skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cities I'm comparing in Japan and Sweden are of a similar population and density. It's a very small city by Japanese standards and the third-largest city by Swedish standards.

I think the differences are less superficial than that. Cost of labor certainly ties into it but also work culture (Japanese people tend to get out of work late)
I'm not just asking why Canada is handing over the Huawei CFO. I'm asking how the US has jurisdiction to even prosecute the supposed underlying crime. The connection of any of her actions to the United States is extremely tenuous and indirect. They occurred outside the United States, were legal in the country where they occurred, she doesn't work for an American company, she's not an American, and she wasn't even dealing with an American company. Just imagine what it would be like if every country began applying its domestic law extraterritorially in such an aggressive manner.
No. Unfortunatly research and devlopment into all things nuclear has been systematically eradicated. Regulation that were put in place have essentially eliminated all progress specially progress that isn't incredibly incremental.

The problem is that it is essentially impossible to bring these new technologies to market as a private companies. And government have shown zero interest in doing anything by themselves or even having a regulatory system that is in any way sensible.

Current plants in the west are pretty safe in general but recycling is non-existent. Only France does any kind of nuclear waste reprocessing at all (outside of research).

Sadly the anti nuclear wave went incredibly deep and has since basically destroyed the industry and a whole field of engineering.

The only positive thing is that both with democrats and republicans a new pro nuclear consensus is emerging. The US regulatory agency are slowly waking up to the fact that they have utterly destroyed the nuclear industry and are taking small steps in the right direction. Thanks to these changes a few important changes have gone threw congress and are getting implemented by the Department on Energy. Sadly these things are way to slow.
Good catch, I did in fact get a B in grammar.

Is there a term for this? "This nonsense should cease" does differ from "you should go" in that it demands an action on an inanimate thing, while avoiding saying who acts.
Your criticism reminds me of the book "Prodiges et vertiges de l'analogie"; it is only available in French, but Wikipedia has a good summary [0]:

> Jacques Bouveresse is interested in the incompleteness theorems of Kurt Gödel and their philosophical consequences. On this account, he has attacked, in a popular work Prodiges et vertiges de l'analogie, the use made of these theorems by Régis Debray. Bouveresse denounces the literary distortion of a scientific concept for the purpose of a thesis. This distortion, according to him, has no other purpose than to overwhelm a readership which lacks the training necessary to comprehend such complex theorems. Bouveresse's reproach to Debray is not that he uses a scientific concept for the purpose of an analogy, but that he uses such a difficult to understand theorem in the attempt to provide an absolute justification in the form of the classic sophism of the argument from authority. According to Bouveresse, the incompleteness of a formal system which applies to certain mathematical systems in no way implies the incompleteness of sociology, which is not a formal system.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Bouveresse#Incompleten...
> the distinction between a quantum system being measured or unitarily evolved

When you try to describe a part of an entangled quantum system, independently of the whole, you will be forced to use probabilities in your description. This is quantum measurement.
XHTML documents have exactly the same semantics as HTML. Neither is more semantically sound than the other.

XHTML just defined a slightly different syntax which was XML compatible. This was useful if you were using XML tools, but it didn't affect semantics at all.
Point being, the ability to edit and view edit history changes very little with regard to the courts. Instead of needing to present Facebook with a subpoena for information from e.g. logs, you're able to simply view history. It doesn't change anything whether you can delete the data or "delete" the data, it just changes how accessible it is.
Ya I’ve said to another commenter that I just don’t know enough about Indian post-colonial government to be able to comment effectively.
I would argue the MVP is what you can sell to customers. And if your business is going to succeed, your MVP arguably needs to be something that is not just good enough to sell to customers, but which customers will come back for more when you're ready to launch the next thing.
There is legal precedent for it. The most famous and precedent-setting case in this area occurred with Microsoft in 1996: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permatemp#Vizcaino_v._Microsof...

That set the framework for all contracting that has followed since.
Further off-topic (from the main thread), but your blog Atom feed[0] seems to be slightly broken, due to an un-escaped, literal ampersand on line 687 (Tufte style sidenotes & marginnotes in Pollen). Presumably, it's a hakyll bug, as it should do the escaping for you. (Don't have time to dig further.)

[0] https://www.jonashietala.se/feed.xml
Honestly if you cut through all the political BS it's actually a quite reasonable approach:

> James Reilly, a former astronaut and petroleum geologist, has ordered that scientific assessments produced by that office use only computer-generated climate models that project the impact of climate change through 2040, rather than through the end of the century

> “The previous use of inaccurate modeling that focuses on worst-case emissions scenarios, that does not reflect real-world conditions, needs to be thoroughly re-examined and tested if such information is going to serve as the scientific foundation of nationwide decision-making now and in the future,”

> a physicist at New York University, proposed that a “red team” of dissenting scientists be established to critique major scientific reports on climate change. A “blue team” of climate scientists would then rebut the criticisms, and the resulting back-and-forth would unfold in public view.

