skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correct. A lot of people wanted an "outsider" and to "drain the swamp". In other words they don't feel represented by their elected officials, or treated fairly by the government, and they want things to change.

Despite this desire being co-opted and twisted by Trump's campaign and Fox News, the underlying feelings are valid for a lot of people across the USA.

The Democratic party should have realized this back during Obama's "Hope" campaign. A message of change, of saying "what's happening right now isn't right and we need to fix that", that message really resonates with a lot of people.

Of course, as Obama found out when he became president, "the swamp" has its own interests at heart. All that good energy and hope broke like a wave against that huge political cliff, and had far less impact than everyone needed.

If you ask a lot of people to articulate this sort of feeling, they'll have difficulty. Hence the easier to understand populist rhetoric coming from Trump. He steered that behemoth of public opinion towards xenophobia and other negative feelings. It's easier to blame the other than to look deeply at your own life.

The Democratic party has to understand this or Trump will easily win his second term. Back when Trump got the Republican nomination, I had a deeply unsettling gut feeling about the election. Trump was entertaining, Clinton was not. In the same way, Obama was entertaining, McCain was not. Bush was entertaining, Kerry was not. Gore was not. I unfortunately don't really see any entertaining people on the Democratic side.

As for the automation question, I think Trump, or his Republican successor, could pivot very easily to saying that robots are going to take Good Old-Fashioned American Jobs(tm) and a lot of people will follow that message.
The cost of replacing Prius batteries was a big concern ten years ago. Seems less of a concern today. As in no one talks about ti anymore. Probably because it takes a mechanic half an afternoon to do. And the cost of the batteries has come down.

With the new generation of electric cars the cost of replacing the battery isn't what it would cost today, but what it will cost in 15 years. Probably will be reasonably cheap.
Trains, electric scooters (think Vespa, not Lime) and electric rickshaws are all extremely popular in China.

If we changed traffic laws (and automotive subsidies) in the US to make them more feasible in cities, I imagine small electric vehicles would take a huge dent out of the automotive industry here.
It's really different. Going to the US with a Latin American passport gives me a lot of anxiety. In Europe, I'm always asking myself "is this all?". It's a much better experience.
A different data point:

After using vim for about 20 years, I switched to emacs+evil about 10 to 15 years ago.. and spent a lot of time in the first 5 years or so tweaking stuff. Things have mostly stabilized in the last 5 years, and I still use evil.

One thing that helped me a ton was using hydra. Whenever I install a new mode or package, I bind all of its useful functions to hydras. Hydra and evil allow me to keep all virtually all my bindings vim-like.
Logical, but logic does not prevail here. Nor science or reason.
What happens if you run / have run a social media account for a company?
What movie was that?
I split up my bashrc, pulling in different "component" files: https://github.com/dlthomas/config-files/blob/master/.bashrc...

The history file is set here: https://github.com/dlthomas/config-files/blob/master/.bash.d...
From Lithuania, with Love (2018)
"Honda said it would close its factory in Swindon, England"

Exceptionally sad news for car nuts like myself. Swindon is the birthplace of the magnificent Honda 2.0 turbo powering the Civic Type R.

BTW, I love the pics that accompany the article. Starsky and Hutch's Torino, the Duke's Charger are car show staples.
Xmake vs. Cmake
ok. ok. good one.
>forgetting about the people building your stuff, growing your food, extracting your oil (and killing the planet in the process), moving your stuff around, nursing people, building your house, installing your AC, shipping your amazon packages,

What do you mean "forgetting"? I pay those people for their services out of the money I earn. They're not doing all those things out of the goodness of their hearts, they working for the same reason I'm working, for a paycheck.

>and all the other ultra-necessary jobs (that are usually underpaid)

Their pay, just like my pay, is set by the market. If you don't think that's fair, your issue is with capitalism. I'm actually open to the idea of moving away from capitalism, but very few people, especially in the US, are, and I have no expectation that will change in my lifetime.
> I remember reading about fuzzy logic in a discrete math book. It was exactly the same as basic probability theory.

When is a pile of sand a pile of sand? When I remove a grain of sand, is it still a pile of sand? If I remove all the grains, is it still a pile of sand? If I pour millions of tonnes of sand onto it, is it still a pile of sand, or has it become something else?

Probability does not really answer these questions.

It might be counterargued that I can still say the 'probability that it is a pile of sand' and then we're back to probability theory.

Except we're not: I've just buried the problem a bit. Saying 'probability that it is a pile of sand' still requires a function that can distinguish whether it is a pile of sand in order to assess the probability.

I am given to understand that probability and fuzzy sets are part of a more general mathematics of uncertainty and that their relation to each other is hotly debated.
This method may be helpful studying how destructive domesticated cats are to local ecosystems.
Socket API was bolted onto Unix as a port from TOPS-20. It might have become accepted part of Unix, but so was XTI which in retrospect was probably better.
Not trying to critique anything, but it seems like engine itself is also useless without the rest of the parts.
"It reminds me of AppleScript, but far worse."

