skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of that land is sold with a mortgage with 5-20% downpayment, and so that ongoing payment already dwarfs the one-time purchase cost. Alternatively, you're talking about rent. Also, large wealth doesn't generally just run out, if properly managed. It can grow very easily with decently smart investments.

Also, how do you know society mis-valued John's grandfathers contributions? If John's grandfather invented the axe, thereby incrementally improving millions of lives, and generating vast wealth for himself, such that his contribution is still "being paid back" in some sense by society by allowing John to coast, this seems neutral to me. Remember, this is true for only a very small % of society. Instead of trying to implement a rule-based system to correct it and thereby creating other problems (such as creating a steep inheritance tax), good old-fashioned social pressure can go a long way. Celebrate the rich who use their wealth for beneficial purposes, and shame those who do not. Public appearance is important for business, but make it even more-so. Instead of celebrating flaunting of wealth, celebrate giving to charity. I see the rise of the tech elite already moving us in this direction.
Not even Western in general. In New Zealand summer starts three weeks before the solstice, on December 1. Each season is three full calendar months.
> Wouldn't it make more sense to break up broadband ISP monopolies first?

Probably not for the Department of Justice. Some problems with that approach:

1. If you are trying to address the issue of limited choice in ISPs, I don't see how breaking them up addresses that. If you split an ISP that has a monopoly in a state, say, into separate ISPs for, say, each county...you've just gone from having one monopoly to having several monopolies. The limited choice is because there is only one cable coming into my house, and splitting up the company that owns that cable doesn't change that.

Addressing that probably requires something like making the last mile data transport a regulated utility that ISPs operate on top of. That would probably require Congressional action and a new President to do nationwide or to allow states to do individually.

2. Competition among ISPs in a region can vary dramatically city to city, and even neighborhood to neighborhood. I've not extensively researched this so maybe this is wrong, but the impression I've gotten is that an ISP's prices in a region tend to be pretty similar between those places within the region where they are the only choice, and those places within the region where there are alternatives with similar performing alternatives. That could make it hard to show that the ISP is abusing its monopoly in those parts of its territory where it does not have competition.

3. Aside from rural areas that only have DSL via the phone company, in most places there are multiple ISPs available. It's pretty common to have both cable and DSL, and in many cities there is also a fiber option. There's also wireless options, ranging from the regular consumer service of AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, and the various MVNOs that are built on those networks, and many places also have wireless available that is not based on the cellular networks.

You might argue that, say, cellular wireless is not really a viable option to Comcast or Charter or whoever the cable company is in a given area, due to the vast difference in speed. But you will have to actually make the argument. You won't be able to just say that they speed difference makes them different markets. You'll have to actually look at how people are using these various services and show that they really are not comparable.

I think that the factors in #2 and #3 make it almost impossible to win an antitrust case against a major ISP as a whole. The DoJ would have to bring smaller cases alleging monopolization in specific regions, tailored to the specific way the factors in #2 and #3 play out in that region.

Having to do this region by region, or even city by city in some regions, would make this a very long, expensive pursuit. (And where they win, there is still the question of whether or not there is an effective remedy they can apply).

Thus, it is probably better for the DoJ to leave this issue to Congress to deal with via legislation.
Firefox (as well as Chrome) has blocked the Dissenter add-on because it supposedly violates their community standards.
JAMA: 4400 steps/day for lower mortality rate, diminishing returns after 7500
> There are outlier problems preventing this from being perfect

These are not outlier problems. I have been election official in Finland and it's not rare to see husband trying to make his wife to show the ballot. Smartphones are already creating problems that are hard to quantify.

The real solution comes from doing basic things right. Electoral observation can be improved. Paper ballots standard where ballots can be quickly counted using electronica counters from multiple suppliers (different parties can bring their own) can make voting both secure and safe.
> I started out as a kid with DOS

Great strides in medical advancement or human growth hormones?
When has it ever been a good idea to leave control about something to just one company? Have you somehow been abstinent from tech during the last couple decades? Do you not remember how hostile Microsoft acted towards Linux around 2000? Are you suggesting we would be better off now if Apple and Linux would have left the field to Microsoft back then? This situation now is no different.

Creating patches might work in the short run, but over time when according parts of the code base change and get refactored, you're constantly busy keeping your stuff compatible. Case in point safari: They severely lack behind in several areas. Why? According to your post it should have been trivial for them to just take any improvement from Google's fork and apply it to webkit. Didn't seem to have happened.

And counting on Microsoft, a company active in the ad business as well, doesn't sound too convincing in this context either.
I don't know enough Haskell or Rust to claim its impossible (outside of unsafe of course), but it clearly goes against the design of the language and is meant as fallback more than option.

