skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I don't believe that thinking about nameless, faceless people thousands and thousands of miles away is particularly effective "

But this is what is implied by the opening statement 'The Average American' etc. etc. , no?

The 'The Average American' does face 'adversity', because most people are barely getting by.

Imagine middle aged parents without spectacular health care coverage, someone gets a cavity and needs a root canal. That's $1000 - and actually beyond the 'average Americans' ability to pay for out of hand. A cavity can be little economic emergency. It means no car trip to Myrtle Beach, or no piano lessons for the kids, or worse, having to put it on the Credit Card, pay terrible rates etc.. And 'cousin Joe' was pulled over for DUI. He'll lose his job if he doesn't make bail, he needs you to co-sign for him. Now you have to make sure he shows up for court. Parents are inching older, have some income but likely need to go into a home, which will be exceedingly expensive. There are umpteen such challenges is 'most people's lives'.

So I agree with the sentiment that normal, employed middle class families wherein there's stability and gainful employment, low crime etc. - yes, it's effete, and not much adversity there.

There is a class of Americans for whom life doesn't have a lot of adversity, fully agree. But it's not 'most'.
> This was only made possible by enormous federal subsidies for returning soldiers and huge investments in public infrastructure by the federal government. ...

Today's government subsidies are creating artificial booms of their own. Credit, higher education, housing. The busts, like the one described in this article, should come as a surprise to nobody, but they will. Mixed in with that surprise may be an interest in finding a scapegoat - and a leader willing to deliver it.
Which cities have you cycle in to compare them with Copenhagen? (Assuming you did actually cycle in Copenhagen).
I looked into some recent disease-related misinformation (re Zika) and honestly it would be hard for many people to look at it and immediately say why it was wrong (it was extremely wrong). It wasn't like "putting Vaseline under your nose stops you from getting the flu". So I don't think people can really be prepared for everything ahead of time & there has to be some authority.

I still think that the key problem is that people distrust health and government institutions, not that they're allowed (for now) to post quackery or misinformation. I don't really understand how one gets that way. There are perceptions that public health institutions are politicized. Maybe they've never been friends with a doctor or a health official. Maybe their trust has been broken re health or even some other part of government. You can delete someone's posts pretty easily, but you can't force someone to trust the CDC or whoever. It needs to be built over time.
Same here. Running of a $5/mo VPS and works fine. Wireguard is particularly helpful here, as I get about double the speed compared to openvpn (server-side CPU bottleneck).
I mean setting up file sharing and getting the mounts working properly inside/outside the container so you can use a GUI editor on the actual desktop, while running programs in the VM... it's not something easily setup ahead of time.
>This was only made possible by enormous federal subsidies for returning soldiers

White soldiers, both via black soldiers being excluded from the GI Bill, and Levittown's own restrictive whites-only covenant. These racist limitations greatly reduced the necessary subsidies.
Ah thanks for the correction re: PA. I saw that they were New York Sicilians and didn't pay attention to the fact that I didn't recognize the mall's name.
If you get used to driving a car that actually does this sort of thing well, then the first time you get in a car where it malfunctions or doesn't have the feature, you will have a bad accident because your reflexes will be missing.

I got a car that automatically closes the door so you don't have to slam it. Now I keep forgetting to close the door on a normal car properly. It's eliminated my muscle memory in just a few months.

Another instance was when I got a car without a clutch interlock. I never would have realized how dependent I was on that until I started it up in gear.
I wonder how long it will be until the first "Boeing 737 Max MCAS" car model presents itself.
Once a doctor says something the nurse can't really override it.