I wouldn't go that far :-). But you are right. They did good work with the cmdlets but they put a terrible language on top of them.

It would have been much better if they had put an interpreted version of C# (maybe with a few extensions) on top of it.
This is a very good comment.

Some people like to do more repeatable tasks while others like to do more creative tasks and others don't want to do any tasks at all. We are told that one is better or more required than the other. If we can make a society where people can do what they want to while continuing to have a decent life (whatever "decent" means), its all good.
Labor’s been screwed the last 50 years. What kind of six figures are we talking, mid?
Somebody needs a pair of math classes to meet the requirements. They ignore it for 3 years. They then begin a 2-semester sequence of really basic math that is pretty much 7th grade (12 year old) level. They drop the first class, tray again and fail, and then pass. They fail the second class, fail the second class again, fail it yet again, and then are prohibited from attempting it because there is a limit of 3 attempts.
Context of the hacker news website would surely have people thinking about event logging even if only for a fleeting moment.
So if you get a degree, it’s really the book publishers, librarians, and coal burning electricity plant that kept the lights on who deserve most of the credit?
Very interesting take on looking at life activities. I find the concept of mental states not new but more or less happening at sub-conscious level. The example the author gives of making a decision about going to a music festival or not based on the emotions vs planning an activity, happens automatically and almost instantly so that way it's nothing new and our brain already does that, however deliberately analyzing one's day or week using this metaphor can bring about interesting insights.
Show HN: Fast and simple service to generate QR codes from your CLI
It doesn’t take 100% of your time to learn vim. You just work 20% slower while you are intensely learning, then you work back at 100% for a while, then you work at 120% after you have internalized everything.
In that case you would be traveling a curved path so there would be acceleration even if your speed remained constant.
If you have money and a clean background you can go anywhere you want (with some exceptions), regardless of your passport. There are companies you can contact who will handle the entire visa process for you.
You think so, wait till they start collecting all kinds of things for all sorts of purposes beyond so called "protection".
The avocado did nothing wrong!
While we're on the subject of reduction, I really think transducers [0] deserve a mention.

The general idea is to stack operations and use reduce to perform the entire transformation in one go, as opposed to chaining calls to map/filter etc.

Which means first class transformation pipelines and less wasted effort among other things.

[0] https://clojure.org/reference/transducers
> With the average new car priced around $37500

That's absolutely jaw-dropping. I assumed that was a made-up Internet stat, and was going to ask for a cite, but some quick web searching confirms it.

I'm a used car guy, typically buying vehicles 2-3 years old, and would never contemplate paying above $20k. Even a brand new sedan (e.g. Nissan Altima, Honda Accord) is around $23k MSRP. A crossover family vehicle (e.g. Nissan Rogue, Honda CR-V) is around $25k.

What on earth are people purchasing, that the AVERAGE price is a low-to-mid range Mercedes?
I’ve had three cars fall apart. None had a serious problem with the drive train.

Having said that, electric cars are simple, so maybe there will be a luxury “100 year car” brand that removes all the planned obsolescence and provides repair parts / service indefinitely.
And? If you had $150,000 last year then only $50,000 this year you're relative situation is worse. You don't take how well someone in Africa is doing.
Employee vs contractor is not about time, it's about control.

You can work on a freelance project for 40 hours a week but that doesn't suddenly mean you're an employee. If you want flexibility then you're a contractor. Part-time isn't an answer because it still has the strict control of FT.

Most drivers of uber want flexibility, not a job where they have to show up at certain hours. You're arguing for something without even discussing it with the people you're supposedly arguing about.
Nice. Does it show the QR code in terminal? (eg by using blocks). Couldn't tell from the readme.
My dad bought a new car in 1968. After 10 years in the California sun the interior was utterly falling apart. Dash was a spider web of cracks, the upholstery was ripped. The paint was chipping.

GF's 1999 Toyota Camry's interior is 'fine'

What I think is if the drive train is good for 30-50 years that'll push manufacturers to improve the lifespan of the rest of the car. Also possible the government regulators will also apply pressure. For a lot of countries automobiles negatively effect their balance of trade. Anything to get that down.
I'd also be interested in a related question: Does writing fiction and philosophy make us better people?

I always thought unequivocally yes, but then you have the cases of Martin Heidegger, Gunter Grass, and Milan Kundera.
Perhaps it would help is US Gov explicitly mentions that they are looking for and specially what are the red flags that they consider in applicant social media accounts.
Yup,"brain zaps" are terrifying and I hope I never have the displeasure of feeling then again coming off meds.
I’m not sure if you’re aware, but this is largely a conspiracy theory concocted by the far right:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/23/white-farmers-...
Plastic gears are quiet and lubricate themselves. but they're inferior in nearly every other way.