> “They’ve started talking about how they can produce a report that doesn’t lead to some silly alarmist predictions about the future,”

> A key change, he said, would be to emphasize historic temperatures rather than models of future atmospheric temperatures, and to eliminate the “worst-case scenarios” of the effect of increased carbon dioxide pollution

Basically - reduce the outlook of the models for more accuracy, and put together two opposing teams to challenge each others' outcomes. Isn't this what science is all about, rather than one side declaring they're totally correct and infallible?
Stop being offended and have some objectivity. I am a front end developer and I am describing myself as much as anyone else.
One reason why I might choose this paid library instead of a free alternative: it's made with TypeScript, and that means no fiddling with outdated type definitions (fixing and submitting updated types to DefinitelyTyped, talking the owner of the library to adopt types, etc) and no using a library without typings. That alone is worth at least a hour of my time.
There's groups on Facebook for giving away stuff. They all go so fast on there and it help someone that need it.
I don’t quite understand the argument. Since the US government is in bed with big industry, it should take over the entire economy instead of regulate those big industries?
I strongly recommend waiting until you get to one of these stages:

1. Formal agreement between partners on project - Time is your most valuable asset so if you are investing into the project with additional persons it's best to formalize structure once you've made an agreement and are at a place where you are each committing 10+ hours per week

2. Monetary Investment is being made - At the point that meaningful monetary investment is made which I would pin at $10,000. The cost to formalize an LLC in California is $800 + minor costs so setting aside 10% of your initial spend on formalizing is money well spent

3. Take on any outside investment from anybody - You need an ivnestment vehicle so the second you decide to raise $5,000 from your Uncle Larry it's time to open the LLC

I really like your idea of unifying projects in 1 LLC then spinning them on success. You can also create a unique DBA for each project and this is very effective.

Hope this helps.

Best,
SS
Are we afraid of CSS now?
I honestly think that his "what_about-perhaps" construct is nicer than "switch-case".
Why? I can’t think of a use case where it would be more convenient to use controls on the device than the headphones or the Bluetooth controls in my car.
Those are not quantifications, just binary comparisons. You could also argue that new Ferraris are better than second-hand VW Polos, but should the company really use them as company cars? The question is whether the benefits are worth the additional cost, and that's where quantification (actual numbers) helps.
Isn't it kinda pointless because it will only work once per "enemy"? Sure, the first time it will waste a bunch of their time, but the second email will just get the same canned response.

I suppose you could make it a bit worse by asking to see the information collected - then simple copy-paste will be insufficient, they will have to run a script as well.
Yeah I don't support gating entire sites behind checks like this outside of some situations (like it's a tech demo using a new browser API, or a public beta where they want to limit it to a few browsers until it's stable enough to open up to the world).

But I also absolutely get the allure of whitelisting "known good browsers". I've literally never seen a user hit a bug, and then blame their browser. Hell, I've personally hit bugs and blamed the website only to find out later that it was a browser bug. It's a shitty situation all around, and I don't have a good universal answer. I try to avoid doing that at all costs, but I also have to admit that a piece of software I currently work on is gated to only Chrome and Safari due to the extreme number of bugs that were coming from alternate browsers and the fact that we simply don't have the time to chase them down right now.

It sucks, I feel bad about doing it, and I don't want anyone else to do it for many reasons (including the health of the web in general), but until I personally can find a good way out, I also can't in good conscience be mad at others for doing the same thing.
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> The success of Riemann’s project is strong evidence that the whole numbers – which we think of as static, unchanging quantities – are really some kind of shadow or projection of the Hegelian integers. The Zeta function reveals more because it represents whole numbers as what they actually are, that is dynamic contradictions of being and nothing.

> But, in addition, the Zeta function represents the whole numbers as a sublated unity, where the entities internally relate via the exchange of a conserved substance. And this whole moves and changes with time. This is quite unlike the vision offered by set theory.

The way modelling normally works is you have a certain phenomenon (falling rocks, fish populations, market booms-and-busts) that you attempt to describe numerically, and then create a mathematical model to make conclusions about the phenomenon. Here we have the opposite: the author takes the phenomenon (the Hegelian contradiction) and uses the model to make conclusions about mathematics!
Really? I don't recall ever having used a clean McDo toilet. I can clearly recall filthy toilets in France, Belgium & the UK. I'm not sure where you frequent McDo, but it sounds to me like your experience is more atypical than mine.
I don't see that as hostile. I've never seen anything against including GPL programs/utilities in OpenBSD.