Once two doctors say something.
For those interested in MTB, guerrilla gravity is designed and, as far as I know, built in Colorado. The reviews of their bikes (even aluminum frames) are resoundingly positive. Considering the price points they’re not one to overlook.

https://ridegg.com/
Typically pieces about the Levittowns (there were many such towns) contain at least a cursory acknowledgement of the racism and redlining that surrounded the sales of these homes. A generation of non-minority boomers were able to take advantage of, and build wealth from government subsidies.
I suspect that a lot of people in the "Just don't answer the phone camp" don't have elderly parents, children, run a business, etc. that sort of prohibit you from taking the attitude that you won't respond to anyone other than a known contact.
Will there be a big performance hit if I just turn sack off (for now) until I finish running all our tests on the new kernel?
I know it isn't Firefox, but Brave is a Chromium-based browser that has Tor built-in with their 'Private Tabs'. It is a really nice privacy focused browser. Everything good about Chrome, without everything bad about Google.
Can't wait to use this. The many times I've wanted to have simple motion graphics in FCPX but didn't want to shell out for Motion or AE, I wished something like this was available. More power to you
Bill Nye on climate change: 'It’s not 50 to 75 years away–it’s 10 or 15' [video]
You could also set gvisor as the default docker runtime. I would do this except all my production belong to docker proper runtime.

Maybe I should redo my node pools on GKE now that using gvisor is a checkbox or flag
> his manifest deficiencies as a professional engineer and technologist

Do you have references to more information on that?
this is about privacy not security though. and all of these sensationalized articles fail to mention that users consented to share that data with the apps when they first used it through a dialog that's pretty much unambiguous. Even their table says so: "permissions", plus i m pretty sure at that time facebook was already sharing an app-scoped, not the global user id. Regardless , it was sloppy privacy practices, which were fine at the time and nobody cared because Trump had not happened. It's not a security breach, though.
Taiwan's legislature expresses support for Hong Kong people
Well, you can't send physical money over optical/copper cables, can you?
I wish Mozilla would get into the email service market. I could really go for a reasonably-priced, ad-free, Gmail-sized, bring-your-own-domain email service.
Opera had been acquired by a Chinese company and after that the browser went full on telemetry and IIRC same privacy policy works for their "VPN" too.
There's no such thing as a "SIM transfer code" in the UK. SIM swap scams are a thing here too : https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46047714
These are news readers. Not journalists.
Oh yeah, that's a terrible security practice.
this is a privacy issue, but their security is still pretty good, relative to the staggering size of the users and data they hold.
Entirely circumstantial, but contacting a second physician about the same patient sounds more like something that would be done after being refused then after simply asking an opinion.
You know, all those in this thread revealing their membership of Those-Who-Walk-Uphill-Both-Ways are going to get a serious reprimanding.

But yeah I would have to agree with you. Family history of the same kind of poverty shopping. Making a contest of the lowest gas and grocery prices with the membership, food bank and all that. I shat myself when I got an NES from the pawn shop for my birthday once. It certainly instills something in the brain.

I mean I'm still the guy that subsists on plain fruits & veggies, noodles, rice, beans, plain oats and the occasional indulgence of pizza and steak. But I'm also not worried or hurting for anything currently and am happier than I've ever been previously. Which I imagine is optimism, and other concerns tend to make other events kind of feel like noise.

The cumulative inability to relate to pop culture or current events really wrecks my networking efficiency I feel like. I'm not sure I should be so unaware about the news and encroaching issues. But oh well. The ultimately important things have a way of finding themselves to oneself I guess.
because the cost of living is different? lol
Wikipedia has list of Levittowns

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levittown#Places
Poking around the site and this game and blog look awesome.

Also: how to build a Roguelike https://www.gridsagegames.com/blog/2018/10/how-to-make-a-rog...
I'm going to write you off as insufferable before the fawning moron you have as proxy for your audience utters

You must admit, you're throwing stones from a glass house when you write like that :p
You beat me to it rhizome...
This is an oft-expressed sentiment that seems totally and obviously wrong to me. If autonomous vehicles are safer than the average texting drunk, but much more dangerous than, say, a bus driven by a sober professional, what is the point? We could just invest in mass transit and incentivize people to use it. I mean, regardless of the drawbacks, if safety is the primary goal...
“It’s not that Levittown isn’t sustainable anymore, it’s that it never was.”