Yes, you can write Java using nothing but Object. And no, the experience won't be comparable to using a dynamically typed language.

Map is not terrain, if theory doesn't match reality then changing the former is the only thing that makes sense.

Categories are generalizations, making them more specific weakens them. A RISC approach works better from my experience, where categories are kept trivial and members belong to multiple categories.
That's actually an interesting question.

Gut response is wherever is currently the hottest but that may not be the case since there are a bunch of factors that will effect it.

Good report on it here.

https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/infographic/2018/03/19/gro...

Direct Link: https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/2... (PDF)
“Get a new girlfriend”

I think it was a tongue in cheek comment about how a man’s brain has a huge influence over their testosterone levels. Men see their testosterone levels drop after being in a relationship for a while, and drop further when they have children. Although, I guess it could be argued that they are likely having less sex in these situations.

Look, I agree with almost everything we’ve both said in this discussion. I even created a website that shows my agreement (http://max-testosterone.com - not designed to make money, rather to market the domain name which is for sale). I think I just didn’t like the phrase “testosterone maintenance”, implying it’s something that’s broken that can be fixed. For most men, low testosterone can’t be dramatically improved (double or triple) by simply improving their diet.
I suspect programming has something similar to Gear/Plugin Acquisition Syndrome in photography and music. It's easy to let tinkering with new toys stand in for doing the actual work of creating.

At some point, you have to sit down and do the work with the tools you have if you want to get anything done. If I were to get serious about programming, I would use C# or Go because I found them the most accessible after trying lots of languages. There's nothing wrong with finding a niche.
This is not mainstream media. It is just a blog hosted on Forbes' platform.
At least in Europe the summer solstice is regarded as the beginning of summer. It takes months for the land and water bodies to warm up, so this definition makes the seasons line up with temperatures observed in Europe. Depending on geography it might make less sense elsewhere, just as not every place has four seasons.
https://hubski.com/pub/425192

The trollbots and spammers beat us all there.
DNS solution for the time being, but all provisions are in place for ad-blocking support, just have to tweak this here: https://github.com/atlas-engineer/next/blob/master/source/re...
What are the GDPR repercussions for an open source project that does not make money, has no ties to an organization, holds only code, and handles no data?
I agree with that sentiment a lot, but that's also easier said than done when one has a family, a mortgage, etc. Standing up for principles might seem worth it when losing a home and potentially screwing up one's family might since, if one quits, there are hordes of young sociopathic engineers who will continue the "disrupting" without you.

That said, a lot of engineers actually are in the position to make demands. The chances of getting fired for saying "I'm not going to do that because it's wrong" are probably very low. Most managers would rather not feel bad, and hiring someone new is usually touted as being a pain in the ass.
Benefit their programming maybe but I don't see who Clojure will benefit anyone's Java as the two languages are poles apart.
Siblings. 4 Time Zones. One WhatsApp Group
That other mess might be preferable. I'd say this will get bad, but that wouldn't cover it. We might well see gigadeath.
>> Glanville took his code and left his prestigious job at Pfizer. ... . He now licenses his software and antibody library back to Pfizer...

How the hell did that happen?
Fortunately, the second example does throw warnings for each line of the block but the last:

Useless use of constant string "¿Cómo estás mi amigo?" in sink context
Just noticed that. Hard to take reporting seriously with blatant errors like that. That would be a goddamn cannon.
And if Java managed to get a hold we'd be asking why this is better than Java (which doesn't exist with these features in this manner).

That's the point. It's seemingly good, and available. Why the pushback? I don't get your (or anyones) objections.

> If Chrome already had the current market share back then, we wouldn't be seeing such adoration, as if no one ever done it before.

I think you misunderstand the adoration. It's not as if this has never been done before. It's that this isn't done now. What else can I use? Nothing. I remember 10 years ago dying for a way to run Python in the browser and having no reasonable options for general web.

Even now, what other option do I have? ASM.js is the only thing that comes to mind, which has significant downsides.

It feels like the dislike/complaints are pointed in the wrong direction. If you're upset that this isn't Java (not that you are), complain about why Java can't be used right now like WASM can. Complain that Java didn't manage to hold favor 10 years ago.
~60 years is much older than most single family homes in Japan. On average they get torn down after ~30 years.
Pocket, the easy to enable/disable way to save websites for reading later, and Gab, the far-right social network, as exposed by Columbia Journalism Review?
Behold:

switch (true) {
case a > b: ...
case isFullMoon(): ...
}
I recently found WinDock (https://www.ivanyu.ca/windock) for windows and just love it. It is scriptable so you can define how windows get tiled in any part of the monitor, and you can make each of your monitors different if you want. You can also set different profiles, which could be used say during work ours, and after work hours.
CA Brive FC Grenoble Rugby
https://www.wifabcooperative.com/forum/equipment-discussion/ca-brive-x-fc-grenoble-rugby-broadcasting-02-june-2019-live-broadcast-first