The materials mentioned are as much the past as the future. High tech polymers like Delrin and nylon have been in use for decades and saturate their markets already. These "future" gears have been around forever.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Address – Harvard Commencement 2019
The 'Thucydides Trap' strikes again.

Things are going to get very much worse before they start to get better.(If they ever do get better, that is.)

Several years ago, I calculated that Spring-Summer 2020 was the latest date that the US could initiate and hope to prevail in a Big War against China.

At that time I had no idea how the US would manage to bring that about. Things seemed so friendly back then. Over the last year or so, I am finding more and more that I was almost prescient about the time-line.
I didn't truly understand how powerfully demotivating bad coworkers can be until I actually experienced them.

Good coworkers are encouraged and inspired when you do great work, or create automation that saves time and do more. Bad coworkers get jealous and feel threatened. if you're the kind of person who generally like to avoid conflict (most geeks fit this category), that alone is a powerful de-motivator .
30% of households have an aggregate net worth above 250k. So the situation GP in describing is probably very common.
This ignores the fact that most people use the same password everywhere, given the opportunity, and you have no idea what website has been breached. I.e. if you don't expire passwords, most people will use the same password everywhere, and you don't know when a compromise has happened, because it happened on some totally other network.
My anecdotal experience is similar. Entering the US on a US passport is a breeze. Entering the EU on a US passport felt very hostile. I would imagine it's the same everywhere - it is the most fundamental job of a government to secure its own borders and maintain its own power.
I mean they implicitly/explicitly give an image of child rearing that is neither factual, nor often physically possible: I joked that if we actually did everything that was recommended, we'd have no income, have no activities, and still fill all 36 hours in a day.

I call it anti-woman because the implicit philosophy underlying the advice is to view the woman as a failure, because she must inevitably break some of the rules and parenting is framed in a 'how far are you from a mythical optimal', even though this optimal is rarely empirically measured, stated or demonstrated, and often assumes an implicit (read diminutive and insulting) view of womanhood/motherhood roughly analogous to domestic housekeeper willing to sacrifice everything.

lastly, it downplays the validity of the woman's own desires, and the utility of her experiences, skills, hobbies, feelings, desires into a cult of 'physical and emotional devotion to the child'. The number of women at our parent group and that we've met on our short journey undergoing sleep deprivation and psychological issues, calling out for help, was eye opening to me, especially because from my own perspective from the data point of view was simply 'empirically that's barely an issue, if its causing your family that much distress, just change and do this instead', whereas there is an undercurrent in parenting that says a mother's role is to suffer...
What I said is correct for AWS. In retrospect I guess the context was a bit ambiguous.

(I will note that I was technically more right in the most obnoxiously pedantic sense since the hyphenation style you used is unique to AWS - `us-west-1` is AWS-style while `us-west1` is GCE-style :P)
I feel like many of these are examples of that what people do with the information is dangerous, not that the information _itself_ is dangerous. Perhaps a slight difference, but one that I think exists.

I think people suffering PTSD is a better example of how information can be dangerous.
Not only are expirations pointless but it’s ridiculous that a 24-hour expiration system is often paired with a “Monday-Friday, 9-4 Eastern” kind of phone call.

I once had an investment account lock out at the start of a weekend and I couldn’t log into the damn thing for days simply because their robot shut it off and only a working human would turn it on.
Also add in that household income is (fairly) stagnant[0] but costs are increasing.

Anecdotally the only people I know that visit other countries either are: not from the US; come from a wealthy family; or have little money and that's just what they spend their money on. I know very few middle class people that visit other countries (outside of work related tasks). The excuse is always "I can't afford it." For me, that's my excuse. But that's not only money but time (which is correlated). I mean a round trip from my location to London is about $2.5k (similar cost for anywhere in Europe, Japan, or New Zealand). If I had a couple grand to drop on a vacation I'd do it. Though I'll say that I can get a round trip to Malaysia for under $2k, which is more reasonable (especially considering expenditures while there are less).

[0] https://www.advisorperspectives.com/images/content_image/dat...
Nobody in adtech confuses publisher and SSP. And why are you mentioning 2009? The paper is about data from a single week in 2016 from a single publisher. Did you actually read it?

Scale is the main issue because publishers need to have users with cookies, then match cookies to high-value bids, and then receive enough competing bids from advertisers to see a real difference in rates. This is fundamental market mechanics. Publishers getting flat-rate deals is rare, not common. Most of the time they get paid on variable programmatic basis with some take rate by the upstream SSP.

