skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People are downvoting you, but everyone I know here in Japan has told me this.

It's not that they're planning for complete annihilation from a massive earthquake, but there's bound to be some wear and tear when a relatively large one strikes every few years. Compound that with the absurd humidity and mold problem endemic to pretty much all of coastal Asia (trying to keep your house mold-free is a losing battle after a certain point and it's unavoidable) and the cost and effort of repairs far outweighs the ease of just tearing it down and rebuilding.

In the west, a 20 year old house is considered brand new. In Japan, 20 years old is bordering on junk territory. 30 years is junk and not worth the effort of repairs. You can search online and find 40 year old houses basically selling for pocket change since they're basically considered moldy death traps on the verge of collapse.

Now, though, Western-style homes built to withstand earthquakes are becoming common and they're expected to be a slightly better investment. How these houses fair against mold is something I'm not sure of.

A commenter below mentioned spirits accumulating in a house, but I've never heard of such a thing and it reeks of mysterious orientalism. But most people won't buy a house that someone committed suicide in or was murdered in. "Jikenya" (incident homes) are marked as such and sell for drastically reduced prices, if they can sell them at all.
The RJ-45 socket on my MacBook was right next to a USB-A socket. I once inserted the USB into that Ethernet port, no jamming, and doscovered that indeed they are almost exactly the same width.

It wasn't stuck in there. Hmm.
It's an ugly hack because the design tries to stay within what The Regulator considers the same airplane type.

This in turn is because getting a new airplane type to market would cost some (I assume, facts are welcome!) unholy amount of money and time to get approved.

If you consider that decision "greed" or "a rational response to perverse regulatory incentives" is I suppose a personality test as good as any :)
good point, and it's exactly a strong point why it should be investigated.

given what you said, it's not difficult to conclude there is no one in the world actually understand google's business, and/or engineering, including googlers. therefore, who is going to be hold accountable, which person we need to push if anything goes horribly wrong?

Google, facebook and amazon have been way too powerful financially, technologically, politically and culturally. install armies they will be superpowers. it's better to do something before it's too late.
Amazon isn't perfect in some areas, but I think FreeRTOS should be pointed out. This is a pretty valuable contribution in the embedded/IoT space. https://www.freertos.org/
I think they do have jobs, just not jobs suited for the typical degrees/training that millennials are obtaining.
There is immense variation in programmatic ad pricing by publisher. Drawing conclusions about the market as a whole, or about publishers not exactly like the one studied, would be a mistake.
Regarding those 24-bit music files... from a expert in audio coding and a designer of Vorbis and Opus codecs:
https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html

Save yourself some disk space my friend.
Tamagotchi returns in wave of 1990s nostalgia toy joy
Are you using flawed social policy to justify a bad decision? Yes, people do deserve that. but the system is messed up and that's the reality and it's going to take till long time to change that, like all societal shifts. In the meantime, you can't just make decisions as if you lived in a perfect world. Unless you like fucking yourself over.
Few companies shape their industry as drastically as Google does. Hence the Anti-Trust probe.

Nobody is that good, sadly. Every time someone has looked to be that good historically, it was because they were engaging in anti-competitive practices, and needed to be broken up.
> Well, if you hate the place so much, then why apply for a visa?

If you see me feeling an ethical duty to scrutinise the widespread and damaging effects of US foreign policy and immediately decide that must mean I "hate the place" (or the people), it doesn't leave much cognitive room for any genuine engagement with the idea that American foreign policy could be harmful.

Secondly, one of my claims was that US foreign policy actively harms values and freedoms when it "topples democratically elected governments, starts coups and supports dictators".

I've nowhere argued that the US has a duty to "ensure" the civil rights of people it does not govern (a gargantuan undertaking), but that is actually quite a seperate question than whether the US has an ethical duty to avoid actively harming them (eg with behaviour such as toppling democratically elected govts, staging coups, supporting dictators et cetera).
The point is the government can force the NY Times to hand it over. And they will. First amendment protection for sources applies to the journalists but not so much third party data.
That’s been a thing since the start of voice assistants. I’ve even seen local TV ads do it to try get the viewers Google Home to activate, and mine has reacted to TV shows and YouTube channels before.
Salesforce bars its customers from selling “military-style rifles”
definitely unprofessional, but every last one of them explained it that way. made me think that they were just victims of an unreasonable system. maybe I was naive.
Complex Systems Fail [pdf]
No matter how specific I enter a query, Netflix will respond with a scattershot collection of its own titles, quickly descending into utter irrelevance to my search terms.

They never, ever admit that they don't have what I'm seeking and then suggest alternatives.