https://www.wifabcooperative.com/forum/equipment-discussion/ca-brive-vs-fc-grenoble-rugby-en-direct
https://www.wifabcooperative.com/forum/equipment-discussion/ca-brive-vs-fc-grenoble-rugby-en-direct-live

https://www.wifabcooperative.com/forum/equipment-discussion/ca-brive-vs-fc-grenoble-rugby-en-direct-streaming

https://www.wifabcooperative.com/forum/equipment-discussion/rugby-tv-ca-brive-vs-fc-grenoble-rugby-en-direct

https://www.wifabcooperative.com/forum/equipment-discussion/ca-brive-vs-fc-grenoble-rugby-en-direct-1
Now, this is what I generally qualify as the "that's not racist, it's bigoted" pedant's defense.

And it really doesn't carry quite as much weight as people apparently think it does.
In humans case, we may actually be making our boundaries smaller and smaller by changing the planet.

Would it be a tragedy if humans went extinct?
The Uncropped “Tank Man” Photograph from Tiananmen Square. June 4th 1989
...and that's a good example of a good decision made on behalf of the population that lots of countries (maybe most?) have made.

The difficult part was browbeating the cigarette companies.
It's definitely a problem for us, although it's fewer nameservers than I expected :)

No idea how I missed custom nameservers on business plan.. Hope it's something they added this year, otherwise I feel quite embarrassed.. It's too pricey for personal use (since the plans are associated with websites and not accounts) but the company will probably upgrade a few of the websites, thanks!
What does Stockholm syndrome have to do with people being okay with the performance of it. The only people that mostly have issue with slack are the devs themselves who are aware of electron.
The parties have changed a lot over the years. You can't look back at something that happened half a century ago and make sense of it within today's political framework. Many of the people whose morals lead them to vote for the Democrats today would be voting for the Republicans half a century ago. You're hearkening back to before the entire southern strategy! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy

This one isn't over, unfortunately. Many Republican elected officials are still very hostile to LGBT rights, including continued pushes to discriminate against transgender people. Sexual orientation and gender identity are NOT protected classes in most states, and many Republicans are calling to protect discrimination against LGBT individuals under the guise of freedom of religion.

The gay people I know are very afraid of what today's Republicans are doing. It's simply not true that it's over.
Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
I fully agree with you, but thought that the words "out of Syria" are not really reflecting reality. According to Wikipedia[1], only about a third of the migrants originated in Syria.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_migrant_crisis#Statis...
Not sure how this relates to GDPR - the arguments are nonsensical. People tend to bump everything under GDPR now like its some form of gods commandment. If I simply sit in the cafe watching someone continuously near me, I am collecting data, and nobody can do anything about it.

When you leave your home, your privacy is gone.

When you make anything public your privacy is gone. Not sure anything is ethically wrong with the software existence, the problem seems to be data usage, just as if somebody found out his neighbors wife is in porn and went to twitter and said it publicly with few pictures as a proof, and people do that.

It's naive to think that this thing can/will go away, if anything, because of this news alone who knows how many more random programmers are retrying this (or even make business plans) at this very moment.
Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

The once cool garage startup has finally grown up to become corporate, political, and ultra-captialist. This is not the Google I once admired. To the contrary, it is now the company that I actively avoid (even to the point of null routing).

If you have the choice or are in a position to make technological choices for others, chose and support organisations and projects that aim to bring power back to the people... let's never let so much power centralise again.
It definitely wasn't Children of Men, I read so much pulp sci-fi back then it all blurred (except for the stand out stuff like Iain M Banks - I still remember exactly where I was when I read Consider Phlebas - At the caravan park near Pevensey Bay in 1989, book was a birthday present).
What caused Chicago of all places to reach that temperature?
All the gear and no idea...

I've redacted this post as I don't want to publicise a gaping hole which renders these measures pointless. You wonder if the security serves a real purpose, or is there just to make people feel safe.
Firefox has awful performance on nearly any web page for me (2014 Mac). Even its own settings page alone puts a core at 100%. I can get past bad font rendering and giving up pinch-to-zoom and not reading PDFs in the browser, but I can't give Firefox half my battery life. I'll use it on my work PC but it's still a huge waste of electricity.
Exposure therapy is pretty effective and works by introducing new information, so it can't be too defective. A cat scratched me when I was a kid and I was afraid of cats for a few years, but I met some friendly ones and overcame my fear. I'm guessing the updating is harder for some, especially risk-adverse types (those more sensitive to negative stimuli and less sensitive to reward).
As someone who just started using Kotlin again, I'm curious what you mean by "agenda". A typical company trying to make products for money, or something else?
This has been the case almost every year this decade in India.

