a block away. And light and air is a matter of setbacks. Lake and Wells are hardly seedy alleys. There is more light standing right under an L track than in NYC.
>So what’s this fascination with tunnels?

The upscale crowd doesn't like the audio/visual clutter.

There's nothing tunnels do that well planned overhead infrastructure can't do more cheaply (at the cost of being audible and visible).

Edit: Since I'm being down-voted, other than being less offending to the eyes/ears of non-users, what do tunnels do that overhead infrastructure doesn't?
I disagree. Cars should be at surface levels. Going below ground or above ground is too expensive: cars (and more importantly trucks which this tunnel doesn't cover at all) are heavy and so they need expensive infrastructure. We can have tunnels and overpass in places where required, but in general cars belong at surface level.

What we should be doing is moving humans up: we should be building sky ways between buildings. Someone on foot (I'll allow wheelchairs) is not very heavy and doesn't take much space: the amount of infrastructure needed to support them is not nearly as expensive as moving cars to a different level. The skyway also allows for heating and air conditioning, something humans like.

When the distances get long we can put in a moving sidewalk if we want. However, for the most part when distances get long humans should move back to ground level and catch a bus/train.
> Embarrassingly, I failed this once and then created an email rule which filters out the fake Phish.

how did it get you, if you don't mind sharing? It seems if someone who works in IT (guessing you do) and is very careful fails it, this is an impossibly high standard to meet.

curious how they got you.
FYI, I think it’s maybe a troll account now that I look at. His “arguments” are just that.
Population growth is slowing itself. So we have that covered. And now what? Turns out, it's not enough, not even before considering that 2/3 of this population is still in developing countries, which are going to increase their emission levels in the pursuit of decent quality of life.
Well I'm Scots and when I hear 'plaid' I think of the colour from 'A Deepness In the Sky'. ;-)
The market has ridiculous demand really, at times. But it highly depends on timing, location etc. And also resilience. If you run the exchange for long enough time, you will collect customers who will be coming back.
> Debt-based bond-backed money is already ex-nihilio

Every time you use a credit card you increase the money supply, though it is sterilized when you pay your bill at the end of the month (or when you default).

Arguably it's not really ex-"nihilo" as there is economically valuable activity (extension of credit) which is paid for via interest. Increasing the money supply to match economic activity (as best it can be measured) prevents deflation, among other things, and debt is the tool used, surely better than simply running the presses.
Can't speak to whether a reprimand is warranted or not and I think many here will disagree, but unless your job is investigating phishing, you shouldn't do this because you ARE ultimately putting the corporate network at risk unnecessarily - what if it was a real link and happened to exploit a zero day on your box? Management wouldn't accept your reasoning for following the link I suspect.
Cheaply ≠ better.
This is a very well-done design mock-up for a GUI desktop environment. The depth of the visualization and interaction design seems to me to have taken months of refinement.

Not an "OS", an interaction design.

This is not an implementation of running example code, but it could be.

I would love this.
> New Internationalist does not slavishly follow the conventional news agenda.

They specifically call out that they are an alternative journal, with a focus on very left policies. Which I can respect, but I thought it was a poor choice of source to make the point. A stronger case could be made by pulling a more independent observer who may site a more gracious collection of sources.

And I would like to point out that the article advocated for eliminating all means testing. So in the case of this (admittedly strained) argument. I get a car, but it must be the same car for all.
With no false negatives, right?
Huawei chief legal officer: U.S. attacks are “trial by legislature” [YouTube]
Forum sliding, vote brigading, sock puppets and more!

Watch this thread to gain insight into HN's astro turfers.
That is incorrect. For instance, air streams are disrupted and change paths and the hotter temperatures increases moisture in the air which leads to more frequent and worse storms.
How is that at all related to this story?
That's just it, I simply wasn't being careful. Everyone gets distracted sometimes. I don't remember it in detail, but it was a fairly standard phishing email from a fake domain and I clicked a link. Not only am I in IT, my department is somewhat security related.
Ah...Kotlin on the backend? Can you share more details about your stack/experience? I've been keeping an eye out for it to crop up in production backend stacks, so I'm very interested in learning how well it works for you...
The Mac does have a sandboxing mechanism which is used even without an App Store.

I like that I can write anything I want for my Mac and mostly anything I want for my phone, but I realize most people don't use their machines that way.
> I just cannot take a type system seriously when workarounds like that are needed.