It's a supply chain because these vendors facilitate the buying of media inventory. That's the definition of a supply chain. You can build your own car after buying raw parts but that doesn't mean that there's no supply chain that lets you buy the finished product from Ford. The article you linked shows exactly where the money goes to in the chain. DSPs, DMPs, verification vendors are used to buy ads and they need to be paid. You can easily avoid it and deal with the publisher if you want, but advertisers don't because of the value they get from those vendors.
This is a ridiculous argument. First, in theory any sovereign country can do whatever it wants, but it definitely shouldn't. Second, the comment is about simply visiting (or god forbid having a connecting flight in) the US, not applying for visas (which certainly deserve more thorough handling). Third, the richest and most powerful nation on Earth should be setting a high standard for humane treatment of all people, especially when that same country espouses such beliefs as freedom and human rights.
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PigeonTransit's Misleading Privacy Claims
Anything to do with China?
Which services in other regions? I remember that day well, but I had my eyes on us-east-1 so I don't remember what else (other than status reporting) was affected elsewhere.
Read the analysis of Reyes testimony on
http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/wise.pdf
The story about violence against farmers is mostly a white supremacist myth.

“Mostly” because there obviously are some cases, but those do not statistically differ from crime in general.

Also strange to immediately think of South Africa when reading about Ghana. Ghana is closer to Brazil and Spain than it is to SA.
In the US, the only guarantor of never having to go hungry or sleep in the cold really is having that million-plus. Without that peace of mind, the idea that wealth won’t make you happy is harder to accept. And heck, maybe it won’t make you happy, but it sure as hell will make you less anxious (i.e. unhappy).
Pickups and SUVs with insane markups and profit margins.

A Ford F150 Raptor's MSRP is something like $60-70k.
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The Prince of Quacks and How He Captivated London
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Hacking the Casio F-91W to Handle 1000 Psi
In the context of http, we have HEAD, but we don't have something DATAHEAD, or METADATA, which would ask the server to provide you what _it_ thinks is the relevant metadata for the endpoint in question. You can fake this by streaming data, or using something like `Content-Range` _if_ you already know what _you_ think the incoming data is, but this means that the consumer has to already know what it is expecting, which kind of defeats one of the purposes of metadata. For example it would be great to be able to send a METADATA request to a url for a zip file and have the server send you back just the central directory (why did they put the central directory at the _end_ of the file?? -> edit: answer: because it was created at a time when you wanted to write the zipped data to disk in a stream so you wouldn't actually know what you had until the end, optimized for writing, duh).
Ghanese farmers aren't white so I think it's unlikely.
I travelled to the US recently for the first time in 20 years or so. I had to apply for a Visa waiver (ESTA) and from memory they had a social media section that was flagged as "optional". I'm not big on social media and decided that my rarely used accounts would be of no use or interest to anyone. If I remember correctly though I did put my Github account on there (unless my memory is playing vicious tricks on me, yes Github was listed). Call me crazy but I decided that if the US government was interested in my C++ chess code, great!

I did gird my loins for a horribly unwelcoming experience at the airport (semi off topic but widely discussed here). At JFK it was actually super nice, but we were first off the plane and there was no queue to hit. We did take a side trip to Canada and had to enter the US again at O'Hare and that was a different story entirely. Seemingly a million planes arriving at once. Even miserable looking and bemused cabin crew queuing from here to eternity. When we finally got to the head of the queue(s) the over-worked, under manned staff were perfunctory but non unpleasant. I haven't seen anything as disorganised and shambolic in arrivals at a European airport ever, but maybe I've just been lucky.
You're right of course.

But I also think that there is a palpable and strange injection into the zeitgeist a notion that non-citizens are less human - and it comes at the same time that a lot of racism and anti-immigrant ideology is reaching its way into public policy.

I'm finding myself with decreased patience for it than I might have for other falsehoods making their way through echo chambers.

But yeah, that's probably my bad.
> 15 - Fission power supplies "well over half of the power needs of humanity" - no

I soo wish this were true. Don't how the support was for Nuclear power back in the day. But wish it were mainstream today. Nuclear engineering would've been one of the most sought after disciplines and more innovation and research could've gotten us much closer to sustained fission.
and reputation.
Good pros and cons for Haskell. I really like Haskell but I frequently find myself reaching for Common Lisp instead. I have about 37 years experience using Common Lisp professionally and just a few years of more casual Haskell use, so I am not a good datapoint for comparing the languages.

Semantic is a cool project.
Spacemacs is peanut butter meets chocolate. Apps like Magit and org-mode with vi's modal editing are truly superior.
Azure too. During the most recent outage a couple weeks ago their Twitter account acknowledged the incident an hour before the status page did.

So no matter where you go for your cloud services, you're guaranteed a useless status page. Yippee.
This is simply not true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_farm_attacks
Is it bad that I've used Vi/m since the early 80's, and I still don't know (or really feel like I need to know) a lot of tricks?

Sometimes efficiency is not about "tricks"