I get it free from Tmobile but hardly use it.
There’s no reason you can’t run i3 window manager and Gnome apps.
It’s what happened at NASA...
> The difference of course being that the privacy issues impact mostly just the individual

That misconception is a huge part of the problem. Lack of privacy of society as a whole is way more dangerous than lack of privacy of individuals, because it completely changes the power landscape.
Next is the next best thing. Instead of making your browser the environment, think of it as a fantastic browser extension for Emacs.

You can use the SLIME Emacs extension to connect to a running instance of the Next browser. Then, you have complete programmatic access to the full browser data structure through a REPL in Emacs (eg: switching tabs by using shortcut/command in Emacs). And Lisp REPLs are awesomer than something like ipython!

Keyboard driven browsing is now the least imaginative thing possible.

Take the high-quality tools you have for processing text, and apply that to your browsing workflow! Imagine being able to integrate your browsing workflow with your information management system, eg: org-mode. Switch to a project, and with a couple of keystrokes, open the relevant links on a page in a set of browser tabs/buffers. Filter all the HN pages in your browser and bookmark them to a text file (to be resumed later). Save all arXiv pages to your reference management system (eg: bibtex), etc. When browsing webpages, evaluate code blocks (via Emacs). Download/cache videos for all all Youtube tabs you have open. Emacs becomes the IFTTT-like glue for all your browsing activity!

For some chatter/ideas along these lines, take a look at this Github discussion: https://github.com/atlas-engineer/next/issues/195
How (and why) to build a programming language with Bob Nystrom
> We were relying on a lot of free technology. We’re gonna continue to have free hosting. Google gave us $100,000 grant in credits. So, that was gonna be our largest non people expense. So, that’s definitely reducing a lot of risk.

Interesting. Why would Google do this? Is it a bet that Hackernoon will get big enough that having them locked in to Firebase will pay off in the end?
Have you tried Xephyr (nested X sessions)? Not sure how well it'd work with all of i3's keybinds, but perhaps worth a shot.
my prediction: no matter what they do, nobody is ever going to fly as pax on 737-max and fedEx, UPS, and (lol) Amazon are going to get really sweet deals on brand new fleets of freighters.
>> “storage software and hosting software” changed to “host orchestration software”

>seems to be fairly reasonable though, unless I've misunderstood things once again?

It's better, though note that the terms in the list referenced there aren't strictly defined.

>> If this version is approved by OSI, we plan to apply it to the next release of our MongoDB software, which is currently available under version 1.0.

>so it seems they really do just want to address the current loophole in the AGPL.

Sure, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt on that. But the fact that they haven't switched over by now signals to me that they're not yet confident in the newer version of the license; if they're not, I can't say I am either.

And it's worth noting that SSPL v2 was withdrawn from the OSI review process back in March: https://opensource.org/LicenseReview032019
I have mixed feelings on this one.

The craft reported by pilots seems to be far beyond anything we're currently aware of as civilians. Of course we've had skunkworks programs before like the SR-71 and the Stealth Fighter that were amazing craft in their own right and unknown to the public for years, but this isn't making a rocket ship or a plane fly that has some weird edges. The tic-tac object (as I understand the interviews) implies significant strides in materials science, propulsion, and probably many other things as well. Is it really possible for all of that to happen entirely underwraps? Or do the other major military powers have similar capabilities?

If the pilots had just reported something like a really fast plane with an unusual design, then the US testing our new monitoring systems against the plane makes perfect sense.
Hey, appreciate you reading the article and taking time to write this.

Unsure how I am, as you say, "swinging bladed weapons around while blindfolded." Very colorful terminology, but I'm a little confused by what you mean.

The "silver bullet" term you're using I'm guessing is borrowed from Mythical Man Month, where Brooks suggests that no single advance in tech within a decade provides an order of magnitude improvement in productivity. I don't think that necessarily applies to helping non-technical people vet out programmers. I think I'm more giving these people a lamp in complete darkness.

I don't think brownfield projects created by great programmers are a bad thing. In fact, I've learned a lot working in brownfield projects. I do think though, a newbie programmer that, in a microcosm, creates a their own unique masterpiece loosely inspired by MVC, gets crushed by complexity and bugs, and then quits for supposed personal reasons, is a very real potential disaster for tech projects.
I was a reddit troll. Or at least that's what they called me. It started when I got involved in a sub where I am a fairly well-known expert. I would correct people. Get blasted cause I wasn't nice or they thought my answer needed any number of corrections. Then it got to the point where the number of questions and comments were so out of the realm of reality I couldn't stand to read them.

Then I started questioning people and I came to a stark realization. 80% of the people in several technology threads were kids under 18 years old--typically 15--and had no work experience in the field!

But this is my point. Karma on reddit means less than nothing to anybody outside of reddit postings and, even then, it doesn't mean anything to 80% of all those people cause they won't look at or notice your karma anyway. So what's the point? What is the value in that?