I think this is a key point, really well expanded upon here: https://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth-ponzi-scheme
I am delayed for a flight and only have mobile access right now. Not the best place to respond to such a detailed question, but I’ll try.

The bulk of the evidence we have comes from news reports. This includes the Dutch viewing Cozy Bear hackers [1]. It is also, this guy [2] saying we caught the Russians hacking the DNC. The FBI Director told us that Russians hacked the RNC [3]. It seems like you don’t consider that evidence because you can’t see the hard proof. That is your prerogative, but know that an FBI officer swearing in and providing details on a case is treated as actual evidence in any Federal court or grand jury room.

That leads us the the other evidence we have, which is the indictment of 25 different Russians by the Special Council [4] [5]. This means a grand jury saw all the evidence available and believed overwhelmingly that there was probably cause to believe these people committed crimes to further their motives. To me, this is evidence that Russia intended to influence the US election. That they released DNC emails, started pro-Trump social media accounts and kept the RNC emails secret is evidence that they were working in favor of Donald Trump.

If we can agree on that premise, we can discuss the next piece. Is there hard evidence that the Trump campaign was involved/aware of those crimes in favor of their campaign. Here, the facts are murkier and a case could be made either way. I personally believe the combination of the campaign continually lying about Russian contacts, the campaign manager sharing poll data with a Russian oligarch, the candidate literally asking Russia to hack his opponent, the timing of document releases, the server communication between Trump Tower and Alpha Bank, the campaign lying about Trump Tower Moscow plans/details, changing the RNC platform, Papadopoulos bragging about having dirt on Clinton, Kushner trying to set up a secret back-channel, telling Lester Holt why he fired Comey, telling Stepanopoulis that he would take help in 2020, that The Trump Tower email explicitly mentioned Moscow’s ongoing support for Trumps campaign and Don Jr didn’t seem surprised and Roger Stone’s ties to WikiLeaks all speak to some level of collusion between the two parties (Trump and Russia).

Some of that is backed up by hard evidence (Trump Tower emails, court filings, etc.). I think if you apply Occam’s Razor, the most logical conclusion is that Trump and his team welcomed Russian help and worked to amplify it. An example is Trump touting WikiLeaks on the campaign trail while Stone and Trump Jr we’re communicating with them behind the scenes. Obviously, if someone obstructs justice, that often hurts the ability to get the exact type of evidence you are requiring.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/01/26...

[2] https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2016/12/12/dmitri-alpero...

[3] https://www.wired.com/2017/01/russia-hacked-older-republican...

[4] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/16/us/politics/russians-indi...

[5] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/rod-r...
Nope.

I am reading the report

I actually, cannot find anything in that report that establishes unquestionable links and outcomes that left was looking for.

https://www.justice.gov/storage/report.pdf

Selective-outrage, cherry picked partisan garbage.

In general, selective-outrage leads to selective justice, selective justice leads to tyranny, please think about it next time you read cherry picked conclusions.

Even with that, the investigation -- were not able to establish that

a) Trump directed Russia to do anything

b) the outcome of election was driven by foreign interference

In the mean time, Obama admin did not stop any interference while they knew of attempts. So it was either not significant or it did not help Trump.

Let's not forget, however what has been established:

The whole investigation was partisan, and premised on fake evidence, illegally planted.

Clinton campaign directing and buying fake evidence from foreign powers, to initiate spying on a political opponent -- is exactly the type of foreign and domestic inference, that should have been investigated by a special council.

So that much for 'equal justice' for all.

Mueller's claim that Russia hacked into DNC emails and release damaging truth to US voters, through Wiki leaks -- has not been proven either beyond a reasonable doubt.

You can choose to believe it -- but there is no evidence that was presented to public that clearly established the link.