Are you familiar with type theory and how easy it is for a type system to require too much work to be useful? Especially with conditional types. TypeScript has been doing a phenomenal job.

For this particular use case, since version 3.4 you can write `'x' as const` which will work no matter how large your type is.
Yeah, I rolled my eyes after opening the article, it's a load of tosh depending on what your need is.

I have written search engines for a couple of sites that combined serve about a million uniques a year.

It's not great, but it's not terrible, and took less than a week. People search for places and names, so it's quite easy to match them.

We looked at one of the open source engines, but it was a lot of effort for not a lot of gain, and essentially adds another significant moving part to go wrong.
Unless I'm misunderstanding you, there isn't a offramp/onramp in the latest design scheme. When Boring Company first unveiled the design, it had elevators that moved vehicles from grade-level to the tunnel. The vehicles then locked into a track. Then after reaching an "exit" the vehicle is brought back to the surface so the driver can continue the journey within that same vehicle. But they recently scrapped all that. In the current design, there is no locked track and the vehicles never leave the tunnel. This ensures that the tunnels only function with a proprietary vehicle.

There still might be some human ingress/egress issues to resolve.
We have homeschool friends who felt the same and tried to get involved with the public school system. They are very civic minded etc. They found the red tape crushing for their kid, who is a bit of genius, plus he was getting beat up etc. Obviously this is anecdotal. They pulled him and now he is winning academic competitions (history, geography) like 3 grade levels above his age. He reads war history for hours and hours.
The thing that is missing from the education industry that is present in others, especially those receiving lots of taxpayer money, is appropriate oversight.

Many of these institutions are selling shoddy products to gullible buyers.

If getting a student loan did not involve a government guarantee, you can bet that there would be much more scrutiny of the product being purchased and of the students progress.

The government is grossly distorted this market by pouring in money for products that will not pay out, and by not providing appropriate feedback as to the quality of the wares.

It's all very fine for someone to spend their own money and time on a degree where employment prospects are low and pay is low. This is called a hobby. It is not alright for precious taxpayer money to be spent on frivolities or hobbies.
You can increase recall without adding noise. Customer wanted to match substrings of words and then was like, why are all these irrelevant documents returning?
I'm not sure what you mean by increased access. The public school system has very limited funds and personnel. There are some schools with no dedicated reading specialist for example (ever fewer have occupational therapist or autism specialist trained in ABA or other methods). In the real world you have to make decisions on what kids need extra help. It would be great to say everyone gets it but that's not feasible.

I'm all for researching across the spectrum and more public awareness.
Why do you think housing would capture a majority of excess cash that people have, and not food vendors, or other groups that provide essential services?
i was that teenager 12 years ago building websites on notepad.... good times before a proper IDE.
Does the Pro version come with a free fake-your-death-in-india package?
Try `as const`?
I think avoided "as much" trouble as the big dig might be more accurate.
So something similar to what @rodeoclown described below?
I think this is going to be very controversial on the typical HN crowd: maybe too European, or too socialist. However here it goes.

Some ten years ago I was convinced that private schools had a right to exist, but that they should never impact the funding of public schools, not even indirectly.

Then I discovered that homeschooling was a thing in the US.

Now I tend to believe that private schools should not be allowed to exist. School is far too important as a social mixer and a way to educate well-rounded citizens to leave it to the whims of parents. Parents already have a large enough impact on their kids, to let them take over 100% of their time.

I also strongly believe that parents whose beliefs prevent their kids from getting the medical care they deserve (from refusing transfusions, to refusing vaccines) should get a hard look from social services.

In general I don't believe that parenthood trumps some things that as a society we consider basic human rights. I think most people would agree with me when it comes down to issues like violence, exploitation and child labor, but I think this should extend to the access to healthcare and to a secular education.
This is more or less what I recently told a client who wanted search on a utility I built him. He wanted rich search, like using quote marks and database operators, but his budget for the whole project was about $1500. I told him that I could build the entire project, plus simple searches on the description fields with wildcard matching. Or I could give him fully featured search by using third party software, but for triple the budget. Explaining it that way got the message across, and it turned out that simple search was enough.
> They'll walk away from this better equipped than any of their peers in traditional school.

Except for those whose parents also hire expert tutors. It's not like kids going to traditional schools can't also get additional educational opportunities.