Despite my troll reputation, and you may know me, I still have nearly 10K in karma value. What does that tell you?

When I'm in my social and family circles, I almost never hear anything about reddit and, when I do, it's always a joke about an insane posting where everyone laughs at how stupid it is.

I'll never forget the comment of a reporter on NPR one day who stated, "Reddit is a Frankenstein's monster even they can't control".
I think that would only confuse a non-technical person even more.
take a round trip to the edge of the universe

The observable universe. That one word makes a huge difference.
I haven't seen commentary from international pilots who are worried about flying Boeing planes.

Even with the two MAX planes that went down, fatal crashes are enormously rare (for Airbus/Boeing/CRJs/ERJs). This one is only getting so much attention because it was that extraordinarily rare "design defect" rather than a maintenance issue or pilot issue.
im not asking for advice how to save money. if you read the article its about not being able to build up net worth. I dont want to be living a pathetic life in shared apartments to build up net worth? what is that net worth good for if I didnt get a chance to afford a decent life? to take it to the grave with me?
you can, but then need to know how to vet them, and ideally they can work together well (professionally, on time, etc). you're taking on more risks and/or more managerial work by doing it. certainly possible, but not without cost.
Thanks for the tip on the AUS 60 Minutes expose. For anyone else interested: https://youtu.be/aO7_indbfME
Tiling and cascading Windows was available in Win 3.0. And it was available to MDI apps all that time as well so a lot longer than a decade.
Stoicism isn't about not showing feelings, it's about thinking about the world in different ways so that losses don't matter

A regular Joe might like his coffee mug and be sad if it smashes. A Stoic has already imagined the loss of his mug, knows it belongs to the Universe, and the Universe wanted it back.
I don't know if one could say a failure of the Systems Engineering process. One could also say it is a situation where management, regulatory and market constraints became so unwieldy that there was simply no way Systems Engineering could possibly satisfy the requirements. Sure, it's a failure to push back again this but that seems a bit different.
I might be misunderstanding your comment, but you seem to be saying that the change in time is only actually thebvissible perception?

If so, that is not correct. Atomic clocks have measured actual, lasting time differences.
If you are a reporter, news doesn’t follow business hours.
> You don't get your PhD in US/Canadian/European universities without publications

Publications are not a universal Ph.D. requirement at US universities.

Usually the main Ph.D. requirements are: course of study, qualifying process (e.g. exams and/or dissertation proposal/approval), written dissertation, oral defense, and possible residency (i.e. tuition) and teaching requirements.

MIT doesn't mandate publications:
https://oge.mit.edu/gpp/degrees/doctoral/

Neither does Stanford:
https://gap.stanford.edu/handbooks/gap-handbook/chapter-4/su...

Neither does Yale:
http://catalog.yale.edu/gsas/policies-regulations/#degreereq...
Jupiter's Great Red Spot May Be Shrinking
They also mark possessions with phermones by rubbing their cheeks against things.
The Lost Art of Reading Bumps
This echoes my experience. After over a decade of dwm I switched to Gnome a few months ago and can’t see myself going back. I love the performance and window management aspects of dwm but I really like the cohesive desktop I get with Gnome.
Coffeescript did not offer anything but different syntax. It hasn't improved the semantics of the language. Some people liked it and some didn't.

Elm, PureScript, and Clojurescript are fundamentally different languages. Javascript today has bloated, and it keeps growing. Experienced developers tend to dislike it. Newbie developers struggle with it. It is no longer "a small language with a low entry barrier". ECMAScript specification is already bigger than Java's.

PLs of today and the next couple of decades will be striving for optimizing for programmer's productivity, performance, or correctness of the program. Javascript today does not fit in any of these categories. So it is only natural - the trend of using alt-js langs will only grow.
It definitely it, I'm shocked at the never ending cycle of costs. If you can't buy new, don't buy something middlebofbthe road, too much sunk costs.
Tiling was all that was available in Win 1.0! Absolute best tiling WM for your 286.
Why are you putting Google and its employees on such a pedestal? It's software and business are not magic and there are plenty of people qualified to audit them.
kept locally and not stored anywhere in the cloud

... unless they put their backups in the cloud and absent-mindedly include everything
The causality goes the other way at that level, though. Caltech's physics program was widely ranked as world class largely because of Feynman and Gell-Mann. They could have done world class work anywhere, and brought along a train of talent with them. But they both liked Pasadena, apparently.
Yeah... The average Google engineer is better than the average engineer. But there are plenty of competent software engineers who don't want to live in South Bay or near a Google hub. There are engineers with interests outside of Google interests.