--

Finally, nobody is branding oposition to GOP as fake news -- what is branded as fake news is:

a) selective-outrage

b) fake claims

c) active suppression of positive news from Trump

d) active purging of conservative voices on social media platforms

e) presenting the left's abuse of judiciary system with never-ending perjury traps -- as 'Justice'. While the outrage against this hijacking of US's judiciary system is labeled as 'obstructing'.
do I automatically get downvotes from HN mods for saying 'fuck' ? are you guys sharpening your censorship skills before YC opens china office?:)))
Why do you think that autonomous cars will start by replacing the worst drivers, rather than replacing professional drivers, who are much better than the average person? Isn't the biggest potential initial demand for autonomous cars people who don't own cars and currently must choose between bus and taxi?
Maybe it makes more sense to say losing population brings about viability issues. If people for whatever reason started to leave Oakland, I’m sure it would implode as much as a Vallejo would if they suddenly had an exodus.
> really distracting forced overlay of the main screen with a multisecond advertisement to "keep your eyes off this screen" sort of message

I was all prepared to buy a new head unit for my car until I noticed in a review video that it had one of these annoying overlays.

"Let's cover our ass and lower everyone's safety by forcing the driver to pay attention to, and physically press, on a stupid message every time they start the car". Bloody ridiculous.
Could somebody clear up my confusion with these two statements that appear contradictory?

"Do four colors suffice to color any map? — took more than a century to answer (the answer is yes, in case you were wondering)."

and

"Returning our attention to colorings in which connected nodes are supposed to be different colors, we have no guarantee that the five colors in our palette will be sufficient to color the graph G"

How can it be that 4 colors is sufficient for any graph, but for our hypothetical graph G we can't be sure that 5 colors are sufficient?
Opera just got bought out by some chinese company. It's for you to choose whether that is or is not a concern for you, but I personally am uncomfortable with such a company as my VPN, particularly I can add it to the server which I already keep for miscellaneous uses.
The article doesn’t put forward a case for underemployment of an entire generation. It puts forward a case for a certain level of increased underemployment for a generation of student loan holders.

It’s self-evident that if those college graduates who are underemployed had chosen different courses, then the problem would look quite different. The fact that developed nations have to import large amounts of skilled labour proves this (although you could make a solid argument that they import more than they strictly ‘have to’).

There’s likely a number of factors that contribute to this problem. Generally increasing enrolments seems like it would be having some level of impact. But this article does not even attempt to shed light onto what those factors might be, and how they might be weighted. I don’t know what I’m supposed to have learned from reading this that I couldn’t have picked up from just looking at the graphs it includes.
and even bitcoin, between its drugdealing beginnings , and cartel behavior of miners is not much more trustworthy. What actualy matters is that all facebook users will learn what a digital wallet is and will become a potential cryptocurrency user.
From their About page[1]:

> In principle Rascal is a research laboratory and research vehicle that is not intended for production use (yet).

No offense and nothing personal, but the following remark struck me as rather entitled and self-serving to your commercial interests:

> But they could make that fact clearer. (Also, I haven't actually checked every single source file, so there is some risk some of them might be under different license terms.)

This perspective may be slightly biased with recent personal experiences in dealing with an aquisition team who habitually tries to weasel its way into having its cake and eating it too.

[1] https://www.rascal-mpl.org/about/
Yes, 2.6.x kernels are vulnerable, starting with 2.6.18-8.el5
Edit: on Red Hat EL5
This is potentially the lump of labour fallacy. There isn't a set amount of work to be done.

If we have a mass of students learning no useful skills and divert them into useful fields, then the overall productivity of the economy will go up.

Obviously if everyone floods into a single field there's some limit: you can't productively employ 10x the plumbers without a matching increase in buildings.

But in general, better skills should lead to a better economy.
Indeed. While the industrial revolution is kind of irreversible, global capitalism isn’t. Logic dictates we use this leeway to reverse global capitalism.
Asia is not "taking a stand", that's quite the spin on reality. It was never economically profitable, and they tightened import controls as a pawn in the current trade war.