When you consider how much homeschooling is by parents who are not themselves professional educators, I suspect a hybrid approach works better on average.
The reason is not 'some reason', as you seem to be somewhat conspiratorially suggesting. The reason is it would not solve the problem of securing email.
I think the most important thing here is the difference in outlook. The people in this story lived their lives with the assumption that they will live the same lives as their parents. This hasn't been true since the industrial revolution (>80% of people working in agriculture shrunk to ~2%). This reminds me of British coal-workers striking over layoffs, even though they would receive the same paycheck for life if they were laid off. Their rationale is that they were striking for their children's future jobs in the coal mine. That just struck me as depressing, that parents just assumed that their kids' lot in lives would be a coal miner just like them. Maybe this is the immigrant mentality that people talk about, but

> Cheering the deal might check a political box for the president, but getting hired by the buyer would probably mean making $11 an hour, he said, a wage he last made in his early 20s. “It would be back to square one after 25 years in the plant,” he said.

Rick seems to be following the same line of thinking. The notion of working in a different industry just doesn't seem to be considered.

This is probably one of the best times in recent history to start looking for a job. Unemployment is at record lows, and growth is fairly strong. I think the biggest issue here isn't layoffs, it's people putting their sense of identity into their job instead of viewing it as a transaction. 80% of employees at the beginning of the 20th century worked in industries that are either non-existent or drastically smaller by the end of the 20th century. I see no reason why we should expect the 21st century to be any different. Rick's assumption that he would work in the same industry as his father for the entirety of his life seems to be the biggest culprit here, not NAFTA.
However, correlate per capita emissions with per capita economic output and the calculus changes. The US also has one of the highest per capita economic outputs of the world. Suggesting that a million people in Yemen (producing very little) should have the same CO2 allowance as the US is just strange. The question isn’t about per capita output of CO2, but of per capita economic value created from that output. If a Yemeni farmer outputs x and an American farmer outputs 10x, but the American farmer is producing 15x the amount of food, we that means that 10x CO2 is a net gain, because we are getting significantly more food per x output. That would mean the Yemeni farmer should produce less CO2 since they are using it so inefficiently compared to an American farmer. In other words, fossil fuel buses produce more pollutants than a car, but they move move dramatically more people per unit of pollution. Suggesting per capita CO2 should be equal across the world is saying that a bus should emit the same as a car, despite a bus being more efficient per passenger than a car.
And thus population control is critical... QED. We don't have that covered at all at the moment: We are already 7 billions and will possibly be 11+ billions by the end of the century. That's insane.

Let's not forget that emissions are only a tiny part of the pressure we put on the environment.
The big one no one is talking about are non-tippers.

It's becoming downright common for Uber drivers to outright admit they give 1 star ratings for non-cash-tippers.

But yes, I've anecdotally heard of ratings drop for women who typically are type-A chatty, but changed to quiet and withdrawn for a few weeks during major life events. Perhaps that came across as more surely, but just something as silly as someone perceiving a bad attitude from a rider can results in a lower rating score.

I've also talked to drivers who give poor ratings if they have to go well out of their way, and it ends up being a short ride. Sure, this really sucks for the driver - but is it the rider's fault at all? Other unpopular destinations get similar treatment (or so I've heard).
Outsourcing of certification predates homeland security - see e.g. mid-90s reporting on the 777 certification[1]. In fact, the idea of outsourcing parts of the certification process started IIRC in the mid-1940s. What did happen past 2001 (but not due to budget pressures) is that the airline manufacturers got the authority to appoint their own designees, and were allowed to self-certify.

Not for budget reasons, but for "deregulation is good" reasons. The money isn't gone. We've just got people who'd like "a government so small they can drown it in a bathtub". Well, it's drowning alright.

[1] http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=199...
You can’t list something for free on Craigslist? And have someone pick it up?
> In this example there's also only one supermarket, the Apple app store.

My argument was simply about who is responsible for promoting the app. But your point is correct.

My response to this: Would having multiple app stores available on iOS really solve the issue that OP is experiencing?

If iOS suddenly allowed a user to download apps from multiple different stores, would the number of app downloads for OP increase? How will I know which app store to find OP's app in? From a pure promotional aspect, I would have to know to look for OP's app, which does not sound like it would help OP in this case.
These are electric trains—what pollution

I suspect you've never been in a subway tunnel and noticed all the grime and dirt spewed all over the walls and ceiling by electric trains.

Noise isn’t much higher once you’re even a block away

Now I know you've never been in a city with an elevated train system. I once lived nine blocks away from an elevated train, and I could hear it all day and all night.