When it comes to the BSD-licensed kernel, the only issues i've seen is when, e.g., Linux or other OSes reuse parts of it, improve that, and then want to upstream their changes, but try to do so using a GPL license (e.g. because the changes were applied to the linux copy of the source).

That's unacceptable as an OpenBSD contribution. So in some sense the GPL is as bad to OpenBSD, as "private companies reusing open-source code and not contributing back their changes" is to open-source. That sucks (and is quite ironic TBH), but the attitude towards it from OpenBSD is just "sorry, but that license is unacceptable", not "hostility".
Facebook plans to launch 'GlobalCoin' cryptocurrency in 2020
I highly doubt America would ever extradite for such an issue. It is not a crime for an American citizen to refuse to appear in another nation before the assembly of another nation. Other nations may not legislate for or compel citizens of America.

Most importantly, extradition requires the crime to be illegal in both nations. This is not. Contempt of Canadian parliament is not a crime on American soil, whereas something like murder is.
What were the voter turnouts in the last presidential election (which had the most people vote in recent memory)?

What about the most recent mid-term, off-year elections?

People don't vote. Well, old people vote. But that's about it.
That would make sense, actually, thanks for clarifying that.
In my mind it's more nuanced than that. An answer can be mostly right but maybe someone missed a negative sign or misread their parentheses and thus failed to complete the question correctly but still understood how the question was to be completed. Should they be penalized as much as a totally blank answer? Probably not. They've demonstrated some learning and they're almost as competent as someone who didn't make the same error. And it's not an error that the course is meant to correct or teach.
Typical lie.

In fact nuclear waste management from civilian power has fantastic.

In fact all nuclear power stations include cleanup and waste management as part of the cost.

Germany problem is not technical but political and anybody that has ever looked into nuclear power in Germany knows this. Not to mention that finding a 'ultimate disposal' a pretty unnecessary and wrongheaded that is only being perused because limited understanding of nuclear power in the first place.
No discussion of US farming subsidies that incentivize these kinds of land investments?

The land in and of itself isn't worth much more than its lot value, and the Canadians, Chinese and Germans aren't exactly buying all those acres to turn them into parking lots and strip malls.
Uh...

>Scratch the surface of the farmer complaints, and they're probably just upset that they can't gobble up their neighbors' acreage as smaller farms fail.

Interesting you should mention that. Considering that the current regulatory, support, and incentive sructure around agriculture (in the U.S.) is notably skewed in favor of "Big Ag", it's not necessarily as straightforward as you imply to assign banal greed as the primary motivation of Farmers.

You don't farm to make millions. The returns are terrible, with generally hard legal ceilings on many items. You're fighting a constant battle against the elements, your input sources (fiscal and material), and your own equipment and infrastructure to build up enough of a buffer to absorb down the road risks.

Wanting to upsize in the current framework means availing yourself greater security through more of a risk buffer. This grants the farmer more peace of mind in the face of a rather dynamic trade landscape, and an uncertain future given the changing climate.

Farmers are not stupid people. You don't run a sustainable farming op without coming to terms with the physical reality of the world; which includes a realistic view in terms of risk mitigation through political activism, and optimizing for getting the most out of the ambient environment. Farmers quickly come to terms with the difficulty and impracticality of maintaining the "hot house" flower, or unproductive livestock. A cold, inescapable sense of pragmatism develops from working closely with, and observing the machinery of the natural world at work.

Not all may evenly consciously realize they are doing it. The longer you do it, the more you forget about the "why's" and "what you get's" as the practice of farming gets so ingrained it stops being a matter of what you want/chose to do, and just kind of becomes what you are. It's often a conducive to a more solitary, or fairly tight knit community; and communication tends to be secondary to execution. So it shouldn't come as a surprise when individually interviewing a farmer tends to generate some scandalous "gems" in common media. Cattle and crops don't care much for the artfully crafted word; and if farmers as a collective are actually pushed into a situation where time is better spent in a meeting as opposed to getting actual work done, it tends to be a signal that there is something fairly serious going on.

Long story short, the point I'm meandering to is this:

Don't write off any farmer, large or small, as being a callous, heartless, inflexible, unintelligent, greedy, unsociable human being. They're dealing with an environment as unforgiving as it is demanding. Then throwing economics on top of it. This means that of all people to keep an eye on as a barometer for change, the farmer is one he'll of a good signal to pay attention to. If a change impacts the fundamental process of farming; it has consequences likely everywhere else.