Coincidently: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/06/90-of-plastic-polluti...

It's not to say that the move will undoubtedly benefit the environment, but we should call a spade a spade.
Wants to disable my ad block, my web browser not included in their list.
... thunderbird?

(I'm aware they're no longer maintaining it(?) but it's posed as a genuine option.)
Actually the pilot anecdote is nonsense. Emergency procedures are part of the procedures you're supposed to be able to execute, typically in a simulator.

A stronger anecdote would be asking an airline pilot to fly an aerobatic maneuver in an airliner like an outside loop or aileron roll.

(There are only a couple of aerobatic maneuvers done in an airliner. For example, when power is stuck at full throttle or the elevator forces the plane to climb, a quarter aileron role can be done for recovery.)

Source: Commercially-rated pilot.
The map coloring problem relates to graphs that are planar--can be drawn on a 2D surface without crossing edges. Graphs in general are not planar and so more than 4 colors may be necessary.
Apollo CSM Displays and Controls [pdf]
I grew up 15 minutes from Levittown, PA. I even had to do an undergrad research project on it. The development is boring and pointless but packed with lower middle class families. A place where there's only a driveway for one or two cars but there's always 3 or 4 per house and parked all in the street. The houses themselves are all full. The area just west and north of Levittown is actually one of the oldest rich suburbs in America containing Newtown, PA and Washington's Crossing with estates from the 16th century and acres of land.

Oxford Valley Mall is far from dead. The food court is always pretty lively on Fridays and Saturdays. The Forever 21 next to the food court is constantly packed with teenagers. I literally went there not long ago with my girlfriend and we had to stand in line at the register. Not exactly dead.

The guy just went on a random Tuesday instead of a Saturday. Of course it's going to be dead. The parking lot also has a really good theater seating style movie theater. Both Oxford Valley Mall and Neshaminy Mall are on Route 1 going north out of Philadelphia and also have I-95 going by. Also the Mall has Sesame Street Theme Park right outside it's parking lot and across the street is a whole other plaza containing a Best Buy, A Home Depot, a Lowes, and a bunch of other stuff. Honestly the only reason the mall can't keep full is cause of all the competitions nearby. The area itself is actually super nice just to the west of the mall with lots of properties rising in value.

I used to run a Gaming LAN Center in 2005 in Neshaminy Mall. The area is served by FIOS and Comcast.

As to why buses come to the mall? Really? Old people like to walk around during the day in the mall just for fun. People also use the bus to get to and from work. Most of the routes are going to and from Philly with a few connecting the various regional rail stations. Growing up we all wished there was just one bus from the center of Newtown to the mall so we wouldn't have to ask our parents to take us.

If you actually stay just around Levittown there's a lot of old crap from the 60s in a clearly abandoned and/or ruined state but that's not really indicative of the area.
What a disgusting friend you got.

She’ll entrap you next. Brunch date rape accusation or something.
U.S. Women’s Soccer Games Outearned Men’s Games from 2016 – 2018
TorGuard runs test servers in 3 locations (NY, London and Singapore) since March, using from the start and had no problems.
Breaking windows stimulates the local economy.
Existential types are types of values.
Then you have to program the remote and make sure you are in the right mode. Have you compared the typical cable remote with the Roku remote for smart TVs with Roku built in? Not to mention remote listening where you listen to audio on your phone from your TV.

But part of the purpose of having a smart TV is that you don’t need cable.
Existential types are types of values. There is no distinction.
Live near Levittown and have talked to residents about it. The entire rust belt is going to shit itself soon and who knows how it'll play out.
Four colors is sufficient for a planar graph, but insufficient for a general graph. A planar graph is any graph where the edges can be drawn in such a way that they only intersect at the endpoints (there is a more formal algebraic definition but that helps with the intuition).