And light and air is a matter of setbacks

You can't set back a building that's already built, and you can't take away air rights from a property owner without massive compensation.

There is more light standing right under an L track than in NYC

More is not the same as optimal. Why should any of the public's light and air be removed if it's not necessary?
Let’s Talk about the North Face Defacing Wikipedia
There are 4 core components to a decentralized exchange:
(1) storage of funds, (2) order books, (3) order matching, (4) settlement. Unless you have all 4 of these it is a hybrid exchange. Calling it anything else is misleading an disingenuous.
WordPress instance is down:

> Error establishing a database connection
In my mind the two are closely related. There is a political school of thought that people's value is to each other, and that people's needs can be fulfilled by commerce. Automation frustrates this concept by removing our needs to rely on human labour.
Do you realize how many new programmers struggle with simply adding Python to their path? That simple concept is beyond most engineering students and can literally cost them days in research. It's easy to forget where we started.
> That's essentially limiting the liberal arts to only the rich and the delusional.

As it always has been except since the 20th century. Lots of writers of the past known as such today had to have patrons, be well-situated in society and commerce, or just be rich as hell. The period where a writer could be a published writer and make a living just by means of achievement was incredibly short.

There are many extremely successful people with 'useless degrees', like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Livingston, but she had a metric ton of social capital which the middle class simply does not have.

The middle class ever had only limited opportunities, and since the middle class is shrinking, that's indicative of the opportunities getting boarded up.

> The liberal arts fundamentally shape how we view, live and act in the world

Thinking many years hard about engineering topics does the same. Plus, engineers do not not philosophize.
Well, as a "stackoverflow social 2.0 tech hipster webshit" (I answered the survey), I fully agree with you that the methodology is beyond suspect, you just can't take those numbers and apply some fudge factor from the top of your head and pretend the result has any credibility.

OTOH, regarding

> answering that you have “used” go is not the same as being a regular developer

The question they ask in the survey is: "Which of the following programming, scripting, and markup languages
have you done extensive development work in over the past year, and
which do you want to work in over the next year?", so it's more than just having "used" it.
Strikes me as something that may violate “failure to haul” laws in many municipalities. While there are a lot of egregious, openly racist, refusals by (e.g, NYC) cabbies to pick up black or Latino riders, chasing down individual cabbies means that local commissions rarely show their teeth on that issue. But going after a giant centralized concern, especially one now answerable to shareholders, is a different story.
> These allegations are false. Hidden at the bottom of the article, is this: "Public prosecutor Walder of the Competence Center Cybercrime contacted me, saying he had been misquoted". In other words, the alleged source (a public prosecutor) has also supported our denial of these false allegations.

Ah, what a brave new world of clickbait and amateur "journalism" we live in... The "source" was probably asked for a quote five minutes before the article went live and the "publisher" has no incentive to correct it because all they care about is that people visit the site and load the ads so they get a few cents per 1000 views.

Good luck ProtonMail or any other entity caught in these "reporters" and "journalists" antics.
As someone who lives in Beaverton I'd bet that the risk of my daily car commute heavily outweighs the risk of murder downtown. I tried running home a few times and it's remarkable how inconsistent sidewalks are.

I don't actually have numbers though.
We have written up a longer article on the false allegations here: https://protonmail.com/blog/martin-steiger-false-statements/

The claims made here are categorically false, and have already been refuted.
How am I expressing feelings and not facts?
Oh I agree that most users will want / should have the updates, but having the ability to still access an older version:

(1) means the lapsed subscriber can still access their data / functionality (at least for a while until OS compatibility issues kick in), and

(2) makes sure the developer is still actually 'earning' the subscription through updates, not just counting on data lock-in.
Mr. Musk isn't trying to do it better, he's trying to do it cheaper.
Disclaimer: I have no clue about the mathematics and physics behind this to even speculate anything.

Stupid question: could one recursively stack and twist these layers and ultimately join the head with the tail while keeping the property of "each layer is twisted in relation to the previous"?

I mean twisting each layer with the magic angle, and adding on top of the previous, and so on, until the very first layer is a suitable successor of the topmost layer.

This kind of stack could be made into a magically twisted graphene donut.

Maybe the construction would be completely useless, but a research paper with a title containing "magically twisted graphene donut" is a win nevertheless.
And even despite the many design flaws of these early reactors, the reason it blew up is because of the reckless behaviour of some local Homer Simpson.
Is Tutanota not an alternative?

They also allow anonymous signups.