Food for thought.
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125% DPI on windows, and similarly, large font on Android systemwide, regularly cause problems.

Should software accomodate those settings or is that up to the user? What's the HN consensus oh that?
This kind of stuff makes me so happy to own Google stock. Even if it drives the stock analysts crazy.
But not on an American. Though I guess he can't go to Canada now.
that's not true. There are only a few countries in south-east asia with drinkable tap water: brunei, hong kong, japan, singapore, and south korea. You should probably not have drunk that water in Bangkok.
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Honestly, I don't see how choice of VCS matters to outside contributors. The process is almost universally get a recent checkout, make modifications and test them, then send a patch.

Sending a patch with github seems more convenient for about the first 5 minutes, but you have to be really careful, because the pull requests aren't frozen like a patch in email would be (this could be good or bad, but it was unexpected to me)

Certainly, version control approaches make a big difference if you're committing, but to decide not to start contributing because you wouldn't like being a committer doesn't make sense to me. Chances are, you won't become a comitter.
Hi everyone! I built this project to fix a hole in the domain name industry that I’ve been victim of many times. Most drop catching services force you into public auctions and do shady things like auction off user domain names before they actually expire. I was tired of all the bs.

Backordr is focused 100% on registering a domain name for a user, and then we urge the user to transfer the domain name to their registrar as soon as they can. In addition, rather than public auctions, we use a silent auction system that’s both more fair, and keeps prices lower.

This market can be really shady, and I hope to eliminate the shadiness and simply provide a service that works well.

Please let me know what you think, and thanks for checking it out!
Outside of what you describe (the little edge case issue that pop up 5% of the time), I found the biggest problem for on boarding for password managers is just time.

I was able to successfully get my Dad to switch to LastPass, but it took a lot of time to recontextualize what he knew about passwords before, and how to work LastPass into his daily life. After the initial setup (which involved setting up the account, showing how it works, and migrating about 25% of his passwords), he would ask me questions about it every few days. Just basic stuff like what to do when some sites don't work nice with it, LastPass not saving a password correctly, and other stuff.

Once he did learn it though, it has been pretty much smooth sailing. I am only really familiar with KeePass and LastPass, but both programs have pretty terrible on boarding. LastPass has an ok 'how it works' [1] page, but what these apps really need is a guided tour/tutorial explaining what a password manager is, how to use it, and how to migrate your current password setup over to theirs. Using a password manager almost has it's own language, and teaching the users that language is the hardest part in my limited experience.

[1]: https://www.lastpass.com/how-lastpass-works
Placing economic sanctions on oil states which want to build nuclear reactors does seem counterproductive wrt climate goals.
Calm down and stop crying. I am a front end developer and I was describing myself as well as my peers.

If you only wish to contribute hostility and rage to a conversation perhaps you need to take a break and consider some empathy.
There are a million CPC officials, and 2200 elected representatives. The party claims 89 million members. I’d be critical of attempts to view it as a somehow monolithic entity that exists separately from “the rest” of China.
nor do we take into account legacy status

Caltech's CDS says otherwise - http://finance.caltech.edu/documents/537-cds2019.pdf section C7
It is authoritarian, but so is every government intervention. Authoritarian actions aren't inherently bad...it's just dangerous and often suboptimal to resolve issues by force.

This is effectively "infrastructure spending," which is the thing China has done best, and very few people in the US and Europe actually oppose. The complaints against infrastructure spending don't tend to be that they represent government overreach, but rather that they tend to overspend and do a terrible job (see California bullet train).
It may vary by team, but I've never seen a contracted out SWE, SRE, or any other highly technical position -- unless you want to count the web developer employees of design agencies who are contracted to make one-off marketing websites (i.e. not core products), but their jobs seem pretty cushy. They don't even come onsite anyway.
I hadn't heard of that story, thank you for sharing those links.
What keeps it from widespread adoption isn't that people are scared. Its the regulatory framework that was put into place after the accidents. They have killed the industry and pretty much all progress.
You are, of course, free to live your life this way, but please don't consider this to be reasonable or rational. This isn't critical thinking; it's pure pessimism.

These are extremely complicated subjects. It's even more complicated because of the extreme amount of BS in them. But a careful, fact based approach will lead to a productive understanding of these issues.
For power users like us it will never be a replacement. But I know plenty of people who already use 4G as their home internet. The complain about congestion during the evening and hitting their cap at the end of the month, and some switch to fiber. Going from a 30 GB to a 300 GB cap, they would be serves perfectly.
He gave us previous exams as study guides. The questions were similar, but not exactly the same.