And there are certainly business people out there with more knowledge than those in Google - see NY.
Lack of evidence is evidence. If the law firm deletes footage in an effort to protect the supervisor, they have to explain why they lost the evidence.
Hotelling's Law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotelling%27s_law

Though IMO misapplied here.
Frequency is irrelevant. They would run on DC or 400Hz or 10KHz just fine - they all rectify the supplied current first. Frequency is only limited by the bridge diodes.

And 100V is written on them only because there are no countries with lower than 100V standard. I'll bet a crap chinese usb charger will work off 48VDC just fine.
> Above a given paygrade, yes, it offsets, but for most people, especially people working for public services, a fiver per hour more won't offset the extra thousands per month.

Unless you're comparing San Francisco with East Bufu, Nowhere, living in a city does not cost 'extra thousands' a month.
Like the author, I've spent years in tiling WM's (xmonad, awesome, dwm, i3). Right now I'm hanging around big DE's like kde, gnome, windows 10, osx + magnet.

Windows 10 snapping keyboard keys are top tier. Not automated tiling, but save so much time. Also the GUI is beautiful on whatever screen you plug it into (including 4k). On Linux DE's right now? Mint or gnome will show options to scale up 200%, 300%, 400%(!) Even 200% is far to much.

Tiling WM+HDPI doesn't quite exist. Most use gtkrc, xresources, and the WM config to play with sizes. But that doesn't translate across different monitors. So it's a flawed system.

Let's assume HDPI+linux and tiling WM's were ironed out: In practice tiling WM's aren't as good because once you get into a terminal window, it's not as easy as it looks to copy from terminals <-> "gui" applications. It's possible, but the time spent ironing it out may not be worth the trade off for some. For instance I can't rely on copying from a vim inside of tmux, I do :!leafpad % to open a file and copy from that.

As for HDPI and tiling WM's, swaywm is an i3 for wayland that appears to support it: https://swaywm.org/

If you're okay with just HDPI and basic snapping: https://system76.com/pop or gnome 3.32 (that'd be ubuntu 19.04 or debian experimental at the moment I believe). Gnome 3.32 has fractional scaling. That'll scale by 125%, 150%, 175% (probably what you want)

Gnome's snapping isn't a smooth as Window 10's. Windows 10 is really good and half-sizing vertically. IMO: It'd be ideal if gnome 3 behaved the same as windows snap did by default. Extensions can help, but if you rely on them, they're limited and often behind of the latest gnome version (or two or three, or become abandoned entirely [1]), and don't wire-in to keybindings as well.

[1] https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/723/pixel-saver/
Is there a SENS newsletter like hacker news?
Not to completely sidestep the point, but the sentence you wrote really shows off some of the more intriguing points of our language:

"Feel free to ask minorities in cities for a century how their majorities worked for them"
> Google, facebook and amazon have been way too powerful financially, technologically, politically and culturally.

Seems true, but also too vague. Is because we can't trust a profit-motivated organization with that much influence?

Is it because they (FAANG) came by it dishonestly?

Are they abusing that power?

Are they unique in that regard?

Or is it because "anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things"?
What kind of backwards finance is that? A house costs money, it doesn’t earn money.

An asset it something that makes you money, like rental income from rental properties, profit from a business or investment, stocks, or bonds.

A liability is something that costs you money. A house to live in, apartment, a car, healthcare, food, etc.
Tiling horizontally or vertically are unfortunately gone in Windows 10. In Windows 7 (or Vista?) it was removed from the taskbar entry context menu, but you could still do it from Task Manager.
Imagine what you'd be doing if there were no reddit (or any other social network for that matter)?

You'd be out there trying to find real friends at meetups, clubs, gatherings, etc. don't ya? It helps a lot if you assume that internet doesn't exist for a day and see what miracles your mind comes up with then!
There was a story a while back about a reporter on the TV news that purposely said something to Alexa to show people how the devices can be activated remotely...
Well once it’s smashed no amount of whining sill bring it back, will it? Best buy a new mug and move on.

And imho the reason us millenial tech workers need stoicism is precisely because our lives are cushy. We have too much time to spend emotional energy on shit that doesn’t matter. Stoicism is a good way to fight that and remind yourself that hey this ain’t so bad.
I've seen some "official" IEEE conferences that really look like junk conferences/spamferences.
Please, no. This is not the same thing at all.

This is like taking your MySQL app and running it against MongoDB with a bunch of hacks to translate the SQL into mongo calls.

And then claiming you did all this so you could "avoid a rewrite".

Some architectural decisions are far reaching and leaky. This is not the ideal but it often is the ideal trade off. The alternative is decoupling to the nth degree resulting in a hunk of junk impossible to change that won't get off the ground.
I'll see if I can help on any of that. The fact that tooling guides lag behind will the hardest, because Clojure tooling evolves fast, and is currently in a lot of flux with many good options.