Also, it is quite common for the government departments to fudge data and report temperatures > 50 Celsius as 49.x to avoid halting work / paying extra to those working under the Sun because there are regulations concerning this.

Edit: I got to know about this practice being rampant through an activist in the South who is well versed with the labour laws.
Regarding the HiDPI issue with dunst: you can try sway, Wayland works way better than xorg with HiDPI displays.

Disclaimer: I'm a sway dev.
The police shouldn't be associated with the Nazis here. There's no wide scale organised plan to wipe out an entire race. The number of truly rotten officers is in the minority or there would be more bright line evidence of horribles. Most actions caught by police aren't outright actions of intentional corruption or malice, they are improper or bad policing that goes unpunished, which is the real problem.

You can't be expected to punish the police when you need them to do your job, which is the position DAs are in. If they were to lose the trust if the police then they wouldn't have the super they need to go their job. A statewide role of internal enforcement that's separate from the DA and is an unelected role appointed by the governor or legislative body would likely be the best one could do for this role and provide the freedom to do the job effectively.

Add to that punishments should come out of the insurance funds for the force meaning police organizations that are truly terrible would get shut down when they could not afford their insurance. Also a national police database with all punitive actions against officers that is permanent and not removable unless ordered by a judge would go a long way to prevent officers who get punished in multiple locations from just moving to a new job.
It's really interesting how this doesn't seem to occur to some people even in this HN discussion, even in the context of the recent refugee waves to Europe and the illegal immigration situation in the US. Boggles the mind that someone would think that entire populations would just… lay down and die or something!
I don’t know how others have done this; but when I’ve been involved in the past we have set aside a percentage of ownership to be distributed over the first few years of operation.

A fixed amount is distributed every year, split between team members more or less evenly. This means that the 1 or 2 folks who join early get a big chunk of equity, and everyone else gets less while the early employees continue to accrue shares. The benefit of a system like this is that it allows you to be transparent.

This is outside of executive hires, where equity is used for a different purpose (namely aligning the financial success of the company with the financial success of the individual).

All that said, I don’t believe startup equity is valued by tech workers older than 25. We’ve all been burned enough to have looked up the stats and realize that upwards of 75% of startups will never experience a liquidity event, and for those that do a multi-million dollar exit is a lot like winning the lottery — with similar odds. Most folks just end up with a bunch of out of the money options or some penny stock that’s not worth the trouble of selling.
XUL is a great idea but not for browser chrome. That’s an area where it is truly worth the effort to make it fast and light, secure and stable.
The wall our president wants to build has nothing to do with current immigration trends. They’re banking on this future.

Steve Bannon has this book he’s always talking about, The Camp of the Saints. It’s the clearest and most concise guide for how they see the climate future rolling out. (This is also why I bristle when they get called climate change deniers. They’re not, they just reached different conclusions.)

https://observer.com/2018/05/the-insanity-of-alt-right-banno...

(Apologies, I know everyone wants to keep this a politics-light zone; this isn’t off topic.)
I had to go to http://ai. in chrome (note the "." for the root is at the end), "ai." will autoexpand. Interesting.
This guy is literally a honey badger.

In the famous video that brought in the meme [1], honey badger experiences the lethargic reaction to the several bites from a cobra it hunts but eventually recovers. And this ability seems to be inborn, after thousands and maybe millions years of natural selection. So there is definitely a precedent.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg
The answer? No.
This is quite an interesting read, although my eyebrows shot up after reading their plan to run 1kV on each of two wires + ground, that are only insulated for 600V...even if the pvc adds some insulation (i couldn't find the actual numbers off hand), anywhere the wire comes out of the conduit, it will risk breaching the insulation, no?
Anyone capable of sending such a thing would have more than one home, plenty of time to respond, and likely some kind of automated military hub every X light years as an early response force. We certainly would if we could.
"You have your own bugs. They have their own. "

Rubbish. My code does not spy on people.

"Wyze is a small company that is trying to stay afloat,"

What does that have to do with anything?

A small company scammed you, it's ok, because they are small and mean well?

"Banks do mistakes all the time."

No, they don't, not at any reasonable rate, moreover, money that vanishes can be paid.

None of your arguments make any sense: some group of people is exposing intimate and private data to others, either they stop doing this or go to jail.
Now I want to see an annotated print screen of his desktop. Spatially organizing the desktop reminds me of Eagle Mode, which kind of works but it gets weird first zooming into the filesystem to then zoom into the menus to find a command to run/open the file. After that it almost sounds like he touches on how the acme editor lays out "windows" in columns for his kill-app that "no one wants", amazing